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The Sheep Detectives (2026) 94% EDIT “Seeks nothing more than to be like its heroes: warm and fuzzy. Less attractively, it’s also a bit cloddish and tame, falling into that unsatisfying category of children’s entertainment that seems to be styled in accordance with the tastes of old people.” – Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026 Full Review Mortal Kombat II (2026) 65% EDIT “Alas, since there aren’t any emotional stakes, the action scenes are about as interesting as seeing tomatoes being put through the food processor. Heart is what’s lacking. To the makers of this film, it’s just the organ that makes blood gush. ” – Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026 Full Review Animal Farm (2025) 28% EDIT “As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed. In line with a lot of other animated features these days, it stumbles toward a hectic but dull climax. ” – Wall Street Journal Apr 30, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 79% EDIT “Somehow, arriving an entire generation after its predecessor, “Devil 2” feels rushed and slapdash, as though it were thrown together to capitalize on the (well-earned) success of the 2006 feature. ” – Wall Street Journal Apr 29, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 97% EDIT “Mr. Aramayo is astonishing, giving an intensely committed performance of every twitch, shout and click.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “As a tribute to what was great about Michael Jackson, Mr. Fuqua’s movie excels, though I wished there had been more performance: What, only one song from the 1979 disco masterpiece “Off the Wall”?” – Wall Street Journal Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Amrum (2025) 98% EDIT “When it comes to the horrors of the 1940s, so rich is the history that we’ll probably never reach the end of fresh approaches to it. “Amrum” is a stirring example of how childhood reminiscence can stand for so much more.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 47% EDIT “It is advisable not to see the movie immediately after a meal. Or, really, ever.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 96% EDIT “Mr. McKellen delivers yet another marvelous late-career highlight. Intimidating and brilliant, his Julian Sklar is by turns amusingly viperish and not quite successful at concealing the softness of age. ” – Wall Street Journal Apr 13, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% EDIT “Some movies are toxically misconceived, and “The Drama” is among them. It wants to be wicked and outrageous but it’s really just dismal and depressing.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 3, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% EDIT “There’s almost nothing in “Galaxy” that even rises to the level of an attempted gag, and the movie is notably weaker than “The Super Mario Bros,” which was just barely watchable.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 3, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% EDIT “Mr. Ozon both honors his material and reinvigorates it. Taking a tale that now seems as though it came from another world, he has illuminated its timeless provocations.” – Wall Street Journal Apr 3, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% EDIT “So many better horror features have been constructed along the same lines that this one comes across as merely a tedious also-ran. By the end, every trope the director uses has been bled dry.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 81% EDIT “As a love story, “Fantasy Life” isn’t particularly original, but the low-key way Mr. Shear realizes some familiar situations is warm and human, with comic aspects and sad ones kept in an appealing balance. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 93% EDIT “A black-comic acid bath that, in only an hour and a half, nods to so many contemporary concerns that it rivals last year’s “Eddington” in its scope... The film may not propose a solution to any of our maladies, but it’s a bitterly convincing diagnosis.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% EDIT “Fashion is fleeting; this film is positively disposable.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “Project Hail Mary is at its core a kids’ movie. That lessens its gravity, a bit. But it also makes it the kind of film that will send happy viewers soaring into orbit, again and again.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 56% EDIT “The least attentive audience member will spot every lame development from miles away.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 13, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% EDIT “The final sound the movie creates is a disappointed groan from the audience. Should Mr. Tuason get some writing help, though, he might become a formidable filmmaker.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% EDIT “If there’s a single witty idea in the entire two-hour slog, I missed it.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Like Dr. F. himself, Ms. Gyllenhaal has unleashed a monster on unsuspecting countrymen. A witty theater owner would match the mood by selling torches and pitchforks at the concession stand.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% EDIT “The lean, athletic Mr. Herzog, 83 years old, seems as spry and eager as ever, and his global enthusiasm remains a force of nature in itself. “Ghost Elephants” takes its place as yet another of the director’s essential forays into the wild and unknown.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “Mr. Luhrmann has done us all a service by combing through the available footage, coming up with many clips the public hasn’t seen before, and delivering an Elvis who in the ’70s was not always at his best but was still a spangled dynamo. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% EDIT “[Glen Powell] could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 65% EDIT “Though the story wells with tenderness, it isn’t executed with much verve. Ms. Findlay’s direction is patient to a fault. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review
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