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2.5/5
Send Help (2026) Richard Whittaker All so very much what one could expect from Raimi when he doesn’t have a strong studio hand keeping him in check. If you like his signature raisin soup, Send Help will be a gut buster. But it really seems like this latest batch has started to curdle.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
0/5
Mercy (2026) Richard Whittaker A premise that’s endlessly more reactionary than it seems to realize and delivered with such intellectual dishonesty and overwhelming incompetence that the ticking clock feels like a threat.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
In Cold Light (2025) Richard Whittaker In Cold Light is far better constructed and executed than its generic, straight-to-video title might imply, but it’s too monotonous – in the literal meaning of the word – to reach its aspirations or to really use its cast.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Kimberley Jones On the subject of parental loss, a fairly universal experience, H Is for Hawk’s insights read familiar but never epiphanic. The goshawk is the revelation.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s a reminder that the constant smears against human rights organizations and aid agencies are vile slanders by people who want this to happen again and again and again.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Choral (2025) Richard Whittaker A reenvisioning of Elgar’s Catholic devotional that ties it in a profound and moving fashion to the time and place of The Choral, and the underlying idea that a little music, a little companionship, can’t stop the horror but it can provide a respite.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Kimberley Jones Bless its dear heart. I’m never gonna be mad at a movie for sticking its neck out.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Night Patrol (2025) Richard Whittaker Luckily, the plentiful and creative gore splatters enough blood and ichor to provide camouflage disguising those shortcomings. Or rather, enough to make Night Patrol entertaining – just not enough to completely obfuscate what it could have been.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Richard Whittaker The process of learning Darol’s nature and weaknesses becomes an act of healing for both, and a poignant metaphor for how we cannot avoid the future, much as we may try.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Richard Whittaker DaCosta finds new elements of pathos and even comedy, both centered around Fiennes’ tragicomic performance as the man closing the book on that last chapter of history.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s the other elements, about trust in the media and the loss of universally known and respected figures like Heckman, that seem especially underdeveloped, especially by comparison to the documentary.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Resurrection (2025) Richard Whittaker A cavalcade of strange images that take the language of cinema into his sleeping fantasies and bring it back more vibrant than ever.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Richard Whittaker We Bury the Dead is already too slow and mournful to pass as popcorn entertainment, and it’s rarely quite thoughtful enough to bring its art house horror aspirations to life.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plague (2025) Richard Whittaker Yet while Polinger has crafted a period piece, there’s a chilling immediacy to these struggles within what’s supposed to just be a fun time for the boys.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
No Other Choice (2025) James Scott There’s real magic in every paired-off scene where two characters confront each other – creating wonderful clashes of physical human contact that challenge the disassociation insisted on by the system they’re all being run through.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Richard Whittaker Win or lose, you’ll still kind of want Marty to take a punch to the schnozz. But at least you’ll understand why he’s that way.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Richard Whittaker Yet it’s still a touching depiction of two people in love. At the end of the day, Brewer reminds us, it’s all about hands touching hands.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Anaconda (2025) Richard Whittaker By the time the final act slithers on the screen, Gormican has abandoned any sense of originality and just props the film up on nostalgia-manipulating cameos and clumsy, overused needle drops.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Kimberley Jones The period detail is a marvel, the era’s music a most excellent groove, and the cast a top-to-bottom wowzer of interesting faces and eclectic bodies.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Richard Whittaker If future films deliver similar spectacle and true, epic filmmaking, then this lengthy sequel can afford to be a prelude.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Richard Whittaker When what Billy and Charlie are really up to is revealed, it turns the original’s sick-making nature into a fun little morality tale with the wicked getting exactly what they deserve.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dust Bunny (2025) Richard Whittaker Here, [Fuller] takes a story that should be horrifying – an orphaned child who turns to her murderous neighbor for assistance and revenge – and makes a fairy tale of it.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Richard Whittaker With Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, [Tarantino] finally gets to complete his own work of cinematic archeology, and what he exhumes springs to life like the first time it was projected. Viva Kill Bill!
