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6.5/10
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Leo
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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…Even with gripes and fully recognizing them, Leo is still filled with enough emotion to warrant a watch by yourself or with your kids. I don’t know how to explain it, but the heart shines through the formulaic nature.
Posted Nov 22, 2023
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8/10
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Believer 2
(2023)
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Sarah Musnicky
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More functioning as the second half of a duology rather than a sequel, Believer 2 functions well if viewed through that particular frame of mind.
Posted Nov 18, 2023
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6.5/10
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Napoleon
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Many elements of Napoleon are immensely captivating but don’t coalesce in a way that stays with us —unlike the man and the myth it seeks to capture.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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5.5/10
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Wish
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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Wish is ultimately not only far too cookie-cutter but disappointingly bad in some of its most important elements: visuals, music, and characters.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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7/10
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Rustin
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Rustin, for all of its flaws, is worth watching in every way because of the beauty of witnessing Coleman Domingo act.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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5/10
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In Love and Deep Water
(2023)
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Sarah Musnicky
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If you want to stick around for the adorable romantic chemistry between the two leads, then go for it. Otherwise, maybe toss yourself overboard and swim towards dry land for better ventures.
Posted Nov 17, 2023
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7/10
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Best. Christmas. Ever!
(2023)
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Sarah Musnicky
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Its message is an important one and one that will resonate with many, even if the delivery takes a while to fall into place.
Posted Nov 16, 2023
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8/10
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Everyone Will Burn
(2021)
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Kate Sánchez
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While some elements are a bit too repetitive, and the pacing lulls at points where it feels like it should speed up, Everyone Will Burn is still a tremendous and unsettling achievement.
Posted Nov 16, 2023
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4/10
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes undercuts a legacy that defined an era of young adult literature...
Posted Nov 15, 2023
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7.5/10
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All of Us Strangers
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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All of Us Strangers is a beautiful movie all around, with beautiful imagery, beautiful dialogue, and beautiful relationships.
Posted Nov 11, 2023
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6.5/10
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It's a Wonderful Knife
(2023)
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LaNeysha Campbell
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In its fusion of a Hallmark Christmas movie and B movie slasher, It’s a Wonderful Knife offers a uniquely enjoyable ride once you embrace its unconventional style.
Posted Nov 11, 2023
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9/10
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Godzilla Minus One
(2023)
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Sarah Musnicky
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Godzilla Minus One is a reminder to audiences why we fell in love with this kaiju, but also the universe in which it resides.
Posted Nov 11, 2023
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4.5/10
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The Marvels
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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In the end, The Marvels is a mess despite it’s leads trying their hardest to hold it all together.
Posted Nov 08, 2023
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8.5/10
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The Killer
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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The Killer is an incredibly nuanced and introspective feature that would be among the cream of any other film catalogue....Fincher proves himself to be one of the most exciting, observant, and oddly human filmmakers working today.
Posted Nov 06, 2023
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8/10
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Higuita: The Way of the Scorpion
(2023)
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William Tucker
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Higuita: The Way of the Scorpion brings Colombia’s cult hero back to the limelight. This isn’t an autobiography of his life. It’s a greatest hit of one of that country’s greats.
Posted Nov 04, 2023
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6.5/10
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Nyad
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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A trimmed-down version of NYAD that saw itself as a sports drama first instead of biopic, with fewer flashbacks, fewer sidesteps to archival footage, and fewer animated sequences would have been exceptional.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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5/10
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Pain Hustlers
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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Pain Hustlers not only needs a higher dosage of fresh ideas, but a new prescription altogether.
Posted Nov 02, 2023
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5.5/10
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Nuovo Olimpo
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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Nuovo Olimpo is, unfortunately, not enough to make its delightful concept work.
Posted Oct 31, 2023
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9/10
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The Persian Version
(2023)
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Swara Salih
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The Persian Version goes beyond its title to be a universal yet specific story for immigrants everywhere. You’ll be equal parts laughing and crying throughout.
Posted Oct 31, 2023
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6.5/10
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Fingernails
(2023)
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Prabhjot Bains
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For all the feelings Fingernails conjures, one can’t help but feel empty upon its end, which suggests the only remedy for heartbreak and to a larger extent, loneliness, is finding someone new on which to project their own ideals and dreams.
Posted Oct 31, 2023
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5/10
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Five Nights at Freddy's
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Five Nights At Freddy’s saving grace for it is that it’s immediately available on Peacock. While it may not live up to the ambition of the project or the IP, it is perfect for the Halloween season.
Posted Oct 28, 2023
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8.5/10
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Sister Death
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Beautiful and macabre, Sister Death continues the stellar track record for Spanish horror originals on Netflix.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
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8/10
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Priscilla
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Priscilla is epically melancholy and wholly beautiful.
Posted Oct 23, 2023
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6/10
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The Devil on Trial
(2023)
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Charles Hartford
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The Devil on Trial delivers a fairly interesting look at a bizarre murder case that made headlines for being tied up in occult claims of possession.
Posted Oct 17, 2023
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6/10
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Dicks: The Musical
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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D*cks: The Musical is one of the strangest displays of creativity and spectacle committed to screen all year, and probably long before that.
Posted Oct 17, 2023
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9.5/10
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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It’s rare for a film to come along at this runtime and make every minute earned, but Killers of the Flower Moon does just that. There is nothing I would take away, nothing I would cut, and that is an achievement.
Posted Oct 17, 2023
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7/10
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The Conference
(2023)
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Charles Hartford
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Despite a strong opening setup for the cast and some unique approaches to how events play out once the bodies start hitting the floor, The Conference ultimately fails to stick the landing in the most memorable moments of its genre.
