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Project Hail Mary (2026) Chris Klimek A buoyant, smartly executed sci-fi lite that’s easy to recommend, even if I wanted it to be just a little bit tougher.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Vertigo (1958) Chris Klimek Stewart had never before allowed himself to be so unlikable, Hitchcock had never exposed his own attitudes toward his leading ladies so openly, and Novak gave the performance of her career.
Posted Mar 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Apollo 13 (1995) Mark Jenkins It’s almost as stirring as the final scene of one of those movies where the underdog Little League team wins the crucial final game of the season.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Alan Zilberman It internalizes the "it takes a village" approach that blends community support with state-provided assistance. Boys like Christy need both to succeed, a hard truth that is both a challenge and opportunity.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Aontas (2025) Alan Zilberman A backward screenplay comes with risks; Aontas sidesteps them with a sharp attention to detail. Some images or details might seem inconsequential, but their importance are made clear as it hurdles toward the "beginning."
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Horseshoe (2025) Alan Zilberman Horseshoe is ultimately a stinging illustration of how the death of a parent—even when you’re well past middle age—is another kind of coming-of-age.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man (2025) Alan Zilberman It’s up to the viewer to determine how much of Adams’ commentary they accept, but on a subtextual level, it’s fascinating to watch a politician grapple with his commitment to the truth while indulging in utterly human delusions of grandeur.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Girls & Boys (2025) Alan Zilberman Secrets and revelations heighten the drama, while the actors keep the story grounded. Hannon is a striking performer, whose mix of vulnerability and defiance showcase her star material.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Saipan (2025) Alan Zilberman Maybe you won’t need to re-litigate the incident like an Irish soccer supporter, but then again, digging into someone else’s real-life drama is a delicious pleasure that never gets old.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) Nicole Arthur As it happens, though, Lee’s sensibilities are perfectly suited to Austen’s elegant 19th-century novel, and Thompson’s screenplay, which draws heavily on its source, avoids both undue desecration and reverence.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Chris Klimek It’s a B movie stacked with A-list talent, but even at an anachronistically reasonable run time of 105 minutes, Killing feels overlong, perhaps because of its overreliance on that death row framing sequence, to which we periodically return.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Joel E. Siegel At the fadeout, one leaves Chocolat with the same uncomfortably overstuffed feeling that results from compulsively devouring an entire pan of fudge.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Sarah Marloff One of my problems with Fennell is that she doesn’t know when more is just more.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Alan Zilberman The desire to educate increases the potential for sanctimony. Dabis nearly gets into that territory, then relents by finally following the nature of her characters. Parts of the film, especially the quieter final messages, are genuinely moving.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Alan Zilberman Send Help is more akin to a dark comedy with a lot of blood and guts. So much blood and guts, in fact, that there are moments where you won’t know whether to laugh or puke.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Alan Zilberman Pillion is easily the more satisfying film because it avoids cliches for something more psychologically astute. Colin and Ray’s relationship is depicted with real poignance because the film respects who they are as individuals without judgment.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Mortician (2025) Pat Padua "Sadr gives a truly heartbreaking performance, shifting gradually from purehearted stoicism to a palpable despair."
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Mark Jenkins If Lee’s idea of Jane Austen was sitcommy, it at least had spirit and wit. "Crouching Tiger" loses its zest whenever it cuts to a scene that wasn’t choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Chris Klimek There’s a perfect if unintended harmony of form and content in Mercy: This harebrained real-time whodunit about an accused killer standing trial before an AI judge appears to have been written, directed, and performed via algorithm.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Chris Klimek Letting us watch Fiennes lip-synch to Iron Maiden can only forgive so much.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Strange Days (1995) Pat Padua "...chillingly prescient in so many other ways, an opening volley for a new century that would unfold in ways we could never have predicted."
