Category: Reviews
Nicole Kidman Makes Sure Her New Thriller Doesn’t Lose The Plot With Her Magnetic Performance
Nicole Kidman Makes Sure Her New Thriller Doesn’t Lose The Plot With Her Magnetic Performance

Director Mimi Cave is used to telling stories where things aren't exactly what they seem. In her sharp directorial debut Fresh, a grocery story meet-cute turns into a cannibalism-fueled nightmare. In Holland, her sophomore feature, Nicole Kidman stars as Nancy…

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An Average Horror Excursion With A Dedicated Kelly Marie Tran
An Average Horror Excursion With A Dedicated Kelly Marie Tran

“If there is an itch, one does want to scratch, but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch.” – C. S. Lewis. The production logos preceding Shal Ngo’s latest “Control Freak” have barely begun to fade…

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Glorious Indeed, but With a Haunting Truth
Glorious Indeed, but With a Haunting Truth

Can freedom truly be free? This is the eternal question that Polish filmmakers Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosk Skpak seek to unravel in their hauntingly beautiful Glorious Summer. Set within the confines of a palatial Renaissance estate, three women (Ganjalyan, Magdalena…

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Sadie Sink’s Apocalyptic Rock Opera Fails to Strike a Chord
Sadie Sink’s Apocalyptic Rock Opera Fails to Strike a Chord

You'll know exactly what kind of movie O'Dessa is within the first five minutes. Geremy Jasper's follow-up to his charming rap dramedy Patti Cake$ could not be more different. With blaring guitar strums, bright neon lights flooding the screen, and…

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Regina Hall & Murray Bartlett Steal The Show In A Disjointed Rock Opera That Values Style Above Storytelling
Regina Hall & Murray Bartlett Steal The Show In A Disjointed Rock Opera That Values Style Above Storytelling

Writer-director Geremy Jasper, who brought us Patti Cakes, is back with the ambitious rock opera O’Dessa. I love a good musical, and O’Dessa has a few great songs in it to justify their existence. Set in an apocalyptic future where…

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Cloning Around in Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-Fi Satire
Cloning Around in Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-Fi Satire

Bong Joon Haveo’s Mickey 17 is what happens when you mix The Prestige, The X-Men’s Krakoa resurrection system, and a political roast into a sci-fi blender. Robert Pattinson takes on the ultimate identity crisis as an “expendable” space worker who…

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This UFO Doc Won’t Make You Believe
This UFO Doc Won’t Make You Believe

Whether or not you're a true believer or a skeptic, The Age of Disclosure delivers some fascinating information regarding just how long the United States government has supposedly known about the existence of "UAPs" (or, as they're more popularly known,…

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Steven Soderbergh Crafts an Intricate, Sexy, and Fun Spy Thriller
Steven Soderbergh Crafts an Intricate, Sexy, and Fun Spy Thriller

Just two months ago, Steven Soderbergh and writer David Koepp graced us with their take on the supernatural ghost story with Presence, a “horror” film of sorts that took a unique look at the genre that felt distinctly like a…

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Opus Review | Flickreel
Opus Review | Flickreel

When I heard Opus was a horror movie revolving around a pop star, Trap and Smile 2 immediately came to mind. Being an A24 production, surely Opus would take an unconventional approach. On the heels of The Menu, Midsommar, and…

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Zoey Deutch Leads A Heartfelt Look At Sex, Love & Pregnancy In Chad Hartigan’s Sincere RomCom [SXSW]
Zoey Deutch Leads A Heartfelt Look At Sex, Love & Pregnancy In Chad Hartigan’s Sincere RomCom [SXSW]

For the most part, eclectic indie writer/director Chad Hartigan has made an entire career out of taking his own personal experiences and spinning them into something different or turning them on their head entirely (see “Morris From America”). Lately, the…

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I Enjoyed Bill Guttentag’s Powerful True Story But 1 Element Could Have Been Stronger
I Enjoyed Bill Guttentag’s Powerful True Story But 1 Element Could Have Been Stronger

Angel Studios has been home to multiple successful projects over the last few years, with many of its movies and TV shows being religious-themed projects. This includes projects like The Chosen, a Christian drama about the life of Jesus Christ,…

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Parker Posey and Brian Cox Face an Awkward Hell in a Supernatural ‘Meet the Parents’
Parker Posey and Brian Cox Face an Awkward Hell in a Supernatural ‘Meet the Parents’

The horror-comedy has always been an interesting subgenre. Effectively working on a spectrum, with horror at one end and comedy at the other, it allows for so many unique approaches that lean more towards one genre or the other, or…

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