Sinners (2025)
98%
“It is a phantasm of Black Southern delights. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 18, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
“This is a matter of complementary craft; of two great listeners and communicators bringing rapture to every gesture. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 14, 2025
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The Monkey (2025)
79%
“A horror film can’t survive on kills alone, and the narrative of The Monkey — for all the movie’s craft and pedigree — is the worst thing a horror saga can be: boring.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 24, 2025
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Star Trek: Section 31 (2025)
20%
“It is sloppy, misguided, and frankly rote, overstuffed with concepts that it only superficially explores.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 7, 2025
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Mountains (2023)
97%
“It’s the kind that dares us to look back and consider what it means to create a home away from the shores where you were born, in a country hostile not just to your betterment but to your very survival.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Oct 1, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024)
75%
“Blink Twice is a frustratingly timid take on the billionaire class, too busy swooning over Tatum’s figure to even realize it’s making that mistake.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Aug 19, 2024
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Challengers (2024)
88%
“The details of these people’s lives and their interiorities are so thinly drawn they feel more like beautiful ideas crashing into one another and leaving little messes that are too easy to clean up.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 22, 2024
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RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ (2023)
98%
“More than anything, Renaissance is a testament that Beyoncé is a brand that stands for absolutely nothing beyond its own greatness.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 4, 2023
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The Flash (2023)
63%
“The film is remarkably banal. It’s a deteriorating rest stop on the road to nowhere.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jun 14, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
67%
“As the studio has done with other live-action remakes, Disney betrays its own lack of imagination and an essential misreading of what made its original children’s fare such a joy to audiences in the first place.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 22, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
94%
“Chapter 4 is blissfully entertaining, full of pratfalls and acting turns that lead to the audience swelling with oohs, aahs, and yelps.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 23, 2023
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Return to Seoul (2022)
97%
“[Chou] grounds his story in the contours and illuminations of lead Park Ji-Min’s features and expressions in a debut performance so piercing it makes the entire film move like a breathing poem.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 17, 2023
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
84%
“What stays with me after all these years are the images of its female characters in liminal states, on the edge of awakenings: Roz’s beautiful façade cracking under the pressure of her husband’s impropriety...” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 10, 2023
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Babylon (2022)
57%
“Babylon is a film too busy writing an elegy for the still-breathing body of film as a medium to capture the true beauty and complications of being alive.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 21, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
84%
“Regrettably, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever tries to do so many things that it comes across as threadbare and pallid — less a failure of imagination and more of circumstance, time, and narrative constraints.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Nov 9, 2022
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Men (2022)
69%
“Despite all the broken bones, the graphic deaths, and the copious amounts of blood, the driving idea behind Men is not bold enough to feel frightening. Instead, it’s remarkably tepid.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 18, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
74%
“The ideas that hold a gleam of potential are shot down by the film’s rank ugliness, its incessant pace of exposition, the utter slog of the first hour, and the insistence on special effects that render the horrifying as textureless.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 4, 2022
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Ambulance (2022)
68%
“This is exactly the kind of ridiculousness I can get behind.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 12, 2022
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The Lost City (2022)
79%
“The Lost City isn’t terrible, just aggressively mediocre. It is the kind of movie you put on in the background after coming across it on TBS while you fold laundry on a Sunday afternoon.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 23, 2022
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)
96%
“The story quietly washes over you until you realize you’re drowning in waves of acute emotions.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 3, 2022
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
63%
“Teetering between a meta-reckoning with the legacy of the first trilogy and a sincere blooming of a whole new story that feels boldly romantic, Lana Wachowski's first feature solo is a thrilling triumph.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 22, 2021
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C'mon C'mon (2021)
94%
“A tremendous showing from Joaquin Phoenix, operating at a register he's rarely found before. It's a career best for him - lovely, empathetic, humane.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Nov 24, 2021
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Eternals (2021)
47%
“With Eternals, Marvel proves itself to be nothing more than a staid, lumbering black hole.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Nov 5, 2021
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Candyman (2021)
84%
“This Candyman misunderstands the allure of the original and has nothing meaningful to say about the contemporary ideas it observes with all the scrutiny of someone rushing through a Starbucks order on their way to work.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Aug 25, 2021
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
60%
“Gunpowder Milkshake, Netflix's latest in a long line of glossy, forgettable fare, is a flagrant reminder that execution is everything.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Aug 4, 2021
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