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4/5
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Resurrection
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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An immersive, hyper-visual, wildly imaginative arthouse-movie experience, suggesting that watching a film is a lot like dreaming, seeing into other worlds, viewing experiences that aren’t our own.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Neil Pond
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Scratch your head-banging zombie itch with a big-screen toast from a goblet of plague-fest freakshow grog in yet another tale of unhinged terror set in a gritty Brit-centric future that’s a million miles away from Downton Abbey.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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It’s all fast, fun and friskily a-swirl with surprises. Like a game of pong, you never know just how, or where, the balls are going to bounce.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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3/5
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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"Amanda Seyfried gives her all here, pouring herself into the character of the 'woman preacher' whose zealotry launched dozens of Shaker communities with thousands of followers."
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A Christmastime gem of a musical biopic to lift your holiday spirits, get your toes tapping, and make you smile through the melancholy…even if you don’t know your Neil Diamond from your Neil Sedaka.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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It's a mega-load of deep-dish sci-fi on steroids, but it also has some resonant real-world themes about spirituality, family, the mysteries of nature and creatures great and small.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Steamy little potboiler pries open a Pandora's box of secrets and sets up a tangled romantic triangle built on lies, schemes, sex, misdirection and manipulation.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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4/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A story of love, anguish, grief and guilt, all ultimately channeled—plausibly enough—into a towering work of art, a tragedy that becomes a triumph.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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3/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Zesty afterlife romcom makes you laugh, makes you think, tugs at your heartstrings and sends you home with a smile.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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3.5/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Hits home with its themes of loneliness and emotional need, wherever home might happen to be, and whether we need a bit of drama to spice up our lives or just "someone to look us in the eye and show us we exist."
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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3/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Another explosion of expensive-looking color and visual wowza, filled with songs and powerhouse performances sure to become new faves for faithful fans.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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3.5/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A wonderfully woven story about life’s wide-ranging journey, told through an inside-Hollywood prism. Clooney is charming and spot-on-perfect, but Sandler is a revelation.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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3/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Its high-octane mix of satire, drama, cautionary-tale messaging and explosive action doesn’t always mesh. It sometimes feels like 'Blade Runner' crossed with 'Mission: Impossible' and 'Survivor,' with a razzle-dazzle-y dab of 'America’s Got Talent.'
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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3/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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This durable movie property reappears yet again to remind us just how much razzmatazz entertainment can be found in a star-packed bag of tricks.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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3/5
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In Your Dreams
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A visually splendid, fabulously engaging “kids adventure” with a surprising amount of heart.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3.5/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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With this impressive retooling, the epic, time-honored tale of Mary Shelly—and its messages about men and monsters, and playing God—lives on, in gloriously grand fashion. And it may just break your heart.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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2/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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The original 'Black Phone' was a big box-office success. But maybe it was best just to let it rest in peace, rather than bring it back with a story that feels like a strained hodgepodge of horror-show cliches and stereotypes.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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3/5
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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It’s not a feel-good movie, by any means. It challenges you to watch, listen, think and stew along with its characters.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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4/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A colossally jarring wake-up call about the fragility of our very existence…and about a time—and a day, in a span of minutes—that we can only hope never comes.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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3/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Most strikingly, it shows how Dwayne Johnson has found the other side of the showbiz coin, as a serious actor in a substantial role, a smashing success at playing a real person instead of exaggerated, often cartoonish caricatures.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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3/5
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HIM
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A clash of the titans, a gladiatorial battle to the death, an angels-and-demons war exposing the ruthless soul of a sport that many Americans openly “worship.” And somehow, it makes sports mascots even creepier than they already are.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3/5
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A posh, sumptuous-looking period piece festooned with rich details...a fancy ball, a day at the races and a county fair where the two “classes” meet on common ground, a merry-go-round movie metaphor as Great Britain heads into its future.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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1.5/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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It wants to lead viewers into a socially relevant cautionary tale. Too bad it takes such a nasty, depressing road-trip slog to get there.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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4/5
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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You’ll get caught up in the crazy, propulsively spunky high energies of 'Caught Stealing,' watching the actor who memorably hunka-hunka’d Elvis now matching wits with monstrous Russian mobsters. Butler comes out swinging and knocks it out of the park.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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3/5
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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There's bang-bang, boom-boom, snapped necks, broken bones and brutal hand-to-hand walloping—and a come-together theme of family, fathers and sons, and the bonds that can bring people closer to right wrongs, fight bad guys, or weaponize a Ferris wheel.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Spielberg, who only directed two Jurassic flicks, remains onboard as a producer. Maybe that’s one reason so much of 'Rebirth' seems to be retreading the past, with scenes that echo moments from the 1993 film and callbacks to the original.
Posted Jul 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Brad Pitt flies into the danger zone, much like Tom Cruise did in 'Top Gun,' but keeps things a lot closer to the ground in this revved-up, rip-roaring, grandly orchestrated gearhead motorsports drama.
