Category: Thriller
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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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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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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die: Weapons for Sam Rockwell Stans
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2026) Gore Verbinski And with that, the weekend of new releases has come to an end. While not quite as big a surprise as Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie was yesterday, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (a movie with an equally long title) was also quite a shock to the system. I may be a bit presumptuous, but I have a…
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The Secret Agent: Style, Substance, and Struggling to Synthesize
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Secret Agent (2025) Kleber Mendonça Filho After seeing Arco at the Cinépolis in Euless yesterday, I guess I could’ve just stayed there overnight, because my next movie started 17 hours later in the auditorium across the hall! No one joined me this time for The Secret Agent, but I am proud to say that, even with little fanfare, I have now seen all of the 2026 Best Picture…
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Iron Lung: The YouTuber-to-Filmmaker Pipeline is Safe
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Iron Lung (2026) Mark Fischbach Over the last week, I’ve become unexpectedly interested in the directorial debut of one Markiplier, reading articles and watching interviews and even his Let’s Plays of Iron Lung from a few years ago. I think the idea of a YouTuber jumping into filmmaking appeals to me, especially when Mark Fischbach is doing just about everything to get this movie to the country, from…
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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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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Every Rose Has Its Thorn (This One Has Many)
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025) Mary Bronstein I’m now in Day 3 of Snowmageddon 2026, and the cabin fever is starting to set in. I’m running out of things to do, but luckily, there are a ton of Oscar-nominated films and short films that I need to get to. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is one that I’ve had on my radar and…
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No Other Choice: A Thriller Making All the Right Choices
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. No Other Choice (2025) Park Chan-wook To my surprise, Gabe and I seem to be making a habit of seeing movies together over the weekend. Our venture to Grapevine for No Other Choice was our second movie in as many weekends, and I think this may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. As the cinephile in the friend group, I feel it my duty to take my…
