Heretic (2024)
91%
1/5
“For a movie that seems to want to be about faith, it relies pretty heavily on works (and the miraculous transformation of a frightened teen into a tough-minded detective), right up until its big deus ex machina. ” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 9, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
2/5
“Perhaps the director’s most conventional effort to date; it even veers toward cliché in its final scene. But what comes before is strong enough to make it hit anyway. ” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 1, 2024
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Conclave (2024)
93%
2/5
“ It’s possible that the film takes itself entirely too seriously; fortunately, the viewer is under no such obligation, and may have a good time as a result.” –
San Diego Reader
Oct 24, 2024
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Last Summer (2023)
86%
2/5
“That’s the character of the film as a whole: cataclysmic events taking place amid lovely, languid scenery and civil (or at least sophisticated) conversation.” –
San Diego Reader
Jul 12, 2024
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Longlegs (2024)
86%
1/5
“Oz Perkins’ adventure in toxic family dynamics — toxic in a way that results in copious quantities of spilled blood — hits so many of the beats from Silence of the Lambs that some viewers may wonder if it’s some kind of supernaturally-skewed gloss.” –
San Diego Reader
Jul 12, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024)
72%
1/5
“Maybe, just maybe, the film’s final shot serves as a frightening rebuke to all that comes before. At least it’s something to think about after all the lovely neon nonsense.” –
San Diego Reader
Jul 5, 2024
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I Saw the 온라인카지노추천 Glow (2024)
84%
2/5
“An almost shockingly effective evocation of How Things Felt, back before the internet made cult followings into malignant mobs, and more importantly, back before we — the collective we — put aside childish things and let adulthood take hold.” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 25, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
94%
1/5
“Once you get the interior ugliness of everyone involved, you may be able to chuckle at some of the violence, ha ha. ” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 20, 2024
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Challengers (2024)
88%
1/5
“Guadagnino knows how to make people very, very attractive. But that’s not the same as interesting. ” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 20, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024)
91%
1/5
“There’s plenty of invention at the granular level: the battle within the Projection Room is smart, the sar-chasm is funny, the stream of consciousness is cute. But the story is very much the same.” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 20, 2024
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Thelma (2024)
98%
2/5
“Squibb is almost unbelievably lively and sharp, and Richard Roundtree serves as a fine, sober counterpoint to her “age is just a number” attitude.” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 20, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023)
80%
1/5
“There’s a story here, and yeah, that story hinges on Johnny and Benny’s choices. But their reasons seem murky even to themselves, and for all the cheerful exposition Kathy provides, Nichols seems happy to have it that way. ” –
San Diego Reader
Jun 20, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
90%
2/5
“The ending is talky, and it sounds like an authorial statement: Dementus revealing the dark heart of the Mad Max saga. But it also makes way for a nasty, batty, but strangely redemptive segue into Fury Road’s story.” –
San Diego Reader
May 26, 2024
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
63%
2/5
“The story doesn’t hold up under scrutiny — don’t overthink it, man — so what you’re left with is the gentle exploration (send-up?) of lesbian culture; the trademark Coen blend of violence, cupidity, and stupidity; and nostalgia for the grindhouse. ” –
San Diego Reader
Mar 2, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024)
92%
3/5
“Lawrence of Arrakis meets Dr. Sandworm, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bene Gesserit...The result is a blockbuster space opera that plays like a downbeat drama — we’re a long, long way from that famous galaxy far, far away. ” –
San Diego Reader
Mar 2, 2024
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Freud's Last Session (2023)
44%
1/5
“Brown does what he can to keep things from feeling like a filmed play, but he can’t do much, and what he does do — flashbacks, dream sequences, a war scene, and a trip to an air raid shelter — isn’t always helpful.” –
San Diego Reader
Jan 17, 2024
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American Fiction (2023)
93%
2/5
“It’s a sign of star Jeffrey Wright’s presence and talent that he’s able to keep the viewer from noticing the bait-and-switch until the ending.” –
San Diego Reader
Jan 17, 2024
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The Beekeeper (2024)
71%
0/5
“Off we go. Like, way off, leaving even the notion of reality behind like a burned-out barn full of busted honey jars. In its place, a hero who makes James Bond look inconspicuous and John Wick look vincible.” –
San Diego Reader
Jan 17, 2024
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Mean Girls (2024)
69%
1/5
“The girls just aren’t as mean. The social hierarchies just aren’t as brutal. The betrayals and losses just aren’t as devastating — and it’s not just because we may have seen them before. It may be because the world has gotten meaner in the meantime.” –
San Diego Reader
Jan 17, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023)
89%
2/5
“Durkin wriggles free of his own story and brings on not one but three happy endings — one in real-time, one in eternity, and one in posterity. If it feels like a bit of a slippery move, well, this is wrestling we’re talking about.” –
San Diego Reader
Jan 17, 2024
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
64%
2/5
“The story here is strong enough to stand on its own, but of course, it is a prequel, and there is a grimy pleasure in seeing the clunky early iterations of the later Games’ slick social machinations.” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 23, 2023
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Napoleon (2023)
58%
1/5
“Director Ridley Scott cuts the world’s most famous short person down to size — but it’s not clear why. ” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 22, 2023
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Wish (2023)
48%
1/5
“Well, it’s a big swing, anyway, even if it’s a miss: Disney’s latest animated effort goes full Carl “We Are Star Stuff” Sagan and takes aim at the Judeo-Christian God.” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 22, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023)
97%
3/5
“Giamatti has a ball here as a glass-eyed grump, but he’s a known quantity. The lupine Sessa is the revelation; it’s a gutsy move putting him in a movie theater scene watching Dustin Hoffman, but it’s no accident.” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 10, 2023
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The Marvels (2023)
62%
0/5
“Star Brie Larson seems pretty checked out here — almost as checked out as the jokers who came up with the idea of once again tapping the Beastie Boys for the soundtrack. “Hey, they’re on a spaceship! Let’s use ‘Intergalactic!’”” –
San Diego Reader
Nov 10, 2023
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