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F1: The Movie (2025)

F1: The Movie (2025)

In 2022, director Joseph Kosinski brought us the sequel we never knew we needed: Top Gun: Maverick. It was easily one of my favorite movies of the year (I...

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Elio (2025)

Elio (2025)

Elio (Yonas Kibreab) can’t seem to fit in since his parents died. He butts heads with his Aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a harried military officer who is doing the...

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Materialists (2025)

Materialists (2025)

How many inches do you require in order to date a man? Is that number non-negotiable? But what if he had a good personality? Oh, that doesn’t matter, you...

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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...

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Thunderbolts* (2025)

Thunderbolts* (2025)

As the sturdy oak of the Avengers has been logged for all its worth, literally being referenced with a museum piece in this latest Marvel film (government villain Valentina...

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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...

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Sinners (2025)

Sinners (2025)

It’s early 1930s Jim Crow South and twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) have returned to their poor, small Mississippi town after years away....

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The Amateur (2025)

The Amateur (2025)

Charlie (Rami Malek) is a type of man that usually never gets to be an action hero. He’s nerdy coder or decrypter (or something) at the CIA, literally working...

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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...

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G20 (2025)

G20 (2025)

There’s something about G20 that reminds me of a good old-fashioned 90s popcorn action-flick. The substance is shallow, the characters are either cartoonishly noble or crazy-eyed bad, and the...

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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...

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Snow White (2025)

Snow White (2025)

I was having a really bad week when I headed into the screening of Snow White alone. I hadn’t been able to convince anyone to join me, as the...

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