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3/5
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Mike Epps: Delusional
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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You know where you stand with a Mike Epps special. He has been around for long enough that you know what to expect, and he has never really failed to deliver it, even if he has pretty consistently failed to deliver anything else.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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3.5/5
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Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Her testimony is frank and unflinching, providing an intimate, deeply personal lens through which to view the heinous experiences she was subjected to.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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2/5
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The Big Fake
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The big issue with Netflix’s so-so Italian forgery thriller The Big Fake is that its protagonist, Pietro Castellitto’s Toni, simply can’t wait to get in over his head.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Netflix has several bad ideas, but giving Joe Carnahan $100,000,000 is a pretty good one.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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2/5
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s a trip that just doesn’t seem worth the jetlag.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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3.5/5
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Marcello Hernández: American Boy
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Hernandez is still a green comic, and there’s room to tighten his material as he grows, but the fact that one hour in his company leaves you feeling as if you’ve been through some sort of assault course is going to make him hard to ignore.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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3/5
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Ricky Gervais: Mortality
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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There is nothing more eminently mockable than virtue-signalling always-online faux-liberalism, but bringing up the most obviously ridiculous examples of it for an hour doesn’t necessarily constitute an act.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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3.5/5
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Elway
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’ve long held the belief that high-level sport is the best storytelling medium in existence, and what I like about Elway is that it believes this too.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/5
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The Great Flood
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The Great Flood starts out as a very compelling disaster movie, but it almost becomes a disaster of a movie on the back of its own confounding ambition.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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2/5
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10DANCE
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Maybe there’ll be a more risqué sequel that makes good on all the build-up. As things stand, 10 Dance is a few silky steps shy of a full routine.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is an illusion of a good movie, and as long as you don’t think about it too much, you might happily let it pass as one until you inevitably forget you ever saw it.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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4/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Wake Up Dead Man is the first Knives Out Mystery to realise that Daniel Craig’s eccentric detective Benoit Blanc is the least interesting thing about them.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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2/5
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Merv
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Good Boy had the good sense to keep its precious few human characters off-screen for almost all of the runtime, whereas Merv burdens us with a Charlie Cox and Zooey Deschanel who couldn’t seem less interested in each other if they tried.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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5/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Jay Kelly is a rigorous examination of not just who Jay is, or who Clooney might be, but who we are. In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, the conceit would have burst at the seams.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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2/5
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Matt Rife: Unwrapped - A Christmas Crowd Work Special
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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There’s a cynicism to this entire package that can’t be disguised by its Christmas wrapping paper.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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2/5
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Troll 2
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’ve now seen two of these movies, and I still have no idea whether we’re supposed to be rooting for the trolls or not.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4.5/5
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Champagne Problems
(2025)
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Ready Steady Cut Staff
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Champagne Problems is a modern holiday classic in the making. With undeniable chemistry between leads Minka Kelly and Tom Wozniczka, a genuinely funny supporting cast, and beautiful Parisian cinematography, this is the feel-good Christmas hit of 2025.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
(2025)
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Daniel Hart
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo is a masterful piece of investigative filmmaking that turns a decades-old question into a gripping, true-crime thriller.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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4/5
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Kevin Hart: Acting My Age
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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This isn’t a complete reinvention for Hart, but it is a return to a vintage form, to the focus on his family life and internal existential crises.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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4/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Daniel Hart
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Nuremberg is a challenging psychological drama that demands patience. While the first half tests the viewer with a shifting tone, it is rewarded by Russell Crowe’s chilling precision and a devastating third act that refuses to let history be forgotten.
