Stolen Kingdom (2025)
“It’s an entertaining, surface-level look at a bizarre subculture that, while sometimes hilarious, leaves a lot on the table.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 26, 2025
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Ick (2024)
71%
B-
“A riotous take on the creature feature and a scathing satire of society’s apathetic attitude in the face of existential threats. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 12, 2024
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
C
“It’s the last third of Nightbitch where the film goes from mostly harmless to embarrassing.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 8, 2024
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
96%
B-
“While these large-scale productions typically get the life taken from them by committee in Hollywood, this film’s stone-faced commitment to executing such silly spectacle makes for an uneven, mostly good time.” –
The Film Stage
Jul 23, 2024
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Bookworm (2024)
91%
C
“Timpson, along with co-writer Toby Harvard, prefer to take the easy way for achieving their goals, the film leaning into dated comedy and a relentless charm offensive that makes its efforts too strained to fully embrace. ” –
The Film Stage
Jul 22, 2024
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Shelby Oaks (2023)
79%
C-
“With multiple references and inspirations, most from 2000s horror, Shelby Oaks is a dull, uninspired mishmash that’s fussily directed and lacking in scares.” –
The Film Stage
Jul 22, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023)
97%
B-
“The Promised Land is a brutal, entertaining period piece and another showcase for Mads Mikkelsen’s stone-faced magnetism.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 18, 2023
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Fingernails (2023)
60%
D
“It’s impressive to see a film about love only able to generate disdain.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 14, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023)
91%
C
“As misguided as Dream Scenario gets, Cage’s performance saves the film from turning into something much worse.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 14, 2023
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Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
94%
“Perfectly content to settle into a formal monotony that does it no favors.” –
Edge Media Network
Sep 12, 2023
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His Three Daughters (2023)
98%
B
“Barring some divisive final-act choices, it’s a powerful work with a smart screenplay and three terrific performances that capture the messy nature of families going through a grieving process.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 12, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023)
89%
B-
“A tense yet uneven thriller that sensationalizes its source material in almost all of the right places. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 7, 2023
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Explanation for Everything (2023)
83%
B
“Starting out as an awkward comedy, the film builds itself up into one long, exasperated scream at the absurdity of how almost everything can be weaponized into political issues.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 6, 2023
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Of an Age (2022)
88%
“The specificity of Of an Age’s subject matter, combined with its stale handling of said material, only lets the film serve as a reminder of better works that came before it.” –
Globe and Mail
Feb 13, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022)
75%
C
“The Outwaters is a misjudged bait-and-switch, relying on the exhausted found-footage format to sneak in something more like Event Horizon than The Blair Witch Project. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 9, 2023
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The Civil Dead (2023)
97%
B
“A grim yet charming slacker comedy whose drive comes from its stubborn insistence on staying low-key. ” –
The Film Stage
Feb 2, 2023
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Onlookers (2023)
75%
C
“There’s plenty going on within Takesue’s latest film––all looked at with a sense of curiosity and bemusement––but in the end there’s very little to take away.” –
The Film Stage
Jan 27, 2023
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Tár (2022)
91%
“At its best, "Tár" is the sort of riveting and measured response to a cultural reckoning, one that acknowledges how we got to this place without ever needing to make up viewers' minds for them.” –
Edge Media Network
Dec 20, 2022
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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)
60%
“Did I just take a journey through Iñárritu's mind, or did I subject myself to his colonoscopy?” –
Edge Media Network
Dec 20, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
95%
“You may start "The Eternal Daughter" expecting to be scared, but by the end you'll come out of it moved in ways you'd never expect.” –
Edge Media Network
Dec 20, 2022
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EO (2022)
96%
“In its relentless pursuit of disorienting audiences and unmooring them from narrative conventions, EO compels us to see the world differently, and therefore helps us see it from a perspective outside our own.” –
Globe and Mail
Nov 25, 2022
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Sick (2022)
85%
B
“ Rather than aim high, Sick is happy to make the most of what it has to work with, and shows how sticking to the basics can still provide a hell of a fun time.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 26, 2022
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Raymond & Ray (2022)
48%
C-
“Mostly everyone phones it in, with McGregor as the worst offender in how broad he plays Raymond. Hawke does fine for a role he can pull off in his sleep.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 26, 2022
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Empire of Light (2022)
45%
C
“Empire of Light would like to remind us of the power of movies when it does a far stronger job recalling better ones.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 22, 2022
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The Menu (2022)
88%
C+
“There’s no politics here, just a desire to follow the tide of public opinion right into their wallets, yet I can’t blame anyone for wanting to just go with the flow.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 22, 2022
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