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🇺🇸 ‘Thrash’ Review: It’s Netflix and Chomp, as Phoebe Dynevor Stars in a Familiar but Gruesomely Competent Shark Thriller — 11/04/2026 [USA]
Everything in the movie, from the chomping shark attacks that churn up the splashing water with Hawaiian Punch foam to the way that a humungous great white meets her fate at the end, takes an obvious ...
Related: #Streaming Media, #Genre Film
🇺🇸 ‘James and the Giant Peach’ Is the Most Underrated Animated Classic of the ’90s — 10/04/2026 [USA]
The single best adaptation of Roald Dahl's work, Henry Selick's stop-motion and live action hybrid is a small but flavorful treat.
Related: #Animation History, #Literary Adaptation
🇺🇸 ‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Is a Troubled Movie Star in Jonah Hill’s Desperate and Unfunny Comedy About the Pain of Public Opinion — 09/04/2026 [USA]
Hill's Apple TV feature is only redeemed by a surprisingly heartfelt cameo from Martin Scorsese.
Related: #Celebrity Culture, #Streaming Media
🇺🇸 ‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Gets To Play A Movie Star About To Get Canceled In Jonah Hill’s Uneven Dark Hollywood Satire — 09/04/2026 [USA]
I always look forward to seeing what Jonah Hill comes up with in whatever movie he is cast. A uniquely funny and true original, he takes what could be stereotypes and turns them on their heads, but fo...
Related: #Celebrity Culture, #Hollywood Satire
🇺🇸 Stressed Out at Work? Simmer Down with 1988’s ‘Death Spa’ — 28/03/2026 [USA]
IndieWire's Chief Film Critic stops by midnight's messiest med spa... and lives!
Related: #Cult Cinema, #Horror Genre Analysis, #Cultural Commentary
🇺🇸 ‘Touch Me’ Review: This Inert and Misguided Sci-Fi Horror Never Reaches a Climax — 20/03/2026 [USA]
Addison Heimann's agonizing alien sex comedy is a sweaty, laborious endeavor in futile search of fun.
Related: #Sci-Fi Horror
🇺🇸 ‘He Bled Neon’ Review: Joe Cole and Rita Ora Trudge Through a Clichéd, Poseur Crime Story — 18/03/2026 [USA]
Music video helmer Drew Kirsch makes his feature debut at SXSW with this neo-noir pastiche, co-starring Marshawn Lynch.
Related: #Crime Drama
🇺🇸 ‘They Will Kill You’ Review: A Fiery Revenge Farce Crashes and Burns — 18/03/2026 [USA]
In Kirill Sokolov’s “They Will Kill You,” a sword-wielding Zazie Beetz infiltrates a satanic cult housed in a luxury hotel, with the aim of rescuing one of its maids from becoming a human sacrifice. T...
Related: #Revenge Genre
🇺🇸 ‘Family Movie’ Review: At Least Kevin Bacon and His Family Are Having Fun — 17/03/2026 [USA]
Kyra Sedgwick, Travis Bacon and Sosie Bacon also star in the comedy about a director father, his actor wife and their kids, who gather to make one last low-budget horror film together.
Related: #Entertainment
🇺🇸 How Readers Voted on Miscast Roles in the Movies — 17/03/2026 [USA]
Given a list of 14 mismatches, they quickly picked Ben Platt in “Dear Evan Hansen.” But they took issue (loudly) with one of our choices.
Related: #Casting
🇺🇸 Cannonball with Wesley Morris: What the Oscars Got Right — 17/03/2026 [USA]
Giving Michael B. Jordan and “KPop Demon Hunters” their due, to start.
Related: #Oscars Analysis
🇺🇸 ‘Love Language’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz in a Romantic Dramedy That Offers Plenty of Talk but Too Little Feeling — 17/03/2026 [USA]
Manny Jacinto and Anthony Ramos also star in Joey Power's film about an aspiring author whose side hustle writing other people's wedding vows brings her back into contact with an old crush.
Related: #Romantic Comedy
🇺🇸 Paul Thomas Anderson Addresses Criticism About ‘One Battle After Another’s Racial Politics: “It’s Complicated” – Oscars Backstage — 16/03/2026 [USA]
In what is arguably his first backstage appearance this awards season, Paul Thomas Anderson fielded the hard questions about his socio political family action dramedy One Battle After Another. One jou...
Related: #Racial Politics, #Oscars
🇺🇸 Paul Thomas Anderson Addresses Criticism Around Portrayal of Black Women in ‘One Battle After Another’ Following Oscar Win — 16/03/2026 [USA]
The filmmaker responded to some longtime discourse around his film after winning three statues, including best picture, at Sunday's show.
Related: #Representation
🇺🇸 ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: A Sensational Samara Weaving Can’t Save This Ho-Hum Horror Sequel — 14/03/2026 [USA]
SXSW: Elijah Wood, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, and, briefly, David Cronenberg, have a ball, though this is a party that was more fun the first time.
