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Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Apr 29, 2026 2.5/5 Thank God for Adam Scott, whose sole presence heightens Hokum’s ho-hum mechanics into a watchable folk horror film, even if the overall result disappoints. Go to Full Review Hokum (2026) 90% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Apr 26, 2026 4/5 Are commercials, television, and motion pictures manufactured to convey any messages? Or are they made to sell products and images? Go to Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 71% 32%

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Apr 20, 2026 4/5 Genre fans are in for a real treat with what is one of the most exhilarating action films of this year. Go to Full Review Normal (2025) 78% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Apr 6, 2026 4.5/5 So much of the film is intentionally fake, and you might be thinking, Duh, it’s a film after all. Still, fabricated set pieces, scenarios, and spoken lines delude viewers into states of discombobulation and distraction. Go to Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 69% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Apr 3, 2026 2/5 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie thrives on not giving anything substantial to the audience. It’s sickeningly boring, and fans deserve so much better than to be fed such gobbledygook. Go to Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Mar 22, 2026 3.5/5 The film is intended to radicalize women into breaking from their chains and using their liberty to actually participate in the world instead of be cogs in the social machine. Otherwise, I’m quite ambivalent at how Gyllenhaal aims to reach conclusions. Go to Full Review The Bride! (2026) 57% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Mar 20, 2026 5/5 If Ready or Not is a prologue to Satanic ritual, then Here I Come is the awesome advent of a much wider infrastructure. The original excels on its own, but the sequel ups the ante as a motion picture, alright. Go to Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 75% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Mar 19, 2026 1.5/5 What tries to be a live-action version of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi [...] ultimately ends up being a complete nothingburger that has nothing of interest to say, thematically, narratively, and aesthetically. Go to Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 16% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Feb 5, 2026 3/5 I have ten fingers and can count at least several moments where I rolled my eyes or paused to think, this is not happening. Go to Full Review Whistle (2025) 64% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Feb 5, 2026 4.5/5 The on-screen appeal of lead actors McAdams and O'Brien works wonders. Rhetorically speaking, though, their characters' ethos and pathos fuel their performances and leave me in awe. Go to Full Review Send Help (2026) 92% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Jan 17, 2026 3.5/5 Affleck and Damon’s chemistry is enough for the Netflix film to be an easygoing Saturday night viewing with a few small beers. Go to Full Review The Rip (2026) 77% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Jan 16, 2026 2/5 While I found The Chronology of Water to be an ambitiously daring feature debut from one of our best actresses working today, what lurks beneath its exterior isn’t as compelling as its filmmaker might have hoped. Go to Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 91% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Jan 16, 2026 3/5 Dead Man’s Wire may be considered as one of Van Sant’s most forgettable efforts, but unlike The Sea of Trees (his worst film), it’s not for a lack of trying. Go to Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Dec 31, 2025 4/5 No movie currently made in my lifetime has accurately depicted the horrors (and lasting psychological trauma) of bullying quite like Charlie Polinger’s The Plague. Go to Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Dec 28, 2025 4/5 If there is any debate about the film’s goodness, then it has got to be how Nelson writes two-sided natures. His lens into the narrative antagonists, the Snatcher and Chapman, toys with the audience’s sense of belief. Go to Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 76% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Dec 16, 2025 1/5 Fans of the show know that the post-intermission half of Wicked is much darker and leans more into direct references to The Wizard of Oz than the first half. Yet, that doesn’t mean that every scene should look this murky and unimaginative. Go to Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% - -

Maxance Vincent The Cinema Spot Dec 16, 2025 3.5/5 Condon refuses to conform to the sludgy non-techniques of populist entertainment. He reminds everyone what movies used to—and should—look (and feel) like. Go to Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 76% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Nov 23, 2025 5/5 With its visual language and style, the film's superficial appearance is intended as melodramatic to the point that it requires a darkly comic element to balance the genres to avoid a totally bleak nature. Go to Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% - -

John Daniel Tangalin The Cinema Spot Oct 28, 2025 4.5/5 Black Phone 2 isn’t the year’s quintessential horror picture. However, it will more likely than not age tremendously for the genre fans. The film is a mandatory watch and a religious event, considering the moral panic and disarray in today’s world. Go to Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% - -

Edgar Ortega The Cinema Spot Oct 23, 2025 3.5/5 As a debut, Shelby Oaks is rock solid. It won’t be a game-changer in the genre, though I suspect that is not the goal Chris Stuckmann aimed for with his first feature. Go to Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% - -