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Cary Darling

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “ "The Bone Temple" is a gripping twist on a genre that might have seemed to run its course during the umpteenth season of "The Walking Dead."... Like its predecessor, "The Bone Temple" makes few concessions to Hollywood tentpole predictability. ” – Houston Chronicle Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 3.5/5 EDIT “Johannes Roberts gets two things right: the film is a tight, efficient 89 minutes, just like any B-movie worth its salty popcorn; and a dude's face gets ripped off by the chimp in the first five minutes.” – Houston Chronicle Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “From the start, "The Plague," the gripping feature debut from director/writer Charlie Polinger, is like entering a bad dream. But it's less a full-blown nightmare and more a nerve-jangling unease that something is sinister is going to happen.” – Houston Chronicle Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Featuring a bracingly energetic performance from Chalamet that is his career best, "Marty Supreme," a story of ambition, fame, cultural identity and the American Dream, is as good a Christmas present as Hollywood could give us in these fractious times.” – Houston Chronicle Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 2.5/5 EDIT “White...captures both the singer's casual intensity and vulnerability while also doing justice to The Boss' sweat-soaked stage persona...If anything, "Deliver Me from Nowhere" could use more of these kinetic moments.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Hawke, who's on screen for the entire film, conveys all of this with the subtlest touches, inhabiting the character so completely that it's easy to forget that there's an actor in there. ” – Houston Chronicle Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “But for all of the film's highlights, it lacks the sense of surprise that made "BP1" such a discovery.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “If (director Ben) Leonberg replaced Indy with a human, "Good Boy" would be a mildly entertaining and creepy low-budget scarefest. But sweet, adorable Indy takes it to the next level.” – Houston Chronicle Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 3.5/5 EDIT “Though Safdie doesn't radically reinvent the sports-movie form as some might have expected, the rather predictable "The Smashing Machine" is held together by its strong central performances.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 30, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “There are moments of such giddy cinematic joy in Paul Thomas Anderson's thrilling "One Battle After Another," that a viewer might wonder if that whole rapture thing that swept the internet this week really happened after all.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 24, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 3.5/5 EDIT “Certainly, "Journey" is not quite up to the level of (Kogonada's) previous two efforts. Yet the movie, while less melancholic and larger in scope than his other projects, still retains enough of the Kogonada touch to make it a trip worth taking. ” – Houston Chronicle Sep 18, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% 2.5/5 EDIT “There are some intriguing questions raised here about how the often cruel business of professional sports turned White into a monster but they are overwhelmed by a nonsensical plot that leads to an astonishingly unsatisfying, if cool-looking, conclusion.” – Houston Chronicle Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 3.5/5 EDIT “What keeps it hanging together is a captivating central performance from Austin Butler who proves to be empathetic as an average guy who finds himself accidentally falling into a wormhole of crime and vice from which he has trouble escaping. ” – Houston Chronicle Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% 4/5 EDIT “Tjahjanto pulls his punches a bit -- there's nothing even approaching the legendary warehouse brawls in "The Night Comes for Us" -- but there's enough of his signature savage choreography to keep the fans satisfied though it's now leavened with humor. ” – Houston Chronicle Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It nimbly keeps the audience off-balance, becoming a dizzying experience in which the viewer is never quite sure what's coming next. ” – Houston Chronicle Aug 9, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's not a great movie, by any stretch, but it is a highly entertaining one with a solid cast, impressive effects and an underlying message of love and respect.” – Houston Chronicle Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 2.5/5 EDIT “Even at its best moments, "Jurassic World Rebirth," opening Wednesday throughout Houston, just serves to remind viewers of what they liked about the previous films.” – Houston Chronicle Jul 3, 2025 Full Review 40 Acres (2024) 89% 4/5 EDIT “"40 Acres" is landing in theaters...when many moviegoers are going to opt for...big-budget spectacle. But for those looking for something more thought-provoking and less escapist, then "40 Acres" is there lurking in the background.” – Houston Chronicle Jun 29, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 3.5/5 EDIT “In what's turning into a long, hot summer full of unnerving news in the wider world, "F1: The Movie" offers a refuge of air-conditioned escapism. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.” – Houston Chronicle Jun 22, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “"Years" takes the plot down to the studs, returning it to its British roots and taking a stripped-down, almost punk-rock approach to the whole enterprise. This simply doesn't feel like a big-budget Hollywood movie. ” – Houston Chronicle Jun 19, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “It lives up to its blood-soaked lineage with star Ana de Armas proving that Keanu Reeves is not the only one who can rock the Glock.” – Houston Chronicle Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “This disappointing installment, with "M:I" veteran Christopher McQuarrie back in the director's chair, feels — unlike Cruise's character — bloated and tired, despite the dizzying, high-flying stunt work at the film's climax.” – Houston Chronicle May 18, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Just when you thought there didn't need to be another vampire movie, along comes director/writer Ryan Coogler who says, "hold my holy water."” – Houston Chronicle Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Even the detractors of "Nickel Boys" will have to concede that they haven't seen anything quite like it on the big screen in recent years.” – Houston Chronicle Jan 14, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 5/5 EDIT “A thrillingly ambitious, 3 1/2-hour (including a 15-minute intermission) character study and portrait of mid-century America that leaves an indelible impression.” – Houston Chronicle Jan 14, 2025 Full Review
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