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Movie Review: BEAST OF WAR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/10/2025
BEAST OF WAR movie poster | ©2025 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich, Maximillian Johnson, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Tristan McKinnon, Aswan Reid Writer: Kiah Roache-Turner Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: October 10, 2025 While the title of BEAST OF WAR probably refers to the twenty-foot-long Great White shark harassing a group of shipwrecked Australian soldiers, it may equally indicate extremely capable ANZAC Private Leo Bennett (Mark Coles Smith). A title card informs us that BEAST OF WAR is “inspired by actual events.” We’re in Australia in 1942, where new troops are going through boot camp. Leo […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SOLVENT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SOLVENT movie poster | ©2025 Film Movement

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jon Gries, Aleksandra Cwen, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Roland Gratzner, Jasmin Hagendorfer, Ronald von der Sternen, Peter Pios Writers: Johannes Grenzfurthner and Ben Roberts Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner Distributor: Film Movement Release Date: October 10, 2025 SOLVENT opens with an onscreen quote from Norman Maclean, which begins, “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it …” There is a lot of water, along with other fluids, in SOLVENT. Directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner, who wrote the script with Ben Roberts, SOLVENT is something of an ethical head-scratcher. It denounces the horrors of the Holocaust in no […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ROOFMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
ROOFMAN movie poster | ©2025 Paramount

Rating: R Stars: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Peter Dinklage, Uzo Aduba, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily Collias, Kennedy Moyer, Molly Price, Emory Cohen Writers: Derek Cianfrance & Kirt Gunn Director: Derek Cianfrance Distributor: Paramount Release Date: October 10, 2025 Jeffrey Manchester, played here by Channing Tatum, was a prolific robber, active in North Carolina during the 2000s. The press dubbed Manchester “Roofman” for his modus operandi of breaking into fast-food franchise joints – McDonald’s was a favorite target, along with Burger King – before pointing a gun at the morning shift staff and directing them into the freezer […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AFTER THE HUNT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
©2025 Amazon/M-G-M Studios

Rating: R Stars: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloë Sevigny, Lio Mehiel, David Leiber, Thaddea Graham Writer: Nora Garrett Director: Luca Guadagnino Distributor: Amazon/M-G-M Studios Release Date: October 10, 2025 AFTER THE HUNT succeeds in keeping us intrigued throughout its two-hour-and-nineteen-minute running time. This feat is all the more impressive because it is emotionally unengaging. This isn’t just because we’re meant to wonder about the secrets and fabrications of all the characters, not just the two in what’s arguably the most readily identifiable dispute in AFTER THE HUNT. It’s also, or perhaps mainly, because we gradually realize […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE DROWNED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE DROWNED movie poster | ©2025 Vertigo Releasing

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alan Calton, Dominic Vulliamy, Michelangelo Fortuzzi, Lara Lemon, Sandrine Salyères, Lily Catalifo, Corrinne Wicks Writer: Samuel Clemens Director: Samuel Clemens Distributor: Vertigo Releasing Release Date: October 6, 2025 (U.K.), October 7, 2025 (U.S.) THE DROWNED is set almost entirely (except for flashbacks) on and in the waters of a small island off the English coast. Eric (Alan Calton) arrives here with a stolen painting in a watertight tube. He warily explores the designated hideout – a massive isolate house on the beach – gun drawn, reacting to strange sounds. He’s looking for Denice (Corrinne Wicks), but […]Read On »


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Movie Review: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN movie poster | ©2025 Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez Writer: Bill Condon, based on the stage play musical book by Terrence McNally, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, based on the novel by Manuel Puig Director: Bill Condon Distributor: Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate Release Date: October 10, 2025 The new musical film KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, directed and scripted by Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, is based on the stage musical of the same name, which ran on Broadway 1993-1995 with a script by Terrence McNally and score by Kander and Ebb, which […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GOOD BOY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/03/2025
GOOD BOY movie poster | ©2025 IFC/Shudder

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Indy, Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden, Stuart Rudin Writers: Alex Cannon & Ben Leonberg Director: Ben Leonberg Distributor: IFC/Shudder Release Date: October 3, 2025 (U.S.), October 10, 2025 (U.K.) Here’s a tip for horror filmmakers: if you want the audience to spend every single second worried about your protagonist, make that character a dog. In the case of GOOD BOY, this is Indy, a medium-sized mixed breed with great charisma and arguably the most soulful eyes in cinema. In reality, Indy is the canine companion of director Ben Leonberg, who wrote the screenplay with Alex Cannon. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: KILLING FAITH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
KILLING FAITH movie poster | ©2025 Shout! Studios

Rating: R Stars: Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Jack Alcott, Bill Pullman, Emily Ford, Raoul Max Trujillo, Jamie Neumann, Joanna Cassidy Writer: Ned Crowley, story by Ned Crowley & David Martin Director: Ned Crowley Distributor: Shout Studios Release Date: October 3, 2025 KILLING FAITH is set in the American West of 1849. A woman’s voiceover tells us of a cross-species plague that has killed humans and animals alike. The region is just beginning to recover, but in one small town, the citizens are terrified of a silent little white girl (Emily Ford). This is because the child’s touch transmits the plague, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SHELL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SHELL movie poster } ©2025 Paramount PIctures / Republic Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Arian Moayed, Este Haim, Elizabeth Berkley, Kaia Gerber, Peter MacNicol, Randall Park, Ziwe, Brandon Keener Writer: Jack Stanley Director: Max Minghella Distributor: Republic Pictures/Paramount Release Date: October 3, 2025 THE SUBSTANCE was hardly the first cautionary horror tale about the perils of attempted self-improvement in Hollywood, but it may be what springs to mind while watching SHELL. SHELL is a much more conventional horror thriller than THE SUBSTANCE, which has its pros and cons. It doesn’t keep us on our toes too much about where it’s going and it’s not nearly as visually […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SMASHING MACHINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE SMASHING MACHINE movie poster | ©2025 A24

Rating: R Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten Writer: Benny Safdie Director: Benny Safdie Distributor: A24 Release Date: October 3, 2025 THE SMASHING MACHINE is a fact-based drama about the life and career of mixed martial arts fighting star Mark Kerr. This follows the 2022 HBO documentary about Kerr, THE SMASHING MACHINE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EXTREME FIGHTER MARK KERR. What sets the new SMASHING MACHINE apart from other narrative features covering mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, and other full-contact one-on-one sports is not so much the approach of writer/director Benny Safdie to the material. Instead, […]Read On »


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