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Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Oct 4, 2026 A movie so bloated, ambitious, convoluted, and tonally all over the place that I can’t help admiring its insistence to dare the audience to keep up. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Sep 22, 2026 The looseness suits a coming-of-age film about a day that nobody realizes is important until it’s almost over. Go to Full Review Sunburn (2026) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Sep 21, 2026 Crawford and Mercado seem to see pieces of themselves in Jo and Raissa, and the movie gains something from that affection even when the screenplay is playing with familiar parts... That affection travels surprisingly far. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Sep 15, 2026 There’s a sharper, funnier, more focused movie inside "Hombre al agua." García Bernal clearly knows how to frame it. He just keeps inviting too many other movies into the shot. Go to Full Review Hombre al agua (2026) 63% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Sep 13, 2026 Watching the documentary, I found myself wanting to meet not the artist, but the person behind the art. And that, I think, is an even bigger compliment. Go to Full Review The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (2026) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Sep 7, 2026 "Bruton" could have looked harder at what the institution did to its central character and what that institution does more broadly. Grashaw is more interested in what Bryan made of it, and for roughly two-thirds of the movie, that’s enough. Go to Full Review Bruton (2026) 88% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Aug 5, 2026 Captures the machinery that allows scandal, inequality, and impunity to become ordinary. That machinery survives because the people benefiting from it don’t need to be monsters. They only need to believe the course has always been played this way. Go to Full Review Filipiñana (2026) 90% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jul 26, 2026 "Sender" finds plenty of new suspects, detours, visual tricks, and paranoid possibilities to fill its running time, though not always enough dramatic shape to justify them... Its answers are messier than its premise, but the unease is real. Go to Full Review Sender (2026) 80% - -

Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Jul 20, 2026 C Sort of funny stunts that grow tiresome each minute, but entertain in the slightest bit to keep the viewer hooked on a small dose of foolishness and nastiness. Go to Full Review Jackass: Best and Last (2026) 86% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jul 15, 2026 "The Odyssey" plays like an ancient-world companion piece to "Oppenheimer"... Nolan remains fascinated by the moment when a man realizes his brilliance has carried him beyond the limits of his own moral imagination. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Jul 13, 2026 B+ Whether or not you believe Joe and Angela stay together after dinner, you can see the possibility of change in both of them, which makes The Invite sting as you leave the theater after laughing plentifully. Go to Full Review The Invite (2026) 96% - -

Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Jul 9, 2026 C- There wasn’t a moment when I felt anything for the central character, unlike in "Pig," where the film slowly builds towards a hard-hitting realization that lingers. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jul 7, 2026 "Leviticus" doesn’t have the formal mystery of the best of them. It can be blunt, and sometimes it explains the nightmare after it has already shown it to us. But when it finds its pulse, it cuts. Go to Full Review Leviticus (2026) 93% - -

Hector A. Gonzalez The Movie Buff Jun 30, 2026 D A mistake Parsons makes in his film is trying to give the place meaning himself and, in hindsight, removing the ambiguity, uncertainty, and melancholy it had. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 85% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 20, 2026 B+ "Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu" is simple, funny, occasionally moving, and blessedly unpretentious. Go to Full Review Bob and David Climb Machu Picchu (2026) 100% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 15, 2026 B- The film admires [Keys] from a respectful distance. Sometimes that distance makes sense. Sometimes you wish it would cut closer. Go to Full Review Alicia Keys: Girl from Hell's Kitchen (2026) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 15, 2026 B- Has enough energy, warmth, and performer chemistry to get by on charm, even when the script is doing that familiar indie-comedy thing where chaos arrives wearing a big grin and begging to be loved. Go to Full Review That Friend (2026) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 13, 2026 B The film understands how difficult it can be for men to speak plainly about pain, love, disappointment, and the need to be seen by the people who raised them. Go to Full Review The Tropic Sun and His Eyes (2026) - - - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 13, 2026 B+ This gentle Japanese drama treats casual recordings and carefully posed portraits as different ways of preserving love before it slips into memory. Go to Full Review Memorizu (2026) 100% - -

Paul Emmanuel Enicola The Movie Buff Jun 6, 2026 B Doesn’t treat the missing fish as a tidy environmental mystery. Instead, it follows the absence outward until it touches almost everything: land, memory, ceremony, law, language, family, and the long work of refusing disappearance. Go to Full Review Ceremony (2026) - - - -