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M.V. Moorhead

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Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s Van Sant’s first theatrical feature since 2018, and as an evocation of its period, it’s intensely vivid; those of us who remember the mid-’70s in middle America may find it almost hallucinatory.” – Phoenix Magazine Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “This movie makes the Hangover flicks look like Oscar Wilde. But these actors, particularly the always game and personable Rudd, passionately commit to the stupidity, and this Anaconda may strike an emotional chord with certain audience members.” – Phoenix Magazine Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “Jackman is terrific in a role that seems tailor-made for him... Excellent and lovable as Jackman is, however, he’s shown up by his leading lady. ” – Phoenix Magazine Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “A very loud, abrasive, unrelenting movie... But it explores a great subject: brash, self-promoting American hustlers. And it gets at a great truth: that for better or worse, brash, self-promoting American hustlers have a way of getting what they want.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The dialogue isn’t poetry but the dialogue isn’t the point; the shimmering, immersive visuals and mythic yarnspinning are what the movie is for. In the last hour or so I was fully invested; I wanted to see the good guys win and the bad guys lose.” – Phoenix Magazine Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “It’s probably a hair longer than it needs to be... But it’s a polished production, the three leads are improbably pretty, and the rip-snorting gothic comeuppances of the homestretch are satisfying. ” – Phoenix Magazine Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “It's a great idea, and I enjoyed Ella McCay, but I'm not sure it hangs together convincingly. In part this has to do with Mackey's youthfulness, and the callow and somewhat ditzy nature of the character. ” – Less Hat, Moorhead Dec 13, 2025 Full Review The Family McMullen (2025) 80% EDIT “Driven along by Seamus Egan's sprightly Irish flute score, The Family McMullen is, like the "Brothers", extremely low-key and mild, and I found that to be just what I wanted. ” – Less Hat, Moorhead Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% EDIT “It's possible that the timing of the shoot also added to the emotional charge of the movie; we're seeing actors at the end of a run, saying farewell to a smash that's also likely to be one of the better pieces of material they're ever going to get to do.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Hamnet speaks to a truth every parent knows: that the best-case scenario is that you live in fear for your children until the day you die. The movie dramatizes it potently, and I’m glad I saw it, but I doubt I’ll ever want to see it again.” – Phoenix Magazine Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) 93% EDIT “Like many Hughes films, it carries a whiff of his unapologetic sense of the suburban upper middle class as an aspirational paradise. But Planes, Trains and Automobiles squares off two of the greatest comic actors of their generation. ” – Phoenix Magazine Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “[Elle Fanning's] guileless nattering lets enough of the Wagnerian air out of the proceedings to keep things light and amusing. Better still is Schuster-Koloamatangi, a New Zealander who somehow manages to connect with the audience through the makeup.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “The route [Yorgos Lanthimos] takes, though admittedly funny, is heavy-handed, and diffuses the bite of what has gone before. Even so, Bugonia has more than enough brilliance and passion to be worth a look.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “[Jeremy Allen White is] moving in his depressive mode, too, but there's no getting around it, the movie becomes a long dark night of the soul in these passages, and they make up a lot of screen time.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Oct 26, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “It's skillfully crafted, but it depends for its light tone on us finding Roofman lovable. Because no irrevocable tragedy resulted from Manchester's crimes, but perhaps even more importantly because he's played by Channing Tatum, we can.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% EDIT “Even though the movie's agonies are rooted in two of Britain's primal eldest curses, there's nothing particularly revelatory about them. But they allow Day-Lewis a series of opportunities for increasingly intense showcase acting.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% EDIT “[Scarlett Johansson's] work is crisp and proficient, but the script, by Tory Kamen, is unsteady... None of this, however, is an impediment to the indomitable Squibb, whose fearless, direct performance transcends any shortcomings in the material.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 27, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another still has the ring of emotional truth. It all may seem crazy, but it sure doesn't seem nearly as outrageous and improbable as it would have, say, ten or twelve years ago. ” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% EDIT “This Grand Finale doesn't feel particularly grand; as with the two earlier films, it's a relaxing, undemanding holiday, not only from our time and circumstances, but from any judgements we might have about what we're seeing.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% EDIT “It's somewhat in the vein of odd couple road comedies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles or Due Date, but The Baltimorons rings true in a way those laboriously-carpentered films don't. ” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “[The book] packed a punch; but it's possible the movie, despite its inevitable monotony and the morbid self-pity common to "young adult" fiction, is even more unsettling and troubling. ” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing is ultimately just standard mayhem from the Robert Rodriguez or Guy Ritchie playbook... Butler kept me rooting for him until the end, however. So did the cat.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The American Southwest (2025) 100% EDIT “It's a compelling, even alarming message, and hopefully a call to arms, but happily The American Southwest isn't a downer to watch, partly because it isn't just gorgeous vistas; it has a lively cast of characters.” – Less Hat, Moorhead Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% EDIT “Sometimes The Roses is a nasty, mean-spirited black comedy, other times the stars give it a degree of emotional depth and complexity that the farcical plot twists and the vicious, stupid insults they’re given to say can’t accommodate. ” – Phoenix Magazine Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005) 85% EDIT “Both comedically and emotionally, The 40-Year-Old Virgin -- if you’ll pardon the expression -- goes all the way. ” – Phoenix Magazine Aug 22, 2025 Full Review
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