On Reeling #895 Laura and Robin review #RoseofNevada, #Supergirl, #Maddie'sSecret, #Leviticus, #FiumeOMorte!, #40Datesand40Nights, #Yes and #ToyStory5. vimeo.com/1204371679

Director Andy Delaney keeps a likable cast afloat over writer Sarah Howard's occasionally bumpy screenplay for a pleasant if predictable yet occasionally laugh-out-loud funny romantic comedy. #40DatesAnd40Nights #BaileeMadison #JoelCourtney #AnniePotts www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/40-d...

Milly Alcock...is just right as Kara Zor-El with her blue eyes, tousled blond hair and no make-up look going hand-in-hand with her flippant demeanor...but this patched together tale begins to sag well before its umpteenth brawl. #Supergirl #MillyAlcock www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/supe...

"Writer/director Adrian Chiarella's feature debut may just be the best of 2026's new voices in horror, his combination of love challenged by small town bigotry with supernatural horror like "Boy Erased" by way of "It Follows."" #Leviticus #AdrianChiarella www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/levi...

"PIXAR's most enduring franchise just keeps delivering the goods, this fifth installment...championing the value of imagination over the use of technology for children's development while still acknowledging the merits of the latter." #ToyStory5 #PIXAR www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/toy-...

"This isn't what anyone would call a pleasant watch, but it is a brutally honest look at what fuels perversions and how people rationalize them driven by two performers unafraid to go there." #BlueFilm #ReedBirney #KieronMoore #ElliotTuttle www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/blue...

"If Wes Anderson was Japanese, more minimalist and into hand drawn animation, his work might look a lot like writer/director/editor/animator Ryuya Suzuki's impressive debut, a mind boggling journey through 100 years of one man's life" #Jinsei #RyuyaSuzuki www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/jins...

"while 'Grimsburg' writers Christina Friel & Connor Wright never reach the comedic heights achieved by "Airplane!'s" Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, director Adam Shankman and his fabulous cast deliver good-natured goofery" #Stop!That!Train! #RuPaul #Jujubee www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/stop...

On Reeling #894 Laura and Robin review #DisclosureDay, #Stop!That!Train!, #BlueFilm, #Jinsei, #AskE.Jean, #PowerBallad, #ChangingLanes and #CarolinaCaroline vimeo.com/1200291554

plays like a greatest hits package with callbacks to "E.T.'s" hissable alien experimentation, "Close Encounters'" unique form of communication...the mind reading powers of "Minority Report" and the Disney animation influence in "A.I." #DisclosureDay #Spielberg www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/disc...

Available today on Kanopy and Prime - "If you mostly commute by car and have ever been annoyed by the introduction of bike lanes, this film could very well change your mind" #ChangingLanes #Documentary www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/chan...

"Best of all, Carney has found a deeply satisfying ending to his tale, one which will have you smiling as you leave the theater." #PowerBallad #PaulRudd #NickJonas #JohnCarney www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/powe...

"You'd think that after fourteen years, the Wayans brothers reclaiming their series from Harvey Weinstein and the rise of a vibrant horror landscape...this self-proclaimed rebootiquel would have tons of material to mine from" #ScaryMovie #AnnaFaris #ReginaKing www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/scar...

"Why Kyle Gallner isn't a bigger star than he is by now is a mystery..." #CarolinaCaroline #SamaraWeaving #KyleGallner www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/caro...

"one of those films where irresponsible decisions turn out to be the foundation of a memorable and meaningful experience in a young man's life." #TheLastOneForTheRoad www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Radu Jude made two films in Transylvania in 2025, his absolutely bonkers take on "Dracula" following this more typical mix of historical and societal issues, Jude's impish sense of humor underlying all..." #Kontinental25 #RaduJude www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/kont...

