THE SOCIAL RECKONING: Aaron Sorkin’s sequel about whistleblowing the lack of content moderation is in desperate need of moderation itself. Man does not know restraint from his worst instincts. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s Sequel Needs Moderation of Its Own

‘The Social Reckoning’ is an entertaining but uneven Facebook exposé, as Aaron Sorkin’s whistleblower drama skewers Mark Zuckerberg before sabotaging itself with dated writing and ham-fisted theatrics...

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IRON BOY: Richard Linklater in the way of Bill Watterson Louis Clichy's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age charmer is mesmerizing and heartfelt. Might be the closest we’ll ever get to a Calvin and Hobbes movie. #NYFF64 My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Iron Boy’ Review: A Beautifully Hand-Drawn Coming-of-Age Charmer

A gorgeous, heartfelt animated coming-of-age gem, blending Calvin and Hobbes charm with watercolor beauty as Louis Clichy finds humanity and magic in a boy learning to stand on his own.

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SENSE & SENSIBILITY: Proving why you get a queer filmmaker to do a real yearner’s job, Georgia Oakley gives Austen’s classic a grounded, gorgeous makeover that made my Pisces heart burst. It’s everything Wuthering Heights should’ve been. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Sense and Sensibility’ Review: A Beautiful Austen Reimagining for a New Generation

Georgia Oakley gives Austen’s classic a grounded, gorgeous makeover, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles delivering lovely performances in one of the most romantic films this decade thus far.

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I've never seen the original film but that didn't negate how deeply affecting, MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE, a beautiful mother-daughter portrait that shows there's no greater love than a parents immense pride of their history making child. #NYFF64 www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

'Making Marie Antoinette' Review: A Moving Mother-Daughter Portrait Behind Sofia Coppola’s Cult Classic

Making Marie Antoinette turns Sofia Coppola’s biggest film into a tender mother-daughter love letter, capturing filmmaking, sexism, family, and Eleanor Coppola’s bittersweet creative legacy.

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FJORD: Cristian Mungiu’s legal drama gets lost in the gray area as its only interesting in the courtroom and avoids the deeper moral dilemmas it claims to analyze. Patient and precise yet ultimately hollow. Bald Sebastian Stan innocent. #NYFF64 My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Fjord’ Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Chilly Legal Drama Gets Lost in the Gray Area

Fjord is a well‑crafted but ultimately hollow legal drama that's only interesting in the courtroom yet avoids the deeper moral dilemmas it claims to analyze.

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Saw Marie Kreutzer’s GENTLE MONSTER out of TIFF. It's the Léa Seydoux showcase and not much else. It’s thoughtful in prose but doesn’t have much depth to offer in its heavy topic beyond her performance. My review via @whatsonnetflix.bsky.social: www.whats-on-netflix.com/what-to-watc...

Léa Seydoux Shines in Marie Kreutzer’s Uneven Netflix Movie ‘Gentle Monster’ [TIFF]

Despite a powerhouse, visceral performance from Léa Seydoux, Marie Kreutzer's dark domestic drama gets bogged down by unnecessary subplots and a surprisingly surface-level execution.

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BEWARE BOIÚNA: Mike P. Nelson's creature feature about a big snake actively won't let you see big snake. Has a great bait-and-switch, but boy was I bored! Boiúna diva, I’m sorry I wasn’t your filmmaker, but you’ll always be mother! My #FantasticFest2026 review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Beware Boiúna’ Review: Dude, Where’s My Snake?

Mike P. Nelson’s creature feature Beware Boiúna has everything needed for a killer Big Snake movie, except an actual Big Snake you can see. A dim, self-serious Amazon survival thriller wastes its mons...

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A sweet 72 year old man emailed me, personally asking if I've seen and can review DIGGER. Now I feel bad i deliberately skipped my only press screening invite.

MISTY GREEN is proof that no matter how harsh the Hollywood system can be towards Black women, Chris Rock will always find a way to be harsher. Putrid, hateful film. www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Misty Green’ Review: Chris Rock’s Hollywood Satire Has Nothing but Contempt for Its Leading Lady

Rosalind Eleazar gives Misty Green its only real pulse, but Chris Rock’s mean-spirited Hollywood satire mistakes misogynoir, cruelty, and shallow caricature for complexity.

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Scathing review imminent

SNL UK Weekend Updates are operating in a way that will make Norm Macdonald proud.

Admirable as its production and intent are, especially given Baruchel’s performance, THE STUNT DRIVER can’t rise to the occasion in delivering an entertaining movie as death-defying as the Mad Canadian himself. My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘The Stunt Driver’ Review: Jay Baruchel Adds Fuel to a Biopic Running on Empty

Admirable as its production and intent are, especially given Baruchel’s performance, The Stunt Driver can’t rise to the occasion in delivering an entertaining movie as death-defying as the Mad Canadia...

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Maika Monroe gets out of her “always the frightsmaid” fit and delivers some frights in VICTORIAN PSYCHO. Doesn’t live up to its funny or gory potential but I eventually had fun with it thanks to Monroe’s killer performance. #FantasticFest www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Victorian Psycho’ Review: Maika Monroe Is a Devilish Delight in This Gothic Feminist Horror

Victorian Psycho sees Maika Monroe kill it in full psycho mode, but Zachary Wigon’s bloody Gothic horror struggles to balance its feminist satire, comedy, and scares into a satisfying whole.

