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2.5/ 5
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The Strangers: Chapter 3
(2026)
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Troy Ribeiro
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This film is neither a disaster nor a triumph. It delivers moments of tension and a committed central performance, but stumbles on pacing, predictability, and a curious reluctance to bring its story to a decisive close.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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2.5/ 5
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Cheekatilo
(2026)
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Cheekatilo aspires to be a socially conscious thriller but ends up feeling like a déjà vu buffet of familiar tropes. It has a commendable premise and robust technical backing, yet the writing falters and the execution stumbles.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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3/ 5
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Primate
(2025)
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Primate is not here to teach moral lessons or rehabilitate humanity’s relationship with nature. It is here to entertain, to shock, and occasionally to delight with its audacity
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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3.5/ 5
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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This is a film of undeniable craft, elevated by strong performances and haunting music, yet held at arm’s length by its own politeness. It listens intently to the past but rarely raises its voice in the present
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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3.5/ 5
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Send Help
(2026)
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Send Help is uneven, indulgent, and occasionally frustrating. It is also bracingly watchable and oddly honest about the uglier instincts that surface when power shifts. Raimi may not achieve perfect balance, but he delivers...
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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2.5/ 5
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Shelter
(2026)
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Shelter is a neatly assembled action-thriller that knows exactly what it is and stops there. Fans of Jason Statham will find familiar pleasures, while others may find the experience curiously forgettable once the credits roll...
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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4/ 5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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This film is messy, bold and irresistibly alive. Safdie turns chaotic ambition into kinetic cinema, powered by Chalamet’s magnetic performance. Its flaws fade against its daring energy, delivering a frantic yet affecting experience
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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3.5/ 5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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The Bone Temple is uneven, occasionally indulgent, yet frequently remarkable. With Fiennes’ mesmerising performance anchoring the chaos, this chapter secures its place as one of the franchise’s boldest gambles, and, surprisingly, one of its most affecting
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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2.5/ 5
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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This film rarely justifies its journey. It offers intermittent thrills, a dependable central performance, and enough sincerity to avoid dismissal. Yet it never escapes the pull of formula. For audiences who enjoy the grim...
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3.5/ 5
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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This film is not designed for comfortable viewing. It is uneven, risky, and sometimes overwrought. It is also courageous, deeply felt, and astonishingly personal...
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3/ 5
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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This film is neither a polished biopic nor a glossy music drama. It is a tender salute to the quiet brilliance of small lives lived sincerely. The film falters when it indulges in melodrama, yet its heart is firmly in the right place.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3/ 5
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants
(2025)
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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants is pleasant rather than piercing. There are jokes, visual gags and stretches of inspired silliness, but they rarely spiral into the surreal anarchy that once defined Bikini Bottom.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3.5/ 5
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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The Housemaid may not be subtle, but it is rarely dull. Its pleasures are messy, stylised, and unapologetically loud. While it stumbles when it strains for plausibility or hesitates between camp and seriousness, it ultimately leans into...
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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2.5/ 5
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Anaconda is a film caught between affection and calculation. It wants to celebrate the joy of unpretentious entertainment, yet cannot quite deliver the reckless fun that would justify its own argument...
Posted Dec 26, 2025
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3/ 5
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Christmas Karma
(2025)
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This film is a heartfelt, imperfect, culturally rich festive drama that is far from flawless, yet it is fearless in its intent. It overreaches, dazzles, falters, and gets back up again, much like the immigrant story at its core
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/avatar-fire-and-ash-review-james-camerons-epic-burns-bright-but-not-without-scorch-marks
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/ 5
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The Great Shamsuddin Family
(2025)
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This culturally rooted entertainer celebrates the madness of big Indian families while acknowledging their burdens. It might not push cinematic boundaries, but it delivers an honest, heartfelt portrait of love wrapped in clutter
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/ 5
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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This film is an ambitious, visually impressive sequel that never quite harnesses its own power, yet it entertains just enough to keep viewers curious about what might come next.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/ 5
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Eternity
(2025)
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Eternity is a lightly philosophical rom-com that offers an amiable exploration of love, memory and the strange choices we carry into the unknown. It is neither as profound as it hopes to be nor as zany as it could be, but....
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Zootopia 2 is spirited, witty and filled with enough imagination to delight audiences of all ages. It packs in so many ideas that individual threads lose potency.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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4/ 5
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Dining With the Kapoors
(2025)
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Dining with the Kapoors is a heartfelt tribute to legacy, love and the inevitable passage of time. It balances nostalgia with contemporary spirit and leaves viewers wishing it were a recurring series
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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This film is inconsistent yet earnest, cluttered yet heartfelt and flawed yet emotionally persuasive. Those seeking intricate storytelling may leave wanting, but viewers invested in Glinda and Elphaba’s destiny will find it generous in its emotional depth
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/ 5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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The film is a colourful, chaotic, enjoyable escapade: some polished, some puzzling, many knowingly overstuffed. Its charm lies not in narrative sophistication but in its unabashed commitment to spectacle. Long-time fans will appreciate the...
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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The Running Man hurtles forward on ambition and adrenaline, its critique of media control gleaming beneath Wright’s hypnotic spectacle. Visually arresting but emotionally distant, it dazzles more than it disturbs...
