The Assessment (2024)
82%
“The Assessment doesn’t have the heft to fully maximize the potential of its premise, its entertaining eccentricities dulled by its disappointing shallowness.” –
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Apr 3, 2025
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Inheritance (2025)
54%
“Inheritance is too coherent and competent to be described as a truly bad movie, yet it’s far from the territory of a good one.” –
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Feb 4, 2025
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Suburban Fury (2024)
100%
“While never striking bedrock tonally or thematically, Suburban Fury still has the scattershot breadth and genre intrigue to give it some sticking power after the credits roll.” –
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Oct 12, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
“not much is happening beneath the surface here. Yet thanks to the Almodóvarian touch and some earnest performances, the textures are pleasingly rich enough to be sustaining.” –
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Oct 9, 2024
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Lee (2023)
67%
“The film is littered with these breadcrumbs that don’t add up to anything satisfying or revelatory. Despite its clear desire to be penetrative, Lee instead more frequently manages a breezy superficiality.” –
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Sep 27, 2024
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Sugarcane (2024)
100%
“But Sugarcane, which NoiseCat directed with Emily Kassie, doesn’t tastelessly wallow in trauma for drama’s sake. It frequently oscillates between a tender tone and a rebellious one.” –
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Aug 7, 2024
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War Game (2024)
80%
“The gimmick and the subject matter it taps into are too salient for anyone but the most politically oblivious to not carry some impressions with them... Yet the film lacks any daring verve, the incisive potency that could have elevated it.” –
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Aug 5, 2024
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Art College 1994 (2023)
89%
“Art College 1994 doesn’t seem very interested in making any sort of defining point at all, but in rather encapsulating a specific milieu with a spellbinding attention to detail. ” –
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Apr 24, 2024
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13 Bombs (2023)
50%
“Barely passable at best, 13 Bombs could have been a blast if it wasn’t so uninterested in what it truly had in its arsenal.” –
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Feb 2, 2024
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Wonka (2023)
82%
“While Wonka never reaches the level of genuine movie magic, like the best sweet treats, it offers a flavorful diversion substantive enough to not immediately melt in your mouth.” –
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Dec 15, 2023
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Rustin (2023)
83%
“Rustin has more on its mind than solely one man, but likely would have been better served in honing its focus.” –
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Dec 14, 2023
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Origin (2023)
81%
“Origin buckles under the weight of its audaciousness, which, while only somewhat mitigating its entertainment value (the performances alone keep the proceedings afloat), inhibits it from ever becoming a truly engrossing or enlightening work.” –
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Dec 8, 2023
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Uncropped (2023)
90%
“Uncropped is an amusing love letter to a relatively unheralded creative and the worlds where he made his name, but a different lens may very well have resulted in a better, greater film.” –
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Nov 24, 2023
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Songs of Earth (2023)
100%
“Olin has a stirring, elegiac film here, its strengths found not just in its images and tones, but also its essences.” –
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Nov 16, 2023
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
97%
“That solidity enhances the realism, imbues it with an incontrovertible quality that is also the source of its sobering beauty. Fallen Leaves possesses all of these strengths, updating Kaurismäki’s typical concerns for the contemporary moment.” –
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Nov 14, 2023
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The Marvels (2023)
62%
“[Its] failure to build depth and purpose into either its storytelling or characters renders The Marvels a flashy but hollow experience, less a satisfying event movie than a determined corporate attempt at damage control.” –
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Nov 9, 2023
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She Came to Me (2023)
48%
“Lack of coherency, generally speaking, is She Came to Me’s most defining flaw... It sits in an exasperating liminal space between comedy and drama where the undercooked elements of each contribute to a whole that’s less than any of its individual parts.” –
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Oct 2, 2023
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The Kill Room (2023)
59%
“The Kill Room is very much a movie aware of our content-heavy present, wading into the discourse with a charming wink.” –
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Sep 28, 2023
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Oceans Are The Real Continents (2023)
100%
“Oceans does require attentive patience from the viewer, but in exchange Santambrogio delivers a wistful and poetic journey sure to linger on in memory.” –
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Sep 7, 2023
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Blue Beetle (2023)
78%
“What distinguishes it from the overarching franchise’s recent outings is its ability to integrate a genuinely tender and nuanced approach to character within its genre-required thrills.” –
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Aug 16, 2023
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Stephen Curry: Underrated (2023)
85%
“The result is a film that is entertaining without rising to revelatory, an enjoyable watch for anyone wishing to spend some more time with one of the NBA’s preeminent faces during the long offseason lull.” –
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Jul 22, 2023
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Earth Mama (2023)
97%
“Savanah Leaf’s debut Earth Mama treats the viewer to a tender, moving portrait of a complicated Black woman. ” –
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Jul 9, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
67%
“Without any nostalgic connection to the original property, The Little Mermaid is a peculiarly ambivalent experience, all its elevating touches counterbalanced by its new flaws.
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May 24, 2023
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Chevalier (2022)
76%
“As biopics go, Chevalier isn’t particularly revolutionary stuff, but there’s a sincerity in its desire to function as a character study and a celebration that pushes it past flatly generic territory.” –
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Apr 21, 2023
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A Thousand and One (2023)
97%
“These thematic concerns carry into this feature-length offering, a heart-rending, subtly epic drama that balances its raw vision of urban struggle with an empathetically poetic exploration of the bonds that sustain the folks working within that hardship.” –
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Apr 3, 2023
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