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ONE NIGHT ONLY gives us the ingredients for an interesting movie, then refuses to actually engage with them. But the screenplay may have gotten it more right than the film...

TOY STORY 5 spends nearly all of its runtime explaining why imagination matters... But its biggest audience reaction comes from the one scene that simply shows it.

OBSESSION explores toxic male desire and control over women while simultaneously relying on the “bitches be crazy” stereotype to make its horror and humor work. This dissonance could’ve been fixed with ONE word…

I’ll use the only football language I know to say: HIM (2025) fumbles what should’ve been a touchdown premise. When the best thing you can say about a football body horror cult movie is "well, it was shot nicely"… It’s disappointing, to say the least. Read the full post for more!