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Nicholas Bell

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Killer Whale (2026) 22% .5/5 EDIT “If the purpose of cinema is to elicit some kind of emotional response, something like Killer Whale is more akin to a screen saver since it's completely inert, inept, and egregiously insipid in every way imaginable.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “An exceptional Jodie Foster is a prickly protagonist in Zlotowski's mysterious character study which charts an ambiguous, sometimes ineffable, journey for a private woman learning to be open in her environment. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “DaCosta's Bone Temple ends up being the piece de resistance of a foundation laid by Boyle's previous film---a brutal, cathartic, and subversive narrative playing out on a much more contained palette, suggesting the only way...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 2.5/5 EDIT “The Rip fails to establish the necessary characterization to hook us into this nebulous heist thriller which meanders far too long in a single location (without building tension) before we get to Carnahan's forte as an action director. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 49% 1/5 EDIT “This wholly unnecessary sequel mostly inspires a cynical death wish for the irksome family attempting to survive their next steps drudging through a declawed dystopia like an obstacle course in a vintage live action Disney flick. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 2/5 EDIT “Primate is a bit primitive in its narrative and characterization departments and Roberts should have monkeyed around a bit more with the script to enhance the gore and practical effects with a bit of subversive commentary.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Van Sant has satirized media culpability much more subversively in the past, which makes Dead Man's Wire feel like an entertaining but tonal hiccup...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Hilditch, who seems to have a yen for end-of-the-world narratives, presents a surprisingly eerie and intimate modern zombie film, though its best assets are a trio of traumatized humans...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% 1/5 EDIT “Celebrating something like Queens of the Dead from director Tina Romero, a film harnessing all the sycophantic charms of Drag Race flavored frivolity more than it does the subversive zombie legacy of her iconic father's filmography...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Being Charlie (2015) 23% 1.5/5 EDIT “While Being Charlie was assumedly paved with good intentions, and features a committed performance from Nick Robinson, it is a gratingly banal experience about a privileged, dysfunctional child who has nothing interesting to say...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “An emotionally charged microcosm of children's foolish games...The Plague might indeed be nothing more than a teenage wasteland, but it embraces the simplest of sentiments we spend our lives chasing - Be Yourself. Be Real. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “The controlled chaos inherent to the Safdie signature arrives in will force with Marty Supreme, a sports drama about a dog-eared hustler who's as obnoxious and down-and-out as and of Safdie's previous hapless dreamers...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “The third cut of Silent Night, Deadly Night is certainly not the deepest, though its treatment of a slaying Santa suffering from seasonally induced schizophrenia resulting in violent vigilantism holds some interest...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 23% 2/5 EDIT “Who is Ella McCay? Why is Ella McCay? What is Ella McCay?” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 2.5/5 EDIT “The latest Knives Out mystery is a moody, Lazarus laced bit of Agatha Christie inspired Christploitation, with Rian Johnson using a maudlin microcosm to reflect contemporary woes...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “Kate Hudson plays the hell outta her role in Brewer's poignant Song Sung Blue, a life affirming portrait on the pursuit of happiness that's sentimental but not schmaltzy...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% 2.5/5 EDIT “There's a nasty, subversive, and fantastically femme-centric pulp narrative underlying Feig's adaptation of The Housemaid, but sloven pacing and apathetic exposition undermine...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 49% 2.5/5 EDIT “My anaconda don't want none unless you're more fun, hun.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “In short, it's an anti-nostalgia elixir and works best in its profound moments pondering regret, a sting not lessened even as it turns back time. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% 1/5 EDIT “The most reasonably intelligent and enjoyable moment of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 ends when the opening credits fade as the film descends into a formidably nonsensical mire littered with boring characters who feel as lobotomized as the screenplay. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/5 EDIT “Yeah, she's a looker But beneath all the paint Cameron's cannibalized beyond all restraint Fire and Ash, more like Dust to Dust Repeating a message as if it's percussed” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “Mikkelsen and Weaver are a lot of fun in this dark fairy tale steeped in murder and gloom, but Fuller falters with creating the kind of magical, transfixing fantasy to elevate the film beyond the realm of being an odd bauble. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 3/5 EDIT “A buoyant but relatively modest solo effort from Tsou, the intergenerational conflicts playing out amidst the difficulties of a familial reset in a vibrant but strenuous metropolis directly channels the cinematic oeuvre of her co-writer, Sean Baker. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Straight Circle (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “As could be predicted, the film builds to an expected, and ultimate irony. But much like the title suggests, it feels as if we get right back to where we started from.” – IONCINEMA.com Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Girl That Got Glue Stuck in Her Hair (2025) 1/5 EDIT “The Girl that Got Glue Stuck in Her Hair seems to belong to a strangely troubling new breed of film, exploitative docufiction, wholly dependent on pop topicality but director Alvin Gray bungles this to such a degree it feels automatically irrelevant...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Nov 19, 2025 Full Review
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