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The Smashing Machine (2025)

The Smashing Machine (2025)

If you have no background on ultimate fighting (aka mixed martial arts) The Smashing Machine gives you only a few teases to understand what’s going on. The fighters are...

Linda
Eleanor the Great (2025)

Eleanor the Great (2025)

It only took Hollywood decades to figure out that 90-something June Squibb could easily hold her own as a lead. After landing a Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Nebraska...

Linda
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s an underlying assumption that everyone—certainly everyone who shows up at a wedding—should be coupled up. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie)...

Linda
40 Acres (2025)

40 Acres (2025)

As much as I love me some good post-apocalyptic storytelling, whether it be zombies or spores or meteors causing the end of society as we know it, the dystopian...

Linda
The Life of Chuck (2025)

The Life of Chuck (2025)

Based on Stephen King’s novella and adapted by Mike Flanagan, The Life of Chuck starts with Act 3 of 3. It’s modern times, and a schoolteacher named Marty Anderson...

Linda
On Swift Horses (2024)

On Swift Horses (2024)

Muriel (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Lee (Will Poulter) seem like the perfect 1950s young, attractive, white American couple. He’s returned from the Korean War, and after some unnamed hesitation, Muriel...

Linda
Don't Close Your Eyes (2025) (Bulgaria)

Don’t Close Your Eyes (Не затваряй очи) (2025)

In early 1980s Bulgaria in a seaside town, a young mildly disabled 18-year-old young man named Peter (Yani Malinov, completely watchable in his screen debut) flees home after his...

Linda
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

If you have ever cried at a concert when your favorite artist played a song you loved, you’ll find awkward Charles (Tim Key) to be a kindred spirit. Happy...

Linda
Magazine Dreams (2023)

Magazine Dreams (2023)

Bodybuilding is all about excess—the athlete pushes the limits of building muscle, flexing in unnatural poses to pop and highlight different parts of the body, all while holding a...

Linda
Last Breath (2025)

Last Breath (2025)

Harrowing, ripped-from-the-headlines stories of survival are inherently cinematic. Extraordinary stories of heroic folks pulling together to save others, whether dozens of trapped miners, or in this case, a single...

Linda
The Brutalist (2024)

The Brutalist (2024)

The opening shot of this rich, immersive, satisfying film is awash in darkness and confusion. It’s hard to see what is happening in the black chaos of voices, and...

Linda
Babygirl (2024)

Babygirl (2024)

Nicole Kidman plays Romy, a modern boss bitch–a strong, power-player CEO at her own company. She has a beautiful husband (beautiful Antonio Banderas), a couple of teens, and the...

Linda