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Courtney Howard

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Shelter (2026) 74% 2.5 / 5 EDIT “While the action is fairly well-staged and the leads are a perfectly-matched pairing, the overall package fails to deliver the goods.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 5/5 EDIT “It's a perfectly sick and twisted, razor-sharp masterclass in filmmaking.Bloody, radical and totally savage, it’s full of edge of your seat thrills that are built to see again and again.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% C- EDIT “Its concepts are shaped into an appropriately flawed story about a flawed hero on a redemptive journey. Still, it’s a slight bit better than the average black-holed, Amazon-produced movie.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 3 out of 5 EDIT “It squeaks by as a serviceable survivalist story with only a passing interest in world-building. It’s not bad, per se. It’s just not something entirely worth rejoicing.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% A- EDIT “The stakes have grown bigger, the immersive, gorgeously rendered visual effects have gotten bolder and the stunt work has gotten more palm-sweat-inducing.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% B- EDIT “A swift, unapologetically rowdy, gorily jaw-dropping crowd-pleaser.” – Fresh Fiction Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% D EDIT “It’s the kind of comedy where the gags are not only obvious, they’ve got very little lasting power. It doesn’t inspire much in the way of post-screening discussions about favorite scenes, indelible hilarity, or quotable lines” – Fresh Fiction Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% B+ EDIT “Replete with steamy, suspenseful scenarios and chock full of unexpected twists, it has everything audiences could ever want in a contemporary psycho-thriller.” – Fresh Fiction Dec 16, 2025 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% C EDIT “Though it delivers an admirably emphatic rejection of toxic masculinity, it frequently forgets to conjure genuinely looney, delightfully moronic hilarity, leading to dips in energy as well as audience exhaustion.” – Fresh Fiction Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% F EDIT “A misguided sense of faux feminism, undercooked and contrived conflicts, and poorly drawn characters prevail in this shockingly sloppy feature.” – Fresh Fiction Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Oh. What. Fun. (2025) 35% EDIT “It makes audiences wish for the slightly darker version simmering beneath the surface, instead of the one with a Norman Rockwell-esque, shellacked sheen and rushed resolutions.” – Variety Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% A+ EDIT “Josh Safdie re-engineers the tropes associated with underdog sports films through a lens focused on a charmingly motor-mouthed hustler who constantly ping-pongs between comfort and chaos. The result is ablaze with a fire, fury and ferocity all its own. ” – Fresh Fiction Dec 1, 2025 Full Review In Your Dreams (2025) 86% 3.5 out of 5 EDIT “In Your Dreams isn’t a perfect movie. However, it’s a perfectly honest, witty and open-hearted feature – and its those qualities that make it soar. ” – Fresh Fiction Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% B+ EDIT “Teeming with earned moments, enlightening evolutions and heartening amounts of inspiration, director Jon M. Chu’s conjoined features will be cherished for years and generations to come.” – Fresh Fiction Nov 18, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 4.5 / 5 EDIT “Charlie Polinger’s The Plague plays like Lord of the Flies meets mother! at a boys’ water polo camp in the early aughts. This film should be shown as essential text.” – Fresh Fiction Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% A EDIT “Housing gorgeous cinematography, a stunning showcase for make-up and immersive visual effects, as well as a perfect screwball comedy-esque leading lady performance, it’s a radical film that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible.” – Fresh Fiction Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Southern Chronicles (2025) EDIT “Both the leading man’s charisma and the setting’s local color shine through immediately, gifting us with a winning hero and an upbeat, lively journey. It’s a rollicking crowd-pleaser realized by a fresh, assured voice in filmmaking. ” – Variety Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% 3.5 out of 5 EDIT “Fiendishly frightening, containing nerve-jangling and popcorn jostling scares, it achieves the goal of making us terrified of what’s hiding in the dark, lurking around the corner, hiding in the deep black recesses of the frame.” – Fresh Fiction Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% 0.5 out of 5 EDIT “Aggressively dour, drab and dull in narrative design and aesthetic appeal, this contemporary iteration is frustrating, forgettable fodder, whether or not you revere or revile the original. ” – Fresh Fiction Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% EDIT “The mystery is less about who’s involved in the game, as alert audiences piecing together context clues will be immediately aware of those nefarious parties, and is more about the puzzling lengths the filmmakers go to in planting contrived red herrings. ” – Variety Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Vicious (2025) 44% C- EDIT “Though its creepy atmosphere is accompanied by a tactile sense of isolation, the muddled last act feels like a letdown rather than a gut-punch. ” – Fresh Fiction Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 95% 2/5 EDIT “Their punk-rock middle finger comes across as flippant, leading to an abrasive action-comedy yielding few laughs and even fewer disarming thrills, in addition to its problems finding the precise outlandish tone for their serious sentiments to resonate. ” – Fresh Fiction Oct 5, 2025 Full Review Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl (2025) 64% EDIT “In this feature-length extravaganza, Swift's mettle, fortitude and collaborative artistry take center stage. It’s an immersive affair emphasizing the crowd experience – one she genuinely values as a performer and one we feel as movie theater patrons.” – Fresh Fiction Oct 4, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% A+ EDIT “Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a flawless, riveting, arresting work of genius and a sublime masterpiece.” – Fresh Fiction Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% B- EDIT “ It acts as a warm, cozy blanket to cuddle up with during current cynical times.” – Fresh Fiction Sep 10, 2025 Full Review
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