Posted Nov 22, 2025
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4/5
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Sangre Del Toro
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Sangre Del Toro is full of earnest appreciation for its subject’s achievements, of course, but it’s much more interested in how the life and interests of the man himself have shaped his work over the years.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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4/5
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Grainier is a nobody, and yet within him is contained the full breadth of human emotion. He did nothing that anybody would recognise, and yet experienced everything. As may we all.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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2/5
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A Merry Little Ex-Mas
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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But one has to wonder when the comfort of a festive movie exactly like every other festive movie ceases to be comforting and instead becomes a kind of Sisyphean prison of futility, a reminder of your own unchanging life and unfulfilled dreams.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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1.5/5
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Playdate
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s art-as-content in its most egregious and obvious form, and is utterly undeserving of even the 90 minutes it takes to suffer through.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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2/5
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Being Eddie
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s a feature-length PR puff piece that, after a while, becomes deeply uncomfortable in its incessant self-congratulatory backslapping.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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2/5
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Mango
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Mehdi Avaz’s Danish-language Netflix original, written with Milad Schwartz Avaz, is sweet enough (like the mangoes), but completely lacks any distinguishing characteristics or meaningful ambitions.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3/5
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Baramulla
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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These are serious matters, and while highlighting them in any work seems to be of value in a broad sense, reducing such a thing to exploded notions of good and evil, right and wrong, us and them, is a simplistic way of doing so.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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1.5/5
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Tyler Perry's Finding Joy
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The worst part is that it’s boring. It’s boring in its pacing and structure, in its predictability, and in its muddled outcomes. It’s boring visually and thematically. It isn’t about anything.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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4/5
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Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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This isn’t a character, it’s all her, and it’s a huge part of the reason why she’s the most likable working comedian in the world right now.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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2/5
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Joy to the World
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I mostly feel the same way about it as I do about socks as a gift. They’ll keep your feet warm, but you’ll definitely wish you were getting something better.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Leonberg finds a handful of clever ways to rework horror cliches from Indy’s perspective, which I won’t spoil, but he doesn’t find enough to stave off the sense of repetition that creeps in around the midpoint.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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3/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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But despite the changes in viewpoint, the movie’s perspective never shifts. It’s a snapshot of political calamity built around a ticking clock that keeps resetting.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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3/5
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The Elixir
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The Elixir is a good, albeit derivative zombie movie because it recognises the zombies are the least interesting thing about it.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3/5
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Michelle Wolf: The Well
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Even Michelle Wolf, whose Netflix special The Well doesn’t so much revolve around the subject but continuously gets tugged back into its orbit, isn’t immune to the trap of believing that everyone else is as interested in your kids as you are.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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5/5
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The Perfect Neighbor
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The Perfect Neighbor is an engaging and quite uniquely constructed true-crime documentary that, at about the midpoint, morphs into one of the most harrowing films I’ve ever seen.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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4/5
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Good News
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s a strikingly theatrical way of making a fact-based film, but it does threaten to overwhelm that film’s ability to be anything beyond a funny aesthetic showcase, because the characters are such exaggerated cliches that they can’t be taken seriously.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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Everybody Loves Me When I'm Dead
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It might be tempting to do the wrong thing for the right reasons, but if this is the potential outcome, it’s probably safer to stay broke.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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4/5
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Vicious
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Dakota Fanning has to shoulder the entire movie, and she does a remarkable job, all things considered. She makes deliberately universal and run-of-the-mill problems – what am I doing with my life? – seem like searingly vital conundrums.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2/5
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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A 90-minute exercise in maritime gaslighting adapted from the 2016 Ruth Ware novel, it’s a scathing indictment of pompous rich people that doesn’t even have the decency to dress them well. Rarely has such an all-star cast seemed so determinedly drab.
Posted Oct 10, 2025
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2.5/5
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Maintenance Required
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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In this soulless age of AI slop masquerading as real craft, Amazon-MGM’s movie is precisely the kind of feature that might convince you the robots have taken over and are living among us. And yet…
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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3.5/5
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Matt McCusker: A Humble Offering
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s just a small taste of the eccentric creativity that underpins McCusker’s odd style, which is best described as a high-schooler trapped in the body of a 40-year-old channelling the spirit of a time-locked tribal medicine man.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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4.5/5
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Steve
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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While the movie is a showcase for Cillian Murphy first and foremost, it remains Shy’s story at its core, and allowing such a fine actor’s very actorly showcase of despair to be the lens through which we meet and get to know Shy is a calculated decision.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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2.5/5
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Mantis
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The tight character focus is exchanged for a broader examination of the John Wick-style assassin underworld and its arcane internal politics, and Mantis is simply a less interesting avatar through which to explore it.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3.5/5
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Cristela Alonzo: Upper Classy
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Sure, I wasn’t rolling around howling at any point, but at least one section brought a tear to my eye with its earnest sentiment, and several others were buoyed by genuine insight into the immigrant experience, poverty, body image, and a bit more besides.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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2/5
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Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’m sceptical, but then again I always am. If they’re happy, fair play to them. But one must consider the possibility that if they’re as satisfied as they claim, neither they nor we needed a documentary to convince us of it.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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3.5/5
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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This is a Spike Lee joint in every sense, big and formally daring and pulsing with auteur energy, but the filmmaker’s trademark indulgences don’t all pay off and leave the whole thing running a little too long for its own good.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Thursday Murder Club
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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As things stand, it’s an effective and satisfying little murder-mystery with just the right amount of self-awareness that its premise remains sweet instead of becoming silly, try as it sometimes might.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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1/5
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Fall for Me
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The experience of watching Fall for Me is a lot like watching paint dry, with the semi-important caveat of someone getting their nipples out every twenty minutes or so.
Posted Aug 21, 2025
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3.5/5
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DEVO
(2024)
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Jonathon Wilson
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As a curious non-fan, though, I’m glad Devo had their time in the spotlight, and glad that now they get a chance to explain how much cleverer they were than they ever got credit for at the time.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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2/5
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Fixed
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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There’s no novelty in Tartakovsky’s quaint animation style anymore, even in the idiosyncratic feeling of Fixed looking like an adult film had a baby with Dexter’s Lab.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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