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Alan Cerny

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Biography:

My name is Alan Cerny, and I have been writing reviews for several years. Formerly, I was Nordling at Ain't It Cool News until 2016, when I started writing for ComingSoon.Net, and now am currently a writer and reviewer for Vital Thrills. I have also guest written articles for CHUD and Birth Movies Death. I am a member of the Houston Film Critics Society since 2011, and formerly was Vice President and Secretary of that organization. I have covered the South by Southwest Film Festival, as well as Fantastic Fest, and Houston's Cinema Arts Festival and Worldfest Houston.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 6.5/10 EDIT “What could have been great, like the film’s title, is merely good.” – VitalThrills.com Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 9/10 EDIT “Jacob Elordi has given us a Frankenstein’s Monster for the ages, one that rivals Boris Karloff himself.” – VitalThrills.com Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% 9.5/10 EDIT “One of the very best adaptations of Stephen King’s work, a bold statement considering that so many great films have sprung from his novels. But I’d put The Long Walk right next to The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me in that honored, holy place.” – VitalThrills.com Sep 8, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 9/10 EDIT “The Fantastic Four: First Steps is outstanding superhero cinema, and I can’t wait to see it again.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 9/10 EDIT “Look, up at the screen. It’s a great comic book movie.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 8, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 7.5/10 EDIT “A well-made cheeseburger is still a cheeseburger, but when you’re biting into one, it doesn’t matter if it tastes good. F1 The Movie is a high-end, satisfying cheeseburger, and it does the job.” – VitalThrills.com Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% 9/10 EDIT “(Wicked) is about as crowd-pleasing and bursting with emotion as many of the great musicals of yesteryear and, with time, may be remembered just as fondly. Wicked is the best big-studio release of the year.” – VitalThrills.com Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 8/10 EDIT “Gladiator II may lack the elegance of the first, but it is fully Ridley Scott’s vision, and that is to be respected. Come for the sweeping storytelling; stay for Denzel Washington’s gleefully anarchic performance.” – VitalThrills.com Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 8.5/10 EDIT “Is Alien: Romulus worthy of the Alien franchise? Absolutely. Are there missteps? A couple, but not enough to detract... Alien: Romulus is as thrilling, exciting, and scary as the best of the Alien Saga.” – VitalThrills.com Aug 14, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% 8/10 EDIT “...there are some extraordinarily satisfying and surprising moments in DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, and they deserve to be experienced fresh...” – VitalThrills.com Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Strays (2023) 54% 3/10 EDIT “Strays plays like a movie thought up in a stoner’s house, watching Pixar movies and telling his buddies, “You know what would be funny? If the dog from Up said F*** a lot.”” – VitalThrills.com Aug 18, 2023 Full Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) 95% 8/10 EDIT “They should absolutely keep the creatives behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, as they clearly had fun making it and that joy is infectious to the audience. Mutant Mayhem is a good family-friendly time at the movies.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 30, 2023 Full Review Haunted Mansion (2023) 38% 5.5/10 EDIT “Haunted Mansion as a movie feels too long, too labored, and doesn’t give us enough real characters, other than LaKeith Stanfield’s, to sympathize with or relate to.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 28, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 10/10 EDIT “Oppenheimer is the film that Christopher Nolan has been working towards his entire career. It is a staggering achievement in cinema, and easily the best film so far this year.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Talk to Me (2023) 94% 7.5/10 EDIT “Talk to Me is an original concept executed very well and showcases exciting new voices in the horror genre.” – VitalThrills.com Jul 17, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% 9.5/10 EDIT “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the best action movie so far this decade, thrilling to the nth degree, and you should see it on the biggest screen possible. ” – VitalThrills.com Jul 5, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% 6.5/10 EDIT “It’s not the best Indiana Jones movie, not by a long shot, but it may be the best performance by Ford as Indy, and it’s brave and exciting for what it signifies. That may not be enough for the audience, but it was enough for me.” – VitalThrills.com Jun 25, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% 9.5/10 EDIT “Only time will tell how Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ranks among the best superhero movies ever made, but I’d say it should be in the conversation.” – VitalThrills.com Jun 1, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% 5/10 EDIT “Fast X is more video game than movie, where no one ever really dies, characters defy the laws of gravity and physics and brush themselves off afterwards, and the action sequences are pure zeros and ones.” – VitalThrills.com May 18, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% 8.5/10 EDIT “And while not every move James Gunn makes in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 lands, enough of them do that make this easily the best Marvel Studios film since Avengers: Endgame.” – VitalThrills.com May 3, 2023 Full Review Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 91% 9.5/10 EDIT “If you’ve ever in your life slung a 20-sided die, spent hours debating alignment or the range of a fireball spell, let out a sigh of relief when you made a saving throw, rolled a natural 20, know what THAC0 means – you must see this movie.” – VitalThrills.com Mar 20, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% 8.5/10 EDIT “With John Wick: Chapter 4 it’s safe to say they leave everything on the floor for this one.” – VitalThrills.com Mar 16, 2023 Full Review 65 (2023) 35% 7/10 EDIT “If audiences give 65 a chance, and not overload it with expectations, I think they may find themselves pleasantly surprised. I know I did.” – VitalThrills.com Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Creed III (2023) 89% 8.5/10 EDIT “Creed III is a knockout.” – VitalThrills.com Feb 24, 2023 Full Review Cocaine Bear (2023) 65% 7/10 EDIT “We didn’t buy tickets to see Ny-Quil Bear, did we? No we did not.” – VitalThrills.com Feb 23, 2023 Full Review
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