The Heirloom (2024)
“The Heirloom transcends the trope of “pandemic movie” and becomes something far more relatable: a quietly devastating study of how close quarters can transform even the smallest cracks in a relationship into unnavigable canyons.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Borderline (2025)
56%
“for those seeking a sharper take on obsession or celebrity culture, or even just looking for compromised thrills, Borderline will likely feel like an opportunity narrowly missed.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Middletown (2025)
100%
“Perhaps McBaine and Moss’s goal isn’t simply to uplift viewers in the face of pervasive dysfunction... Instead, they remind us that personal stories can offer us all a lifeline when the larger system seems beyond repair. ” –
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Mar 8, 2025
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Rats! (2024)
77%
“Nothing is too absurd or too crass for inclusion, and while that brazenness means the end results can be uneven, this quality is also essential to the film’s uniquely chaotic charm.” –
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Feb 28, 2025
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Disfluency (2021)
85%
“...one can’t help but wonder what the — potentially impressive — effect might have been without the relentless spoon-feeding.” –
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Feb 4, 2025
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Queens (Reinas) (2024)
88%
“Reynicke’s film resists teasing out more pat narrative threads... and instead concerns itself with the small, personal moments that define relationships; the stories we tell, the time we spend, and the ways we try, and too often fail, to show love. ” –
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Dec 4, 2024
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Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024)
75%
“You leave the film with no new stories, no new insights; all we're left with are the same old photographs, dusted off and arranged for display. If you’re looking for lighting in a bottle, just watch the original special.” –
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Nov 25, 2024
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Stockholm Bloodbath (2023)
“Stockholm Bloodbath‘s essential flaw [is that] the film is all emptiness — of style, character, and topical discourse — masquerading as substance, and quite unconvincingly at that.” –
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Nov 19, 2024
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Endurance (2024)
70%
“Despite notable aesthetic strengths, Endurance struggles to maintain a tonal balance. The high-stakes, life-and-death desperation of Shackleton’s crew is often undercut by the relatively low-risk procedural approach of the modern-day mission.” –
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Nov 1, 2024
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The Devil's Climb (2024)
“In total, the documentary struggles to maintain the excitement of either Honnold or Caldwell's earlier cinematic presentations, or even the high-stakes drama of other climbing films.” –
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Oct 29, 2024
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Darla in Space (2024)
100%
“For those willing to embrace the fundamental absurdity of its designs, the film offers the kind of surprising viewing experience that is all too rare in the current cinematic landscape.” –
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Oct 24, 2024
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House of Spoils (2024)
40%
“What could have been an exciting slurry of food and fear, grub and grue, is instead executed as safely as possible, leaving less a bad taste in one’s mouth than the simply sense that you’ve tasted this before. ” –
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Oct 4, 2024
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Will & Harper (2024)
99%
“Will & Harper is far too heartfelt for such maudlin reductions and is instead content to ride shotgun, surveying the slipperiness of identity and the endurance of friendship through an intimate road trip lens, shared over too many cans of Pringles.” –
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Oct 2, 2024
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Booger (2024)
96%
“Dauterman's stylish film ultimately succeeds at capturing the extreme and unpredictable ways we attempt to cope with the void left behind by those we love, living up to the grotesquerie of its title but rising above its negative connotations.” –
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Sep 12, 2024
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The Cowboy and the Queen (2023)
“[The film] thrives by virtue of its authenticity, sincerity, and the undeniable chemistry of its two central figures, but it also gives viewers more than a mere tale of unlikely friendship.” –
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Sep 5, 2024
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Apollo 13: Survival (2024)
100%
“Middleton is able to fix more focus on the psychological strain that all involved in the experience endured, balancing that emotional weight with the matter-of-factness of the newly-released footage and audio.” –
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Sep 4, 2024
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (2024)
65%
“It’s the cinematic equivalent of comfort food — familiar, predictable, and deeply unchallenging.” –
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Aug 23, 2024
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Incoming (2024)
25%
“Incoming, from directors Dave and John Chernin, falls victim to that fading cultural attention span and failure to deliver anything novel or noteworthy.” –
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Aug 23, 2024
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Skincare (2024)
69%
“What’s shiny and plastic on the outside isn’t beautiful on the inside. Truly some breathtaking insight, that.” –
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Aug 16, 2024
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Happy Campers (2023)
100%
“Ultimately, Happy Campers is the kind of film that functions as a testament to the power of place and the resilience of the human spirit, but without any of the maudlin sentimentality such a description implies.” –
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Aug 8, 2024
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Peak Season (2023)
96%
“But for every instance of a clichéd storyline stunting the film, its earnest, relaxed performances save it from mere indie rehash — as do the stunning views of Wyoming’s unequaled natural vistas, a cheat code for gorgeous compositions.” –
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Aug 7, 2024
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Adrianne & the Castle (2024)
64%
“[Adrianne & the Castle] challenges jaded perspectives and invites viewers to reconsider the possibility of timeless, unwavering devotion. It reminds that perhaps, even in our most cynical moments, extraordinary love can still be found.” –
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Aug 1, 2024
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Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa (2023)
100%
“Mountain Queen goes beyond either a simple glimpse into the majestic world of Everest or an intimate story of tenacity to realize a more roundly probing and profoundly empathetic portrait of the human spirit’s capacity to endure and overcome.” –
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Jul 29, 2024
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Ghostlight (2024)
99%
“The subsequent portrayal of one family’s fractious grief, which can so easily be handled either manipulatively or cloyingly, here feels profoundly genuine and earned.” –
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Jun 21, 2024
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Shelf Life (2024)
“Still, Shelf Life’s charming characters and humble efforts to marry the universal appeal of cheese to deeper philosophical probing are largely able to help mitigate its areas of wanting.” –
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Jun 15, 2024
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