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Peter Travers

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Mercy (2026) 24% 25/100 EDIT “Chris Pratt sits in a witness hair for most of the action while I sit in wonder about how a movie with such timely potential—an AI arbiter (Rebecca Ferguson) serving as judge, jury and executioner— manages to fall so hard on its fatuous pretentions.” – The Travers Take Jan 23, 2026 Full Review In Cold Light (2025) 43% 2/4 EDIT “Maika Monroe plays a drug dealer facing off with her rodeo champ dad Troy Kotsur in a by-the-numbers thriller minus any real thrills. It’s the hints of a better film—fiercer, funnier, more attuned to a woman’s point of view—that nag at you.” – The Travers Take Jan 23, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “In this slow but touching biopic, Claire Foy excels as an academic who buries her grief about her father’s death by caring for a predator goshawk, so both can relearn to fly.” – The Travers Take Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The American President (1995) 90% EDIT “It’s a revamped Cinderella story with power as the aphrodisiac, and Douglas and Bening play it to the classy hilt. The courtship scenes in the film’s lighter, more deft first half have the bounce of a moonstruck fable.” – Rolling Stone Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT “You’ll be thinking about this scary, savvy fright fest long after you wake up screaming.” – The Travers Take Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s the Mattfleck starshine, plus the indisputable action bonafides of director Joe Carnahan, that sell this cop thriller when formula threatens to overtake it.” – The Travers Take Jan 17, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “Jodie Foster speaks French with elan, but even her indisputable star power and fun bond with costar Daniel Auteuil can’t keep this frothy bauble aloft.” – The Travers Take Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “One thing is for sure about this century-spanning story about the dangers faced by young women trying to negotiate a safe space in a world of men—you’ll never forget it.” – The Travers Take Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “Love that Gus Van Sant has crafted his true-crime hostage drama in the grand 1970s tradition of Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon. Bill Skarsgard drops his Pennywise psycho clown persona to make his unmasked mark as an actor. And does he ever.” – The Travers Take Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 2/4 EDIT “As killer ape movies go, this one’s a bloody wonder—it’s too bad no one bothered to add plot, character or a reason to care” – The Travers Take Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “Kristen Stewart’s directing debut is not an easy sit, but with actress Imogen Poots, she creates an indelible, impressionistic film about a competitive swimmer that doesn’t follow tidy biopic rules or, let’s face it, any rules at all.” – The Travers Take Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Dutchman (2025) 57% 3/4 EDIT “In a fresh film take a 1964 race play, Kate Mara’s sexed-up subway rider hits on André Holland like a white Eve out to destroy a Black Adam through assimilation, intimidation, and worse. You can’t watch it passively. It dares you to engage.” – The Travers Take Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 2.5/5 EDIT “Before it reverts to moldy zombie tropes, this low-budget, no-frills survival thriller puts a fresh spin on the familiar thanks to Daisy Ridley as a human living among the walking dead.” – The Travers Take Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “A terrifying first film in which a tween water polo team becomes a "Lord of the Flies" metaphor for the hell of modern bullying. The scares are killer, but it’s the violence of the adolescent mind that hits hardest.” – The Travers Take Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Stodgy? Maybe. But the sincerity of this crowdpleaser starring Ralph Fiennes as wartime choirmaster is a refreshing alternative to the glut of computer-generated junk that crowds our movie houses” – The Travers Take Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “What was once riveting now feels rote. What once made us want more of the same now makes us eager for the shock of the new.” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 1.5/4 EDIT “Jack Black and Paul Rudd can’t carry the unbearable weight of massive missteps in this comic remake of the 1997 snake movie that was always funnier when it tried to be serious.” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 3/4 EDIT “In this compassionate comedy of missed connections, Jarmusch makes us see the ordinary in fresh, pertinent and provocative ways. And the cumulative power of his vision is undeniable.” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “It sounds pretty cheesy and sometimes it’s a whole cheese wheel, but Hugh Jackman and especially Kate Hudson sing and act their hearts out.” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% 2/4 EDIT “Kate Winslet makes her directing debut with a script written by her 22-year-old son and acted by A-listers who, try as they might, can’t save it from dying-at-Christmas clichés.2/4” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Nothing about the pulsating ‘Sirāt’ is appropriate or expected or traditional or fully comprehensible. It just is. And it is utterly transfixing.” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 3/4 EDIT “It may be tonally all over the place as cinema, but in his first film, actor turned director Harris Dickinson cuts a direct path to the heart and certifies star Frank Dillane as a major talent. ” – The Travers Take Dec 26, 2025 Full Review A Christmas Carol (1951) 86% 4/4 EDIT “When I’m asked to name a great performance that never won an Oscar, my go-to is always Alastair Sim, the Scottish acting titan whose dazzling, definitive performance as Scrooge belongs in the cinema time capsule.” – The Travers Take Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Timothee Chalamet ping pongs to greatness in Josh Safdie’s whooshing wonder of a film about winning at all costs. And in case you’re wondering: This is the wildest damn thing Chalamet has ever put on screen.” – The Travers Take Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Housemaid Sydney Sweeney and mistress Amanda Seyfried go bonkers to the max and I mean that in the best way.” – The Travers Take Dec 19, 2025 Full Review
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