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A-
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A Private Life
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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In my notes scrawled at a Toronto International Film Festival screening last fall are the words "only murders in l’arrondissement." And this darkly funny thriller does indeed feel like a French version of the popular TV series.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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B
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Mercy
(2026)
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Thom Ernst
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A courtroom drama without the courtroom? A futuristic action film featuring precisely one flying vehicle? A cop drama told in semi-real time? Mercy is all of those things—and so much less.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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B
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The Well
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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The Well is a lesser entry in the Canadian post-apocalyptic sub-genre, but it features lovely dystopian production design and excellent performances, notably Sheila McCarthy playing against type as a quietly menacing despot.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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B-
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Honey Bunch
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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There is a point in the first act of Honey Bunch where mood alone suggests you might be watching something that will pay off. Unfortunately, that mood simply sets expectations too high.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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A-
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Kim Hughes
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This lovely film, which arrives with a sterling pedigree, remains faithful to its source material.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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A-
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Van Sant mines pre-Internet modern history for gold, with the tale of a 1977 kidnapping of mortgage company executive Richard Hall (Dacre Montgomery). With a great cast (led by Bill Skarsgård) and loads of ’70s music, it’s a helluva ride.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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B
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SHEEPDOG
(2025)
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Liz Braun
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Reminder: war is hell. And for veterans and viewers, Sheepdog packs an emotional wallop.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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B+
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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Karen Gordon
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Imogen Poots shines in Kristen Stewart’s impressive directorial debut, a film about a young girl who refuses to let trauma break her.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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B+
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Yunan
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Downbeat drama about an Arab writer in exile seeking to end his life on a remote island is raised above the conventional by charismatic German star, Hanna Schygulla, and the cinematography of Ronald Plante.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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A
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Schilinski’s film is a bravura example of the unapologetically enigmatic, visionary art film, in a gothic collage of young women’s repressed experiences set against the background of Germany’s brutal 20th century history.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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B+
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Jim Slotek
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In The Bone Temple, Fiennes' gonzo performance is the feature attraction. It’s not the only story to be told in this continuation of the tale of Spike (Alfie Williams). But without it, this film would be little more than a narrative place holder.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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B-
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Primate
(2025)
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Thom Ernst
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Despite my perhaps unreasonable expectations of chimp-centric emotional realism, Primate does deliver where it counts. When it commits to chaos, it does so with ferocity, confidence, and the occasional gasp-inducing surprise.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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B
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The Choral
(2025)
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Liz Braun
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Though a beautifully made film with a great cast and impeccable production credentials, The Choral, alas, is a bit dull.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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B
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Rosemead
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Though it features an intense lead performance from Lucy Liu, this dramatization of a real-life tragedy in a Los Angeles Asian American community offers neither remedy nor catharsis.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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A
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The Mother and the Bear
(2024)
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Chris Knight
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Writer-director Johnny Ma’s quirky rom-com offers strong writing, solid characters, and a touch of Winnipeg weirdness. When a young Korean immigrant falls ill, her mom arrives to look after her, and maybe catfish her a husband.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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A-
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The Plague
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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The Plague is what remains if you strip most of the actual horror out of a horror movie, but keep the fear. A water polo summer camp turns into Lord of the Flies as tween boys jockey for social standing. Eerie and terrifying.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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B+
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DJ Ahmet
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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In the coming-of-age sub-genre of youthful rebellion and forbidden love, DJ Ahmet from Macedonian writer/director Georgi M. Unkovski is about as mild as they come. But that doesn’t diminish its crowd-pleasing pleasures.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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B
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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John Kirk
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Something of a thinking person’s zombie story, We Buy the Dead breaks a bunch of movie-zombie paradigms and is all the better for it.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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A
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Karen Gordon
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Credit Chalamet for playing a character this loud and fast-moving, and yet giving us a bigger picture. He's not softening Marty to win us over. Those quick moments, where we see what else is in him, give him dimension. Suddenly he’s worth rooting for.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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B+
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Anaconda
(2025)
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John Kirk
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Anaconda is a laugh and a half, though there’s also a meta level of appreciation that must be embraced for the gag to work. Make sure you stay for the credits, as it’s a film that clearly doesn’t want the jokes to end.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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A
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No Other Choice
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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That the tale has remained fresh 30 years post-novel suggests how entrenched is the notion that all jobs are in peril from the moment you’re hired. Well shot and acted, No Other Choice is both absurd and believable. But its social relevance remains.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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A
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Intentionally emotionally distressing and ethically complicated, director Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful hybrid documentary-drama places us in the position of aid workers struggling to save a five-year-old Palestinian child in her last hours of life.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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B+
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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Alternately fun and tear-jerking tale of a real-life married team of Neil Diamond "interpreters." It is pure schmaltz - actually the best schmaltz - oddly perfect for a Christmas release, marked by terrific performances by Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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B-
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Clairtone
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Ron Mann’s sometimes playful pop culture story of the 1960s Canadian-made stereo console is constrained by a single perspective and weighed down by a complicated political business story.
Posted Dec 20, 2025
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B+
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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There is little to be learned in the film about what makes a successful marriage, any more than there is about why people lay themselves bare on a stage seeking laughs. That may be the best thing about Is This Thing On? It retains its mystery.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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A
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Breakdown: 1975
(2025)
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Karen Gordon
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Morgan Neville excellent documentary looks at how movies reflected a fractured America in 1975.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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A
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Code 3
(2025)
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John Kirk
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Wilson’s performance is thoughtful and moving. He shines when playing socially awkward characters, but in this case, his misanthropy isn’t comedic, but pitiable. Really – you just want to see Randy win one.
