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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
(2026)
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Robyn Bahr
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Immortal Man certainly is a lot of misery business, but the misery is done in high style.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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Mr. Burton
(2025)
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Stephen Farber
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The subject of mentorship is not treated frequently onscreen, but Mr. Burton may be remembered as one of the definitive explorations of the theme.
Posted Mar 20, 2026
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He Bled Neon
(2026)
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Richard Lawson
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It’s not worth trying to get one’s bearings in any given scene, because Kirsch will just stage the same fight anyway and reveal nothing of interest about the plot.
Posted Mar 19, 2026
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Capturing Bigfoot
(2026)
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Sheri Linden
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If you’re not invested in the question of whether the ’67 footage is real or an elaborate hoax, you won’t find the newly discovered material explosive, but even so, its significance is resoundingly clear.
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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Drag
(2026)
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Jordan Mintzer
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If their first feature ultimately lacks depth or even a credible premise, Ullman and Yagolnitzer make up for it with some strong sight gags and a heavy dose of dark humor.
Posted Mar 18, 2026
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DreamQuil
(2026)
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Sheri Linden
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Beneath the well-engineered surface of mannerisms, ambitions and frustrations, what’s missing is an emotional hook that truly catches.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Love Language
(2026)
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Angie Han
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In neither case is the pairing able to generate enough heat to convince us of the pull between them.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Basic
(2026)
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Angie Han
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The pair are great fun to watch together, and certainly share more interesting chemistry with each other than either does with Nick, who, as played by Smith, is exactly the handsome blank slate he needs to be and not much more.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Big Girls Don't Cry
(2026)
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Sheri Linden
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This story of the summer holiday break in rural New Zealand pulses with a powerful sense of place and terrifically charged scenes of chaotic intimacy, its exceptional performances led by Palmer, Rain Spencer and Noah Taylor.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Manhood
(2026)
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Daniel Fienberg
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Manhood is a documentary about a subject that will produce much uncomfortable giggling, but it is not a sniggering documentary.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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My Brother's Killer
(2026)
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Jordan Mintzer
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What makes Mason’s doc stand out from other cold case flicks is how it goes beyond sensationalizing to explore something more sinister within the neon-lit world of ‘80s Los Angeles.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Family Movie
(2026)
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Angie Han
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As a celebration of the Bacon-Sedgwick clan’s bond and a love letter to their craft, Family Movie is sweet and sincere. As an actual movie to be enjoyed by people who don’t share those last names, it has all the limitations of, well, a family movie.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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Hokum
(2026)
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David Rooney
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While it’s a little low on scares, Hokum is pacey and involving enough to keep genre fiends watching once it hits streaming, just for production designer Til Frohlich’s creepy hotel set alone, a place that looks untouched by the passing years.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
(2026)
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Angie Han
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As played by Marsden, González and Vaughn, they have more than enough vibrancy and charisma to sell us on these people in the moment. And what emerges from their shared chemistry is an unexpectedly earnest story about regret and second chances.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
(2026)
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Daniel Fienberg
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A highly entertaining, full of ridiculously fun early footage of the band and its predecessors, and deeply emotional, with Flea succeeding in making me tear up on multiple occasions.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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Over Your Dead Body
(2026)
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Angie Han
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It actually comes as a slight disappointment when... Over Your Dead Body transitions into a relatively straightforward battle for survival. But at least “straightforward,” in this case, still means packed with playful punches.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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Power Ballad
(2026)
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Angie Han
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Like the catchiest pop hits, it’s a little bit familiar, a little bit unexpected and utterly, thrillingly satisfying.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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Pretty Lethal
(2026)
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Angie Han
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The impression Pretty Lethal leaves behind is one of unfulfilled potential, an exciting premise executed as a fitfully fun but mostly forgettable distraction.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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The Saviors
(2026)
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Angie Han
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It’s a message that’s always worth remembering, and one that sadly feels more essential than ever. If only it had been delivered in a package sturdy enough to really sell it.
Posted Mar 16, 2026
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Chili Finger
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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With the exception of the central character played by Judy Greer, all the figures onscreen display the sort of eccentricities that are presumably meant to be either amusing or endearing but instead simply come across as odd.
Posted Mar 15, 2026
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The Sun Never Sets
(2026)
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Angie Han
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Swanberg’s loose approach to storytelling, in which he outlines a plot and then lets his cast improvise the lines, is perhaps the movie’s greatest asset.
Posted Mar 14, 2026
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Kill Me
(2026)
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Angie Han
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If its exploration of these ideas is ultimately too incomplete to feel fully satisfying, its performances are strong enough to draw attention throughout.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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Anima
(2026)
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Sheri Linden
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It’s as tried-and-true a story template as you can find, and one that writer-director Brian Tetsuro Ivie gently twists, to magnificent low-key effect, with a dash of icy sci-fi and a soulful retro yearning.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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Wishful Thinking
(2026)
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Angie Han
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It’s a goofy premise that would be done no favors by thinking about the rules too hard. So, wisely, Parkes does not really try. Instead, he applies it as a Charlie Kaufman-lite thought experiment focused on exactly two people.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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I Love Boosters
(2026)
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Angie Han
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Watching it feels less like being transported into a different universe than putting on X-ray goggles to look at our own -- and finding, buried under all the frustration and despair, a joyful and unruly sense of hope.
