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Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 (2025) takes the terror of the original and deepens it — a sequel that grows characters, scope, and fear.
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Black Phone 2
Scott Derrickson's follow-up is a convincing evolution from the first filmHorror appears to be the last remaining genre where filmmakers deliver surprising new ideas. This is due to the small budgets,...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Dan Trachtenberg brings the Predator saga roaring back with Predator: Badlands (2025) — a taut alien adventure that’s equal parts creature feature and character study.
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Predator: Badlands
Dan Trachtenberg's latest Predator entry is another solidly entertaining character pieceIt’s a curious yet unsurprising trend, when a franchise has burnt out, studios are willing to give the material ...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia (2025) is a deranged mash-up of dark comedy, alien panic and corporate dystopia—where you’re never sure who’s the monster or the victim.
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Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest is a deconstruction of conspiracy theoristsYorgos Lanthimos has developed an idiosyncratic style, in the same way that Wes Anderson or Kelly Reichardt has. You can identify a ...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind (2025) turns the heist genre inside out—with minimal thrills, maximum introspection, and a criminal who’s no mastermind.
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The Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt's latest demystifies the criminal caperIn a time when movies are increasingly loud and boisterous, struggling to capture our ever-shortening attention spans, it’s both refreshing and s...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Alberto Rodríguez’s Los Tigres (2025) revives Andalusian noir — a tense underwater thriller about crime, loyalty, and survival.
His best since Marshland.
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Los Tigres
Alberto Rodriguez's latest thriller is his best in yearsThe film noir had its height in the mid-century, and shortly revived in the 1970s anti-system surge of independent young filmmakers, where they ...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025) reanimates Shelley’s myth with vivid colour, tender outsider perspectives and monstrous ambition.
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Frankenstein (2025)
Guillemo Del Toro delivers a colorful and defining adaptation of the Mary Shelly novelAs much as Netflix is getting blamed for the death of the theatrical experience, the streaming company is giving f...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Sundays (2025) follows a Basque teenager who decides to become a nun — and the family crisis that follows.
A story of faith, control, and womanhood that questions who gets to choose belief.
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Sundays
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s follow-up to Lullaby explores faith and female agency but loses its balance in the debateThe struggle with one’s spirituality is a journey that all of us undergo at some point. M...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) should have been The Boss’s Rocketman moment — instead, it’s another tired music biopic hitting the same dull notes.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Scott Cooper's take on the Boss is hopelessly shallow and dullThe music biopic has such a staid and worn formula that it’s defining parody came out all the way back in the early 2000s with Walk Hard: ...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt (2025) takes on #MeToo, cancel culture, and generational divides — but its “both sides” approach backfires.
The craft dazzles, but the argument collapses.
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After the Hunt
Luca Guadagnino's latest complicates a rather simple topicSexual assault on American college campuses is a true epidemic. According to RAINN, 1 in 4 women university students are sexually assaulted in...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Jafar Panahi returns with It Was Just an Accident (2025), a taut moral puzzle about vengeance, doubt, and empathy in modern Iran.
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It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi's latest grapples with the morality of vengeanceIran is producing some of the best modern filmmakers working today, yet sadly, it is not reaping its artistic rewards. Many of these direct...
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October 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Tron: Ares dazzles with neon spectacle and a thunderous Nine Inch Nails score, but underneath the glow there’s little narrative circuitry left. Gorgeous hardware, sloppy software.
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Tron: Ares
The third entry in the franchise is more style than substanceDespite amassing a devoted cult following, the Tron films have never been box office hits. The first one, Tron (1982) was admired more for ...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine trades chaos for compassion. His love for UFC clouds the critique, but Dwayne Johnson’s transformation and Emily Blunt’s layered turn keep it gripping.
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The Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie's first solo directorial effort delivers Dwayne Johnson's best performanceDespite bursting onto the cinematic scene with their film Good Time (2017) and gripping follow-up Uncut Gems (201...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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PTA's One Battle After Another reclaims the American epic — chaotic, politically fierce, disheveled, and deeply human. Full review → youngcriticmovies.com/post/one-battle-after-another
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One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers yet another American epicTo call something an “American epic” should be reserved to a text that captures the complexity, contradictions, promise, and betrayal that the id...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Carla Simón returns with Romeria, a haunting meditation on memory and identity set in Vigo, 2004. Llucía García gives a profound debut performance as Martina, piecing together the fractured past of her parents.