Posted Dec 17, 2025
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B
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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They’re kind of rare occasions, given that they were released in 2009, 2022 and 2025. And with so much "stuff" to remember from the last time around, they really should take a cue from TV procedurals and announce, "Previously, on Avatar…"
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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A
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Cover-Up
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Laura Poitras’s compelling and personally revealing film takes us into the world of legendary investigative journalist, Seymour Hirsch, who has exposed state crimes for more than half a century.
Posted Dec 13, 2025
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C+
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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There are so many characters at play in this forced upbeat effort, the only constant is the young overachieving title character. Every other character has one job, to support her or not. It’s a first-rate cast of actors, all of whom try very hard.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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A-
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Resurrection
(2025)
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Alice Shih
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Director Bi Gan’s latest, which garnered a Special Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is as abstract and ambiguous as a Cubist painting yet is deeply rooted in Buddhist teaching.
Posted Dec 11, 2025
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B
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One More Shot
(2025)
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John Kirk
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It's a film that’s quirky and the characters can be charming, but its premise deserved a funnier payoff instead of Minnie's predictable personal growth via time-travel.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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A
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Thom Ernst
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What rescues Wake Up Dead Man from being buried beneath its own mystery-comedy tropes is Johnson's willingness to parade those tropes like familiar suspects—letting us recognize them before he bends them somewhere unexpected.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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C+
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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The studios' lesson: Stop trying to make video game film adaptations that appeal to a general audience. A giant in-joke of a movie can pay off bigtime. For the rest of us, it’s best to sit back and watch cute faced robots crush people’s heads
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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A-
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Merrily We Roll Along
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Though a Broadway flop in 1981, Sondheim’s musical has since gained a following and was a hit in a 2024 production, which has now been filmed for the screen. Choppy editing and a noisy audience can’t detract from great songs as delivered by a great cast.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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A
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 70s-set Brazilian thriller, starring Wagner Moura, sets the high bar for visual panache and a digressive plot that combines political insight and absurdity.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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C-
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Eternity
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Eternity feels like a ghostly version of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. Newly deceased Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) must choose her long-time second husband (Miles Teller) or her long-dead first (Callum Turner). Clever conceit, bungled in delivery.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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A-
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Jim Slotek
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It may occasionally hit you over the head with the Bard (who is much less a presence in the novel). Still, Hamnet is a sensitively told, beautifully realized pastoral tale, driven by Buckley’s magnetism in the lead.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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A-
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
(2025)
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Thom Ernst
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If John Wick is a ballet of ultra-violent choreography, then Sisu: Road to Revenge is its bad-ass country cousin: a full-contact square dance where, yes, you swing your partner, but off the top of a speeding train, headfirst into a tree.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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B+
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Karen Gordon
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A sensitive performance by Brendan Fraser anchors a sentimental movie about loneliness, connection, and finding purpose, while acting out therapeutic roles for real people in Japan.
Posted Nov 20, 2025
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A-
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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The sequel to last year’s Wicked was worth the 364-day wait. Glinda and Elphaba continue their separate paths, each with an unrequited or mismatched love. Darker and a little shorter than part one, it’s still a fitting conclusion to the tale.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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B-
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Kim Hughes
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Not funny enough to be a biting satire on the absurdity of Hollywood or absorbing enough to be a portrait of regrettable spiritual emptiness, Jay Kelly feels oddly flabby.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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B-
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Thom Ernst
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The Running Man arrives as a surprise — not unwelcome, just surprisingly stilted for a director who usually spikes his films with mischief. Wright’s fidelity to King borders on reverent, as though the author is standing over his shoulder with a red pen.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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A
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Karen Gordon
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As in his previous film, the Oscar nominated The Worst Person In The World, Sentimental Value is at times melancholy, but it’s not melodramatic or tragic. Trier doesn’t manipulate us for dramatic value. There’s a real craft in the way he tells stories.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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B
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After All
(2025)
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Liz Braun
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A compelling coming-of-age story for just about everyone involved, After All shows that while being together as a family can be therapeutic, the ties that bind sometimes work like a tourniquet.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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A-
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Measures for a Funeral
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Part ghost story, part history lesson, Bohdanowicz's film takes the bones of mid-century violin virtuoso Kathleen Parlow and wraps them in the modern story of a music researcher trying to track down a lost concerto. The result is triumphant and elegiac.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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C+
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Liz Braun
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The ponderous storytelling is such that you’re always aware you’re watching a movie, set in that olde-timey past underlined by exploding flashbulbs and fake archival black and white footage with overwrought music.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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A
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
(2025)
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Liam Lacey
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The film about photographer Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza a week after a film about her was accepted at the Cannes film festival, is a dark, unique document that sits somewhere between hope and bitter grief.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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A-
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Chris Knight
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Clint Bentley has created a lyrical, humanist and quietly devastating story, based on the novel Train Dreams. Little happens, but also everything happens, creating a journey worth taking for its keening moments of grief and simple wisps of joy.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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C+
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Liz Braun
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Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) directs Jennifer Lawrence. That should be enough to make any film fan happy. Hard to explain, then, why Die My Love, starring Lawrence as a young mother slipping into postpartum madness, is such a slog.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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