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Public Access (2026) David Fear David Shadrack Smith’s doc gets into the good, the bad, and the Midnight Blue of it all, filling in a lost chapter of media history that’s crazier than you could imagine.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) David Fear It’s the way that Greaves gives you a true portrait of a community, and lets you eavesdrop on their bickering and airing of grievances as well as their mutual admiration and gratitude. A masterpiece, this.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Lake (2026) David Fear Abby Ellis’ look at three people fighting to keep Utah’s rapidly disappearing Great Salt Lake from turning into an “environmental nuclear bomb” keeps things simple and observational, and is the stronger for it.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Josephine (2026) David Fear The youngster’s performance transcends the “good for a child actor” compliment and goes straight to “phenomenal.” Not even a detour into familiar courtroom dramatics can shake the feeling that you’re watching something brilliant, singular, and astounding.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) David Fear It’s the sort of one-location, star-driven ensemble piece that could have merely been a theatrical exercise, and somehow manages to avoid being either stagy or stodgy. Even more impressive is how the actors sync up their own unique performance styles.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Incomer (2026) David Fear Writer-director Louis Paxton’s debut has the keenest of wits, and Rankin and O’Rourke deliver two of the funniest comic turns we’ve seen in a long time.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Divorce During the War (2026) David Fear Prepare to relate in a way that will almost assuredly be too close for comfort.
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The History of Concrete (2026) David Fear The question was always: Could he sustain something like that in a longer format? The answer is a resounding [in John Wilson voice], “Um, well… yes.”
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Closure (2026) David Fear Though he borrows the visual template of the true-crime doc, complete with several surreal Lynchian flourishes, Marczak never steers his film into exploitative waters.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) David Fear The fact that Keshavarz and Ataei’s extraordinary slice of life under a repressive regime had to be smuggled out of the country in order to play in Park City only underlines the importance of free expression as a form of resistance. Amazing.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Broken English (2025) David Fear If you can hold your tears from going by as she gives what would be her final performance, a rendition of “Misunderstanding” accompanied by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, than you’re a stronger person than I am.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) David Fear It’s merely a portrait of a guy trying to find his way back, one confessional freeform monologue at a time... Arnett understands this, possibly better than we might know. Regardless, the role brings out a side of him that feels revelatory.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Peter Travers It’s a revamped Cinderella story with power as the aphrodisiac, and Douglas and Bening play it to the classy hilt. The courtship scenes in the film’s lighter, more deft first half have the bounce of a moonstruck fable.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) David Fear The few full-blown examples of 18th century everyday people losing themselves to the holy-roller beat carries this film even more than the meticulous historical recreations. It’s a period film with 6/8 pulse.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) David Fear It’s the sort of parting joke that makes the chuckles catch in your throat. Yet it’s also the kind of grace note of a kicker that reminds you how slyly Director Park and his lead actor have been letting this story unfold.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) David Fear The piles of ash here looks and sounds phenomenal. What you would not give to feel some actual fire burning behind all of this.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) David Fear You have to be a hustler to make movies like this in the age of AI and IP, even ones with genuine movie stars in them. It’s in Safdie’s DNA as much as Marty’s. Both end up champions in their own way, and we’re the ones who end up winning.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) David Fear Marcelo’s story keeps everything connected and the humanity in the forefront, but the overall effect is still akin to surfing channels late at night, slipping from one delirious after-hours offering to the next.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) David Fear It helps immensely that Teller and Olsen pair well with each other -- she brings out the best in a scene partner who can sometimes seem remote onscreen -- and that Turner knows exactly how to make this “perfect” guy feel flawed yet still likable.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) David Fear Yet the sensation of a work that, in translation from one medium to another, no longer defies gravity but sort of roughly plummets back down to terra firma can’t easily be shaken off.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) David Fear Sirāt is not for everyone. But it is the sort of overwhelming cinematic experience and undeniable work of sound and vision that could be life-changing for those ready to receive it.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Keeper (2025) David Fear You spend a good deal of Keeper forming theories about what’s going on... Once everything is revealed, however, you wish you’d gone back that previous ignorance that now seems like a state of bliss.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) David Fear You’ll find yourself wishing this was the superior movie you think it could be. As it is, Baumbach’s addition to the movies-about-movies canon still makes the most of the star power at the center of it.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) David Fear So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) David Fear Most filmmakers would have diluted the grit and genuine sense of moral free-fall. Wright doubles the dosage. Every adrenaline rush comes with a chaser of low rage and simmering despair.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) David Fear Sentimental Value is essentially a double act between Skarsgård and Reinsve, and these two performers play off each other in a way that’s recognizable to anyone who’s struggled with paternal baggage, by which we mean everybody.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) David Fear Even those who think Die My Love courts indulgence and incoherence to its own detriment will gape in awe at how Lawrence makes them feel this person coming apart at the seams.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) David Fear It’s really a comedic road movie at heart, with as much yuks over a mismatched pair trying to get along as yucks involving the goopy innards of cosmic mastodons.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) David Fear [Nouvelle Vague] apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz. It’s the most blissful time spent in the dark you can imagine.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) David Fear The question posed by this impressive, if somewhat overheated take on a theater-canon staple is not, in the end, “What curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?” It’s more like: Why kill when you can overkill?
