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3/4
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The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth
(2023)
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Randy Myers
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The intention here is to inspire, and Taylor’s fifth feature accomplishes that admirably. It’s a testimonial of why we should never forget history and why it’s vital to be compassionate and help others in need.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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2.5/4
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Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The start of its third act wobbles a bit, but the filmmakers provide a smashing ending that holds hope there will be more adventures to follow.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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1.5/4
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The Napa Boys
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Still, there is something about Corirossi's comedy that's so committedly in your face you can't ignore it, but I grew weary of its artillery of sophomoric, repetitive inside-baseball jokes.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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3.5/4
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André Is an Idiot
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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The award-winning documentary sneaks up on you and might even change how you live in the present moment. At the very least, it’s a good reminder to get a colonoscopy.
Posted Mar 11, 2026
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2.5/4
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Dolly
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Blackhurst gives it all a DIY feel and that further heightens the homespun, backwoods madness that ensues.
Posted Mar 05, 2026
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3.5/4
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Hoppers doesn’t have the emotional depth of “Toy Story,” but that’s not its purpose. This one makes you laugh and gasp and even question the audacity of what you just saw before. Go see it.
Posted Mar 04, 2026
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2/4
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Crazy Old Lady
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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While director and screenwriter Martín Mauregui does work in elements of dark comedy and reflects on how the dark chapters in history leave a lasting bloody imprint, all the wickedness wears thin near the end even if Maura and Hendler keep us watching.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3/4
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Operation Taco Gary's
(2024)
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Randy Myers
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It lampoons our conspiracy culture and gets stranger the more it proceeds, a good thing.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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3.5/4
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Paul McCartney: Man on the Run
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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With bravura and fearless performances from Chastain and Hernández, this is an unsparing descent into the maw of cruel behavior that draws blood and exposes the hypocrisy behind so-called good deeds.
Posted Feb 26, 2026
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4/4
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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It’s an exciting and emotional head trip worth revisiting time and again.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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2.5/4
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Honey Bunch
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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This works most of the time and is flush with countless homages to other films and asks big questions about what we would do in desperate situations for those we love.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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3/4
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The Dreadful
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Turner and Harrington’s post-“Game of Thrones” reunion finds them playing lovers and the two work well together, but this is Harden’s scene-chewing film.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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2.5/4
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Midwinter Break
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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“Midwinter Break” is most satisfying as an actors’ showcase, especially when Manville aces a revelatory monologue that dislodges a long-festering secret that has consumed her and knocked her marriage off course.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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3.5/4
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Kokuho
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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The film’s final act is an unexpected heartbreaker, which makes the story all the more compelling and satisfying.
Posted Feb 20, 2026
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3/4
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GOAT
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The best moments come when “GOAT” takes a breath and lets Jett and Will to get to know each other and talk about their strengths, hopes, faults and fears.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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3/4
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State of Fear
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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With its bracing cinematography, lean-and-mean screenplay and airtight direction by Pedro Morelli, this is an unsparing, uncompromising road race on some mean, blood-soaked streets where no one comes out a winner.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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3/4
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Cold Storage
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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“Cold Storage” is well aware it needs to be ridiculous, gory and fast-paced. It’s all that and more with Redgrave further classing it up as a grief stricken storage center customer caught in the fray.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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3.5/4
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Sock it to ‘em, Verbinski and Robinson. Your ire and outrage proves to be entertaining and hopefully not so prescient.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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4/4
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Cinematographer Erik Wilson makes L.A. sleek, sexy and rough around the edges and that contributes in giving it a sleepless feel.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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4/4
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Pillion
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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It’s a mature and thought-provoking film about learning to love and embrace your kinky self before committing to someone else.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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3.5/4
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Nuisance Bear
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Nuisance Bear defies categorization but offers wise insight through showing not telling. It’s subtle, affecting and unforgettable.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Barbara Forever
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Takes an experimental approach that mirrors Hammer’s indelible work that is as touching as it is elucidating.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3/4
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Hot Water
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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It’s an undemanding watch but I enjoyed riding along with both the characters and the actors, especially when they land in Santa Cruz.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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The Last First: Winter K2
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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An eye-opening but heartbreaking film.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Josephine
