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3/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Andrea Chase
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Yes, there are more than a few convenient coincidences, but what we have here is a clever entertainment with a pointed, ahem, stab at the way mob mentality infects even those who believe in equal protection under the law.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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3/5
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Andrea Chase
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It's best when dazzling with a primer on the Earth Sciences, not to mention the physics of a comet that broke apart before crashing, and theories of post-apocalyptic geopolitics that seem as reasonable as the marauders engendered thereby are unreasonable.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A taut film that delivers a heart-stopping wallop while we wait to see who will survive the long night of a very disturbed chimp. Don’t forget to breathe.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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5/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Andrea Chase
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Director Nia DaCosta combines the better angels of our nature with the danger of a reality where one wrong move, one bad decision can be fatal. This is no jump-and-scare technique, but rather the slow simmer as the full implications and horror build.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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It dares to be adorable as well as deadly, which is only right in a film about a snake the size of an Amtrak train and the innocent fools who have chosen to be in the wrong place at the worst possible time.
Posted Dec 27, 2025
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2/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Meanders rather than inspires, with a forward momentum that is all but imperceptible.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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4/5
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A sharp gloss on the power of laughter, the perils of smooth jazz, and the vital importance of always telling the truth.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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4/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A scathingly clever entertainment that posits cupcakes as foreplay, heirlooms as weapons, and justice as something that can, and should be, extra-legal
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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5/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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An engrossing experience, full of twists and turns worthy of the political thrill that it is, refusing to let us off the hook as we watch the best and worst of humanity play out before our eyes.
Posted Nov 30, 2025
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2/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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How a film can overwhelm even as it underwhelms.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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4/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Raises the stakes with a premise less fantasy and more prophetic. Smartly written with genuine suspense and surprises, it asks little of us, credulity wise, beyond believing that sprays of bullets will always miss when it comes to our hero.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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4/5
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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There is much to admire about Emma Thompson here, not the least of which is the way she captures the cadence and the spirit of the Minnesota accent with the same effortless skill that embodies the rest of her performance.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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5/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A devastating gloss on war, actual and economic and political, of sending young men with their whole lives before them into a meat grinder where fairness and decency have no purchase. Where the ultimate battle is to keep your soul.
Posted Sep 13, 2025
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5/5
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Walking that fine line between stupid and clever, it is once again a razor-sharp satire of both the music business and documentary filmmaking, lacerating the pomposity and the venality of both with breathtaking precision.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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2/5
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Disappoints on so many levels with its essential mediocracy. Clunky, unfocused, and, worst of all, boring for long stretches, it ends a solid franchise with a sad wimper.
Posted Sep 03, 2025
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4/5
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The Roses
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Your heart breaks as it is meant to do, and it makes you all the more eager for the brilliant physical comedy that punctuates the broad humor and intelligent insights flung with the deadly force of a trebuchet at the most vulnerable bits.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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5/5
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Lurker
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Exploring themes of love, obsession, and the symbiotic relationship between fan and star, this psychological character study of desperation with a dash of homoeroticism is as ruthless as Matthew, and far more self-aware.
Posted Aug 31, 2025
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5/5
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Evokes not just laughter but the sort of gasps that are more rightly the province of horror films, and this is where its true genius lives: by daring to expose the emotional horror that the struggle for true love can entail.
Posted Aug 29, 2025
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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It may be an uneven excursion into danger and discombobulation, but the payoff is worth the wait.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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4/5
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Relay
(2024)
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Andrea Chase
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A character-driven thriller that trades in emotional cliffhangers rather than mere action set pieces
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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4/5
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Kudos to all concerned in finding fresh territory to continue the sly genius of grafting the clichês of family life onto an action flick while both genres are improbably enriched.
Posted Aug 16, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Cregger has produced a film that is creepy, intelligent, and with a damnable ability to make us laugh when the terror has been amped up to 11.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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4/5
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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An extravaganza of fearless puns, bold non-sequiturs, and absurdity delivered with gusto as tropes are skewered, and cultural barbs are deployed with wild abandon.
Posted Aug 01, 2025
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4/5
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Together
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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An impudent entry into the body horror genre in which the fusing together of two people becomes a, ahem, visceral metaphor for intimacy before venturing gamely into a novel definition of a happy ending.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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4/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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There is a sense of fun as well as suspense, but never cynicism or irony. Instead, there is the innocent optimism of that time, when the culture believed that science could make a better future for everyone, and that anything was possible.
Posted Jul 26, 2025
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5/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Phoenix's performance brings infinite shades of hope and despair to this character. It is the quintessence of an existential crisis defined in sharp edges and gentle longing.
Posted Jul 20, 2025
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4/5
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Superman
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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James Gunn has mined the quintessence of what makes the superhero genre so rife with possibilities and forged a whiz-bang start to the franchise's reboot.
