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7.4/10
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Man Finds Tape
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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This is a startlingly creative and skillfully assembled little movie–one that eventually overreaches to some degree, but as a viewer you wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
Posted Nov 16, 2025
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6.2/10
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Being Eddie
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Despite its shortcomings, the sharp-eyed viewer will still glean some interesting tidbits about the comedy legend from what is left unsaid.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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5.5/10
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Rebuilding
(2025)
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Abby Olcese
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Rebuilding, like many other post-Zhao movies, wants the audience to be surprised by what they find, but you never get the sense the filmmakers themselves find their locations that special, or know their characters beyond the basic identities they present.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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2.0/10
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Playdate
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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The sheer, cumulative ugliness of Playdate, as it careens between sequences of incomprehensible action and dull-as-dirt comedy, works to do nothing so much as corrode the spirit.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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6.4/10
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Jarrod Jones
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Wright’s flair for freakazoids remains undeniable, but his focus on rebellion obscures the cruel machinery that incites it.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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6.7/10
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Trap House
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Trap House thus evolves into a cat-and-mouse game between the cartel murder squads on one side, the valorous DEA squad on the other, and the idiotically overconfident kids caught in the middle.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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8.5/10
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Train Dreams is set over the course of a lifetime, and in this way it is not just about the passage of time but the loss of it.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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8.6/10
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Caterpillar
(2023)
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Jim Vorel
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Caterpillar is a stunning piece of documentary work, both for its incredible degree of access to both its central character and his journey, and its unconventional style of presentation, which skirts the boundaries of documentary and narrative feature.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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7.0/10
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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The movie works in its moment. It seems to know that an obvious, crowd-pleasing helping of franchise nonsense at least needs to have some kind of meat, however synthetic it may secretly be.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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6.9/10
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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The movie strips away so much from Grace that at times, all that’s left is Lawrence’s raw power. She almost single-handedly keeps the movie from rambling into oblivion.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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5.5/10
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Christy
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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It’s so busy depicting the worst events of Christy's life, it has no time to sell us on the supposed sense of triumph that it insists is there. I’m unconvinced.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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6.3/10
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Anniversary
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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What Jan Komasa’s film gets right is how so much right-wing radicalization, especially in upper classes, stems from status-based grievances.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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5.5/10
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House of Ashes
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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It’s a story that was clearly made with the best of sociopolitical intentions, but it lacks both the gumption and the know-how to translate its dissatisfaction into a truly biting critique.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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8.4/10
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Violent Ends
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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...a scintillating southern gothic crime drama bolstered by stellar performances, gritty naturalism and exquisitely gruesome payoffs.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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5.8/10
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Dream Eater
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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With growing repetition, it continues going through the sleepwalking motions, squandering its stronger elements. Where it might have become a nightmare you couldn’t shake, the film ultimately vanishes in the mundane light of dawn.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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7.5/10
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Nadira Begum
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After years of documentaries that have captured the brutality of life under occupation, and in the face of relentless bombardment from an Israeli state that refuses to abide by the terms of a ceasefire, raising awareness just doesn’t feel like enough.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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6.7/10
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Hedda
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Hedda is DaCosta’s most direct and purposeful adaptation yet, but like her other films, it’s missing some ineffable push past its beginnings into more expressive territory. The process of adaptation feels more confident than the conclusion.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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7.1/10
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River of Grass
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Both a personal diary and tribute to Everglades conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, River of Grass weaves a potent spell of greenery.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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8.7/10
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100 Meters
(2025)
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Elijah Gonzalez
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We watch these runners grapple with the exaltation and absurdities of basing their entire existence around running 100 meters in a straight line, each bump in the road portrayed with dynamic, shifting animation.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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8.0/10
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Nadira Begum
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Bugonia aims high with its cacophony of violence and darkly comedic take on a society that is becoming increasingly reliant on conspiracy over critical thinking.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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6.6/10
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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For much of its runtime, Good Fortune sustains a kind of witty, neo-Capra sensibility. When it comes time to bring that sensibility up to date, Ansari politely skips out.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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7.2/10
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Casey Epstein-Gross
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In some senses, Is This Thing On? is simply a very good version of a movie you’ve seen a hundred times before, as satisfying as a good meal. Cooper isn’t reinventing comfort food, but he is cooking it well.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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6.4/10
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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The movie illustrates the gambler’s lifestyle almost too clearly; it’s a great example of how big, splashy victories can still feel like too little, too late.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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8.0/10
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The Perfect Neighbor
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Gandbhir didn’t choose to make a documentary feature about this case because it was unique, but because it was blandly indicative of a decidedly American brand of cultural decay. What she presents is stark, horrifying, and infuriating on multiple levels.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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8.6/10
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Rory Doherty
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Never does It Was Just an Accident drag – each scene pinpoints its dramatic angles and doesn’t belabor them, and Panahi punctuates them with unexpected, tension-breaking outbursts and twists in fortune to remind us of reality outside the moral dilemma.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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7.5/10
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Casey Epstein-Gross
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By the finale, No Other Choice reaches its most honest form: a film about people trapped in rituals that keep going because stopping would mean changing. The irony of the film is that there was always another choice.
