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F1 is a High Octane Throwback Action Film
Fresh off the overwhelming success of the 2022 legacy sequel Top Gun Maverick, director Joseph Kosinski is back with another high octane action film set in the world of sports. Sonny Hayes (Brad Pi…
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Much like Top Gun Maverick, #F1TheMovie is a throwback action blockbuster, mixing tense thrills with some character development surrounding potential and a romantic subplot thrown in. Entertaining and a crowd pleaser. cinemababel.com/f1-is-a-high...
Much like Top Gun Maverick, #F1TheMovie is a throwback action blockbuster, mixing tense thrills with some character development surrounding potential and a romantic subplot thrown in. Entertaining and a crowd pleaser. cinemababel.com/f1-is-a-high...
F1 is a High Octane Throwback Action Film
Fresh off the overwhelming success of the 2022 legacy sequel Top Gun Maverick, director Joseph Kosinski is back with another high octane action film set in the world of sports. Sonny Hayes (Brad Pi…
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June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Much like Top Gun Maverick, #F1TheMovie is a throwback action blockbuster, mixing tense thrills with some character development surrounding potential and a romantic subplot thrown in. Entertaining and a crowd pleaser. cinemababel.com/f1-is-a-high...
I usually like my love stories to be more tragic, but #Materialists is an exception. It’s a good follow up to Past Lives from Celine Song, holding a mirror up to both modern & timeless conventions regarding love. Dakota Johnson & Chris Evans have good chemistry cinemababel.com/materialists...
Materialists Approaches Modern Dating with Sentiment
If you’ve spent even two seconds on social media, you’ve been made aware that modern day struggles with the dating scene are top of mind for countless people. Debates over who pays, which sex bring…
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June 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I usually like my love stories to be more tragic, but #Materialists is an exception. It’s a good follow up to Past Lives from Celine Song, holding a mirror up to both modern & timeless conventions regarding love. Dakota Johnson & Chris Evans have good chemistry cinemababel.com/materialists...
#BallerinaMovie is a pleasant surprise and worthy successor of the John Wick mantle. If you missed the action in the franchise this will more than satisfy you, even if it lack the depth of the latter half of the Wick movies. cinemababel.com/ballerina-sc...
Ballerina Scratches the John Wick Itch
After a topsy-turvy production process, the next iteration of the John Wick franchise has arrived. Taking place mainly between the events of John Wick 3: Parabellum and John Wick Chapter 4, Balleri…
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June 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#BallerinaMovie is a pleasant surprise and worthy successor of the John Wick mantle. If you missed the action in the franchise this will more than satisfy you, even if it lack the depth of the latter half of the Wick movies. cinemababel.com/ballerina-sc...
#HurryUpTomorrow: A24's style meets the 1990 film Misery. And mostly results in the same. Not even Jenna Ortega can save this one. cinemababel.com/hurry-up-tom...
Hurry Up Tomorrow Misses The Mark
Following his first concrete foray into acting with the HBO show The Idol, pop superstar The Weeknd sets his sights on the big screen with a new film that he has also co-written. Hurry Up Tomorrow …
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May 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#HurryUpTomorrow: A24's style meets the 1990 film Misery. And mostly results in the same. Not even Jenna Ortega can save this one. cinemababel.com/hurry-up-tom...
#Sinners struck me as a sort of modern companion to From Dusk Till Dawn, just with deeper themes of spirituality and connection through love and ancestral history. Very well executed and entertaining with good performances and pacing. cinemababel.com/vampires-and...
Vampires and Spirits: Sinners Keeps You Entertained From Dusk Till Dawn
Director Ryan Coogler has been on a hot streak in movie theaters essentially from his very first feature, 2013’s Fruitvale Station, through his last film Black Panther Wakanda Forever, the fo…
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April 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#Sinners struck me as a sort of modern companion to From Dusk Till Dawn, just with deeper themes of spirituality and connection through love and ancestral history. Very well executed and entertaining with good performances and pacing. cinemababel.com/vampires-and...
#Warfare is a visceral, unflinching depiction of war that utilizes sound especially to create a theatrical experience that places audiences in the middle of combat. The rawness and realism results in one of the best war films ever made. cinemababel.com/warfare-is-a...
