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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

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Cookie Queens (2026) EDIT “The girls hold our attention throughout. I’ll double my order of boxes, please.” – Film Festival Today Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Barbara Forever (2026) EDIT “Who would she be without the cinematic gaze? It’s a fitting conundrum to ponder for a director of Hammer’s considerable stature.” – Hammer to Nail Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Each actress delivers a heartfelt performance, the rawness of the characters’ desperation palpable from the very first scenes.” – Hammer to Nail Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Been Here Stay Here (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “If Usui sometimes drives his points home a little too obviously, this doesn’t take away from their essential truths. Watching this made me want to visit Tangier Island before it’s too late. The climate clock is ticking.” – Film Festival Today Jan 7, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “If you’ve ever enjoyed any of his TV appearances or films, you’ll find a lot to appreciate in the documentary. For better and for worse, Chevy Chase, now over 80, has earned the right for us to take him as he is, warts and all” – Film Festival Today Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “A simultaneously inspiring and tragic tale (leavened with plenty of good humor), the film is also indirectly a searing indictment of the American healthcare system.” – Hammer to Nail Dec 25, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Along the simultaneously meandering and high-strung journey to what passes for a conclusion (and a trite one at that), however, the film delivers thrills that mostly make up for its shortcomings, anchored by Chalamet’s riveting performance.” – Hammer to Nail Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 1/5 EDIT “It may well be one of the most tedious films of the year.” – Film Festival Today Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% .5/5 EDIT “This is easily one of the worst films of the year.” – Film Festival Today Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “Emotions are never oversold, instead landing with just the right notes. The end result is a lovely work of art that transports and transforms, exactly how a movie should.” – Hammer to Nail Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “ A coming-of-age tale wrestling with the usual sexual confusion of teenagers, Djukic’s movie captures the heightened emotions and desires of its subjects in precise compositions that sharpen the immediacy of pubescent isolation.” – Hammer to Nail Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 1/5 EDIT “Shining like a beacon amid the cinematic darkness is the great Albert Brooks as the soon-to-be-ex-governor. The movie desperately needs more of him.” – Film Festival Today Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “Impressively, Cattet and Forzani even manage to make some logical sense out of their pastiche, even as they throw the kitchen sink into the mix. Really, though, the audio-visual razzle-dazzle is the reason to watch. Diamonds are a cinephile’s best friend.” – Hammer to Nail Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 2.5/5 EDIT “If you can keep your needs simple, you’ll probably have a good-enough time.” – Film Festival Today Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “Slowly, over the course of its 102 minutes, the film’s narrative washes over the viewer with poignant grace.” – Hammer to Nail Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Idiotka (2025) 83% EDIT “Beyond the strong performances, the best parts of the film, in terms of hearty laughs, are the scenes devoted to lampooning the utter vacuousness of much of our modern influencer culture.” – Hammer to Nail Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025) EDIT “The structure is the thing, and our pleasure in deciphering it is the movie’s raison d’être. The solution may lie within, but if not, the quest is still very much worth watching.” – Hammer to Nail Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “And yet, "Nuremberg" may just be one of the most important films of this season, if only for its timely reminder that criminals—even if their actions are justified by the regime in power—can be brought to justice.” – Hammer to Nail Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Featuring terrific action and great messaging, the movie knows what it wants to do and does it well.” – Film Festival Today Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “It’s good fun, if a little too puerile at the end. A perfect metaphor for what goes wrong is a severed head flying through the air. Sure, we laugh, but to what larger purpose? Still, Stone and Plemons are riveting, and maybe that’s all we need.” – Film Festival Today Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Coexistence, My Ass! (2025) 92% EDIT “Though it may seem difficult to find humor in the longstanding conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, this does not deter our subject, whose background gives her jokes a unique bite.” – Hammer to Nail Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “As horrible as its outcome may be, "The Voice of Hind Rajab" is gripping throughout. Though in our present moment the issue of Israel and Gaza is a divisive one, surely we can all come together to agree that killing children is bad.” – Hammer to Nail Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “The ending is profoundly cathartic in the kind of restrained way that resonates far beyond the final moments. Come for the intriguing premise, stay for the lingering insights.” – Hammer to Nail Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Shot in black and white, a 1.37 aspect ratio, and in French, the movie appropriates many of the techniques that seemed so innovative back then and infuses them with a delightful sense of freshness and, above all, fun.” – Hammer to Nail Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2.5/5 EDIT “Buckley and Mescal deliver sincere performances, but it’s only at the Globe that they can truly shine. Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark; it’s just overly ripe before we get there.” – Film Festival Today Oct 22, 2025 Full Review
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