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Jake Cole

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Once a Thief (1991) 50% EDIT “Once a Thief is an outlier in Woo’s mature period, closer in spirit to his pre-breakthrough workman era making comedic genre pictures.” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Bullet in the Head (1990) 88% EDIT “John Woo draws liberally from the trove of Vietnam War movies, staging epic battles in villages with overt cues to Apocalypse Now and mirroring The Deer Hunter’s structure of slow psychological unraveling among friends. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) B- EDIT “Archival footage shows Valdez as an energetic presence in theaters and the frontlines of civil rights protests, and he retains much of that spry quality in the present as an 84-year-old gregariously telling his life story.” – IndieWire Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The Fall of Otrar (1991) EDIT “The film often conveys an intense claustrophobia befitting the siege campaign that brought the walled city of Otrar to its knees.” – Slant Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975) EDIT “The 1975 film never loses sight of the immense cost of gaining one’s freedom.” – Slant Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 3/4 EDIT “The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.” – Slant Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Out of the Past (1947) 87% A EDIT “One of the quintessential works in a genre riddled with decay.” – Movie Mezzanine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.” – Slant Magazine Jan 4, 2026 Full Review The Ladykillers (1955) 100% EDIT “The greatest joy remains the sight of Alec Guinness’s self-style Marcus constantly adapting on the fly as the gang’s ruse unravels.” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) 100% EDIT “Crichton’s stellar heist caper presents Holland’s crime as a belated attempt at self-actualization by a man who’s lived his life to this point passively.” – Slant Magazine Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) 78% EDIT “The depiction of Pee-wee making hostile environments a little kinder is all the more endearing for the goofy and slightly surreal flights of fancy that characterize the film.” – Slant Magazine Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 69% 2/4 EDIT “n paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.” – Slant Magazine Dec 7, 2025 Full Review The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “While The Abyss operates as a two-pronged thalassaphobic thriller and philosophical treatise on alien life, its driving force is the reconciliation between Lindsey and Bud as harrowing circumstances force them back together. ” – Slant Magazine Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Hell's Angels (1930) 76% EDIT “Hell’s Angels spares few thoughts for empty patriotism.” – Slant Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 2/4 EDIT “In the second half, the film simplistically expands on the novel to bring Stephen King’s prescient critiques more fully into line with signifiers of the Trump era.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989) EDIT “Though a major tonal diversion from what preceded it, A Better Tomorrow III ends the franchise on a reflective note that retroactively colors the movies whose narratives occur after this one. ” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review A Better Tomorrow II (1987) 57% EDIT “Only a few minutes longer than the first film, A Better Tomorrow II feels distended and unfocused.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review A Better Tomorrow (1986) 94% EDIT “An opera of sorts whose elaborate gunfights are its arias.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Outland (1981) 59% EDIT “Heavily indebted to Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon, Outland updates the earlier film’s Red Scare paranoia with a more topical anxiety about growing conglomeration and capitalist power.” – Slant Magazine Nov 2, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain changes up its breezy account of a toddler’s growth with the occasional moment of slowed-down rumination.” – Slant Magazine Oct 25, 2025 Full Review In the Mouth of Madness (1995) 58% EDIT “With 1994’s In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter again drew on cosmic horror traditions, like he did for The Thing and Prince of Darkness, but ramped up the metatextual vibes.” – Slant Magazine Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Peking Opera Blues (1986) 78% EDIT “For all its genre pleasures, Peking Opera Blues seriously reflects on the political upheavals of 20th-century China. ” – Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2025 Full Review This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 98% EDIT “An instant cult classic, Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap laid the groundwork for the modern improv comedy with its laser-precise skewering of the heyday of ’80s heavy metal and the vagaries of making it as a touring act. ” – Slant Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 86% B- EDIT “Unlike many of its obvious influences, “Honey Bunch” is built on a foundation of its characters’ genuine love and desire to help, but in some ways that makes their actions all the more horrific and troubling.” – IndieWire Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 2.5/4 EDIT “The careful balance of “stupid and clever” that solidified the legend of the first film is less steady in its much-belated sequel.” – Slant Magazine Sep 11, 2025 Full Review
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