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/ 5
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands won’t satisfy purists craving blood and brawn, but it’s a witty, self-aware reinvention of a weary franchise. Balancing parody with heart, it turns a galactic hunter into a surprisingly tender hero.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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This film is an audacious debut: flawed, tender, and quietly terrifying. Part haunted-house fable, part elegy for dying masters and loyal pets, Leonberg’s idea sometimes outpaces his execution, but the film lingers like a faithful dog at the door
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Black Phone 2 brings back not just its masked villain but also the 1980s horror vibe, with its creaky charm, moral undertones, and icy terror.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Emma Stone, Lanthimos' long-time muse, delivers another high-wire act; commanding, cruel, and impossible to look away from. Her Michelle is a creature of glass and steel, a corporate goddess masquerading as a moralist.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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This is messy, ambitious, and oddly moving, a film that weaponizes absurdity to underline how fragile revolutions, families, and nations can be. Some may find its tonal gymnastics exhausting, while others may relish its refusal to stay in one box.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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The film is a bruised elegy for men who mistake punishment for purpose. It’s messy, meandering, and occasionally self-absorbed but also unexpectedly tender
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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This is no sci-fi masterpiece, but it’s a dazzling, self-aware reboot that balances spectacle with sporadic soul. It upgrades the franchise without deleting its quirks: a meditation on creation and control dressed in the gear of blockbuster entertainment.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/5
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Good Fortune is not divine intervention. It’s divine confusion with a smile. Ansari’s reach sometimes exceeds his grasp, but he’s reaching for something noble: empathy in an age of exhaustion.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3.5/5
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Kuberaa
(2025)
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Kuberaa isn’t a perfect film. It soars early, stumbles briefly, and skids at the end. But its heart beats loud, and sometimes, that’s enough. If you’re the kind who likes their thrillers brooding rather than blazing, with a pinch of...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3/5
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Heads of State
(2025)
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Heads Of State is the cinematic equivalent of a flaming tomato hurled at a diplomatic summit: messy, unnecessary, but weirdly satisfying. Just don’t expect nuance. Or coherence. Or physics. It’s not a film you watch with your thinking cap on...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3/5
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Kaalidhar Laapata
(2025)
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Kaalidhar Laapata is a film of moments: some stirring, some strained. It’s not quite the cathartic ride it sets out to be, but it offers glimpses of grace—enough to make you wish it had trusted its silences more than its speeches.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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This latest excavation of the once-glorious saga – the seventh in the franchise - earnestly but unevenly attempts to blend action, spectacle, and social commentary. The result is a film that lumbers under its legacy, rousing itself into...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3.5/5
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Metro... In Dino
(2025)
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Film may seem indulgent, but director Anurag Basu ensures the viewer’s emotional investment pays off. As you leave the theatre, with love prevailing over life's tribulations, it’s hard not to feel a smile tug at your lips—the kind that lingers, not...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3.5/5
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Superman
(2025)
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This film may be overstuffed at times, but it’s brimming with heart and ideas. Unlike previous iterations, this edition is steeped in a sci-fi setting that’s modern and hyper-connected, reflecting a world shaped by surveillance, social media...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3/5
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Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan
(2025)
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This is a well-intentioned film with an identity crisis. It tries to feel something deeply, even if it often feels too much, too loudly, and for too long. It wants to be lyrical, but slips into parody; it wants to be profound, but settles for precious...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2/5
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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This film is a slick, watchable thriller that coasts on nostalgia and aesthetics. It’s brisk, bloody, and barely believable—but it doesn’t pretend to be anything deeper. If you're after disposable thrills and pretty people making poor decisions...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Nikita Roy
(2025)
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Nikita Roy may feel more like an enigmatic dinner conversation than a full-blown party. But for those who prefer slow-burn ambiguity, carefully composed frames, and villains who smile while pulling the floor from under you, it’s a commendable debut...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Sarzameen
(2025)
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Sarzameen—which translates to homeland—is less a film and more a checklist of patriotic tropes and emotional clichés. It wants you to feel, but insists on telling you exactly how and when. Earnest in tone but formulaic in structure...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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In The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Marvel returns to the drawing board—this time armed with chalk, retro optimism, and the ever-dependable Pedro Pascal
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3.5/ 5
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Mahavatar Narsimha
(2025)
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Mahavatar Narsimha may not match Pixar in polish, but in ambition, heart, and cultural rootedness, it’s a homegrown triumph. It proves that animated storytelling in India need not be infantile or ironic. It can be intense, introspective, and...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/ 5
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The Pickup
(2025)
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The Pickup is a comedy that tries to outsmart itself, and ends up trip-wiring its own momentum. It feels like an expensive prank played by a bunch of talented people who should have known better. A buddy-heist comedy in theory...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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3.5/5
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Together
(2025)
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Together isn’t your typical horror film. It’s part satire, part tragic romance, and part science experiment gone sentimentally sideways. The story doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny, and some of its weirder plot elements feel undercooked.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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The film may not redefine its genre, but for a couple of hours, it’s warm, fizzy, and just freaky enough to make you forget you’ve seen this trick before.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Tehran
(2025)
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For audiences seeking spectacle, car chases, and gravity-defying heroics, this may feel underwhelming. For those willing to navigate its measured pace and muted thrills, it offers moments of quiet intrigue, albeit too few to make it essential viewing...
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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The Map That Leads to You
(2025)
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The film promises a transformative journey, but ultimately takes the scenic route to nowhere particularly new. There are moments of charm—Heather’s hesitancy, Jack’s insistence on living in the present, and their undeniable chemistry—
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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2.5/5
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Nobody 2
(2025)
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This isn’t high art. It isn’t even fresh storytelling. But as guilty pleasures go, this film makes a strong case for being exactly what it says on the tin: a nobody that somehow becomes somebody.
Posted Aug 30, 2025
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