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Rental Family is elegantly absurdist, and beautifully banal in scope. The premise is eyebrow raising, focusing on a minor American actor (Brendan Fraser) living in Tokyo who starts working for a rental family service...
Wicked: For Good exemplifies why it is hard to split a complete story into multiple parts and expect those parts to stand alone. The sequel to last year’s immensely popular movie musical Wicked, it...
The directorial debut from acclaimed TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny brings his unique sensibilities to the big screen. At times, his storytelling doesn’t quite translate to the confines of a feature...
Keeper (2025) My Flickscore: 31 Keeper marks Osgood Perkins’ second release of the year, following the splatter-horror-comedy chaos of The Monkey. Where that film reveled in crimson excess, Keeper trades gore for mood —...
Reviewer Flickscore: 51 Die My Love (2025) Die My Love is the latest feel-good romp from Lynne Ramsay, director of past crowd-pleasers You Were Never Really Here (2017) and We Need to Talk About...
For better and worse, Predator: Badlands feels like the Marvelization of the Predator series. While director Dan Trachtenberg has had a good “tracht” record with the IP in the last few years, having directed...
We covered The Running Man in our Stephen King Book to Screen series back in 2019 where we declared that a better book-accurate adaptation of the film was needed. Its always nice when Hollywood...
Flickcharters might have loved this franchise once, but now it belongs with the dead. It’s that time of year where we rank a horror franchise to bring an end to the spooky season. It’s...
Katheryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite is one of the most taut and tensely-directed films of the year with excellent performances, pulse-pounding handheld camera work, and a realistic depiction of the avalanching nature of...
Luca Guadagnino is no stranger to making dichotomous films. He’s tackled a romantic relationship between cannibals, a teased tryst in Challengers, and a questionable age gap in Call Me By Your Name, showing no...
Roofman is an exemplar of the bizarre discord that can exist between Hollywood’s marketing of films, and films as they actually are. Despite trailers promising a wacky hijinks comedy with Channing Tatum starring as...
I don't know that anything has been uniformly one way or the other across all superhero films. That said, I…
Do you think this is a return to the Reeve-style moral simplicity and fresh-and-fun superhero films? Or was this a…
It should be on there! I linked it to rank if you click on the film title!
been wanting to rank this for a couple weeks now and this hasn't shown up on the site yet
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…