Category: Crime
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How to Make a Killing: Killer Charm and Charming Killers
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. How to Make a Killing (2026) John Patton Ford I’m sorry, did you say Glen Powell AND Margaret Qualley? How had I not heard about this movie sooner? As you can probably imagine, I was quickly interested in How to Make a Killing once I saw that first star-studded trailer. Between the endless amounts of charm oozing from Powell and Qualley and the very interesting premise, I was…
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Mercy: Maddox, Get Chris Pratt Out of That Chair
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Mercy (2026) Timur Bekmambetov While barely hanging on by a thread as my snow prison sentence has been extended by another day (school was canceled for tomorrow yet again), I finally got back on the road and—naturally—went straight to the theater. Mercy was on the docket today, and by the looks of the trailers, it was going to be as “January movie” as possible. I was a little…
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Dead Man’s Wire: An Explosion Too Good for January
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Dead Man’s Wire (2025) Gus Van Sant I’m not sure whether to consider Dead Man’s Wire a 2026 release due of its theatrical release date or a 2025 release because of its festival run, but if it ends up settling on my 2026 list, it’ll be the first good January movie in a while. I expected that, since it’s had time to cook in the festivals, but I…
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It Was Just an Accident: I Liked This One on Purpose
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. It Was Just an Accident (2025) Jafar Panahi I’ve got just a few days between NTFCA awards finalists being announced and my voting deadline, so I’m going to try to squeeze in a few more awards contenders before I have to send in my ballot. Being nominated multiple times and probably gunning for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, It Was Just an Accident was first on…
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Wake Up Dead Man: A New Knives Out Classic Just Dropped
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wake Up Dead Man (2025) Rian Johnson Who doesn’t love the Knives Out franchise? Couldn’t be me! I’ve had Wake Up Dead Man on my watchlist for two years now, and the wait to watch was finally over tonight. I haven’t yet been disappointed—nay, I haven’t yet been anything short of enthralled—by the Knives Out franchise, and Wake Up Dead Man may have actually made a case for the best entry in the franchise,…
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t: When We Needed Them Most, They Vanished
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Ruben Fleischer In a year where I’ve poured hours into a ton of franchises with varying returns, I’m not sure why I saw the Now You See Me franchise through. I didn’t love either of the first two movies, even though the premises had a lot of potential, but I figured that I should go see the third film since…
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Bugonia: Are WE the Bees?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Bugonia (2025) Yorgos Lanthimos November has suddenly become jam-packed, not only with films that I want to see, but some real heavyweights, both in my personal rankings and probably at the Oscars, too. Bugonia fell squarely into both categories, and I’m glad to say that the Yorgos-Emma Stone experiment is now 2-for-3 (maybe 2.5-for-3, if I’m feeling generous towards Kinds of Kindness) in my book. Morgan and I had a…
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After the Hunt: Call Me By Your Next Movie
After the Hunt (2025) Luca Guadagnino My first two Luca Guadagnino experiences—Call Me By Your Name and Challengers—were both knockouts, so I came to expect greatness from Guadagnino, only to be let down last year by Queer. Like Ariana Grande in the late 2010s, Guadagnino seems to be prioritizing quantity over quality recently, and that continued with After the Hunt. I was definitely drawn in by the director’s pedigree and the stacked primary cast…
