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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
5 days ago
7/10
What Segan understands, and what Turturro plays so beautifully, is that being out of date is not the same as being out of value.
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
(2026)
97%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 29, 2026
8/10
Cruise understands that the most dangerous people are the ones who make you want to agree with them, and he plays Digger with a swagger that keeps you laughing even while your stomach tightens.
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Digger
(2026)
53%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 17, 2026
8/10
This film is fantastic, and the first reason is Mahershala Ali.
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
(2026)
96%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 17, 2026
7/10
Phuntsok, in his English-language debut, carries this with remarkable ease.
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Tenzing
(2026)
98%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 17, 2026
7/10
Los Javis have always been maximalists, and La Bola Negra is nakedly, unapologetically romantic. The love stories are not subtext or metaphor.
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La Bola Negra
(2026)
87%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 17, 2026
8/10
Rockwell is the reason that performance lands. Lee is the straight man, but Rockwell plays him with so much warmth and weariness that the role becomes the emotional spine of the film
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Wild Horse Nine
(2026)
93%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 17, 2026
7/10
Jack O'Connell is the engine. His Lamb is a man who has been condescended to his entire life and finally has a lever to pull, and O'Connell plays the pull as something close to addiction
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Ink
(2026)
72%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 16, 2026
9/10
The documentary doesn't just celebrate what these artists accomplished; it contextualizes their work within the continuum of Black resistance and excellence.
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Once Upon a Time in Harlem
(2026)
100%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 15, 2026
8/10
I loved this documentary, and I want to be clear about why. It is beautifully made, and the access is extraordinary, but what got me was the thesis underneath it: that a dream deferred is not a dream denied
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Darlene Love: I Know Where I've Been
(2026)
100%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 12, 2026
8/10
The revelation here, though, is Tom Holland. As Telemachus, the son who has spent his entire life in the shadow of a father he's never known, Holland delivers his best performance outside of the Spider-Man franchise
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The Odyssey
(2026)
94%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 12, 2026
8/10
This is Holland’s most impressive turn in the suit
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
(2026)
90%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Sep 9, 2026
6/10
Let's start with the best part: Sandra Bullock. Watching her step back into Sally Owens' shoes feels like catching up with an old friend
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Practical Magic 2
(2026)
36%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Jul 9, 2026
5/10
Nowhere is the strain more visible than in the costuming. What read as bold and iconic in animation translates awkwardly to flesh and blood.
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Moana
(2026)
33%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Jun 9, 2026
8/10
That role belongs to Emily Blunt, and she delivers what is unquestionably one of the finest performances of her already-remarkable career.
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Disclosure Day
(2026)
79%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
Jun 5, 2026
9/10
One can call Questlove the oracle of Black music stories, and this film proves it. He's not just preserving the archive. He's interpreting it—translating what these artists were actually doing beneath the sequins and the kalimba and the pyrotechnics
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Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World)
(2026)
100%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
May 24, 2026
8/10
Ben'Imanaworks by accretion, layering its stories, characters, and themes like the colorful textiles seen in robes, scarves, curtains, and bedcovers—a weave in which silences become as significant as words
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Ben'Imana
(2026)
100%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
May 21, 2026
7/10
That burial is the film's deepest wound. Haiti was colonized by France, and with colonization came the theological contract: adopt the Church and abandon the spirits.
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Marie Madeleine
(2026)
92%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
May 21, 2026
8/10
At the center of it all is Sophie Okonedo, and what a center she is.
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Clarissa
(2026)
96%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
May 21, 2026
8/10
This film is cinema that asks how much damage a person can absorb before they stop reaching for the hand that hurt them
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The Beloved
(2026)
84%
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Kathia Woods
Cup of Soul
May 21, 2026
7/10
The performances are the film's beating heart. Daniela Marín Navarro, who won Best Actress at Locarno for Maurel's debut, brings an extraordinary stillness to Elsa—a woman who has crossed an ocean to outrun her past,
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Forever Your Maternal Animal
(2026)
93%
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