Related: #Horror Sequel
🇬🇧 The Madison review – Michelle Pfeiffer’s new drama is thuddingly simplistic — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
This yawnsome homespun six-parter from the creator of Yellowstone aims to teach the womenfolk a lesson by dropping them into untamed, plain-talkin’ Montana. It’s full of terrible jokes and cloying ...
Related: #Drama
🇺🇸 ‘War Of The Worlds’ Zapped With 5 Razzies In Near Sweep — 14/03/2026 [USA]
War of the Worlds star Ice Cube now has another reason to stare forlornly at his computer. In what was a near-sweep, he and the film were big, uh, winners at the 46th Razzie Awards, which were reveale...
Related: #Awards
🇺🇸 No, Pixar Doesn’t Need to Give Up ‘Autobiographical’ Stories — 13/03/2026 [USA]
Plus: How does the "Kiki's Delivery Service" remaster holdup?
Related: #Storytelling
🇺🇸 Rosamund Pike Says Her 2005 ‘Doom’ Movie With Dwayne Johnson Is ‘One of the Worst Films Ever Made’ and ‘Could’ve Ended My Career’ — 12/03/2026 [USA]
Rosamund Pike appeared on a recent episode of the “How to Fail with Elizabeth Day” podcast and opened up about the “catastrophe” of staring in 2005’s “Doom” video game adaptation. The sci-fi action mo...
Related: #Career Impact
🇺🇸 ‘On Cinema at the Cinema’: How Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington Pull Off the Internet’s Most Deranged Movie Review Show — 12/03/2026 [USA]
“What is ‘On Cinema at the Cinema?’” That’s a great question, but it doesn’t come with an easy answer. For those who have never seen the online movie review show, let me fill you in on the latest deve...
Related: #Satire, #Internet Culture
🇺🇸 ‘Undertone’ Review: This Low-Budget Horror Sensation Can’t Live Up to Its Clever Premise — 12/03/2026 [USA]
Sundance: Ian Tuason's directorial debut is more likely to be remembered as an example of big creativity on a small scale than a great movie in and of itself.
Related: #Horror Genre
🇺🇸 ‘Slanted’ Review: Narratively Botched — 12/03/2026 [USA]
This body horror thriller, about a Chinese American girl who undergoes a surgery to appear white, relies on dated tropes to construct a pale genre pastiche.
Related: #Narrative Flaws
🇺🇸 ‘Reminders Of Him’ Review: Logic Flies Out The Window (Again) In The Latest Ludicrous Colleen Hoover Adaptation — 12/03/2026 [USA]
There’s a very big reminder of “him” — Scotty Landry (Rudy Pankow), killed in a car accident — right at the start of this dreary tearjerker, but Kenna (Maika Monroe) jumps out of her ride, kicks it to...
Related: #Book Adaptation
🇬🇧 A Woman of Substance review – a lavishly absurd, cliche-packed tribute to simpler times — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s 1979 novel became a massive TV hit in the 1980s. Now, Brenda Blethyn has donned a fabulous wig to whisk us back to the age of excess and escapismBasically, there wa...
Related: #Nostalgia
🇬🇧 How to Make a Killing review – one man on a bloody quest for his inheritance is a remake too far — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Glen Powell tries his best as a desperate serial killer in this update of Kind Hearts and Coronets, but it’s a mere pretender to the original’s throne Remaking <a href="https://www.theguardi...
Related: #Remake Failure
🇺🇸 Quentin Tarantino Responds to ‘Pulp Fiction’ Actress Rosanna Arquette for N-Word Criticism — 10/03/2026 [USA]
The filmmaker fired back at Arquette for "a lack of class" in slamming the film: "You took the money."
Related: #Racial Language
🇬🇧 Leap Year is patently ridiculous and widely panned. It’s also the perfect romcom — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode as enemies-to-lovers, this very American portrait of Ireland happens to be charmingIn 2010 the Guardian gave the romcom Leap Year a <a href="https://www....
Related: #Romantic Comedy
🇺🇸 ‘Project Hail Mary’: What the Critics Are Saying — 10/03/2026 [USA]
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's sci-fi epic, starring Ryan Gosling and breakout star "Rocky," hits theaters March 20.
Related: #Science Fiction, #Adaptation Literature
🇬🇧 ‘Lack of class’: Quentin Tarantino hits back at Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction N-word criticism — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Director rounds on actor, who acted in the cult film, saying he feels disrespected, and claiming cynical reasons behind her recent commentsQuentin Tarantino has responded to Rosanna Arquette...
Related: #Artistic Freedom
🇺🇸 Ashley Judd Calls Out Her 1997 Movie ‘Kiss the Girls’ for ‘Making Entertainment Out of Sexual Torture’ Against Women: ‘It’s Traumatizing’ and ‘Why Is It Profitable?’ — 09/03/2026 [USA]
Ashley Judd is reconsidering one of her earliest box office hits. In a recent Instagram video post, Judd noted how her relationship with 1997’s “Kiss the Girls” has “evolved” over the years due to the...
Related: #Gender Violence