Posted Jun 17, 2025
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3/5
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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A swooping visual spectacle hinged to sentimental themes of a father and a son, a young man finding out who he is—and a group of battle-hardened Vikings learning, again, how to live in peace and harmony with something they once feared, fought and killed.
Posted Jun 10, 2025
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3.5/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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de Armas’gives a full-throttle performance as a woman who’ll stop at nothing to get her revenge——with a gun, a knife, a hammer, duct tape, a flamethrower or a fire hose——as she widens and feminizes the fierce, ferociously wild world of John Wick.
Posted Jun 04, 2025
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3/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Precisely the kind of delightful absurdity that fans of Wes Anderson movies have come to expect and adore.
Posted May 29, 2025
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3/5
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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A nearly three-hour spectacle loaded with gravitas, self-reflection, doomsday vibes, loads of expository blather and a couple of show-stopping stunt sequences...that make you forget about the more, ahem, tedious passages.
Posted May 22, 2025
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3.5/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Caustic buddy-buddy cocktail truly swings in the awkward yin-yang between Thompson and Rudd, who demonstrate how riotously askew a male friendship can go.
Posted May 15, 2025
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3/5
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Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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A wooly, wide-ranging, hip ‘n’ flip tale of the ups and downs, ins and outs and upside-downs of a funky, improbably flexible lifetime in the music biz.
Posted Apr 30, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Invites you sink your teeth into the juicy, boldly unexpected turns of its spicy and sensual deep-South honky-tonk horror show.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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4/5
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Art for Everybody
(2023)
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Neil Pond
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In revealing the deeper demons that haunted—and possibly consumed—Kinkade, this superbly crafted doc shows how even the Painter of Light had a dark side.
Posted Apr 16, 2025
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3/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Thrill-ride terrors spiked with satirical skewerings of fat-cat rich folks who want to hubristically capitalize on something wild, wooly and wonderful that they don’t understand.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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2.5/5
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Novocaine
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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I must give the movie credit for finding, ahem, creative ways to illustrate just how impervious Nathan is to pain. He gets walloped in a wide variety of ways, like the coyote in a real-life Road Runner cartoon.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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3/5
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Queen of the Ring
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Has a rousing ring of truth, especially for anyone who wants to learn more—in this Women’s History Month—about a woman at the center of a colorful chapter of wrestling history.
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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3.5/5
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Rule Breakers
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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An emotionally stirring dramatic recreation that reminds us of the courage of these young women, the power of dreams and the importance of education.
Posted Mar 04, 2025
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3/5
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Often feels like a smart-ass comedic spoof and send-up of horror cliches, running on gleeful, ghoulish humor and an embrace of its own wild, wooly weirdness.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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3/5
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You're Cordially Invited
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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The shenanigans get crazily sideways, but in the middle of the mayhem is a soft, slushy message about dads, daughters, family ties and how love and loathing can be flip sides of the same canoodling coin.
Posted Jan 29, 2025
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3.5/5
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One of Them Days
(2025)
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Neil Pond
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Raunchy, riotously fun street-smart female buddy comedy kicks off the new year’s movie season with a load of laughs.
Posted Jan 16, 2025
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3/5
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Unstoppable
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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An inspiring, heart-tugging tale about a teenage athlete determined to work his way to the top, despite a mountain of odds stacked against him.
Posted Jan 14, 2025
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4/5
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Better Man
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Puts a marvelous simian spin on Robbie Williams’ pop-stardom monkeyshines.
Posted Jan 08, 2025
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4.5/5
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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A devilishly potent, magnificently orchestrated scare fest that puts a spectacularly spooky new spin on an old, oft-told tale.
Posted Dec 23, 2024
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3.5/5
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Creates an authentic, almost encyclopedic milieu of the times, but it's really all about Dylan, how he became interwoven into the larger social fabric of the ‘60s and how the success he wanted so badly also brought him a suffocating level of acclaim.
Posted Dec 22, 2024
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3.5/5
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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If they handed out awards for best performance by Jim Carrey doing Jim Carrey alongside another Jim Carrey in a videogame franchise about a blue hedgehog, he’d be a solid shoo-in.
Posted Dec 19, 2024
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4.5/5
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Towers over most other movies by its sheer scope, unbridled ambition and elegant artistic vision, like the massive, concrete, steel and granite construction project at its core.
Posted Dec 18, 2024
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3.5/5
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Maria
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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It’s all a mad, magnificent swirl, with Jolie in the middle as the tragic diva whose escape--from harsh reality and the woes of her world--was her voice, her music…and then, her inner space.
Posted Nov 25, 2024
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2.5/5
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
(2024)
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Neil Pond
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Bonhoeffer's concerns about fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, Christian nationalism and antisemitism are at the heart of the story, then, as now.
Posted Nov 21, 2024
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