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Walter Chaw

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Anaconda (2025) 48% 1/4 EDIT “With its winking cameos, perfunctory narrative skeleton, and exhausted routines, Anaconda ’25 is rancid bait so moribund that no self-respecting anaconda would even consider eating it.” – Film Freak Central Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 1/4 EDIT “Song Sung Blue is a perfect bit of awards-season flotsam headed for the Hallmark Channel for the half-interested consumption of an audience needing a palate cleanser between Jennifer Love Hewitt movies. ” – Film Freak Central Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 0/4 EDIT “Ignore the offensive parts and what remains of Avatar 3 is a cacophonous mess of sentimental mumbo-jumbo.” – Film Freak Central Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 0.5/4 EDIT “Ella McCay is terrible agitprop, terrible championing of policy wonkery, terrible political satire. It falls out of a boat and misses the ocean. ” – Film Freak Central Dec 24, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “No Other Choice is fun, if typically brutal in that Park Chan-wook way. ” – Film Freak Central Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% 3.5/4 EDIT “Perkins is a master of negative space. ” – Film Freak Central Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3.5/4 EDIT “Die My Love is a difficult film to like. Thank God.” – Film Freak Central Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/4 EDIT “It’s true, there’s a giant, beating heart in the middle of what could have been another hollow exploitation of our lamented childhoods.” – Film Freak Central Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 2.5/4 EDIT “When this movie works, it works so well, although it won’t speak to everyone, and Cooper shouldn’t have tried to force it to.” – Film Freak Central Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% 1/4 EDIT “Keke Palmer is woefully wasted.” – Film Freak Central Oct 28, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 2/4 EDIT “A House of Dynamite has the whole world as its big blind, and yet it feels like there aren’t any stakes at all. ” – Film Freak Central Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Play Dirty (2025) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “Play Dirty is a non-starter. ” – Film Freak Central Oct 14, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “More than upbeat, it’s inspirational: a call to action, an invitation to the dance.” – Film Freak Central Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “I don’t know who Bugonia is for: I think it’ll disappoint fans of the original and of Lanthimos, and I think it’ll be as alien for neophytes and normies as a typically horrifying Lanthimos joint would have been.” – Film Freak Central Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 4/4 EDIT “Frankenstein is the film Guillermo del Toro was meant to make.” – Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “If it's a warning, The Long Walk is too late. If it's a documentary, it offers no fresh insights. Greed and violence have broken America? Got it. Does The Long Walk resonate as an object, though? That I could possibly get behind.I” – Film Freak Central Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Every performance in Sentimental Value is invisible and precious: the embodiment of a fully-formed human being in all their contradictions and ineffable subtlety.” – Film Freak Central Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 1/4 EDIT “Jay Kelly wants to preserve the inviolability of its sacred cake and eat it, too. It wants to be a bruising study of a failed man and an unironic celebration of a great artist. I don’t think you can do both of those things.” – Film Freak Central Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 0/5 EDIT “What is art when it doesn’t communicate what the artist is experiencing, only that they are experiencing it and want you to bear witness? Selfish is one word. Insufferable is another.” – Film Freak Central Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% 0.5/4 EDIT “Ballad of a Small Player is as misbegotten and ungainly as its title.” – Film Freak Central Sep 5, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 4/4 EDIT “This movie left me anxious and miserable, and also exhilarated and seen. ” – Film Freak Central Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% 1/4 EDIT “Honey Don’t! is a contemptuous film that’s contemptuous of you. It thinks so little of its audience, in fact, that it punishes its characters to teach us a cautionary lesson about our callous insensitivity. At least it’s got “irony” nailed.” – Film Freak Central Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% 4/4 EDIT “Zach Cregger’s Weapons is joy. ” – Film Freak Central Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Pumpkinhead (1988) 51% 3/4 EDIT “Pumpkinhead is literally about the impossibility of objective violence–every action, no matter how intimate or remote, has a spiritual impact on both victim and perpetrator. It’s a surprisingly rich vein for something like this to mine, and it resonates.” – Film Freak Central Aug 14, 2025 Full Review The Cell (2000) 46% 3/4 EDIT “I used to regard it as exploitation; now, it feels more like a deeply immersive Francis Bacon exhibit. Watching someone’s dreams should feel icky. ” – Film Freak Central Aug 5, 2025 Full Review
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