Warfare is a Visceral Cinematic Experience that Makes Plain the Brutality of Combat
Told solely through the compiled memories of those who experienced it, Warfare documents a single, real-life military operation on November 19, 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq. The 1-26 infantry, Bravo Compan…
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April 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#Warfare is a visceral, unflinching depiction of war that utilizes sound especially to create a theatrical experience that places audiences in the middle of combat. The rawness and realism results in one of the best war films ever made. cinemababel.com/warfare-is-a...
#DeathofaUnicorn has a good ensemble cast with a great Will Poulter performance, a good father-daughter arc with Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, and some good themes surrounding morality, ethics, and corporate greed in the modern age, but ultimately feels undercooked. cinemababel.com/death-of-a-u...
Death of a Unicorn Underwhelms Despite Potential
In many ways, America and much of the developed world, is currently in the midst of an ethical crisis. As tech companies continue to move toward perfecting artificial intelligence, even as concerns…
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March 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#DeathofaUnicorn has a good ensemble cast with a great Will Poulter performance, a good father-daughter arc with Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, and some good themes surrounding morality, ethics, and corporate greed in the modern age, but ultimately feels undercooked. cinemababel.com/death-of-a-u...
#MagazineDreams was set to cement Jonathan Majors as an A-list star and Oscar nominee until fate changed that. The tale of a young man’s struggle for self worth and connection is finally here, it’s extra topical now, and maybe Majors telling it is fitting. cinemababel.com/magazine-dre...
Magazine Dreams: A Fitting Portrait of Male Fragility and Redemption (Sundance Film Festival)
Jonathan Majors was on the cusp of stardom and seemed headed for his first Oscar nomination before an incident in the streets of New York City made his persona non grata in mainstream film circles,…
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March 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
#MagazineDreams was set to cement Jonathan Majors as an A-list star and Oscar nominee until fate changed that. The tale of a young man’s struggle for self worth and connection is finally here, it’s extra topical now, and maybe Majors telling it is fitting. cinemababel.com/magazine-dre...
#TheMonkey has a killer (no pun intended) premise w/ some gnarly gore, but its insistence on playing up its comedy elements undercuts its horror potential and thematic depth. The result is a film that films uneven and depends heavily on your individual sense of humor. cinemababel.com/the-monkeys-...
The Monkey’s Overreliance Humor Undercuts It’s Potential
Fresh off of last year’s sleeper horror hit <i>Longlegs</i>, writer/director Osgood Perkins’s quickly returns to the big screen with an adaptation of a short story from legendary author…
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February 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
#TheMonkey has a killer (no pun intended) premise w/ some gnarly gore, but its insistence on playing up its comedy elements undercuts its horror potential and thematic depth. The result is a film that films uneven and depends heavily on your individual sense of humor. cinemababel.com/the-monkeys-...
#HeartEyes combines horror and comedy with great chemistry between its leads to make a perfectly campy slasher that's a great Valentine's date night feature. Think of the titular killer as a mix between Ghostface and Jason. There's franchise potential here. cinemababel.com/heart-eyes-h...
Heart Eyes Has Cult Classic, Franchise Potential
We’ve seen an influx of holiday themed horror slashers in recent years and the production team behind the Scream franchise revival Spyglass Media is trying their hands at one centered around …
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February 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#HeartEyes combines horror and comedy with great chemistry between its leads to make a perfectly campy slasher that's a great Valentine's date night feature. Think of the titular killer as a mix between Ghostface and Jason. There's franchise potential here. cinemababel.com/heart-eyes-h...
Presence is a pleasant surprise, more family drama than horror, but it melded the two well. It culminates in a tense final 20 minutes that brought everything together and was a satisfying payoff. The type of movie that gets better the more you think about it.
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Presence Combines the Paranormal with Drama For An Interesting Concept
Famed director Steven Soderbergh has returned to cinemas with an interesting new horror concept. Presence introduces us to the Payne family as they move into a new home. The family’s matriarch Rebe…
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January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Presence is a pleasant surprise, more family drama than horror, but it melded the two well. It culminates in a tense final 20 minutes that brought everything together and was a satisfying payoff. The type of movie that gets better the more you think about it.
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Oscar noms will be announced tomorrow morning, so here are my own picks for the Best Performances of 2024 in advance of the Academy's. See how they match up with their picks tomorrow. cinemababel.com/top-performa...
