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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Fing! (2026) Pete Hammond Director Jeffrey Walker oversees a first-rate production that has created a lushly appointed fantastical world come alive on the screen, and that includes the visual effects puppetry magic in producing the Fing himself.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Weight (2026) Pete Hammond This proves to be the gritty kind of story that is perfect for a revival, and it also marks yet another high point in the career of Ethan Hawke.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Chasing Summer (2026) Glenn Garner For anyone who escaped a small town, there’s plenty to relate to in this messy dramedy, driven by nostalgia and the emotional weight of going home.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Run Amok (2026) Pete Hammond Give credit to debuting feature filmmaker NB Mager for a bold idea and a teen-driven movie that could spark the right kind of conversation.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Pete Hammond Send Help is the first movie gem of 2026, a devilish treat and welcome respite from the real world. It’s a pleasure.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Pete Hammond Both stars are in their sweet spot with this material and manage to handle not just the huge action quotient here, but also make it believable that in the end Johnny and James are just family, hale and hearty.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Glenn Garner Although this movie is not going to win any awards or be studied in elite liberal arts colleges, it has the kind of comedic power that ends up becoming a mindless comfort watch for generations to come.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Frank & Louis (2026) Damon Wise Themes of guilt, punishment and redemption are common currency in prison dramas, but Petra Volpe’s terrific Frank & Louis looks at the issue from entirely unexpected and wholly moving perspective.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Glenn Garner Dedicated to Diane Keaton, The Invite would likely make the late star proud, echoing the neurotic nature of love and relationships, which the beloved writer, director and actress captured so timelessly in films like Annie Hall and Something’s Gotta Give.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shitheads (2026) Damon Wise Dumb and Dumber meets Midnight Run better reflects the premise; despite the abrasive, sweary title, The Sh*theads is actually a really rather endearing buddy movie.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gallerist (2026) Damon Wise The film struggles to fill less than 90 minutes. It is, however, fun while it lasts, and the female-skewed script gives food for thought about the male dominance of the art space while making serious points about value and self-worth.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Pete Hammond It is creepy as hell, but it lives in reality and travels in soundscapes that even manages to tell us more with our eyes closed rather than open.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Damon Wise [Gregg Araki is] cinema’s punk poet laureate of Generation X... [I Want Your Sex] is his outreach to Generation Z, a campy, ridiculous, raunchy comedy that riffs on the age gap, and wonderful odd-couple chemistry, between his two leads.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Glenn Garner What fans got instead of the oversaturated music doc genre the film so deliciously satirizes, is a spiritual sequel to Spice World (1997) as a psychological thriller, and I don’t think any of them will complain.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Josephine (2026) Pete Hammond I can only hope that the writer and director of Josephine finds a meaningful reception to her film and some comfort in knowing it might help others just like her.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Incomer (2026) Damon Wise We wonder how writer-director Louis Paxton, making his feature debut, will emerge from the corner that he’s painted himself into. Against the odds, though, and largely thanks to the core trio, The Incomer pulls together.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Buddy (2026) Damon Wise Kelly plays with form in ways that some might find exasperating, but there is always a method to his madness and, like Too Many Cooks, Buddy goes out on a psychedelic high, like an extraordinary experiment in mind control.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Saccharine (2026) Glenn Garner Albeit about 30 minutes too long, Saccharine poses the question of whether the shortcuts are worth the results, a valid query in the Ozempic era. But perhaps slimming the film down by a few scenes wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Glenn Garner A beautifully relatable story of life, love and loss with some Fosse-quality dance numbers and just the right amount of whimsy.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Carousel (2026) Pete Hammond It is about second chances, but also the complexity of denying Thomas Wolfe’s dictum that “you can’t go home again.” And let me tell you that Lambert’s simple shot from the heart doesn’t provide easy answers or Hallmark sincerity.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Pete Hammond All the technical production elements are first-rate, and I guarantee this one will have you on the edge of your seat in its compact running time.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Pete Hammond The Rip becomes a classic who done it, or who is doing it, or who thinks who is doing it, and it all unravels at dizzyingly violent speed with plenty of shoot-outs to entertain you if you can’t keep this all straight.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Damon Wise Key to this is Fiennes’ commando performance, a tour de force with so few f---s given that the film’s astonishing, electrifying climax could put him back into the awards conversation.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Pete Hammond The message is strong for a real world that is increasingly unhinged in so many ways. Right now this nightmare may be only a movie, but who knows?
