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Caryn James

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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) EDIT “The style all but shouts that it’s a movie with talking heads that doesn’t want to be boring, and there’s a hyper feel to the pacing, as if the directors were afraid to slow down. But those strategies largely work. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% EDIT “With an engaging star and a story that leads to a touching, optimistic ending, Wladyka has created a little gem likely to find its audience.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “The film is lovely in the graceful way it executes its unsurprising content, and the actors make it soar even at its most predictable.” – The Hollywood Reporter Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Marty Supreme is as fresh, funny and exhilarating to watch as its hero. It's worth being bombarded by merch and giant orange heads.” – BBC.com Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 4/5 EDIT “This film is as slick and shiny as Glinda's lip gloss, but it may also be just what its many fans want. ” – BBC.com Nov 18, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “For all his wit, Anderson can be a chilly, cerebral film-maker, and DiCaprio's emotional warmth in the role balances that. Drama and comedy co-exist with remarkable, virtuosic ease here. ” – BBC.com Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The Lost Bus demonstrates how powerfully drama can illuminate a story we might have thought we knew.” – BBC.com Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 5/5 EDIT “Wake Up Dead Man functions perfectly well even when Blanc himself is nowhere around, which is a testament to Josh O'Connor and to the way Rian Johnson keeps this buoyant franchise alive.” – BBC.com Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 2/5 EDIT “A contradiction at the heart of Christy is that Sweeney is the main reason anyone is paying attention to the project, but her own high-profile celebrity makes it difficult to believe her as the character.” – BBC.com Sep 6, 2025 Full Review In the Hand of Dante (2025) 43% EDIT “Even when it goes off the rails, In the Hand of Dante is never dull. And there is always something glorious to look at.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Souffleur (2025) EDIT “The Souffleur is a brief hour and 18 minutes long, and just as much a tone poem as it is a character study. Dafoe brings ballast and humanity to it, uniting its fragments as Lucius decides what to do with his future.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) EDIT “It’s a bauble of a film, but also so distinctly Sofia Coppola’s style that it’s a must-see for anyone interested in the aesthetics of her career. In that respect, Sofia by Sofia might have worked as a title too.” – The Hollywood Reporter Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% EDIT “Although Jenkin’s style of focusing on images rather than story is lessened, it is still prominent -- and sometimes an awkward fit with the narrative... But the style itself is impressive. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 79% EDIT “Throughout, the cinematography has a crispness and clarity that add a bracing feel to the story. But at other times the cinematic ploys overwhelm everything else. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 31, 2025 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 94% EDIT “Few directors would be able to juggle genres and navigate shifts in tone as fluidly as Jensen does here. On paper none of it should work... but this unlikely film is consistently entertaining, weird and ultimately touching.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing is an anomaly, a dark soap bubble of an entertainment. And that weirdness makes this unlikely film sparkle.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 26, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% 4/5 EDIT “A smart, wild, entertaining mix of droll British humour and glossy Hollywood film-making.” – BBC.com Aug 25, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% EDIT “This modestly entertaining film is uncool and filled with stock tropes, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything more.” – The Hollywood Reporter Aug 22, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Despite the team's outlandish schemes to save the world, the actors tether their characters to emotional reality. ” – BBC.com Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 2/5 EDIT “Jurassic World Rebirth has major stars in Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, and better-designed creatures than ever, but so few thrills that it may be the weakest of the Jurassic franchise.” – BBC.com Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% EDIT “You’ve never before seen John Cena as the American president and Idris Elba as the British prime minister, but by the end you may feel as if you’ve seen it all before.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 27, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “It glows with Boyle's visual flair, Garland's ambitious screenplay and a towering performance from Ralph Fiennes.” – BBC.com Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Deep Cover (2025) 90% EDIT “The film approaches its action tropes with an effective sense of absurdity, but it’s the stars’ kinetic commitment to the bit that makes this relentlessly silly film work.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 12, 2025 Full Review The Best You Can (2025) 87% EDIT “With strong performances and a fresh premise about an unexpected friendship in middle age, but far too many creaky comic tropes, the uneven film is always watchable but never pops off the screen in a gripping way.” – The Hollywood Reporter Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 5/5 EDIT “Materialists is exquisitely made, character-driven and talky, with some glittering dialogue. It's the kind of idiosyncratic film a director sometimes gets to do after a great success and Song makes the most of it.” – BBC.com Jun 9, 2025 Full Review
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