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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
(2024)
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Morgan Shaunette
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Anime fans might find something redeemable here, but The War of the Rohirrim adds nothing to either Tolkien’s books or Jackson’s films, standing instead as a testament to cynical studios milking franchise IP for all its worth.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Maria
(2024)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Larraín and screenwriter Steven Knight feel equal parts too comfortable and too distracted, fixating on film stock fascinations and screenwriting tricks about miscarriages and ex-lover’s deaths that answer questions we didn’t have.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Carry-On
(2024)
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Andrew Jankowski
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The one-dimensional characters and lack of awareness around how airports work—to say nothing of the shameless bootlicking throughout—turn Carry-On into an immediately forgettable holiday hatewatch.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Y2K
(2024)
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Rudy Valdez
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Running just over 90 minutes, Y2K is silly and sweet enough to offer something for everyone to enjoy.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Americana
(2025)
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Ned Lannamann
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It’s chock-full of wacky ideas but is missing the humor to make the wackiness sing.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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There are moments of brilliance within the mystery, but it’s too slight and unfocused to be truly satisfying.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Night Always Comes
(2025)
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KARLY QUADROS
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As things escalate, the star turns are particularly memorable. J
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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There’s enough to recommend in Highest 2 Lowest that it’s worth it for fans of Spike Lee’s previous joints, but after turning in modern hits like BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods, we know Da Man From Brooklyn is capable of better.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Splitsville
(2025)
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Max Fainaru-Wada
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Though imperfect, it feels like a breath of fresh air.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Ned Lannamann
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With director Darren Aronofsky revisiting the seedy New York City milieu of his earliest and best films, Caught Stealing is mostly a jolly, hyperviolent romp that’s like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch set in a pre-Strokes Lower East Side.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Anemone
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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The movie comes alive when DDL gives blistering monologues about his dark backstory, reminding us why he’s one of the best to ever do it, but that’s not enough to make up for long stretches dedicated to Jem joining Ray on his everyday routine.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
(2025)
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Daniel Bromfield
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It doesn’t do much to transcend the superior 1985 film version of Manuel Puig’s novel.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Andrew Jankowski
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This movie fails even absent Leto, who takes up most of the movie.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Good Boy
(2025)
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Rudy Valdez
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Leonberg put all his trust in Indy to carry Good Boy for over an hour, and the pup’s facial expressions speak volumes the entire time.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Rudy Valdez
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Chapman’s kills and handsome mug are the gifts that keep giving for horror fans.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Christen McCurdy
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It’s a world in which people make one baffling, unbelievable choice after another, but I loved being there regardless.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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Sentimental Value’s ending leaves something to be desired—a little too neat for a story this messy—but it’s a well-observed look at complicated family dynamics and the pain and beauty that can come of them.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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The Secret Agent
(2025)
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Lucy Gordon
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It’s fresh, enchanting, and thought-provoking.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Sirāt
(2025)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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There’s no doubt it’s bracing and a deeply felt homage to EDM as modern, post-lingual folk music. But Sirāt is at war with itself, and its pushiest, least interesting instincts rule the day. R.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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The Swedish Connection
(2026)
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Andrew Jankowski
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The Swedish Connection uplifts without offering false hope.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Pillion
(2025)
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Nicole Eckrich
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Pillion is a hot watch with a heartbeat.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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How to Make a Killing
(2026)
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Christen McCurdy
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The last act of How to Make a Killing has Becket getting outsmarted and outmaneuvered as often as he outsmarts others, and it delivers an ending that feels both appropriately clever and even a little just.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Daughters of the Dust
(1991)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Daughters of the Dust is a fascinating combination of novelistic sensibilities and nonlinear poetry.
Posted Feb 28, 2026
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Wuthering Heights
(2026)
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Rachel Saslow
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I’m here to report it is not terrible. It is outstanding.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Out of the Blue
(1980)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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In true New Hollywood fashion, Out of the Blue’s bleak human drama hits all the harder because it prioritizes naturalism.
Posted Feb 18, 2026
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Love & Basketball
(2000)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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It’s well observed, fiery, sweet, melancholy, and one of the only movies to consider how athletes’ attachment to sports changes across the full arc of their lives.