Posted Oct 14, 2023
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7/10
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All the Fires
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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All the Fires is not as visually captivating as you’d hope a movie about fires would be. But its perspective on the resentment and lionization of parents is thought-provoking...
Posted Oct 13, 2023
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6.5/10
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Foe
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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There’s a lot of good in Foe. It’s full of incredibly interesting ideas and pulls great performances out of all three of its actors. But it’s trying to be too many things at once and in so doing prevents itself from totally fulfilling any of its promises.
Posted Oct 13, 2023
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8/10
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The Burial
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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The Burial isn’t revolutionary, but it captures the elements of Souther courtroom drama films and engages with elements of race and class directly, making those tropes better for it.
Posted Oct 11, 2023
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10/10
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Blue Giant
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Blue Giant is written, animated, and composed by people who don’t just love jazz but know the absolute emotional resonance that lies inside every improvised note. It is, unequivocally, one of the best films of the year, animated or otherwise.
Posted Oct 11, 2023
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6/10
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A Deadly Invitation
(2023)
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Ricardo Gallegos
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With a running time of 92 minutes, a classic set-up, and familiar characters, Netflix users and casual fans of whodunits looking for something light will easily devour this.
Posted Oct 07, 2023
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7/10
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Ballerina
(2023)
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Sarah Musnicky
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Lee Chung-hyun’s Ballerina is a decent addition to the action genre, albeit with a slightly forgettable plot. What isn’t forgettable is how hard Jeon Jong-seo goes in her scenes.
Posted Oct 06, 2023
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7.5/10
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The Mill
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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The Mill is one of those mid to low-budget horror films that thrives in its constraints. Scaled down...[it] allows Howery to do the work and build empathy with the audience, speaking with us and as us.
Posted Oct 06, 2023
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6.5/10
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Fair Play
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Fair Play is a film with tonal shifts that aren’t always executed well. That said, once it finds its footing it’s a stark and uncomfortable look at a deteriorating relationship that races toward an unhinged uncertainty that pays tension off.
Posted Oct 06, 2023
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5/10
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The Exorcist: Believer
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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The Exorcist: Believer is a film buckling under the weight of a franchise attachment it didn’t need and built on a foundation of “almost.”
Posted Oct 04, 2023
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9/10
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100 Yards
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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A period piece, an intimate epic where the past meets the future, 100 Yards is an artful look at martial arts politics and a film that should be seen on the biggest screen.
Posted Oct 03, 2023
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6/10
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Flora and Son
(2023)
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Allyson Johnson
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Flora and Son might get lost admits the story it’s trying to tell, but Hewson is always captivating. It’s a shame then that the songs written for the film or the film itself couldn’t keep up with its star’s radiance.
Posted Sep 30, 2023
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4.5/10
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Overhaul
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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Overhaul is watchable but not necessarily enjoyable through and through.
Posted Sep 30, 2023
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Forgotten Love
(2023)
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Jason Flatt
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Forgotten Love burns nice and slowly over more than 120 minutes. Despite how its premise may sound on paper, it is one of 2023’s best romances by a landslide.
Posted Sep 29, 2023
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5.5/10
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Saw X
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Getting lost in the weeds of trying to turn the franchise again, driven by fan complaints for the last two films, SAW X feels like it’s chained by the past instead of keeping the franchise moving forward.
Posted Sep 28, 2023
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8/10
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
(2023)
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Charles Hartford
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar crafts a truly unique experience that is well worth investing the 39 minutes it takes to watch.
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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8.5/10
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Cobweb
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Campy in the places where it needs to be, grim in others, and always with something to say, Cobweb stands apart from other movies about movies as something truly unique, if only because Kim Jee-woon looks at the navel of cinema and calls it a clown.
Posted Sep 27, 2023
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7.5/10
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The Creator
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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As a film, and in a vacuum, Gareth Edwards’s ambition is in the upper echelon of sci-fi, but if you venture out of the silo, you’ll find it lands as just “good.”
Posted Sep 26, 2023
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10/10
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Concrete Utopia
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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...Concrete Utopia is an emotional force of a film. Not concerned with the disaster itself or the spectacle it could employ to focus on the moment of tragedy, the film offers epic landscapes but always keeps an intimate eye on the people in the high rise.
Posted Sep 24, 2023
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7.5/10
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Still, one thing is undeniable: writer-director Lindsey Anderson Beer deeply cares about Pet Sematary, about Ludlow, and about presenting a new audience with a story on grief that can meet them where they are positioning them into something larger.
Posted Sep 24, 2023
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Saltburn
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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Saltburn is stunning and hands-down Emerald Fennell’s best and most painstakingly precise work that doesn’t sacrifice emotion and intimacy for twisting pay-off.
Posted Sep 23, 2023
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3/10
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Expend4bles
(2023)
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Adrian Ruiz
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Expendables 4 might easily be mistaken for a straight-to-DVD release that relies more on explosions and R-rated deaths than genuine, pulse-pounding action.
Posted Sep 23, 2023
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9/10
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Sleep
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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SLEEP is an intimate horror story that has two endings depending on which path you choose to believe…It’s a testament to how strong the script is that no matter the reality, it still resonates.
Posted Sep 23, 2023
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8.5/10
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No One Will Save You
(2023)
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Kate Sánchez
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No One Will Save You is a gorgeous film and an atmospheric one that trusts its audience to solve the story without heavy exposition.
Posted Sep 22, 2023
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