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Nick Johnston

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Nick Johnston is the Film Editor and Critic for the Boston-based online magazine Vanyaland.

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undertone (2025) 86% EDIT “Tuason’s sound mixers have crafted a soundscape that is worth experiencing in a premium format, and what’s important is how subtle it is” – Vanyaland Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Saccharine (2026) 92% EDIT “Saccharine works best when it’s defying our expectations...” – Vanyaland Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Tuner (2025) 97% EDIT “What makes Tuner much smarter than the average mid-budget thriller is its screenplay, co-written by Roher and Robert Ramsey, full of wit, feeling, and expectation-defying verve.” – Vanyaland Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Broken English (2025) 91% EDIT “When Broken English ends... you feel the incalculable loss: That as the 20th century continues to fade into the distance, we cannot forget the wonder of an analog, unexpected life.” – Vanyaland Jan 27, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “A brutal, bizarre exploration into what culture remains in England following its highly localized apocalypse, willing to take the broad promise of the high-concept premise for all its worth without regard for narrative niceties. ” – Vanyaland Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “Johannes Roberts’ Primate, an old-fashioned when-animals-attack creature feature, which is goofy enough to have a crowd shouting insults at the screen, yet competent enough to deliver some kills and scares that will be difficult for later releases to top.” – Vanyaland Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% EDIT “I think Greenland: Migration should come with a disclaimer stressing that you should not be watching this for accuracy but rather for the quality of Butler’s performance. ” – Vanyaland Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “You can practically feel just how much fun the director is having with this particular picture, and, though it may be typically nerve-wracking as most of his features are, there’s a strangely light and effervescent quality here.” – Vanyaland Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “Eternity stands out precisely because of how out-of-step it is with current trends, and how delightfully it’s able to imagine a love triangle between three appealing leads in the uniquely-realized setting of its great beyond.” – Vanyaland Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Compared to Glass Onion, Wake Up Dead Man feels like a return to form,” – Vanyaland Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “On the other hand, For Good is the worst of both worlds, with the flaws inherent in its source amplified by the drabness and dourness of Chu’s capitulation to modern blockbuster stylings.” – Vanyaland Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% EDIT “If The Monkey showed that Perkins can be funny instead of merely creepy, Keeper shows that he... can make genuinely terrifying horror features that live up to their hype. ” – Vanyaland Nov 17, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “By no means is The Running Man the best work of Wright’s career, suffering from the fits and starts of the chase movie, but the problems with it mostly stem from the director trying to preserve King’s text.” – Vanyaland Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “A decent consolation prize, one that’s hampered by a nearly insurmountable conceptual burden yet still manages to be delightfully entertaining thanks to solid writing, well-crafted action, and a fun approach to the deadly ecology of its setting.” – Vanyaland Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “This is Lanthimos strolling into S. Craig Zahler territory (albeit without the baggage that name brings with it in certain circles), the feel-bad movie of the fall...” – Vanyaland Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “...this is a movie properly about disillusionment and failure, which works without having to flash-fry Robert Zemeckis with a burn measured in megatons.” – Vanyaland Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% EDIT “This isn’t a great expansion of The Black Phone’s nascent mythos, but there’s enough there that one could probably wring something better than what wound up on screen.” – Vanyaland Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “...you’re lulled in by its hypnotic blend of well-tempered observation and perfectly-crafted visuals, punctuated by the occasional thunderclap caused by a particularly potent and often-bitter laugh.” – Vanyaland Oct 21, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “That’s right: this is a Tron movie that thinks its audience wants to see its story unfold on the streets of San Francisco rather than the fluorescent world of cyberspace.” – Vanyaland Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s hypnotic in the way that it unfolds, grabbing your attention from the first frame and keeping you locked in, legitimately concerned for this (fictional) dog’s safety while you’re entranced with the craft. ” – Vanyaland Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% EDIT “So, yeah, if this is DDL’s equivalent of a wrestling retirement match, it makes sense that he’d go out paired up with someone he cares about, doing his life’s work on the grandest stage for the final time. I” – Vanyaland Oct 2, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “ The problem lies with the team responsible for communicating that perspective — the Bigelow-Oppenheim pairing doesn’t work at all. ” – Vanyaland Oct 1, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “It’s all very surface-level Pynchon, as beyond the premise’s outline, the funny names, the conspiracy element, and the pop culture allusions, it feels like an imitation without the substance. ” – Vanyaland Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “The biggest problem Berger has is Joffe’s script, which is once again undercooked and spartan in the same way The American was, with a wholly wrong protagonist for the style.” – Vanyaland Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Hamnet’s leads feel breathtakingly modern, with the revisionist aims of O’Farrell’s novel landing as intended.” – Vanyaland Sep 19, 2025 Full Review
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