Posted Feb 13, 2026
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The Moment
(2026)
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Rachel Saslow
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It’s no fun at all. It’s also not funny. Skarsgård plays his role to the rafters and gets a few chuckles, but that’s it.
Posted Feb 11, 2026
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The Lathe of Heaven
(1980)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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The vision is strangely convincing. This adaptation employs precious few exterior shots—and a lot of rain outside dark windows—to cultivate both empty grandeur and claustrophobia.
Posted Feb 06, 2026
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Christen McCurdy
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It’s an understatement to compare Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s solo directorial debut, to a roller-coaster ride. It’s instead a whole theme park tour, one ride after another full of dizzying highs and dips that hit the pit of your stomach.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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Alma & the Wolf
(2025)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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The muddled ambition to metaphorize the characters’ psychic damage into monsters but then literalize all the results into a thuddingly plotted mystery strands us miles away from the movie’s greatest strength: a well-lit wolf puppet haunting the beach.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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Paradise Records
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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Logic’s fans might find something to enjoy in his feature debut, but Paradise Records tries to remix a classic and ends up just looking like a pale imitation.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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Devil in a Blue Dress
(1995)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Denzel Washington’s wildly underrated turn as a 1950s Los Angeles sleuth finds the two-time Oscar winner operating at peak charisma and weaving through a morass of noirisms—gangsters, political conspiracies, femmes fatales.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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Cronos
(1993)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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[It's] a pleasure to see del Toro work out his early ambitions in a world he didn’t design.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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12 Monkeys
(1995)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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[12 Monkeys] will it not make you feel better about pretty much anything. But it’s a feast for thought.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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Swan Song
(2021)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Every gesture captivates: Pat’s labored but proud gait on the roadside, the roughly 100 More cigarettes he ignites, Kier’s impossibly watery stare washing over every other character’s face.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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Only Lovers Left Alive
(2013)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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For being such a cool movie, there is something shockingly lame and relatable about a vampire just sinking down the rabbit hole of his pet interests, collecting rare guitars, and remixing his own compositions into oblivion.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(1984)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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It really is the movie’s fearlessly exploitive emotional and physical violence that cements its all-time placement in the Evil Santa canon.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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Karaoke from Hell
(2025)
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Andrew Jankowski
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Chip Mabry and Ben Mercer weave together numerous stories in an hour, and could have kept going in their deep dive into Old Portland culture and lore.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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Big Trouble in Little China
(1986)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Directed by John Carpenter during one of the great filmmaking hot streaks of all time, Big Trouble is a rarely seen kind of action comedy—neither spoof nor satire and containing not a single moment of genuine sentiment.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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The Abyss
(1989)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Not only is the Special Edition the best way to watch The Abyss, but also the most authoritative.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Nicole Eckrich
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Bedazzling, beguiling, bewitching—Wicked: For Good brings the fairy tale to a resounding crescendo of completeness.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Christen McCurdy
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Hamnet may not be subtle, but that doesn’t mean it’s not beautiful, or that it won’t break your heart.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Eternity
(2025)
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Morgan Shaunette
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The blatant artificiality of the place hits the right note between the banal and the surreal and proves the ideal stage for such an odd yet emotional story.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Given the scope, Bentley could so easily crank up the epic melodrama, but the best feature of Train Dreams is its commitment to serving Johnson’s prose through slippery understatement.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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Michelle Kicherer
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This might be the best film adaptation I’ve ever seen and is a perfect example of why we need more women directing.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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The Donn of Tiki
(2024)
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Rachel Saslow
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I’d have been happier with a 60-minute take on tiki bars and Donn Beach than the 100-minute version here, though maybe I’m just a lightweight.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Carol
(2015)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Haynes deserves extra credit for turning Blanchett’s acting superpower—resting sphinx face—into the totemic image and attitude of an entire movie.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Kiki's Delivery Service
(1989)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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All the little unassailable touches of Miyazaki’s world-building enrich the experience.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Basket Case
(1982)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Like most other Henenlotter movies, Basket Case is beloved by horror heads in the know for its scrappy execution, darkly comedic exploitation, and gonzo manifestation of otherwise thought-provoking themes.
Posted Nov 19, 2025
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Death Wish 3
(1985)
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Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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Its unintentional hilarity and ham-handed directing could never be replicated.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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