Top Performances of 2024
In anticipation of tomorrow’s Oscar nominations announcement, we here at CinemaBabel have compiled our top picks for 2024’s best in film performances both in front of and behind the camera. S…
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January 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oscar noms will be announced tomorrow morning, so here are my own picks for the Best Performances of 2024 in advance of the Academy's. See how they match up with their picks tomorrow. cinemababel.com/top-performa...
#WolfMan has some quality horror elements and the makings of an interesting theme exploring generational trauma, but the melding of the two feels slightly undercooked despite the promise both contain. cinemababel.com/wolf-man-lac...
Wolf Man Lacks Bite Where It Needed It
******************This review contains a major spoiler********************* Following the unsuccessful attempt at launching a cinematic universe of its legendary monsters, Universal Pictures went b…
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January 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#WolfMan has some quality horror elements and the makings of an interesting theme exploring generational trauma, but the melding of the two feels slightly undercooked despite the promise both contain. cinemababel.com/wolf-man-lac...
Pamela Anderson performs well in #TheLastShowgirl even if the film itself isn't the strongest. cinemababel.com/pamela-ander...
Pamela Anderson Shines in The Last Showgirl (Middleburg Film Festival)
The passage of time, particularly for women, has been a theme in 2024’s film slate and the movies that explore this have been buoyed by notable performances from star actress past who have moved on…
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January 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Pamela Anderson performs well in #TheLastShowgirl even if the film itself isn't the strongest. cinemababel.com/pamela-ander...
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#TheBrutalist has a noticeable comedown from its near flawless first half, but it’s a big cinematic swing with thematic depth on the immigrant experience and the nature of power plus high craftsmanship from Brady Corbet that ultimately makes it a must see. cinemababel.com/the-brutalis...
The Brutalist is a Big, Epic Cinematic Swing (Middleburg Film Festival)
I am sure by now if you’re the type to pay attention to film awards or the buzz around fall film releases, you’ve heard the hype surrounding The Brutalist. Because it is a smaller independent film,…
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January 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#TheBrutalist has a noticeable comedown from its near flawless first half, but it’s a big cinematic swing with thematic depth on the immigrant experience and the nature of power plus high craftsmanship from Brady Corbet that ultimately makes it a must see. cinemababel.com/the-brutalis...
#TheBrutalist has a noticeable comedown from its near flawless first half, but it’s a big cinematic swing with thematic depth on the immigrant experience and the nature of power plus high craftsmanship from Brady Corbet that ultimately makes it a must see. cinemababel.com/the-brutalis...
The Brutalist is a Big, Epic Cinematic Swing (Middleburg Film Festival)
I am sure by now if you’re the type to pay attention to film awards or the buzz around fall film releases, you’ve heard the hype surrounding The Brutalist. Because it is a smaller independent film,…
cinemababel.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#TheBrutalist has a noticeable comedown from its near flawless first half, but it’s a big cinematic swing with thematic depth on the immigrant experience and the nature of power plus high craftsmanship from Brady Corbet that ultimately makes it a must see. cinemababel.com/the-brutalis...
My list of 2024's best films. cinemababel.com/top-films-of...
Top Films of 2024
2024 was yet another trying year for American cinema. While it did mark the one year anniversary of the end of 2023’s Writers Guild of America strike, the residual effects of the nearly five-…
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January 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My list of 2024's best films. cinemababel.com/top-films-of...
#Maria reminded me of a more solemn version of Sunset Boulevard following a Norma Desmond who faces her mortality head on. This is a movie all about Angelina Jolie's performance. cinemababel.com/maria-is-all...
Maria is All About Angelina (Middleburg Film Festival)
Director Pablo Larraín has finally delivered his final film in his informal trilogy documenting the tumultuous periods in the lives of famous women in the 20th century. Beginning with 2016’s Jackie…
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January 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#Maria reminded me of a more solemn version of Sunset Boulevard following a Norma Desmond who faces her mortality head on. This is a movie all about Angelina Jolie's performance. cinemababel.com/maria-is-all...
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#NickelBoys utilizes some impressive cinematographic techniques to make a story of two boys caught within the confines of systemic abuse and racism an immersive emotional experience. An uber impressive debut from director RaMell Ross. cinemababel.com/nickel-boys-...
Nickel Boys is Impeccably Crafted and Emotional
Nickel Boys tells the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young man in Florida who dreams of going to technical school while being raised by his grandmother Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis). His dream…
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December 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
#NickelBoys utilizes some impressive cinematographic techniques to make a story of two boys caught within the confines of systemic abuse and racism an immersive emotional experience. An uber impressive debut from director RaMell Ross. cinemababel.com/nickel-boys-...
