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Mark Hughes

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Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “[T]his heartbreaking and inspiring Oscar contender conveys more than most other contenders by saying less and feeling more.” – Forbes Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “[It] will thrill fans and seems destined for greater box office success than the first film...” – Forbes Nov 22, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% EDIT “[A] rousing call for courage, moral clarity, and action in the face of threats not only to our freedoms and society, but to our very humanity itself. It’s the sort of studio picture you rarely expect, and even more rarely get.” – Forbes Nov 13, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “[T]ells us the final hour of civilization will be confusing, clouded by emotion and fear... Which is precisely why the choices are all conveniently figured out beforehand. The trouble is, all of those choices are in a Black Book of nuclear launch orders.” – Forbes Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “[A] tale that would seem unbelievable if you wrote it as an original fictional story. It’s a testament to how often life is strange than fiction, and why those are some of the best and most important stories to tell.” – Forbes Oct 10, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Sometimes good people do bad things, and sometimes bad people do good things, but they are still either a good person or a bad person... The film’s question to us is, which one are you? Which one do you want to be? And what are you willing to do about it?” – Forbes Sep 28, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “[G]orgeous and thrilling, among the best-looking Marvel releases... the best MCU movie in years.” – Forbes Jul 26, 2025 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 86% EDIT “[It] lets Carrey be Carrey in all the best ways, and he delights by seeming to be having as much fun doing it as we’re having watching it. It lets us escape entirely for 109 minutes, and laugh the whole time.” – Forbes Dec 18, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% EDIT “[A] huge victory, successfully and faithfully reviving one of the best sci-fi/horror series of all time for longtime fans as well as a new generation of audiences.” – Forbes Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% EDIT “[A] rollicking fun time and laugh riot from start to finish...a rollicking fun time and laugh riot from start to finish... Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are in top form...” – Forbes Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% EDIT “[A] fantastic, complex character story with an immensely engrossing and thrilling plot filled with spectacular action set pieces and cheer-out-loud moments.” – Forbes May 25, 2024 Full Review Sight (2023) 74% EDIT “[A] good choice for adults seeking a more contemplative and serious experience at the movies, offering a view of important historical moments and modern medical advances through a personal lens of loss and redemption.” – Forbes May 23, 2024 Full Review The Fall Guy (2024) 82% EDIT “[W]ildly fun and hilariously charming... a fantastic summer popcorn movie of exactly the sort audiences usually love and reward handsomely.” – Forbes May 11, 2024 Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% EDIT “[T]he sequel we all hoped for, not just carrying the series forward but building toward something even greater and more epic ... as compelling, resonant, and thrilling as the rest of the modern franchise.” – Forbes May 8, 2024 Full Review Alien (1979) 93% EDIT “The beauty, the scale, and the artistic vision Scott brings to Alien go beyond filmmaking and into the ambitious realm of myth-making that burned a permanent, glorious scar on the memory and psyche of the world.” – Forbes May 2, 2024 Full Review Mars Express (2023) 100% EDIT “[A] visually exciting, smart, engaging detective story that will both impress with it’s animated quality and eventually make you forget your even watching animation.” – Forbes May 2, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% EDIT “This is what movie theaters exist for, this type of visual and complete story immersion.” – Forbes Mar 3, 2024 Full Review Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) 33% EDIT “[Aquaman and the] Lost Kingdom plays all of the “greatest hits” from the first film, if the selections were made based on what’s loudest and easiest for the audience to sing along.” – Forbes Dec 24, 2023 Full Review Godzilla Minus One (2023) 99% EDIT “[T]he best Godzilla film ever made, and a masterpiece of kaiju cinema.” – Forbes Nov 30, 2023 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% EDIT “"Napoleon" is lessened by being cut to pieces & turned into a smaller version of itself that gets to say less of what it was created to say. [S]o much of it misses its potential... & wind[s] up feeling like they had very little to say anyway.” – Forbes Nov 23, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% EDIT “The Killer is what happens when you take [an action thriller]... and put it in the hands of master craftspersons and artists who elevate every aspect of the production, so that the whole becomes ever greater than the sum of its parts.” – Forbes Nov 14, 2023 Full Review The Marvels (2023) 63% EDIT “[H]its like the summer popcorn blockbusters we want from Marvel... full of earnest emotion and enthusiasm, with a cool straightforward sci-fi story and plenty of unique action spectacle, and sporting a charming cast with terrific chemistry.” – Forbes Nov 10, 2023 Full Review TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) 98% EDIT “It’s tempting to reference Swift’s song and say, “Taylor is The Man!” But give the woman her due — with her work, talent, success, and the courage to say and do what she thinks is right, the truth is she’s much more than The Man. She’s The Woman.” – Forbes Oct 14, 2023 Full Review The Creator (2023) 67% EDIT “[A] pretty smart and highly entertaining spectacle with cool sci-fi concepts... [and] a truly gorgeous film, with big bold action sequences that could go toe to toe with the best of any big-budget franchise you can name.” – Forbes Oct 3, 2023 Full Review No One Will Save You (2023) 83% EDIT “[E]xpertly paced and gets endless mileage from its premise. ... [A] brilliant lead performance by Kaitlyn Dever. ... [T]he best horror film of 2023 so far.” – Forbes Sep 28, 2023 Full Review
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