Dhurandhar
After missing the original Dhurandhar in theaters because I live in Idaho and they only show Indian films for two days tops, I was excited to find out it was on Netflix before going to see the sequel in theaters! While I got mixed signals coming into this film, some
The Smashing Machine
Like many others, I thought that Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine sounded like the easier win between this and Marty Supreme. Unfortunately, trying to be safer and broader-appealing didn't quite work in the film's favor, which was a major box-office bomb—undeservedly so, I
Weapons
Ever since I heard the premise of this film, I've been intrigued to see how the narrative would play out. Kids Naruto-running out of their houses inconspicuously in the middle of the night? Cool stuff! I haven't checked out Barbarian yet, but I plan to do
Sinners
I wasn't really that serious about checking out new releases last year: I mostly just went to see what sounded interesting to me and try to work on my backlog. So, basically, I initially skipped this film because a lot of vampire films just aren't interesting
Blue Moon
Most of my critics' circle friends didn't really click with Blue Moon and found it to be the weakest of the nominated films. Then again, I loved the other music biopic with "Blue" in the title, and some of those same critics raved about Sentimental
David
While I couldn't catch the film at Christmas time, I was able to watch this movie at the local dollar theater in February... yeah, I was pretty behind for this one. The film looked awesome, but I was just super busy during the holiday season! And while I
28 Days Later
I'm known for having a multitude of ridiculously controversial movie opinions, especially when it pertains to franchises. And, wouldn't you know it, many fans say 28 Years Later is the worst film in its respective franchise, and here I am thinking it was my favorite from
The Housemaid
I wasn't able to check out The Housemaid around when it came out, but it was a film I was excited for because of the glowing reviews from some of my favorite film critics, particularly Sean Chandler and Cody Leach. Yet, I simply couldn't find a
Frankenstein
To be honest, I've never been interested in Frankenstein as a character or story: the scientist and the monster never interested me, so I didn't really give any of its adaptations a chance. However, bingeing through all of this year's Oscar nominations that I
Train Dreams
Train Dreams was the third-to-last of the 98th Academy Awards Best Picture nominees I watched. After watching the other two emotionally subdued yet hopeful tragedies that were Hamnet and Sentimental Value, one which I enjoyed enough and one which I found to be one of the weakest Oscar picks in
Hamnet
As soon as this film was released on Peacock, I threw it on to see what the hype was all about! As a casual fan of Chloé Zhao, I was intrigued to see her take on the story of Hamlet's conception and how she would bring the iconic
Marty Supreme
Even with the monumental success of the Safdie Brothers in the past, I was a tad skeptical about this ping-pong film. Not because there's anything wrong with ping-pong, I enjoy the game as much as the next person, but I didn't really think I'd