Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025)
15%
“The film itself would be almost admirable in its nakedly confessional and self-excoriating qualities if only it weren’t so derivative, shallow, and dull.” –
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May 19, 2025
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Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
73%
“The problem is that the film is caught in the no man’s land between knowingly janky and actually clever; it doesn’t upend clichés or moldy tropes, but, rather, merely presents them with an archness that plays as snickering or, worse, above it all.” –
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May 7, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
97%
“[Coogler's] new film, Sinners, an original period horror, [is] both a culmination of a decade spent refining his voice on the largest scale imaginable as well as a reintroduction to a filmmaker we barely know.” –
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Apr 17, 2025
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Ash (2025)
72%
“It has the outer shape of something fun, but all the parts inside are assembled incorrectly.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Freaky Tales (2024)
74%
“The film, an anthology built around four loosely connected urban legends, amounts to little more than the sum total of its references; a not-so-secret handshake with film geeks that can barely conceal how impressed it is with itself.” –
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Apr 2, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
54%
“Broadly conceived, self-satisfied with its bushel of low-hanging fruit, and consistently underwhelming as an outré comedy, creature-feature, and earnest reconciliation drama...” –
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Mar 25, 2025
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Planet B (2024)
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“It’s still all the drudgery, manpower, and warehousing of prison, only the film gets to stage scenes of confinement at a swank Airbnb in the south of France.” –
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Mar 12, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
“there's a certain restlessness to Black Bag, as well as the familiar sensation that the director has already moved on to whatever is next on his plate... [but] Black Bag is both smartly cast... and sexy in the too rare, old-fashioned way.” –
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Mar 11, 2025
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The Gorge (2025)
63%
“As an exercise in Lovecraftian horror, it’s a hoot. [It] gradually doles out morsels of tangible information, but it weaponizes our curiosity and anxieties of the unknown for longer than one might reasonably expect.” –
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Feb 28, 2025
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The Monkey (2025)
78%
“It’s all in good fun provided you’ve got the stomach for it... but the law of diminished returns kicks in after the third or fourth time watching someone combust into a cloud of red mist and body parts.” –
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Feb 25, 2025
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Wolf Man (2025)
49%
“Wolf Man is so theme-first and underwhelming in the particulars that it barely functions as either a drama or horror film. It's so preoccupied with what it means to be perceived as a monster that it never quite gets around to being monstrous.” –
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Feb 4, 2025
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Companion (2025)
93%
“Forgive the mixed metaphor, but the film functions primarily as a pot boiler where most of the fun is in figuring out what’s in the pot.” –
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Feb 4, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
“With everything in Nosferatu designed to within an inch of its life, Depp’s livewire performance at least lends a hint of actual danger and spontaneity to what is an otherwise very handsome but entirely moribund film.” –
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Dec 24, 2024
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“The film has the shape and interiority of great literature, yet the language it speaks with is entirely cinematic.” –
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Dec 17, 2024
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“It places us not just in the shoes of characters who have been through something unimaginable, but in their confused mindsets as well. The result is as exhilarating as it is heartbreaking.” –
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Dec 12, 2024
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Maria (2024)
75%
“No amount of artful obfuscation can conceal how overwhelmingly common and reductive the film is.” –
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Dec 11, 2024
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Juror #2 (2024)
93%
“Juror #2 tends to play better as it turns over in your head afterward rather than while watching it.” –
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Nov 4, 2024
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Parthenope (2024)
46%
“For all of its surface-level pleasures, the film often amounts to simply posing the facile question: “What if a woman were both beautiful and intelligent?” Will wonders never cease!” –
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Nov 1, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
“There is an overdetermined quality to the film’s writing... but also a canny recognition of the value of traditions and gestures (futile and otherwise) in connecting us to our pasts.” –
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Oct 31, 2024
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Black Box Diaries (2024)
99%
“The film leans heavily on inference rather than unearthing actual smoking guns... which can make it feel like the film is chasing its own tail in trying to prove the existence of a conspiracy.” –
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Oct 22, 2024
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Woman of the Hour (2023)
91%
“The filmmakers may believe they’re giving voice to frustration at errors of omission, but it plays almost as unearned superiority.” –
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Oct 14, 2024
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
“Abbasi reserves most of his sympathies for America, which still suffers the consequences of Cohn’s lessons. The film is urgent in its message, but also entirely obvious.” –
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Oct 11, 2024
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Piece By Piece (2024)
83%
“Piece By Piece remains an odd alchemy of boringly conventional celebrity-documentary that plays all the hits — literally in this instance — and irreverent, occasionally visually spectacular yet rudimentary-looking display of animation.” –
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Oct 9, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
“The film attempts to distill the show’s ineffable greatness, free-wheeling sense of reinvention... [but] amounts to little more than fan service.” –
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Oct 8, 2024
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Sketch (2024)
100%
“The derivative nature of Sketch, which feels very mid-'80s Amblin-adjacent, limits the film’s ambitions somewhat, but... in its particulars and execution, it’s better than it arguably needed to be.” –
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Sep 17, 2024
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