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4/5
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Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s proudly weird but weirdly competent in everything it’s trying to do, and if you’re in the market for just one knockabout good-time flick this or indeed any weekend, you should look no further.
Posted Mar 28, 2026
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3.5/5
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Primate
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Nothing happens in it that you won’t expect, but the way it happens still manages to surprise you, if only because of how sadistic it all feels. In this case, though, I’m pretty sure that’s the point.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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4/5
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Hoppers
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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We could use more stories like it, brought to life with the same passion and craft, espousing the same wisdom of looking, listening, and being a part of something bigger than ourselves.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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2.5/5
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Scream 7
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’d also possibly argue that this franchise has now exhausted its own mythology to the point that there’s really no way it can continue without feeling so contrived that it starts to undermine and pollute its legacy.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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3/5
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Bodycam
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Bodycam is ultimately a high-concept B-movie with a reach that exceeds its grasp.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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2/5
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Shelter
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The cliches are baked in at a fundamental level and then piled on like a suffering Jenga tower, never amounting to anything beyond a rote procession of ideas worn threadbare by their use in a thousand other movies just like this one.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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2/5
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The expanded scope makes for a very different-feeling sequel, one with a sort of "worst road trip ever" slapstick quality that is curiously underpinned by an exceptionally morbid funereal streak.
Posted Mar 27, 2026
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3/5
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Pretty Lethal
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The rest of it is diverting, buoyed by some game performances from an interesting young cast, but it just feels like any old blood-soaked thriller that is always on the cusp of letting loose but never quite commits to doing so until it’s too late.
Posted Mar 25, 2026
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3.5/5
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Mark Normand: None Too Pleased
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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What would have made you a household name two, five, or ten years ago might make you a pariah today, and definitely will tomorrow. In that landscape, the best thing about Mark Normand is that you can always rely on him to be Mark Normand.
Posted Mar 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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War Machine
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The ungainly offspring is an impressive-looking, surprisingly earnest, and utterly unchallenging streaming offering that’ll delight genre fans for as long as it lasts and be forgotten about entirely the second the credits start rolling.
Posted Mar 06, 2026
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2.5/5
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The Bluff
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It just feels like a movie that’s a little too ambitious action-wise, and a lot too inattentive narrative-wise, so you notice all the worst bits more than you otherwise might.
Posted Feb 25, 2026
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3.5/5
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Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I wouldn’t quite call this hour the sermon it’s jokingly presented as, but there are lessons to be learned.
Posted Feb 24, 2026
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3.5/5
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Sommore: Chandelier Fly
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I don’t know how long you need to do something to be considered the "queen" of it, but Sommore is apparently the queen of comedy, and who am I to argue?
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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2/5
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Twisted
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I appreciate the effort, but the ways in which it strives and ultimately fails make it an odd little film to consider.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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3.5/5
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Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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But if you can help it, don’t be too quick to dismiss Joe’s College Road Trip. You might learn something along the way.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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4/5
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Katt Williams: The Last Report
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The Last Report is so-called because of the Illuminati thing, the idea that every hour might be Katt’s last if he continues to aggravate the wrong people and say the things he isn’t supposed to.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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4/5
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Mo Gilligan: In The Moment
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Mo has always been funny, but working out the kinks in his stage persona creates even more engagement. He’s mastering his craft.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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1.5/5
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Return to Silent Hill
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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As it turns out, returning to Silent Hill wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Posted Feb 01, 2026
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4/5
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The Wrecking Crew
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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he biggest surprise of Angel Manuel Soto’s buddy-action throwback is that it isn’t content to deliver the bare minimum.
Posted Feb 01, 2026
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3/5
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Mike Epps: Delusional
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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You know where you stand with a Mike Epps special. He has been around for long enough that you know what to expect, and he has never really failed to deliver it, even if he has pretty consistently failed to deliver anything else.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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3.5/5
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Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Her testimony is frank and unflinching, providing an intimate, deeply personal lens through which to view the heinous experiences she was subjected to.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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2/5
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The Big Fake
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The big issue with Netflix’s so-so Italian forgery thriller The Big Fake is that its protagonist, Pietro Castellitto’s Toni, simply can’t wait to get in over his head.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Netflix has several bad ideas, but giving Joe Carnahan $100,000,000 is a pretty good one.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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2/5
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s a trip that just doesn’t seem worth the jetlag.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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3.5/5
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Marcello Hernández: American Boy
(2026)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Hernandez is still a green comic, and there’s room to tighten his material as he grows, but the fact that one hour in his company leaves you feeling as if you’ve been through some sort of assault course is going to make him hard to ignore.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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3/5
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Ricky Gervais: Mortality
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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There is nothing more eminently mockable than virtue-signalling always-online faux-liberalism, but bringing up the most obviously ridiculous examples of it for an hour doesn’t necessarily constitute an act.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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3.5/5
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Elway
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’ve long held the belief that high-level sport is the best storytelling medium in existence, and what I like about Elway is that it believes this too.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/5
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The Great Flood
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The Great Flood starts out as a very compelling disaster movie, but it almost becomes a disaster of a movie on the back of its own confounding ambition.
