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Jim Hunter
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Film Critic - WEHT/WTVW - https://www.tristatehomepage.com/community/movie-reviews/
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Wicked: For Good features everything that was great about the first film but the cash-grab decision to separate the show's acts ruins it.

Wicked could have been a five-star film. Wicked: For Good is half of that

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#WickedForGood
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't is the barest minimum of entertainment. Cashing in on the charisma of its stars, it gives them so little to do that the whole thing proceeds like a mildly bemusing card trick.

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November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The Running Man wildly shifts from “dark and gritty” to Edgar Wright action-comedy before the film becomes totally unglued in the last act with every idea thrown haphazardly at the camera.

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#RunningMan
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Die My Love features a fully committed performance from Jennifer Lawrence who goes from feral physicality to letting deep inner pain play on her face in silence.

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#DieMyLove
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Predator: Badlands is everything you might want in a Predator movie with some eye-popping and creative visuals and action sequences. It's fun science fiction/action spectacle that would work as a summer blockbuster.

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Predator: Badlands Review: Fun Action/Sci-Fi Film Returns Franchise to Its Roots
Predator: Badlands is a fun action/science fiction movie that proves the Predator franchise is now in very capable hands, as the film gives everything that Predator fans mi…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Christy puts biopic cliches into a blender with sports movie cliches and pours it over a bad Sydney Sweeney performance. But there is one harrowing sequence that almost made it worth watching.

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Christy Review: Biopic/Sports Movie Clichés Knock Out Sydney Sweeney Awards Hopes
Christy is a biopic and a boxing movie made almost entirely of cliches, and while Sydney Sweeney may have awards hopes, her performance in Christy does not warrant much consideration…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Bugonia is a good performance piece for Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, but there are so many bad writing choices. The worst is an ending that makes the rest of the film retroactively worse.

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Bugonia Review: Bad ending ruins drama from Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
Directed by Lanthimos, Bugonia stars Emma Stone as a high-powered pharmaceutical company executive who gets kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists, one of whom is played by Jesse Plemons.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Shelby Oaks shows Chris Stuckmann's talent for shot framing, lighting, and the kinds of creepy scares that make for good horror. It shows its budget and lags in the second act, but more than anything else, it made me excited for his next film.

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Shelby Oaks Review: Promising debut horror film from Chris Stuckmann
Shelby Oaks is the debut film from YouTube film critic Chris Stuckmann, and while it’s clear that Stuckmann uses his encyclopedic knowledge of film in its creation, Shelby Oaks shows his promise to…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is not a film about Springsteen as much as it's a film about depression’s ceaselessness using Bruce as its vehicle, which is more important than another biopic.

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October 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Good Fortune picks at class inequality and the general hopelessness of our current economy. And yet it doesn’t have the courage of its convictions to offer anything beyond the most cosmetic solutions.

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October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Black Phone 2 take a long time to establish its own identity and develop its themes and characters, but once it does, its strong cast, thematic heft, and decent scare sequences make it a worthwhile horror film.

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#BlackPhone2
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Kiss of the Spider Woman has some good choreography and musical numbers. Though I'm not in love with all the changes from the '85 film, this remains a classic story about the transcendence of love.

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#KissoftheSpiderWoman
October 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Tron: Ares features fantastic visual effects and some compelling action sequences, but the characters have flat arcs, and Jared Leto is just bad, delivering a wooden, phoned-in performance.

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#TronAres
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Good Boy's premise - telling a haunted house tale from a dog's perspective - is good, but the execution doesn't take advantage of the premise: too many cheap scares and nothing uniquely canine about the dog's behavior.

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#GoodBoy
October 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The Smashing Machine includes the best performance of Dwayne Johnson's career - which isn't saying much

The film begins as a compelling character study but eventually falls into becoming a middling sports drama

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#TheSmashingMachine
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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One Battle After Another is mesmerizing and deeply engaging. But its heroes are not heroic, which makes the film's meaning and message difficult to pin down.

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#OneBattleAfterAnother
October 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The Strangers: Chapter 2 is just a 96-minute-long chase sequence that becomes repetitive before it's ridiculous.

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September 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Him is made with the kind of "we'll never get to make a movie again so let's do every idea in this one" energy that I love, but there are so many thematic threads that don't weave together, making it a bit too messy to recommend

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September 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a sweet, maudlin, optimistic romance, but because the characters lack depth, the film has little to explore.

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September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues satisfies the lowest expectations and falls into the same trap as so many legacy sequels: it thinks that getting band back together again is enough.

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#SpinalTap2
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The Long Walk is a competently made Stephen King adaptation with a good - though uncinematic - premise, but its action becomes repetitive and its message unsubtle.

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September 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Splitsville is very funny, but by the end it descends to simply being a good farce rather than a comedy with three dimensional characters and something to say.

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#Splitsville
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The Conjuring: Last Rites is for fans of the franchise only. It is shallow, unenlightened, jump-scare-heavy horror that features flat characters and arcs. Just what the fans have grown accustomed to.

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September 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The Roses matches two good actors who make the best of some acerbic lines, but the relationship doesn't develop so much as it oscillates between nice and mean without any character depth.

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The Roses Review: Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Colman’s Chemistry Can’t Save Ill-Conceived Comedy
The Roses is an ill-conceived but somewhat entertaining relationship comedy that only partly works because of the chemistry between Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.
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September 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Nobody 2 delivers the action modern audiences expect, but if Nobody tried to sell Bob Odenkirk as an action star, then Nobody 2 asks us if we would buy that same thing again. I’m asking, “Is there anything new?”

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August 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM