The Legend of Ochi (2025)
80%
3.5/4
“There’s a tinge of wildness to it, an anything-can-happen quality, that will keep audiences young and old mesmerized and enjoyably off-balance. I’m not saying it’s for everybody, but if it’s for you, it’s really, really for you.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 25, 2025
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On Swift Horses (2024)
52%
2/4
“All those pretty surfaces can’t conceal the fact that there’s not enough going on underneath.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 24, 2025
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Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024)
83%
2.5/4
“Although there’s some fictionalized elements, and some weed here and there, David Bushell’s film is largely a straightforward, deep-dive documentary into an unlikely comic pairing that blazed bright for a few years.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 22, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
88%
3/4
““Banquet” is a low-key charmer that retains much of the feeling of the original while wisely updating elements of a film about the LGBT+ community that, after all, came out over 30 years ago.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 18, 2025
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Middletown (2025)
100%
3.5/4
“Boy, could we use a lot more civic courage right now. And the ‘90s teens at Middletown High School, with their clunky camcorders, can show the way.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 14, 2025
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Anywhere Anytime (2024)
90%
3/4
“Despite the lack of narrative drive, “Anytime Anywhere” is still a visceral and empathetic film about the immigrant experience. ” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 10, 2025
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Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (2024)
4/4
“The word “intimate” doesn’t begin to capture it. By the end of “Two Strangers,” we feel we know this couple better than we know most of the people in our own lives.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 8, 2025
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The Friend (2024)
84%
2.5/4
““The Friend” is like if “Marley & Me” was a short story in the New Yorker. ” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Apr 3, 2025
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Thank You Very Much (2023)
90%
3.5/4
“I was maybe 98 percent sure that “Thank You Very Much” wasn’t going to end with the reveal that Kaufman actually faked his own death in 1984. Okay, 97 percent.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Mar 28, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
80%
2.5/4
“Not all of “The Penguin Lessons” works, particularly a forced metaphor about the penguin at the end. But as a funny, poignant, minor-key comedy-drama, it might just waddle into your heart.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Mar 26, 2025
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The Assessment (2024)
82%
3/4
“The idea is to deal with problems now. That’s true of a society, and that’s true of a marriage. “The Assessment” connects the two to eerie effect, making a film that works as both a sci-fi parable and a blistering drama.” –
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Mar 21, 2025
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
80%
2/4
“Writer-director Elijah Bynum’s film is a punishing piece of cinema, trapping the viewer inside the life of an unstable, violent man for over two hours.” –
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Mar 20, 2025
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Dinner in America (2020)
91%
3/4
““Dinner in America” is the sort of movie that a group of friends would have rented at their local Blockbusters in the ‘90s if all the copies of “Heathers” and “Pump Up the Volume” had been gone.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Mar 18, 2025
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Novocaine (2025)
81%
3/4
“The charm of “Novocaine” is that Quaid doesn’t play Nathan as a Jason Statham-like badass. Instead, he’s a gangly, nice-guy Everyman. We’re more worried that Nathan will get his heart broken than his legs.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Mar 11, 2025
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Eat the Night (2024)
67%
2/4
““Eat the Night” seems to be aiming to be a hybrid of “City of God” and “I Saw the 온라인카지노추천 Glow,” and while the ambition is admirable, it doesn’t quite have the processing power to keep running smoothly. ” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Mar 5, 2025
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Last Breath (2025)
80%
3/4
“It’s a grounded, edge-of-your-seat drama that, like “Apollo 13,” focuses not on one person’s heroics, but on a large group of smart people working together to try and solve a seemingly unsolvable problem.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 27, 2025
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Universal Language (2024)
96%
3.5/4
““Universal Language” is also shot through with melancholy, and seems to owe as big a debt to Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami as it does to Maddin.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 26, 2025
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Paddington in Peru (2024)
93%
2.5/4
“This is still a Paddington movie, and if it doesn’t live up to the first two films, it’s still bright, cheerful, refreshingly un-cynical fun.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 11, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
4/4
““I’m Still Here” is a beautiful and devastating film about the vital importance of remembering everything, for a family and for a country.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 7, 2025
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Dead Mail (2024)
93%
3.5/4
“Audacious in its narrative structure, thrilling in its execution of shocks, and unexpectedly poignant in its rich characterizations, it’s a gangbusters debut.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 5, 2025
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Didn't Die (2025)
63%
2.5/4
“The acting is grounded and understated, and the stark black-and-white cinematography of co-writer Paul Gleeson gives the film a haunting luster.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 3, 2025
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Twinless (2025)
95%
3.5/4
“A less assured filmmaker might not be able to juggle all the narrative surprises, or lose the emotional thread along the way. “Twinless” never does. ” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Feb 1, 2025
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Love Me (2024)
47%
2/4
“It becomes pretty clear early on that “Love Me” doesn’t have a feature-length film’s worth of ideas to sustain it, and you can feel the intellectual “low battery” indicator come on after 30 minutes or so.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Jan 31, 2025
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All We Imagine as Light (2024)
100%
3.5/4
“It may be an overwhelmingly large mass of humanity, but Kapadia shows us that every one in that sea is an individual, with their own hopes, dreams, secrets and regrets.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Jan 29, 2025
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
3/4
“As the women spend Martha’s final days together, “The Room Next Door” really finds its footing. It’s not that the artifice is stripped away, but that the film and the actresses move through it to tap into a deep well of authentic emotion.” –
Not That Rob Thomas (Substack)
Jan 15, 2025
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