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My Bloody Valentine (1981) Linda Gross "My Bloody Valentine" relies heavily on gruesome cerebral associations, shabby special effects and too many characters without sufficient characterizations.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Sergio Burstein Interesting thing about the third film by Palestinian-American Cherien Dabis is not its militant aspect or the division it may make between 'bad' and 'good', but the profoundly humanistic turn that occurs near the end. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Sergio Burstein Both true film buffs and admirers of García Bernal should know that this is an absolutely outstanding work, brilliantly filmed and eminently contemplative. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Sergio Burstein Clearly demonstrates that, under the right conditions, [Roberts] is fully capable of delivering an unquestionably solid entertainment product whose lack of pretension, even in terms of staging, is to some extent refreshing. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Peter Rainer What keeps the film from being a morbid, claustrophobic bummer is Annie's rapid-fire waverings between peachy-keen normality and terror.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Robert Abele It also leaves one realizing that “A Private Life,” despite the commanding leading lady holding its center, is a bit mixed up by design.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Tim Grierson Despite their clear affection for these women, the Dardenne brothers never sugarcoat their characters’ unenviable circumstance or latch onto phony bromides to alleviate our anxiety. And yet “Young Mothers” contains its share of sweetness and light.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Robert Lloyd “Obex” also reminds us that the power to be positively emboldened by tech — rather than imprisoned by it — always will be in humans’ hands, so long as we remember that we always can unplug.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Edwin Schallert It's more than simply a thriller. It has a sociological and philosophic side, besides being vastly interesting and exciting.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Charles Champlin "Bite the Bullet" becomes a handsomely crafted original and restorative experience, a rousing ride.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Amy Nicholson Gruesomely both low and highbrow, it’s the movie equivalent of Jell-O wrestling an anthropology professor at Burning Man, which may have been the inspiration of one of its standout characters, Ralph Fiennes’ spry and mesmerizing Dr. Ian Kelson
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Charles Stinson ...Roberts and Sturges have made this film genuinely magnificent - a western to rank along with "Shane," "High Noon," "Stage Coach" and the very finest of the genre ever made.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Philip K. Scheuer ...[The film is] likely to frighten, thrill and perplex most moviegoers, not necessarily in that order.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Jon Matsumoto What keeps Gaslight burning is its tantalizing aura of mystery.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Thomas Sabulis It's a familiar story, but rarely has it been done in the direct, uncluttered manner director Rob Reiner does it -- with dignity, unpretentiousness, and old-fashioned respect for a good yarn.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) LA Times Staff Gaslight offers Boyer in an entirely different role and gives Miss Bergman her most emotional and varied characterization yet.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Tim Grierson All That’s Left of You readies the audience for tears by the final reel, but Dabis’ narrative twist pushes the film into a movie-ish unreality that conveniently ties a bow on the script’s pondering of the value of choosing love over hate.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Robert Abele What obviously matters to Stewart is the totality of experience and “The Chronology of Water,” arty and naturalistic in equal measure, is no toe-dip into directing — it’s deep-end stuff from start to finish.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Amy Nicholson One chimpanzee with a typewriter could pound out the script for "Primate" in an hour.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Philip K. Scheuer Carroll's humor turns out once again to be more audible than visual and better printed than either. The most Disney can do is to illustrate it like a 20th-century Tenniel and this he had done effectively and with the license permissible to an illustrator.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Amy Nicholson Skarsgård plays the role somewhere between a soapbox preacher and a "Scooby-Doo" episode that imagines Shaggy unmasking a money-grubbing bad guy and threatening to beat him to death.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Kevin Thomas Lots of films have sweetness and humor, but The Sure Thing also has smarts.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Tim Grierson For all its dark comedy, the movie is most cutting when it moves away from the big set pieces and, instead, examines the small ways that employees lose their humanity to a capitalist system that’s out to destroy them.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Sergio Burstein It is a film that expertly tackles the inherent risks of its plot to deliver a film as full of irreverence and sensuality as it is of artistic sensitivity. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Sergio Burstein The work maintains coherence, offers novel twists and, of course, is full of great gory moments. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Dust Bunny (2025) Sergio Burstein A particularly pleasant surprise given how unexpected it is. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Edwin Schallert "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" is stunningly acted.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Mark Chalon Smith On purely critical terms, the Anatole Litvak-directed movie is a potboiler, a melodrama thick with message. Still, it’s straight-ahead storytelling and a coiled, hard-eyed performance by Robinson hold viewers’ interest.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Tim Grierson In “Father Mother Sister Brother,” family can be hell, but the only thing worse is when they’re no longer with us.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Amy Nicholson You won’t see a movie with better music and worse dialogue this holiday season than the bizarrely charming "Song Sung Blue"
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Amy Nicholson When you weigh his selfish desires against any other character’s needs, Marty is as hollow as a ping pong ball. It really is all about his balls. Their embossing reads: "Marty Supreme — Made in America."
