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'Bring Her Back' Review: An Unnerving Thrill Ride That You Can't Look Away From
Arjun Persaud
May 28, 2025
'Bring Her Back' Review: An Unnerving Thrill Ride That You Can't Look Away From
Arjun Persaud
May 28, 2025

Unsettling and emotionally effective all the same, ‘Bring Her Back’ is a very solid horror-thriller, which has no shortage of stunning emotional beats and set-pieces, merging together into one of the year’s finest so far.

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Arjun Persaud
May 28, 2025
'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' Review: A Mostly Thrilling Final Mission
Tom Chatalbash
May 14, 2025
'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' Review: A Mostly Thrilling Final Mission
Tom Chatalbash
May 14, 2025

Tom Cruise embarks to complete his most challenging mission yet in ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’, the seemingly final installment in the long-running, beloved franchise that packs plenty of emotional and visceral punch for the action-hungry fans of the series. Here's our review:

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Tom Chatalbash
May 14, 2025
'Fight or Flight' Review: Josh Hartnett Keeps Plane Thriller Just Above Ground
Lane Mills
May 9, 2025
'Fight or Flight' Review: Josh Hartnett Keeps Plane Thriller Just Above Ground
Lane Mills
May 9, 2025

Josh Hartnett fueled widespread conversation last year with his performance in the M. Night Shyamalan thriller ‘Trap’. So, following a polarizing performance such as that one, what is an actor to do next? Star in the B-movie action thriller ‘Fight or Flight’ and dye your hair blonde.

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Lane Mills
May 9, 2025
‘Friendship’ Review: A Cringe Comedy Masterpiece
Maxance Vincent
May 9, 2025
‘Friendship’ Review: A Cringe Comedy Masterpiece
Maxance Vincent
May 9, 2025

Bolstered by Tim Robinson's amazing talent, Andrew DeYoung’s ‘Friendship’ is designed to make audiences as uncomfortable as possible during sequences of massive embarrassment that are as aesthetically thrilling as they are painfully hilarious.

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Maxance Vincent
May 9, 2025
'Clown in a Cornfield' Review: Irrelevant Reverence is the Saddest Form of Flattery
Lane Mills
May 9, 2025
'Clown in a Cornfield' Review: Irrelevant Reverence is the Saddest Form of Flattery
Lane Mills
May 9, 2025

All we have to say about ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ is keep the clowns away. They’re always going to be scary - whether they haunt or nightmares or they’re simply a poor suggestion on your playlist.

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Lane Mills
May 9, 2025
‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: A Deliciously Fun Time
Maxance Vincent
May 2, 2025
‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: A Deliciously Fun Time
Maxance Vincent
May 2, 2025

Thanks to the effervescent chemistry from Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, alongside a story that knows it shouldn’t take itself too seriously, Paul Feig makes his first good movie since ‘A Simple Favor’ with the sequel ‘Another Simple Favor’.

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Maxance Vincent
May 2, 2025
'Thunderbolts*' Review: Marvel’s Thundering, Purposeful Return Top Blockbuster Form
Arjun Persaud
May 1, 2025
'Thunderbolts*' Review: Marvel’s Thundering, Purposeful Return Top Blockbuster Form
Arjun Persaud
May 1, 2025

The MCU recipe goes back to a more organic flavor in ‘The Thunderbolts’, making for their strongest film in years.

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Arjun Persaud
May 1, 2025
'The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A Children’s Film with Zero Imagination
Maxance Vincent
Apr 30, 2025
'The Legend of Ochi’ Review: A Children’s Film with Zero Imagination
Maxance Vincent
Apr 30, 2025

While no one can deny the intricate puppetry of ‘The Legend of Ochi’, Isaiah Saxon’s directorial debut is a frequently grating, listless carbon copy of better, more poignant family adventures, without any personal voice behind the images that the director unabashedly steals from.

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Maxance Vincent
Apr 30, 2025
‘On Swift Horses’ Review: A Star-Studded, Stultifying Drama
Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025
‘On Swift Horses’ Review: A Star-Studded, Stultifying Drama
Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025

While ‘On Swift Horses’ boasts compelling performances from its star-studded cast, the film’s lack of identity makes it difficult for audiences to latch onto its story and thematic underpinnings.

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Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025
‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Semi-Entertaining Wasted Opportunity
Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025
‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Semi-Entertaining Wasted Opportunity
Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025

While Amalia Ulman’s dexterity and strong cast practically save ‘Magic Farm’ from being a total disaster, the movie still leaves some areas to be desired.

