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Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “There’s undoubtedly merit behind Zhao’s work here, and as much as Buckley and Mescal give powerhouse performances, this is frustratingly bland, jejune storytelling” – Pop Heist Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Lost Land (2025) 8/10 EDIT “while it is technically a work of fiction, its truths are undeniable. The plight it depicts remains the harsh reality for millions of refugees... Fujimoto brings us into their world with harrowing intimacy, demanding that we not just witness but feel.” – Next Best Picture Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “If The Brutalist was 'show', The Testament of Ann Lee is 'tell'. ” – Pop Heist Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “It might be a little dismembered at times but one can't help but swoon at something as life-affirming as del Toro's humanistic rendition of Frankenstein. ” – Pop Heist Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “…Bugonia finally gets the chance to breathe and allow Lanthimos to fulfil what the opening promises: a gory, unhinged and explosive finale that makes the tepidness of the second act worth crawling through ” – Pop Heist Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Grow (2025) 93% EDIT “a delightfully daft and incredibly charming family film ” – Movies We Texted About Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Don't Worry Darling (2022) 38% EDIT “This heavy-handed and misogynist version of Get Out, with all its stunning sequences, doesn’t add up to the sum of its parts” – Movies We Texted About Aug 4, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “if the cinema experience is meant to be a communal one, comedies like THE NAKED GUN are perfect to experience with a crowd chortling in unison. ” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “...First Steps is exactly what the MCU required: a Phase One-esque, back-to-basics, incredibly charming, while occasionally pedestrian, film that requires no extra-curricular work to enjoy, no TV series to have watched, no comics to have been read” – Pop Heist Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% EDIT “Blanchett rules the screen and Field’s eye for the bodacious, striking visual means this Icarus journey is a hell of a ride, in spite of its cynicism and contempt for contemporary culture.” – Movies We Texted About Jul 21, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 100% EDIT “There is more than a pinch of socio-realist Andrea Arnold in the reels of Canty’s smashing debut. However, it is also the work of a filmmaker blazing his own directorial path with this endearing Irish hip-hop charmer.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Mother's Baby (2025) 73% 5/10 EDIT “There appears to be too much focus on letting the audience assume the wild theories rather than providing an exposition of any variety, leading to a film that ultimately feels very unsatisfying rather than one whose secrets stay with you after the credits” – Next Best Picture Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% EDIT “This joyous gem brings Judy Blume’s classic novel vibrantly to life” – Movies We Texted About Mar 24, 2025 Full Review On Falling (2024) 96% EDIT “On Falling is no call-to-arms per se as it rebuffs any attempt to dramatically persuade audiences; it is instead a time capsule of how miserable life is within capitalism in its current form.” – Live & Breathe Media (Substack) Mar 21, 2025 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A gothic horror movie unlike anything else on the market, one that could only be made by two artists and two actors who are truly and irrevocably in love with each other.” – Pop Heist Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “a satire that can only tiredly lampoon the tanned surface of the fascists it mocks” – Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% EDIT “ If Perry is aiming for a film that embodies the very agitation that Pavement strived for, he can count the ironic Pavements a success” – Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “ a courtroom drama, musical hybrid that puts the Joker character and Joker the film itself on trial. Sadly, and surprisingly, this is conducted in quite safe fashion, the more inflammatory elements of Joker a distant memory” – Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 5/5 EDIT “The Brutalist is a stunner. A dream for cinephiles everywhere but this is the Holy Grail for film scholars: an instant, definitive entry into film canon.” – Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Dreamers (2025) 92% EDIT “There may be discussion around the intangible, confusing nature of the process, which is designed to be unforgiving and cruel...but Gharoro-Akpojotor deftly explores this incensed political story through a deeply personal lens ” – Pop Heist Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “{Little Trouble Girls] captures a luscious summer of sexual emancipation...This isn't a film about the decision to experience love in the form of sex or faith, but the freedom to choose without the need for penance. ” – Pop Heist Mar 5, 2025 Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 67% EDIT “as we traverse long enough down this unassuming, breezy 90 minute dramedy, we find it to be quite a timid, meagre offering, one as shallow and as fleeting as an episode of the daytime tv game show that it is set in” – Loud and Clear Reviews Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 97% EDIT “[Late Shift] works as a call-to-arms for systemic change within the Swiss hospital system and of the worldwide nursing crisis, and does so through an emotionally charged lead performance from an effervescent Leonie Benesch.” – Pop Heist Mar 3, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 84% EDIT “As alluring as The Surfer’s ideas of hybridising toxic masculinity with gentrification are, and the groovy surf rock score is a real vibe, the film has a cruel, alienating edge to it that wears thin” – Movies We Texted About Feb 26, 2025 Full Review What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) 100% B EDIT “As difficult as Hong’s style may be, there are intricate layers to be unwrapped if one is willing to look a little closer.” – AwardsWatch Feb 22, 2025 Full Review
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