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James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 26, 2026 2/4 The problem with Klara and the Sun is that Waititi wants to adapt rather than create. He tries to retain as much of the source material as possible when doing so is inherently non-cinematic. The result is uneven at best and rarely engaging or involving. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 26% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 23, 2026 2.5/4 With a meandering screenplay, horrendous dialogue, and middling direction, the movie prompts the inevitable question: "What would David Cronenberg have done with this?" The answer is: "Something better than James Watkins did." Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 22, 2026 2.5/4 Compounded by an inconsistent tone, the actual movie simply doesn't do enough with its intriguing premise to justify anything stronger than a middling reaction. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 19, 2026 3.5/4 The fascinating thing about You Can See Everything is its ambiguity—the way it can be perceived differently by everyone who watches it. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 16, 2026 3/4 Oakley and Reid do a workmanlike job. Their rendering of the 1810s has a lived-in feel: familiar in its human emotions yet foreign in its social customs. Go to Full Review Sense and Sensibility (2026) 78% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 15, 2026 2/4 Whalefall is a tough sell. It wants to draw us in with its admittedly outrageous premise, then flip the table and turn into a story of healing and catharsis. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 74% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 14, 2026 2.5/4 The problem with The Social Reckoning is that Sorkin never bothers to delve beneath the façade of any of his characters, and the little details he invents feel like a writer's constructs. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 5, 2026 2/4 The film has an ax to grind and a message to propagate, but it is buried under material that is often inert and sometimes downright boring. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Oct 5, 2026 2/4 With Verity, the manipulation is too ham-fisted to obscure the obvious fallacies, and the twist is too artificially revealed to have the desired impact. Verity the novel is an entertaining beach book. Verity the movie is an Amazon Prime throwaway. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 28, 2026 1.5/4 The characters are largely one-dimensional, there is no tension, the script is all over the place, and the attempts at cultural commentary are obvious and superficial. And that's all before one even addresses the portrayal of Hansen. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 28, 2026 3/4 The characters are well-realized, the narrative includes genuine unpredictability, and the animation is invigorating. The only caveat is that the overly neat ending isn't fully earned. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 21, 2026 3/4 The movie is tailored for a horror-comedy audience and delivers its gory laughs in slightly under 90 minutes, making it the perfect length for a picture of this sort. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 16, 2026 3/4 The Weight ultimately works because it doesn't feel like a cookie-cutter action thriller and delivers enough of an adrenaline rush to keep the viewer from overthinking some of the less credible aspects of the story. Go to Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 11, 2026 2/4 It's two hours of headache-inducing handheld camera movements telling a story that seems to be missing far too much connective tissue. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 8, 2026 2.5/5 The film never provides a central villain to direct the evils of the henchmen. As a result, the movie concludes with the nagging feeling that something critical is missing. Go to Full Review By Any Means (2026) 49% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Sep 3, 2026 3/4 There's enough oddball and offbeat material stuffed into this film that it's worth seeing if high levels of gore and actual nudity don't offend—albeit only in theaters. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Aug 28, 2026 2/4 While there's seemingly a strong demand for post-apocalyptic tales, it's hard to argue that The Dog Stars offers anything that's either sufficiently unique or well enough crafted to warrant a place at the table of woe and survival. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Aug 27, 2026 3/4 It is evident that the creators...have a deep respect for the original cartoons and an abiding affection for the characters, especially Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Aug 17, 2026 3/4 In a way, this is the anti-Jurassic Park of dinosaur movies: smaller, less ostentatious, and more fun than anything featuring a Spinosaurus or Velociraptor to grace the screen in the last 30-odd years. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

James Berardinelli ReelViews Aug 10, 2026 3/4 Ultimately, the film works because we actively root for these two characters to become a couple—the ultimate goal of any true rom-com—and the parallelism of their misadventures is frequently amusing and sometimes genuinely funny. Go to Full Review One Night Only (2026) 44% - -