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C-
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Killer Whale
(2026)
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Brent McKnight
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...little tension, zero thrills, and no emotional engagement.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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B
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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We Bury the Dead has a unique, inventive premise that tweaks and subverts the well-worn beats and expectations of the zombie genre, using that framework to explore a character’s rich, complex emotional world.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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B-
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Wildcat
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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I’m generally on the hook for this mid-tier type of Kate Beckinsale-fronted bang, bang shoot-em-up, and this one is better than some, not as good as others, but with James Nunn at the helm, you can always hang your hat on the action.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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A-
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Robert Pattinson is fantastic, but this is Jennifer Lawrence’s movie. She’s clearly working on another level, and she and Lynne Ramsay appear to be on identical wavelengths, and the result can be transcendent.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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This Too Shall Pass
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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A funny, bittersweet, messy story of a time that’s, well, funny, bittersweet, and messy, even if the delivery system is at times a nostalgia overload.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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B
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The Ice Tower
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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The Ice Tower is sure to leave some viewers cold, but for others, the parable will serve as a reminder that snow and ice melt, and that winter gives way to spring and hope and new possibilities.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Affinity
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Excellent action executed by people who know what they’re doing, all in an 80-minute package. It’s quick, to the point, and delivers what it promises, with a little weirdness thrown in for good measure.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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B
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Appofeniacs
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Wildly up and down, this peaks with chaos, violence, and gore.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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B
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Deathstalker
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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A loving homage made with endless enthusiasm, solid action, and gooey practical effects.
Posted Sep 22, 2025
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A
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The Furious
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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This is propulsive, relentless, vicious action featuring a murderer’s row of cinematic titans staged and executed by some of the top players in the business.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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B
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The Toxic Avenger
(2023)
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Brent McKnight
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My guess is that if you have an affinity for the OG Toxic Avenger, or Troma films in general, you’ll have a damn fine time with this version.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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C+
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Under Fire
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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If you can get past the occasional misfire and stretch your credulity at times, there’s a decent amount of fun to be had.
Posted Aug 19, 2025
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B
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Red Sonja
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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A lot of people will dismiss this offhand, but there’s more to it if you’re willing to look past flaws and limitations, and there’s an entertaining, admittedly ridiculous, and occasionally affecting movie here.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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B+
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The Occupant
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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The Occupant is a thrilling wilderness survival tale that's not afraid to veer into uncharted territory and get weird with it.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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B+
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Holy Night: Demon Hunters
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Ma Dong-seok clobber dudes is one of modern action cinema’s great pleasures. What Holy Night: Demon Hunters, proposes is, what if there were demons and Ma punched them in the face, too? Sounds like a match made in heaven. Or hell, as the case may be.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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A
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Redux Redux
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Redux Redux is the kind of science fiction that favors ideas and inventiveness over spectacle; where character and theme take precedence over eye-candy.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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B-
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Osiris
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Fun, pulpy B-movie science fiction, complete with largely practical alien suits and nods to all manner of classics. And, of course, the action from director William Kaufman is tight, badass, and plentiful.
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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B
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The Well
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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'The Well' doesn't rewrite the post-apocalyptic formula, but it uses the template to tell a taut, moving story.
Posted Jul 24, 2025
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Terrestrial
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Terrestrial offers up a fun, twisty thriller, deftly executed by Pink, who balances multiple disparate tones with an even hand, and anchored by a strong, strange performance from Fowler.
Posted Jul 21, 2025
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B-
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Daniela Forever
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Vigalondo's charms and sensibilities come through, but for all the film offers, it’s always a bit cold and aloof, like it keeps us at arm’s length, never quite connecting on deeper, more emotional levels.
Posted Jul 10, 2025
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B-
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K.O.
(2025)
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It doesn’t rewrite the recipe, but it’s self-aware enough to poke fun at the genre and not take itself too seriously as it delivers a tasty enough action treat that does enough to differentiate itself from the pack. Also, Ciryl Gane is weirdly adorable.
Posted Jul 01, 2025
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American Trash
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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What could easily have turned into a run-of-the-mill revenge saga has more on its mind and, at every step, chooses not to follow the obvious path.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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B
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Diablo
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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You don't go to McDonald's to be wowed and surprised; you go because you know exactly what you're going to get, and sometimes that's perfect. This is the movie equivalent of that.
Posted Jun 11, 2025
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A
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She's the He
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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A clever, timely subversion of raunchy, problematic ‘80s boner-jam comedies.
Posted May 23, 2025
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B
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Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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An ephemeral, gorgeously rendered rumination on death, loss, and memory, even if the end result is a bit slight.