Posted Dec 19, 2025
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2/5
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10DANCE
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Maybe there’ll be a more risqué sequel that makes good on all the build-up. As things stand, 10 Dance is a few silky steps shy of a full routine.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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3/5
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is an illusion of a good movie, and as long as you don’t think about it too much, you might happily let it pass as one until you inevitably forget you ever saw it.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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4/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Wake Up Dead Man is the first Knives Out Mystery to realise that Daniel Craig’s eccentric detective Benoit Blanc is the least interesting thing about them.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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2/5
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Merv
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Good Boy had the good sense to keep its precious few human characters off-screen for almost all of the runtime, whereas Merv burdens us with a Charlie Cox and Zooey Deschanel who couldn’t seem less interested in each other if they tried.
Posted Dec 10, 2025
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5/5
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Jay Kelly is a rigorous examination of not just who Jay is, or who Clooney might be, but who we are. In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, the conceit would have burst at the seams.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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2/5
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Matt Rife: Unwrapped - A Christmas Crowd Work Special
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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There’s a cynicism to this entire package that can’t be disguised by its Christmas wrapping paper.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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2/5
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Troll 2
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I’ve now seen two of these movies, and I still have no idea whether we’re supposed to be rooting for the trolls or not.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4.5/5
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Champagne Problems
(2025)
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Ready Steady Cut Staff
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Champagne Problems is a modern holiday classic in the making. With undeniable chemistry between leads Minka Kelly and Tom Wozniczka, a genuinely funny supporting cast, and beautiful Parisian cinematography, this is the feel-good Christmas hit of 2025.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4.5/5
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
(2025)
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Daniel Hart
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo is a masterful piece of investigative filmmaking that turns a decades-old question into a gripping, true-crime thriller.
Posted Nov 28, 2025
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4/5
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Kevin Hart: Acting My Age
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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This isn’t a complete reinvention for Hart, but it is a return to a vintage form, to the focus on his family life and internal existential crises.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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4/5
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Daniel Hart
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Nuremberg is a challenging psychological drama that demands patience. While the first half tests the viewer with a shifting tone, it is rewarded by Russell Crowe’s chilling precision and a devastating third act that refuses to let history be forgotten.
Posted Nov 22, 2025
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4/5
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Sangre Del Toro
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Sangre Del Toro is full of earnest appreciation for its subject’s achievements, of course, but it’s much more interested in how the life and interests of the man himself have shaped his work over the years.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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4/5
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Grainier is a nobody, and yet within him is contained the full breadth of human emotion. He did nothing that anybody would recognise, and yet experienced everything. As may we all.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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2/5
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A Merry Little Ex-Mas
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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But one has to wonder when the comfort of a festive movie exactly like every other festive movie ceases to be comforting and instead becomes a kind of Sisyphean prison of futility, a reminder of your own unchanging life and unfulfilled dreams.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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1.5/5
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Playdate
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s art-as-content in its most egregious and obvious form, and is utterly undeserving of even the 90 minutes it takes to suffer through.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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2/5
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Being Eddie
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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It’s a feature-length PR puff piece that, after a while, becomes deeply uncomfortable in its incessant self-congratulatory backslapping.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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2/5
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Mango
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Mehdi Avaz’s Danish-language Netflix original, written with Milad Schwartz Avaz, is sweet enough (like the mangoes), but completely lacks any distinguishing characteristics or meaningful ambitions.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3/5
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Baramulla
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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These are serious matters, and while highlighting them in any work seems to be of value in a broad sense, reducing such a thing to exploded notions of good and evil, right and wrong, us and them, is a simplistic way of doing so.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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1.5/5
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Tyler Perry's Finding Joy
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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The worst part is that it’s boring. It’s boring in its pacing and structure, in its predictability, and in its muddled outcomes. It’s boring visually and thematically. It isn’t about anything.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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4/5
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Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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This isn’t a character, it’s all her, and it’s a huge part of the reason why she’s the most likable working comedian in the world right now.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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2/5
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Joy to the World
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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I mostly feel the same way about it as I do about socks as a gift. They’ll keep your feet warm, but you’ll definitely wish you were getting something better.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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3.5/5
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Jonathon Wilson
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Leonberg finds a handful of clever ways to rework horror cliches from Indy’s perspective, which I won’t spoil, but he doesn’t find enough to stave off the sense of repetition that creeps in around the midpoint.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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