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Maxance Vincent
Apr 25, 2025
'Until Dawn' Review: Another Subpar Sony Pictures Affair
Lane Mills
Apr 25, 2025
'Until Dawn' Review: Another Subpar Sony Pictures Affair
Lane Mills
Apr 25, 2025

For the first time in a long time, a Sony Pictures adaptation, specifically the video game adaptation of ‘Until Dawn’, appeared to bear at least some semblance of hope from the outside looking in. It didn’t happen.

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Lane Mills
Apr 25, 2025
'The Accountant 2' Review: An Wildly Different and Entertaining Sequel
Tom Chatalbash
Apr 24, 2025
'The Accountant 2' Review: An Wildly Different and Entertaining Sequel
Tom Chatalbash
Apr 24, 2025

After nine years, Christian Wolff has made his long-awaited return to the silver screen in ‘The Accountant 2’, a wildly different sequel that should not only please fans of the original, but the uninitiated as well.

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Tom Chatalbash
Apr 24, 2025
‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg's Layered Rumination on Mortality
Maxance Vincent
Apr 23, 2025
‘The Shrouds’ Review: David Cronenberg's Layered Rumination on Mortality
Maxance Vincent
Apr 23, 2025

While the surface level of ‘The Shrouds’ may appear complex, the film’s constant wrestling with the director’s own mortality ensures it will be remembered as one of David Cronenberg’s most engrossing efforts.

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Maxance Vincent
Apr 23, 2025
‘The Amateur’ Movie Review: Rami Malek Shines
Jeremy Kazieva
Apr 11, 2025
‘The Amateur’ Movie Review: Rami Malek Shines
Jeremy Kazieva
Apr 11, 2025

Rami Malek shines in ‘The Amateur’, as the Oscar-winning actor delivers a performance in this action-thriller that feels tailor-made for him.

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Jeremy Kazieva
Apr 11, 2025
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Moving and Soulful Dramedy
Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Moving and Soulful Dramedy
Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025

While James Griffiths’ The Ballad of Wallis Island does not reinvent the wheel, it illustrates a moving portrait of grief with three devastating performances at the core of the movie.

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Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025
‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: A Profoundly Misguided Heartwarmer
Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025
‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: A Profoundly Misguided Heartwarmer
Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025

While Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons contains a memorable lead turn from Steve Coogan, one can’t wash the foul taste the film leaves with its ill-conceived trivialization of Argentina’s Dirty War.

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Maxance Vincent
Mar 28, 2025
‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: A Failed Commercial Attempt from A24
Maxance Vincent
Mar 24, 2025
‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: A Failed Commercial Attempt from A24
Maxance Vincent
Mar 24, 2025

Despite a well-mounted cast and one of the best cinematographers working today contributing to the project, Alex Scharfman’s ‘Death of a Unicorn’ is yet another bad film from a studio that is in desperate need of reinvention.

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Maxance Vincent
Mar 24, 2025
'Snow White' Review: No Disaster, But No Fun Either
Tom Chatalbash
Mar 24, 2025
'Snow White' Review: No Disaster, But No Fun Either
Tom Chatalbash
Mar 24, 2025

Disney has brought yet another live-action version of one of their classic, beloved stories to the silver screen in ‘Snow White’, a re-imagining that like its predecessors, fails to re-capture the magic of the animated original.

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Tom Chatalbash
Mar 24, 2025
‘The Actor’ Review: André Holland Saves Duke Johnson’s Surreal Thriller
Maxance Vincent
Mar 14, 2025
‘The Actor’ Review: André Holland Saves Duke Johnson’s Surreal Thriller
Maxance Vincent
Mar 14, 2025

While The Actor doesn’t reach its high ambitions, Duke Johnson’s surreal thriller mostly works thanks to a highly committed and nuanced performance from André Holland.

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Maxance Vincent
Mar 14, 2025
‘Opus’ Review: A24 Reaches a New Low
Maxance Vincent
Mar 11, 2025
‘Opus’ Review: A24 Reaches a New Low
Maxance Vincent
Mar 11, 2025

Mark Anthony Green’s ‘Opus’ recycles the aesthetics and tropes A24 has firmly established itself upon and may accidentally reveal that their brand of “elevated” independent entertainment has grown stale after over a decade of films on the big screen.

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Maxance Vincent
Mar 11, 2025