Posted Jul 10, 2025
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5/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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For all of us who have slogged through derivative flicks that served only to the sully the original, here is a sequel that is as awe-inspiring as the first one. Good deeds are rewarded, and the element of surprise never flags,
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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4/5
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Never mind if you know nothing about Formula 1, or any racing for that matter. For every race there is a delightfully excitable Grand Prix announcer giving color commentary that annotates what is happening with a delirious, British-accented precision.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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2/5
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Bride Hard
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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The script would not know originality or finesse if they walked up to it and then shared a PowerPoint presentation with advanced graphics and professional narration by way of introducing themselves.
Posted Jun 19, 2025
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4/5
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Dangerous Animals
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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It's refreshing that the sharks are >not< the villains. Instead, we have a human psychopath for the ages, a woman who takes no guff from anyone (or anything), and a toothsome morsel of man-flesh as the damsel in distress.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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3/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A thoroughly enjoyable flick--never have flamethrowers been used to better advantage--but not one that approaches the aetherial heights of the Wick series.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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5/5
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Cruise has the most cinematic running style to date. In profile he evokes the Olympic perfection of athletes as depicted on ancient Greek vases. He is aesthetic kinesis at its finest
Posted May 23, 2025
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1/5
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Hurry Up Tomorrow
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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The flick may have a bright future as a midnight movie, perhaps as a double-bill with Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM.
Posted May 22, 2025
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4/5
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Friendship
(2024)
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Andrea Chase
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A sly rapscallion of a film, part edgy suburban noir, part situation tragedy, part existential comedy, and all a gloss on loneliness and alienation.
Posted May 22, 2025
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4/5
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Skirting the shoals of camp, the heroes are imperfect souls with a ready wisecrack and personal issues, clipping along at a sprightly pace with a bit of social commentary, a solid bit of realpolitik, and an intriguing use of weaponized depression.
Posted May 04, 2025
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5/5
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Andrea Chase
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It is the kind of film for which Nicolas Cage was gifted to us by the universe. If for no other reason, it's more than worth seeing just to bask in the mannerist magnificence of a performance rooted in reality but transcending the bonds of verisimilitude.
Posted May 04, 2025
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4/5
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The Trouble with Jessica
(2023)
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Andrea Chase
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Literate and deadpan, this wildly funny black comedy of ethics is a monumental adrenalin rush that will make you squirm and crave a clafouti.
Posted Apr 30, 2025
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4/5
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Sharply, ahem, executed and played on the pivot point of pathos and farce.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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3/5
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Drop
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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Remarkable for being such a well-crafted thriller until suddenly it's not. And in such a way that all the good that comes before, of which there is much, self-destructs so thoroughly that it becomes not just irksome but also insulting.
Posted Apr 22, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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If Coogler wanted to convey the mystical qualities of music, he has succeeded, and by placing it in the context of race and religion, he has walked boldly into fraught topics with an easy assurance and an incisive viewpoint.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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4/5
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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The epitome of what a spy film should be without resorting to bells, whistles, or CGI chase sequences. Instead, we have a sweaty guy out of his depth using his particular skill set to show the professionals who is boss. How great is that?
Posted Apr 13, 2025
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5/5
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Warfare
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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The film becomes an intense, searingly immersive experience that has as its focus the effect of battle on the people involved, civilian and military, at its most basic level.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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5/5
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Secret Mall Apartment
(2024)
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Andrea Chase
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A puckish tale of protest, ingenuity, and performance art seeping into real life thanks to eight hometown heroes who clearly understood how to blend audacious social commentary with a good time.
Posted Apr 09, 2025
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2/5
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A Minecraft Movie
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A live-action extravaganza that will thrill the fans (and the kiddies) but leave the rest of us longing for more Jennifer Coolidge. Lots more Jennfer Coolidge.
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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4/5
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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There is nothing subtle here, as is only right when taking a mythical creature as the catalyst, but the satire is so finely wrought that subtlety would be an insult to all concerned, including the audience.
Posted Mar 31, 2025
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4/5
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A worthy addition to the Statham canon with its refined sense of dynamism and berserker devotion to giving the bad guys what they deserve.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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2/5
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Locked
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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An interesting premise beautifully acted, skillfully directed, but ultimately stymied by a script that mires itself in a repetitive second act that doesn't so much expand as aggravate.
Posted Mar 23, 2025
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5/5
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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A scathingly brilliant take on truth, lies, and the sanctity of marriage, and the perfect vehicle for Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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4/5
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Andrea Chase
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[A] gripping drama, harrowing in its depiction of the precarious nature of human life when faced with the natural elements or with tech gone wrong, but it is also a very human one. Prepare to go through an emotional wringer, and to be glad that you did.
Posted Feb 27, 2025
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