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Dessi Gomez As the first adaptation of a Henry novel (there are four more in the works) to cross the finish line, People We Meet on Vacation sets the bar high for future projects, visually, sonically and via its star-studded cast.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Pete Hammond This horror mashup looks more like an indie-level attempt to take an exploitable idea and run it into the ground with one novel way after another to chop up a teenage cast.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
All the Walls Came Down (2025) Damon Wise A meditation on loss that dares you to put yourself in Timoner’s place and imagine the unimaginable. So, what would you do? No two viewers will react the same, nor should they.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Pete Hammond It is probably too much hyperbole to call Sony’s Anaconda the funniest movie of the year, but for my money it really is.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Pete Hammond This is the kind of movie where everyone seems to have a secret, a past, a problem. It sails over the top on purpose and it undoubtedly is, for me at least, the guilty pleasure of the season.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Pete Hammond With truly dazzling production elements all around this is a movie hard to resist, even if you think you have already seem what wonders Cameron has in store for this franchise.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Pete Hammond If you are looking for an unexpected spiritual lift this season from a film revolving around imminent death, this one is quite a gift.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Pete Hammond For a viewer this is better than front row, better than house seats, because we are on stage with them. Even if you have seen this show as many times as I have, you have never seen it like this.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Fackham Hall (2025) Pete Hammond Rather than just throw everything at the wall to see what sticks, this one also is smart enough to craft an actual story you can follow that has some credibility all on its own plus a love story at its center.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Pete Hammond A Christmas movie that on the one hand is damned lucky to have lured the great Michelle Pfeiffer to be its star, but on the other hand loses the magic of the season by some truly credibility-challenging plotting decisions in its second half.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Pete Hammond Perhaps the real acting find here is O’Leary, the bad guy shark from Shark Tank who is one of many non-acting finds Safdie likes to pepper his casts with. He is right on the money and perfection as a businessman who could be Marty’s angel.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Dessi Gomez Hilarious nods to Disney animation films like Ratatouille and the return of favorite faces -- like Shakira’s Gazelle with a catchy new tune “Zoo” -- from the first film bring humor and fun to a story of justice and embracing differences.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Pete Hammond The visual effects are first rate. So is this whole splendidly realized and cinematic musical adaptation which if you add up the running times of both films comes in just two minutes shy of 5(!) hours. To be honest I wanted more.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Pete Hammond The results might not fully please devotees of either genre, but at least it’s different.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Damon Wise Paul Verhoeven would have been a much better fit [to direct the original The Running Man], and with this impressively muscular reboot one senses that Edgar Wright thinks so too.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Glenn Garner The movie still includes plenty of exciting action sequences and fun magic tricks.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Damon Wise A disarmingly human film about who we are, how we get to where we are, and how we survive. It’s lovely. It’s one from the heart.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
In Your Dreams (2025) Pete Hammond If you come in hoping for the kind of innovative films Pixar has regularly turned out you will be disappointed. If you are instead looking for something to keep the kids amused for an hour and a half, this visually dreamy concoction is just the ticket.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Damon Wise The action scenes never seem to galvanize, and somewhere along the line the predator, once a ruthless, unstoppable killing machine, has simply lost its menacing mojo. It all seems a bit, well, silly.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Boorman and the Devil (2025) Pete Hammond Not only is this docu entertaining, it is also a great primer on the film business, then and now, and is easily one of the best movies about the making -- and unmaking -- of a movie I have ever seen.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Pete Hammond Lane is still one of the most talented actors out there and carries this off in style. Chandler is well-matched here as well.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Pete Hammond Jackman, complete with Diamond-style hair, is as good as he has ever been playing a complicated guy who finds his groove in the music of an iconic singer.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) Pete Hammond ...[Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost] resonates on a level where we get to see a loving family that might not be that far from yours or mine, even under the bright lights of show business.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Damon Wise The film’s flaws are pretty much all front-loaded into the almost aggressively twee prologue, and if you can handle that, the rest of the film should be plain sailing.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Regretting You (2025) Damon Wise Regretting You is a tribute to the transportational properties of cinema; for two very long hours you’ll be wondering what year it is, where you are, and what the hell you’re doing there.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Phone 2 (2025) Pete Hammond A pretty compelling psychological horror picture that is a step above most sequels of this type that just want to cash in on what we saw the first time.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
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