Category: Drama
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Outcome: My Viewing Needed to Get Canceled
Outcome (2026) Jonah Hill The actor-turned-director career arc has long fascinated me, especially because we’ve been blessed with a couple really great new directors like Greta Gerwig and Bradley Cooper. I’ve enjoyed Jonah Hill as an actor on numerous occasions, and I also liked his directorial debut, mid90s, but I was less sold on everything I saw happening in the trailer for Outcome. The premise had potential, but then the negative reviews…
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The Drama: In Defense of Not Sharing
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Drama (2026) Kristoffer Borgli I will be amending this error as soon as I can, but we got to the theater late tonight and missed the first minute or two of this movie. It seemed to be mostly unimportant—there wasn’t anything later in the movie that I felt like I couldn’t explain—but I’ll still use my Regal Unlimited pass to go see the opening minutes.…
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Little Gold Man Watch — My Thoughts on the 2026 Oscars Live Action Short Film Nominees
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. With a final push yesterday, my 2025 Oscars Death Race is complete! I got to see both the Live Action and Animated Short Film nominees in theaters yesterday afternoon, and with just a few hours until the Oscars start tonight, I’m pressed for time to get my thoughts on these short films out to you. In the order that I watched them, let’s start with the…
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In the Blink of an Eye: If Here and Project Hail Mary Had a Dog
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Andrew Stanton At this point in my cinephile evolution, not a lot of movies really sneak up on me. Usually I’ll see trailers, posters, or cast announcements well before the news is mainstream, but such was not the case for In the Blink of an Eye. You’d think that I would’ve heard about an Andrew Stanton-led science fiction movie at…
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Sirāt: Stress in the Key of EDM
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Sirāt (2025) Oliver Laxe There was good news and bad news as I headed into my showing of Sirāt today. The good: I’m almost done with my Oscars Death Race, and after Sirāt, there would only be one more loose end for me to find. The bad: I had to drive to north Dallas to see this, meaning I spent just as much time driving to and from the…
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Kokuho: In Pursuit of Greatness, for the Umpteenth Time
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Kokuho (2025) Sang-il Lee Another Saturday, another extended drive to catch a film showing nowhere near me. Last week it was Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, and today it was Kokuho, which I knew literally nothing about going in. Just before the movie started, I saw that it had a 3-hour runtime, which made me only a little nervous, and while I definitely felt that runtime,…
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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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The Voice of Hind Rajab: Art Depicts Life
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Kaouther Ben Hania Coming out of the theater today, it didn’t feel right to write a review of The Voice of Hind Rajab. I didn’t want my thoughts on trivial things like the performances or the cinematography to distract from the real-life horrors depicted in this movie. After sitting with my feelings on the drive home (from the Angelika in…
