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Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 16, 2026 3/4 For those who have seen the film previously, what has been added will be quite noticeable. Go to Full Review Ken Russell's The Devils (2026) 98% - -

Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 15, 2026 3/4 Darlene Love is more than willing to divulge her past, setbacks and triumphs all. In the Q and A following her film’s world premiere, she hinted that there was more where that came from. Go to Full Review Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been (2026) 100% - -

Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 15, 2026 2.5/4 Cautious and not entirely cooperative, [Hynde] behaves as if she is at the dentist. Go to Full Review Pretenders (2026) - - - -

Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 13, 2026 3/4 In his third film, Belgian director Lukas Dhont prints his own stamp on the brothers-in-arms genre, giving it a touch of the erotic while turning it into an erstwhile musical. Go to Full Review Coward (2026) 95% - -

Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 13, 2026 3.5/4 Most of all, the script offers Hiam Abbass an emotionally demanding role—a Role with a capital R ... Hers ranks among the best performances of the year. Go to Full Review Atonement (2026) 93% - -

Kent Turner Film-Forward.com Oct 13, 2026 4/4 In a year when the fall festivals are overloaded with bloated and aimless running times of 150 minutes or more, Possible Love’s 165 minutes are well justified. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Oct 9, 2026 A Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother manages to put Tariq’s bag of visual tricks and Ali’s swordsmanship training to good use in a thriller whose soulfulness and brutality stem from the moral duality within its hero. Go to Full Review Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026) 96% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Oct 9, 2026 C Though Sorkin returns to write this sequel, the absence of director David Fincher is sorely felt here. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Sep 23, 2026 B- Compared to other Aardman productions or even past "Shaun the Sheep" films, this one seems content to just be serviceable. Go to Full Review Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026) 99% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Aug 26, 2026 B While Buddy might not be a perfect horror film, it stands out as one of the most visually and tonally impressive entries in a year full of strong horror releases. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Aug 26, 2026 A- Coyote vs. Acme is a genuine delight: a hilarious slapstick comedy-turned-legal thriller—inspired by, of all things, a satirical New Yorker article—that features all the mayhem and hijinks you’d expect from these beloved characters. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Aug 20, 2026 B It Ends might not be a time loop movie in the traditional sense, but it succeeds in creating a metatextual angle to the question of what these kinds of traps mean within an existential nightmare. Go to Full Review It Ends (2025) 93% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jul 30, 2026 B+ As exciting as it is to watch Spider-Man punch, kick, and web up foes straight out of recent video games, Brand New Day is at its best when confronting the internal dilemma between fights. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jul 24, 2026 C- Motor City’s central gimmick—conveying its story through little-to-no talking and plenty of needle drops—begins to reveal cracks midway through, often at the expense of characterization or a deeper narrative. Go to Full Review Motor City (2025) 63% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jul 16, 2026 A- While not as tight as his other three-hour epic, Oppenheimer, The Odyssey remains a stunning achievement of vision and scale that works on both a spectacle and a human level, living up to its hype and then some. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jun 25, 2026 C+ It’s Alcock’s performance that helps stitch Supergirl’s underdeveloped ends into something reasonably engaging. Go to Full Review Supergirl (2026) 52% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jun 12, 2026 B+ Judged by its action alone, The Furious is a more than worthy spiritual successor to "The Raid" movies—even reuniting several "Raid" actors in its cast—delivering easily the best action movie of 2026 by a mile. Go to Full Review The Furious (2025) 97% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jun 11, 2026 A- Disclosure Day succeeds as a sci-fi thriller about uniting a world on the edge through the most interstellar of concepts, and it serves as another reminder that no one can make emotionally stimulating popcorn flicks like Steven Spielberg. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jun 5, 2026 C In this exotically random timeline, Kuro’s enigmatic persona exists within the moment and reacts to how the world perceives him. The manner in which his story is executed, however, feels too random for Jinsei’s own good. Go to Full Review Jinsei (2025) 81% - -

Ben Wasserman Film-Forward.com Jun 5, 2026 B+ Don’t go into the movie expecting a Social Network–style court battle or even a petty prank war. Instead, director John Carney is far more interested in exploring the kind of fulfillment his leads hope to find through songwriting. Go to Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 88% - -