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Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 23, 2026 It is a fine ensemble in a movie well worth seeing not as just another war movie but rather as one that should make any leader think hard about the human price paid every time they start one. Go to Full Review The Mosquito Bowl (2026) - - - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 23, 2026 With something smart and pertinent to say about relationships between men and women, happiness and love, jealousy and longing and other matters of the heart, Wicker is the year’s most unexpected charmer. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 22, 2026 Some may indeed find this all abhorrent, but I found it necessary, and though not everything lands here, enough of it is jaw-dropping enough to make us wonder how he pulled this all off without getting murdered along the way. Go to Full Review Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026) 48% - -

Glenn Garner Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 21, 2026 Whether you’re a comic book nerd or a horror junkie, Clayface is worth the price of admission for its genre-driven approach to a lesser known character, hopefully serving as a roadmap for the DCU’s onscreen future. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 21, 2026 Fiascaris’ film stands up perfectly well as a one-off. Genre enthusiasts will find lots to like here, from its rich saturated nighttime ambience to the moody, cine-techno score by Aeph. Go to Full Review Rain Catcher (2026) - - - -

Matthew Carey Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 15, 2026 Inevitably, 14th is didactic -- a history lesson, if you will, but the kind every American should experience if they want to continue living under a form of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Go to Full Review 14th (2026) 81% - -

Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 15, 2026 Like its subject matter, PTA doesn’t really seem to care whether you’re enjoying yourself; much like Winter’s lyrics, so much of Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall is about interpretation. Go to Full Review Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall (2026) 100% - -

Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 15, 2026 There aren’t too many directors that can sustain this level of inventive carnage, but Samjad directs the action with clarity and skill. Go to Full Review Half (2026) 83% - -

Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 15, 2026 Klara And The Sun just doesn’t deliver on any of the fronts it promises. Instead, we’re faced with a sporadically funny meditation on life and premature death that... can’t quite capture the subtleties of speculative literary sci-fi. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 25% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 11, 2026 The painstaking stop-motion animation process applied to a tale on a scale rarely seen on this level is a visual knockout, and the story is a compelling one. Go to Full Review Wildwood (2026) 100% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 10, 2026 No matter what the inspirations, and there were clearly many, they all come from cinema and that’s a delicious thing here. Go to Full Review Ray Gunn (2026) 94% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 8, 2026 After smart directorial turns with films like his Oscar-winning Argo, The Town , Air and Gone Baby Gone, this film feels as if Affleck is biting off a little too much, throwing too much at the wall to see what sticks. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 31% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 8, 2026 It is an age-old David vs. Goliath story, one that reminds us this is still just the beginning; without restraints, it can go either way, and where it ends is up to all of us. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 6, 2026 Working from a screenplay by Simon Rich, Guadagnino makes this all something of a dark comedy that becomes so frightening it is hard to laugh. Go to Full Review Artificial (2026) 95% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 5, 2026 It is a quirky and unexpected period piece about a time when we weren’t so divided that it could be possible to have a civil discourse, even on a hot button topic. Ah, the good old days. Go to Full Review A Statement (2026) 90% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Oct 3, 2026 Behemoth! is not just a revealing character study of a man ultimately looking for his true place in the world, but also a gorgeous and glorious tribute to those who make the music that help make movies like this one so much richer. Go to Full Review Behemoth! (2026) 87% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 30, 2026 The various inevitable twists, though predictable, finally woke me up enough to give this thing a pass largely because Hathaway and Johnson are both magnetic performers and make it watchable. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 29, 2026 There is no doubt it will, and should spark conversation and, love it or hate it, it should not be ignored. For me it is like a return to the kind of adventurous films in cinema’s groundbreaking era of the 70’s, but it isn’t easily defined. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Pete Hammond Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 22, 2026 Styler, with the help of a screenplay that doesn’t resort to clichés, has pulled off a smart and sophisticated story of dysfunctional adults who, in the worst of times, must learn the true definition of love and family and what really matters. Go to Full Review Up Against It (2026) 45% - -

Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 22, 2026 Pechman has made a handsome-looking, well-appointed film for her first feature, one that in style feels oddly out of time as much as the subject matter does. What it undoubtedly will be remembered for its engaging young cast. Go to Full Review Magazine (2026) - - - -