"may induce tonal whiplash as it veers from absurdity to sentimentality to brutality and back again, but the message it leaves us with and the method with which it is conveyed is moving." #TheLastViking #MadsMikkelsen #NikolajLieKaas #AndersThomasJensen www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"a film which may appeal to its Internet followers, but like too many horror films from new filmmakers this year, takes a great premise and fails to build a fully satisfying narrative around it" #TheBackroomsMovie #KaneParsons #ChiwetelEjiofor #RenateReinsve www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/back...

On Reeling #893 Laura and Robin review #Tuner, #Pressure, #Backrooms, #TheLastViking, #TheLastOnefortheRoad, #Kontinental'25, #SilentFriend and #StarWars:TheMandalorianandGrogu. vimeo.com/1196159856

"This must be the most exciting movie ever made about a weather report." #PressureMovie #AndrewScott #BrendanFraser #ChrisMessina #KerryCondon #DamienLewis www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/pres...

Cowriter/director Daniel Roher leans heavily into contrivance to connect his screenplay's dots, but elicits such complex and likable performances from his ensemble in his first foray into narrative feature filmmaking that he makes it all work #Tuner #LeoWoodall www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/tuner/

"Radu Jude made two films in Transylvania in 2025, his absolutely bonkers take on "Dracula" following this more typical mix of historical and societal issues, Jude's impish sense of humor underlying all..." #Kontinental25 #RaduJude www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/kont...

"If you crossed Japan's Yasujiro Ozu with a little of South Korea's Hong Sang-soo, you might come up with something like this winner of Locarno's Golden Leopard...This is the type of quiet film that sneaks up on you" #TwoSeasonsTwoStrangers #ShoMiyake www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/two-...

"one doesn't need to have seen the Disney+ series, 'The Mandalorian,' in order to follow what is going on here, something the MCU should take heed of...an entertaining adventure, albeit one which adds little to the Star Wars' saga" #TheMandaloriianAndGrogu www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/star...

Ildikó Enyedi's poetic reflection on the interconnectedness of the natural world and man's attempts to interpret it with machines weaves through three separate generations, all photographed on different media #SilentFriend #TonyLeung #IldikóEnyedi www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/sile...

"the filmmaker has so overstuffed his plot...that he loses it. Have we watched this depressing 'toon for 95 minutes to come away with a message that life sucks so make the best of it?" #Decorado #AlbertoVázquez #animation www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/deco...

On Reeling #892 Laura and Robin review #Obsession, #Decorado, #IsGodIs, selections from the #UNIQLOFestivalofFilmsfromJapan - #TheTasteofTea and #TwoSeasonsTwoStrangers, #TheSheepDetectives, #Serpent'sPath4Krestoration with the short #Chime and #Amrum. vimeo.com/1192106333

[Barker's] best effect, though, is Navarrette, whose creepy grin could star in "Smile" and whose piercing shrieks invert the meaning of Scream Queen...should keep you on the edge of your seat when you're not jumping out of it. #ObsessionMovie #CurryBarker www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/obse...

Kurosawa's film is made even more twisted by his bizarre tonal shifts, the actions of the yakuza and the two men hunting them almost comical at times despite the seriously despicable nature of the crime driving the action." #SerpentsPath4K #ChimeMovie www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/serp...

"a tale of sisterhood and revenge, a road trip and a reckoning with family history with often shocking levels of violence." #IsGodIs #AlesheaHarris www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/is-g...

"Ishii’s unclassifiable 2004 film is receiving a 4K restoration rerelease from Film Movement and, with its mixture of warmth and whimsy, deserves rediscovery. This sprawling family tale follows its various members down their own artistic paths" #TheTasteOfTea www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"Writer/director Sophy Romvari's feature debut is based on her own experience and she's created a uniquely effective device to construct her film...a wistful reflection on a painful family event." #BlueHeronMovie #SophyRomvari www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/blue...

" #ColeWebley makes his feature debut and all the right moves with things both said and unsaid in #RobertMachoian 's screenplay...in the most heartbreaking terms." #OmahaMovie #JohnMagaro www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/omaha/

"Jonsson and Blyth make for a dynamic pairing, a lamb and a lion. Jonsson wears a perpetual frown, his forehead creased with worry, while Blyth's very expression is a challenge, his posture domineering." #Wasteman #DavidJonsson #TomBlyth www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/wast...