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REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION is a powerful, potent memoir that illustrates how true radicalism forms and continues generationally. #TIFF26 My full review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Rehearsals for a Revolution’ Review: A Poetic Love Letter to Iran’s Generations of Resistance

A powerful, potent memoir that illustrates how true radicalism forms and continues generationally.

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In case you didn’t know (cause theres lil marketing) there’s a new SHAUN THE SHEEP movie out tomorrow…in theaters. It’s is spooky and charming but doesn’t hold a candle against the predecessors. Wrote a plea for Aardman to return to original ideas. www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom’ Review: Shaun's Spooky-themed Threequel is Charming Despite Being His Weakest Bleat Yet

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is fine stop‑motion fare but compared to its predecessors, it’s less than a cinematic outing and more like an overly glorified Halloween special.

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The Zellners' ALPHA GANG got A-listers as emotionless leather-cladded swing-dancing aliens experincing [Mariah Carey voice] Em.o.tion. Heartfelt and hilarious but (again) stretched too thin despite its unique premise and stellar production. #TIFF26 My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Alpha Gang’ Review: David and Nathan Zellner’s Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Comedy Got a Big Heart and Bigger Goofy Energy

Alpha Gang trades Sasquatch Sunset’s big-furry Bigfoot for leather-clad aliens, delivering an absurdist Adult Swim-style romp that finds heart despite overstaying its welcome.

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Despite Anthony Ippolito's charming portrayal, I disliked I PLAY ROCKY. A lazy, glorified Wiki page that can't punch above its weight. Your dad or weird uncle whose Stallone-love outweighs their taste in film will love this. #TIFF26 My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘I Play Rocky’ Review: Rocky Origin Story Gets Knocked Out by Generic Biopic Boredom

This Glass Joe of a movie-about-making-movie loses the match the moment it gets into the ring.

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Cynthia Erivo tries her might but PRIMA FACIE is so uneven and heavy-handed of its own good. Turned a powerful play into a Shonda Rhimes pilot until it remembers what it's adapting. #TIFF26 Read my full review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Prima Facie’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Carries Legal Drama That Fails its Own Case

I love this current trend of stage productions that originated with a white lead actress being handed to Cynthia Erivo for film adaptations. However, Prima Facie ’s heavy topic is more distressing th...

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Lindsay Lanzillotta's debut flick PURGATORY is like Judy Blume in the way of Napoleon Dynamite. A gem of a girlhood portrait with a stellar breakthrough performance by Ruby McGurrin and ABBY ELLIOT! One of my faves from #TIFF2026 thus far. My full review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

‘Purgatory’ Review: Catholic Girlhood Is Hell in This Hilarious, Tender Coming-of-Age

For a movie centered around God’s followers, Purgatory is a hell of a coming‑of‑age story.

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Distressing that Crown Heights on Labor Day went from being a celebration hub for all the Caribbean and West Indies residents who call this place home to now the only day when the neighborhood is predominantly Black.

Interviewed filmmaker Joe Swanberg about his return, THE SUN NEVER SETS. We discussed getting semi-autobiographical with Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson in Alaska, and his excitement for the future of mumblecore in Gen-Z hands. Read here [sub required]: www.rendyreviews.com/interviews/t...

‘The Sun Never Sets’ Writer-Director Joe Swanberg on Getting Semi-Autobiographical in Alaska

The writer-director of 'The Sun Never Sets' chats with Rendy Reviews about his return to filmmaking and the dawn of a new era for mumblecore.

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If I don't get a "Mitch McConnell dead at 84" news headline on by desk before week's end, it's on sight @ grim reaper.

How do I mourn the death of KIps Bay's closure without sounding like I'm mad that more hospitals are being built over it.

COYOTE VS. ACME is the best Looney Tunes have been interpreted on the big screen since their appearance in Roger Rabbit. Wile E. Coyote, the working class hero we need. Space Jam could never. Read my full review here: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...

'Coyote vs. Acme' Review: Wile E. Coyote Gets His Day in Court in a Glorious, Surprisingly Moving Looney Tunes Triumph

Space Jam could never!

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“Now if it gets too real, you can always turn it off”

Happy IT ENDS release week. Had some nice coverage on the film last year during its festival run. Pubbed in Sept 2025 via @DreadCentral, I chatted with writer/director Alexander Ullom about tapping into early 20-something ennui and existentialism. www.dreadcentral.com/interviews/5...

'It Ends' Director Alexander Ullom About The Beating Heart of His Existential Horror Film

'It Ends' Director Alexander Ullom About The Beating Heart of His Existential Horror Film

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Not to condone violence on main but if you see a plainclothes scalper buying movie tickets IRL, it’s your civic duty to beat their ass and steal their tickets. AMC isn't going to do anything, you might as well.

Today involved seeing SENSE & SENSIBILITY, MUTINY, and Ken Marino at a Shake Shack.

Not MCU X-MEN being a GIRLS reunion.

In mourning. Don’t text.