Reviews
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The Cycle of Love Review: The 6,000-Mile Bicycle Ride That Is Also the Year’s Most Joyful Documentary
Some love stories sound too good to be true. A penniless artist from India meets a Swedish tourist, falls in love in a single afternoon, and then cycles across three continents to find her. It sounds like a screenplay. But…
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Christmas at the Kringles Review: A Holiday Horror-Comedy With a Great Cast and Not Enough Cheer
Content note: This film is rated R for strong bloody violence, language, and some sexual material. Every neighborhood has one house that goes too far at Christmas. It’s the one with the lights up in October, the inflatable Santa on…
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Hell House LLC Review: The Found-Footage Classic Hits Theaters for the First Time
Some horror films build an entire franchise from almost nothing. Hell House LLC is one of them. Stephen Cognetti wrote and directed it on a low budget, and set it almost entirely inside one old building. It arrived on digital…
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Gentle Monster Review: Léa Seydoux Anchors a Hard, Uneven Drama About a Family Shattered by a Secret
Some films are hard to describe without spoiling their first act. Gentle Monster is one of them, because its premise is the crisis itself. A woman moves her family to a quiet corner of the countryside, hoping for a fresh…
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A Good Hand Wasted Review: Terrence Howard Deals a Deadly Poker Game on a Private Island
Free luxury trips usually come with a catch. In A Good Hand Wasted, the catch is a poker table, a mysterious dealer, and a rule nobody wanted to hear: every losing hand means a round of Russian roulette. It’s a…
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Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning Review: The Final Farewell Comes to Cinemas
On July 5, 2025, Ozzy Osbourne walked onto a stage in his hometown of Birmingham, England, and said goodbye. Seventeen days later, he was gone. He died at the age of 76. That makes Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to…
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The Eyes of Ghana Review: A 93-Year-Old Cameraman’s Race to Save Africa’s Lost Film Archive
History isn’t only written in books. Sometimes it’s stored on rolls of film in a vault, waiting for someone to bring it back into the light. The Eyes of Ghana tells the story of one of those rescues, and of…
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Closure Review: A Father’s Search Along the Vistula River Is Devastating and Unforgettable
Most documentaries about missing people follow a familiar path. They collect clues, interview witnesses, and build toward answers. Closure does the opposite. It stays with a father who has none, and it asks what a person does when the worst…
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Godzilla Minus Zero Review: Yamazaki’s Sequel Trades Heart for a Brutal Kaiju Brawl
Few sequels face higher expectations than this one. Godzilla Minus One arrived in 2023 with a budget of about $15 million, and it did the unthinkable. It grossed more than $116 million worldwide, became the highest-grossing Japan-produced Godzilla film in…
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Terrestrial Review: A Dark Sci-Fi Comedy About One Reunion Weekend Gone Very Wrong
Steve Pink has spent most of his career making comedies. He directed Hot Tub Time Machine and co-wrote Grosse Pointe Blank, and he’s the kind of filmmaker you’d expect to deliver a feel-good, easygoing movie about old friends. Terrestrial looks…
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The Dog Stars Review: Jacob Elordi Shines in Ridley Scott’s Post-Apocalyptic Drama
What would you do if almost everyone you loved disappeared overnight, leaving you in a world where survival mattered more than anything else? The Dog Stars explores that question through a lonely pilot trying to find a reason to keep…
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Undertone Review: A24’s $500,000 Horror Hit Is the Scariest Movie You’ll Ever Hear
Some horror films ask you to look. Undertone asks you to listen. Written and directed by Ian Tuason in his feature debut, this A24 chiller was shot for a reported $500,000 inside his parents’ house in Toronto. It premiered at…
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Klara and the Sun Review: Taika Waititi’s Ishiguro Adaptation Misses the Quiet Heart of the Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun is a quiet, strange, and deeply moving book. It’s told through the eyes of an android who doesn’t fully understand the world around her, and it gradually reveals a future full of…
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Moana (2026) Review: Disney’s Live-Action Remake Is Gorgeous, Familiar, and Heading to Disney+
Disney has remade many of its animated classics in live action, but few have arrived this quickly. The original Moana came out in 2016, just ten years ago, and its sequel, Moana 2, was a box office hit in 2024.…
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Ali G: Who Iz I? Review: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Hip-Hop Journalist Returns, and So Does the Controversy
Content note: This film is rated R and is built on comedy that many viewers may find offensive. Twenty years is a long time to leave a character alone. Ali G, the yellow-tracksuited, wannabe hip-hop journalist from West Staines, first…
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Human Review: A Night Alone on Her Phone Becomes a Blood-Soaked Supernatural Nightmare
Most horror films begin with a warning sign. Human begins with a phone. A tired woman alone at night picks up her phone, scrolls through her messages, and looks for a little distraction before going to sleep. It’s about as…
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Capturing Bigfoot Review: The Documentary That Takes On the Most Famous Monster Film Ever Shot
On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin pointed a 16mm camera at a clearing near Bluff Creek in Northern California. What they recorded lasts just 59 seconds. It shows a large, hairy, apelike figure walking away from the…
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A Talent for Murder Review: Helen Mirren Is a Bitter, Brilliant Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith wrote five novels about Tom Ripley, the charming con man who lies, steals, and kills his way into a better life. The books made her famous. A Talent for Murder imagines what might have happened if someone had…
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Wicker Review: Olivia Colman Marries a Man Made of Wood, and It’s Surprisingly Sweet
A woman orders a husband from a basket weaver. It sounds like the setup for a joke, and the trailer for Wicker certainly played it that way. Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, and Peter Dinklage in a fairy tale about a…
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Wildwood Review: Laika’s Biggest Stop-Motion Epic Is Also Its Most Emotional
Some films take years to make. Wildwood took the better part of two decades. Travis Knight, the president and CEO of the Portland-based stop-motion studio Laika, first read Colin Meloy’s manuscript before it was published in 2011. He knew almost…
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