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July Rhapsody
(2002)
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Rino Lu
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Within this disordered rhapsody, [director Ann Hui] composes an unsettling variation on an ordinary man’s forties, winding up its movement in a gentle, poetic cadence.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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Frank & Louis
(2026)
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Mel Valentin
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Takes an unhurried, detail-rich approach ... letting dialogue, camerawork, and performances lead the audience ... into the inner and outer lives of men typically forgotten or even discarded by society. ... Nuanced, nonjudgmental.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Buddy
(2026)
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Mel Valentin
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Deftly balancing dark, cringe-worthy comedy with absurdist horror, Buddy delivers exactly what its primary image of a half-charred Buddy wielding an ax in an artificial forest promised: Twisted fun (not) for the whole family.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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All About the Money
(2026)
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Daniel Eagan
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Self-serving and duplicitous, Fergie Chambers is a gold mine for a documentarian like O'Shea. He eventually seems to be trying to redeem himself, but by the end he is still blaming others for his actions.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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The Wrecking Crew
(2026)
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Daniel Eagan
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I don't care whether Bautista and Mamoa are believable as brothers. I want to see them destroying bad guys, which is exactly what The Wrecking Crew delivers.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Leviticus
(2026)
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Mel Valentin
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Brilliant in its conception and even more brilliant in its execution, Leviticus belongs high on a list of queer horror and its discontents.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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The Musical
(2026)
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Mel Valentin
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Undoubtedly will make a fine addition to the collections of cringe-comedy aficionados.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Josephine
(2026)
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Mel Valentin
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A deeply moving, heartrending exploration of the loss of innocence and the unintended consequences thereof.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Send Help
(2026)
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Kyle Logan
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Send Help works as comedy every so often, whether it's because of Raimi's penchant for making violence downright goofy or the stars' charisma, but it's so overlong and stagnant as anything else that the majority of it is just a slog.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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undertone
(2025)
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Andrew Mack
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Of all the films that have depended on audio-instigated thrills and chills, The Undertone may be the best to have ever done it ... Flawless in execution and detail ... The Undertone is one of the best horror thrillers you will ever listen to.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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3.5/5.0
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Revolver Lily
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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As a movie, Revolver Lily moves just as briskly as Yuri Ozone herself takes stealthy, decisive action. It resembles the train that kicked the action off: fast-moving, with a destination clearly in mind.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Rino Lu
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For a low-budget production like Mother of Flies, the film hints at how creativity can be efficiently amplified and freely shared through solidified collaboration.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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Mercy
(2026)
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Olga Artemyeva
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It’s definitely not the most outrageous or silly concept Bekmambetov ever worked with, but it’s certainly the least fun ... Strives to combine two of the director’s great passions: action movies and screenlife thrillers ... with mixed results.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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The Well
(2025)
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J Hurtado
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Thrives on a sparse aesthetic. What flourish there is in the film is largely narrative, as the imagery tells a tale of a world in which there is no time or energy to spare.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Kyle Logan
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As an adaptation of one of the best video games ever made from a filmmaker who successfully translated the games' world to film before, it's a major disappointment.
As a movie, it's just bad.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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Altered
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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A fun, punchy ride, for what it is: a sci-fi b-movie (the kind I love) that makes a good rental or purchase on a Video On Demand platform.
Posted Jan 19, 2026
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The Rip
(2026)
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Rob Hunter
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Fantastic stuff and among [Joe] Carnahan's best. ... It rocks. It's also a reminder that movies made for this streaming era can still look, feel, and deliver as real movies.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Bite the Bullet
(1975)
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Peter Martin
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Hackman's performance raises it above the noise.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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Night Patrol
(2025)
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J Hurtado
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[A] rousingly entertaining collective trauma-centered bloodbath, eschewing the tedious navel gazing that often afflicts such enterprises.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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Killer Whale
(2026)
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Rob Hunter
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Flops its way onto the screen stuffed to the blowhole with a steady sludge of utterly abysmal cg effects. ... It's a shame, as Jo-Anne Brechin's direction is otherwise solid, and both Gardner and Jarnson do good work.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Shelagh Rowan-Legg
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a more than worthy follow up to last year's film, visually glorious, a great sense of ironic humour, and drops enough literal and proverbial needles to make an audience applaud and craving for more.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3/5
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Space/Time
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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[Becomes] quite thrilling. ... Anyone with a proclivity for science fiction [will] appreciate what the filmmakers accomplished with a low budget and a lot of imagination.
