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1.5/4
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Melania
(2026)
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It’s fascinating to see so pure and naked an instrument of graft and propaganda deployed to great effect on an audience happy to lap it up.
Posted Jan 31, 2026
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3/4
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Send Help
(2026)
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It’s been ages since Raimi has been let off his chain to torment actors and audiences alike.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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3/4
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Ralph Fiennes delivers the performance of the year in mid-January.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/4
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Dead Man’s Wire is sleek, efficient, and designed to be seen with a crowd.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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3.5/4
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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The role Chalamet was born to play.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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2.5/4
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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It feels a little weird to dismiss something as incredibly constructed as Fire and Ash as "something we’ve seen before," because there is literally no one else making stuff that looks as good as this movie looks. But that’s the simple truth.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3.5/4
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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A nation rolling along, with one man’s life and tragedies both background noise and an entire universe all at once. It is a cinematic depiction of history. No more, no less. And it’s one of the best movies of the year.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Byrne deserves every plaudit she’s earned for her work in this movie; she is crushing in her overwhelmed sadness, a devastating portrait of barely functioning depression.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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Hamnet
(2025)
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To be profound or merely profoundly distressing: that is the question. I’m not sure what Hamnet’s answer is.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Many filmgoers will likely find the film’s conclusion unsatisfying ... but the harrowing nature of Luis and Esteban’s journey might be enough to satisfy most of us.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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A compelling portrait of a family in turmoil and art’s usefulness in helping people work through their problems.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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This isn’t in quite the same mode as Linklater’s hangout movies, but it’s not far off either.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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3/4
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Not an easy or a pleasant watch, precisely. ... But it looks great, Berger perfectly capturing both the neon-soaked grubby splendor of the casino city of Macau and the grimy muck of its extremities.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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1.5/4
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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A sodden, soggy mess.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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2.5/4
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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The original is perfect. The new one is a pretty good creature feature.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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3/4
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Mean-spirited, but in the sort of way we all kinda-sorta deserve.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/4
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Yes, A House of Dynamite feels like a relic of the 1980s. But it’s relevant and terrifying because the past isn’t done with us.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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3/4
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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We tend to think of artists as biomechanical machines that input adversity and excrete salvation, but Cooper’s film builds toward a revelation that, frankly, I didn’t see coming.
Posted Oct 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Derrickson does a great job of making you spring out of your seat with the quick-cut jump scares and musical score spikes.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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2/4
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Tron: Ares certainly isn’t the worst film I’ve seen this year, but it’s one of the weirdest in that it actively resists accepting what makes the series so fun when it’s at its best.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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A series of great sequences that left me a little cold. Safdie doesn’t hew tightly to formula—I can’t think of another fighting movie that ends this way—but The Smashing Machine still feels relatively generic.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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2.5/4
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest alternates between laughs, thrills, and pandering sogginess.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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3/4
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HIM
(2025)
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An absolutely bonkers movie ... that careens into outright nuttiness over the last half hour or so. ... I applaud all involved for leaning into the outrageousness of the premise.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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3/4
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Lawrence’s film is something of a miracle: For a movie that is, largely, sequences of young men walking on a street and talking to each other, it is entirely riveting.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Pretty effective in that it accomplishes what it sets out to do: create a creepy atmosphere and make you involuntarily spasm when a loud noise or a scary face flashes onto the screen.
Posted Sep 03, 2025
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2.5/4
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Funny, clever, well-acted, and genuinely subverts the expectations of audiences in a way that made my eyebrows arch in appreciation.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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3/4
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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The most-fun movie Darren Aronofsky’s ever made.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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3/4
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Americana
(2025)
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If the western is the story America tells about itself, Americana depicts a moment in which we hunger for connection, sometimes from the wrong people and wrong places.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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3/4
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Lee has long been New York’s premier cinematic champion ... [and] Denzel Washington is almost inarguably the most magnetic actor working today.
Posted Aug 15, 2025
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3/4
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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So many jokes you’re likely to miss some of them the first time around.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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As solid as The Fantastic Four: First Steps is, one can’t help but feel as if there’s a spikier, more complicated movie just under the surface.
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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3/4
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Eddington
(2025)
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2020: The year we all went a little nuts.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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2.5/4
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Superman
(2025)
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Unrelentingly goofy until it tries to get serious, and then it’s even goofier somehow.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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2/4
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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These are movies, ultimately, about the boredom that would inevitably set in once dinosaurs returned from extinction.
Posted Jul 02, 2025
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3/4
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Whatever the film lacks in human drama—and, honestly, it’s pretty rote—it makes up for in asphalt-scorching bombast.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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3.5/4
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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28 Years Later isn’t a comedy, of course, but it is a little nuts.
Posted Jun 20, 2025
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3/4
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Diablo
(2025)
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It’s a little silly, never takes itself too seriously, and it has the best fight choreography you’ll see in a movie this year.
Posted Jun 13, 2025
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2/4
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Fundamentally solipsistic, an expression of a nearly unimaginable form of self-centeredness.
Posted Jun 13, 2025
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2.5/4
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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The artifice at the heart of the endeavor only heightens what is a deeply compelling, deeply human examination of what it means to be a family and what it means to do good.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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3/4
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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A rousing conclusion to the first major franchise of the digital age.
Posted May 23, 2025
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3/4
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Friendship
(2024)
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It’s the funniest feel-bad comedy of the year.
Posted May 16, 2025
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2.5/4
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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With charming stars delivering solid performances ... and an honest-to-goodness thematic throughline heightened by visual motifs culminating in an emotional payoff, Thunderbolts* is a pleasingly competent entry in the series.
Posted May 02, 2025
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3.5/4
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Sinners
(2025)
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Sinners is a crowd-pleasing historical romp; horrifying yet funny, haunted by the past but not beholden to it. It absolutely killed with my audience. I imagine it’ll kill with yours, too.
Posted Apr 18, 2025
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3.5/4
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Los Frikis
(2024)
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Los Frikis is a startling portrait of a world not too far from our own in distance or time that nevertheless feels a universe away, as well as a stirring reminder of the power art holds to captivate our souls.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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2.5/4
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A Working Man
(2025)
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A solid Jason Statham action movie.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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2/4
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The Electric State
(2025)
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There isn’t a visceral sequence in the whole picture, which is surprising given that the Russos made Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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2.5/4
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Opus
(2025)
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Any time you get to watch John Malkovich vamp for 103 minutes, you jump at that chance.
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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2/4
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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The story is soggy, the action almost nonexistent, the humor equally sparse and not nearly absurd enough to work, and, worst of all, the entire enterprise is just kind of dull.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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2/4
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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It’s not actually a Captain America movie: It’s a Thunderbolt Ross movie.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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2/4
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Cleaner
(2025)
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In terms of ... action, this high-concept action movie is lacking.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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