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Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Oct 19, 2026 Fielder’s toast-dry dead stare does a lot of work in the film’s slo-mo peeling of Holmes’s onion, and yet, as the clock ticks down, it’s impossible to say if there’s any takeaway to be had. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

Mari Florence LA Weekly/Village Voice Sep 4, 2026 In a cycle of devastation and rebirth, the whirlwind of action sweeps you up and crashes you down so many times you're bruised, battered and hungry for some substance. Yet 160,000 cells' worth of astonishing animation... are a spectacle to be admired. Go to Full Review Akira (1988) 88% 86%

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Aug 11, 2026 Whether or not the film has much rhyme or reason, it’s a hoot, and the filmmaker knows their guns and sticks to them. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Jul 29, 2026 Her Private Hell, is at least honestly titled — Hell it is, as well as being resolutely, monstrously private. Go to Full Review Her Private Hell (2026) 40% - -

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 22, 2026 Rose of Nevada never feels less than authentic to its place, to the idea of regional filmmaking, and to a clear-eyed distress with the state of blue-collar life in the U.K. Go to Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 92% - -

Steve Erickson LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 17, 2026 The movie's sustained by its visual flourishes and by wit bordering on the wicked. Go to Full Review The Rocketeer (1991) 73% 71%

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Jun 1, 2026 It's gorgeously irrational, anti-algorithm, and certainly not something AI could’ve mustered from scratch. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 86% - -

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 20, 2026 Still, with the resulting film, even the word Mummy is questionable, since the movie is actually a somewhat rote possession-exorcism entry. Go to Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 45% - -

Alan Hoffman LA Weekly/Village Voice Apr 6, 2026 Only Muppet-haters could dislike this movie. Go to Full Review The Muppet Movie (1979) 89% 88%

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Mar 24, 2026 The movie is not ultimately Loznitsa’s most challenging, nor his most thoroughly weaponized, but that’s a high bar — instead, place it beside the trivia otherwise eating up screen time this spring, and watch it bristle. Go to Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 98% 30%

Michael Atkinson LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 23, 2026 Merely a spare, inventive, genre-doped B-movie, of the sort we have for too long taken for granted. Go to Full Review Redux Redux (2025) 97% - -

Ginger Varney LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 20, 2026 Restrained performances from Donald Pleasence and Robert Duvall make the matter-of-fact horror all the more sinister. Thoughtful, if chilly, direction from George Lucas, who also edited. Go to Full Review THX 1138 (1971) 72% 73%

Dave Gardetta LA Weekly/Village Voice Feb 12, 2026 Directed by Brian Yuzna, Bride is plagued by bad lighting, poor sound quality and Yuzna's inability to revive the gleeful anarchy that director Stuart Gordon gushed into the original. Go to Full Review Bride of Re-Animator (1990) 57% 45%

Steve Erickson LA Weekly/Village Voice Jan 8, 2026 [Jack Nicholson's] dramatic crescendo in A Few Good Men evokes just enough energy, not true pathos. Go to Full Review A Few Good Men (1992) 85% 89%

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Dec 12, 2025 Bi Gan's Resurrection is a puzzle missing half its pieces, made up of ethereally meticulous sections that don't quite mesh together. Go to Full Review Resurrection (2025) 91% - -

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 22, 2025 The latest from director Oliver Laxe is a trip in more ways than one. Go to Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% - -

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 22, 2025 Sewing together a career's worth intestines and dismembered body parts from his previous films, taking fleshy bits from former pictures and transfusing it into Mary Shelley's source material, Guillermo del Toro has...made the creation entirely his own. Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 22, 2025 For those of you who know the difference between the French New Wave and a croissant, Nouvelle Vague is the movie for you. Go to Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% - -

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 22, 2025 It's a tone that is serious and unserious, exciting, baffling, confusing, rip-roaring, depressing and uplifting in equal measure--which is to say, it's another Anderson classic. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Asher Luberto LA Weekly/Village Voice Nov 22, 2025 They're certainly pushing the envelope on 'till death do us part," as literal murder attempts unravel and inevitably come crashing down in a bombastically overcrowded yet bemusingly entertaining final act. Go to Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% - -