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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

Since his last outing (the wildly entertaining Spider-Man: No Way Home), Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is now dealing with the consequences of his poorly thought-out idea from the last...

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Disclosure Day (2026)

Disclosure Day (2026)

There’s a lot happening in Disclosure Day, so much so that Steven Spielberg drops the audience straight into what feels like the second act. It’s a bit disorienting. I...

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By Design (2026)

By Design (2026)

Her arms are caressed. Her legs are seductively untied from binding twine, the fabric released. Her body is licked by a besotted lover. She is a chair. Camille (Juliette...

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Mercy (2026)

Mercy (2026)

Let’s be honest here: a court system run by artificial intelligence doesn’t seem too far off. It’s easy to imagine AI companies approaching the legal system, pitching the benefits...

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Greenland 2: Migration (2026)

Greenland 2: Migration (2026)

I had been anticipating Greenland 2: Migration (or is it Greenland: Migration? The title sequence curiously drops the “2”) since the first trailers a few months ago. But gosh,...

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The Running Man (2025)

The Running Man (2025)

Years before The Hunger Games, there was The Running Man, Stephen King’s 1982 futuristic dystopian novel about a reality-TV game show where contestants must survive for 30 days while...

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Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

It doesn’t take a film critic to see aspects of Mary Shelley’s horror classic Frankenstein bountifully sprinkled throughout Guillermo del Toro’s career—from misunderstood creatures (The Shape of Water), to...

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Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Tron: Ares starts with an evil tech CEO named Dillinger (Evan Peters) waving his arms and making big sweeping pronouncements about the latest advances in AI. Why immerse yourself...

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Welp, here we go again. For the past couple decades, Marvel has painstakingly attempted to reboot and relaunch the Fantastic Four on the big screen, with new casts and...

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Superman (2025)

Superman (2025)

The character of Superman has always been an earnest do-gooder. The guy is not just pretty (eyeball-meltingly pretty), but he’s relatable, growing up as an outsider (he is, after...

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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...

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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)

Early on in Jurassic World: Rebirth (aka Jurassic Park VII), we meet perhaps the most boring family ever—a dad, his two daughters, and the older girl’s pothead boyfriend—sailing across...

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