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0.5/5
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Air Shift
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A lame attempt at a horror-comedy, Air Shift is just plain awful.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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1/5
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Misfits
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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There are hints throughout of potentially engaging themes...Unfortunately, they are squashed by sheer narrative sloppiness, waffling dialogue, overuse of f-bombs, poor continuity and, painful as it is to say, a pretty ordinary lead performance.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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3/5
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Vineyard Ablaze
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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In a strong feature debut, Troy Blackman methodically unfolds his tense drama in a minimalist framework, with stately black-and-white cinematography evoking a subtly haunting domestic atmosphere that feels progressively constrained and threatening.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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1/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Think Cujo with a monkey and you’ve got the measure of this film, with one huge caveat – it ain’t scary...chalk this trash up as a date-night time killer for the easily spooked.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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3.5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Breathlessly paced...Accompanying Chalamet’s outstanding performance are visuals and top-shelf production values that ooze with authenticity.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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3/5
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David
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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The biblical yarn gets a rather good rendering here as a faith-based family film telling the tale of the boy-king with the help of high-quality animation and a clutch of catchy songs. Things do get dark, yet the film is fashioned for easy ingestion.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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4/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Jim Schembri
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Gosh, this is good stuff, a zombie-palooza with plenty of meat on the bone that delivers all the gratuitous gore and shrieking shenanigans you’d expect. The point of distinction this time around is the wily use of humour.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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2/5
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The Choral
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Things just don’t gel in this try-hard attempt at a feel-good WW1 flag waver...Seems it’s OK to send men off to the killing fields so long as you get the choir right.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3.5/5
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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The making of the avant-garde classic Breathless is beautifully rendered in this lovingly made tribute to the French New Wave...Cineastes familiar with the film and the era are bound to swoon at how closely scenes from [the film] have been recreated.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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4/5
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Christy
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Sweeney is totally convincing...her most impressive turn so far.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3/5
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A heartwarming and funny premise laced with some well-honed dabs of drama, Rental Family delivers a sincere tale about family love along with another top performance from Fraser, clearly making good on his career’s second wind.
Posted Jan 01, 2026
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2.5/5
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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More a mildly engaging ramble than a searing domestic drama, Trier keeps things on simmer, never dialling up to boil. Some might interpret, or misinterpret, this approach as wily and profound while others could possibly regard it merely as long-winded.
Posted Jan 01, 2026
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4/5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Superb...what starts out as a giddy romance built around the mutual adoration of Diamond’s songlist morphs into a grounded domestic drama about blended families, financial strain, mental illness, alcoholism and life-changing injury.
Posted Jan 01, 2026
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1/5
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The Travellers
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Given what an accomplished movie storyteller Beresford is it is difficult to account for why the film is so dramatically weak, with story holes, stilted performances, implausible character arcs and flat dialogue running throughout the piece.
Posted Dec 27, 2025
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3/5
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Good fun all round, no risk.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A ripper psychological schlocker that looks and feels like it sprung out of that beautiful time in the 1980s and early-90s when thrillers emphasized excess and hammy style over restraint and good taste.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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3/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Lands with an overwhelming, earth-shattering sense of adequacy....a $400 million hood ornament for the 21st-century era of the Meh Blockbuster.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3/5
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The Golden Spurtle
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Full of charm and some lovely dashes of wit.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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1/5
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A surprisingly spiritless and flustered stumblebum of a comedy.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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3/5
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Catnip for horror fans. Bound to please.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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2.5/5
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Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Another week, another incomprehensible, ultra-violent fantasy anime extravaganza that will bewilder normals but please the audience these strange films service.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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3/5
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Twiggy
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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A wondrous serving of nostalgia, the highlight of which is her interview with a young, over-confident Woody Allen [whose] attempt to show what an airhead she is backfires spectacularly, proving early on that she wasn’t just a pretty face.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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3/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Offering a refreshing and funny fantasy twist on the ever-reliable romantic comedy form, Eternity lands as one of the surprising delights of the year.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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4/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Superb...a compelling, fact-based historical drama...Crowe deserves all the kudos he’s been receiving for his bravura performance.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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0.5/5
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Dead of Winter
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Dead on Arrival, more like.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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3/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Chimes in as a diligently stamped-out studio sequel designed by slide rule to please the family demo, even if nine years is a bit too big a pause between drinks.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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After the bland outs of Predator: Badlands and The Running Man, Sisu 2 lands at just the right time to remind us what good action is...Essentially an elongated truck chase movie, director Jalmari Helander stages plenty of inventive, well-staged mayhem.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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4/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Yes, Part Two is better than Part One - and not just because it’s shorter...Big, splashy, deeply felt and gorgeous to behold, the film unfurls as a hands-down winner, a new-era love letter to old-school studio musicals.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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2.5/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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There are spots of cleverness in this CGI-heavy caper and Jesse Eisenberg continues to be highly likeable but the formula is clearly wearing thin.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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1.5/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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There’s nothing at all in the film that justifies why - in the name of bladder tolerances - the thing runs one second over 90 minutes....Another unwelcome incursion into the Arniverse.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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4/5
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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The superbly serrated performance from Rose Byrne anchors a barbed, stress-saturated portrait of a suburban mother who is being stretched in all directions.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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3.5/5
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Fwends
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Director Sophie Somerville keeps the sturdy performances refreshingly natural and pulls off some remarkable single takes (kudos to cinematographer Carter Looker) as the two wander about town, their dialogue captured by some very good audio work.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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1.5/5
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Urgh. What a terrible letdown this massive, soggy slice of franchise extender turns out to be... WTF happened?