On Reeling #891 Laura and Robin review #TheDevilWearsPrada2, #Hokum, #DeepWater, #Omaha, #BlueHeron, #TheTiesThatBindUs on DVD, #MotherMary and #OverYourDeadBody. vimeo.com/1187911923

"Mc Carthy and his cinematographer Colm Hogan use the hotel’s spaces for maximum effect...[and] gives his film such a satisfying wrap, he leaves you wondering if Bauman was right in the first place." #Hokum #DamienMcCarthy #AdamScott www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/hokum/

"the original film’s main cast return twenty-two years later with a sequel that largely works once one gets past a fairly defanged Miranda Priestly...Of course, in many ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same." #TheDevilWearsPrada2 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

if Harlin's intent was to evoke gales of laughter over various shark deaths, mission accomplished. All that and Sir Ben Kingsley sings karaoke! #DeepWater #RennyHarlin #BenKingsley #AaronEckhart www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/deep...

Out on digital and DVD today - "The 2026 César winner for Best Film...is a moving, deeply human example of the old adage 'it takes a village to raise a child.'" #TheTiesThatBindUs #ValeriaBruniTedeschi www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"It would appear that writer/director David Lowery has watched Peter Strickland's "In Fabric," a fellow A24 release, one time too many." #MotherMary #AnneHathaway #MichaelaCoel #DavidLowery www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/moth...

"director #JormaTaccone evidently thinks that seeing someone's head get blown in half is a punchline and it could be if violent escalation wasn't all this movie has going for it." #OverYourDeadBody #JasonSegel #SamaraWeaving #TimothyOlyphant #JulietteLewis www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/over...

#RobertAramayo won Best Actor for #ISwear at the BAFTAs..."Davidson's story is an important one, a call for tolerance and understanding of a syndrome that may not be easy to be around, unleashing uninformed abuse, but one which also has no known cure." www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/i-sw...

On Reeling #890 Laura and Robin review #ISwear, #TheChristophers, #Normal, #TheStranger, #Wasteman, #Exit8, #FacesofDeath and #Hamlet vimeo.com/1183563844

#Nobody and "John Wick" screenwriter Derek Kolstad serves up a modern Western that plays like the last act of the John Wick "Ballerina" spinoff crossed with "Fargo," but while its action tropes are familiar, #BenWheatley stages them with flair #BobOdenkirk www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/norm...

"Soderbergh delivers his best film since "Traffic." Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together." #TheChristophers #StevenSoderbergh #IanMcKellen #MichaelaCoel www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

Composer Fatima Al Qadiri combines Middle Eastern instruments and synthesizer to eerie, haunting effect, a call to something other than prayer. With his adaptation, Ozon has created the definitive cinematic version of the existentialist classic. #TheStranger www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/the-...

"an emotional knockout....Sopé Dìrísù rises to the immense challenge of portraying this man determined to right his own father's wrongs" #MyFather'sShadow #SopéDìrísù www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/my-f...

"Schilinski's generational family trauma reverberates through one German farmhouse, cinematographer Fabian Gamper's camera the ghostly presence that glides around it as editor Evelyn Rack seamlessly weaves back and forth among different eras" #SoundOfFalling www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/soun...

Genki Kawamura's addition of a psychological basis for the lost man's plunge into an endless loop of an underground subway corridor isn't integrated into his adaptation of the video game well enough to make its rules representative of his conundrum #Exit8 www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/exit...

flawed, especially in its muted first half, but builds into a fiery finish ignited by the contemporary Kathak dance which indicts Claudius at his wedding reception. #HamletFilm #Hamlet #RizAhmed #MorfyddClark #ArtMalik #SheebaChaddha #TimothySpall #AneilKaria www.reelingreviews.com/reviews/haml...