Posted Mar 13, 2026
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Reminders of Him
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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Director Vanessa Caswill and co-screenwriters Lauren Levine and Hoover manage to effectively sweep you into the melodramatic proceedings... It helps that the characters are all sympathetic and appealingly played.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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My Wife Cries
(2026)
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Jordan Mintzer
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Because of the way the director works, emotions tend to be more discussed than felt, although there’s something about Carla’s desperation that pierces through all the soberness.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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Dust
(2026)
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Leslie Felperin
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Dust icily exposes how character can evaporate in the crucible of greed, but the plodding pace makes this ethical exercise feel attenuated and flat by the time the climax rolls around.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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The Loneliest Man in Town
(2026)
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Jordan Mintzer
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The filmmakers attempt to dramatize Cook’s life while he faces the perils of old age. The problem is that there’s not a whole lot of drama in this minimalist character study.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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Flies
(2026)
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David Rooney
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There’s too much depth of feeling for Moscas ever to feel contrived or cute. Eimbcke doesn’t shy away from sentimentality, but the emotional honesty and unfailingly light touch of his work prevent it from becoming saccharine.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars
(2026)
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Jordan Mintzer
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Haroun’s austere style and languid pacing are strictly for the art house. But there are some memorable moments in this rich and strange desert tale.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)
(2026)
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Leslie Felperin
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White’s jaunty editing ensures the proceedings roll merrily along, and yet the richness of detail in every frame makes this feel longer than its lean 71-minute running time, but not at all in a negative way.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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A Child of My Own
(2026)
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Leslie Felperin
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Chilean director Maite Alberdi continues to blur, smudge and gleefully mess with the lines between fiction and fact in her latest, the by-turns highly comical and then suddenly moving A Child of My Own.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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Project Hail Mary
(2026)
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David Rooney
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Even if Project Hail Mary at times leans into the sentiment to an almost saccharine degree, the movie’s natural sweetness is disarming. And it’s impossible to imagine an actor more adept at striking that tricky balance than Gosling.
Posted Mar 10, 2026
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War Machine
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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The film’s R rating is well-deserved thanks to the profusion of burnt and dismembered bodies on view in the alien machine’s wake. Unfortunately, the screenplay by Hughes and co-writer James Beaufort leaves much to be desired.
Posted Mar 09, 2026
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Lady
(2026)
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Jourdain Searles
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As it is, the film excels at depicting the complexity of female friendship within a devastating and isolating economic landscape.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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THE BRIDE!
(2026)
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David Rooney
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If any of this were amusing or suspenseful or frightening or tender or soulful or something, it wouldn’t be such a joyless slog. But the movie becomes like a shrill Bonnie and Clyde fever dream.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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Hoppers
(2026)
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David Rooney
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It shouldn’t all hang together as well as it does, but the movie’s freewheeling plotting is exhilarating, even more so when a frantic chase accelerates the action.
Posted Mar 02, 2026
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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There’s a rote quality to the proceedings that makes Scream 7 feel like a slog despite its high body count.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Sheri Linden
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There’s a lyrics-and-melody power to the interplay of sharp observations and visuals that dive deep into archival material -- a fitting dynamic for a film about someone with a preternatural gift for infectious tunes.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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The Ballad of Judas Priest
(2026)
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David Rooney
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One of the chief takeaways from fanboy co-directors Sam Dunn and Tom Morello’s entertaining legacy salute, The Ballad of Judas Priest, is how endearingly this canonical band comes across.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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Wolfram
(2025)
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David Rooney
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A four-chapter saga of escape, pursuit and survival, the film, for all its brutality, ultimately becomes less a lament for stolen lands and stolen children than a stirring account of endurance.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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Salvation
(2026)
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David Rooney
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This is a solidly acted drama with notably strong work from Cindoruk as the unlikely rabble-rouser. It’s also beautifully shot, with fluid camerawork from Ahmet Sesi̇gürgi̇l and Barış Aygen that snakes with grace and agility.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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The Postman
(1994)
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David Hunter
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Romantic and humorous, bucolic and political, The Postman is a thoroughly Italian missive that features the brilliant final performance by the late Massimo Troisi.
Posted Feb 23, 2026
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Psycho Killer
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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The climax proves thoroughly ridiculous, but by that point you’ve given up on the film anyway.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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Ultimately How to Make a Killing doesn’t have the courage of its convictions, or even its killings, giving it a blandness that’s surprising coming from the writer-director of the much sharper Emily the Criminal.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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The Dreadful
(2026)
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Frank Scheck
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Harden is the most entertaining thing about The Dreadful, which aims for classic folk horror but mostly feels tedious.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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A New Dawn
(2026)
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Leslie Felperin
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While Shinomiya’s visuals are admirably original, the script doesn’t have the emotional heft that helps the best Japanese cartoons crossover beyond niche fan bases. Still, it drifts along pleasantly enough
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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The Blood Countess
(2026)
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David Rooney
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It’s a challenge to stay with it for the protracted two-hour duration. At least there’s Huppert in gloriously aloof form, plus the overripe lusciousness of Martin Gschlacht’s cinematography; with an edible and/or a cocktail or three, that might be enough.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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We Are All Strangers
(2026)
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David Rooney
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A film in which nothing and everything happens. The movie now and then risks tipping into winsome cuteness, but Chen’s limpid naturalism helps sidestep potential clichés; its emotions are honest and earned.
Posted Feb 19, 2026
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