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Marisa Carpico

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Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Hedda is a butterfly in a bell jar of her own making and she’s fluttering her wings as fast as she can to escape suffocating from her own unhappiness.” – The Pop Break Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Still, as strong as The Smashing Machine is as a showcase for what an outstanding actor Johnson can be with the right material, it’s still worth questioning whether it achieves a greater truth or emotional resonance than the documentary that inspired it.” – The Pop Break Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% EDIT “Though the situation Iris and Isaac find themselves in is certainly extreme, its stakes and characters are true enough that Oh, Hi! never becomes slight or silly.” – The Pop Break Jul 21, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “This Superman is for an America unable to halt its own collapse. He is a reminder of the dream, the failed experiment of the “American Way.”” – The Pop Break Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Rumours (2024) 76% EDIT “By not committing to a genre or giving its characters much else to do besides wander around and spew faux inspiring yet noncommittal monologues, it does little more than waste its audience’s time.” – The Pop Break Oct 14, 2024 Full Review Lee (2023) 68% EDIT “Still, while Lee can sometimes verge on hero worship (perhaps in part because it’s based on her son’s biography of her), it does treat both what Miller photographed and her own traumas with intelligence and empathy.” – The Pop Break Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “...there are moments when Fargeat is so convinced of her own vision that points are overemphasized or scenes become tiresome in their need to provoke, but even in its most obnoxious moments, it’s impossible not to admire The Substance for its gall.” – The Pop Break Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% EDIT “While Cuckoo suffers from the self-aware audience winking that plagues so much modern horror, it ultimately succeeds thanks to strong filmmaking and the way it delivers on all its menace.” – The Pop Break Aug 5, 2024 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% EDIT “Though MaXXXine by no means deviates from its predecessors in gore or camp, this is the first installment that feels as if all of those elements mesh perfectly.” – The Pop Break Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Boy Kills World (2023) 58% EDIT “It’s a crowd-pleaser to be sure, but its delights are like cotton candy: light and delicious in the moment, but ultimately not very filling.” – The Pop Break Apr 25, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% EDIT “...Civil War‘s impressive, invigorating filmmaking makes it essential theater viewing.” – The Pop Break Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Immaculate (2024) 72% EDIT “Between scenes of nuns chopping heads off chickens and bathing each other in opaque gowns, it offers a couple of good scares. What more could audiences want?” – The Pop Break Mar 20, 2024 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% EDIT “Final plot twist notwithstanding, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is a cathartic and brilliantly-acted melodrama.” – The Pop Break Dec 22, 2023 Full Review The Iron Claw (2023) 89% EDIT “While The Iron Claw takes its drama from real-life events and people, through the caliber of its craft, it elevates that story to something like Greek tragedy.” – The Pop Break Dec 19, 2023 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% EDIT “While the filmmaking is textured and transporting, it ultimately feels like all that craft is wasted on a narrative and characters that are only explored on a surface level.” – The Pop Break Dec 1, 2023 Full Review A Holiday I Do (2023) 40% EDIT “Though A Holiday I Do may lack the polish of a Hallmark Christmas movie, it’s worth watching precisely because of how much it subverts genre expectations while still honoring some of its most satisfying tropes.” – The Pop Break Nov 14, 2023 Full Review Dream Scenario (2023) 91% EDIT “The set-up inevitably allows Cage to get into wacky situations and the film is best when it’s an absurdist comedy about a family man struggling with success. It’s when it tries to make its central metaphor mean something that it slips up.” – The Pop Break Nov 11, 2023 Full Review Subject (2022) 85% EDIT “But Subject goes much deeper into the ethics of documentary filmmaking, questioning not only what obligation the audience has to the genre’s subjects, but the directors and the filmmaking industry itself.” – The Pop Break Nov 7, 2023 Full Review Pain Hustlers (2023) 23% EDIT “Like so many movies of its kind, Pain Hustlers gets too wrapped up in the thrills of the grift to service its ultimate indictment of drug companies and their questionable practices.” – The Pop Break Oct 31, 2023 Full Review The Royal Hotel (2023) 89% EDIT “While some viewers will undoubtedly feel a righteous thrill through the film’s ending, the final beats are so rushed that the triumph feels hollow.” – The Pop Break Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Talk to Me (2023) 94% EDIT “...it’s one of too many recent horror movies that use the paranormal to explore how people process grief and the second coming out this very weekend. Sure, it’s scary, but it won’t haunt us for long.” – The Pop Break Jul 28, 2023 Full Review The Stroll (2023) 95% EDIT “At its core, The Stroll is about giving dignity back to a group of people who’ve had their personhood systematically denied for decades.” – The Pop Break Jun 21, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% EDIT “While Anderson’s style is fussier than ever in Asteroid City, the film’s structural, visual and performative complexity allows him to strip down his storytelling to its bare essentials. It’s his most playful and rewarding film in years.” – The Pop Break Jun 12, 2023 Full Review The Quiet Girl (2022) 97% EDIT “Indeed, Cáit and the Kinsellas’ relationship is built on small connections like that and while it can leave the movie feeling slight in the moment, it’s in the way the film accumulates those acts of love that it gains its power.” – The Pop Break Feb 24, 2023 Full Review Creed III (2023) 89% EDIT “And while Creed III is certainly operatic in scale, it succeeds because it’s grounded in character dynamics.” – The Pop Break Feb 24, 2023 Full Review
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