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B+
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Send Help
(2026)
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Eric Marchen
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Delightfully deranged Three Stooges-esque exchanges between the two committed leads, earning their Bruce Campbell credentials, satiate Raimi’s elastic tone while grounding candid moments, building morale.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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D
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Mercy
(2026)
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Eric Marchen
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Calling Mercy the dumbed-down version of Minority Report is superficial; as a high-concept procedural, it ceases to function when engaging with ethical considerations and merely capitalizes on timely concerns for entertainment purposes.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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B+
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Honey Bunch
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Honey Bunch is a sickly-sweet treat for genre fans.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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B+
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Eric Marchen
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Heavy metal horror with Ralph Fiennes reprising his compassionate role of Dr. Ian Kelson, puts on a showstopping spectacle that’ll make you cheer for an encore.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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B-
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The Mother and the Bear
(2024)
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Eric Marchen
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An eccentrically wistful winter tale takes some time to warm up, melting traditional climate and cultural shock to find its own unique bearings.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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B
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Primate
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Needless to say, Jane Goodall’s legacy lives on.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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A
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The sharply satirical blade pops the Douglas Sirk bubble of melodramatic domesticity, propulsively exposing blended-family matters that go beyond economic instability.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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A
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in Mona Fastvold’s transgressively humorous 18th-century musical biopic, with every frame hypnotically vibrant, journeying from the old country to the new world, spreading the gospel of pioneering messiah Ann Lee.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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B+
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The lived-in chemistry of the two leads, as individuals, parents, and partners, provides enough emotional investment to root for them, avoiding cheap vilification.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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C
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Rehashing watered-down themes and high-tech visual metaphors that reinforce James Cameron’s narrative weaknesses ad nauseam, the third entry in the Avatar saga will leave you blue in the face from unfurled self-indulgence.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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A+
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Timothée Chalamet reigns supreme, turning table tennis menace Marty Mauser into a career-defining performance that single-handedly crushes the competition.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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A-
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Epic in length but clear-headed and purposeful, this isn't some convoluted spycraft story about overthrowing the regime; instead, it's about a widower desperate to escape his oppressive country with his son.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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D
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Under Jon M. Chu's flat direction, the strenuous second act outstays its fraudulent welcome, both politically overwrought and narratively slight.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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B-
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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If it's any consolation, the ensemble dramedy earnestly seeks to advocate for the destigmatization of mental health issues in a part of the world where people would rather hire strangers to provide a form of catharsis than go to therapy.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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B
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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A tryout montage transitionally activates the Wright stuff, galvanizing propulsive stunt work to maximum overdrive.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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A+
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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When the emotional freight train hits, carrying poignant observations, it’s delivered with astounding force.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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B+
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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An ambitious found family survival thriller with shrewd fan service that remains satisfyingly self-contained, Predator: Badlands proves its worth.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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C+
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Christy
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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It's tonally jarring when heightened scenes of ham-fisted melodrama erode unbelievably distressing depictions of domestic violence.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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B+
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Urchin
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Searchin’ for Urchin uncovers the unforgettable performance of Dillane in Dickinson’s resoundingly assured first feature.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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B-
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Tense dialogue back and forth between persuasive actors who are on Lathimos’ stilted wavelength effectively creates sympathetic suspense.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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C
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Bored in the U.S.A., Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere goes nowhere fast.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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A-
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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It Was Just an Accident courageously demonstrates the great Panahi risking everything to achieve uncompromising cinematic excellence.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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B
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Eric Marchen
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Stuckmann recycles real-world sites to effectively immerse audiences in the unsettling stillness of the fictional community.
