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Joonatan Itkonen

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Biography:

Joonatan is a queer freelance writer with AuDHD from Helsinki, Finland. He writes about pop-culture from a neurodivergent viewpoint, and has an affinity for puns, Japanese cinema, and kind movies.

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Seeds (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Filmed in gorgeous black and white, Shyne evokes grand imagery of the south that is loving but pointedly not romanticized. Seeds is a thoughtful, beautiful, and immensely timely film that everyone should see.” – Region Free Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “For those who love his narrative style, Ghost Elephants delivers plenty to admire.” – Region Free Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Blame (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Frei's empathetic and smartly constructed documentary should be mandatory viewing not just to understand the origins of the pandemic, but for everyone to gain perspective on the nature of lies and fear, and how easily they can devour us all.” – Region Free Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Agatha's Almanac (2025) 4/5 EDIT “This lovingly constructed portrait of director Amalie Atkins' 90-year-old aunt, Agatha Bock, is tender and melancholy but so full of life it never feels anything less than joyous.” – Region Free Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 50% 1/5 EDIT “Greenland 2: Migration is a lousy sequel to an equally lousy film that didn't need one. It's a soporific way to spend two hours, and lord knows there are far better and cheaper ways to sneak in a nap these days.” – Region Free Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 93% 5/5 EDIT “You know that whatever you're seeing is the work of a singular vision. There's no committee in sight. For better and for worse, this is unfiltered insanity right from the source.” – Region Free Jan 28, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 5/5 EDIT “As The Bone Temple barrels towards the inevitable climax, DaCosta builds up one of the most fascinating and intellectually satisfying finales in horror history.” – Region Free Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 2/5 EDIT “There is an inkling of a great film buried within Send Help... Sadly, the timid script is hellbent on taking every lazy and unimaginative way out of the tantalizing setup, which leads to an unsatisfying ride held together by the luminous Rachel McAdams.” – Region Free Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% 1/5 EDIT “It must be Thanksgiving in January, there's no other way to explain a turkey of this magnitude.” – Region Free Jan 21, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% 3/5 EDIT “As a visual feast, All You Need Is Kill is a satisfying thrill that should satisfy sci-fi fans everywhere.” – Region Free Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Two things can be true at once: The Rip is a great film and it is released at the absolute wrong time.” – Region Free Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 1/5 EDIT “Primate is a short and brutal experiment in stuffing as many kills into a single location as possible. But in its haste to get to the gore, it overlooks any semblance of character or setup necessary to make us care about the slaughter.” – Region Free Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 1/5 EDIT “There's nothing to chew on here, no lines that stick with the viewer once the film ends. It's like being stuck in an elevator with a loudmouth braggart who believes shouting others into silence is the same as winning an argument.” – Region Free Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% 1/5 EDIT “Anaconda isn't just a bad film; it's the kind of disaster that in the past would have rightfully ended careers.” – Region Free Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 75% 2/5 EDIT “Like an airport novel, it has passages that surprise with occasional eloquence that are lost in a sea of tired tropes and aimless twists.” – Region Free Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 1/5 EDIT “Bloated beyond belief, the third Avatar is an exercise in tedious plotting, ugly stereotypes, and dull action.” – Region Free Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Wicked: For Good is a lifeless chore that feels like an extended second act of a film without structure. By the end, it exhausted me so thoroughly I was done. For good.” – Region Free Nov 19, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 3/5 EDIT “By the time the film reaches the final stretch... Wright pulls his punches even further. His third act plays everything so safe that we get the rare case where the adaptation has a worse ending than King's original book.” – Region Free Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 1/5 EDIT “Now You See Me, Now You Don't is like watching a magic act where the magician is talentless and clumsy, but also so arrogant and smug there's almost a perverse pleasure in their ineptitude.” – Region Free Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Bulk (2025) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Ben Wheatley's impish in-joke is almost too quirky for its own good, but it's also so outlandish and inventive that it's hard not to be swept away by the wild swings.” – Region Free Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Flush (2025) 4/5 EDIT “At a lean and mean 70 minutes, it's packed with enough pitch-black humor and the finest of bad taste to remain hysterically funny and gross for its entire runtime. It's definitely not for everyone, but a select few will love it. Myself included.” – Region Free Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Keep Quiet (2025) 5/5 EDIT “Like the masters of hardboiled noir classics, [Grashaw] subverts the genre to say something meaningful and it leaves the audience ragged and breathless. The result is one of the finest thrillers of the year.” – Region Free Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “If you want something that provides ample entertainment for the buck, Trachtenberg's latest is a breezy and fun way to spend a few hours. It won't challenge you, but it does deliver where it matters.” – Region Free Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 1/5 EDIT “I don't think Lanthimos likes any of his characters. They exist for his torment, which makes for some dull viewing.” – Region Free Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 1/5 EDIT “Bruce's music is so universal at this point that it means different things to everyone who hears it. By trying to explain him in such reductive terms only harms that connection. Especially when it hinges on made up events.” – Region Free Oct 27, 2025 Full Review
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