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Abby Olcese

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Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “Anaconda isn’t doing anything especially deep or wildly noteworthy, but it is a better-than-usual take on recycled IP, with a perspective that actually does something new with existing material. ” – The Pitch Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “It’s genuinely impressive that Wicked: For Good manages to justify its existence as a standalone film, considering that the back half of the stage musical is far from anyone’s favorite part.” – The Pitch Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “It’s clear Powell wants to be Cruise or Brad Pitt-level. But what might that look like? The Running Man has the answer, and it’s pretty damn compelling.” – The Pitch Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 5.5/10 EDIT “Rebuilding, like many other post-Zhao movies, wants the audience to be surprised by what they find, but you never get the sense the filmmakers themselves find their locations that special, or know their characters beyond the basic identities they present.” – Paste Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “This isn’t a loud movie. It’s the kind of film that burrows its way into your heart and mind and invites you to have long conversations afterward.” – The Pitch Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Simply put, it seems like del Toro loves this story too much to really do anything with it, and the whole production feels uneven and strangely uninteresting as a result. ” – The Pitch Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% EDIT “The idea of diminishing returns on a series that set a pretty low bar isn’t a terribly encouraging one.” – The Pitch Oct 18, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “The Smashing Machine doesn’t give us enough of a reason to be invested over the long haul, because it never invests enough in any one thing. In trying to observe as much as possible, the film ends up giving us almost no insight at all.” – The Pitch Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “It could go deeper, but what it does it does pretty well. In terms of construction, it works. Here’s the problem, though: Roofman likes its main character a little too much.” – The Pitch Oct 12, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “As much as the movie is really a pile of sentiment wrapped up in some nice cinematography, there are themes about pursuing happiness over contentment, grief and disappointment that do contain some striking universal truths. ” – The Pitch Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 7.5/10 EDIT “In a way, though, it’s refreshing to see an Aronofsky movie that, for once, isn’t bursting with more ideas than it can reasonably contain.” – Paste Magazine Aug 27, 2025 Full Review DEVO (2024) 85% 8.2/10 EDIT “At a surface level, Smith’s film is a fun documentary about a fun band. Looking deeper, it’s an even more interesting examination of trying to maintain your values in an industry that wants more than anything to smooth those rough edges down to nothing.” – Paste Magazine Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s a fine movie, but all the ways in which it’s not great come down to Lee refusing to get out of his own way.” – The Pitch Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “The jokes may be dumb, but dammit, they’re funny and they encompass everything from props to action sequences to performances. This is a comedy you want to see with a lot of people, on a big screen, where you can catch every little joke.” – The Pitch Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% EDIT “For all its faults, "Rebirth" is still better than the other Jurassic World movies. It delivers enough thrills and spills to let you have fun over a holiday weekend. But in a week’s time, you’ll probably be hard-pressed to remember anything about it.” – The Pitch Jul 3, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “It’s not lasting art, and it’s not meant to be, but the people involved are committed enough to command your attention and sympathy throughout.” – The Pitch Jun 27, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% EDIT “I’m all for encouraging people to go see movies in theaters. In this case, though, if you need something to do with your kids this weekend, you can save a lot of money by staying home and watching the original How to Train Your Dragon together.” – The Pitch Jun 20, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% EDIT “While Ballerina isn’t on the level of Wick proper, it’s got enough wild action and worldbuilding to be an enjoyable addition to the family.” – The Pitch Jun 7, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “Unfortunately -- call it a crisis of confidence, call it misplaced ego -- the movie is so caught up in… well, the lore, that it takes too long to get to the good stuff. But rest assured, the good stuff is worth waiting for.” – The Pitch May 22, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Ochi (2025) 75% EDIT “The Legend of Ochi’s storytelling is so disappointing because the rest of the movie is so impressive.” – The Pitch May 1, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% EDIT “Ahn deepens and complicates the dynamics of his central quad of queer found family, and their relationships with their biological family, making his The Wedding Banquet a movie about many kinds of relationship -- communal, parental, romantic and more.” – The Pitch Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% EDIT “Cronenberg has made a movie seemingly just for himself. While that can be interesting to watch, the vague, clinical nature of The Shrouds means it’s more a work for completists than casual viewers.” – The Pitch Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Touch Me (2025) 88% EDIT “The kind of wildly original movie that takes a bowlful of ideas and influences and throws them at the wall like sexy spaghetti and somehow manages to make most of those things stick. ” – The Pitch Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Marshmallow (2025) 83% EDIT “Marshmallow announces DelPurgatorio as a filmmaker worth watching, and Greskoviak as a skilled writer. The solid script is the foundation for a movie so efficiently produced that wise studios should take note. ” – The Pitch Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Hell of a Summer (2023) 49% EDIT “The most important thing to know going into Hell of a Summer is that while it’s billed (correctly) as a horror-comedy, the vibe is more Superbad than Sleepaway Camp. If you go in with those expectations managed, you’ll have a good time. ” – The Pitch Apr 17, 2025 Full Review
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