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3.5/5
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Animol
(2026)
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Serena Seghedoni
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The film ends with a scene that’s very likely to move and inspire you; it had that effect on me, though it also felt too optimistic and naive for it to truly work for me. That said, Animol is still a strong debut from Ashley Walters.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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A Prayer for the Dying
(2026)
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Jack Walters
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"A Prayer for the Dying starts with a great idea and displays some visionary direction, but the writing quickly crumbles under the weight of its own ambition."
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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4/5
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Lady
(2025)
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Daniel Allen
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Unpredictable, unique, hilarious (thanks in large part to Clifford) and mostly successful with its heartfelt moments.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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Take Me Home
(2026)
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William Stottor
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Liz Sargent’s Take Me Home is a moving snapshot of a small family in Florida who struggles to meet one another’s unique caregiving needs.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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The Weight
(2026)
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William Stottor
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A tense thriller with immense atmosphere but slightly underwhelming payoff.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3.5/5
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Nina Roza
(2026)
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William Stottor
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Nina Roza is a confident, understated drama from Geneviéve Dulude-de Calles that reflects on a variety of questions in increasingly interesting ways.
Posted Feb 17, 2026
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3/5
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Nightborn
(2026)
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Jack Walters
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"Nightborn is a bloody, riotous horror film about the unspoken horrors of raising a child, though it feels unfortunately shallow in its conclusions."
Posted Feb 16, 2026
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3.5/5
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Rose
(2026)
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Jack Gross
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A gorgeous narrative vehicle for Sandra Hüller, who completely steals the show from start to finish.
Posted Feb 15, 2026
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4/5
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Sunny Dancer
(2026)
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Serena Seghedoni
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Sunny Dancer is the ‘chemo camp’ coming-of-age movie you didn’t know you needed.
Posted Feb 15, 2026
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4.5/5
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Mouse
(2026)
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William Stottor
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With award-worthy performances at its centre, Mouse portrays grief and all its complexities via heartbreaking humanity and zinging humour.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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2.5/5
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Rosebush Pruning
(2026)
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Jack Walters
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Rosebush Pruning is [...] deeply entertaining but feels like it’s constantly tripping over itself with its attempts to be subversive and shocking without giving any of the narrative effort needed to actually achieve this.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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4/5
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Dao
(2026)
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William Stottor
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Alain Gomis’ Dao is a riveting family drama that is simultaneously epic and intimate, playing with form and structure in new and daring ways.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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3.5/5
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Yellow Letters
(2026)
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Jack Walters
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Yellow Letters is a fierce story of political rebellion that demonstrates the raw power of art and self-expression.
Posted Feb 14, 2026
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4/5
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In A Whisper
(2026)
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Jack Walters
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It’s not just a family drama about grief and loss, nor is it always a gripping mystery with high stakes and clever twists. It’s both of these things in well-balanced measures, with finely tuned performances and unwavering visual creativity.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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4/5
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Crime 101
(2026)
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Edgar Ortega
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It might utilize a well-known formula, but in a time where it’s a rarity for this kind of movie to get released in theaters, Layton’s latest is a welcome addition to the genre.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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3.5/5
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights may not be subtle, faithful, or restrained, but it is unmistakably hers. For better and worse, it’s a film that refuses moderation, daring the audience to either surrender to its intensity or reject it outright.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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4/5
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
(2025)
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Daniel Allen
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Manages to capture the gradual changes in Russian society, as well as the totalitarian grip placed upon the education of its young citizens.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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3.5/5
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Diabolic
(2025)
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Joe Botten
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Daniel J. Phillips’ Diabolic draws from real FLDS practices to craft a religious horror film that’s as disturbing for what it implies as for what it shows.
Posted Feb 10, 2026
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3/5
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GOAT
(2026)
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Maxance Vincent
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Kids will be dazzled by the film’s astonishing animation, while adults will enjoy the positive message at its center, which could inspire their children to aim for bigger goals than they currently have.
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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2/5
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The Mortuary Assistant
(2026)
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Sebastian Zavala Kahn
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The video game [...] does work as a creepy, atmospheric and frequently scary story. Its film adaptation, unfortunately, lacks all the atmosphere, coherence, believability and – of course – interactivity of the final product.
Posted Feb 09, 2026
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4/5
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First Light
(2025)
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Scott Wilson
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First Light is a contemplative journey back to the essence of faith, the kind that isn’t filtered through flawed and human infrastructure.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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4/5
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Vanishing Point
(1971)
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Kei Ryan
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It looks utterly beautiful from start to finish.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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8/10
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Levitating
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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It’s the kind of movie that throws an absurd concept at you, shrugs and says to just go with it, and funnels an entertaining, crowd-pleasing story through it.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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8/10
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If I Go Will They Miss Me
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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Though this film tends to spin its wheels a bit too often, it’s hard to be frustrated when those wheels ultimately take us to such interesting, bittersweet, but oddly cathartic places.
