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Reviews

January 29, 2025

‘Presence’ Review: Promising Haunted-House Horror Never Rises Above Gimmicky Premise

A family tours an empty home—grand hardwood floors and beaming-bright, naturally lit bedrooms—and buys it almost immediately. But this alluri...

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January 28, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

‘Flight Risk’ Review: Gibson’s Thriller Struggles to Maintain Second Half Altitude

Ah, The Black List: The annual survey of the “most-liked” screenplays in Hollywood not yet produced. Published every year since 2005, The Bla...

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January 28, 2025 · by Cameron Ritter

‘Inheritance’ Review: January’s Low-budget, Adequate, Under-the-radar Espionage Film

For years, franchises like Mission Impossible, Jason Bourne, and James Bond have dominated the espionage genre. These films often have massiv...

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January 27, 2025

Review: ‘Severance’ Season 2’s Triumphant Return

Do we all remember where we were when we watched the conclusion of Severance's (2022–Present) first season? For me, it was in South Dakota ar...

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January 22, 2025 · by Evan Miller

‘Wolf Man’ Review: Shining New Moonlight Onto Another Classic Monster

Wolf Man (2025) is a reminder of how heartening it is to see classic movie monsters on screen. Before The Invisible Man (2020) was released, ...

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January 21, 2025 · by Nandita Joshi

'Better Man' Review: Let Robbie Entertain You

There is a binary and polarising outlook on biopics. You either love spending a weekend casually viewing the next one that happens to be play...

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January 20, 2025 · by Adam Patla

‘One of them Days’ Review: Keke Palmer & SZA Breathe Some Life into the January Doldrums

January is famously a rough month for movies. While Oscar hopefuls move out of limited release, studios dump their—to put it kindly—rougher o...

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January 15, 2025 · by Carson Burton

'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera' Review: Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Carry Silly yet Surprising Heist Film

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025) surprised me (complimentary). Whereas the first Den of Thieves, released in 2018, exemplifies the epitome of...

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January 13, 2025 · by Adam Patla

‘Nickel Boys' Review: RaMell Ross' Bold, Poetic Vision Breaks the Boundaries of Film and Perspective

I initially experienced (I say experienced because my screening truly transcended simply watching a movie) Nickel Boys in October at the Chic...

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January 6, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: England’s Beloved Duo is Back and Better than Ever

It’s been 35 years since a British inventor and his intelligent pooch had a grand day out, sending themselves rocketing to the moon in respon...

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January 3, 2025 · by Danny Jarabek

‘Nosferatu’ Review: A Theater of Seductive Shadows and Carnal Cravings

In a year where bodily autonomy has never been more politicized and weaponized, movies have consumed our living nightmare and interrogated th...

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Essays

December 28, 2024 · by Red Broadwell

Five Years Since 'Cats:' What Was All That?

I cannot think of a film with a bigger “collective fever dream” energy than the absolute mess that was the 2019 movie musical extravaganza Ca...

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