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Lydia Wei The action is fast-paced, frenetic, and riveting.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Chris Klimek It gives us more of everything that was great about the last one, but with too little that feels new.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Alan Zilberman Feig could have easily cut an hour to make a breezy, nasty work that would scarcely give anyone time to breathe. Instead, The Housemaid plods along, inspiring more of a shrug than the catharsis it dearly craves.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Mother's Baby (2025) Lydia Wei Leuenberger imbues her performance with a quiet, observant dignity, and even when Julia’s actions grow more and more extreme, you never lose your steadfast faith in the truth of her perceptions.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Chris Klimek It never pierces the shell of Clooney’s innate charisma, no matter how many friends and colleagues we see his alter ego screw over—certainly not enough to make us buy it as a character study.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Alan Zilberman It’s the lively, freewheeling quality of The Secret Agent that makes it so compelling. Its characters find passion and community amid a state that seeks absolute control because, after years under a dictatorship, dignity is its own kind of rebellion.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Alan Zilberman The Stranger is a minor triumph of style serving substance. The gorgeous depiction of mid-century Algiers, coupled with Voisin’s screen presence, are absorbing because Meursault’s conduct remains tantalizingly elusive—at least until the defiant climax.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Alan Zilberman There is a lot to consider and debate in this film, but it ultimately unfolds like a thought exercise. With its deadpan comic discursions and romantic trysts, Jude has created the kind of art-house fare that’s more fun to discuss than it is to experience.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Alan Zilberman Raw emotion defines the untrained actor’s performance and offers a reminder of what the Dardennes can achieve when their unique storytelling method reaches its high point.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Alan Zilberman Splitting the difference between Whiplash and Call Me By Your Name, the Slovenian coming-of-age drama Little Trouble Girls is sharply observed and sincere.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Case 137 (2025) Alan Zilberman To watch how bad cops lie and distort the truth is to share Stéphanie’s simmering rage. Only then can we see the film’s provocative thesis: Good cops are secretly idealistic, no matter their taciturn, borderline cynical exterior.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Alan Zilberman Fans of 2015’s Phoenix and 2018’s Transit may be frustrated by this more minor undertaking. But if you let go and ride the vibe then you might forget the director’s masterpieces and long for company this nurturing.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Lydia Wei It’s actually a very good rom-com, especially once you stop grappling with Luke as a serious romantic contender and accept him as the handsome plot device he is meant to be.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Chris Klimek While Agnes is the focus, Mescal’s performance is just as accomplished.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Satan Jawa (2017) Pat Padua What makes Setan Jawa remarkable is that—with inspiration drawn from wayang shadow puppet theater and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu—it’s a black-and-white silent film.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Chris Klimek If you like your Wicked with more wearied resignation, less singing, and less Bowen Yang, then this is the shorter, sadder second act for you
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Sneakers (1992) Chris Klimek It’ll put a smile on your face without raising your pulse.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Alan Zilberman Joel Edgerton’s performance is a moving blend of character and performer, giving his performance a powerful quality because we can see how much is held back.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Alan Zilberman Not only does Johnson find a clever solution to an "impossible" crime, he uses the mystery genre to explore religion’s place in modern life. In more ways than one, his devout hero needs faith in order to survive.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Pat Padua "A fascinating drama, its 16mm aesthetic transporting the viewer into the storied past of the New York art world."
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Stop Making Sense (1984) Pat Padua Despite the wild eyes and non sequiturs, Byrne’s vision is accessible and charismatic. It’s incredibly moving that someone so clearly awkward and uncomfortable can be himself and make money from it
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Lydia Wei Now You Don’t is still a goof, for sure, the type of film that’ll break your brain if you try too hard to think about the magic or the plot holes. But it’s fun.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Alan Zilberman Panahi loathes authoritarianism, but his alternative offers no easy answers. It’s this thrilling provocation and acknowledgment of humanity that elevates It Was Just an Accident beyond a mere thriller.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Chris Klimek Let it suffice to say that this nail-biter never relieves the tension it builds from its opening frames.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Chris Klimek The movie is resoundingly … not an embarrassment.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Alan Zilberman In high Gothic style, the story of the mad scientist and his hideous creation has never been more visually sumptuous. With terrific performances to boot, del Toro’s long-awaited film is the definitive movie version of the classic novel.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Urchin (2025) Alan Zilberman Director Harris Dickinson realizes, with a lot of confidence for a debut filmmaker, that he serves his hero better by letting us share his life, rather than any false sense of rescue.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Anemone (2025) Alan Zilberman It rises above the mere trappings of his nepo baby roots. It has some stirring imagery, and the performances—his father is the star, after all—are terrific. But its intense, uncompromising nature is also a weakness.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Alan Zilberman It does not take a Ph.D. in literature to recognize how public life is increasingly Orwellian, so the fundamental error in the new documentary Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 is how it mistakes surface-level pattern recognition with insight.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
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