2026 Film Reviews

The plotline caught my attention, but I was left frustrated by the protagonists inability to keep it together and focused towards the justice her employer falls short of. It lacks the escapism of a vigilante action movie, but also the coherent resolve of a crime drama. I still enjoyed it, and appreciated the critique of how social media platforms fail to balance moderation and profit.

Visually impressive, all blood red and greenery. You can pause at a number of points just to enjoy the camerawork. The films biggest strength is in its atmosphere. Some clumsy political commentary is shoehorned in at the end, but it does little to detract from the film overall. Gore, woodland, pyrotechnics and Iron Maiden.

The film focuses on a dysfunctional relationship that is bound to failure, I'm not sure I believed all of the hostility and secrecy that came to define the protagonists world. The film ends by hinting at the idea he can emerge from the ruins bought about by the double life he had been leading.

Probably the best use of day and night I have ever seen to create a sense of ending in a film. I don't know the first thing about baseball, so whilst the game was entirely lost on me, I still felt like I was observing the end of an era and the gravity of that. It's not the tightest in terms of narrative, but that sort of lends to the realness an slice of life Americana.

The ending leaves a lot of room for speculation, but still has a sense of resolve and character growth about it. Well balanced. Theres enough human drama to make it interesting beyond the obvious explicit BDSM themes.

LOVED this. Felt like a refreshing return to some of the best comedies of the 2000's. I couldn't stop thinking about how much weed I'd have smoked to this back in the day.

The Appalachian setting alone had me interested in watching this. Not so much a political origin story, or a rags to riches cliche, JD Vance doesn't seem to pursue any overt political angle with Hillbilly Elegy. Were he not a political figure, it's still an insight into a world worth having.

I enjoyed this, a slice of life portrayal of a logger and trainworker who loses everything, and wonders if he'll ever make sense of it. The contrast between the wilderness and the city at the very end, the reverence for nature and will to learn from it all stood out to me. Recommended.

I'm not usually into any kind of magic realism, the supernatural themes in this work well though. I didn't process the ending immediately, chills as soon as it made sense. Recommended and I plan to rewatch soon.