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Brian Orndorf

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City Wide Fever (2025) B- EDIT “For those who really enjoy filmmaking that’s in love with filmmaking, "City Wide Fever" has its highlights, with genuine enthusiasm for the storytelling mission, even during its most underfunded scenes.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% C EDIT “The sequel doesn’t have much in the way of freshness, acting more as a remake than a continuation.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 81% B+ EDIT “"Tow" is a little unusual as it straddles the line between mainstream and indie moviemaking, but it delivers heart and significance with its unusual understanding of persistence.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 96% A- EDIT “Isn’t an easy watch, but it’s an important one, vividly dramatizing the challenges of a difficult vocation, taking moments to understand the endurance and concentration the job demands, generating a riveting sit.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “And there’s Aramayo, who fully inhabits John’s physical and mental space, providing deeply and impressively committed work, always identifying the humanity of the man, even during his most possessed moments.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) D EDIT “Meant to charm adolescent viewers, and will likely do so with its juvenile ways. However, it could be a lot funnier and more creative, really spinning the central pizza-hunting premise in all the right ways.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) 20% D EDIT “Confusion tends to dominate the viewing experience, as viewers are offered a feature that doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but it has a defined purpose to spill as much fake blood as possible.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review The Gates (2026) 55% B EDIT “It’s definitely not a film that’s trying to make sense of hatred, instead using it to power a mostly effective exercise in suspense and plot turns, which Burr handles to the best of his ability.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Preschool (2026) D EDIT “Duhamel plays it safe with the picture instead, providing a tired sense of mischief with a movie you’ve seen before.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 56% B EDIT “Caswill remains remarkably committed to preserving a human touch to "Reminders of Him," delivering a feature with some honest emotions and a less manipulative way of doing business.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% B- EDIT “Lord and Miller attempt to go very big with the offering, which remains engaging enough, but the directors are definitely out to win hearts with the feature, getting a little too pushy with sentimentality as the story unfolds.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% B+ EDIT “The movie isn’t razor sharp and doesn’t get weird enough, but Wang’s creative voice remains clear in this thought-provoking offering.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% C EDIT “Sound is basically all "Undertone" has, unable to cook up a more dynamic haunting to follow as everything in the movie goes crash, bang, boom.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Bodycam (2025) 86% B- EDIT “There’s nothing here that bests the highlights of the "V/H/S" franchise, but Christensen lands a few punches during the run time, requiring a little more patience with the pace of the effort.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth (2023) 94% B EDIT “"The Optimist" runs into storytelling issues late in the film, but it remains a powerful understanding of endurance, providing intimacy with crisis and compassion.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% D EDIT “Unbearable permissiveness just sinks the whole thing.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review War Machine (2026) 69% B EDIT “Hughes makes a few creative missteps in the hunt for an ending, but most of "War Machine" is engaging and action-packed, delivering thrills with a simple but effective concept for survival cinema.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Protector (2025) 19% D+ EDIT “"Protector" is harsh at times, but also exceedingly ridiculous overall, and while dumbness isn’t always a problem when it comes to the highlights of B-movie entertainment, it definitely doesn’t help this loony offering.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% A- EDIT “Pixar scores a major success with this wonderful feature, with Chong overseeing rich animation and flavorful voice work, while Andrews manages to find a plot and a message worth following.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 62% B EDIT “Vividly sold with all kinds of gruesomeness, putting on a big display of nastiness for those who really enjoy such extremity.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “An unsettling movie at times, but also one that enjoys playing with perspective and performance, creating a memorable understanding of imprisonment that’s meant to benefit both the captive and the captor. ” – Blu-ray.com Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Youngblood (2025) 71% B- EDIT “The two takes on "Youngblood" are different in small ways, but the 2026 version is after a grittier understanding of hurt, out to reach a slightly younger audience with a refreshed look at ’80s entertainment.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 2, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 17% B- EDIT “It’s a big swing of a movie, and it remains an unwieldy sit, but for patient viewers, there’s a good amount of sensitivity to experience here as the endeavor seeks to inspect the power of emotional connections and the movement of time.” – Blu-ray.com Feb 27, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% C EDIT “It’s nice to have Campbell back, but the writing doesn’t do much with her, especially in the second half of the feature, making the return of Sidney and her amazing resilience (seriously, she should be studied in a lab at this point) kind of blah.” – Blu-ray.com Feb 27, 2026 Full Review Operation Taco Gary's (2024) 60% C EDIT “It’s not the laugh riot the helmer would like it to be, but Kvamme has the right idea with his timing. It’s his material that needs a lot more work.” – Blu-ray.com Feb 27, 2026 Full Review
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