Sneaks (2025)
33%
“It isn’t too much sillier, I suppose, than the characters in Cars or Planes, and any movie that includes the trash talk, “Your mama is from Payless!” deserves some credit.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Apr 23, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
98%
“Sinners is perhaps overambitious at times, but in a good way, down to its absurdly touching epilogue; the movie is overstuffed with terrific acting and marvelous music, and a big heart.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Apr 23, 2025
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Drop (2025)
84%
“There’s hardly a plot point that doesn’t require a more arduous suspension of disbelief than usual, and some of them get still more dubious when you think them over later. But it’s highly entertaining while you’re watching it.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Apr 15, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
“The Penguin Lessons has laughs, but it's also character-driven and melancholy; in the long run it could fairly be called a tearjerker. It's hard to imagine the movie working as well as it does with anyone but Coogan in the lead. ” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Mar 31, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
54%
“Death of a Unicorn is strikingly funny and exciting. It also carries a tinge of sourness, but this is true of most satires. ” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Mar 31, 2025
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The Alto Knights (2025)
40%
“The Alto Knights is fascinating, but it's as doggedly stodgy and prudent as Frank. You may find yourself, like Vito, craving a little more mayhem.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Mar 22, 2025
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
100%
“Rungano Nyoni’s brilliant, freaky and devastating exploration of relations between, and within, the sexes in Shula’s culture. ” –
Phoenix Magazine
Mar 22, 2025
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Eephus (2024)
100%
“The movie throws off our expectations; it takes its time, and it sails surprisingly high.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Mar 15, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“A premise that could work well as a half-hour Twilight Zone episode is spun into imaginative, unpredictable adventures and complications. ” –
Phoenix Magazine
Mar 15, 2025
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My Dead Friend Zoe (2024)
95%
“It isn’t a glorified didactic training film. Martin-Green offers a heartbreaking depiction of a guilty grief that doesn’t want to let go, that regards every temptation to happiness as a betrayal. She’s superb.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Mar 4, 2025
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
“An amusing and sometimes touching ode to the vagaries of making theatre.” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Feb 25, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
48%
“It’s all pretty silly, of course, but it’s not punishingly overlong, and director Julius Onah stages an amusing finale involving the Red Hulk rampaging among the cherry blossoms in D.C.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Feb 15, 2025
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Paddington in Peru (2024)
93%
“Paddington in Peru isn’t quite as good as Paddington 2, but it’s still terrific. As before, the quiet, marmalade-loving bear in his blue coat and floppy red hat serves as a polite foil for the wacky antics of character actors” –
Phoenix Magazine
Feb 15, 2025
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Heart Eyes (2025)
81%
“Heart Eyes is no His Girl Friday, and it’s no horror masterpiece either, but if you’re in “Love Stinks” mode this year, it still might be good for a few laughs.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Feb 8, 2025
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Dog Man (2025)
80%
“Scripted and directed by Peter Hastings -- who also voices our hero’s spirited barks, whimpers, growls and howls -- it’s an exuberant exercise in nonsense, with snappy, surgically executed gags.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Feb 3, 2025
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One of Them Days (2025)
94%
“Most of [the slapstick sequences] are wearisomely heavy-handed or gross-out schticks in the contemporary comedy manner. But this modest movie... is endearing anyway, because it’s an old-school buddy comedy, and a portrait of a community.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Feb 3, 2025
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Wolf Man (2025)
50%
“The movie’s austerity and lack of old-school hokum may feel like a cheat at first, but director Whannell of the Saw flicks, who also directed the pretty scary 2020 version of The Invisible Man, handles many scenes with panache.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Jan 23, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“Though it’s heartbreakingly sad, Nickel Boys is surprisingly not depressing, because the friendship that grows between Elwood and Turner carries a quiet charge of love that transcends the tragedy.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Jan 23, 2025
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
“Written and directed by Eisenberg, this modest movie is genuinely original --very funny, very poignant, very believable, painfully uncomfortable to watch at times but ultimately a gem. ” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Jan 21, 2025
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Queer (2024)
77%
“As it dives deeper into drug-fueled visions, it loses dramatic momentum. It's visually arresting, but Guadagnino finds no equivalent to the charge that Burroughs generates in the best riffing passages of his prose.” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Jan 21, 2025
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
“Despite Chalamet's excellence, Norton's performance as Seeger is the real standout here. ” –
Less Hat, Moorhead
Jan 21, 2025
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I'm No Angel (1933)
93%
“I’m No Angel is a blast. West’s familiar persona -- the swaggering walk, the purring, offhand delivery -- hadn’t curdled into a cornball cliché at this point, and her throwaway lines have a cheerful insouciant vibrancy.” –
Phoenix Magazine
Jan 6, 2025
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The Fire Inside (2024)
93%
“This unflashy, straightforward movie -- Morrison’s style recalls the modest, gritty naturalism that John G. Avildsen brought to the original Rocky and The Karate Kid -- wins us with its warm, convincing performances. ” –
Phoenix Magazine
Dec 28, 2024
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
“The film generates a nightmarish atmosphere, no question, and the dialogue and supporting performances are strong. But this Nosferatu cheats itself, and cheats its leading actor, by distancing us from the Orlok character. ” –
Phoenix Magazine
Dec 28, 2024
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
“It stays with you because of this filmmaking intelligence, and because of Kidman’s witty performance; Romy is simultaneously game and hilariously inhibited. But it also feels slow and oppressive and cautionary. ” –
Phoenix Magazine
Dec 28, 2024
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