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3/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Freda Cooper
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The film’s traditional enough to turn its back on Planet Of The Apes performance capture and use a man in a monkey suit to portray Ben. And, despite the occasional moment when you can see through the guise, it’s a sound choice.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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4/5
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Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox
(2024)
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Burt Peterson
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A gloriously abrasive piece of indie sci-fi. High-concept, low-budget, and utterly fearless in its commitment, the movie is equal parts hard science fiction, pitch-black comedy and existential prank.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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4/5
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Anton Bitel
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Return to Silent Hill is, without question, both a franchise film and a reboot of an adaptation of a game already filled with filmic tropes, but it is also the most sophisticated in the series.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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5/5
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Arco
(2025)
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Katherine McLaughlin
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Arco is an audacious and deceptively simple depiction of how art, kindness and imagination is innate to humanity and has always been a positive part of progression.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Rachael Harper
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What The Bone Temple does so well is lean into the horror, something which the previous film didn't quite hit. This is a film that wants to unsettle you, and it absolutely succeeds.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3/5
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Bulk
(2025)
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Burt Peterson
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There’s no denying that Bulk is a challenging watch. It’s wilfully non-linear, defiantly unconventional and often gleefully nonsensical. Yet there’s a scrappy DIY charm to Ben Wheatley’s latest that gradually wins you over.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Oliver Pfeiffer
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The film falls short of the terror, suspense, or wild fun it promises. That said, a poignant beating heart emerges most clearly by the closing credits, leaving a touching farewell to these likeable friends and their chaotic, nostalgic journey.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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3/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Avatar: Fire and Ash ends with certain loose narrative threads, but also at a point where, should it fail to achieve the box-office billions of its predecessors, there is sufficient closure for the saga to stop.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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4/5
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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A strange love story between two good people who do very bad things.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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2/5
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Kim Newman
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Making no sense isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker for a fun horror flick, but being confusing, poorly-structured and consistently cutting away from the action for unhelpful explanation is.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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4/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Freda Cooper
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2025’s best rom-com is a fantasy to win the hearts of even those with an in-built resistance to the genre. Yet, despite its afterlife setting, Eternity keeps its feet firmly on the ground. It’s a neat trick.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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4/5
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Troll 2
(2025)
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Rachael Harper
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Is it occasionally a little over-the-top? Absolutely. Is that part of its charm? Also absolutely. Troll 2 is a blast. Ambitious, playful and unapologetically giant-sized.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Freda Cooper
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That rarest of breeds -- a sequel that hits the same heights as the original.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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4/5
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Rachael Harper
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The action? Ferocious. The effects? Seamless. There’s a tactile heft to every explosion and every guttural roar, a blend of practical and digital work that feels like a respectful evolution rather than a glossy overhaul.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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4/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Katherine McLaughlin
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Wright may drop way too much into the mix with The Running Man but it’s a film that certainly goes for gold and nearly achieves it as an old school Hollywood blockbuster with modern sensibilities.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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4/5
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Keeper
(2025)
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Kim Newman
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Keeper will creep you out.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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4/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Katherine McLaughlin
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The fizzing chemistry between Erivo and Grande and the sound of their otherworldly voices is intoxicating to watch and that’s where the magic of Wicked: For Good truly takes flight.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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3/5
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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
(2025)
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Rachael Harper
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The good news for this remake is that it’s still fun. Director Michelle Garza Cervera clearly loves the golden age of domestic thrillers, and there’s a nostalgic comfort in seeing this style back on screen.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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3/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Kim Newman
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It has good performances, fills in cracks in the first film’s backstory, has a great wintery look, at least tries to be serious about spirituality, and delivers a value-for-money variety of shivers, shocks and scares.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Katherine McLaughlin
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Bugonia cleverly comments on a power-hungry society gone awry with scathing wit and huge empathy for those who get caught up in its manipulative cogs.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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4/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Freda Cooper
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There may be little that’s radically different about this latest version of what is probably the ultimate monster story, but when it’s realised on such a lavish and epic scale, it hardly matters.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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3/5
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Burt Peterson
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Visually, Tron: Ares is nothing short of magnificent. It feels like the fully realised imagination of what the original film could only hint at, presenting tableaus of light and digital architecture that are sumptuously overwhelming.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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2/5
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Freda Cooper
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Even [the actors'] considerable efforts can’t quite give the film the consistency and spark of originality it cries out for. Instead, it’s overly ambitious, constantly trying too hard and ultimately, leaves the audience cold.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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2/5
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HIM
(2025)
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Scott J. Davis
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A stunning, beautiful misfire that deserves kudos for its audacity and bravery in trying to break the mould, but one that’s so wrapped in the sense of being different that it forgets how to do the basics.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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4/5
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Above the Knee
(2024)
