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undertone
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Tuason’s sound mixers have crafted a soundscape that is worth experiencing in a premium format, and what’s important is how subtle it is
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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Saccharine
(2026)
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Nick Johnston
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Saccharine works best when it’s defying our expectations...
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Tuner
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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What makes Tuner much smarter than the average mid-budget thriller is its screenplay, co-written by Roher and Robert Ramsey, full of wit, feeling, and expectation-defying verve.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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Broken English
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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When Broken English ends... you feel the incalculable loss: That as the 20th century continues to fade into the distance, we cannot forget the wonder of an analog, unexpected life.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Nick Johnston
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A brutal, bizarre exploration into what culture remains in England following its highly localized apocalypse, willing to take the broad promise of the high-concept premise for all its worth without regard for narrative niceties.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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Primate
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Johannes Roberts’ Primate, an old-fashioned when-animals-attack creature feature, which is goofy enough to have a crowd shouting insults at the screen, yet competent enough to deliver some kills and scares that will be difficult for later releases to top.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Nick Johnston
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I think Greenland: Migration should come with a disclaimer stressing that you should not be watching this for accuracy but rather for the quality of Butler’s performance.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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You can practically feel just how much fun the director is having with this particular picture, and, though it may be typically nerve-wracking as most of his features are, there’s a strangely light and effervescent quality here.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Eternity
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Eternity stands out precisely because of how out-of-step it is with current trends, and how delightfully it’s able to imagine a love triangle between three appealing leads in the uniquely-realized setting of its great beyond.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Compared to Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man feels like a return to form,
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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On the other hand, For Good is the worst of both worlds, with the flaws inherent in its source amplified by the drabness and dourness of Chu’s capitulation to modern blockbuster stylings.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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Keeper
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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If The Monkey showed that Perkins can be funny instead of merely creepy, Keeper shows that he... can make genuinely terrifying horror features that live up to their hype.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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By no means is The Running Man the best work of Wright’s career, suffering from the fits and starts of the chase movie, but the problems with it mostly stem from the director trying to preserve King’s text.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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A decent consolation prize, one that’s hampered by a nearly insurmountable conceptual burden yet still manages to be delightfully entertaining thanks to solid writing, well-crafted action, and a fun approach to the deadly ecology of its setting.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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This is Lanthimos strolling into S. Craig Zahler territory (albeit without the baggage that name brings with it in certain circles), the feel-bad movie of the fall...
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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...this is a movie properly about disillusionment and failure, which works without having to flash-fry Robert Zemeckis with a burn measured in megatons.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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This isn’t a great expansion of The Black Phone’s nascent mythos, but there’s enough there that one could probably wring something better than what wound up on screen.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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The Mastermind
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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...you’re lulled in by its hypnotic blend of well-tempered observation and perfectly-crafted visuals, punctuated by the occasional thunderclap caused by a particularly potent and often-bitter laugh.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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That’s right: this is a Tron movie that thinks its audience wants to see its story unfold on the streets of San Francisco rather than the fluorescent world of cyberspace.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It’s hypnotic in the way that it unfolds, grabbing your attention from the first frame and keeping you locked in, legitimately concerned for this (fictional) dog’s safety while you’re entranced with the craft.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Anemone
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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So, yeah, if this is DDL’s equivalent of a wrestling retirement match, it makes sense that he’d go out paired up with someone he cares about, doing his life’s work on the grandest stage for the final time. I
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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The problem lies with the team responsible for communicating that perspective — the Bigelow-Oppenheim pairing doesn’t work at all.
Posted Oct 01, 2025
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It’s all very surface-level Pynchon, as beyond the premise’s outline, the funny names, the conspiracy element, and the pop culture allusions, it feels like an imitation without the substance.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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The biggest problem Berger has is Joffe’s script, which is once again undercooked and spartan in the same way The American was, with a wholly wrong protagonist for the style.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Hamnet’s leads feel breathtakingly modern, with the revisionist aims of O’Farrell’s novel landing as intended.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Normal
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Odenkirk and Wheatley’s steady work push it over the top.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It's sublime, in the literary sense of the word: Enlivened by the details of the natural world, aware of just how small we are, of how little our lives really matter in the grand scheme of our ecosystems.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It feels like del Toro just wanted to keep this so close to his chest so that it couldn’t get ripped away again, and I think his process benefits dramatically from the presence of a strong co-writer.
