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Movie Review: XENO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/19/2025
XENO movie poster | ©2025 Blue Fox Entertainment

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lulu Wilson, Omari Hardwick, Wrenn Schmidt, Trae Romano, Josh Cooke, Paul Schneider, Garrett van der Leun Writer: Matthew Loren Oates Director: Matthew Loren Oates Distributor: Blue Fox Entertainment Release Date: September 19, 2025 The alien is bigger and scarier, and the situations become darker, but XENO in essence is a variation on E.T. Fifteen-year-old Renee Rowan (Lulu Wilson) lives in an isolated house with her widowed mom Linda (Wrenn Schmidt) outside a medium-sized town in the New Mexico desert. Linda’s alcoholic boyfriend Chase (Paul Schneider) technically has his own place, but always seems to be there, picking […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HIM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HIM movie poster | ©2025 Universal

Rating: R Stars: Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Austin Pulliam Writers: Zack Akers & Skip Bronkie and Justin Tipping Director: Justin Tipping Distributor: Universal Release Date: September 19, 2025 The good news about HIM is that it is not what it first appears to be. Viewers who have seen the ad campaign or even watch the first section of the movie may understandably think this is one of those horror films where an older person uses supernatural means to install their soul into the body of an unsuspecting younger person. This does not turn out to be […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PLAINCLOTHES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PLAINCLOTHES movie poster | ©2025 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth, John Bedford Lloyd, Darius Fraser, Alessandra Ford Balazs Writer: Carmen Emmi Director: Carmen Emmi Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: September 19, 2025 There are a lot of coming-out stories in movies (and TV series and plays and books and songs and other artistic expressions). PLAINCLOTHES is a new and very good one, not because it entirely fulfills the promise of its concept (it doesn’t), but because it is so astute about the details of human connection. Set in mid-1990s Syracuse, NY (the 1996 pop song […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HISTORY OF SOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE HISTORY OF SOUND movie poster | ©2025 Mubi

Rating: R Stars: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Chris Cooper, Emma Canning, Briana Middleton, Hadley Robinson, Molly Price, Raphael Sbarge, Tom Nelis, Leo Cocovinus Writer: Ben Shattuck, based on his short story Director: Oliver Hermanus Distributor: Mubi Release Date: September 12, 2025 September 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent month for independent films in which sound recording figures heavily into the plot. In one week, we’ve gotten RABBIT TRAP, SPINAL TAP II, and THE HISTORY OF SOUND. Directed by Oliver Hermanus and scripted by Ben Shattuck, based on his short story, THE HISTORY OF SOUND aims to accomplish a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LOST BUS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/16/2025
THE LOST BUS movie poster | ©2025 Apple Original Films

Rating: R Stars: Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vasquez, Ashlie Atkinson, Kimberli Flores, Levi McConaughey, Kay McConaughey, Kate Wharton, Peter Diseth, Denielle Fisher Johnson Writers: Brad Ingelsby and Paul Greengrass, based on the book PARADISE: ONE TOWN’S STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE AN AMERICAN WILDFIRE by Lizzie Johnson Director: Paul Greengrass Distributor: Apple Original Films Release Date: September 19, 2025 (theatrical), October 3, 2025 (Apple TV+)  In 2018, the Northern California town of Paradise, population approximately 27,000, was the victim of what was, at that time, the deadliest fire in the state’s history. Eighty-five people died and 13,500 homes were destroyed. THE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/12/2025
SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES | ©2025 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Valerie Franco, Nina Conti, Kerry Godliman, Chris Addison Writers: Christopher Guest & Michael McKean & Rob Reiner & Harry Shearer Director: Rob Reiner Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: September 12, 2025 One of the more remarkable aspects of SPÏNAL TAP: THE END CONTINUES is that, even though it’s been forty-one years since the original 1984 mockumentary THIS IS SPÏNAL TAP and in the lives of its characters, this feels like one of those sequels that picks up directly after the end of the first film. Sure, the members of […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LONG WALK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE LONG WALK movie poster | ©2025 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Jordan Gonzalez, Joshua Odjick, Mark Hamill, Roman Griffin Davis, Judy Greer, Josh Hamilton Writer: JT Mollner, based on the novel by Stephen King Director: Francis Lawrence Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: September 12, 2025 The tag line for THE LONG WALK provides a brief but accurate summation of the plot: walk or die. In a dystopia that is either our future or an alternate reality, the United States is in what looks like the throes of a new Great Depression. The annual Long Walk is, according […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAUMATIKA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
TRAUMATIKA movie poster | ©2025 Saban Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Ranen Navat, Emily Goss, Susan Gayle Watts, AJ Bowen, Sean O’Bryan, Sean Whalen, Paxton Carville Writers: Pierre Tsigaridis & Maxime Rancon Director: Pierre Tsigaridis Distributor: Saban Films Release Date: September 12, 2025 TRAUMATIKA is a movie about demonic possession that arguably has too much going on for its own good. We get four time periods, or five, if we count returning to one of them. TRAUMATIKA starts in 1910 Egypt, where a distraught man roams the sand dunes with a small statue of Volpaazu, “creator of evil,” which he buries in the sand. The […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RABBIT TRAP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
RABBIT TRAP movie poster | ©2025 Magnet Releasing

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot, Nicholas Sampson Writer: Bryn Chainey Director: Bryn Chainey Distributor: Magnet Releasing Release Date: September 12, 2025 RABBIT TRAP is being described as “folk horror.” That’s arguably a misclassification. It is more precisely a near-modern-day fairytale, propelled by folklore and a sense of wonder about magic, nature, and our senses. The film starts by telling us, “The Shadow has been gifted many names. Goblin, demon, fairy. Your forgotten child.” It goes on to say that nature provides music. To illustrate this, we see a man, who we will soon learn is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE MAIN IN MY BASEMENT movie poster | ©2025 Andscape/Hulu

Rating: R Stars: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Brian Bovell, Mark Arnold, Tamara Lawrance, Gershwyn Eustache Jr., Pamela Nomvete, Shellia Kennedy Writers: Walter Mosley and Nadia Latif, based on the novel by Walter Mosley Director: Nadia Latif Distributor: Andscape/Hulu Release Date: September 12, 2025 (theatrical), Hulu/Disney+ (later in fall 2025)  Having the real actor Willem Dafoe in your basement would arguably be a little odd but, so long as he wasn’t there against his will, probably agreeable. Having a character of the type frequently played by Dafoe in your basement would be something else altogether. This is […]Read On »


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