Posted May 19, 2025
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B+
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40 Acres
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Thorne and company don’t rewrite the formula, but they do it well, mixing strong world-building, escalating tension and stakes, and gruesome violence.
Posted May 16, 2025
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B
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Chain Reactions
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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For fans of one of the greatest horror movies ever, watching these genre luminaries share their insights is a pleasure.
Posted May 16, 2025
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B-
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Fight or Flight
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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A decently fun if largely inconsequential action comedy.
Posted May 08, 2025
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A
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Striking Rescue
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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This is an incredibly fun martial arts action movie, fronted by an all-time great working at the top of his game, and one genre fans need to track down. The beauty of Tony Jaa flying across a room to elbow a dude in the skull cannot be overstated.
Posted Apr 15, 2025
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C+
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Demon City
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Does 'Demon City' have much in the way of nuance, depth, or character development? No. It’s extremely sparse on those fronts. What it does have, however, are plenty of bonkers, bloody fight scenes and awesome action choreography.
Posted Mar 03, 2025
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C
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Cleaner
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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Not bad, but not memorable in any way.
Posted Feb 20, 2025
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C-
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Jade
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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There's a definite idea propelling Jade, but it never coheres into anything meaningful. Even the too-infrequent action scenes can't pull this out of the doldrums.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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C-
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Back in Action
(2025)
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Brent McKnight
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This feels like a blank space of 114 minutes in my brain.
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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B-
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The Prosecutor
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Often weighed down by tepid legal melodrama, when The Prosecutor lets Donnie Yen do what he does best, it is, understandably, fantastic.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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For all there is to appreciate, Nosferatu fails to move the needle or elicit much of any reaction beyond a shrug.
Posted Dec 27, 2024
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B
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Lake George
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Playful, quirky, and blackly comic on occasion.
Posted Dec 05, 2024
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D
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Armor
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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The film starts out lackluster and ends dreary and dire.
Posted Nov 20, 2024
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A-
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100 Yards
(2023)
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Brent McKnight
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An intricate exploration of rivalry, social change, the weight of tradition and expectation, and much more, all wrapped in top-tier martial arts choreography.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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B-
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Elevation
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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If any movie has ever been just kind of fine, it's Elevation. It gets right in, does its business, and wraps things up in less than 90 minutes.
Posted Nov 07, 2024
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B
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Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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A flawed but ambitious post-apocalyptic tale with a distinct point of view and plenty of gore and brutality.
Posted Oct 11, 2024
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C
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Falling Stars
(2023)
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Brent McKnight
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There’s so much to admire and appreciate here, but Falling Stars ultimately leaves me cold.
Posted Oct 10, 2024
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B
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Azrael
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Samara Weaving wielding a machete, covered in blood, never uttering a word? From the director of 'Cheap Thrills' and the writer of 'The Guest'? Yeah, I'm in.
Posted Sep 27, 2024
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A
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My Old Ass
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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This feels like one of those movies that has the potential to become a generational touchstone. It’s lovely and earnest, deeply emotional, and achingly bittersweet.
Posted Sep 26, 2024
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A-
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Ghost Killer
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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There’s top-notch action from all players, fun comedy beats to lighten up the mood, and an undercurrent of earnest sweetness you don’t often find in movies about murder and vengeance.
Posted Sep 26, 2024
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B+
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The Draft!
(2023)
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Brent McKnight
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You’ve seen “we’re in a horror movie” movies before, but what about a “we’re in a draft of a horror movie script” movie?
Posted Sep 25, 2024
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B
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Out Come the Wolves
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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This doesn’t do anything particularly surprising or unexpected, but it delivers a taught, effective, woman-versus-nature survival thriller. It’s exciting, harrowing, and there’s a decent amount of gnarly, visceral gore.
Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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We’ve got xenomorphs, we’ve got face-huggers, there’s a chest-burster, corporate malfeasance, capitalistic overreach, acid blood, synthetics up to no good, and all the expected bells and baubles.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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Cuckoo
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Sad and strange, scary and sweet, Cuckoo winds up part fish-out-of-water creature feature, part detective yarn with a central mystery to unravel, as well as a meditation on grief. It defies easy classification, but it’s an odd, ambitious horror story.
Posted Jul 31, 2024
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Bookworm
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Bookworm is ultimately a cute, heartfelt, if a bit slight, tale of connection and reconciliation. It’s a warm hug, a well-meaning cup of hot cocoa that just makes you feel good.
Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Chainsaws Were Singing
(2024)
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Brent McKnight
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Maran’s enthusiasm is palpable and the result is boisterous, unhinged mania.
Posted Jul 25, 2024
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