The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
FIVE STARS
“Director Peter Cattaneo ("The Full Monty") captures every microscopic nuance of comedy, tragedy, satire, romance, and mystery in this wonderful movie.
Impressive.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Mar 30, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
ONE STAR
“If ever there was a movie seemingly written by A.I. "Black Bag" is it.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Mar 9, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
TWO STARS
“I suppose this film's tag line, "Succumb to the Darkness" is an apt sentiment in the age of global warming and yet another Trump era.
This vampire movie is perfectly watchable; you may feel inclined to nap during it. Don't worry, you won't miss much.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 19, 2025
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
100%
FIVE STARS
“Director/co-writer Nick Park and his brilliant team of animators deliver the most delightful children's comedy you could ever imagine.
What joy springs from this delightful movie.
I'd watch it again right now!
Love it to pieces. ” –
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 13, 2025
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
ZERO STARS
“"The Brutalist" is an exploitation movie in love with its own misery.
No amount of editing or color-correcting can save this film from itself.
Victim-hood is its own reward.
Save the back-slapping for Sean Baker's "Anora."
” –
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 11, 2025
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The Substance (2024)
89%
FIVE STARS
“Here is a whole lot of movie with some very poignant ideas about culture.
"The Substance" explodes with wit, heart, soul, and a whole lot of blood and guts.
What fun!” –
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 6, 2025
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Juror #2 (2024)
93%
TWO STARS
“Clint Eastwood's promising courtroom drama loses to a last scene misstep that costs the picture everything.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Jan 4, 2025
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
FIVE STARS
“Audience tears flow freely during this cathartic reflection on mental illness and the effects it has on others.
I dare say "Hard Truths" carries the potential power to alter the relationship behavior of its audience.
You will feel the feeling.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Dec 15, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
ZERO STARS
“"Queer" searches for a story, but never finds one.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Dec 15, 2024
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The Magician (1958)
100%
FIVE STARS
“This lush film is a stone-cold classic by any measure.
"The Magician" is a really fun movie to return to time and time again. There's just so much cinematic magic to savor.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 24, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
FIVE STARS
“You can easily tell in its first 15 minutes why "Anora" won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes.
"Anora" is a winner, and an instant classic of American Independent Cinema.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 14, 2024
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I Married a Witch (1942)
95%
FIVE STARS
“"I Married A Witch" is a high concept movie, especially for 1942. The picture carries a Frenchness in its lighthearted attitudes regarding relations between men and the women who enchant them.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 12, 2024
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Malevolent (2018)
54%
TWO STARS
“"Malevolent" is based on the novel "Hush" by Konstantopoulos, although you'd never guess that this lightweight ghost story/slasher pic was based on novelistic source material.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 5, 2024
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Apartment 7A (2024)
43%
FIVE STARS
“Co-writer/director Natalie Erika James ("Relic") delivers a fierce pro-abortion horror prequel to "Rosemary's Baby" that twists a cinematic knife into the MAGA conspirators that overturned Roe v. Wade.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 3, 2024
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
80%
FOUR STARS
“William Castle's 1959 B-Movie horror classic retains its goofy charm with a litany of gimmicky sight gags that, however tame by today's standards, keep their childish appeal.
” –
ColeSmithey.com
Oct 2, 2024
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Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023)
65%
ZERO STARS
“Thomas Neogovan makes a punk move by attempting to usurp the original version for his own stupid ego. Foolio.
Here is sexploitation in reverse.
Don't waste your time on this wrongheaded exercise in entropy.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 29, 2024
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Midsommar (2019)
83%
FOUR STARS
“All you need to know going into this transgressive (if surrealistic) film is that it covers: animal abuse, cannibalism, incest, suicide, matricide, homicide, and some serious fucking.
My work here is done.
Get thee thinking cap on.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 28, 2024
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Rated X (2000)
33%
FOUR STARS
“Tasteful, dramatic, and fascinating, "Rated X" is a damned good movie that is sorely overlooked.
This is one wild ride of a biopic.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 26, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023)
80%
FIVE STARS
“Primary to Jeff Nichols's brilliant five-act film is the female perspective of its protagonist Kathy. Jodie Comer gives an Oscar-worthy performance that defies all expectation.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 21, 2024
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In Praise of Love (2001)
53%
FIVE STARS
“Jean-Luc Godard takes a steely knife to Stephen Spielberg, who he detests with an obvious fury.
Love isn't all that Godard is praising.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 11, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024)
82%
FIVE STARS
“Fast, sexy, hilarious, and endlessly entertaining, "The Fall Guy" is a true masterpiece regardless of whether its the short or long version that you see.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 9, 2024
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Blaze (2018)
95%
FIVE STARS
“Director Ethan Hawke does the memory of Blues singer/songwriter Blaze Foley justice in this transfixing biopic.
The life of a troubadour is always a difficult one. Blaze Foley was up to the challenge.
” –
ColeSmithey.com
Sep 2, 2024
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The Legend of Hell House (1973)
71%
FOUR STARS
“Many of the plot and design elements used in this influential genre film went on to be quoted, if not expanded on, by budding young horror directors in love with its artfulness.
"The Legend of Hell House" is a minor masterpiece.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 20, 2024
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The Machinist (2004)
77%
FIVE STARS
“"The Machinist" is a well-crafted psychological thriller about self-deception and tragedy, told against an eerie landscape of terrifying dislocation and isolation.
This is one effed up horror movie.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 4, 2024
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The Trout (1982)
64%
THREE STARS
“While "La Truite" seems on its surface to be a shallow character study of a judgemental young woman playing power games on an international chess board, the movie gets at unwritten agreements between men and women.
Peut-etre. Jamais.” –
ColeSmithey.com
Aug 3, 2024
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