Posted Sep 12, 2025
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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As mirrored in Mark Kerr’s journey to hell and back, The Rock had to learn how to lose to find himself again, and from the look of it, he’s back and better than ever.
Posted Sep 10, 2025
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The Christophers
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Yet what’s beautiful is how it feels like a four-person feature (two on-screen, two off) with care given by each player to support the other.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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Roofman
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It felt like seeing old friends again, at least to me, but I think most will find that Roofman is a rare pleasure: A big-hearted true crime picture with legitimate depth and soul.
Posted Sep 09, 2025
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Nick Johnston
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I’ve come to accept Mackenzie’s tendency to throw twists at us as a flourish, and the fact that this comes to a clean resolution supported by the narrative is more than enough, given the filmmaking’s thorough competence.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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Motor City
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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One performer stands out in particular... It’s Ritchson, who is perfectly cast, embodying both the vintage tough-guy crime lead and the modern-day muscle man of action while rising to the challenge posed to him by the conceit.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Ann Lee is spiritually inert, its passions reserved for aestheticization and accuracy rather than insight.
Posted Sep 08, 2025
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Perhaps The Long Walk should have been left behind in the past, though the political poignancy of King’s work endures as always, along with his mastery of storytelling – but it should definitely have been left on the page.
Posted Sep 03, 2025
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Butler brings soul to the role.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It is a fun, lightweight 89 minutes with a few killer action sequences and good laughs, and no pretensions of being anything more.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Highest 2 Lowest is another banger from Spike Lee, entertaining as it is thought-provoking, as wonderfully acted as it is directed.
Posted Aug 18, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Cregger has synthesized the Grimms’ work into a grim study of manipulation and exploitation — a subject that never quite loses its relevance – yet maintains enough distance to allow for dozens of reads, all of which are perfect for debate.
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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So, yeah, Leslie Nielsen can rest easy – Frank Drebin Jr. can fill the shoes and pick up the slack, hopefully for ten more of these.
Posted Aug 04, 2025
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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At roughly 100 minutes, First Steps shows that Marvel can be economical without skimping on the good stuff – compelling characters in an involving story set in a fantastical world with some amount of grand spectacle.
Posted Jul 23, 2025
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Eddington
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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His observations are too facile and timid to have an impact, his worldview is too jaundiced to leave any room for real reflection, and he’s just too late with Eddington for it to provoke in the way he hopes it will...
Posted Jul 21, 2025
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Instead of fully bogging down the movie with echoes of the prior installments, [Robinson] opts for a stylistic evocation of the era, preserving the rhythms of ‘90s genre well.
Posted Jul 21, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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A spectacle of genuine superheroics rather than empty punching and bashing.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Too many creatures, too few comforts.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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M3GAN 2.0
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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M3GAN 2.0 shows the franchise has thoroughly worn out its welcome.
Posted Jun 27, 2025
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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It says something about Kosinski’s skills as a storyteller that he’s able to present this formula to us as if it were brand-new and not just what he gave us last time around
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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When they’re made with enough conscientious care as what DeBlois has done here, they’re genuinely inoffensive nostalgia-stirring entertainments, which aren’t without a few unexpected moments of magic along the way.
Posted Jun 16, 2025
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Thankfully, that studio-imposed prologue gives way to the actual film... in which de Armas’ character, a full-fledged badass, gets sucked into one of the funniest scenarios the Wick franchise has come up with and has to fight her way out of it.
Posted Jun 09, 2025
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Nick Johnston
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Awesomely horrifying.
Posted Jun 02, 2025
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