Sara Clements

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Oct 23, 2026 7/10 Woll’s Meg anchors a smart, moody investigation where the writing ties her fractured relationship with her father to why she does what she does, and the practical effects are welcomed. Go to Full Review The Cycle (2026) 94% - -

Sara Clements Nerdspin Oct 21, 2026 Wildwood is a sweeping, handcrafted fantasy rich in theme, gorgeous at every scale, and emotionally heavy. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Sara Clements Nerdspin Oct 4, 2026 B+ The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a crime drama that feels like it was pulled from a time capsule; it lives so comfortably within its influences that Noah Segan’s film wears the grit of 1970s cinema naturally. Go to Full Review The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) 97% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Oct 2, 2026 8/10 "Lady" is certainly odd and uneven at times, but it has a distinct voice and a lead performance that turns its strangeness into something both very amusing and tender. Go to Full Review Lady (2025) 100% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Sep 13, 2026 7/10 "Trash Mountain" doesn’t reinvent the homecoming-dramedy formula, but it’s happy to be comfort-food filmmaking, not innovation. Go to Full Review Trash Mountain (2026) 100% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Sep 12, 2026 7/10 What results is a film that spends its first half doing something genuinely unnerving with the genre’s oldest trick, before eventually settling, in its back half, into more familiar terrain. Go to Full Review River (2026) 94% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Aug 29, 2026 5/10 "The Whisper Man" does what it needs to do, telling an engaging story about fathers’ sins and their failures to protect their sons, but it won’t have any lasting impact beyond being the next crime thriller to hit Netflix Go to Full Review The Whisper Man (2026) 45% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 28, 2026 It’s colourful, playful, and completely committed to the bit, which makes the contrast with the horror that follows more effective. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 24, 2026 It builds a rich portrait of friendship — the kind horror ensembles usually skip in favor of the next jump scare. Go to Full Review It Ends (2025) 93% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 14, 2026 The dinosaur movie audiences have deserved since Spielberg left Jurassic Park. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 7, 2026 Mackay, barely into her twenties, keeps evolving with every feature and makes you excited for the next. Go to Full Review Our Effed Up World (2026) 93% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 7, 2026 It’s another example of why horror is at its best when it tackles real horrors of the human experience. Go to Full Review Nightborn (2026) 73% - -

Sara Clements Marmalade Matinee (Medium) Aug 7, 2026 The leads anchor it all with natural, lived-in sibling chemistry in a dystopia that gets under your skin through its claustrophobic, airtight control. Go to Full Review Home Bodies (2026) 75% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Aug 7, 2026 6/10 Genuinely unsettling, backed by two performances doing careful, subtle work. Go to Full Review Someone's Daughter (2026) 64% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Aug 3, 2026 7/10 "The Peril at Pincer Point" isn’t just style dressed up as substance; it’s a film that knows exactly what it is, committed enough to its own strangeness that any meandering or thin characterization barely matters while you’re watching it. Go to Full Review The Peril at Pincer Point (2026) 100% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Jul 31, 2026 8/10 It pairs a tender, specifically drawn romance between two men with genuinely inventive horror. Go to Full Review No Rest for the Wicked (2026) 97% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Jul 31, 2026 7/10 The performances are the reason this story and the emotional conflict within stay with you afterward, whether you want it to or not. Go to Full Review The Reader (2008) 63% 79%

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Jul 27, 2026 7/10 It’s unique in its storytelling, with narrative beats that are truly unpredictable and great use of horror mechanics, easily keeping you trapped in the eye of Evans’s camera. Go to Full Review Corpus (2026) 87% - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Jul 3, 2026 6/10 Finds its beating heart in the father-daughter relationship at its center, with David Cross delivering a performance so warm and specific it makes you wish the film never left the apartment they share. Go to Full Review Lucy Schulman (2026) - - - -

Sara Clements Next Best Picture Jul 3, 2026 9/10 A raw and deeply compassionate portrait that avoids sensationalism, instead opting to humanize its subjects by focusing on their personal resilience and their desire to break generational cycles of trauma. Go to Full Review Baby/Girls (2026) - - - -