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10/10
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Birds of War
(2026)
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Dave Giannini
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Birds of War may seem like an unapproachable, highly dramatic story that will make it difficult to connect, given our very different lives. However, there is enough eerie similarity between their world and ours to easily lock in with their story.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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6/10
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Shame and Money
(2026)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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This is cinema that refuses comfort. It asks you not to feel better, not to hope, not to look away, but only to understand how fragile stability truly is when pride becomes the last thing left to lose.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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8/10
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Night Nurse
(2026)
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Megan Loucks
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Bernstein’s directorial voice is strong and focused, with Night Nurse being a scrumptious tease for whatever she does next—a genre-defining work of taboo and eroticism that delves into how deception and manipulation fester
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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8/10
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Send Help
(2026)
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Joshua Mbonu
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Send Help is the culmination of everything that makes a great Raimi film tick in all kinds of genre filmmaking; meaning spirited chaos, non-stop thrillers, a kinetic camera, and bodily fluids of all kinds flying across the screen.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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7/10
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Solo Mio
(2026)
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M.N. Miller
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Kevin James stars in Solo Mio, a funny, thoughtful, and unexpectedly warm romantic comedy that finds real charm in emotional maturity.
Posted Jan 25, 2026
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8/10
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Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant
(2026)
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Phil Walsh
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a sharply written script that uses an alien conception as a means to tell a story about expectation, choice, and parenthood. Sprinkle in at-times shocking body horror, and this has the makings of a film that, at a minimum, will have people talking.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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8.5/10
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TheyDream
(2026)
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Dave Giannini
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TheyDream, if nothing else, offers us a look deep into one story that matters, one like our own, despite our many differences. Despite all of our personal imperfections, we can find, through memory, our own liberation.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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3/10
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Gaius Bolling
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There is a madness associated with Silent Hill that makes the game series such an effective horror video game brand, but the madness here is just a deafening mess of a film that proves to be disappointing because of how well this film series started.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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7.5/10
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The Oldest Person in the World
(2026)
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Dave Giannini
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When faced with impending death, it must be remembered that life is nothing if not full of promise and value. These folks may have lived for a century, but we never know when our time is up. Every moment matters.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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8/10
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Dave Giannini
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Given recent events in the United States, this film could not be more topical to show the importance of building community, not only for enrichment, but sadly to protect one another from the impending harm of overreaching governmental agencies.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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2.5/10
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Mercy
(2026)
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Joshua Mbonu
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Mercy isn't quite as poorly executed visually as, say, last year's War of the Worlds, but the fact that it’s even remotely close to that level of quality is bad in and of itself.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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8/10
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Phil Walsh
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This is a special film. It is grotesque in the manner in which it presents death, yet blunt for a purpose. The fact that this film draws on the filmmakers' personal experiences makes the story all the more impactful.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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5/10
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All You Need Is Kill
(2025)
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Phoenix Clouden
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Unfortunately, All You Need Is Kill doesn’t quite know what story it wants to tell, so as a viewer, you’re mostly left confused. If there’s more to add to the story, it could really be intriguing, but as it stands right now, it feels incomplete.
Posted Jan 18, 2026
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6/10
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The Rip
(2026)
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Liselotte Vanophem
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As a pure action crime thriller, The Rip certainly fulfils its purpose. It delivers large-scale shootouts, explosive moments, and high-speed car chases, and the concluding pursuit provides even greater excitement.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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7/10
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Dom Fisher
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a beacon of hope amongst endless carnage. This new chapter of the cult franchise is a visceral and gruesome affair.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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9/10
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Shuffle
(2025)
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Dave Giannini
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Addiction robs us of many wonderful human beings. Something must change, and Benjamin Flaherty has done admirable work bringing that humanity to the forefront in Shuffle.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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7.5/10
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Seeds
(2025)
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Jaylan Salah
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SEEDS doesn’t try to ask sophisticated questions that it can’t answer, nor does it search for a solution to an expanding global problem of manpower decay. It simply states the obvious and challenges us to think.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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5.5/10
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Night Patrol
(2025)
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Phil Walsh
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There is a story somewhere in all this chaos, particularly one that speaks to police corruption and racial discrimination. The travesty is that the film never realizes its identity.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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6/10
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Joshua Mbonu
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Greenland 2: Migration has enough compact sequences that up the ante in the scale of its stakes and destruction, and offers an emotionally satisfying message for the hope of our own future
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3.5/10
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Cameron Ritter
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Song Song Blue is certainly a passable outing for Brewer, Jackman, Hudson, and all involved, but it lacks the emotional punch it so desperately needs to be effective.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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7/10
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Tristian Evans
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People We Meet On Vacation is a charming romantic comedy about the winding paths that lead us to the people we’re meant to find.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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7.5/10
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Primate
(2025)
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Gaius Bolling
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Primate satisfies because of what it gets right, and that's being a creature feature with bite that manages to generate atmospheric chills but also the rabid monkey violence that audiences will be salivating for.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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8/10
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Familia
(2024)
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Liselotte Vanophem
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Familia slightly overstays its welcome, yet Italy's entry for the 2026 Academy Awards as Best International Feature is a rich emotional exploration of psychological trauma, its lasting effects and intricate character dynamics.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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7/10
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Sleepwalker
(2026)
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Phil Walsh
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An unsettling deep dive into grief that kept me on edge right until the end, which felt like a perfect ending to a dream. Abrupt and shocking.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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Dogma
(1999)
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Jeffrey Peterson
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Dogma criticizes all religious sects of Western society, from Catholics to Protestants to Agnostics. Whether you’re a believer, denier, or contrarian, Smith has more than a few words for you.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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8.5/10
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Left-Handed Girl
(2025)
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Phil Walsh
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This first outing in the director's chair by Tsou is masterful. The story itself is touching. Lending itself to a guerrilla style of filmmaking, we are on the ground level in a way that never feels aggressive but intimate.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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6/10
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Atropia
(2025)
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Megan Loucks
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Gates transports us to the Bush era, the immediate post-9/11 world that still has impacts today, and shows how history continues to repeat itself. But displaced humor and oddly paced scenes take away from the film’s strengths within the cast
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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7/10
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Don't You Let Me Go
(2024)
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Anya Couture
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Leticia Jorge and Ana Guevara make their film ultimately about longing and lost love, but in their tenderness, they do so with a touch of tranquility laid on top of a dream world.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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10/10
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Brandon Lewis
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It is another spoke on the wheel of Chan-wook’s incisive satire, where the concept of choice, either an abundance or a lack of them, is beside the point under the specter of capitalism.
