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Chris Cabin Collider Aug 7, 2026 The Canadian firebrand’s love for personalized design is rife throughout this film, but it’s also the gorgeous yet notably unfussy look of the film, his use of colors and his love for expressive, distinct faces. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Apr 9, 2026 2.5/5 Selick’s James and the Giant Peach ultimately deludes its psychological undercurrents by forcing them to the surface. Go to Full Review James and the Giant Peach (1996) 91% 66%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Mar 4, 2026 RoboCop remains a bold and feral black comedy, a bleak satire on corporate excess and capitalism and, finally, a sly doppelganger of America’s favorite film genre. Go to Full Review RoboCop (1987) 84% 84%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Mar 4, 2026 A lively dialectic on the concept of corporate efficiency and humanism had become a tasteless joke told without a lick of comedic sense. Go to Full Review RoboCop 2 (1990) 31% 41%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Mar 4, 2026 Boring and thoughtless. Go to Full Review RoboCop 3 (1993) 18% 15%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Jun 10, 2025 Through its wildly comic, furiously creative, and intensely moving facade, Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film Brazil ponders a future made to sustain a draconian past molded by inequality. Go to Full Review Brazil (1985) 98% 90%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2021 4/4 Campion's series has the unmistakable timbre of daring art made naturally. Go to Full Review - - - -

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Jul 5, 2021 Each shot hits like a high, making it clear that Boyle’s addiction to the cinematic image, though not dangerous, is as similarly unremitting as Renton’s love affair with the spike. Go to Full Review Trainspotting (1996) 93% 93%

Chris Cabin Collider Aug 6, 2019 4/5 The fact that the film is an unmitigated romp is not something that should be apologized for or excused away. Indeed, such gleeful and lively slices of conviviality that embrace frivolity should be celebrated. Go to Full Review 7 Days in Hell (2015) 87% 70%

Chris Cabin Collider Jul 31, 2019 4/5 If Live at the Apollo doesn't have quite the number of guffaws that Inside Amy Schumer so often produces, it nevertheless remains a deliriously enjoyable and refreshing take on a rite of passage for most major comedians. Go to Full Review Amy Schumer: Live From the Apollo (2015) 90% 15%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Feb 23, 2019 4/4 The film is an outrageous, hilarious, and amazingly unpretentious trip through a funhouse of sexual identities. Go to Full Review Some Like It Hot (1959) 95% 94%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Dec 30, 2018 3.5/4 Isao Takahata makes survival the thematic core of the story, but he never degrades his characters or fetishizes their suffering. Go to Full Review Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 100% 89%

Chris Cabin Collider Sep 28, 2017 B+ Much as he did with Bernie and Before Midnight, Linklater shows a rousing ability to find humor in dark subject matter, Go to Full Review Last Flag Flying (2017) 76% 72%

Chris Cabin Slant Magazine Apr 21, 2017 2.5/4 The film awkwardly and cumbersomely arrives at its revelations. Go to Full Review The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) 69% 54%

Chris Cabin Collider Feb 3, 2017 4.5/5 Dark Night is as much about gloom as it is astonishment, to see the power of an act or an image to either turn someone into a killer or to inspire them toward empathy. Go to Full Review Dark Night (2017) 61% 28%

Chris Cabin Collider Nov 16, 2016 1/5 The fact that these gags and one-liners are meant to offend isn't even half as criminal as the fact that the humor in 'Bad Santa 2' is repetitious, poorly timed, and devoid of any real feeling. Go to Full Review Bad Santa 2 (2016) 23% 34%

Chris Cabin Collider Oct 21, 2016 5/5 A masterpiece. Wholly contemplative, resonantly melancholic, wise-and for Gray-cuttingly personal. Go to Full Review The Lost City of Z (2016) 85% 58%

Chris Cabin Collider Oct 7, 2016 4/5 Though The Alchemist Cookbook could easily be labeled a work of psychological horror, it transcends the familiar trappings of that genre to evoke something more human and empathetic than simply conveying the terrors of the human mind. Go to Full Review The Alchemist Cookbook (2016) 84% 34%

Chris Cabin Collider Oct 4, 2016 3/5 Of course, this is first and foremost a movie about Iggy Pop and The Stooges, and under that rubric, Gimme Danger cannot be considered anything less than a heartfelt, viscerally entertaining, and entirely successful feat. Go to Full Review Gimme Danger (2016) 95% 71%

Chris Cabin Collider Oct 3, 2016 5/5 A damning, nuanced case against mass incarceration. Ava DuVernay has gone beyond crafting a call for a rebellion. With this masterpiece, she's calling for a revolution. Go to Full Review 13TH (2016) 97% 88%