Sonny Bunch
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
92%
3/4
EDIT
“Ralph Fiennes delivers the performance of the year in mid-January.” –
The Bulwark
Jan 13, 2026
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Dead Man's Wire (2025)
91%
3/4
EDIT
“Dead Man’s Wire is sleek, efficient, and designed to be seen with a crowd.” –
The Bulwark
Jan 9, 2026
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Marty Supreme (2025)
93%
3.5/4
EDIT
“The role Chalamet was born to play.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 24, 2025
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
66%
2.5/4
EDIT
“It feels a little weird to dismiss something as incredibly constructed as Fire and Ash as "something we’ve seen before," because there is literally no one else making stuff that looks as good as this movie looks. But that’s the simple truth.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 18, 2025
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Train Dreams (2025)
95%
3.5/4
EDIT
“A nation rolling along, with one man’s life and tragedies both background noise and an entire universe all at once. It is a cinematic depiction of history. No more, no less. And it’s one of the best movies of the year.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 12, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
92%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Byrne deserves every plaudit she’s earned for her work in this movie; she is crushing in her overwhelmed sadness, a devastating portrait of barely functioning depression.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 12, 2025
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Hamnet (2025)
86%
2.5/4
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“To be profound or merely profoundly distressing: that is the question. I’m not sure what Hamnet’s answer is.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 12, 2025
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Sirāt (2025)
92%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Many filmgoers will likely find the film’s conclusion unsatisfying ... but the harrowing nature of Luis and Esteban’s journey might be enough to satisfy most of us.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 12, 2025
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Sentimental Value (2025)
97%
2.5/4
EDIT
“A compelling portrait of a family in turmoil and art’s usefulness in helping people work through their problems.” –
The Bulwark
Dec 12, 2025
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
91%
2.5/4
EDIT
“This isn’t in quite the same mode as Linklater’s hangout movies, but it’s not far off either.” –
The Bulwark
Nov 21, 2025
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Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
48%
3/4
EDIT
“Not an easy or a pleasant watch, precisely. ... But it looks great, Berger perfectly capturing both the neon-soaked grubby splendor of the casino city of Macau and the grimy muck of its extremities.” –
The Bulwark
Nov 21, 2025
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
66%
1.5/4
EDIT
“A sodden, soggy mess.” –
The Bulwark
Nov 21, 2025
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Predator: Badlands (2025)
86%
2.5/4
EDIT
“The original is perfect. The new one is a pretty good creature feature.” –
The Bulwark
Nov 4, 2025
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Bugonia (2025)
88%
3/4
EDIT
“Mean-spirited, but in the sort of way we all kinda-sorta deserve.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 31, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025)
75%
3/4
EDIT
“Yes, A House of Dynamite feels like a relic of the 1980s. But it’s relevant and terrifying because the past isn’t done with us.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 24, 2025
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
61%
3/4
EDIT
“We tend to think of artists as biomechanical machines that input adversity and excrete salvation, but Cooper’s film builds toward a revelation that, frankly, I didn’t see coming.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 22, 2025
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Black Phone 2 (2025)
72%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Derrickson does a great job of making you spring out of your seat with the quick-cut jump scares and musical score spikes.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 15, 2025
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TRON: Ares (2025)
53%
2/4
EDIT
“Tron: Ares certainly isn’t the worst film I’ve seen this year, but it’s one of the weirdest in that it actively resists accepting what makes the series so fun when it’s at its best.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 7, 2025
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The Smashing Machine (2025)
70%
2.5/4
EDIT
“A series of great sequences that left me a little cold. Safdie doesn’t hew tightly to formula—I can’t think of another fighting movie that ends this way—but The Smashing Machine still feels relatively generic.” –
The Bulwark
Oct 3, 2025
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One Battle After Another (2025)
94%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest alternates between laughs, thrills, and pandering sogginess.” –
The Bulwark
Sep 23, 2025
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HIM (2025)
30%
3/4
EDIT
“An absolutely bonkers movie ... that careens into outright nuttiness over the last half hour or so. ... I applaud all involved for leaning into the outrageousness of the premise.” –
The Bulwark
Sep 18, 2025
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The Long Walk (2025)
88%
3/4
EDIT
“Lawrence’s film is something of a miracle: For a movie that is, largely, sequences of young men walking on a street and talking to each other, it is entirely riveting.” –
The Bulwark
Sep 12, 2025
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The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
58%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Pretty effective in that it accomplishes what it sets out to do: create a creepy atmosphere and make you involuntarily spasm when a loud noise or a scary face flashes onto the screen.” –
The Bulwark
Sep 3, 2025
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Honey Don't! (2025)
45%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Funny, clever, well-acted, and genuinely subverts the expectations of audiences in a way that made my eyebrows arch in appreciation.” –
The Bulwark
Aug 29, 2025
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Caught Stealing (2025)
85%
3/4
EDIT
“The most-fun movie Darren Aronofsky’s ever made.” –
The Bulwark
Aug 27, 2025
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