Posted Oct 26, 2025
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A
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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You’ll never look at microwaved lasagna the same way again after one hilarious match cut.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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C
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Insufferably clichéd characters, pseudo-intellectual writing that trivializes a vital cause, and an opulent director who would rather be making anything else to the point of planting Sgt. Rock and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks easter eggs.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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C-
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Nothing is less permanent than Tron: Ares, an expendable sequel that will make you want to hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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B+
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Roofman
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Roofman breaks into the top of Tatum’s best performances, with the affable movie star stealing the show.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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B
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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You could hear a collective sigh from the self-aware audience at one point during Raul Peck’s dystopian documentary on George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, reminding us that Big Brother is watching.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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B
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Allen Sunshine
(2024)
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Eric Marchen
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In tune with nature, the confidently nuanced narrative showcases promising writer/director Harley Chamandy’s sparse approach to internalized characterization, rather than generating unnecessary conflict.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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C+
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Anemone
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The method actor has a category of film, including one previous familial effort, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, directed by his spouse, Rebecca Miller, which has been lost to time, a fate Anemone shares, never fully coming into bloom.
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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B-
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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If the try-hard tactics of Johnson lead to compelling projects that don’t have the word “Red” in them, then consider this a huge win.
Posted Oct 02, 2025
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A+
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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A revolutionary cinematic achievement, One Battle After Another can’t be beat.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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C-
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Eleanor the Great
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Erin Kellyman gets the short end of the stick playing mournful NYU journalist Nina, who apparently wasn’t in class the day they taught conducting research and confirming your sources.
Posted Sep 25, 2025
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C-
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HIM
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Co-writers Tipping, Zack Akers, and Skip Bronkie’s streamlined screenplay rushes to gladiatorial gore, fouling internalized character detail for cinematographer Kira Kelly’s empty, commercial aesthetic.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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B
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Take The Long Walk for an onscreen duo that goes the distance in Hoffman and Jonsson.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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B+
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Lurker
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Pellerin’s morally ambiguous gaze will send shivers down the spine, clinging to Madekwe like a bad cold.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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A-
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Hopefully, Marvin and Covino will never head for Splitsville, given the exceptionally funny late summer sleeper, which officially makes them a power couple.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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B
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Qualley’s offbeat performance makes the gumshoe style of Honey Don’t! satisfyingly stick together.
Posted Aug 22, 2025
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B+
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Theatrical, confrontational, and self-referential, Lee’s unwieldy narrative signature examines the historic contribution to cinema this iconic director-actor duo has made over five features, utilizing the hyper-stylized lens of commerciality.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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B+
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Weapons
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The hypnotic visual of youth fleeing secure households with doorbell cameras, set to Beware of Darkness by George Harrison, evokes a foreboding fairytale atmosphere reminiscent of the Pied Piper.
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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B+
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Shook
(2024)
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Eric Marchen
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Missing the last train home and having to take the night bus, though played for laughs, yields insightful social commentary on how Scarberians feel neglected and relegated to second-class citizens in the Big Smoke.
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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B+
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Proof that the spoof can still elicit sidesplitting laughter in a darkened auditorium, director Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island shrewdly interrogates the archaic subgenre, assessing modern-day viability in the field.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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C+
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Together
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Shanks’ contentious material never fully matures into the final form it has been projecting, labelling itself as something new when the first-time feature filmmaker has written a standard prescription.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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A-
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Fortescue
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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With an empathically observed feature-length directorial debut, Rebeccah Love establishes herself as a singular voice in Canadian cinema.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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B-
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps clobbers previous iterations, although its rocky climax predictably transports us to the inevitable.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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C
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Hook, line, and stinker, I Know What You Did Last Summer fishes for complacency.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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B+
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Eddington
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Eddington represents what America has become: a cynical cesspool existing outside its former glory, though unaware, and prone to deteriorate impulsively.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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C
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Superman
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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The world doesn't need another subpar, overstuffed Superman movie built on once meaningful iconography, chest-thumping to what was, and no longer is, America.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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B+
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Pavements
(2024)
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Eric Marchen
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By comparison, nothing else exists in the same temporal space, epitomizing the process of creating and contextualizing irrelevant inspiration for mass consumption.
Posted Jul 11, 2025
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A
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Eric Marchen
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Without getting into spoilers, the low-key narrative never rushes to regroup, deliberately pacing pivotal passages of time as the camera holds on significant life events that don’t exploit the academic protagonist to benefit audience clarity.
Posted Jul 04, 2025
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