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
(1939)
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Dillon Gonzales
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The film does indulge in some heavy-handed rhetoric and back-patting... Where it rises above this is in the captivating pace it maintains and the performances that completely sell the believability of this tale.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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8/10
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Teenage Wasteland
(2025)
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Phoenix Clouden
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There is a lot to take from this powerful documentary on corruption, cover-ups, greed, and the invigorating fight of the youth, but it is a statement that good teachers matter. And we need a lot more of them in the world.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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6/10
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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Anaconda is a film that starts with confidence and personality, then gradually loses its way as it tries to be too many things at once. It’s messy and uneven but also warm and self-aware.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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5.5/10
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Father Mother Sister Brother
(2025)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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Ultimately, Father Mother Sister Brother is a film I respect more than I liked. I admire its patience, its faith in silence, and its refusal to spell things out.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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10/10
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Breakdown: 1975
(2025)
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Phil Walsh
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This documentary captures the feeling of America on the verge of a complete breakdown, and yet, rather than imploding, we turned to creative expression. Chaos became art.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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3.5/10
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Fackham Hall
(2025)
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Cameron Ritter
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Fackham Hall tries and fails at the Zucker Brothers style of comedy that so many people love.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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7/10
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(2025)
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M.N. Miller
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants focuses on its message, carried by a zany, buoyant, and joyful comedy.
Posted Dec 21, 2025
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9/10
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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Dave Giannini
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Cover-Up is both a reminder and a warning. Even if we would like to think that we have grown past the atrocities of the past, it is clear that this is a pattern of behavior by our nation.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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6/10
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Goodbye June
(2025)
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Dave Giannini
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Thanks to the director and the team of tremendous actors she has gathered, despite its faults, it is still easy to recommend Goodbye June.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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4.5/10
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Joshua Mbonu
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While it will likely satisfy fans of its source material, The Housemaid doesn't quite reach the heights to be anything more than an average thriller on the whole, at best, and a clunky misfire of tonal play within the thriller genre at worst.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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7.5/10
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Dom Fisher
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Avatar: Fire and Ash is visually triumphant yet narratively familiar. This otherworldly epic is an awe-inspiring feast for the eyes, but most of the film is eerily reminiscent of its 2022 predecessor
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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9/10
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Phil Walsh
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Held together by a magnetic performance from Daisy Ridley, it still delivers the usual hits, but the story is a poignant offering on loss and grief—a beautifully shot and haunting tale.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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5.5/10
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Influencers
(2025)
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Liselotte Vanophem
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the movie lacks the overall heat, blood, and tension to become a mean, nail-biting sequel. If the filmmaker decides to turn this twosome into a trilogy, that movie needs to have much more guts, punch, and disturbing murders.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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5.5/10
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Peaches Goes Bananas
(2024)
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Dave Giannini
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Peaches Goes Bananas was a real opportunity for the genuine woman to be allowed to be viewed. Sadly, there are no guarantees in documentaries. Losier cannot simply write an arc for real people, no matter how much we wish it were so.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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3.5/10
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Joshua Mbonu
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With constant misses in the film’s attempts at comedy and performances that are as absent as the film itself, Ella McCay, at the very least, sticks out as one of the more baffling films you’ll watch unfold this year.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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5/10
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Dust Bunny
(2025)
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Phil Walsh
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The movie wants to be cotton candy with a bite, yet it feels like we've gone for the sweet stuff and unintentionally swallowed a box of rocks.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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9/10
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The President's Cake
(2025)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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The President’s Cake is very well-crafted, honest, and in lots of ways devastating. What it captures is sadly a real world in which children are forced into roles they can’t yet understand, and a society is stretched thin by sanctions and paranoia.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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5/10
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Dom Fisher
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While Freddy and company look amazing, the storytelling, acting, and overall tone leave much to be desired.
Posted Dec 07, 2025
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10/10
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Endless Cookie
(2025)
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Anya Couture
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He and his half-brother Peter end up delivering something of monumental value to the world and his family living within it, the ultimate gift he could give: creativity, love and immortalization of a culture that is fading fast from modern life.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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8/10
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The Tale of Silyan
(2025)
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Jaylan Salah
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Kotevska perfectly captures each moment and the smallest details. A stork’s eye. A farmer’s roughened hand. Baby storks hatching from eggs under their mother’s fluffy wings.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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8.5/10
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Come Closer
(2024)
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Phil Walsh
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This is a film that never becomes a sermon of emotional diatribes, but instead a complex and passionate deconstructing of loss. Come Closer breathes a unique breath into a familiar theme of grief, taking us on a journey through pain and love.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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