Posted Feb 04, 2026
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3.5/5
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Hanging by a Wire
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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A very straightforward depiction of what happened ... But if you want more than that, I don’t think you’ll get it.
Posted Jan 31, 2026
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3/5
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zi
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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As my first impressions go, its reach seems beyond its grasp, even if that grasp still has something to it.
Posted Jan 31, 2026
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3.5/5
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Carousel
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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It’s a laid-back take on the kind of story you’ve probably seen somewhere before.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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5/5
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Josephine
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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Not a second went by in which I felt I could look away from Josephine but also didn’t desperately want to.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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4/5
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Cold Storage
(2026)
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Bethany Lola
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Cold Storage gives other comedy horrors a run for their money in 99 eccentric minutes, led by a witty Joe Keery and a fantastic Georgina Campbell.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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4.5/5
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The Love That Remains
(2025)
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Louis Roberts
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The Love That Remains is a lesson in measured filmmaking – idiosyncratic but not insufferably kooky, sincere but not saccharine. We’ve certainly never seen a divorce drama quite like it before.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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3/5
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Pike River
(2025)
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Branyan Towe
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Pike River features amazing performances from Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm but this powerful story is nearly undone by writer Fiona Samuel’s ending.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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4/5
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
(2025)
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Serena Seghedoni
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When we are so dangerously close to completely losing touch of reality and letting chaos rule, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die asks us to ponder the most important question of all: Do we even deserve to be saved?
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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4/5
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Hold Onto Me
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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A very sweet, sentimental film, but in its own way that’s fittingly rough around the edges.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3.5/5
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Send Help
(2026)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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From the jump, the film understands that survival isn’t the most dangerous part of this situation; proximity is.
Posted Jan 28, 2026
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3/5
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Birds of War
(2026)
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Joseph Tomastik
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The story being told in Birds of War is so befitting of a classic narrative that I’d say it feels a little unrealistic had I not known that it’s obviously… well, real.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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2/5
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Untitled Home Invasion Romance
(2025)
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Jordon Searle
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The film wants to feel like a Fargo, but it lacks the three-dimensional characters and the twisty story that made that film so brilliant.
Posted Jan 25, 2026
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4/5
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Scott Wilson
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A mission statement to love thy neighbour and, if called upon, defend them too.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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2/5
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Mercy
(2026)
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Roberto Tyler Ortiz
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Mercy wants to look forward, but it refuses to think forward. And in a story about the dangers of letting machines decide our fate, that lack of reflection may be its greatest failure.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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2.5/5
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Altered
(2025)
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Justin Bower
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Altered’s visual effects and action sequences are captivating, but its shortcomings lie in poor sound design and problematic writing.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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In Cold Light
(2025)
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Sebastian Zavala Kahn
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Don’t be fooled by the lame poster, which features Monroe’s Ava holding a gun and staring at the horizon, Liam Neeson-style; In Cold Light is a disturbing and well-crafted little thriller.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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The Rip
(2026)
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Sebastian Zavala Kahn
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Joe Carnahan’s The Rip is a suspenseful cop thriller full of surprising twists, fun action and solid, believable performances.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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3.5/5
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Philip Bagnall
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DaCosta delivers a film that feels leaner and meaner, forcing the characters to abandon hopes of security, and to find hope and/or escape by any means necessary.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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4.5/5
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A Poet
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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At the start of the year, Simón Mesa Soto’s A Poet already positions itself as an unforgettable film, one that is both morbidly funny and profoundly human.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2.5/5
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Greenland 2: Migration
(2026)
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Justin Kim
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Greenland 2: Migration quickly ditches the much more interesting idea of showing the aftermath of a disaster movie in favor of yet another disaster movie.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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3.5/5
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Signing Tony Raymond
(2025)
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Elliott Cuff
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Signing Tony Raymond combines humour and heartfelt character drama in a sports film about the people behind the accomplishments and statistics.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2.5/5
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SHEEPDOG
(2025)
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Jordon Searle
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Sheepdog shows glimpses of promising direction and competent acting performances, but lacks the strong screenplay to take the film to the lofty heights it is aiming for.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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2.5/5
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Dog 51
(2025)
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Maxance Vincent
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One leaves Dog 51 with the crushing disappointment that it could’ve been something much greater than what Jimenez ultimately puts on screen.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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3/5
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My Neighbor Adolf
(2022)
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Scott Wilson
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My Neighbor Adolf is to be cherished for its sweet scenes of friendship and resolution, then, and less so for its post-WWII paranoia.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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2/5
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Sleepwalker
(2026)
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Joe Botten
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There’s a version of this story that could have explored parental grief with real weight, something almost European in its willingness to let loss transcend the boundaries of life and death. Instead, Sleepwalker settles for surface-level scares.
Posted Jan 06, 2026
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3.5/5
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I Was a Stranger
(2024)
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Joshua Stevens
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I Was A Stranger captures the chaos of the Syrian Civil War and refugee crisis, making for an unrelenting, bleak, but purposeful experience.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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