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Cinapse is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dan Tabor, Ed Travis, Julian Singleton, Matthew Jackson, Mel Valentin.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Ghost in the Machine (2026) Dan Tabor Writer, director, and producer Valerie Veatch takes a subject that feels completely mined of fresh insight and reveals the terrifying ideology at its core.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Take Me Home (2026) Dan Tabor By centering love instead of limitation, Take Me Home is a quietly devastating reminder of those who society leaves behind—and who still manage to keep going anyway.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Killer Whale (2026) Dan Tabor Killer Whale is a solid slice of genre filmmaking that works not only on a visceral level but an emotional one as well. It understands the hallmarks and tropes of the creature feature and delivers on their promises while offering up fresh melodrama
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Dan Tabor DaCosta delivers a gnarly, ultra-violent sequel packed with scares and substance, cementing her status as one of horror’s most vital voices working today.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
About a Place in the Kinki Region (2025) Julian Singleton Dense with cosmic and emotional horrors lurking at the edges of the frame, Kinki pairs Shiraishi’s signature found-footage frights with confident traditional narrative filmmaking, revealing a bolder formal and thematic ambition than ever before.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Dan Tabor As a fan of the series, I couldn’t have asked for anything more for Christmas. Mike P. Nelson leans into the ridiculousness of the concept of these films, offering up something that plays by the same rules yet has something more complex to say.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Julian Singleton It’s a riveting, reflective parable about trust in human goodness–and our universal potential to be better than the environments and emotions that threaten to limit our progress.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Ed Travis I adore everything about The Abyss from top to bottom.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Dan Tabor (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) deliver a film that feels like a 90-minute Bond opening sequence — filled with the requisite eroticism and arresting visuals – paired with a narrative as loaded as a pair of headlight-mounted machine guns.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Dan Tabor Guillermo del Toro has added yet another iconic monster to his cinematic curio cabinet and once again proved he is one of the most singular auteurs working today in horror.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Demon Lover Diary (1980) Dan Tabor Demon Lover Diary is a masterclass of what NOT to do in filmmaking, and a scathing and anxiety-inducing snapshot of a troubled production that proves reality is sometimes better than fiction.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Dead Giveaway (2025) Dan Tabor It’s a hilarious and bawdy good time, that surprisingly got some gore as well.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Dan Tabor The Testament of Ann Lee manages to not only show how this offshoot of the Quaker religion found its footing in America, but also work as this poignant story of one woman’s struggle with her faith.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Dan Tabor While you have this awards caliber performance from Sydney Sweeney – that you would expect, the narrative around her falls short of living up to her moving and transformative take.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Queens of the Dead (2025) Julian Singleton Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead riotously fuses sharp scares, biting social commentary, and a joyfully silly sense of humor.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) Dan Tabor New director Tatsuya Yoshihara has cracked Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga delivering his own animated masterwork that explodes on screen.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Julian Singleton By honoring not just the iconic spectacle but the aching original thematic substance of Shelley’s text, Guillermo Del Toro reverently crafts the best Frankenstein adaptation to date.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Dan Tabor This is easily Johnson’s best Knives Out film yet. It’s not just a great whodunnit, but he’s able to pair the mystery you’d expect, with a deeply introspective and personal look at faith which couldn’t have been easy.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Nightmare Alley (2021) Julian Singleton [Del Toro's] reverence for noir—and the fading idealism flickering beneath its suffocating shadow—is what makes Nightmare Alley such a bewitching experience.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Matthew Jackson Bone Lake is a wonderfully contained, ornate little thriller, and a blast to watch.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Bone Lake (2024) Dan Tabor Along with the sex and violence, you’d expect, surprisingly there’s a rather intimate look at a couple who’s having some very real and relatable issues.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Curse (2025) Julian Singleton If Pulse and Ring feared technology’s doorway to the unknown, The Curse fixates on how networked life leaves us exposed to the casual malice of complete strangers–and how the average person can be even more horrifying compared to any yurei of yore.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Luger (2025) Julian Singleton Powered by the irresistible bromance of David Sainz and Mario Mayo alongside Bruno Martín’s insightful eye for comedy, chaos, and social critique, Luger is a fast, ferocious caper that tackles weighty topics without ever losing its stylish swagger.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Body Blow (2025) Julian Singleton Body Blow is a feverish, full-body genre grind, provocatively twisting beloved tropes of action thriller cinema to unabashedly hilarious and unashamedly erotic ends.