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Robert Abele What is being presented instead is a remembrance and a plea to keep the fires of moral urgency lighted.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Robert Abele The highs and lows of marriage aren’t merely a punch line in “Is This Thing On?” — and that’s good.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Kevin Thomas All told this is a fine little action picture with big ideas.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Kevin Thomas "Christine" is a visual triumph, a wonder of skillful cinematic construction and expression.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Amy Nicholson What really feels like Cameron’s daredevil creative risk is his insistence on treating the impossible like it’s mundane, like the sight of all 9-foot-5 inches of Quaritch casually chilling out in a hoodie
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Robert Abele Most assuredly, though, this is a duo of director and star once more moving in concert together, maybe not as confidently as with some previous efforts, but with a knowing intelligence.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Man Finds Tape (2025) Sergio Burstein Instead of using found footage as an excuse for a lack of financial and technical resources, Gandersman and Hall take pains to justify the existence of such shots, which are often inexplicable in the subgenre, while developing a decidedly unsettling plot.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
31 Candles (2025) Sergio Burstein The director and actor himself also demonstrates that getting behind and in front of the camera was not an act of vanity, but a completely correct decision in view of how likeable he is on-screen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Sergio Burstein The main problem with "FNAF 2" is the insistence on maintaining the PG-13 rating, when the scenes of violence (healthily increased in this installment) cry out for the use of 'gore' that is completely absent. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Sergio Burstein Superbly filmed, and also works as a heartfelt tribute to the cinema with which Mendonça Filho grew up. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Sheila Benson The movie becomes mired in plot and the fun wind downs. The writers don't investigate the circus milieus with the unflagging inventiveness they tackled the farm setting. You find yourself willing the material to charm you as much as it did in the opening.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Michael Wilmington This is Cameron's best movie, alternating hellacious thrills with racy humor, unbuttoned sentimentality and a blissed-out fantasy epiphany.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Kenneth Turan Perhaps Cameron, whose earlier films were noted for their strong women, simply lost his bearings in this new genre and miscalculated his effects, but the results are not pleasant to watch.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Gary Goldstein A laughably cheesy, empty-headed follow-up that makes the mediocre prior film shine in comparison.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Tim Grierson If Mendonça Filho overstuffs his accomplished picture, it’s a fitting rebuke to a violent regime that would have tried to tamp down his voice. He finds a worthy partner in Moura...
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Robert Abele Shackleton’s perspective is still an intriguing, worthy provocation regarding our cultural bloodlust.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Robert Abele There are lessons to be learned from the modest goals of this “Merrily We Roll Along”: to bring a movie audience to the life of the stage and, in so doing, to those thorny stages of life.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) Patrick Goldstein From beginning to end, "Broad Street" is little more than an idle pop star's daydream, with McCartney playing the character we know all too much about -- himself.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Patrick Goldstein This ominous fantasy will prick up your ears -- it has the unsettling air of a scare story that doesn't just send a shiver down your spine, but deftly collides with your imagination.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
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