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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All That's Left of You
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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Dabis’ film is also a story of different kinds of love and being able to make choices even when they seem impossible. Among them, the choice to somehow go on no matter what appears to be the most devastating – but also at least a little bit soothing.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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OBEX
(2025)
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Mel Valentin
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If you’re on OBEX’s wavelength or frequency, i.e., attuned to its oddball charms, quirky humor, and irony-free, poignant exploration of its central themes, then OBEX will prove a deeply engaging, infinitely rewarding experience.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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100 Nights of Hero
(2025)
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Rino Lu
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What makes [it] remarkable is its playful use of a double entendre. ... Not only liberates characters trapped on the page, but permits its feminist ethos to give birth, in turn, to queer subjectivities -- an achievement as elegant as it is exhilarating.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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3/5
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Marshmallow
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Distinguishes itself with its clever wrinkles on a familiar premise. ... The kind of modestly-budgeted indie horror flick that I love to discover.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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Anaconda
(2025)
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J Hurtado
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[T]he rare reinvention that acknowledges the faults of its source material – Cajun Jon Voight, anyone? – and exploits them for the jokes they always were... it surprised the hell out of me, and that’s exactly what I needed.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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The Plague
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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Succinct but effective ... presenting a welcome departure from what a lot of genre films tend to do these days. ... Might not have any groundbreakingly novel ideas on the painful subject, the ones it has are still relevant.
Posted Dec 25, 2025
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Mel Valentin
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Elevated by career-best performances from Chalamet and A’zion. ... Safdie’s hyperkinetic direction, and Daniel Lopatin’s dazzling, 1980s-inspired score, ... and Marty Supreme becomes a must-watch for serious and casual moviegoers alike.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Maxwell Rabb
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Instead of an empathetic glimpse into one niche of Americana, Hollywood mutates a real-life phenomenon into a disheartening impersonation.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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Lone Samurai
(2025)
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Maxwell Rabb
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Slogs forward as the samurai wanders aimlessly across the island before being captured by a band of cartoonishly evil natives. The story is stitched together so sloppily that there's no tension, no momentum -- just dead air between swings of the blade.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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The Great Flood
(2025)
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Pierce Conran
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It soon stops being a disaster film, and veers off into madly ambitious yet maddeningly asinine speculative sci-fi.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Kyle Logan
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While not every aspect is entirely successful, The Housemaid's big swings at fucked-up fun land far more than they miss.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
(2024)
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Paz O'Farrell
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There [are] many female characters, but they don't feel very well roughed out. Then again, no one does. Not even the battles, which mainly consist of cries of "fire ball".
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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A Private Life
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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The sum of its quirks makes it charming enough to become one of these guilty pleasures you don’t really need to deny yourself.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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Clearly a personal project for several of its creators ... Which only makes it more perplexing how a personal work like this ends up feeling like the most sanitized, Hollywood-polished version of inner turmoil possible.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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One of the most fascinating and powerful cinematic experiences of the year.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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For Bigelow, the potential catastrophe – the fate of Chicago and possibly the rest of the world – isn’t a chance for a big-budget spectacle, but rather for the exploration of the chaos that ensues.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Peter Hujar's Day
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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Whishaw's performance remains a masterclass in not only making something routine sound fascinating, but also in creating a great illusion of unrehearsed spontaneity.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Late Fame
(2026)
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Olga Artemyeva
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A bittersweet and at times painfully funny film about the horrors of desperately needing validation after receiving a small dose of it. At the same time, Late Fame is a very quiet movie that studiously avoids boisterous narrative stereotypes.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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Much like David Mamet’s Oleanna, which After the Hunt is often compared to, the film tends to take a complicated matter and oversimplify it.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Riefenstahl
(2024)
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Olga Artemyeva
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It's a dig into a human’s complexity, made with a full realization on the authors’ part that an absolute clarity, something that might amount to being called the truth, can never really be achieved – even through the most meticulous study of archives.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Olga Artemyeva
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When a person on stage enjoys their performance a bit too much, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that the people off stage are enjoying it to the same extent.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Rob Hunter
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An unexpected gift for fans of slashers, franchise reboots, bloody rom-coms, and more. Every kill entertains … as does every new reveal. … Nelson delivers a film that's just good fun from start to finish. … Definitely not what anyone could have predicted.
Posted Dec 15, 2025
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Europe's New Faces
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Without rushing things, Europe's New Faces envelops the viewer in a sobering reality that is not always pleasant to contemplate. It becomes a grueling experience, yet also one that allows room to consider the plight of vast numbers of people.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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3/5
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Rosemead
(2025)
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Kyle Logan
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Liu and Shou's performances sell the emotional reality of this two-person family...but the movie would be much stronger if it centered just one of those two family members.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Young Blondes, Stalked and Murdered
(2025)
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Kyle Logan
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Reminiscent of the best cosmic horror that sticks in your mind because there's always something beyond the screen. But there's nothing fantastical here, no lore that's not filled in...which makes Young Blondes all the more beguiling.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Little Trouble Girls
(2025)
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Kyle Logan
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One of the best and most promising directorial debuts of the 21st century.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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5/5
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
(2006)
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Peter Martin
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Reconfirms Quentin Tarantino as the Ultimate Cinematic Mixmaster, borrowing from every movie he's ever seen, putting everything in a blender, and making something altogether new. It's a truly epic piece of filmmaking, masterfully accomplished.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Piranha II: The Spawning
(1981)
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Michele "Izzy" Galgana
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Basically, this movie looks and sounds fine, but it isn't good.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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