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) David Fear What starts off as a tribute turns into an autopsy of a long marriage as seen by the kids who witnessed the best and worst of it, done with humor, anger, hindsight, and empathy.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) David Fear For something so blessed with timeliness and talent, it leaves you feeling like you’re buried in a hovel of disappointment.
Posted Oct 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) David Fear ...it’s fair to say that the story Lanthimos and his cast are working with here is designed to inflame and delight, along with confusing those who don’t recognize that bizarre is the new normal.
Posted Oct 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) David Fear Despite the movie’s flaws, what Cooper has given audiences here is way more compelling than a live-action greatest-hits compilation.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) David Fear Reeves is so funny, so sublime, and so f---ing spot-on in his portrayal of a do-gooder whose genius plan goes off the rails that he ends up slipping the movie into his Constantine-style overcoat pocket and walking away with it.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) David Fear This story isn’t about the filmmaker getting revenge, so much of an example of how Panahi “gets” revenge -- in terms of understanding how it operates, how it satisfies or doesn’t.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) David Fear Portraits of great men given the movie-star treatment usually accentuate the positive. Linklater finds it more interesting to look at a self-sabotaging artist’s greatest misses. It’s a tribute that’s really a cautionary tale.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) David Fear It’s in this last act that Ballad of a Small Player truly puts all of it chips on its lead, and while that faith doesn’t make up for a lot of the ridiculous twists and overplayed hands leading up to a climactic streak, it’s still a smart bet.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) David Fear A spectacle that’s supposed to be an ode to the power of Hollywood hokum simply becomes the minor-key embodiment of it. What a tangled web it weaves.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) David Fear It’s the kind of film that makes you want to call your own mother and apologize.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) David Fear The result is just old-fashioned cinematic fools’ gold, in which sensationalistic blather poses as social commentary. It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make something this god-awful.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) David Fear It’s a movie that stumbles every so often, overplays its hand numerous time, and relies on an oddball true-story premise and 1000-watt star power to pave over some of the rougher spots. It would also give you its coat if you needed it without asking.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) David Fear We were either long overdue for a reboot or the franchise should’ve declared that it reached its victory level and called it quits. The Mouse House chose the systems upgrade. It’s Game Over regardless.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Steve (2025) David Fear It’s handled in such a slapdash, klutzy manner, and feels so cut-rate, that you may find yourself raging alongside the movie’s youngsters. Not even Murphy can sell it.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) David Fear The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system. The film inspires you to do the same.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Richard Lawson The Smashing Machine is hard to love, because its nebulous form offers so little to grab onto and hold tight. But there is a lot to be appreciated: the film’s sensitivity and modesty, its refusal to grandstand or sensationalize.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Anemone (2025) David Fear It’s the work of a young filmmaker. But it’s also very much the work of a genuine filmmaker, bursting with creativity and refining their vision in real time. To quote another member of this cineaste’s clan: Attention must be paid.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) David Fear Squibb knows exactly how to use spoonfuls of sugar to help the regret, the side-eye snark, and the heartache go down. The film’s just good enough. She’s great.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
To Sleep With Anger (1990) Peter Travers Burnett has mixed past and present, poetry and realism, humor and terror, to make a unique and unforgettable film.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) David Fear Excuse the cynicism, but this is the sort of combination of touchy-feely button-pushing and self-conscious peculiarity that’s meant to seem significant and profound that will bring out your inner rom-com Grinch.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
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