Movie Review: The Uprising
The Uprising wins the most frustrating Almost Award of 2026. I see Paul Greengrass’s enthusiasm for the story, and even the bevy of themes and …
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Movie Review: Hope (2026)
Picture you’re at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Movie prestige incarnate. You’re excited to attend your latest in competition screening with other bourgeois French cinephiles. …
Movie Review: Teenage Wasteland
And so completes Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s “high school documenatry as a microcosm of America” trilogy. I’m still workshopping the name. But after clearly …
Movie Review: Dreams in Nightmares
Now I’ve definitely never seen a road trip like this one before. That’s the joy of a movie like Dreams in Nightmares: using a familiar …
Movie Review: Onslaught
It’s good to see Adam Wingard back making movies like The Guest again. After taking respites making franchise Godzilla movies, Wingard is back in his …
Movie Review: Dear You
Dear You, xie xie! To be honest I went into this movie expecting some maudlin over the top melodrama only for a Chinese audience. But …
Movie Review: The Sun Never Sets
Joe Swanberg grew up in the same place I did. So naturally, his mumblecore moviemaking worked for me because I know it well. But Swanberg’s …
Movie Review: Mayday
Mayday is a lot of fun, which makes me a little sad. I would have gladly gone to the movie theater to watch this action …
Movie Review: It Ends
Anyone can make a movie. I’ve watched so many of them at this point that I know it to be true. Yes, a director will …
Movie Review: Finding Emily
See, it’s not THAT hard. College romcoms just have to be a good hang, and remind people of why being young and in love was …