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Hoai-Tran Bui

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Biography:

Hoai-Tran Bui is a news writer and film and TV critic at SlashFilm.com. She has previously written for USA Today, reporting on TV and movies for its EntertainThis blog.

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All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% EDIT “While All You Need Is Kill doesn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to the time-loop thriller, or indeed even as an adaptation of Sakurazaka’s light novel, it still manages to feel fresh and new” – Inverse Jan 23, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “DaCosta’s grounded, clear-eyed approach unveils the script’s unnerving nihilism. 28 Years Later certainly touched on the cruelty that humans do to each other, but The Bone Temple shows in all its bloody glory the cruelty that was always lying in wait.” – Inverse Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Bi Gan has achieved something here that is worth experiencing — a feat of cinematic artistry.” – Inverse Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “A manic, madcap odyssey that is as exhilarating as it is exhausting, Marty Supreme is operating on a level of ballsy absurdity that no other movie this year can dream of touching.” – Inverse Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Anchored by a magnificent Wagner Moura, who delivers one of the knottiest, most complex lead performances of the year, The Secret Agent sneaks up on you — not by virtue of any shocking twists, but simply by how it refuses to be just one thing.” – Inverse Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “Little Amélie is a metaphysical wonder. It’s lovely and light and uplifting, and is full of an awe for life.” – Inverse Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Lawrence has given numerous tour-de-force performances in her incredible career, but this is one that feels most fitting to describe as a force of nature.” – Inverse Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “A magic trick of a blockbuster movie.” – Inverse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “It’s hyper-stylized and sleazy and sordid, with Farrell’s go-for-broke performance embodying a movie that feels like its tenuous grip on reality could break at any moment and send it hurling into the ether. ” – Inverse Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “It redefines the heist film by Reichardt’s vision of an America that has since been lost to time.” – Inverse Oct 24, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “Panahi crafts one of the most prescient and timely films of the year. Its gutting ending is one for the ages, and is the perfect capper for a film that is both an entertaining “revenge” thriller and a filmmaker’s inarguably political statement.” – Inverse Oct 24, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Byrne is nothing short of spectacular in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her agonized expression constantly commanding the whole frame that Bronstein constantly gives her.” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “As Roofman takes increasingly wacky turns, most of them owing to the truly bizarre turns of the story of Jeffrey Manchester, it’s Cianfrance’s deft touch that maintains the tricky balance between the absurd and the affecting.” – Inverse Oct 16, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “While Bigelow ultimately crafts an exercise in relentless tension that’s more immersive than insightful, it’s undeniably effective.” – Inverse Oct 8, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is a bracingly relevant, breathlessly propulsive, and deeply layered thriller that manages to transcend its source material. On top of that, it’s entertaining as hell.” – Inverse Sep 17, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “Loaded with so many stunningly gorgeous images, it may not be as big or bold as it imagines itself to be, but it’s certainly full of a sense of imagination and whimsy that you don’t find in many — or really any — movies these days.” – Inverse Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% EDIT “A shaggy, beautifully understated film about the resilience of youthful rebellion and ennui in the face of an increasingly bleak future. ” – Inverse Sep 15, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Park has constructed a light and zany farce (and his funniest movie in over two decades) about how easy it is for the haves to lose everything, and the desperate lengths they will go to in order to maintain their charmed lives.” – Inverse Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “The kind of opulent filmmaking we need more of, and like del Toro’s version of Frankenstein, feels like part of a disappearing world. One wishes that del Toro got the chance to make his Frankenstein 20 years ago. Maybe then, it would have felt more whole.” – Inverse Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “A remarkable tonal balancing act from Lanthimos, who perfectly weaponizes his brand of unnerving filmmaking to make the most unpredictable, genre-bending movie of the year.” – Inverse Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “Morphs from the social-media riff of Almost Famous into a startlingly fresh and twisty new-age take on The Talented Mr. Ripley.” – Inverse Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) 93% EDIT “A delightful indie triumph.” – Inverse Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Lee avoids remaking High and Low beat-for-beat...instead, his supercharged thriller film Highest 2 Lowest only takes the basic premise of the story and turns it into a frequently bombastic and occasionally baffling, but undeniably Spike Lee movie.” – Inverse Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 99% EDIT “It may be one of the most ambitious, immersive cinematic achievements released in this century.” – Inverse Aug 11, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% EDIT “The sequel repeats the beats of the first film, to diminishing returns.” – Inverse Aug 7, 2025 Full Review
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