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JD Duran

JD Duran's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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JD Duran is the founder of InSession Film, and the host of the InSession Film Podcast. Find JD at @RealJDDuran & @InSessionFilm

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Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 93% B+ EDIT “Laura is mysterious, clearly suffering and wrestling with her identity. A deliberate choice as Laura's lostness becomes Betty's solace, exploiting Laura to fill emotional gaps in her life.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% B+ EDIT “I find Grace's cowardice provocative. I deeply love that he never cared about being the hero. He just wanted to live his life and go home.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% C+ EDIT “The Bride! is an ambitious mess that's narratively disjointed, performantly outlandish, thematically uneven and tonally all over the place. So, naturally, I kinda dug it.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% C+ EDIT “Hoppers is a weird one. As a Pixar film, there is a lot to love, but simultaneously to say its politics are murky is putting it mildly.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% B+ EDIT “I love how it plays with the genre, offering a zombie buffet that mimics everything from the slow Walking Dead variety to the fast-running likes of 28 Days Later, and others in-between.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 89% B+ EDIT “As far as Michael Mann rip-offs go, this is about as good as it gets. ” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% A- EDIT “It's the kind of campy, funny horror we come to love from Sam Raimi, and it's one of his very best movies. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% C- EDIT “Instead of adapting Wuthering Heights, we essentially get a disconnected, subdued narrative that's more concerned with petty revenge and misses the sophisticated nuances of the novel. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% B+ EDIT “(Verbinski) is not usually subtle anyway, and given the material here and how desperate he feels in terms of how prevalent AI has become, he certainly doesn't feel like now is the time to be subtle. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% A EDIT “Hamnet destroyed me in ways that's almost hard to articulate. It's absolutely devastating, but what I really love about it is how it's equally interested in life, love and family.” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% B EDIT “Nouvelle Vague is Richard Linklater’s most insufferable film to date (complimentary). ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% C- EDIT “I just can't get over how banal it looks visually. The pacing is uneven. The new songs don't add anything. Jon M. Chu's storytelling is a problem. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% A EDIT “Mary Bronstein, I'm sorry, I wasn't familiar with your game. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% B+ EDIT “Tessa Thompson's Hedda Gabler is the best movie villain since Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan in Love & Friendship.” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% A- EDIT “I never expected this for Wake Up Dead Man, but it's genuinely one of the best films about faith in recent years. The phone call scene is one of the very best of the year. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% B+ EDIT “I really responded to Noah Baumbach's meta-take on career ambition, the personal costs along the way and how it balances those things with a deep reverence for cinema. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% A+ EDIT “The Mastermind is straight out of the New Hollywood era. It's almost as if it time-traveled from the 1970s into 2025. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% A EDIT “The Secret Agent is always stirring in some captivating way, even when it's quiet or lingering in character. It's methodical and precise, but it's never mundane. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% B EDIT “Avatar: Fire and Ash is redundant and a bit of a bridge movie, but the spectacle is as thrilling and diverting as ever. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% A+ EDIT “Marty Supreme is as electric and propulsive as we might expect from Josh Safdie. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “As a musical, The Testament of Ann Lee is remarkably hypnotic. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% A EDIT “No Other Choice is simply one of the very best crafted films of the year. The cinematography and editing are astounding.” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% A EDIT “Sentimental Value is this deeply poignant examination on the connection between parents and children and shared grief.” – InSession Film Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% B+ EDIT “When the film begins to relish in its empathy and ideas of self-love and embracing the gift of life, that's were it truly excels, especially thanks to Jacob Elordi, who is the real deal.” – InSession Film Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% A EDIT “DIE MY LOVE is Lynne Ramsay's raw and unrestrained examination of postpartum depression, and the deeply visceral polarity of love and desire teetering with emptiness and isolation.” – InSession Film Nov 17, 2025 Full Review
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