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Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Aug 24, 2026 10/10 I didn’t expect Coyote vs. ACME to be my very favorite movie I’ve seen so far this year. But it is. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jul 28, 2026 8.5/10 The action is top-notch and feels grounded but also knows when to soar. It helps that Brand New Day isn’t a story about saving the world but repairing a damaged soul... it's nice to get a great superhero movie again. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jul 15, 2026 9/10 A towering achievement in cinema… a tremendous artistic triumph. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jun 9, 2026 10/10 If Close Encounters assured us that we are not alone, Disclosure Day insists that we must not be alone. Not now, not like we have been. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com May 19, 2026 7/10 The Mandalorian and Grogu is pure popcorn entertainment, and that’s enough for this Star Wars fan. Go to Full Review Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) 60% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Nov 19, 2025 6.5/10 What could have been great, like the film’s title, is merely good. Go to Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Oct 17, 2025 9/10 Jacob Elordi has given us a Frankenstein’s Monster for the ages, one that rivals Boris Karloff himself. Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Sep 8, 2025 9.5/10 One of the very best adaptations of Stephen King’s work, a bold statement considering that so many great films have sprung from his novels. But I’d put The Long Walk right next to The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me in that honored, holy place. Go to Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jul 22, 2025 9/10 The Fantastic Four: First Steps is outstanding superhero cinema, and I can’t wait to see it again. Go to Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jul 8, 2025 9/10 Look, up at the screen. It’s a great comic book movie. Go to Full Review Superman (2025) 83% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Jun 17, 2025 7.5/10 A well-made cheeseburger is still a cheeseburger, but when you’re biting into one, it doesn’t matter if it tastes good. F1 The Movie is a high-end, satisfying cheeseburger, and it does the job. Go to Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% - -

Sarah Musnicky VitalThrills.com May 29, 2025 8.5/10 Bring Her Back is an undeniable psychological lesson in torment and unease. It is flinch-inducing and relishes in its meanness, making this a refreshing horror outing. That and a possible trip to a heavily vetted therapist after. Go to Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% - -

Joshua Starnes VitalThrills.com May 19, 2025 6.5/10 Looking back, we thought the outcome of Fallout showed a filmmaking team that had cracked the code of the series, hinting at increasing success to come. Instead, we were at the apex and didn’t realize it. It was all downhill from there. Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Sarah Musnicky VitalThrills.com Apr 18, 2025 7/10 Even if the story itself could have used a bit of work, The Legend of Ochi is an excellent tableau, cluing us into the mind and ingenuity of first-time feature-filmmaker Isaiah Saxon. Go to Full Review The Legend of Ochi (2025) 75% - -

Joshua Starnes VitalThrills.com Dec 13, 2024 7/10 There is a solid action thriller buried within Kraven the Hunter‘s heart — it’s easily the best of the Sony non-Spider-Man films so far (it’s a low bar) — and with a little more restraint it could have brought out. Go to Full Review Kraven the Hunter (2024) 15% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Nov 19, 2024 9/10 (Wicked) is about as crowd-pleasing and bursting with emotion as many of the great musicals of yesteryear and, with time, may be remembered just as fondly. Wicked is the best big-studio release of the year. Go to Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Nov 11, 2024 8/10 Gladiator II may lack the elegance of the first, but it is fully Ridley Scott’s vision, and that is to be respected. Come for the sweeping storytelling; stay for Denzel Washington’s gleefully anarchic performance. Go to Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% - -

Joshua Starnes VitalThrills.com Sep 27, 2024 6/10 Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a grand experiment. A frustrating but enthralling dive into Coppola’s vision of what film (and, by extension, life itself) are, have been and could be. Go to Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% - -

Alan Cerny VitalThrills.com Aug 14, 2024 8.5/10 Is Alien: Romulus worthy of the Alien franchise? Absolutely. Are there missteps? A couple, but not enough to detract... Alien: Romulus is as thrilling, exciting, and scary as the best of the Alien Saga. Go to Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% - -

Jenna Busch VitalThrills.com Jul 23, 2024 8.5/10 " ... it really is full of heart (and possibly a few actual hearts) ... [the film] does something I thought was impossible. It gives the MCU a soft reset, and a chance to untangle themselves from the spaghettified mess that is the multiverse saga." Go to Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 77% - -