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4/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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Patient and melancholic, paired with sumptuous visuals...del Toro's personal catharsis reverberates through every frame of Frankenstein. The master of misunderstood monsters has finally awakened something new in this timeless classic.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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At its core, this is an urgent story of overcoming generational miscommunication, listening, learning, and evolving, rejecting selfish stagnation and the necessity of upholding a revolutionary spirit in an age of dwindling freedoms.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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2/5
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Lilo & Stitch
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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Caught between some really bizarre changes and being too sacred about things that can change, Dean Fleischer Camp manages to squeeze in a few genuine moments of humanity, but they're few and far between.
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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4.5/5
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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A Phase One style character piece about finding fulfillment, embracing our demons, and the support system needed to save us from the pull of the void...a witty, mature, singular vision from Jake Schreier and, dare I say, top shelf Marvel!
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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5/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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Ryan Coogler's most passionate and soulful film to date! A (rock) operatic, IMAX-sized tale about the intersection of faith, community, heritage, exploitation, and freedom. Coogler celebrates artists across every medium as tethers to cultural identity.
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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4/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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The best action movie of the year!
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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4.5/5
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Anora
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Anora may be the clearest example of class solidarity put to film in recent years. A f----d up Cinderella story about the ways in which our capitalistic society regularly makes financial security and uninhibited self-expression mutually exclusive...
Posted Mar 09, 2025
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1.5/5
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Griffin Schiller
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A plot without something to say is directionless, and characters without a point of view are doomed to remain one-dimensional. The simple fact is, you can’t make a political thriller devoid of political commentary...
Posted Mar 09, 2025
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5/5
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The Wild Robot
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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The Wild Robot is a symphony of soul crescendoing into the most poignant portrait of parenthood. Its breathtaking animation and score are equaled only by how heartwrenching and touching it is. It’s an epic tale of love and acceptance.
Posted Nov 20, 2024
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4/5
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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A $200M anti-joke with one grand statement: some films shouldn't have sequels. Ironic? Sure. But what could be more Joker than taking a feature-length piss? The joke is on us.
Posted Oct 15, 2024
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4/5
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a ghoulish good time at the movies! A heartfelt yet zany sequel that reconnects Burton with his one true love, the macabre, through an introspective unpacking of grief, trauma, and purpose. A welcome return to form!
Posted Sep 23, 2024
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3/5
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Alien: Romulus
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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You have to wonder if simply going back to formula is enough. Being derivative isn't the problem - all art, all creation is derivative of something - the problem is when being derivative is your primary directive.
Posted Sep 01, 2024
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3.5/5
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Deadpool & Wolverine
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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For as much as Deadpool & Wolverine is a showcase for all Marvel’s new toys, it’s more than JUST that. It’s...a tribute to the franchise that launched the era of superhero films we’re still living through. And it’s that sincerity that saves the film.
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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4/5
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Twisters
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Twisters isn't just a fun time at the movies, it's the perfect summer movie!
Posted Aug 20, 2024
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4.5/5
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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George Miller has woven a modern-day epic and turned Furiosa into a folk hero to rival the legend that put him on the map as a filmmaker in the first place.
Posted Jul 12, 2024
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2.5/5
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Inside Out 2
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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[Anxiety] has its uses and, when channeled properly, can be a motivating factor, but it can't be the sole thing dictating your personhood. It's, therefore, ironic that Pixar's approach to Inside Out 2 should be so antithetical to the thesis of their film.
Posted Jun 28, 2024
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4/5
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The Imaginary
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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While Studio Ponoc gets spirited away with its unrefined Ghibli-esque musings, The Imaginary manages to do so with sincerity making for a much-needed reminder of the necessity of creativity during a time when things seem especially bleak.
Posted Jun 14, 2024
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4.5/5
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Apes have never been stronger in Wes Bell's magnificent Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes! The complexities of Caesar's legacy loom large but twisted in this coming-of-age odyssey of truth and lies, knowledge and power. A breathtaking visual feast!
Posted May 28, 2024
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3.5/5
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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This is the kind of Godzilla movie I dreamed of as a 10-year-old boy, brimming with imaginative set-pieces, vibrant sets, and bizarre creations… the kind of s--t that would inspire a kid to go home and play with their toys.
Posted May 13, 2024
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5/5
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Dune: Part Two
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Dune: Part Two is a generational film; the rare release that reaffirms why I believe in cinema.
Posted May 13, 2024
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4.5/5
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Civil War
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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Rather than the toothless mess of banal political equivocation that people suggested it would be based on little more than a trailer and some promotional material, Civil War is as incisive and biting as any political thriller released this century.
Posted May 13, 2024
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2/5
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Madame Web
(2024)
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Griffin Schiller
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There’s something almost cosmically funny about the fact that every ill-conceived boardroom mandate and desperate spider-milking mistake backfires in the most spectacular way imaginable.
Posted Mar 18, 2024
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4.5/5
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The Creator
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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Edwards excels at peeling black the layers of a cynical world, in order to reveal the little slices of humanity existing beneath the surface. Maybe, in coming to appreciate and understand what really matters, we'll be able to grow.
Posted Jan 18, 2024
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3.5/5
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Napoleon
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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You’re not going to have a complete picture of the events that comprised Napoleon’s life, but you might just have a better understanding of who the man was and why we’re still so fascinated by him over two centuries after his death.
Posted Dec 11, 2023
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1.5/5
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The Marvels
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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[The Marvels] feels like the finale to a season of television we never got, and perhaps a series would have given each of these characters the time they needed to fully explore each of their individual issues.
Posted Nov 24, 2023
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4/5
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Barbie
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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[Barbie] takes our complicated real-world relationship to Barbie and uses it as a metaphor to interrogate the impossibly high, often contradictory standards women are held to in our male-dominated culture.
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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2/5
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Five Nights at Freddy's
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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One of the most forgettable, half-a---d horror movies of the past few years. Five Nights at Freddy's isn't just an ambitious failure; it's a film that treads the water of familiar cliches for an hour and a half and then fizzles out.
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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3/5
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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The Exorcist: Believer asks us not to put our faith in any specific dogma but rather in people, in love, and in the fact that your neighbor is experiencing pain, and no matter what you believe, THAT is real.
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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5/5
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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We need films like this that move us to action, that cause us to contemplate our own role in the chain of things, our complacency which could be the evilest actions of all, and what we can do better.
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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5/5
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The Dark Knight Rises
(2012)
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Griffin Schiller
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The Dark Knight Rises presents itself as a deeply fascinating examination of Batman because it’s an examination and deconstruction of the previous two entries. A lot of the ideas present in The Dark Knight are deliberately flipped on their head here.
Posted Sep 21, 2023
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5/5
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Oppenheimer
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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[Christopher Nolan's] most stirring plea to humanity yet. A three-hour drama that plays like a terse thriller, weaving Nolan’s deep-seated fears for the survival of our species through a biography of one of its most significant and controversial figures.
Posted Sep 14, 2023
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4.5/5
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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Dial of Destiny manages to be the complete opposite — the rare legacy sequel content with simply saying goodbye. Telling a poignant story about our relationship with nostalgia and how attempts to cling to the past prevent us from living in the present.
Posted Sep 14, 2023
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4/5
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Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story
(2023)
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Griffin Schiller
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Neill embraces the fact that his movie is based on a game but also doesn’t limit himself to it. Gran Turismo is not ashamed of being a video game movie, and its very story is a celebration of the people who play the games.
Posted Sep 14, 2023
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