Rendy Jones
@rendy.bsky.social
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Entertainment journalist |Autostraddle | Them | Roger Ebert | Den of Geek | Rolling Stone | Paste
Member: Critics Choice, GALECA, NYFCO
Entertainment journalist |Autostraddle | Them | Roger Ebert | Den of Geek | Rolling Stone | Paste
Member: Critics Choice, GALECA, NYFCO
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'It Was Just an Accident' Review: Jafar Panahi's Bold, Captivating Moral Thriller That Explores Iran's Oppressed is One of 2025's Best
One of the most essential pieces of cinema you'll need to see this year.
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I'm deeply embarrassed that IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is my first Jafar Panahi film because it is the boldest movie I've seen this year. A sublime thriller about the moral quandaries of Iran's oppressed — made guerilla-styled, son!
My review:
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My review:
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“LAST SAMURAI STANDING … seamlessly integrates some of the most intricate action filmmaking to be seen on television in years with a beating human heart that makes us care,” says @rendy.bsky.social about the Netflix show.
Netflix's "Last Samurai Standing" is One of the Best Action Shows of the Year | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
One of the best action TV dramas of this year.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“LAST SAMURAI STANDING … seamlessly integrates some of the most intricate action filmmaking to be seen on television in years with a beating human heart that makes us care,” says @rendy.bsky.social about the Netflix show.
And for my next trick, I'm going to give NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T a four star rating.
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‘Now You See Me: Now You Don't’ Review: Fun Action Threequel Revives a Campy Kind of Magic Long Lost in Movies
Spiritually hits the level of camp that predates the franchise’s existence.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
And for my next trick, I'm going to give NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T a four star rating.
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'Predator: Badlands' Review: Thrilling and Violent Predator Entry Finds Evolution in Humanizing Tale www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'Predator: Badlands' Review: Thrilling and Violent Predator Entry Finds Evolution in Humanizing Tale
'Predator: Badlands' is a decent Predator installment that pushes the series in a sharp direction, though it suffers as Trachtenberg’s ambitions seem constrained by studio conventions.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
'Predator: Badlands' Review: Thrilling and Violent Predator Entry Finds Evolution in Humanizing Tale www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
With awards season in full swing, I’m back in the Oscar prediction ring. Weekly, I'll be sharing my forecast in the race for the next Oscar nominees. Our 2026 Oscars prediction page is live.
Oh, and Stay tuned.
Big things happening at Rendy Reviews.
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Oh, and Stay tuned.
Big things happening at Rendy Reviews.
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2026 Oscar Predictions - Rendy Reviews
Through attending many award screening rooms and receptions with various people within the industry, Rendy Jones gives their forecast on the upcoming 2026 Oscar Race.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
With awards season in full swing, I’m back in the Oscar prediction ring. Weekly, I'll be sharing my forecast in the race for the next Oscar nominees. Our 2026 Oscars prediction page is live.
Oh, and Stay tuned.
Big things happening at Rendy Reviews.
www.rendyreviews.com/2026-oscar-p...
Oh, and Stay tuned.
Big things happening at Rendy Reviews.
www.rendyreviews.com/2026-oscar-p...
Sydney Sweeney tries so hard to punch through CHRISTY’s overwhelming conventionality and she just can’t do it.
(Watch the Untold: Deal with the Devil doc on Netflix instead. It’s the biopic’s blueprint fr)
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
(Watch the Untold: Deal with the Devil doc on Netflix instead. It’s the biopic’s blueprint fr)
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Mighty Punch Can’t Save This Generic, Oscar-Baity Sports Biopic
Sweeney, Foster, and Wever all do great work in ‘Christy’, but its lengthy and bland storytelling fails to give the source figure the powerful punch her story deserves.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Sydney Sweeney tries so hard to punch through CHRISTY’s overwhelming conventionality and she just can’t do it.
(Watch the Untold: Deal with the Devil doc on Netflix instead. It’s the biopic’s blueprint fr)
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
(Watch the Untold: Deal with the Devil doc on Netflix instead. It’s the biopic’s blueprint fr)
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Having such a bad case of New Yorker main character syndrome. Had to catch myself from questioning all my friends from other states posting their 'I Voted' stickers, "Wait, how do you get to vote for Zohran too? You don't live here."