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Romeria
Carla Simon's third feature continues her exploration of memoryWhat is history if not memories compiled, and what is memory, if not multiple individual narratives of singular pasts, and yet what is th...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey dazzles with color and charm, but its romance feels hollow. Farrell and Robbie shine, yet the film never dares to be bold.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Kogonada’s romance fantasy has charm and color, but no heart beneath the sheenLove is the most covered subject in the arts—be it in songs, books, painting, or dance. This most intense of human emotion...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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🎸 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues tries to turn the amps up to 11 again — but the joke doesn’t hit as hard decades later. Nostalgia riffs louder than the satire.
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
The decades-later sequel coasts on cheap nostalgia and celebrity cameosComedy sequels are notorious for the fall in quality, this is magnified especially with decades-later sequels, which seem more in...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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🏰 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale delivers charm and closure, but feels more like fan service than a true farewell. A warm cup of tea — steeped one too many times.
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
The finale that proves sometimes it’s best to let goDownton Abbey (2010–2015) was a comfort watch for many during its run, providing the subtle dramas of the English nobility in the 1910s and ’20s. Es...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Gripping in flashes, predictable in stretches, but saved by the rising charisma of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson. www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/the-lon...
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The Long Walk
Francis Lawrence pares down King’s dystopia but leaves little beneath the surfaceThe dystopian young adult genre dominated the 2010s, but like most trends, it quickly burned out. Oversaturation left a...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Just reviewed Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive (2025).
A visually strong but thematically scattered take on Cervantes’ imprisonment in Algiers.
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The Captive
Alejandro Amenabar's latest is confused in its structure“Don Quijote de la Mancha” is considered the most-read novel in the history of mankind, surpassed only in readership and circulation by religiou...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t is stylish and technically slick — but when it comes to mystery, narrative momentum, or emotional weight, it leaves you wanting.
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Honey Don't
Ethan Coen's latest solo effort is another half-baked noirAfter taking Hollywood by storm for decades as a filmmaking duo, the Coen brothers have been striking out solo in recent years. Joel directed ...
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September 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Spike Lee reimagines Kurosawa’s High and Low with Highest 2 Lowest. Denzel Washington anchors the remake with a powerhouse performance, but Hollywood gloss sometimes mutes the bite.
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Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee's adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic is serviceable if dilutedDespite being one of the foremost auteurs in American cinema, Spike Lee is no stranger to remakes. He remade the Korean acti...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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New review up: *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025). A fitting send-off for the franchise or just another sequel?

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The Conjuring: Last Rites
The fourth and supposed final entry is a stuporous disappointment James Wan sparked a horror renaissance in the early 2010s when he delivered the one-two punch of Insidious (2010) and The Conjuring (2...
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September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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New review up: *The Roses* (2025). Stunning leads and sharp ideas, but the slapstick finale turns a clever setup into a missed opportunity.

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The Roses
This divorce remake is sadly hampered by misplaced slapstickFilms about divorces aren’t as populous as their ubiquity in modern western society would demand. There have been scant good dramas that hav...
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September 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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New review up: The Naked Gun (2025). Spoof comedies have stumbled for years, but this reboot finds the right balance of silly and sharp.
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The Naked Gun
Another worthy and daring attempt at reviving the spoofSpoof movies and satires had an impressive run of both financial and cultural success from Airplane! (1980), to Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974...
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August 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Sorry, Baby (2025), a poignant festival favorite at Sundance and Cannes, breaks through the noise of sensationalism to deliver a quiet, empathetic meditation on trauma and resilience. www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/sorry-b...
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Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor’s first feature listens where others sensationalizeDespite being one of the most horrific yet ancient of crimes, rape and sexual assault were not given sustained exploration or attention wi...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM