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2/4
Mercy (2026) Soren Andersen And — sigh! — the futuristic aspect is chucked straight out the window when the picture concludes in a fistfight. And thus does originality expire.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Dominic Baez It shouldn’t work, and it doesn’t a lot of the time, but there’s something compelling in how it all wraps up, how decisions that floundered in the moment feel a little more justified once the credits roll (which are awesomely stylish for some reason).
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Jas Keimig The film shifts away from Boyle’s frenetic, punk shooting style and editing, with DaCosta and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt incorporating longer shots into the mix reflecting the psychologically penetrative aspect of Alex Garland’s script.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
No Other Choice (2025) Chase Hutchinson It’s a macabre, mirthful fable that, while not Park’s best (that’s still "The Handmaiden"), is delicately attuned to how people who otherwise believe themselves to be good can become forces of cruelty.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Moira MacDonald A missed opportunity, just like this movie.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Anaconda (2025) Moira MacDonald It’s all very, very silly, but nobody here thought they were making a Scorsese movie, and the fun’s infectious.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Chase Hutchinson Watching an exhilarating, exhausting Chalamet careen his way through "Marty Supreme" is not unlike watching another wannabe American icon, Wile E. Coyote, when he runs off the cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner he’ll never catch.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Soren Andersen Everybody involved seems to be having a blast making this latest “SpongeBob” a funny, fast-paced pleasure.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Dominic Baez If you liked the first two movies, you’ll enjoy “Fire and Ash,” which should be seen in 3D on the biggest screen possible. Just don’t be surprised if the only thing that sticks with you is that water, gently lapping at the screen.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Ella McCay (2025) Moira MacDonald It’s not at all unpleasant spending two hours with Ella and her family and colleagues, but it leaves you feeling a little nostalgic for what it could have been.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Fackham Hall (2025) Moira MacDonald Fackham Hall is a pleasantly silly diversion for “Downton Abbey” fans with a tolerance for raunchy sight gags and bad puns.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Hamnet (2025) Moira MacDonald Buckley and Mescal, both looking achingly young, beautifully convey the gasping, swimmy passion of first love, and the frustrations when happily-ever-after doesn’t quite work out that way.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Moira MacDonald Wake Up Dead Man is less funny and more meditative than its predecessors.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Zootopia 2 (2025) Soren Andersen “Zootopia 2” comes on strong. Too strong. It seeks to bowl the audience over with noise, velocity and an insistent tone that frankly winds up being kind of irritating.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Moira MacDonald It's a reminder that the biggest source of magic in movies is a performer who can, suddenly and without warning, show us the human heart.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Running Man (2025) Dominic Baez As a humorous action film, it’s an enjoyable experience. As a social commentary on a dystopian America, it mostly just trips over itself.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Chase Hutchinson Bursting with humanity and dark humor, it’s a sharply well-acted, written and directed modern thriller that grapples with urgently existential questions of justice, violence and resistance.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Moira MacDonald Ultimately, “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” is never quite as much fun as you expect it to be, particularly when Pike isn’t on screen. Despite a character intoning that we all “need magic more than ever,” this movie didn’t have enough of it.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Predator: Badlands (2025) Trevor Lenzmeier Ultimately, “Badlands” is a fun weekend watch for your home theater — but it won’t leave a lasting impression.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) John Hartl The script for "Predator 2" is little more than a collection of exceptionally brutal action sequences that never get a chance to build.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bugonia (2025) Moira MacDonald The final moments of “Bugonia” paint as grim a picture of humanity as you’ll see anywhere; it’s superbly crafted, to be sure, but it’s ice-cold at its core.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hedda (2025) Moira MacDonald Hedda is gorgeous eye candy; that house, with its peacock wallpaper and perfect amber light, is a dream, and Thompson in Hedda’s perfectly fitted green party dress (she wears it through most of the film, like armor) looks like its loveliest work of art.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Blue Moon (2025) Moira MacDonald Linklater really nails the atmosphere here; watching “Blue Moon” feels like sitting with smart people in a retro bar, covered in a gentle blanket of cocktail piano.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Frankenstein (2025) Moira MacDonald This “Frankenstein” has no shortage of horrors, but it also finds notes of forgiveness and kindness; it’s a monster movie with a soul.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Jas Keimig Despite the intensity of the story, there’s a needed thread of pitch-black humor woven throughout that dares you to laugh at its sheer ridiculousness.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
