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Thomas Ricard
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Aspiring film critic, proud father and fiancé. You can read my film reviews here:

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Continuing my reviews of #oscars nominees, here's a quick look at how Zach Cregger's #weapons improves and expands upon the style and methods of #barbarian.
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A ★★★½ review of Weapons (2025)
Zach Cregger’s sophomore solo feature* is both an improvement and an expansion upon the storytelling game of smoke and mirrors he played in Barbarian. The principle is the same: Introduce a familiar h...
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February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Continuing my look at nominees for this year's #Oscars, a quick word on the simple pleasures of #F1.
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A ★★★½ review of F1 (2025)
There are three things Joseph Kosinski loves filming above all else: Speed, bright lights and grizzled male veterans teaching young hotshots a thing or two about patience and humility, and F1 has all ...
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February 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Celebrating my birthday with another quick review of an #oscars nominee, this time Disney's #Zootopia2 - not as good as the first but still fun in its expansiveness.
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A ★★★ review of Zootopia 2 (2025)
Considering the political context in which the first Zootopia came out, it’s almost grimly fitting for the sequel to pick up right where its predecessor left off, with only limited progress and tempor...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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"Everything is music and so am I" - my 3-year-old, possibly hinting at a future as the greatest lyricist of her generation.
February 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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My catch-up with #Oscars nominees continues with Paul Thomas Anderson's excellent #OneBattleAfterAnother and its caustic, exhilarating portrait of a nation in the grip of madness.
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A ★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
At this point, calling Paul Thomas Anderson the best filmmaker of his generation is both a truism and an understatement. In over 37 years of work, he has painted the varying forms of madness, both pos...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Another #Oscars nominee review, this time of #pixar's #Elio, a tragic example of how corporate mentality drained an imaginative personal story of everything that could have made it unique.
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A ★★ review of Elio (2025)
Elio’s production woes are as plain as the eyepatch on its eponymous hero’s face. Ostensibly conceived as a personal story about finding a place where your otherness is not only welcomed but outright ...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Unacceptable, inexcusable practices. As much as I love the Safdies' work, they absolutely should face professional consequences for this.
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Exclusive | The teenage sex scene that sparked infamous rift between edgy director brothers behind Hollywood’s hottest movies
One of the more enduring riddles that has mystified Hollywood in recent years is what triggered the rift between Josh and Benny Safdie.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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In today's #oscars nominee review, Clint Bentley's poignant #traindreams turns an ordinary man's pain and tragedy into a poetic dream of life.
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A ★★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025)
As Terence Malick continues post-production on The Way Of The Wind and the probability that it will be the last film of his career grows every year, it’s comforting to see his legacy already being sec...
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January 28, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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In continued anticipation of the #Oscars, a quick word on the disappointment of Guillermo Del Toro's #frankenstein and the beautiful acting duet that nevertheless makes it worthwhile.
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A ★★½ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Whether or not Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein will win any Oscars, I cannot yet say, but a more fitting legacy would be for it to lead its fans to rediscover Kenneth Branagh’s unjustly derided 1994...
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January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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So, it looks like Anck Su Namun from the MUMMY movies loved my #KPopDemonHunters review. I don't know if that officially counts as a celebrity endorsement but I'll damn sure take it.
A screenshot of a LinkedIn post of my review of KPop Demon Hunters in the Writers & Authors group, showing a "Love" reaction from actress Patricia Velasquez A screenshot of a LinkedIn notification informing me that actress Patricia Velasquez loved my post linking to my review of KPop Demon Hunters.
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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A very quick word on the cultural merge that gives #kpopdemonhunters its pleasures but also its limitations.
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A ★★★ review of KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
What do you get when you cross Korean folklore with KPop industry satire, use the result as a backdrop for a tale of duality and self-acceptance framed in very queer-tinted terms, and animate it all i...
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January 24, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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Just in time for the #OscarNominations, I begin catching up on this year's Oscar nominees with #bluemoon, a film whose play-like script is rendered cinematic by Richard Linklater's knack for visualizing emotional flow.
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A ★★★ review of Blue Moon (2025)
I’m not very familiar with the works of Lorenz Hart and even less so with his life, but there were moments in Blue Moon that I knew only too well: the pleasure of other people’s attention as you spin ...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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Why are the #OscarNominations always announced by a duo of actors who look like they've literally just met?
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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You all know that if Trump croaks, we'll get President Vance, right? Maybe be careful what you wish for. I honestly think he'd be even worse than Trump.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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If you've ever wondered what a dystopia where even sleep is eliminated in the name of productivity would look like, then check out my story in @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social! Featuring spider-people and rooms made of teeth!

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In a world where no one sleeps, an idyllic life can decline quite suddenly.

"Tyler Sands gritted his teeth in frustration. The last thing he had wanted to hear after an eighteen hour flight was that his bags had disappeared..."

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A simple black-and-white sketch of a medicine bottle with a pill sitting next to it. It is high-contrast with a black background, focusing on negative space, like scratch art.
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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A quick word on the lack of imagination and insight that reduces #onelife's extraordinary true story to generic feel-good pap that wastes valuable work from Anthony Hopkins.
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A ★★ review of One Life (2023)
How does one tell the remarkable true story of a rescue operation's mastermind if his role, by design, required him to be unremarkable? Especially when the climax already happened on television decade...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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A few words on how Hong Sang-Soo's #walkup achieves emotional impact by distilling his familiar themes, tropes and style down to strict minimalism.
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A ★★★ review of Walk Up (2022)
Hong Sang-Soo’s films are so stylistically distinctive yet so alike in their stories, themes, emotions and visual setups that each one has run the risk of being a photocopy of the last, particularly i...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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You'd think Henry Selick and Jordan Peele would be a match made in heaven but #WendellandWild is the most disappointing film released in 2022.
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A ★★½ review of Wendell & Wild (2022)
It is a sad truth too often observed that in art, even more than in life, two rights can make a wrong. Case in point, this film’s screenplay: Spicing up Henry Selick’s macabre musings on death, childh...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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#TheSurvivor is an undoubtedly well-intentioned film whose strong performances - especially from Ben Foster - and good ideas are undone by a weak script and bad stylistic choices.
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A ★★½ review of The Survivor (2021)
The story of Hertzko “Harry” Haft – a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by boxing other inmates in death matches for camp guards’ entertainment and went on to box professionally in the United Stat...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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#wherethecrawdadssing is not a very good film, but it has the merit of bringing back the kind of mid-budget romantic drama that used to be big in the 90s and 00s and whose return to prominence I would welcome.
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A ★★½ review of Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
There’s an undeniable old-fashioned charm to Where The Crawdads Sing that initially works in its favour. The opening 15 minutes, with the sweeping vistas of North Carolina’s swamp and marsh wildlife t...
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January 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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A long (overlong?) paragraph on David Cronenberg's #CrimesOfTheFuture (the #2022 one), a film best understood as an artist's disillusioned, bittersweet assessment of his own legacy.
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A ★★★½ review of Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes Of The Future reminded me of the kind of movies film students and graduates cut their teeth on in search of their own voices. That’s neither criticism nor praise, just an observation: Same use ...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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A quick word on #thirteenlives, a surprisingly sober dramatization of the Tham Luang Rescue of 2018 and a pleasant return to form for Ron Howard.
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A ★★★ review of Thirteen Lives (2022)
The Tham Luang cave rescue is the kind of story Oscars used to get sculpted for. The 2018 coordinated rescue of a junior football team and their coach out of a flooded cave in northernmost Thailand wa...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM