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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Sinners’ allows Coogler pure, bloody creative freedomIt’s impossible to discuss the plot of Ryan Coogler’s new original thriller Sinners without digging into, at least, the specific entity that causes the conflict: vampires. Yes, this was made clear in the original announcement of the film’s production, it was made clear in the advertising (and not even remotely…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Warfare’ is unrelentingly bleak, tense horror“The horror…” We can only imagine what Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now had experienced through his unforgettable monologue. Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza want to give you a front row seat to it. Based on Mendoza’s own memories, and the memories of his Navy Seal squad in 2006, of…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Drop’ is pure, fun nonsenseAs we continue to approach the impending future where technology takes over our everyday lives, in the moment, tech-based horror stories are all the rage, intending on warning us of the dangerous side effects to technology dependency. There’s even a new season of Black Mirror that just dropped at the…
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Continue reading →: The Films of 2025: Quarter 1 in Review (Top 5 Best and Bottom 5 Worst, Best Performances)Oscar season has finally passed, clearing the air for new films to introduce themselves to the world and hope to stay alive in the conversation throughout the year and beyond. Typically, three months into the year, you’re lucky to get one major film that stands out, but with studios less…
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Continue reading →: Review: ‘Black Bag’ is the pseudo-60s spy thriller we’ve desperately neededSteven Soderbergh announced retirement nearly a decade ago and ever since, he’s been the most creatively charged he’s been in decades, pumping out interesting idea after interesting idea, sometimes twice a year, and adding a surplus of fresh titles to his gargantuan filmography. His newest, Black Bag, may be the…
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Continue reading →: Final 97th Oscars Winner PredictionsWe’re finally here in the homestretch! Now, I was going to write a whole piece, but truthfully, all of this is going off of gut feeling and prior precursor obviousness. What I’ll say is I spent weeks battling with myself over the categories of Best Actress, Best Documentary Feature, Best…
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Continue reading →: Ranking Every 2025 Oscar-Nominated Feature FilmAfter declaring last year that I would attempt every year to see every single nominee at the Oscars before the ceremony (or as many as possible given the accessibility), two things dismantled my goal: One, Matteo Garrone’s nominated International Feature Io Capitano took months to show up on VOD and…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Bunnylovr”
Lathered in the cold blue glow of laptop screens and sprinkled with a dash of Charlie XCX soundtrack cues, Katarina Zhu’s directorial debut Bunnylovr promises an cool and honest, uncompromising modern look at sexuality in the age of webcam communication. In the last five years, Facetime-style communication has grown to…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Love, Brooklyn’
It’s easy to assume what type of movie you’re getting when you hear a title like Love, Brooklyn. The two main subjects are right there in the name, but while this may come off as a love letter to its city or a series of adorable meet-cutes in the concrete…
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Continue reading →: Sundance Review: ‘Plainclothes’
It’s hard not to think about Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” when discussing the premise of Carmine Emmi’s new dramatic pseudo-thriller Plainclothes. The pressure of feeling under surveillance for just living your true life. Our main character, Lucas, employed as the “watcher”, who slowly unravels under the intense nature of his…
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EDITOR, SITE WRITER
Jakob Kolness
Minnesota Film Critics Association Member. Graduate of Film Studies, writer, novelist, filmmaker.
CURRENT 2027 OSCAR PREDICTIONS
“All of A Sudden”
“Behemoth!”
“Digger”
“Dune Part III”
“Fjord”
“The Odyssey”
“A Place in Hell”
“Project Hail Mary”
“Untitled Damien Chazelle Film”
“Untitled Jesse Eisenberg Musical”
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