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New Review: Hamnet (2025)
A tender, fiercely human reimagining of grief and legacy. Hamnet weaves sorrow and solace into an intimate portrait of loss, carried by remarkable performances and delicate direction.
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Hamnet
A Transcendental Take on ShakespeareShakespeare has been a well of material for artists and filmmakers, not just through adapting his works, but his life as well. Shakespeare in Love (1998) was fun th...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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New Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)
A bleak but compelling portrait of motherhood.
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
A Bleak but Compelling Portrait of MotherhoodMotherhood has been the surprising common theme for many 2025 releases, from Die My Love (2025) to Hamnet (2025), Bring Her Back (2025), The Perfect Neighb...
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January 22, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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New Review: Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (2025)
Jim Jarmusch turns the remake into a quiet family ritual.
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Father, Mother, Sister, Brother
Jim Jarmusch turns the remake into a quiet family ritualJim Jarmusch is as unhurried an artist as can be, both in his method of filmmaking as in his style. This has made him stand out as the rest of t...
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January 21, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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New Review: The Housemaid (2025)
A slick, hollow thriller that mistakes twists for tension. Stylish on the surface, but thin in psychology and oddly inert despite its cast.
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The Housemaid
Paul Feig’s thriller goes wildly, watchably off the railsDespite having cut his teeth making some of the best comedy of the last few decades with The Office (2005-2013), Parks and Recreation (2009-201...
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January 19, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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A glossy tribute that mistakes affection for insight. Craig Brewer’s nostalgic biopic hums along pleasantly, but rarely digs beneath the surface of its characters or story.
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Song Sung Blue
Un homenaje que confunde el afecto con la profundidadLas bandas tributo son un cebo nostálgico afectuoso para los aficionados a la música, una forma de revivir en directo a un grupo del pasado. Una de...
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January 18, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Thoughtful, chilling, and quietly humane, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple expands the franchise with real moral weight. Nia DaCosta proves zombie sequels can still think.
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Nia DaCosta Brings Moral Weight and Visual Restraint to the Zombie FranchiseMany unplanned trilogies fizzle out by their third entry, as the unexpected success of a first film forces sequels into exis...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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Young Critic: Top 10 Films of the Year + Awards
Despite an unsteady year for the industry, cinema delivered urgency, beauty, and moral weight. These films defined 2025 for Young Critic.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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New Review: Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
A visually staggering saga running out of fire. Cameron’s latest remains immense in scale, but narrative drift and exhaustion begin to show.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
A visually staggering saga running out of fireJames Cameron has now devoted close to two decades to his Avatar films, which have revolutionized blockbuster cinema: the first Avatar (2009) through its ...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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New Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
A harrowing portrait of innocence, bureaucracy, and the human cost of war. Kaouther Ben Hania delivers her most devastating work yet—restrained, urgent, and impossible to shake.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
A harrowing portrait of innocence, bureaucracy, and the human cost of warThe recent war in Gaza was bound to spark art attempting to grapple with the horrors and devastating loss it has caused. One of...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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A somber Knives Out trades clever twists for faith and fatigue.
Rian Johnson’s third Benoit Blanc mystery turns inward, sidelining its detective and revealing franchise strain.
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Wake Up Dead Man
A somber Knives Out trades clever twists for faith and fatigueAfter creating a new charismatic detective to join the ranks of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes with the Southern-drawling Benoit Blanc...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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New Review: Nuremberg (2025)
A compelling yet cautious portrait of the men behind recent history’s atrocities. Vanderbilt’s psychological angle is moving but often too restrained.
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Nuremberg
A compelling yet cautious portrait of the men behind recent history’s atrocitiesThe Nuremberg trials of Nazis were a monumental moment in the collective digestion of the horrors perpetrated in World W...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Sentimental Value (2025) is a delicate, melancholic drama where Joachim Trier explores memory, trauma, and the emotional weight of home.
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Sentimental Value
A haunting study of how homes remember—and how families try to forgetThe poetic question of whether spaces have memory is an intriguing one, and one that spiritually accrues many added layers regardin...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Zootopia 2 (2025) grows in scale and ambition — but in doing so, it loses the sharpness that made the first film special.
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Zootopia 2
Bigger and busier, this sequel can’t recapture the original’s sparkAfter the return of Bob Iger as Disney CEO, a pivot was made to make less quantity of content for the streamer Disney +,  which had p...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The Running Man (2025) sees Edgar Wright go full cyberpunk — ambitious, stylish… but marred by inconsistent tone and a soft lead.
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The Running Man
A bold new cyberpunk vision held back by tonal whiplash and a muted leading manEdgar Wright is a beloved director for many film nerds, known for a winking style and frenetic editing, the Brit has deli...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Wicked: For Good (2025) returns to Oz with political edge and lavish music numbers — but beneath the spectacle, the story loses its way.
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Wicked: For Good
A return to Oz that exposes fascism with clarity but stumbles in storytellingThe phenomenon of Wicked (2024) seemed to work on multiple fronts, launching Jon M. Chu’s musical career as it deserved (af...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) brings back the Horsemen for a showy, soulless finale — a trick nobody signed up for.
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
A heist without sparkle, the Horsemen return for a trick no one asked to seeIt would be hard to imagine, of all the franchises that studios have sought to prop up, that the one about magicians who pul...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love (2025) is a daring, heart-shaking dive into motherhood, depression and identity — anchored by Jennifer Lawrence.
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Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay turns post-partum despair into a brutal, intimate portrait of a mind unravelingLynne Ramsay is not a director to shy away from taboo subjects, especially regarding parenting. Her indie hi...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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