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They Will Kill You (2026) 67% EDIT “So many better horror features have been constructed along the same lines that this one comes across as merely a tedious also-ran. By the end, every trope the director uses has been bled dry.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 82% EDIT “As a love story, “Fantasy Life” isn’t particularly original, but the low-key way Mr. Shear realizes some familiar situations is warm and human, with comic aspects and sad ones kept in an appealing balance. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 88% EDIT “A black-comic acid bath that, in only an hour and a half, nods to so many contemporary concerns that it rivals last year’s “Eddington” in its scope... The film may not propose a solution to any of our maladies, but it’s a bitterly convincing diagnosis.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% EDIT “Fashion is fleeting; this film is positively disposable.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% EDIT “Project Hail Mary is at its core a kids’ movie. That lessens its gravity, a bit. But it also makes it the kind of film that will send happy viewers soaring into orbit, again and again.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 55% EDIT “The least attentive audience member will spot every lame development from miles away.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 13, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “The final sound the movie creates is a disappointed groan from the audience. Should Mr. Tuason get some writing help, though, he might become a formidable filmmaker.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% EDIT “If there’s a single witty idea in the entire two-hour slog, I missed it.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 58% EDIT “Like Dr. F. himself, Ms. Gyllenhaal has unleashed a monster on unsuspecting countrymen. A witty theater owner would match the mood by selling torches and pitchforks at the concession stand.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% EDIT “The lean, athletic Mr. Herzog, 83 years old, seems as spry and eager as ever, and his global enthusiasm remains a force of nature in itself. “Ghost Elephants” takes its place as yet another of the director’s essential forays into the wild and unknown.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “Mr. Luhrmann has done us all a service by combing through the available footage, coming up with many clips the public hasn’t seen before, and delivering an Elvis who in the ’70s was not always at his best but was still a spangled dynamo. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% EDIT “[Glen Powell] could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Midwinter Break (2026) 63% EDIT “Though the story wells with tenderness, it isn’t executed with much verve. Ms. Findlay’s direction is patient to a fault. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 89% EDIT “That “Crime 101” seeks to position itself as a successor to “Heat” is laughable. A more accurate title would have been “Lukewarmth.”” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “When you’ve got two actors as luminous as Ms. Robbie and Mr. Elordi, you don’t need them to say clever things, and they don’t. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Calle Málaga (2025) 97% EDIT “Ms. Touzani, whose previous films included 2019’s “Adam” and 2022’s “The Blue Caftan,” has made a film of simple, light appeal, relying heavily on her star’s late-blooming impishness. ” – Wall Street Journal Feb 7, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 53% EDIT “Mr. Jones is not a star and falls short of generating the level of creepy charisma Gary Oldman displayed in the 1992 film. Meant to be all-powerful and spellbinding, he comes across as merely eccentric.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 7, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 91% EDIT “The script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (based on a 2020 Spanish film) is an increasingly high-stakes farce that turns surprisingly poignant in its more low-key third act.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 29, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 88% EDIT “Ms. Wilde is outrageously funny in the movie, whose sexually explicit nature was an eyebrow-raiser even for this famously unruly celebration of edgy work. ” – Wall Street Journal Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% EDIT “The biggest mystery involved in “Mercy” is not who killed Mrs. Raven but why a star with Mr. Pratt’s everyman charisma keeps choosing such mediocre projects. ” – Wall Street Journal Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% EDIT “One of those old-fashioned feature cartoons that seems aimed at pleasing half-asleep old people rather than lively youngsters.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 94% EDIT “The film is, in a sense, a necrology that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering. Its effects are woozily disorienting, as though we’re all just ghosts drifting through spaces occupied by much more lasting things such as houses.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 17, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “Quirky touches, dry wit and first-rate characterizations make “The Bone Temple” a rare treat and one of the finest zombie movies I’ve seen, not to mention a major improvement from last summer’s third entry in the series.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Like many shallow effects-driven blockbusters, the supposedly deep “Young Mothers” has nothing to say. Does it have any reason to exist other than to serve up poverty porn?” – Wall Street Journal Jan 9, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% EDIT “The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology -- dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh -- is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”” – Wall Street Journal Jan 9, 2026 Full Review
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