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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
C
Anaconda (2025) Lane Mills Unless you’re a massive fan of the original, Ice Cube, or both, Anaconda is a safe, forgettable skip. Those waiting on the grand return of comedy to the big screen will have to wait a little longer.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Magellan (2025) Alex Papaioannou Magellan may think he’s the hero at the center of this film, but Magellan consistently reaffirms he’s anything but. It’s one of the many dichotomies present in the film that make this a deeply compelling watch.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Primate (2025) Joshua Mbonu It has its occasional shortcomings and at times struggles to balance its silly and serious moments, but the film’s synth-heavy score and bloody mayhem provide a fun way to kill 80 or so minutes, even though that’s about all the film has to offer.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Zach Youngs Greenland 2: Migration is a good vehicle for thrilling action set pieces, but it leaves you wanting more from the story and the characters.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Ben Miller While January is usually a dumping ground for releases, this is undeniably one of the best films ever released this early in the year.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Night Patrol (2025) James D. Williams At the end we’re left with decent performances from the actors, ok effects, cartoonishly funny action, and an underdeveloped script. Not too bad for a Shudder January release, don’t you think?
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A
TheyDream (2026) Alan French We believe that hiding parts of ourselves from our loved ones will cascade them away, but the truth is, we can never know unless we put ourselves in the position to ask
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Barbara Forever (2026) Alan French ’Connor handles the filmmaker’s legacy with care, resulting in a sprawling vision of queer art for over forty years. That alone makes Barbara Forever a must-watch for film historians.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Send Help (2026) M.N. Miller With Send Help, Sam Raimi reminds us why he’s a horror master – suspenseful, vicious, and wickedly funny.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Rip (2026) M.N. Miller An excellent cast does lift the material, but the story, the devices, and the tension make the picture gripping enough to recommend… and to be thankful for cinematic heroes, since we lack so many at the moment.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
D+
Mercy (2026) M.N. Miller It is as if Bekmambetov was treating the medium of cinema as an exercise in logistics, losing nuance, emotional beats, and rushing transitions that make the story too clean, too predictable, and too conventional.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Deepfaking Sam Altman (2025) Romey Norton Deepfaking Sam Altman is less about Sam Altman than it is about us; our desire for guidance, our comfort with proxies, and our willingness to engage with synthetic voices when human ones fall silent.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Nadine Whitney Left-Handed Girl is the kind of film that can nestle comedy and the exhausting stresses of keeping a struggling family from going under. It’s a remarkable piece of cinema.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
The Stranger (2025) Maxance Vincent Not only does Ozon do the work justice with his adaptation of Camus' The Stranger, but he may even surpass it by cogently interpreting what was initially written as the smaller part of a big sociopolitical problem.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
C
A Useful Ghost (2025) Maxance Vincent When the effect of being bemused by what’s on screen wears off, you’re left with the odd sense that this project feels incomplete.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Shuffle (2025) Romey Norton Ultimately, Shuffle is a sharply reported exposé and a deeply personal reckoning. It asks difficult questions about how society treats addiction, who benefits from recovery, and what happens when care becomes commerce.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Romey Norton Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart challenges the conventions of true-crime storytelling and, in doing so, sets a higher standard for how stories of trauma are told.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Young Mothers (2025) Maxance Vincent Every emotion feels so natural and in tune with the harsh reality of the women’s lives that we can’t help but feel immense compassion for the stories they share.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Hamnet (2025) JD Duran Hamnet destroyed me in ways that's almost hard to articulate. It's absolutely devastating, but what I really love about it is how it's equally interested in life, love and family.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Nouvelle Vague (2025) JD Duran Nouvelle Vague is Richard Linklater’s most insufferable film to date (complimentary).
