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Finding Emily (2026)

Finding Emily is a movie with a thesis about love, literally.

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Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)

The romantic comedy has certainly seen better days as a genre.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Phantom of the Opera might be the most adapted horror story this side of Dracula.

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Obsession (2025)

Beware the buzzy horror breakthrough.

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I Like Movies (2022)

“I like movies” might be the most harmless sentence in the English language.

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The Kid Detective (2020)

One mental exercise I sometimes play with certain actors and directors:

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Disclosure Day (2026)

I spent most of 2013 listening to Bruce Springsteen albums, and one thing I noticed is that his earliest records are confessional and immediate even when he’s inventing stories.

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Hokum (2026)

Hokum is what I like to call a line graph movie, by which I mean you could chart my engagement with it as a literal line graph, peaks and valleys neatly labeled.

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Smile 2 (2024)

Let me get my one real gripe out of the way up front, because it’s just about the only complaint I’ve got.

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GOAT (2026)

It is not basketball.