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Dan Tabor

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Biography:

Dan Tabor has been covering the Philly film scene and reviewing film in the City of Brotherly Love for over a decade now. He's the Film Critic at Phawker.com, a Philly based curated news/culture/commentary site and a staff writer at Cinapse.Co, an Austin, TX based film blog. When not writing about film, he is one of the hosts on the official Philadelphia Film Critics Circle podcast, Film Scribes.

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Rock Springs (2026) 80% EDIT “Powerful, frightening, and quietly devastating, Rock Springs makes the cost of America’s progress impossible to ignore.” – Cinapse Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 60% EDIT “The Moment ultimately works because it’s less interested in documenting Charli XCX than dismantling her — then rebuilding her on her own terms. It’s a smart, assured, deeply self-aware deconstruction of pop stardom ” – Cinapse Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Nuisance Bear  (2026) 100% EDIT “While Nuisance Bear certainly delivers adorable cubs frolicking in the snow and bears doing mischievous bear stuff, it does so while exposing a complex ecosystem fueled by commerce — one that increasingly resembles exploitation” – Cinapse Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Run Amok (2026) 74% EDIT “Run Amok is an ambitious and audacious little film that delivers laughs while refusing to shy away from the harder questions beneath them. It’s a delicate balance, but Mager pulls it off,” – Cinapse Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Ghost in the Machine (2026) 82% EDIT “Writer, director, and producer Valerie Veatch takes a subject that feels completely mined of fresh insight and reveals the terrifying ideology at its core. ” – Cinapse Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Take Me Home (2026) 94% EDIT “By centering love instead of limitation, Take Me Home is a quietly devastating reminder of those who society leaves behind—and who still manage to keep going anyway.” – Cinapse Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 22% EDIT “Killer Whale is a solid slice of genre filmmaking that works not only on a visceral level but an emotional one as well. It understands the hallmarks and tropes of the creature feature and delivers on their promises while offering up fresh melodrama ” – Cinapse Jan 15, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “DaCosta delivers a gnarly, ultra-violent sequel packed with scares and substance, cementing her status as one of horror’s most vital voices working today. ” – Cinapse Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “As a fan of the series, I couldn’t have asked for anything more for Christmas. Mike P. Nelson leans into the ridiculousness of the concept of these films, offering up something that plays by the same rules yet has something more complex to say.” – Cinapse Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “ (Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani) deliver a film that feels like a 90-minute Bond opening sequence — filled with the requisite eroticism and arresting visuals – paired with a narrative as loaded as a pair of headlight-mounted machine guns. ” – Cinapse Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Guillermo del Toro has added yet another iconic monster to his cinematic curio cabinet and once again proved he is one of the most singular auteurs working today in horror. ” – Cinapse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Demon Lover Diary (1980) EDIT “Demon Lover Diary is a masterclass of what NOT to do in filmmaking, and a scathing and anxiety-inducing snapshot of a troubled production that proves reality is sometimes better than fiction.” – Cinapse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Dead Giveaway (2025) EDIT “ It’s a hilarious and bawdy good time, that surprisingly got some gore as well.” – Cinapse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “The Testament of Ann Lee manages to not only show how this offshoot of the Quaker religion found its footing in America, but also work as this poignant story of one woman’s struggle with her faith. ” – Cinapse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “While you have this awards caliber performance from Sydney Sweeney – that you would expect, the narrative around her falls short of living up to her moving and transformative take.” – Cinapse Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) 96% EDIT “New director Tatsuya Yoshihara has cracked Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga delivering his own animated masterwork that explodes on screen. ” – Cinapse Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “This is easily Johnson’s best Knives Out film yet. It’s not just a great whodunnit, but he’s able to pair the mystery you’d expect, with a deeply introspective and personal look at faith which couldn’t have been easy. ” – Cinapse Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% EDIT “Along with the sex and violence, you’d expect, surprisingly there’s a rather intimate look at a couple who’s having some very real and relatable issues. ” – Cinapse Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Dildo Heaven (2002) EDIT “While the performances are what you’d expect from the sub-genre, without getting too egregious, the narrative works for the most part – and the camp on top is the spoon full of sugar that makes this quirky little oddity as fun as it is. ” – Cinapse Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Obsession (2025) 97% EDIT “Obsession is easily going to be horror fans’ next obsession. It’s got not only an air tight script with some amazing lore embedded within its narrative, but it’s got some truly nuanced performances bringing it to life.” – Cinapse Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Dolly (2025) 82% EDIT “ Dolly is a garishly good little slasher that leans into nostalgia and its inspiration just enough, without getting lost in the sauce, which these throwbacks tend to fall victim to. ” – Cinapse Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 93% EDIT “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a surreal cyberpunk masterwork that actually did its homework and isn’t afraid to dig into the more controversial symptoms and consequences of our actions as a society. ” – Cinapse Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Fuck My Son! (2025) 36% EDIT “The loose narrative is more or less a delivery device for this audio/visual declaration of free speech and war on “Good Taste”, that feels like what watching Pink Flamingos in the 1970s probably felt like.” – Cinapse Sep 28, 2025 Full Review CAMP (2025) 94% EDIT “CAMP is a breathtakingly surreal indie oddity that works either way – as a Craft-inspired witch film or something much deeper and introspective with its moving meditation on faith and loss – and that’s what’s so great about it. ” – Cinapse Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% EDIT “Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s The Ice Tower (which just screened at Fantastic Fest and will open theatrically October 2nd) is a dense coming of age tale that is impressive visually as it is narratively with its multi-layered approach. ” – Cinapse Sep 21, 2025 Full Review
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