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Holy Boy (2025) Julian Singleton Paolo Strippoli’s third feature may be as visually sparse as the tiny village that cages the film’s narrative, but The Holy Boy remains an emotionally potent and deeply unsettling work of folk horror.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Dildo Heaven (2002) Dan Tabor While the performances are what you’d expect from the sub-genre, without getting too egregious, the narrative works for the most part – and the camp on top is the spoon full of sugar that makes this quirky little oddity as fun as it is.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Dan Tabor Obsession is easily going to be horror fans’ next obsession. It’s got not only an air tight script with some amazing lore embedded within its narrative, but it’s got some truly nuanced performances bringing it to life.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Dolly (2025) Dan Tabor Dolly is a garishly good little slasher that leans into nostalgia and its inspiration just enough, without getting lost in the sauce, which these throwbacks tend to fall victim to.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Dan Tabor Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a surreal cyberpunk masterwork that actually did its homework and isn’t afraid to dig into the more controversial symptoms and consequences of our actions as a society.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Fuck My Son! (2025) Dan Tabor The loose narrative is more or less a delivery device for this audio/visual declaration of free speech and war on “Good Taste”, that feels like what watching Pink Flamingos in the 1970s probably felt like.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025) Julian Singleton Grayson Manor [is] a gleefully gory crowd-pleaser that deserves to be as much a Pride Month ritual as a late-night horror favorite.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Ikatan Darah (2025) Ed Travis Action fans will find gnarly, well-captured melee action in Ikatan Darah, so it’s worth seeking out!
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Ed Travis Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a 2 hour, 40 minute work of art in One Battle After Another that lays bare many current failures of the United States Of America while also compelling with a heart pounding and personal narrative.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
CAMP (2025) Dan Tabor CAMP is a breathtakingly surreal indie oddity that works either way – as a Craft-inspired witch film or something much deeper and introspective with its moving meditation on faith and loss – and that’s what’s so great about it.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Forbidden City (2025) Ed Travis Nothing prepared me for [this] singular cinematic experience.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ice Tower (2025) Dan Tabor Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s The Ice Tower (which just screened at Fantastic Fest and will open theatrically October 2nd) is a dense coming of age tale that is impressive visually as it is narratively with its multi-layered approach.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Megadoc (2025) Dan Tabor I still have so many questions and I would probably watch a four hour version of this doc if it was offered up. Just because how painfully honest it can be at times to the detriment of almost everyone involved.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Deathstalker (2025) Ed Travis If this kind of genuine love letter to action, fantasy, and metal can still be made, maybe there’s still hope that Abraxeon can be saved.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
High and Low (1963) Ed Travis The master not only spins a damning portrait of the Japan he saw immediately around him, but also reflected on societal highs and lows that remain profoundly, tragically relevant today.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Darkman (1990) Ed Travis Raimi’s writing and direction brim with self-awareness and energy.
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Ne Zha II (2025) Dan Tabor While Ne Zha 1 was a milestone in Chinese animation for both story and style, Ne Zha 2 takes everything that worked about that first film and multiplied it by a hundred elevating it while crafting an animated masterpiece.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Désolé, Pardon, Je m'excuse (2025) Dan Tabor Désolé, Pardon, Je m’excuse is the most f***** up, feel good movie you will ever see.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Nobody 2 (2025) Mel Valentin Nobody 2 brings Bob Odenkirk's death-dealing assassin [and company] back for another satisfying go-round.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Red Sonja (2025) Ed Travis M.J. Bassett’s Red Sonja kicks unholy amounts of ass, and ranks among the very best action films of 2025
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Weapons (2025) Julian Singleton Cregger’s masterful Weapons needles a universal neurosis: no matter how well we think we’re protected, or how capable we believe we are as protectors, something in the deep, dark unknown is just as ready to prove us wrong.
Posted Aug 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Mel Valentin Weapons never fails to deliver the dread, shocks, and cathartic violence promised by its inescapably compelling premise and Cregger’s precise control over the final onscreen results.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Lucid (2025) Dan Tabor Simply stated: Lucid is a phantasmagorical 90’s banger, whose period setting isn’t simply a nostalgic crutch, but instead an actual device to tell an intriguing story of its time.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Sugar Rot (2024) Dan Tabor SUGAR ROT is a Punk Rock Feminist Body Horror Masterwork
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Dan Tabor Weapons is probably one of the most powerful narratives about school violence, that is not explicitly about a school shooting, but focusing solely on the aftermath on its victims in a horror setting to avoid controversy.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Dan Tabor As far as Zombie films go, I would put Dan O’Bannon’s terrifying undead masterwork The Return of the Living Dead right up there with Romero’s Trilogy.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
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