Laura Clifford

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews 1 day ago B Léa Seydoux is thoroughly engrossing in the role...but there is something missing in the center of this film that blunts its impact, Kreutzer's use of a flashback to happier times not filling a void... Go to Full Review Gentle Monster (2026) 69% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews 5 days ago B+ Pawel Pawlikowski completes his European post WWII period trilogy with a fictionalized account of Mann's 1949 trip that explores the fractured political landscape through fractured family dynamics. Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews 5 days ago A- Combining elements of 'wrong man' movies with those about one last big score, writer/director Noah Segan has gifted John Turturro with the role of a lifetime in a sure-to-become cult classic. Go to Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 97% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 26, 2026 B+ a black comedy that is identical to his 2008 film "In Bruges" in so many ways it almost feels like a remake. Fortunately, "In Bruges" is the filmmaker's best work and he's chosen a great cast and an even more unique vacation destination to set it in. Go to Full Review Wild Horse Nine (2026) 93% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 26, 2026 B+ Hammer finds ways to layer ironies upon ironies, his conclusion something few will see coming...Courtenay is devastating as a man who found love a second time late in life only to have the woman's daughter completely upend his world. Go to Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 91% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 22, 2026 B a gory, Lovecraftian blast crossed with "Mission Impossible's" masks, a true monster movie wisely being released right before Halloween. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 21, 2026 A Lee and Oh's subtle, complex writing gives Lee and his troupe a multi-layered adult drama which gives its audience the breadcrumbs to arrive at many truths. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 20, 2026 B+ The film is a social satire cast as fairy tale, featuring a feisty Olivia Colman and courtly Alexander Skarsgård, amazingly still recognizable encased in wicker. It also teems with the type of cheeky humor which suggests an erection via sound effect. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 20, 2026 A The vocal cast is first rate, Trembley's Curtis and Awkwafina's rat particularly endearing...Travis Knight has brought an epic fantasy adventure to life, literally frame by frame, and it's a stunner. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 99% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 14, 2026 C- As it turns out, spending an hour inside a whale actually gets pretty boring despite the exciting scene leading up to Jay's ingestion along with a giant squid...gets completely lost at sea. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 13, 2026 A Billy is far more complicit and manipulative than we've even seen so far, which also makes us reconsider what Liz has said - or does it. Every time we think we've landed on a truth, it is again cast into doubt... Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 12, 2026 B+ The filmmaker focuses on a character study of an actress who's fighting for a second chance after burning too many bridges and he's wisely cast someone who isn't too well known. But that's about to end for Rosalind Eleazar... Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 12, 2026 A Wow. Just wow. Comparing the 109 minute cut to this new 114 minute one is like seeing the film in color for the first time. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 12, 2026 A- ...both the right and the left have been accused of governmental overreach into people's health and private life and this is a particularly potent example that happens to have taken place in a progressive country. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 7, 2026 B- The film in no way measures up to Fincher's, but it does give us Zuckerberg 2.0, Strong's robotic performance suggesting functional autism, a nice counterpoint to Haugen's social awkwardness, while also flagrant in its entitled arrogance. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 6, 2026 A The well-informed may already know 70-80% of the film's content, but the way Gibney has shaped the material is nothing short of horrifying...Forget horror movies for Halloween - there is nothing scarier than "Musk" being released this October. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Oct 6, 2026 B+ Ali...is a fascinating figure, his stoicism giving way to panic as his family is endangered, his physicality impressively balletic in fight choreography. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Sep 30, 2026 C- When Lowen is initially offered the financially lucrative ghostwriting job, she's asked if she has read any of Verity Crawford's books. 'I never read a book I could buy at the airport,' she replies, which is how I feel about this movie. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Sep 29, 2026 C- If the survivors of California's deadly Camp Fire would think a satire showing the inept complicity of Pacific Gas and Electric leading up to it was funny, this would be the movie for them. An elaborate misfire... Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Sep 27, 2026 B+ Writer/director Dave Boyle raises plenty of gooseflesh with practical effects using mirrors, body doubles and lighting techniques combined with ancient folklore, creepy make-up, exaggerated sound and inventive props. Go to Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 98% - -