While its narrative structure is your typical biopic fare, #ACompleteUnknown’s theme defending creativity and innovation is a strong reminder of the responsibility of the creative, much needed in this era. Timothee Chalamet’s performance is the other strong suit. cinemababel.com/a-complete-u...
A Complete Unknown is a Strong Defense of the Creative Artist
Biopics of legendary musicians have become all the rage in multiplexes post-Bohemian Rhapsody, Hollywood is a copycat town after all. Director James Mangold has crafted one following the rise of fo…
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January 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
While its narrative structure is your typical biopic fare, #ACompleteUnknown’s theme defending creativity and innovation is a strong reminder of the responsibility of the creative, much needed in this era. Timothee Chalamet’s performance is the other strong suit. cinemababel.com/a-complete-u...
#NickelBoys utilizes some impressive cinematographic techniques to make a story of two boys caught within the confines of systemic abuse and racism an immersive emotional experience. An uber impressive debut from director RaMell Ross. cinemababel.com/nickel-boys-...
Nickel Boys is Impeccably Crafted and Emotional
Nickel Boys tells the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young man in Florida who dreams of going to technical school while being raised by his grandmother Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis). His dream…
cinemababel.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
#NickelBoys utilizes some impressive cinematographic techniques to make a story of two boys caught within the confines of systemic abuse and racism an immersive emotional experience. An uber impressive debut from director RaMell Ross. cinemababel.com/nickel-boys-...
#Babygirl melds the erotic thriller and exploration of the corruptive nature of power in an interesting way, but ultimately punches above its weight class due to a dynamic Nicole Kidman performance. She plays well off of Harris Dickinson and Antonio Banderas. cinemababel.com/nicole-kidma...
Nicole Kidman Shines in Babygirl’s Tale of Power and Vulnerability
The erotic thriller has been a critically endangered species in modern cinema, with the once prolific genre almost completely disappearing from movie theaters. Writer/director Halina Reijn is looki…
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December 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
#Babygirl melds the erotic thriller and exploration of the corruptive nature of power in an interesting way, but ultimately punches above its weight class due to a dynamic Nicole Kidman performance. She plays well off of Harris Dickinson and Antonio Banderas. cinemababel.com/nicole-kidma...
#Nosferatu is a stylish horror triumph and feels new and modern while also paying homage to the classic that came before it. From the sense of terror & foreboding it builds around its antagonist to its exploration of faith, science, and guilt, it's a worthy successor. cinemababel.com/nosferatu-ho...
Nosferatu Honors What Came Before While Making Its Own Mark
Writer/director Robert Eggers has steadily built a name for himself in avant-garde film circles with films like The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman. Now, after years of development and some…
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December 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
#Nosferatu is a stylish horror triumph and feels new and modern while also paying homage to the classic that came before it. From the sense of terror & foreboding it builds around its antagonist to its exploration of faith, science, and guilt, it's a worthy successor. cinemababel.com/nosferatu-ho...
Despite being undercut by a trend it arguably started, #Wicked is sure to please longtime fans of the franchise and some new viewers alike, with quality chemistry between Ariana Grande and Cynthia arrive, along with exquisite production design. cinemababel.com/wicked-mostl...
Wicked Mostly Hits Its Marks
Following decades of popularity following its Broadway debut, the stage play Wicked, based on a 1995 novel, is finally making its way to the big screen courtesy of Crazy Rich Asians director John M…
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December 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Despite being undercut by a trend it arguably started, #Wicked is sure to please longtime fans of the franchise and some new viewers alike, with quality chemistry between Ariana Grande and Cynthia arrive, along with exquisite production design. cinemababel.com/wicked-mostl...
#Queer started off with some mildly interesting things to say about infatuation and addiction, but an overindulgent third act made what little appeal it had dissipate. cinemababel.com/queer-had-so...
Queer Had Some Potential, But…
Director Luca Guadagnino returns to cinemas with his new film Queer. Set in 1950s Mexico City, the film follows Lee (Daniel Craig), an American who has sought refuge in the country after following …
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December 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#Queer started off with some mildly interesting things to say about infatuation and addiction, but an overindulgent third act made what little appeal it had dissipate. cinemababel.com/queer-had-so...