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  • The Bad Guys 2: A Little Bit Bad, A Lotta Bit Good

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    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Pierre Perifel My last two visits to the theater for a DreamWorks movie have been pretty fantastic, to say the least. How to Train Your Dragon (2025) was surprisingly awesome and well-realized, and The Wild Robot currently sits in my Top 25 movies of all time. This studio had a lot to live up to going into The Bad Guys 2—the sequel to a messy first…

  • Jurassic World Rebirth: See? Dinosaur Movies Can Still Be Good!

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    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Gareth Edwards As anyone who’s read my recent reviews would know, I’ve had many a doubt about the Jurassic Park franchise, and I was nervous that Rebirth couldn’t right the ship. I’m glad to report, though, that I was wrong about Rebirth, and I had a pretty good time at the theater this 4th of July. The formula for a Jurassic Park movie is well-worn, so despite the “humans…

  • F1: Racing Straight Into My Heart

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    F1 (2025) Joseph Kosinski Let’s imagine, for a second, that Nate has been given the keys to the next big blockbuster. What does he need in it? Big stars? Beautiful, immersive cinematography? A score from one of his favorite composers? A bomb soundtrack? Given this, it surely seems like I wrote F1, a movie I knew I’d enjoy going in, but definitely not this much. While the path of F1 was well-tread, especially…

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: A Perfect Ending to a Surprising Franchise

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    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) Christopher McQuarrie When I started my Mission: Impossible journey about four months ago, I had no idea that I would become as huge a fan of the franchise as I’ve become. Tom Cruise’s formula for an action spy movie has worked on me time and time again, and The Final Reckoning was the perfect finale for an amazing franchise, aided immensely by my…

  • Hurry Up Tomorrow: Spiraling Into Stunning Misunderstanding

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    Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Trey Edward Shults Knowing what I know now about this movie, I may not be the best person to review Hurry Up Tomorrow, given how little I knew about Abel Tesfaye’s personal life (in reading Reddit threads afterwards, knowing his life story seemed to be insanely important) and the corresponding album of the same name. Hurry Up Tomorrow was more confusing than it should’ve been if I had done…

  • Sinners: A Gospel of Blood and Blues

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    This review contains spoilers. Sinners (2025) Ryan Coogler It seems fitting that I spent my Good Friday seeing a film called “Sinners”, and though Ryan Coogler’s original story rarely dealt directly with religion as the movie’s title would have one assume, Sinners was a thrill and a huge surprise regardless. I initially wrote Sinners off as more horror fluff, but once the Letterboxd rating started going up after its debut, I got…

  • The King of Kings: Has the Power of God, But Not Anime, On Its Side

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    The King of Kings (2025) Jang Seong-ho As my closest followers know, my newly-crowned favorite movie of all time is The Prince of Egypt, which has sat in the top 4 since I got Letterboxd. It is a biblical adaptation done right—grand, heroic, and complex—so when Angel Studios started throwing around this “The King of Kings is the first major animated Biblical epic since The Prince of Egypt” rhetoric, I had to see…

  • Warfare: A War Movie With a Fear All Its Own

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    Warfare (2025) Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza After surprisingly loving Alex Garland’s Civil War last year, I knew that I had to check out his next movie, especially after hearing that Warfare’s depiction of the Iraq War was alarmingly immersive. That much was true and more, and I came out of Warfare pretty shell-shocked—suffice it to say it was a “no-music” car ride home. From the opening beats, Garland sets the camera alongside this platoon…