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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3.5/5
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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With a warm and winning performance from Keanu Reeves, reminding us how funny he can be away from all the John Wick mayhem, the film shapes up nicely as a positive, laugh-peppered ditty about coping in hard times and the value of self-worth.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A wondrous, thoroughly engrossing example of off-the-wall cinema...Lanthimos delivers a bleakly funny, intriguing slice of catnip cake to those foyer dwellers who hunger for something fresh and unusual in a firmament defined by sameness and repetition.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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3/5
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Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Those curiously unfamiliar with the gore-drenched stylings of Chainsaw Man – your humble reviewer included – will no doubt find vast swathes of this adventure barely comprehensible, though its tradition-based animation makes it visually enticing.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3/5
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Familiar Touch
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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Filmed with a love of long takes and stillness, director Friedland avoids pointed drama or histrionics in this bitter-sweet portrait about the inevitable onset of change.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3.5/5
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Rather than trying to cram in as much of his life story as possible the film takes a far more sensible route by focusing on one difficult chapter. Also admirable is the film’s intuitive understanding of how depression can undercut fame and wealth.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3/5
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Regretting You
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A very well-sculpted story with lots of criss-crossing subplots, with some A-Grade tearjerker moments.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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4/5
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Twinless
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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An extraordinary drama surely deserving of Oscar love...Working through themes of loss, love, grief and the need to connect, the film is easily one of the best releases this year.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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2/5
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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An interminable, meandering, flailing attempt at a deep-and-meaningful #metoo drama about the repercussions of a sexual assault allegation, After the Hunt firmly establishes Luca Guadagnino as one of the most overrated directors working today.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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Roofman
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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A bizarre true-life crime caper is brought to luminous live in a first-rate comedy-drama, an energetic lark in which Channing Tatum continues to-bolster his acting credentials...
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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4/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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An outstanding, super-scary, knockout creepfest, Black Phone 2 easily clocks in as one of the best, most skillfully conceived horror movies in years. And as good as the first film was, this is a far superior sequel that builds on the original story.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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1/5
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Waltz
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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A good set-up descends into tiring torture porn waffle in an ultra-low budget attempt at psychological horror that goes on too long and suffers from some laughably poor production.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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0.5/5
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Massacre at Femur Creek
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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Well, this is garbage. Not total garbage, mind. But bad enough to make you weep and wonder “why did they bother?”...Bad continuity, shots that don’t match, party-store horror effects, bad acting, overuse of music, clumsy editing. They’re all here.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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1/5
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Romancing Sydney
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Oh, dear. What a mess. Things go bad within the first few seconds of this strained attempt at a romantic comedy...it has the feel of something unfinished, as if production rolled a few drafts too early.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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3/5
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ZombieCON Vol. 1
(2024)
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Jim Schembri
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Helping ground the premise in the alt-authenticity of the cosplay realm are admirably convincing lead performances...It’s a fun lark overall, with plenty of realistic nerdy decor though director/co-writer Kyle Valle does struggle with pacing issues.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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3.5/5
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The G
(2023)
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Jim Schembri
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A potent, slow-burn crime thriller that delivers its dramatic stings with surgical precision...Solid performances throughout, this noir thriller is graced by the affecting, subdued turns from Dickey and Denis, each commanding the frame with conviction.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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3/5
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Beast of War
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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So soon after the fabulous B-movie excesses of Primitive War comes Beast of War, another highly proficient, Australian-made creature feature that unashamedly embraces genre conventions to deliver a very satisfying, over-the-top survival chompfest.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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3.5/5
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Jim Schembri
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Fabulously paced and mainly playing it straight director Joachim Rønning keeps things tight and remarkably comprehensible, maintaining and impressively lucid narrative alongside all the fabulous action, which includes a great motorcycle chase.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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