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Anton Bitel
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It is a thrilling insider view into one man’s damaged, deranged drives -- and his desire, ironically, for integrity, even if, in order to attain it, he must deceive, delude, and destroy a perfectly good part of himself.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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4/5
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Odyssey
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Odyssey is an odd if always engaging film about the devil’s business, be it housing rentals or profit-driven murder, where ultimately, even as the latest tech is embraced, there will always be no school like the old school.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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3/5
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213 Bones
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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More interesting as a dissection of a fractured Twin Peaks-like lumbertown community before the Internet, before smartphones, and before the arrival of self-aware, self-reflexive irony in horror.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Blockhead
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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This sophisticated poioumenon is concerned precisely with plagiarism, appropriation and theft, and the way that these crimes of, and against, art can be transformed into random acts of great idiosyncrasy and originality.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Borderline
(2025)
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Rachael Harper
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Borderline thrives on its audacity. It’s not subtle, but it’s so much fun. For those in the mood for something stylish, unpredictable, and just the right amount of insane, this will hit all the right notes -- literally.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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5/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Scott J. Davis
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Directed with a superb combination of pathos, precision, and patience, Lawrence allows King’s masterwork to unfold slowly before its emotional and devastating core takes hold.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Cognaitive
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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May turn even the most dedicated computer geek into a Luddite technophobe.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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3/5
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The Home
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Fortunately there is an ecstatically hyperviolent climax, hitting hard like a raging storm, which will make even the most jaded horror fan feel young again.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Your Host
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Your Host really is derivative of James Wan’s Saw (2004). Yet where the puppet master in Wan’s film “never killed anyone, he finds ways for them to kill themselves”, Barry is not afraid to get his hands a little dirty.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Appofeniacs
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Energetic, funny and weird, Appofeniacs is a cautionary tale of where our new age of digital fakery might be headed.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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In a Cold Vein
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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The key reference point here is the Coen brothers’ debut Blood SImple (1984), but this low-budget chase in the dark travels back and forth along its own low-key trajectory.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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The Red Mask
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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It is at once a home invasion slasher with all the subtlety of an axe to the chest or a pitchfork to the head, and a convoluted postmodern poioumenon tracking its own composition from numerous namechecked sources.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Blood Shine
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Blood Shine is a thoughtful, thoroughly discombobulating horror which feels like a breath of fresh air, or perhaps like the coming of a new dawn.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Pig Hill
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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It is a horror film about horror films. It is also a tense thriller that goes to some very dark places, and even finds some sympathy for its devil.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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4/5
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Bone Lake
(2024)
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Anton Bitel
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There is always, underlying these sweaty, sexy tropes, the insidious threat of a more visceral danger.
Posted Sep 15, 2025
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2/5
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Kim Newman
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Series creator James Wan is a master of the contrived spook scare, but Chaves -- who came to the franchise via The Curse of the Llorona and has also done a Nun sequel -- isn’t quite his match.
Posted Sep 03, 2025
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1/5
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The Toxic Avenger
(2023)
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Kim Newman
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You have to admit Dinklage and Bacon successfully replicate the hectoring, gurning style of the freakazoids who populated the Troma films of the 1980s and ‘90s. But it’s also hard to see the point. And the laughs are very few.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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4/5
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Together
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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This hyperbolic romance ultimately works not just because of its participants' considerable commitment to their parts, but also, as in any successful relationship, thanks to their persistent good sense of humour.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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3/5
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Rachael Harper
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For fans, it’s a warm, nostalgia-tinted reunion; for everyone else, it’s a pleasant if forgettable comedy.
Posted Aug 09, 2025
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5/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Utterly thrilling and freakily surreal from beginning to end.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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4/5
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The Serpent's Skin
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Mackay and her regular co-writer Benjamin Pahl Robinson pepper the narrative with contemporary political slogans to ensure that their protagonist’s supernatural superheroics are always grounded in real-world struggles.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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Foreigner
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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On any reading, though, this is a story of the divided identity and doubled self that every migrant must negotiate as they try to stay true to who they are while also fitting in.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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Influencers
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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The exultant ecstasy of her rampage is a joy to watch, even as the viewer remains unsure whether to root for -- or recoil from -- CW in her lonely, loveless, one-woman onslaught against a world to which she belongs much more than she imagines.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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5/5
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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For this film’s enchantment to work, all you have to do is believe -- or at least suspend disbelief – and the magic of Solveig’s spell will reveal itself, merging two women’s broken narratives into a perfect exchange across the infinite.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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Hellcat
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Although Clive has a very particular destination in mind, and the story too seems to be following a well-defined trajectory, part of the sophistication of Hellcat is its lack of resolution or arrival at any particular endpoint.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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4/5
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Transcending Dimensions
(2025)
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Anton Bitel
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Transcending Dimensions constantly loosens viewers’ grip on reality, demanding that we supply our own connecting narrative to its disparate, slippery elements.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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