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Prabhjot Bains

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Biography:

Prabhjot Bains is a critic and columnist based in Toronto, Canada. His love of Hollywood is only matched by his affinity for international cinema. His work can be found at Exclaim!, But Why Tho?, The Hollywood Handle, and Tilt Magazine. Find Prabhjot at @prabhjotbains96

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Send Help (2026) 94% 8/10 EDIT “The thorny two-hander doubles as a pulpy, schlocky affair that marks a return to form for Sam Raimi’s revered genre leanings. ” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Return to Silent Hill (2026) 18% 2.5/10 EDIT “The result is a film that tells but never shows, transforming powerful, implicit horrors into woefully explicit grotesqueries. It not only feels misguided and uninspired in form, feel, and function, but also marks a new low for the video game adaptation.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s the mark of a memorable thriller when you’re less invested in the knotty mechanics of its setup than in the intricate interplay of its characters. That quality courses through Gus Van Sant’s propulsive Dead Man’s Wire.” – RANGE Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “Nia DaCosta’s sequel is a bleak, beautiful, and musically charged ode to our self-destruction.” – RANGE Magazine Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “Jarmusch crafts a work that draws on the viewer’s own history as much as its characters’, using absence as a storytelling tool—a delicate balancing act few films pull off with such devastating grace.” – RANGE Magazine Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 7/10 EDIT “While Anaconda is held back by some questionable visual effects, flat cinematography, and lazy gags, such disarray becomes a strength in a film that champions a scrappy, D.I.Y. filmmaking spirit. ” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 4.5/10 EDIT “While there remains a superficial pleasure in seeing salt-of-the-earth people reach for modest stars, Song Sung Blue routinely hits a discordant, disingenuous note.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Dec 21, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 3.5/10 EDIT “What remains of The Housemaid is a film that, despite a handful of unintended laughs, is so desperate for attention that it forgets why it exists in the first place. ” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 4/10 EDIT “Silent Night, Deadly Night brims with grating musical stings, miraculously feeble kills, and a flat, milquetoast visual touch that keeps it a few degrees away from a low-rung Hallmark movie.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “In the pantheon of iconic movie characters, there’s a sure place reserved for the nervy, sublime Marty Supreme.” – RANGE Magazine Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Even if The Running Man unfolds like a softer, less subversive Paul Verhoeven flick, it endures as a reminder of the rougher, rowdier, raunchier joys that used to define the blockbuster landscape.” – RANGE Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Though there remains a tighter, focused version of this film, it would defeat the purpose. Ramsay’s film exists in a realm beyond reason and sense, and, by defiantly eschewing logic, earnestly captures the helpless task of navigating the female conundrum.” – RANGE Magazine Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% 9/10 EDIT “Sirat fiercely clutches at the senses. It plunks us onto a grueling path between paradise and hell, anguish and hope that forgoes traditional narrative structure to become a painterly, sonic-visual symphony. ” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “Though stylistically starved, its less-is-more approach uniquely echoes Springsteen’s tortured state of mind in the early 80s, when he famously defied his mainstream momentum and dared to make a record that sounded nothing like his bombastic trademark.” – RANGE Magazine Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Despite some heavy-handed narration and a missed opportunity to probe the veteran psyche post-9/11, Roofman remains a funny, heartfelt exercise in authenticity—one that, like its loveable thief, steals your heart before you notice.” – RANGE Magazine Oct 24, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “For all its warts, it’s hard not to invest this anti-climactic, miserabilist tale of personal redemption. ” – RANGE Magazine Oct 3, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Spanning a breezy near-three-hour runtime, One Battle After Another erupts as a political powderkeg of an epic—enthralling, hilarious, and steeped in revolutionary verve for a world that desperately needs it.” – RANGE Magazine Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 5.5/10 EDIT “ Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery feels trapped in a liminal space between being memorable and forgettable. ” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Sep 22, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 9/10 EDIT “No Other Choice sees Park Chan-wook operating at another artistic high, consistently finding method in the madness. Despite how comical its fabric may be, it never relinquishes a tight grip on a prescient social satire.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 9/10 EDIT “The Secret Agent‘s colourful, fictional tale carves out a bittersweet slice of veracity out of Brazil’s tumultuous history—a slice many are still neglecting to embrace.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% 7/10 EDIT “Although Exit 8 struggles to sustain its atmospheric highs, becoming less interesting with each loop, it survives as a daring genre exercise.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “While far from essential, Caught Stealing thrives as a rollicking, violent throwback—grimy, stylish, and pulsing with enough scuzzy flair to feel right at home on a video-store shelf.” – RANGE Magazine Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “Blending witty, vulgar banter with painterly visual humour, Covino’s film feels European in sensibility but unabashedly American in spirit.” – RANGE Magazine Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% 5/10 EDIT “Sure, it’s nice to smell The Roses, but there’s no danger of its comedic scent lingering because, despite how thorny it portends to be, there’s no fear of getting pricked.” – But Why Tho? A Geek Community Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% EDIT “While there exists a more full-bodied version of Honey Don’t!, where its noirish tale is as interesting as the personalities populating it, it reminds us that no one can capture the quirks and oddities of small-town America quite like a Coen brother.” – RANGE Magazine Aug 22, 2025 Full Review
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