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Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Oct 17, 2025 There’s undoubtedly merit behind Zhao’s work here, and as much as Buckley and Mescal give powerhouse performances, this is frustratingly bland, jejune storytelling Go to Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% - -

Connor Lightbody Next Best Picture Sep 4, 2025 8/10 while it is technically a work of fiction, its truths are undeniable. The plight it depicts remains the harsh reality for millions of refugees... Fujimoto brings us into their world with harrowing intimacy, demanding that we not just witness but feel. Go to Full Review Lost Land (2025) - - - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Sep 2, 2025 If The Brutalist was 'show', The Testament of Ann Lee is 'tell'. Go to Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 85% - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Aug 30, 2025 It might be a little dismembered at times but one can't help but swoon at something as life-affirming as del Toro's humanistic rendition of Frankenstein. Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Aug 28, 2025 …Bugonia finally gets the chance to breathe and allow Lanthimos to fulfil what the opening promises: a gory, unhinged and explosive finale that makes the tepidness of the second act worth crawling through Go to Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% - -

Connor Lightbody Movies We Texted About Aug 17, 2025 a delightfully daft and incredibly charming family film Go to Full Review Grow (2025) 93% - -

Connor Lightbody Movies We Texted About Aug 4, 2025 This heavy-handed and misogynist version of Get Out, with all its stunning sequences, doesn’t add up to the sum of its parts Go to Full Review Don't Worry Darling (2022) 38% 74%

Connor Lightbody TAKE ONE Magazine Jul 30, 2025 4/5 if the cinema experience is meant to be a communal one, comedies like THE NAKED GUN are perfect to experience with a crowd chortling in unison. Go to Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 88% - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Jul 22, 2025 ...First Steps is exactly what the MCU required: a Phase One-esque, back-to-basics, incredibly charming, while occasionally pedestrian, film that requires no extra-curricular work to enjoy, no TV series to have watched, no comics to have been read Go to Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% - -

Connor Lightbody Movies We Texted About Jul 21, 2025 Blanchett rules the screen and Field’s eye for the bodacious, striking visual means this Icarus journey is a hell of a ride, in spite of its cynicism and contempt for contemporary culture. Go to Full Review Tár (2022) 91% 74%

Connor Lightbody TAKE ONE Magazine Jun 30, 2025 There is more than a pinch of socio-realist Andrea Arnold in the reels of Canty’s smashing debut. However, it is also the work of a filmmaker blazing his own directorial path with this endearing Irish hip-hop charmer. Go to Full Review Christy (2025) 100% - -

Connor Lightbody Next Best Picture Mar 24, 2025 5/10 There appears to be too much focus on letting the audience assume the wild theories rather than providing an exposition of any variety, leading to a film that ultimately feels very unsatisfying rather than one whose secrets stay with you after the credits Go to Full Review Mother's Baby (2025) 73% - -

Connor Lightbody Movies We Texted About Mar 24, 2025 This joyous gem brings Judy Blume’s classic novel vibrantly to life Go to Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% 80%

Connor Lightbody Live & Breathe Media (Substack) Mar 21, 2025 On Falling is no call-to-arms per se as it rebuffs any attempt to dramatically persuade audiences; it is instead a time capsule of how miserable life is within capitalism in its current form. Go to Full Review On Falling (2024) 96% - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Mar 18, 2025 4/5 A gothic horror movie unlike anything else on the market, one that could only be made by two artists and two actors who are truly and irrevocably in love with each other. Go to Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 93% - -

Connor Lightbody Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 a satire that can only tiredly lampoon the tanned surface of the fascists it mocks Go to Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 55%

Connor Lightbody Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 If Perry is aiming for a film that embodies the very agitation that Pavement strived for, he can count the ironic Pavements a success Go to Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% - -

Connor Lightbody Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 a courtroom drama, musical hybrid that puts the Joker character and Joker the film itself on trial. Sadly, and surprisingly, this is conducted in quite safe fashion, the more inflammatory elements of Joker a distant memory Go to Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% - -

Connor Lightbody Screensphere Mar 18, 2025 5/5 The Brutalist is a stunner. A dream for cinephiles everywhere but this is the Holy Grail for film scholars: an instant, definitive entry into film canon. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -

Connor Lightbody Pop Heist Mar 7, 2025 There may be discussion around the intangible, confusing nature of the process, which is designed to be unforgiving and cruel...but Gharoro-Akpojotor deftly explores this incensed political story through a deeply personal lens Go to Full Review Dreamers (2025) 92% - -