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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Oct 15, 2026 4/4 Dafoe is incredible. Lee is incredible. So is the film. Go to Full Review Late Fame (2025) 94% - -

Angelo Muredda Film Freak Central Oct 9, 2026 3.5/4 Tender Loving Care fluidly shifts perspectives as if to imitate the peripatetic, empathy-on-demand nature of care work. Go to Full Review Tender Loving Care (2026) 100% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Oct 9, 2026 1/4 So much expensive trickery, so much unmoored camera movement and maximalist thesping in the service of… climate change is real? Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Oct 9, 2026 0.5/4 Verity’s a terrible movie. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Oct 5, 2026 3/4 The period details are meticulous. The black-and-white cinematography by Gerald Kerkletz is austere and striking. The performances as might be expected are phenomenal. Go to Full Review Rose (2026) 97% - -

Angelo Muredda Film Freak Central Oct 5, 2026 3.5/4 Moment to moment... even the most headstrong spectator may find the film’s odd wavelength seductive enough to get onboard. Go to Full Review Everytime (2026) 95% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 24, 2026 1/4 Eisenberg’s flop sweat-infused The Debut marries Waiting for Guffman’s misfits of community theater premise with a full-on theater kid panic attack. Go to Full Review The Debut (2026) 90% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 23, 2026 1.5/4 The Liberation would fall apart instantly if it weren’t for Carrie Coon who never is anything other than mesmerizing. Go to Full Review The Liberation (2026) 81% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 23, 2026 3.5/4 Casper Kelly’s Buddy is the exact movie of this moment, a genuinely cathartic picture about how everyone pretending that everything is okay gets gutted, beheaded, flayed, folded, spindled and mutilated but not before they’re humiliated. Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 23, 2026 4/4 Bucking Fastard is strange and beautiful. Go to Full Review Bucking Fastard (2026) 69% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Sep 23, 2026 4/4 Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of the great living directors. Go to Full Review Minotaur (2026) 98% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 31, 2026 1/4 The Dog Stars is at once sluggish and maniacally energetic; lugubrious and bombastic; beautifully shot and difficult to follow. Go to Full Review The Dog Stars (2026) 41% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 26, 2026 4/4 Coyote Vs. Acme is a righteously angry film that plays as light and fun–a principled film most will never recognize as having any deeper thoughts at all. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 20, 2026 3/4 This is a fun–if ultimately a touch repetitive–disaster movie cum creature feature with more than adequate performances and a Scholastic Books high-concept premise that nearly sustains a full feature. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Angelo Muredda Film Freak Central Aug 15, 2026 3/4 If it’s ultimately less than the sum of its parts, and not as emotionally gratifying as Schoenbrun’s previous two features, then at least there’s plenty of flesh and fluid behind its more inspired elements. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 11, 2026 2.5/4 I had a reasonable amount of fun even though Godhead betrays the pressure-cooker it establishes in its first 30 minutes with wholly unnecessary flashbacks that feel more like padding than edification. Go to Full Review Godhead (2026) 100% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 11, 2026 1/4 Maybe if it were all more awful, Home Bodies would be more compelling–the lack of any convincing stakes also the anchor dragging down the rest of the film. Go to Full Review Home Bodies (2026) 75% - -

Angelo Muredda Film Freak Central Aug 11, 2026 3.5/4 The film’s most absorbing conundrum lies not in the concrete casework the men decode together, but in the abstract question surrounding Murashige’s leadership and its end. Go to Full Review The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) 97% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 7, 2026 3.5/4 Colony is Yeon Sang-ho’s return to the zombie feature, a rip-roaring, often fascinating treatise on tech bros, social media, and the dangerous resolve of the mob. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -

Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Aug 4, 2026 3/4 Bergholm, cinematographer Pietari Peltola, and composer/metalhead cellist Eicca Toppinen create a seething atmosphere alive with the forest’s foul secrets. Go to Full Review Nightborn (2026) 73% - -