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Back in Action (2025)

The various social media circles and movie meme accounts I follow have settled on a term for this kind of film

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Love Hurts (2025)

It is not fun to pick on Ke Huy Quan. It is also not fun to watch Love Hurts.

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Presence (2024)

Presence, the latest Steven Soderbergh joint, has a hook that sounds radical at first blush

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Companion (2025)

Companion offers a curious stew of themes and genres that is sure to annoy large percentages of audiences.

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Better Man (2024)

Of all the 2024 movies, it’s the one that most sounds like a 30 Rock gag.

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The Apprentice (2024)

I had drafted a thousand-word spiel about why The Apprentice is the exact opposite of the film I am excited to watch, but I don’t think you really need me to explain it.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Watching The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a bit like the conversation that Homer Simpson has with the dealer of the cursed Krusty the Clown doll.

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All We Imagine as Light (2024)

There’s a scene in All We Imagine as Light that is one of my favorites of the year.

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Nosferatu (2024)

I recently rewatched The Lighthouse, and I found it to be much hornier than I remembered.

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A Real Pain (2024)

In some of his press interviews for A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg reveals that some constructive feedback he received on his first film, When You Finish Saving the World, was that his characters were too closed off to the audience.