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Hokum (2026) 100% EDIT “While it’s a little low on scares, Hokum is pacey and involving enough to keep genre fiends watching once it hits streaming, just for production designer Til Frohlich’s creepy hotel set alone, a place that looks untouched by the passing years. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Flies (2026) EDIT “There’s too much depth of feeling for Moscas ever to feel contrived or cute. Eimbcke doesn’t shy away from sentimentality, but the emotional honesty and unfailingly light touch of his work prevent it from becoming saccharine.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% EDIT “Even if Project Hail Mary at times leans into the sentiment to an almost saccharine degree, the movie’s natural sweetness is disarming. And it’s impossible to imagine an actor more adept at striking that tricky balance than Gosling.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 10, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “If any of this were amusing or suspenseful or frightening or tender or soulful or something, it wouldn’t be such a joyless slog. But the movie becomes like a shrill Bonnie and Clyde fever dream.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% EDIT “It shouldn’t all hang together as well as it does, but the movie’s freewheeling plotting is exhilarating, even more so when a frantic chase accelerates the action.” – The Hollywood Reporter Mar 2, 2026 Full Review The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) EDIT “One of the chief takeaways from fanboy co-directors Sam Dunn and Tom Morello’s entertaining legacy salute, The Ballad of Judas Priest, is how endearingly this canonical band comes across.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 25, 2026 Full Review Wolfram (2025) 92% EDIT “A four-chapter saga of escape, pursuit and survival, the film, for all its brutality, ultimately becomes less a lament for stolen lands and stolen children than a stirring account of endurance.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Salvation (2026) EDIT “This is a solidly acted drama with notably strong work from Cindoruk as the unlikely rabble-rouser. It’s also beautifully shot, with fluid camerawork from Ahmet Sesi̇gürgi̇l and Barış Aygen that snakes with grace and agility.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 82% EDIT “It’s a challenge to stay with it for the protracted two-hour duration. At least there’s Huppert in gloriously aloof form, plus the overripe lusciousness of Martin Gschlacht’s cinematography; with an edible and/or a cocktail or three, that might be enough.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 19, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% EDIT “A film in which nothing and everything happens. The movie now and then risks tipping into winsome cuteness, but Chen’s limpid naturalism helps sidestep potential clichés; its emotions are honest and earned.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 19, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% EDIT “It’s as if Luhrmann were conducting a séance, awakening Elvis from the afterlife with a raw vitality and outsize energy that are rare even among the living.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Animol (2026) EDIT “It’s grim and wrapped in despair much of the time but willing to make space for hope, understanding and forgiveness. Most of all it’s never banal, always involving, with fully convincing performances across the board. ” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 30% EDIT “There’s no shortage of stylish craft here and much to enjoy in the performances, but ultimately, Rosebush Pruning is too glib to work, leaving only an acrid aftertaste.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Mouse (2026) 100% EDIT “Even scenes that should be corny land with a light touch in an ultra-naturalistic movie warmed by the summer sun.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 35% EDIT “Adams is the chief factor that makes At the Sea watchable, if not as compelling as it should be. She brings a fractured grace to Laura that gradually evolves into what looks like peaceful acceptance.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “The title role in the austerely beautiful character study Rose is such a thrilling fit for Sandra Hüller that it becomes impossible to imagine any other actor nailing the part.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% EDIT “...the movie’s artful direction, nimble structure, visual richness and impeccable performances make for something full-bodied, compelling and deeply affecting, its melancholy beauty lingering long after the end credits roll.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 17, 2026 Full Review No Good Men (2026) EDIT “Much of the comedy appears to have been lost along the wayside in a movie that’s inarguably well-intentioned, even admirable, but struggles to pin down exactly what it wants to be beyond that.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “Fennell’s overhaul flirts with insanity, and if you can let go of preconceived notions about how this story should be told, it’s arguably the writer-director’s most purely entertaining film.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% EDIT “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die doesn’t quite deliver on the sardonic promise of its catchy title, but its appealing cast and Verbinski’s flair for kinetic action set pieces make it a reasonably entertaining entry in the canon of gonzo sci-fi comedies.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Saccharine (2026) 73% EDIT “James has no lack of talent, but fans of Relic who were hoping this might be a return to form after the mixed-bag Rosemary’s Baby prequel Apartment 7A will likely be disappointed.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Frank & Louis (2026) 92% EDIT “It’s the leads who both anchor and elevate the film. Morgan is heartbreaking as a man broken and lost, possibly even more so when he’s lucid enough to be aware of what’s happening to him.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Union County (2026) 97% EDIT “This is an admirably serious-minded attempt to go inside a troubled community that most of us would go out of our way to avoid -- showing compassion for a struggle that can frequently be one step forward, two steps back.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 79% EDIT “To its credit, this is a movie that knows better than to take itself too seriously. It’s painless enough though could have been more than that with a thorough script polish.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Nuisance Bear  (2026) 97% EDIT “Admittedly, I’m a sentimental softie for anything depicting mopey animals, but the sight of a weary polar bear lumbering across the tundra with a faded patch of green dye on its back seems like the saddest visual in the world.” – The Hollywood Reporter Feb 2, 2026 Full Review
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