Filmspotting

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Oct 10, 2026 3.5/5 ...raises questions about the function and practice of art in bleak and hopeless times. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Oct 2, 2026 5/5 ...where David Lynch becomes David Lynch. Go to Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 87% 88%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Oct 2, 2026 3/5 A documentary about a production no one can relive never quite overcomes its central obstacle, but the attempt has its rewards. Go to Full Review You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (In a Canadian Kind of Way) (2025) 94% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Sep 25, 2026 3/5 Its mixture of horror and comedy counteracts the stakes but provides some genuinely unhinged hilarity. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Sep 11, 2026 3.5/5 ...dizzying and singularly ecstatic... Whatever it lacks in story coherence, it makes up for in Tim Curry’s lips and eyebrows. Go to Full Review The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 82% 85%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Sep 11, 2026 3.5/5 The movie reinterprets the Coyote/Road Runner relationship, finding nobility in Coyote's failure and something almost mythic in the Road Runner. It’s funny, too. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Aug 14, 2026 3/5 An on-the-nose paean to good ol’ boy diplomacy that’s nevertheless enjoyable—and worth heeding. Go to Full Review The Brink of War (2026) 71% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Aug 14, 2026 4.5/5 What makes Teenage Sex and Death so exciting is that Schoenbrun's evolution as a filmmaker seems to be unfolding in tandem with a deeper realization of self… Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Aug 7, 2026 3.5 Beneath the MCU obligations and superhero spectacle lies something surprisingly heartfelt: a Spider-Man movie about loneliness and the struggle to be an adult. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jul 24, 2026 3.5/5 Perhaps only The Odyssey could offer Nolan the canvas epic enough for all his obsessions. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jul 19, 2026 4.5/5 Ophuls uses the documentary form to force a national reckoning. The Sorrow and the Pity is an essential reminder of how easily a country... can rationalize and deny its own complicity. Go to Full Review The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) 100% 97%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jul 10, 2026 3/5 ...the conservative fantasy of the American Dream where everyone, no matter their race, class, gender, or religion, fulfills their maximum potential… Go to Full Review Independence Day (1996) 77% 75%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jul 10, 2026 5/5 Fargo remains gripping decades later not just for its craft and darkly comic story but for the way it turns myth-making – storytelling and deception – into its central preoccupation. Go to Full Review Fargo (1996) 95% 92%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 29, 2026 3/5 Sarnoski quickly dispenses with any notion that deserve’s got something to do with it when it comes to Robin’s redemption. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 29, 2026 4/5 Making Bonnie central pays off, with her and Jessie’s emotional arcs culminating in two of the series’ most poignant scenes. Go to Full Review Toy Story 5 (2026) 92% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 21, 2026 4.5/5 ...created the blueprint for the modern political thriller. Go to Full Review Z (1969) 94% 92%

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 21, 2026 4/5 That’s the whole concept and Barker’s insight. If you want to make someone love you above all else... the only way to accomplish this is to dehumanize them, to strip away everything about them that made them someone you wanted to be with. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 21, 2026 4/5 You never doubt the sincerity of Carney’s movies and the earnestness of their emotions. But all of that crumbles if the music doesn’t deliver. Go to Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 88% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 21, 2026 2.5/5 ...marked a break from that heightened reality into cartoon reality... all that cartoonishness and zaniness did was lower the stakes. Go to Full Review I Love Boosters (2026) 92% - -

Adam Kempenaar Filmspotting Jun 21, 2026 4.5/5 Casablanca is comfort food. It reassures us that the moral math still works: the good guy wins, the Nazis lose, the underdog prevails. America enters the fight — and proves it was right to do so. Go to Full Review Casablanca (1942) 99% 95%