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
Wicked: For Good (2025) JD Duran I just can't get over how banal it looks visually. The pacing is uneven. The new songs don't add anything. Jon M. Chu's storytelling is a problem.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) JD Duran Mary Bronstein, I'm sorry, I wasn't familiar with your game.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Hedda (2025) JD Duran Tessa Thompson's Hedda Gabler is the best movie villain since Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan in Love & Friendship.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A+
Train Dreams (2025) Brendan Cassidy Its stillness makes for something that feels almost like a blank canvas, as if you're going through an old family photo album, filling in the narrative gaps based on your relationship with those pictured.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) JD Duran I never expected this for Wake Up Dead Man, but it's genuinely one of the best films about faith in recent years. The phone call scene is one of the very best of the year.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Jay Kelly (2025) JD Duran I really responded to Noah Baumbach's meta-take on career ambition, the personal costs along the way and how it balances those things with a deep reverence for cinema.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A+
The Mastermind (2025) JD Duran The Mastermind is straight out of the New Hollywood era. It's almost as if it time-traveled from the 1970s into 2025.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Is This Thing On? (2025) Brendan Cassidy This is Bradley Cooper's best film. Maybe not his most cinematic, but it's one where his sensibilities feel more in service of the actors and the screenplay.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A
The Secret Agent (2025) JD Duran The Secret Agent is always stirring in some captivating way, even when it's quiet or lingering in character. It's methodical and precise, but it's never mundane.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) JD Duran Avatar: Fire and Ash is redundant and a bit of a bridge movie, but the spectacle is as thrilling and diverting as ever.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A+
Marty Supreme (2025) JD Duran Marty Supreme is as electric and propulsive as we might expect from Josh Safdie.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) JD Duran As a musical, The Testament of Ann Lee is remarkably hypnotic.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A
No Other Choice (2025) JD Duran No Other Choice is simply one of the very best crafted films of the year. The cinematography and editing are astounding.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B
We Bury the Dead (2024) Joshua Mbonu We Bury The Dead brings more than enough grim theming to its filmmaking and story beats that result in one of the more creative uses of the Zombie canon in recent memory, even in the face of some cliched window dressing.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Breakdown: 1975 (2025) Romey Norton For cinephiles and casual viewers alike, Breakdown: 1975 offers a lucid, engaging reminder that the movies are often at their most alive when the world around them is falling apart.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (2025) Romey Norton This story is less about one woman than about the fragility of safeguards around care, authority, and belief. It is a sober, unsettling documentary that asks viewers to question not only who they listen to, but why.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
D-
The Housemaid (2025) Nadine Whitney Housemaid is neither serious enough, nor frivolous enough to solve its numerous issues with tone.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Song Sung Blue (2025) Maxance Vincent Mike and Claire Sardina deserved so much better than a film that ridicules them instead of celebrating their enduring resilience as human beings who only wanted to entertain.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Thing with Feathers (2025) Zach Youngs Even with a reasonable runtime, The Thing with Feathers feels like a drag. It wallows for so long without forward momentum it feels stuck.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
D-
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Joshua Mbonu From its baffling screenplay to its laughable attempts at scares and developments between these characters, this sequel is truly adrift and only exists to tease and jingle keys.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Monk in Pieces (2025) Brian Susbielles Monk In Pieces is not a documentary that breaks down the context of her work and goes too deep into Meredith’s psyche, which is a shame
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Eternity (2025) Shaurya Chawla thanks to its stellar cast and clever moments in the first two acts, it still manages to be a solid watch overall and a trip worth taking to the Afterlife.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
C
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) Zach Youngs It’s meant to make us laugh, cry, and feel warm inside. A Merry Little Ex-Mas does all of that. It’s a film that feels like fuzzy slippers and a mug of hot cocoa and that’s not a bad thing at all.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Keeper (2025) Joshua Mbonu Keeper’s faults never make it a complete waste, but it certainly makes it a complete disappointment as a genre picture.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
The Fence (2025) Will Bjarnar The Fence somehow manages to be less successful than each of these previous three projects while being significantly more interesting at the same time.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Shoshana (2023) Brian Susbielles Shoshana is a look at the past through the lens of a historical figure who saw everything from the beginning up to today. With archive footage to push the story along in the beginning and at the end, Winterbottom smoothly gives us a timeline.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Lane Mills An underrated submission into the cinematic Harry Potter canon, no doubt, and a thrilling one-off experience from a director who took a swing in multiple manners.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Rose of Nevada (2025) Will Bjarnar When you see a film by Mark Jenkin, you know it’s his. Rose of Nevada is one, no mistake about it. It just happens to be operating at another level while retaining singularity through and through.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Fackham Hall (2025) Zach Youngs Worse, it feels like the used gum you step in on the street the day you wear your new sneakers. It’s gross and annoying.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Ben Miller Reflection in a Dead Diamond might be confusing and alienating, but if you let the iconography and intrigue take you in, you might find yourself overwhelmed and enhanced by the experience.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
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