Brent Hankins

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 15, 2026 4/10 If you grew up with these games, there’s an argument for getting friends together in someone’s living room to watch it, then breaking out a console afterward to go a few rounds with the classics. I suspect you’ll have a lot more fun with the second part. Go to Full Review Street Fighter (2026) 41% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 2, 2026 4/10 If you absolutely must see it, then let me advise waiting until you can round up some friends, pour a few glasses of wine and cackle at the absurdity together. That’s about the best experience you can hope for with this one. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Jul 16, 2026 10/10 I went into this film bracing myself for a handsomely mounted spectacle; what I found instead was proof that Nolan remains one of the only directors left who can turn a film into an honest-to-god event. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Jun 12, 2026 9/10 The Death of Robin Hood is somber, occasionally punishing, and stubbornly uninterested in giving you a good time in any traditional sense. But it’s also one of the most moving films I’ve seen in a while, and easily my favorite of the year so far. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Apr 22, 2026 4/10 Michael is a film more concerned with the collective public memory of an icon than with the actual human being who generated it [and] allows the filmmakers to pull up short of anything uncomfortable and ensure viewers walk out with only good vibes. Go to Full Review Michael (2025) 38% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 27, 2026 8/10 Woo-ping has once again proven himself a master of the genre, delivering a film packed to the gills with action that keeps finding new ways to surprise you just when you think you've taken its measure. Go to Full Review Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert (2026) 94% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 26, 2026 2/10 [This] might have been the most excruciating ninety minutes I’ve ever spent in a theater... there’s nothing beneath the surface: the shock is the point. [It] mistakes being unwatchable for being brave. Go to Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 16% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 25, 2026 8/10 Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is an absolute blast: a scrappy, inventive, genuinely funny film that rewards both newcomers (my wife had never seen a single minute of the series and still laughed her ass off right next to me) and longtime fans. Go to Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 95% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 17, 2026 8/10 Influences notwithstanding, McKinley's film manages to carve out a solid enough identity of its own, thanks in no small part to Hawke's magnetic lead performance. Go to Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 15, 2026 9/10 The film refuses to reduce these characters to their diagnoses, allowing them to be funny, horny, awkward, angry, and occasionally stupid in ways that have nothing to do with being sick, and everything to do with being seventeen. Go to Full Review Sunny Dancer (2026) 85% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 13, 2026 9/10 A defiant middle finger to our tech-addled present and the encroaching doom of an AI-driven future, and a reminder that revolution doesn’t require an army — just a handful of people passionate (or desperate, or stupid) enough to make a difference. Go to Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Feb 12, 2026 6/10 Rather than feeling like cheap imitation, Layton’s reverence for Mann’s masterpiece comes across like a cover song: you know the original is superior, but there’s still something interesting about experiencing someone else’s interpretation. Go to Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Dec 16, 2025 8/10 Cameron remains one of the all-time greats at staging large-scale spectacle, and the film delivers set piece after set piece with breathless intensity. This is where Cameron's obsessive attention to detail and massive budget pay off in full. Go to Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Nov 14, 2025 5/10 The Running Man feels like a diluted version of its own ambitions. The 1987 Schwarzenegger adaptation may have been campy as all hell, but I would argue that it had a much stronger sense of identity. Go to Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 28, 2025 8/10 For those willing to meet the film on its own wavelength, it’s a bracingly relevant piece of work that thinks we’re all completely fucked, but at least it confirms the Lanthimos-Stone partnership as one of the most vital in contemporary cinema. Go to Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 9, 2025 9/10 What makes A House of Dynamite feel so urgently relevant is the uncomfortable question it poses about the present moment... Bigelow's nightmare scenario doesn't read as an unlikely worst-case -- it reads as a dress rehearsal. Go to Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 8, 2025 5/10 Tron has long been a property that Disney hasn’t known what to do with, and this represents the latest example of that creative confusion. If future entries will be this bland and surface-level, one has to wonder: why bother? Go to Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 52% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Oct 1, 2025 8/10 There’s something valuable about watching someone with Maron’s reach acknowledge that grief doesn’t follow a tidy narrative arc, that working through trauma is messy and ongoing and sometimes embarrassing. Go to Full Review Are We Good? (2025) 97% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Sep 19, 2025 8/10 If Johnson continues down this path and gets away from the recycled performances he's been delivering for years, The Smashing Machine could mark the beginning of a genuinely compelling second act for one of Hollywood's most reliable stars. Go to Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 71% - -

Brent Hankins The Lamplight Review Sep 2, 2025 9/10 The Long Walk far exceeded my expectations, delivering one of the most accomplished Stephen King adaptations in years -- easily standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the very best entries in the author's cinematic canon. Go to Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% - -