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The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (2026) EDIT ““The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” is totally worth seeing, but the film feels like an indirect act of contrition, which may be why it turns into an overdone lament.” – Variety Mar 13, 2026 Full Review I Love Boosters (2026) 100% EDIT “The movie, a tall tale of clothes encounters, doesn’t always work. Yet there’s something disarming about how Riley’s sense of play holds this street-smart meta-rebellion fantasy together. He loves boosters, and everything else he shows you.” – Variety Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 60% EDIT ““Reminders of Him” is notably restrained -- a good thing more than not, even if the film does get a bit languid at times. It tells its story without making us feel used.” – Variety Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “Project Hail Mary wants to be the kind of "great escape we need right now," and I have no doubt that many will hail it as one. So forgive me if I say that it’s not a very good movie.” – Variety Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) 90% EDIT “Can this monster delinquent be rehabilitated? Theoretically, that’s an interesting question, except that the way this happens is so garishly contrived that we can only go with the movie by putting any plea for reality on permanent hold.” – Variety Mar 9, 2026 Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% EDIT “This isn't a visionary sci-fi spectacle. It's comic-book satire at its most scabrous and low-down... It's also a dazzlingly well-made action movie.” – Boston Phoenix Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “It’s like “Joker 2” starring a grunge version of the Munsters, with dollops of “Sid and Nancy” and “Natural Born Killers.” Except that the movie doesn’t move. ” – Variety Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% EDIT ““Hoppers” never stops surprising you in rudely antic ways, and that’s the essence of its delight. ” – Variety Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% EDIT “Williamson has gone back to basics, but the result is a “Scream” sequel that, while it nods in the direction of being seductively convoluted, is really just…basic.” – Variety Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 58% EDIT ““Midwinter Break” does nothing earth-shattering (it remains wee), but the movie touchingly colors in how it might be possible for two people to know each other too well and also not well enough.” – Variety Feb 25, 2026 Full Review I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) 63% EDIT “Even if you go into “I Can Only Imagine 2” feeling immersed in the Bart Millard saga, the new movie is a bit of an odd duck, like a faith-based drama on tranquilizers, because it keeps tossing out conflicts that aren’t all that major (or convincing). ” – Variety Feb 20, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 42% EDIT “In the age of “Dexter” and “Succession” and “Beef,” “How to Make a Killing” just plays as a patchy amusement. Yet I was held by it; the film’s acrid riffs on the hidden depravity of the new greed culture keep it aloft.” – Variety Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip (2026) 42% EDIT “Perry’s performance is a spectacular piece of high-wire burlesque. There’s an extraordinary spontaneity to it.” – Variety Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Pretty in Pink (1986) 75% EDIT “Pretty in Pink is basically a weightlessly predictable boy-meets-girl trifle gussied up in John Hughes trappings. ” – Boston Phoenix Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “Taken as a thriller, “Crime 101” has its indulgences, but by the end it can stand as an advanced course in what underworld dreams are made of.” – Variety Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 53% EDIT “Here we are again, caught up in the never-ending slow-drip flood of cinematic Dracula mythology, now with Luc Besson’s wan, derivative, dutifully time-period-hopping, different-but-not-really-new take on the vampire legend. ” – Variety Feb 10, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 84% EDIT “A vibrant surprise. It’s a highly original and rousing animated feature -- a sports fable with a hip-hop vibe and an off-kilter cosmology. ” – Variety Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 11% EDIT “A documentary that never comes to life. It’s a “portrait” of the First Lady of the United States, but it’s so orchestrated and airbrushed and stage-managed that it barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial.” – Variety Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Give Me the Ball! (2026) EDIT “Garbus and Wolff take us through her life in a way that’s both propulsive and reflective, mirroring King’s energy on the court. The drama never lets up.” – Variety Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Run Amok (2026) 67% EDIT “Alyssa Marvin, who has the rare actor’s gift of wearing her feelings on the outside even when the character she’s playing is holding them on the inside, makes that a convincing journey.” – Variety Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 74% EDIT “A flagrant concoction that wants to do nothing more than make you laugh, and at that it succeeds. Yet in its way, there’s a bit of a vision to it.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 91% EDIT “[Lives up to expectations] in a way that’s so original, so brimming with surprise, so fresh and up-to-the-minute in its perceptions of how relationships work (or don’t), that you watch it in a state of rapt immersion and delight.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Buddy (2026) 83% EDIT “Casper Kelly is a talent to watch. In Buddy, he’s essentially reviving an old joke and doing multiple variations on it. But he has a gleefully rich understanding of the inner insanity that can drive pop culture.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 66% EDIT “I’m sorry, but this is not how an effective mockumentary works. I actually think “The Moment” should have pushed further into crackpot satirical extremes.” – Variety Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 69% EDIT “A flawed drama that can be disjointed, but by the end the movie feels worth it: mannered at times, touchingly real at others. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review
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