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Having such a bad case of New Yorker main character syndrome. Had to catch myself from questioning all my friends from other states posting their 'I Voted' stickers, "Wait, how do you get to vote for Zohran too? You don't live here."
After growing up with bitch mayors who used fear-mongering as a means to turn NYC into a prison, especially in marginalized, working-class communities, it’s exciting to, by today, have a mayor who cares about his people and not exploiting us for his pockets. Let’s go Zohran.
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
After growing up with bitch mayors who used fear-mongering as a means to turn NYC into a prison, especially in marginalized, working-class communities, it’s exciting to, by today, have a mayor who cares about his people and not exploiting us for his pockets. Let’s go Zohran.
Be sure to subscribe to Rendy Reviews. I'm working on some pretty big and exclusive things regarding HEDDA, SINNERS, more from this year's award seasons train. You won't regret it ;).
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October 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Be sure to subscribe to Rendy Reviews. I'm working on some pretty big and exclusive things regarding HEDDA, SINNERS, more from this year's award seasons train. You won't regret it ;).
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QUEENS OF THE DEAD is the most campy and queer horror fun you'll have in a theater this Halloween.
For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I chatted with director Tina Romero about her DJ-to-director debut experience, drag names, and faux Bushwick culture. Go see it!
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For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I chatted with director Tina Romero about her DJ-to-director debut experience, drag names, and faux Bushwick culture. Go see it!
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Tina Romero on Making Gay Zombie Film 'Queens of the Dead'
Tina Romero is doing zombie cinema her own way: letting drag queens, Katy O'Brian with a crossbow, and Margaret Cho with a blowtorch bash zombie brains.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
QUEENS OF THE DEAD is the most campy and queer horror fun you'll have in a theater this Halloween.
For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I chatted with director Tina Romero about her DJ-to-director debut experience, drag names, and faux Bushwick culture. Go see it!
www.autostraddle.com/tina-romero-...
For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I chatted with director Tina Romero about her DJ-to-director debut experience, drag names, and faux Bushwick culture. Go see it!
www.autostraddle.com/tina-romero-...
HAZBIN HOTEL S2 drops today. While I can't discuss the new tunes just yet — they're all bangers, omg, just you wait for "🐍🍒❤️" and "📺⭐️🦈"—I did do a ranking for season 1's tunes.
My latest via @autostraddle.bsky.social:
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My latest via @autostraddle.bsky.social:
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'Hazbin Hotel' Season 1 Songs, Ranked
Hazbin Hotel is back with a second season. Revisit all the musical numbers from season one!
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October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
HAZBIN HOTEL S2 drops today. While I can't discuss the new tunes just yet — they're all bangers, omg, just you wait for "🐍🍒❤️" and "📺⭐️🦈"—I did do a ranking for season 1's tunes.
My latest via @autostraddle.bsky.social:
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My latest via @autostraddle.bsky.social:
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Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN captures the queer virtue of belonging, which no iteration has done before. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I discussed the queer resilience subtext via the creature’s tale, generational trauma, and familial acceptance.
Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...
Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...
Frankenstein (2025) and the Queer Pursuit of Being Loved for Your Full Self
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein directly draws a line between parental abuse and monster-making.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN captures the queer virtue of belonging, which no iteration has done before. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, I discussed the queer resilience subtext via the creature’s tale, generational trauma, and familial acceptance.
Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...
Read here www.autostraddle.com/frankenstein...
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CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc' Review: Beautifully Animated Action-Romance Anime Revs up a Fun Cinematic Experience
An explosive and electrifying action roller-coaster ride to watch on the big screen.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
If there was a bar for frustrating postmodern apolitical American apocalyptic stories, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE just arrived and sat right next to Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR. #FilmSky
Read my review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Read my review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'A House of Dynamite' Review: Kathryn Bigelow's American Nuclear Thriller Explodes in a Vacuum
While enjoyable for its technical aspects, it’s another example of Kathryn Bigelow's tendency to spin her wheels by producing films with the same old frustrated aura.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If there was a bar for frustrating postmodern apolitical American apocalyptic stories, A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE just arrived and sat right next to Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR. #FilmSky
Read my review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Read my review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Love being validated by critic peers that bad Colleen Hoover books are also bad movie adaptations. She truly is our new Nicholas Sparks.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Love being validated by critic peers that bad Colleen Hoover books are also bad movie adaptations. She truly is our new Nicholas Sparks.
CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc' Review: Beautifully Animated Action-Romance Anime Revs up a Fun Cinematic Experience
An explosive and electrifying action roller-coaster ride to watch on the big screen.
www.rendyreviews.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
CHAINSAW MAN — THE MOVIE: REZE ARC is strictly for the fans — but a nice entry point for newcomers. Nevertheless, Denji's leap to the big screen explodes with romantic, complex poignancy, and beautifully animated bloody violence.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Not seeing much chatter about this week was a gut punch to marginalized voices in media journalism got me feeling crazy. The purging of NBC verticals, VIBES merging with RS and Black reporters getting laid off, corporate restructurings leaving freelancers like me in the dust. Support indie outlets.
October 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Not seeing much chatter about this week was a gut punch to marginalized voices in media journalism got me feeling crazy. The purging of NBC verticals, VIBES merging with RS and Black reporters getting laid off, corporate restructurings leaving freelancers like me in the dust. Support indie outlets.
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Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.
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The Cinemaniax podcast is back with an episode on #TIFF50 chrisreedfilm.com/2025/10/14/c... Film critic @rendy.bsky.social joins me to discuss the fest, after which I interview filmmaker Siyou Tan about her debut feature, AMOEBA. #filmsky @tiffnet.bsky.social
Cinemaniax Episode 201—on TIFF 2025, or TIFF50—Is Now Up!
Cinemaniax Season 2 is here, and the subject is once again the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF. The 2025 iteration was actually the 50th anniversary of the event, so TIFF 2025 is also …
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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Cinemaniax podcast is back with an episode on #TIFF50 chrisreedfilm.com/2025/10/14/c... Film critic @rendy.bsky.social joins me to discuss the fest, after which I interview filmmaker Siyou Tan about her debut feature, AMOEBA. #filmsky @tiffnet.bsky.social
AFTER THE HUNT went nationwide today......ICYMI, I despised it.
Good cast, bad direction, obnoxious screenplay that would've been prime for 2019. Acts like it's new to the "dark-sidedness of MeToo" conversation in 2025 while being Diet TÁR.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Good cast, bad direction, obnoxious screenplay that would've been prime for 2019. Acts like it's new to the "dark-sidedness of MeToo" conversation in 2025 while being Diet TÁR.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'After the Hunt' Review: Luca Guadagnino's Pretentious Misfire of a #MeToo Psychodrama
'After the Hunt' is an incoherent and dated psychodrama, bogged down by Luca Guadagnino and Nora Garrett's active disinterest in confronting its heavy subjects through an incorrigible, self-indulgent ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
AFTER THE HUNT went nationwide today......ICYMI, I despised it.
Good cast, bad direction, obnoxious screenplay that would've been prime for 2019. Acts like it's new to the "dark-sidedness of MeToo" conversation in 2025 while being Diet TÁR.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Good cast, bad direction, obnoxious screenplay that would've been prime for 2019. Acts like it's new to the "dark-sidedness of MeToo" conversation in 2025 while being Diet TÁR.
My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Once again, i'm imploring you guys, especially ones who migrated to here for the umpteenth time, engage with the articles by journalists. This is the most crucial time than ever as many are getting laid off and our livelihoods are upended to hell. Repost, bookmark, just give a single click helps.
I'm deeply embarrassed that IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is my first Jafar Panahi film because it is the boldest movie I've seen this year. A sublime thriller about the moral quandaries of Iran's oppressed — made guerilla-styled, son!
My review:
www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review:
www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'It Was Just an Accident' Review: Jafar Panahi's Bold, Captivating Moral Thriller That Explores Iran's Oppressed is One of 2025's Best
One of the most essential pieces of cinema you'll need to see this year.
www.rendyreviews.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm deeply embarrassed that IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is my first Jafar Panahi film because it is the boldest movie I've seen this year. A sublime thriller about the moral quandaries of Iran's oppressed — made guerilla-styled, son!
My review:
www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
My review:
www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
Just finished an assignment and turned it in, only to learn that my editor atthat said site no longer works there. LOL. This week is crushing my spirit and I'm so close to losing it.
October 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Just finished an assignment and turned it in, only to learn that my editor atthat said site no longer works there. LOL. This week is crushing my spirit and I'm so close to losing it.
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How come I have so many followers on here and yet so little engagement. Is there bots on Bluesky because this feels very weird.
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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