Posted Oct 13, 2025
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7.8/10
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*smiles and kisses you*
(2024)
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Jim Vorel
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Smiles and Kisses You captures a fascinatingly personal profile of just how deep the emotional salve of A.I. can be for an individual, although one wishes at times that some wider context might be applied.
Posted Oct 12, 2025
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6.6/10
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Lopez doesn’t exactly bring depth to her role(s), which feels like an unburdening; for the first time in ages, her super-entertainer showiness has a sweet-natured purity.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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8.0/10
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Urchin
(2025)
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Brogan Morris
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The compassion that Dickinson has for his protagonist – that is, a measured compassion, which generously allows room for Mike to be despicable as well as charming – is matched by Dillane’s own evident feeling for the character.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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8.2/10
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Fairyland
(2023)
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Audrey Weisburd
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Durham never lets the story collapse into despair. Instead, this is a story about strength and duality, how love, memory, and art endure beyond loss. The honest miracle of Fairyland is that instead of avoiding heartbreak, it shows us how to live within it
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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5.8/10
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Jarrod Jones
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Imagine how much more engrossing this might have been if characters like these were allowed to be messy in the face of such horror. Bigelow’s hand steers this vessel so purposefully that we can scarcely feel the earth shift under it.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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6.0/10
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John Candy: I Like Me
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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When everyone is so eager to say the same, nice things about the performer of John Candy: I Like Me, a deeper level is hard to uncover.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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6.4/10
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Jason Gorber
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From the visuals to the storyline to the general direction, it all feels very much like cogs in a machine, setting the stage for future chapters no doubt, but lacking even a modicum of its own sense of style and place.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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6.2/10
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Father Mother Sister Brother
(2025)
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Casey Epstein-Gross
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A triptych that’s gently self-aware and intermittently funny, but caught between irony and sincerity, gesture and life. Clever conceit in theory, yet in practice it teeters into feeling like three drafts of one idea rather than three windows into it.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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7.1/10
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V/H/S Halloween
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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One of the series’ strongest recent efforts, buoyed by the joyfully demented humor and explosive bloodletting of “Diet Phantasma,” “Fun Size” and “Home Haunt” in particular.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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8.7/10
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Not just an impressive piece of animal wrangling and performance, but a genuinely heartwrenching piece of storytelling that also features impressive direction and immaculately staged visuals, framing and lighting in particular.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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5.9/10
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Though it isn’t exactly a deep dive into the record-making process, it’s still surprising how much more involving that material is than the family and relationship strife that’s supposed to contextualize and dimensionalize the recording process.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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6.0/10
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Natalia Keogan
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None of [Godard's] innovative edginess is present in Nouvelle Vague, which only replicates the aesthetic of this anarchic approach rather than transmitting a comparable air of experimentation in its own right.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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7.0/10
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Play Dirty
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Play Dirty is a caper so off-kilter that it never has a chance to become boring, so absurd that you can’t take any element of it seriously, and so entertaining that it manages to make a run time of 125 minutes feel reasonable, if only barely.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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7.1/10
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Gorgeous as Jay Kelly is, and as funny as it is in moments, it can’t help but feel a little minor by comparison – a little easy, even, on its man-who-wasn’t-there protagonist.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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7.6/10
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Bone Lake
(2024)
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Jim Vorel
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When it finally comes time to do so, Bone Lake delivers in firmly entertaining, if occasionally nonsensical fashion, with welcome goriness filling in for the more overt eroticism that is often implied but somewhat lacking.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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6.4/10
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Anemone
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan bring plenty of artistic integrity to Anemone, but there's some self-indulgence here, too.
Posted Sep 28, 2025
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9.3/10
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Andy Crump
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[Anderson] supplies One Battle After Another little pockets of air to breathe in between sustained moments of dreadful tension.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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8.3/10
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The Mastermind
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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The movie evokes retro genre coziness and unease in equal measure, one creeping up from beneath the other.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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6.5/10
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The Strangers: Chapter 2
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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For roughly the length of a TV episode, it floats above its ugly franchise architecture in a dreamlike state of divine ridiculousness.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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5.0/10
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Johansson makes it so easy for both the audience and characters to forgive all of Eleanor’s actions that it kills any sense of danger or trespass in the premise–even internally, Eleanor seems to have no conflict.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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8.0/10
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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Kirk’s film is a surprisingly lyrical and quite gritty, intimate thriller, one that makes the best of its unorthodox choice of performers to tell a story that is equal parts tender and savage.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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4.9/10
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Steve
(2025)
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Jesse Hassenger
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Cillian Murphy has a rare chance to do some major overacting in Steve, a would-be character study that keeps losing focus.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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6.9/10
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Adulthood
(2025)
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Jim Vorel
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There are enough moments of either well-calculated gallows humor or generational commentary to keep things moving briskly along, and both Gad and Scodelario find room to have a new definition of maturity thrust upon them.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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6.5/10
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Tara Bennett
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There’s a disconnect that remains between Sarah and David that neither the script, Kogonada or the talents of Robbie and Farrell overcome in the end.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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