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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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The Strangers: Chapter 3 has the most psychological dimension of the three films, but whatever is good about it isn't worth its bad plotting and having to sit through the other two movies.

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#TheStrangers3
February 7, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Iron Lung is a box office sensation that demonstrates influencers' ability to marshall an audience, but - despite flashes of interesting imagery - the film could have benefited from a more experienced creative team.

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#IronLung
February 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Send Help is a revenge fantasy, a love story, and a survival tale, and Sam Raimi makes the mix of tones work. It is fun, gory spectacle that works best for those on Raimi's wavelength.

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#SendHelp
January 31, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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A Private Life is good because of Jodie Foster, but its plot is uneven. The theme about the difficulty of knowing other people and allowing oneself to be known works well even if the mystery doesn't.

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#APrivateLife #ViePrivee
January 31, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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The Testament of Ann Lee features the #Oscars biggest snub: Amanda Seyfried should have a Best Actress nom.

Seyfried’s total commitment to what this film is doing and how it’s doing it makes the film mostly work

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#TestamentofAnnLee
January 23, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Dead Man's Wire features a good but affected Bill Skarsgård performance in a story that is both structurally wonky and timely.

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#DeadMansWire
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the first great movie of 2026. Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell deliver fully committed performances in another Alex Garland film about the decay of civilized society.

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#28YearLaterTheBoneTemple
January 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Primate is a gory and shocking horror film that luxuriates in violence and mayhem while its thin characters and plot plod along – and yet it still managed to produce more than a few effectively cringy moments.

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#Primate
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Avatar: Fire and Ash has the same great special effects that you've seen in the previous two movies, but because it is functionally a movie - with a story and character arcs and everything - it is by default the best Avatar

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#Christy
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Hamnet features the best performance of the year from Jessie Buckley who delivers soul-shattering scenes of grief.

There may be a small audience for a film recontextualizing Hamlet in Shakespeare's biography, but I'm in it.

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#Hamnet
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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#AvatarFireandAsh is the best #Avatar movie ...

But that's not saying much.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is nothing but jump scares and shallow characters making dumb horror movie decisions. It quickly descends from bad to annoying and somehow gets worse.

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#FNAF2 #FiveNightsatFreddys2
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Eternity is a perfectly fine romantic comedy/drama. The leads are likeable, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph hams up a good supporting role in a story that somewhat explores what makes a life well-lived.

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#Eternity
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Zootopia 2 is fun, engaging, and energetic entertainment. It has just enough of a message to check off the box that it says … something.

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#Zootopia2
November 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Rental Family is a quietly profound film similar to (but not nearly as good as) Ikiru about the magic of human connection and belief that we can help each other through all this.

Brendan Fraser is effortlessly affable

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#RentalFamily
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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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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#NowYouSeeMeNowYouDont
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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#PredatorBadlands
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
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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#SpringsteenDeliverMefromNowhere
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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#GoodFortune #moviereview
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM