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'Night Swim' Review: Supernatural Suburban Pool Horror Fails to Make a Splash

I want to make a water-related pun, but it doesn't deserve my H2Originality.

‘Backspot’ Review: Energetic Cheerleading Drama is Hoisted by a Spirited Devery Jacobs Performance

Rendy Jones 10/6/23 Rendy Jones 10/6/23

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‘Backspot’ Review: Energetic Cheerleading Drama is Hoisted by a Spirited Devery Jacobs Performance

Manages to be genuinely entertaining due to the dynamic direction of D.W. Waterson and Devery Jacobs' extraordinary performance.

Rendy Jones 4/26/23 Rendy Jones 4/26/23

'Cora Bora' Review: Meg Stalter Shows Off Her Star Power in Solid Bisexual Dramedy | SXSW 2023

Cora Bora supplies welcome queer-inclusivity to an overfamiliar character archetype led by a show-stopping Megan Stalter

'Fitting In' Review: Molly McGlynn's Teen Traumedy Bleeds Raunchy, Raw Honesty

Rendy Jones 4/10/23 Rendy Jones 4/10/23

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'Fitting In' Review: Molly McGlynn's Teen Traumedy Bleeds Raunchy, Raw Honesty

Highlights an under-discussed reproductive health topic with thoughtfulness and raunchiness.

Dec 29, 2024

‘A Complete Unknown‘ Review: Timothée Chalamet Rocks in Rather Restrained Bob Dylan Biopic

Adheres to the conformity of the music biopic format in all its Wikipedia-page-turned-screenplay characteristics.

Dec 21, 2024

'Sonic The Hedgehog 3' Review: The Blue Blur's Best Movie Yet

Works as a superb adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 and the most refined Sonic film installment to date.

Dec 14, 2024

‘September 5’ Review: Newsroom Thriller About the Munich Massacre is Well Made Yet Ill-Timed

September 5 is so wrapped up in trying to be apolitical with this pivotal moment in media journalism history that it forgot to instill humanity or a moral compass.

Dec 13, 2024

‘Kraven the Hunter’ Review: Lame Spidey Spin-off Can’t Hunt Enough to Justify its Existence

So long Sony Marvel Universe, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Dec 10, 2024

'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' Review: A War It Was, Indeed

The War of the Rohirrim, proves that Middle Earth is gorgeous in all mediums, even though it's bottled in a rather underwhelming tale.

Dec 9, 2024

'Queer' Review: Guadagnino Explores Esotericism With a Poignant, Homoerotic Portrait of Relationships

Artistic approach aside, I find Queer to be Guadagnino's most inventive and confident work to date.

Dec 3, 2024

'The Last Showgirl' Review: A Poignant American Portrait of the Overlooked Vegas Working-class

This is a role we have never seen Pamela Anderson in before, and she is razzle-dazzling throughout.

Nov 18, 2024

'Vermiglio' Review: A Visually Mesmerizing and Powerfully Potent Historical Family Drama

What if I told you that one of the year’s finest dramas takes place in a remote Italian mountain town set in 1944?

Nov 16, 2024

'Red One' Review: A Lump of Coal Would’ve Been Better Than this Dreadful Christmas Comedy

an overpriced dreck of a Christmas movie devoid of Yuletide cheer.

Nov 8, 2024

‘My Old Ass’ Review: A Delightful Coming-of-age and Coming-out-as-bi Comedy

Megan Park is two for two with a strong and resonant flick about reconciling with your younger self.

Oct 31, 2024

'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl' Review: Aardman Delivers Another Smashing Wallace & Gromit Classic

Wallace & Gromit. They are Britain's finest export right next to Paddington Bear.

Oct 28, 2024

'Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: SymBrock Face their Curtain Call in Another Typical Sony/Marvel Mess

A mediocre finale to a rather lackluster superhero trilogy.

Oct 23, 2024

'Flow Review: Gints Zilbalodis’ Animated Animal Adventure Flick is a Refreshing, Near-Meow-ster Piece

Like ‘Homeward Bound’ in a biblical sense, but with no dialogue and GameCube-era cel-shaded textures.

Oct 21, 2024

'Anora' Review: Mikey Madison Slays as a Sex-Worker Who Pulls Herself up by the Stilettos

Sean Baker's Anora is a remarkable portrait of the American dreamers and go-getters of the Gen-Z kind.

Oct 11, 2024

‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Paul Schrader Dissects an Dying Director's Mortality in Soulful, Reflective Drama

NYFF 2024: A soulful look at the mortality of man, and the finest Paul Schrader has been in years.

Oct 8, 2024

‘Pavements’ Review: Alex Ross Perry Blends Fact, Fiction, and Trolling with Hilarious Experimental Music-Doc

Perry achieves the ultimate feat of having one's cake and eating it too.

Oct 4, 2024

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Review: Todd Phillips Sends the Clown to Court in Dull and Misguided Musical Sequel

Any movie that had me think write, "Lady Gaga is annoying in this," deserves a tomato to the face.

Oct 2, 2024

'Gazer' Review: Jersey Set Neo-Noir Mystery Marks Impressive Debut For Ryan J. Sloan

Has an underground 90s indie sleaziness, like a rare VHS you’d pick up at a Kim's Video store.

Sep 25, 2024

‘Saturday Night’ Review: Jason Reitman Turns ‘SNL’ History into Fan Fiction

An overindulgent production that would be better off as an episode of Drunk History or Documentary Now

Sep 20, 2024

'Never Let Go' Review: Halle Berry Survival Horror Flick Intrigues Yet Flounders its Faith-Based Themes

Fails to come up with a concrete sense of self despite starting as an enticing survival horror.

Sep 19, 2024

'Piece By Piece' Review: Pharrell's LEGO Bio Doc Kinda Clicks

Morgan Neville's Pharrell-centered docis a beautifully animated experience, despite surface-level storytelling from its subject.

Sep 17, 2024

'Heretic' Review: Hugh Grant Force Mormons to Attend His Anti-Religious TED Talk in Sharp A24 Horror

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ latest is a sharp philosophic-based religious thriller that shines in an anti-holy light.

Sep 16, 2024

‘K-Pops!’ Review: Anderson .Paak’s Delightful Directorial Debut Hits All the Right Notes

A heartwarming and hilarious father-son family comedy with a passion for K-Pop and Hip-Hop culture.

'We Live in Time' Review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield's Electric Chemistry Sparks Mid Romantic Drama

A romantic two-hander that shows why Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are two of Britain's best actors today.

Sep 15, 2024

‘The Front Room’ Review: A Wasted Brandy Can't Save Baby Eggers Bros. Crappy Hagsploitation Horror

I should've read, "Will be written by two white dudes," when using that monkey's paw to conjure that A24 and Brandy collab.

'Night Swim' Review: Supernatural Suburban Pool Horror Fails to Make a Splash

‘Backspot’ Review: Energetic Cheerleading Drama is Hoisted by a Spirited Devery Jacobs Performance

'Cora Bora' Review: Meg Stalter Shows Off Her Star Power in Solid Bisexual Dramedy | SXSW 2023

'Fitting In' Review: Molly McGlynn's Teen Traumedy Bleeds Raunchy, Raw Honesty

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