After the Hunt (2025) Moira MacDonald After the Hunt is full of interesting performances and potentially fraught drama, but ultimately it feels like a failed effort, an attempt to catch a zeitgeist moment as it flies by.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
TRON: Ares (2025) Dominic Baez If all you want out of your Tron movie is amazing visuals, a great score and some fun action sequences with light cycles, cool weapons and even a Recognizer, Ares will execute that command. Anything more, though... starts to get a little glitchy.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Moira MacDonald Condon doesn’t shy away from the violence and tragedy at the heart of this story, but he lets us see the tender, hard-forged connection between Molina and Valentín, and also lets us disappear into a world of tinselly Hollywood beauty, just as they do.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Smashing Machine (2025) Soren Andersen The picture itself is more workmanlike than transcendent. It marches along but doesn’t soar.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Chase Hutchinson Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” — the most entertaining, exhilarating movie you’ll see all year — is an incision into a raw nerve. A thrilling, tense portrait of modern life, it’s Anderson’s most urgently relevant work yet.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Gemma Wilson When everything’s clicking, there are moments of real beauty and introspection to be found here.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) Qina Liu You still believe in the Davids among the impossible battle against immortal, regenerating, bloodsucking Goliaths.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
HIM (2025) Eric Olson To paint a related picture, “Him” is a bit like the red-faced drunk next to you at the Seahawks game: loud, fun at first, wearing thin after a few drives — asleep by the end.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Gemma Wilson The joys of this film are similar to the joys of a beloved (real) band’s reunion concert: watching decades of personal and musical history play out onstage...
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Moira MacDonald Fellowes, who touchingly dedicates the film “in loving memory of Dame Maggie Smith,” treats us to a nicely sentimental final sequence that reminds us of all of Downton’s beautiful ghosts, and certainly feels like a goodbye.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Another Round (2020) Chase Hutchinson A bittersweet existential dramedy that sees a magnificent Mads Mikkelsen lighting up the screen with one of the all-time great movie dance sequences, it’s a triumph as tactile as it is tragic.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Brand Upon the Brain (2006) Chase Hutchinson It’s an audaciously experimental, often terrifying and always evocative encapsulation of memory that boldly dances between genres while remaining entirely its own.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Titane (2021) Chase Hutchinson Though in conversation with Cronenberg’s “Crash,” there’s nothing like it as Ducournau crafts a meditation on identity and found family as uniquely brutal as it is beautiful.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
In My Skin (2002) Chase Hutchinson This macabre, mournful vision uses gore to excavate the agony buried deep inside a woman whose life is coming undone, creating a compassionate character study that never blinks in the face of violence.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Trouble Every Day (2001) Chase Hutchinson It’s her most uncompromising film, from its structure to its disquieting descent into depravity, that’s also her most hauntingly honest about the human condition and the horrors we inflict on each other.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Twinless (2025) Dominic Baez It’s not often you can laugh in the face of grief; “Twinless” fearlessly goes out of its way to make sure that you do.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Soren Andersen Both star and director are at the top of their game here, and that’s as good as movies get.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) Gemma Wilson Satisfaction of a cozy mystery doesn’t always come exclusively from a complex puzzle solved; it also comes from justice done and, ideally, comeuppance savored. Despite being beautifully made, this tepid, moralizing story denies us any of those pleasures.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Roses (2025) Bethany Jean Clement It’s arguably an excellent version of the movie it sets out to be -- yet I can’t recommend it without reservations.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Honey Don't! (2025) Gemma Wilson Honey Don’t! is a bleak and breezy good time. Don’t overthink it.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Ne Zha II (2025) Qina Liu Ne Zha II deserves all the attention and accolades: It’s an empowering film that makes you believe that you, too, can change your fate.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) Chase Hutchinson It will never be to all tastes, but to those who find themselves on its wavelength, it couldn’t be sweeter.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Naked Gun (2025) Soren Andersen This “Naked Gun” tries hard, but the magic simply isn’t there.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Together (2025) Gemma Wilson The more gruesome the story gets, the stronger it is, as the over-the-top ick kept my brain present.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Drowning Dry (2024) Chase Hutchinson A nonlinear exploration of a terrible tragedy that two families then try to pick up the pieces from, it’s a quietly evocative, constantly shifting film that ultimately sneaks up on you.
Posted Jul 29, 2025  Edit critic review
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