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Gemma Chan co-stars and gives a nuanced performance as Jospehine’s mom. But this is Tatum’s finest few hours on film. He’s never been better.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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The Incomer
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The Incomer is refreshingly upbeat, never mean and immediately puts you in a good mood. No wonder it took home the top prize in the Next category.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Leviticus
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The premise offers ample opportunities for good scares, tension and symbolism, and there’s a steamy scene aboard a bus.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Bedford Park
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Sexy, moving and poignant, “Bedford Park” doesn’t soft-pedal the reality of being children of immigrants and never takes the easy way with overly convenient answers or solutions.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Union County
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The testimonials from real people who are getting their life back, along with Poulter’s perfect performance, power this beautiful drama that has an electrified real docudrama feel to it.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Wicker
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s ribald fable casts a comedic spell as it leads to a Satisfying finale. You’ll have a good time with this one.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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I Want Your Sex
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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I Want Your Sex surprises at every turn and is impossible to resist.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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Cookie Queens
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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This undeniable charmer rambles along with four Girl Scouts as they go about the business of selling cookies.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3/4
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The Moment
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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...a cunning time-capsule-worthy satire that socks it to corporate America and our fan worshipping selves.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3/4
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Arco
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Arco gets you where it counts, putting a lump in your throat and even offering a ray of hope.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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3.5/4
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A Private Life
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Jodie Foster works magic like that onscreen and presents us with one of the most fully developed, certainly fascinating characters you will likely encounter this year in director/ co-screenwriter Rebecca Zlotowski’s French noirish black comedy.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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4/4
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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The Testament of Ann Lee all but replicates what it is like to be in the throes of a passionate religious movement, and does it with a command and feminist fervor that is as undeniable as the mastery of the central, all-in performance from Seyfried.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3/4
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Mother of Flies
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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It’s a tricky work that’s pulled off well.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3/4
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The Rip
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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The Rip seems highly possible until its overblown climatic end, but even when it succumbs to the action thriller norms, it and the cast always keeps you thoroughly entertained.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3/4
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Foy’s internalized performance conveys how important it is to reconcile with grief, not to abandon it nor place it on an out-of-the-way emotional shelf.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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Peter Pan
(1953)
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Glenn Lovell
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"Peter Pan" comes alive whenever the animators cut back to Hook and his scurvy swabbies.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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UHF
(1989)
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Glenn Lovell
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It is entertaining and funny enough to ensure the video satirist an encore performance as a small-town bungler named George Newman.
Posted Jan 21, 2026
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3/4
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Night Patrol
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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As what happens with the best grindhouse movies, “Night Patrol” spares no one, gets a bit messy and is devoutly uninterested in playing it safe as it hits us with one surprise after another.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3/4
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Randy Myers
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A strong supporting cast — Lukas Gage, Molly Shannon, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jameela Jamil and Lucien Laviscount – ups the entertainment value. Since rom-coms have been a bit blah of late, this one will satisfy that itch even if it’s no gamechanger.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3.5/4
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Some might take issue that actual recordings get used, but given the message this expertly made film so emphatically presents, that haunting voice makes the film all that more powerful, meaningful and dispiriting.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3.5/4
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All That's Left of You
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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A potent and gripping family drama that enlightens and moves us in equal measures.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3/4
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Rosemead
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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This is the very definition of a tough but important watch, and it’s handled with sensitivity by all involved, especially the Fremont-born Shou and Liu.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3.5/4
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I Was a Stranger
(2024)
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Randy Myers
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It’s a suspenseful handwringer that features one of the most nerve-wracking boat-raft passages I’ve ever seen on film. Andersen has also come up with a perfect ending, one that illustrates so much by saying so little.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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3.5/4
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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Van Sant’s feature re-creates the 1977 details to perfection while the screenplay by Austin Kolodney wields a rapier wit and an awareness that this tale, which tips its hat to Sidney Lumet’s great Dog Day Afternoon and other great ’70s American films.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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2/4
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Goodbye June
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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To its credit, the cast works wonders with the little it is given, but that just isn't enough.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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2/4
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The Choral
(2025)
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Randy Myers
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The Choral has top-tier production values to its credit, but it all seems cobbled together from other oft-told stories. In the end, it should have taken a cue from Guthrie’s tinkering about with dated material and punched it up a bit more.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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