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Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
3/4	Love, Brooklyn (2025)	Reginald Ponder	Love Brooklyn speaks to how you can love something so much that when it changes you can’t see the lovable parts that remain nor the ones that grew anew. It shines in its simplicity as well as its complexity. Posted Sep 18, 2025 Edit critic review
1.5/4	HIM (2025)	Reginald Ponder	Wayans is fantastically unlikable. With jump cuts, animation, and aptly timed music, you would think this was a scary masterpiece, but instead, it was a piece of horror that wasn’t quite mastered. Posted Sep 18, 2025 Edit critic review
3/4	STRAW (2025)	Reginald Ponder	Taraji P. Henson is phenomenal. If nothing else, she is able to convey the pain, anguish, confusion, and everything that goes with it. The film evokes hope for grace and mercy, as Taraji’s character could very well be any one of us. Posted Jul 10, 2025 Edit critic review
3/4	How to Train Your Dragon (2025)	Reginald Ponder	In the beginning, Butler feels like he is playing a character with his accent and overall presentation. But he settles in & feels more like the father and leader of these warriors. How to Train Your Dragon is fun, funny, fantastical, & forward-thinking. Posted Jul 10, 2025 Edit critic review
3.5/4	40 Acres (2024)	Reginald Ponder	What Thorne does well is help us get to know the Freemans beyond the terror at hand. This helps us root for them and partially experience the terror they endure to simply stay alive. The action is deadly, exciting, and with purpose. Posted Jul 10, 2025 Edit critic review
3/4	F1 The Movie (2025)	Reginald Ponder	Brad Pitt is tailor-made to play Sonny, who is an interesting if not likable character. His cockiness makes him a bit jarring, but his carefree, almost reckless approach to life is weirdly appealing and captivating. Posted Jul 07, 2025 Edit critic review
3.5/4	Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)	Reginald Ponder	Did Tom perform his favorite run? Did he do aerial stunts, underwater miracles, incredible car chases, dodge bullets, missiles, & engage in close hand to hand combat? YES! This wasn’t just about saving the world but about saving & honoring relationships. Posted May 25, 2025 Edit critic review
2/4	Another Simple Favor (2025)	Reginald Ponder	I don’t drink, but if I did, I’d want them to add ice and even a berry-infused flavor to my Martini, because Another Simple Favor is not simple and not exactly a favor. Posted May 06, 2025 Edit critic review
3.5/4	Sinners (2025)	Reginald Ponder	In one moment, Sinners will have you celebrating Black culture; in the next, it will have you jumping out of your seat. It is a fascinating push and pull between history and the future, as well as evil and good—and Sinners is good, real good. Posted Apr 29, 2025 Edit critic review
3/4	Fatale (2020)	Reginald Ponder	A Black fatal attraction has been done before but not quite like this. A solid cast, an interracial relationship, a successful Black Business and some twists and turns makes this something you won't see coming but is worth seeing Posted Jan 21, 2021 Edit critic review