Film Obsessive

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Oct 16, 2026 4/5 Margaret Qualley’s performance is shaped by a wringer of hopeful happiness, stubborn mistakes, worrisome terror, and fragile remorse. Go to Full Review Love of Your Life (2026) 81% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Oct 3, 2026 4/5 Virile and passionate, their charisma radiates in the picture, even if neither was exactly lighting the film on fire with their morose performances. Go to Full Review Interview With the Vampire (1994) 69% 86%

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Oct 1, 2026 4/5 Josh Loeb’s film shines by watching two scared people use their own measures of goodness to find commitment against their challenges and those of their partner, with equal acceptance. Go to Full Review In Spite of Ourselves (2026) - - - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 29, 2026 3/5 One has to wonder if "Digger" is just a gaudy, self-congratulatory chance for these performers and artists to dress up and show off versus blowing a whistle and really drilling down to say something through their characters and theatrics. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 25, 2026 4/5 Uber will hold a remarkably firm look that will stare down and disarm any living thing in its gaze, be that a bear, a pack of wolves, Brad Pitt, or us—fixated on the big screen with wet corners filling our eyes. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 23, 2026 3/5 With decent chemistry and plenty of her own zingers, Lili Reinhart sets most of the scenes up, but the endearing transformation belongs to Tom Bateman, in almost an academic "Beauty and the Beast"-tinged arc. Go to Full Review The Love Hypothesis (2026) 73% - -

Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Sep 23, 2026 God Bless You, Mr. Kopu is stylish and confident, a throwback morality play with plenty of modern sensibilities. Go to Full Review God Bless You, Mr Kopu (2026) - - - -

Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Sep 20, 2026 Ancestors is cataclysmically gentle, a reflection of destruction through a lens cradled by love. Go to Full Review Ancestors (2026) 80% - -

Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Sep 20, 2026 Future Tense is high-concept science fiction in its finest form, never once forgetting that humanity is at the center of it all, for better or for worse. Go to Full Review Future Tense (2026) - - - -

Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Sep 20, 2026 The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd has no answers, merely questions and empathy for all its characters. Go to Full Review The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd (2026) 83% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 18, 2026 3/5 Spitting gravel with every line reading, Hawke weathers the unrelenting march with an understated, yet commanding performance. Go to Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% - -

Tina Kakadelis Film Obsessive Sep 16, 2026 Stuffed is bursting at the seams with sweeping romance, embalmed for all of time. Go to Full Review Stuffed (2026) 72% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 16, 2026 4/5 The progress of these characters bettering each other through shared plights and rambunctious misadventures carries an illusion of realness and natural charm from watching these excellent young actors interact and enliven the scripted scenes. Go to Full Review Sunny Dancer (2026) 85% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 12, 2026 3/5 The emotional quicksand in "On a String" is palpable, yet oddly endearing. Go to Full Review On a String (2025) 91% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 9, 2026 4/5 Paul Greengrass man nails and champions the proper characterization of the overarching cause and, with his filmmaking prowess for scope and tension, delivers a bracing experience that rattles ancestors and descendants alike. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 4, 2026 3/5 Fanning remains strong through these scripted snares and rescues all of the frustrated indecision with sensational and intrinsic presence. Somehow, you can't help but want her to win, and that keeps you locked in until the end. Go to Full Review The Sun Never Sets (2026) 79% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Sep 2, 2026 2/5 Having walking Hollywood stereotypes play walking Cold War stereotypes that try to call out and correct actual historical stereotypes turns into a fruitless exercise that ends up reinforcing all three layers of those uncorrected tropes. Go to Full Review Mayday (2026) 83% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Aug 26, 2026 4/5 By pitting kill-or-be-killed security against the fading draw of interpersonal humanity, Ridley Scott skillfully balances chaos with contemplation. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Aug 19, 2026 3/5 The unique, visionary, and open-ended experiences of "The Magic Faraway Tree" are golden reminders and reinforcements of that way of thinking. Go to Full Review The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) 80% - -

Don Shanahan Film Obsessive Aug 10, 2026 2/5 Back to its ugly soap opera traits, outside of actively worshipping Dafoe completists, absorbing the undesirable heights of Jiménez’s bleak film is hard to recommend. Go to Full Review The Birthday Party (2025) 30% - -