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hamnet (2025) Kimberley Jones Hamnet is at its best when exploring primal emotions, following the example of Agnes, with her elemental connection to the earth.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Richard Whittaker The bittersweet moral is that changing the world never happens overnight, on our planet or another.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Richard Whittaker The heart of the story remains Hopps and Wilde, and the sparkling, witty, and endearing energy between them.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Richard Whittaker Wake Up Dead Man is a cunning and entertaining mystery, a return to form for the franchise.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Marjorie Baumgarten Eternity bears a cute premise that becomes worn down through repetition.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Kimberley Jones Trier’s films don’t treat depression like something that’s got to get fixed, or relegate the depression to a secondary character, othering it. Uniquely, depression feels first-person-lived in a Trier film.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Kimberley Jones Peter Hujar’s Day is a monument to the thrillingly mundane minutiae of living. I found it almost indescribably moving.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Richard Whittaker As much as The Carpenter’s Son threatens to swallow you whole, and as much as it probes the oft-ignored darkness inherent in the Bible even outside of the Apocrypha, its thesis remains a little too academic to move the soul.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Running Man (2025) Richard Whittaker When it’s really up to speed, The Running Man laps the competition.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Richard Whittaker Schuster-Koloamatangi plays Dek with a certain pompous exasperation that, even under layers of latex and CG, is undeniably and deliberately hilarious. If it bleeds, you can laugh at it.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Die My Love (2025) Kimberley Jones Lawrence goes to some pretty dark places in her full-bodied rejection of domestic expectations. You’ll follow her there unquestioningly, just for the thrill of watching her set fire to everything around her.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Stitch Head (2025) Richard Whittaker What Stitch Head mostly aims for and generally achieves is a warmth of comedy and emotion that will sit well with young audiences.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
You're Dating a Narcissist! (2025) Kimberley Jones Tomei is undeniable, and she and Bravo forge an easy, believable chemistry as mother and daughter. That bond, and the gorgeous boutique hotel where much of the film takes place, are the biggest draws here.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Richard Whittaker [Godard] could readily have become an enigma, an icon of cool... However, Marbeck subtly fills in the arrogance, the charisma, the despondency and genius of the man who changed cinema forever.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s righteous fury against an entire system that steals years from lives, destroys futures and bodies, and isn’t really going anywhere.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Urchin (2025) Kimberley Jones There are no life lessons here, only an uncommonly focused look at one life.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Kimberley Jones White’s got plenty of practice playing someone with deep depression, but his Bruce is a distinct creation -- there’s no shouting, only terrible sadness.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Moon (2025) Richard Whittaker Much as Blue Moon is a eulogy for the death of a creative life, it’s also a testament to Linklater’s continued vitality as a filmmaker. There’s a new and deliberate formality, a lightness of dialogue, and even a new energy to his cinematography.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Bugonia (2025) Richard Whittaker It’s the excellence of execution that obfuscates that Jang’s wild but pointed tragicomedy has lost its incisiveness in translation, its blunderbuss now loaded with feathers rather than buckshot.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Mother of Flies (2025) Richard Whittaker Mother of Flies has a hypnotic quality never quite present in their prior films, a sensation like falling, and much of it is created by John’s transitions and juxtapositions.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Richard Whittaker Bronstein’s real target is the audience and the limits to its empathy.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
After the Hunt (2025) Kimberley Jones Every sacred cow gets its neck slit here, and any conclusive answer to the he said/she said of it all takes a backseat to After the Hunt’s true ambition, which is to expose the overwhelming performativeness of this moment in time we’re in.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Phone 2 (2025) Richard Whittaker Black Phone 2 may be a power ballad to the original’s minor chord metal, but it still rocks.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Vile (2025) Richard Whittaker It doesn’t need the black magic subplot to make the audience care about the characters -- especially Amani and Noor. It’s an extraordinarily well-crafted and mournful tale of a family in collapse, and of a woman who knows how limited her options are.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Richard Whittaker Every character is paper-thin, and even if Leto and Peters push their one-note parts as much as possible, everyone else seems to just read the lines as they were written on the page.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Kimberley Jones It’s a dead-serious cautionary tale and sincere call for de-escalation, dressed like a political thriller by a director who’s aces with action.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) Richard Whittaker On the surface, it’s a straightforward history of the show’s growth spurts on the way to becoming a cultural juggernaut. "Strange Journey" charmingly recounts how it emerged.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
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