#Film Critique

Articles (10)

• 🇺🇸 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is beautiful but a little too busy — 31/03/2026 [USA]

  With The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo entered the next phase of its plan to become a different kind of entertainment giant. Though it wasn't the company's first go at putting its iconic plumbers ...

  Related: #Business Strategy
• 🇺🇸 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen' Review: An Inconsistent Cautionary Tale — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  The Duffer Brothers' next Netflix project is a psychological horror series with a promising start and a tepid finish.

  Related: #Narrative Inconsistency
• 🇺🇸 ‘They Will Kill You’ Review: Zazie Beetz’s Gonzo Action-Horror Movie Is Some Killer, Some Filler — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  SXSW: “Why Don’t You Just Die!” director Kirill Sokolov’s English-language debut is a gory and hyper-stylized contradiction that's both extremely eventful and strangely anticlimactic.

  Related: #Action-Horror
• 🇺🇸 ‘Miroirs No. 3’ Review: Kindness and Its Reverse Image — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  In the lovely new movie from the acclaimed German director Christian Petzold (“Barbara”), a woman wakes to life after an accident.

  Related: #Human Duality
• 🇺🇸 ‘DreamQuil’ Review: Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly in a Visually Adventurous Slice of Dystopia That Feels Like Yesterday’s News — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  First-time feature director Alex Prager conjures a nightmare future world where a cutting-edge wellness treatment promises women a new lease on life.

  Related: #Dystopian Cinema
• 🇺🇸 5 takeaways from an Oscars night that spread the love — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  It&apos;s thrilling to see the Academy recognize a weird, funny, scary performance like Amy Madigan&apos;s in <em>Weapons</em>. Here&apos;s what NPR critic Linda Holmes thought of the awards.

  Related: #Awards Recognition
• 🇺🇸 'Ready or Not 2' Review: Samara Weaving Returns for Senseless Sequel — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Shawn Hatosy join the game in a sequel that's twice as violent and half as fun.

  Related: #Horror Sequel
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Sun Never Sets’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Jake Johnson Bring Warm Chemistry to Joe Swanberg’s Wishy-Washy Romantic Dramedy — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Debuting at SXSW, the latest film from the 'Drinking Buddies' director centers on a young woman in Alaska who reconnects with her ex while on a break from a long-term relationship.

  Related: #Romantic Drama
• 🇺🇸 ‘Group: The Schopenhauer Effect’ Review: The Art of Being Patient — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Group therapy sessions are dramatized in this absorbing film from the writer-director Alexis Lloyd.

  Related: #Philosophy
• 🇺🇸 ‘How to Make a Killing’ Review: Glen Powell’s Lethal Case of Entitlement — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  The actor stars in this comedy with a high corpse count, but the movie’s lightness soon becomes forced.

  Related: #Comedy, #Violence/Corpse Count, #Satire of Entitlement, #Tone and Delivery