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Maggie Boccella

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Maggie Boccella is a certified Babe with the Power with a passion for writing. She specializes in writing about feminist media and all of the fictional characters she developed crushes on growing up, and has a deep-seated love for anything weird and spooky. When not writing, she hosts her own podcast, Does It Get the Pass?, and works as a News Editor for Collider, all while waiting for The Doctor to finally whisk her away.

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Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story (2025) 40% 4/10 EDIT “The “what ifs” for such an intriguing concept are practically infinite, and maybe someone will find what did come of the idea more interesting than I did — but I strongly suggest they wait until the film hits Shudder to find out.” – Collider Jul 7, 2025 Full Review The Radleys (2024) 69% 9/10 EDIT “The Radleys isn’t trying to overperform, or beat out any of the already recognizable vamps we know and love in pop culture. It’s simply trying to tell its own story, and understands the most important tenets of creating vampire fiction.” – Collider Sep 30, 2024 Full Review Apartment 7A (2024) 45% 4/10 EDIT “Apartment 7A treads the exact same territory as its nearly 60-year-old predecessor without straying from the path even a tiny bit.” – Collider Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Blackout (2023) 75% 2/10 EDIT “Fessenden’s script is thin as wet newspaper, and long, drawn-out sequences of blue-collar workers arguing about nothing in particular bleeds the already boring film dry, much like Charley does to his victims.” – Collider Apr 14, 2024 Full Review Abigail (2024) 83% 6/10 EDIT “There are points of Abigail that feel very much like paint-by-numbers horror, filled with exposition dumps that effectively took me out of the gooey, bloody narrative in their need to cut tension.” – Collider Apr 8, 2024 Full Review Destroy All Neighbors (2024) 71% 5/10 EDIT “While some individual pieces are impressive achievements on their own, nothing ever seems to quite gel — or congeal, much like all the blood William spills throughout the film. ” – Collider Jan 8, 2024 Full Review Anyone But You (2023) 53% 4/10 EDIT “The worst offender is Sweeney, who’s phoning things in so hard she may as well have Zoomed in from California instead of traveling all the way to Sydney.” – Collider Dec 22, 2023 Full Review Mister Organ (2022) 95% B EDIT “It’s a long, hard ninety minutes, even with someone as charming as Farrier leading the charge, but that ultimately feels like the point — that minutes turn to hours with Michael Organ.” – Collider Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Totally Killer (2023) 85% B EDIT “While I might have appreciated more sincerity from this (a benchmark of most ‘80s films), what it does with the concept evokes other modern slashers like Freaky or Happy Death Day, a sure sign that the subgenre isn’t quite dead yet. ” – Collider Oct 5, 2023 Full Review The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023) 95% C+ EDIT “It manages to twist my largely neutral (and leaning positive) feelings about said other ninety minutes into something slightly more sour — my good opinion, once lost, is most likely lost forever, to bastardize Jane Austen.” – Collider Oct 2, 2023 Full Review Brooklyn 45 (2023) 91% A EDIT “It's a film that will grab you by the hair and capture your attention without you even realizing it.” – Collider Jun 9, 2023 Full Review Renfield (2023) 58% B+ EDIT “It’s peak horror-comedy, much more American Werewolf in London than Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and ultimately it’s fun primarily because it doesn’t commit too hard to any one thing.” – Collider Mar 31, 2023 Full Review At Midnight (2023) 42% B+ EDIT “At Midnight is a rom-com that loves the hell out of rom-coms, and rightly so — the genre’s at its best when it fully embraces the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes with watching two people fall in love.” – Collider Feb 10, 2023 Full Review The Starling Girl (2023) 92% A- EDIT “The intimacy of The Starling Girl is both intriguing and painful, a version of Call Me by Your Name for the working-class girls that hide scars under the clothing they’ve scraped pennies together to afford.” – Collider Jan 25, 2023 Full Review All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) 95% A EDIT “I’m grateful for this film, and to Poitras for unflinchingly showing us a perspective that bridges art and activism, community and creation, with all the precision and certainty of a brand-new Hasselblad lens.” – Collider Nov 28, 2022 Full Review Werewolf by Night (2022) 90% A- EDIT “With this special, Marvel turns off the lights and starts down the dark basement stairs that every horror fan knows are trouble… though really, we’re all too intrigued by what’s at the bottom to tell them to stop.” – Collider Oct 6, 2022 Full Review Moonage Daydream (2022) 92% A+ EDIT “With this film, Morgen captures the unnameable reason why Bowie means so much to so many — that is to say, his forever immutable presence that makes one believe anything can be achieved if they wade far enough out into the water.” – Collider Sep 13, 2022 Full Review
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