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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 40% 3/5 EDIT “Barest recco, but I'm sure fans will be fine. The visuals are there, but it's like living in the game in the hyper active way the story play sout. The locales and Jack Black's Bowser are strangely funny, and maybe mushrooms are the way to go.” – HollywoodChicago.com Apr 1, 2026 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Leonie Benesch deserves some kind of technical award for the way she handles the various tools of the nurse's trade ... in a crisis mode. The film exposes a system at critical condition, in a crisp, precise way by writer/director Petra Volpe.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Palestine '36 (2025) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “As history repeats itself over and over, the remarkable and unescapable perspective in Jacir’s film is that often the native peoples in a region ripe for colonial plucking are the ones who suffer the most. And Palestinians more so. W/Jacir interview.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 29, 2026 Full Review A Magnificent Life (2025) 62% 4.5/5 EDIT “A fresh animated perspective on a little-known French writer/filmmaker influence Marcel Pagnol, providing a beautiful 2D cartoon dive into his life by Sylvain Chomet (TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE). Film & Animation Buffs UNITE!” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 79% 3/5 EDIT “The concept is so high I suspect writer Grabinski was in the same state. Having twice the Vince Vaughns doesn't help the movie, but it is amusing and the cast is game with a time traveling theme, although he could have used it to kill ... ” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Stop Time (2025) 4.5/5 EDIT “The film is a meaningful and cinematic expression of grief. Nelson Avidon as Peter and Tara Westwood as Adrianna are twin engines of the emotional carriage, tied into tragedy and the black cloud of grief. A significant must-see therapy film.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 73% 2.5/5 EDIT “I get that this is supposedly a comedy, with the extreme violence and gore part of the "fun." But here's a tip ... have some actual wit. There is a scene in which a woman is beaten up for a too-long time, and folks use guns like they're Dirty Harry. Ugg.” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Visuals are spectacular in this, a real treat in IMAX, but the story is that same wisenheimer of THE MARTIAN that made it annoying, and the other alien is treated like a sidekick rather than a equal. Why doesn't Gosling speak Rocky? Discuss.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 20, 2026 Full Review 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films - Animated (2026) 3.5/5 EDIT “The nominees are BUTTERFLY, FOREVERGREEN, THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, RETIREMENT PLAN and THE THREE SISTERS. Weakest of the three short film programs, but still pulling off some greatness, esp THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 15, 2026 Full Review 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films - Documentary (2026) 4.5/5 EDIT “PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS, THE DEVIL IS BUSY, ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD, ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS and CHILDREN NO MORE: WERE AND GONE. All affecting, CHILDREN the most so.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 15, 2026 Full Review 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films - Live Action (2026) 4/5 EDIT “the nominees are BUTCHER'S STAIN, A FRIEND OF DOROTHY, JANE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA, THE SINGERS and TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA ... FRIEND OF seems to belong to the 1990s, Best is BUTCHER'S STAIN.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 15, 2026 Full Review André Is an Idiot (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “Beautiful rendered by dir Tony Benna, who knew the title character intimately. André's approach to his imminent death & the process of dying is inspirational, aspirational and exhilarating. A lesson in dying with absolutely no dignity. W/dir interview.” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 14, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% 5/5 EDIT “This is a pure cinema experience, as director Tuason uses sound design and oddball angles to create a creep factor that builds to last frame. As a recovering Catholic, the Mary symbolism was like an alcoholic getting a beer bath! Sound!” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 14, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 3.5/5 EDIT “A very funny movie with a very complex story infrastructure, needlessly so. However, the voice talent is top drawer, and the laughs are plentiful. Infiltrating the animal kingdom via a beaver robot powered by brain waves? Get out of my office! Haha” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Mar 6, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% 4/5 EDIT “Just pure outrageous cinema wrapped around the myriad of themes within the FRANKENSTEIN myth. Basically a love letter to the history of cinema, which emerges in fun and audacious scenes. Sit back and enjoy the heart. FRANK!” – HollywoodChicago.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2025) 52% 3/5 EDIT “Minimum recco only for the unusual story. Chastain takes on a challenge, and somewhat delivers, but the story shifts in tone so many times that the uniqueness of the plot falls apart. Isaac Hernández got dance chops, but a thankless role.” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 28, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “As a Beatle-ologist, this was an easy sell, but it's exceptional in the realization that the 1970-80 period of Paul McCartney was as challenging as being a Beatle, but in a different way, because he had to evolve his legacy on his own. LET ME ROLL IT!” – HollywoodChicago.com Feb 28, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2.5/5 EDIT “I don't know if it's Glen Powell himself or his choices, but again a starring vehicle with him doesn't work. Plot-wise, everything is ham handed or constantly being hit over the head without any subtlety in the theme. Even Maggie Qualley can't save it.” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 23, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Spins the predictable underdog ... excuse me, undergoat ... story and creates something fresh, funny and heartfelt. The voice acting was particularly good, given that the fine matching animation was only theoretical. He shoots! He GOATS!” – HollywoodChicago.com Feb 16, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “Barest recco for an overstuffed film, attempting too many themes & diluting them all. But Rockwell is his usual awesome self, as his fire keeps the energy high, and a rag-tag ensemble navigates the end of the world as they know it. What, me worry?” – HollywoodChicago.com Feb 16, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 3.5/5 EDIT “Not your mamas, grandmamas or great grandmama's WH, as director Fennell turns up the body heat and gets ardent performances from the two hawt leads and supporting cast. Obsessive love is well represented on an appropriate weekend. Heathcliff!” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “A step above the heist genre, as class, feminist politics and a Columbo-like performance by Mark Ruffalo combines and collapses around an absurdist jewel robbery. Halle Berry is especially good, understanding her character's next phase. Nolte!” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Solo Mio (2026) 83% 2/5 EDIT “Sorry, no. Yep, I couldn't suspend disbelief enough to buy into two middle aged folks 1) taking a too-expensive destination wedding to Rome and 2) Kevin James' Matt being left at the altar and then immediately hooking up w/another. Sentimental hogwash!” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 8, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 4.5/5 EDIT “The redefinition of an unconventional love story, but in its essence is just another made-for-each-other relationship overview, made open and accessible through the remarkable performances from Meiling and Skarsgärd. Whether Leather?” – WBGR-FM (93.7 FM - Monroe, WI) Feb 8, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 5/5 EDIT “Finally a wholly original story, that also serves as a metaphor for life's transitions and salvation. Jodie Foster once again proves her chops, in a French speaking role no less, as she is convincing in all the emotions challenging her character.” – HollywoodChicago.com Feb 3, 2026 Full Review
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