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Derrick Murray

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Biography:

Derrick Murray is a Los Angeles based film critic for Nerdbot and Content Producer for ForReel. He has covered numerous film festivals including Sundance, TIFF, SXSW and Venice and was previously selected for the TIFF Media Inclusion Initiative. He can always be found watching movies in a theater with a large popcorn.

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The Gallerist (2026) 54% EDIT “A deeply unserious and cartoonishly satirical sledgehammer to the art world filled with over the top characters, campy dialogue, hyper stylized camera work and a largely single setting location.I genuinely love all of that in cinema...” – NERDBOT Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Shitheads (2026) 60% 3.5/5 EDIT “"Shitheads" is a whole lot of fun if you’re willing to let it take you on the ride, but can be truly insufferable if you’re not in the car.” – NERDBOT Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Buddy (2026) 80% EDIT “"Buddy" is bloody, fun, and laugh out loud funny, knowing when to turn that dial to demented levels that is sure to delight audiences. I don’t know that it all works...but "Buddy" get’s more and more fun the weirder and weirder it gets.” – NERDBOT Jan 26, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “A sledgehammer to the ever-growing online prudery of younger generations, Araki imbues his signature style to destroy the exhausting online discourse of sex in movies.” – NERDBOT Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Tuner (2025) 97% 4.5 out 5 EDIT “"Tuner..."is convention done right, sticking to the proven formulas of crime capers and simultaneously giving you everything you know while also giving you something that feels fresh and unique.” – NERDBOT Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 51% EDIT “More a character study and bit more melodramatic than its propulsive predecessor, [it's] still a worthy successor to an underrated success, one that is sure to be satisfactory for fans even if it at times feels like a retread of diminishing returns.” – NERDBOT Jan 11, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “"Primate" keeps its premise simply, its violence gnarly, its runtime lean and mean, and its effects practical...pure, unadulterated monkey business, owning every part of its wacky premise and giving you exactly what you asked for every chance it gets.” – NERDBOT Jan 7, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% EDIT “"We Bury the Dead" borrows the strengths of the greats that came before it and melds them together to deliver an emotional gut punch of a journey through dark baron reds and shadows.” – NERDBOT Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Pretty pictures aren’t enough to turn a blind eye to the glaring, exhausting flaws that "Fire and Ash" doubles down on, and while it wasn’t the worst experience I’ve had this year it’s certainly one I hope to never have to sit through again.” – NERDBOT Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “"Marty Supreme" is content with leaving us right on the tight wire of complete spiraling and crash out paired with unquestionable belief and underdog undertones. It’s one hell of a feat and a big announcement from Josh Safdie...” – NERDBOT Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “There’s a maturity here that really comes through in "Wake Up Dead Man," centering the core of the narrative on the value of faith and community instead of simple ideas expanded through a convoluted investigation. ” – NERDBOT Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3.5 /5 EDIT “[Wicked: For Good] is somewhat of a mixed bag, a second act that...due to the barebones narrative of the adaptive source material lacks the soaring exhilaration felt leaving the theater humming "Defying Gravity."” – NERDBOT Nov 18, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “This should honestly be better, and somehow misses the mark at every turn, transforming an otherwise exciting action thriller into a dull, painfully long misfire...I'm not mad. I"m just disappointed.” – NERDBOT Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT ““Predator: Badlands” is the lesser [film] helmed by Trachtenberg, lacking the grit and rawness of “Prey” and the blood soaked adventure of “Killer of Killers.”...it feels more like a standard sci-fi action hero film reformatted to fit a Predator into it. ” – NERDBOT Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “What truly sets [Nuremberg] apart isn’t what it does on the surface...but the urgency of its trojan horse message: the past is doomed to repeat itself if we’re not careful, and we are getting dangerously close to the worst.” – NERDBOT Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “Amid the manipulative chaos driven by an unlikable protagonist DaCosta exhibits masterful control, the camera seamlessly moving about the decadent house...incapable of sitting still and used in tandem with Hedda’s own boredom and restlessness.” – NERDBOT Nov 8, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “The problem is that it’s good until it isn’t...much like the premise of building a house made of dynamite – everything implodes instead of explodes...its highs are rocket ships in space but the lows are scouring the bottom of the Titanic.” – NERDBOT Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT ““Blue Moon” is a character study of genius, brought to life by a powerhouse performance from Hawke, a sharp script and a soft touch from Linklater’s hangout direction.” – NERDBOT Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT ““Bugonia” pulls the rubber band until it snaps, and before you have a chance to gather your senses it unfolds with unrelenting insanity – a staple of Yorgos and a welcomed explosion of WTF...You’ll come for Yorgos, sit down for Stone but stay for Plemons.” – NERDBOT Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “There may not be a justification for yet another version of a timeless tale, but for all its faults Frankenstein still sits as a cinematic experience to behold even if it makes some stumbles along the way. [Jacob] Elordi...makes the film worth the effort.” – NERDBOT Oct 16, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “the true movie moment of our time...This timeless yet timely tale taps the raw nerve exposed in American politics and captures the hopelessness of fighting against institutions of power and the hopefulness of the necessity of generational revolution.” – NERDBOT Sep 29, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 4.5/5 EDIT “an unrelenting pressure cooker...A complex, intense, and shockingly humorous film constructed with the most astute confidence and rage at an authoritarian regime, “It Was Just An Accident” makes an argument for being one of the best films of the year...” – NERDBOT Sep 27, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “once the ominous atmosphere and chaotic gambling framework and high strung bright lights fade, [the film] has no hand left to play. It is at best a fun time spent with Farrell who is really going for it, but at worst it’s peak Netflix fodder...” – NERDBOT Sep 27, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “an undeniable work, an unforgettable, confident vision...It is uncompromising in its depiction of its more complex themes and combines grounded reality with a surrealist fever dream rarely seen so balanced in such a gripping approach.” – NERDBOT Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “Kiss of The Spider Woman” is a marvelously crafted, vibrant technicolor gilded age homage and mostly entertaining thanks to well executed direction and a powerhouse performance from Tonatiuh...our favorite movies just may be what can save us all.” – NERDBOT Sep 23, 2025 Full Review
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