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Brian Orndorf

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Reviews

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They Will Kill You (2026) 75% D EDIT “"They Will Kill You" is gory, noisy, and hostile, but it’s never fun, as Sokolov misses a freewheeling sense of danger and a focused rescue story in his pursuit of mayhem.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review She Dances (2025) 91% B+ EDIT “There’s a lot of loveliness here, and many laughs, but when it comes time to secure ending of supreme sensitivity, Gomez delivers in a big way.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 63% B EDIT “"Pretty Lethal" is reliable entertainment with a handful of highlights, reaching its potential when it finally gets around to creating panicked scenarios for the main characters.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 73% C EDIT “Struggles with its low-energy approach and hackneyed way with action sequences. What should be an insane feature bursting with surprises ends up far sleepier than expected.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review You're Dating a Narcissist! (2025) C EDIT “"You’re Dating a Narcissist" isn’t sprightly enough to truly charm. Tomei has her moments, but she can’t carry an unfortunately leaden movie on her own.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 88% B+ EDIT “"Fantasy Life" succeeds in these small spaces, and while Shear doesn’t have much interest in building a plot, he captures mood and behavior with skill.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 93% B EDIT “Boyson doesn’t stick the landing, but this tale of trouble has its moments of disturbing behavior and commentary on adolescent issues.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 77% C EDIT “The cast really lifts "Forbidden Fruits" when the offering needs it the most, bringing layers of identity and desires to the film, which helps to digest the movie’s somewhat stationary presentation.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Holy Days (2026) B EDIT “"Holy Days" isn’t big on surprises, but it offers time with fantastic actors who capably deliver nuanced emotions and bits of humor as Boltt creates a consistently entertaining road trip movie.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 25, 2026 Full Review City Wide Fever (2025) B- EDIT “For those who really enjoy filmmaking that’s in love with filmmaking, "City Wide Fever" has its highlights, with genuine enthusiasm for the storytelling mission, even during its most underfunded scenes.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 75% C EDIT “The sequel doesn’t have much in the way of freshness, acting more as a remake than a continuation.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 77% B+ EDIT “"Tow" is a little unusual as it straddles the line between mainstream and indie moviemaking, but it delivers heart and significance with its unusual understanding of persistence.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 96% A- EDIT “Isn’t an easy watch, but it’s an important one, vividly dramatizing the challenges of a difficult vocation, taking moments to understand the endurance and concentration the job demands, generating a riveting sit.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “And there’s Aramayo, who fully inhabits John’s physical and mental space, providing deeply and impressively committed work, always identifying the humanity of the man, even during his most possessed moments.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) D EDIT “Meant to charm adolescent viewers, and will likely do so with its juvenile ways. However, it could be a lot funnier and more creative, really spinning the central pizza-hunting premise in all the right ways.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) 29% D EDIT “Confusion tends to dominate the viewing experience, as viewers are offered a feature that doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but it has a defined purpose to spill as much fake blood as possible.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review The Gates (2026) 52% B EDIT “It’s definitely not a film that’s trying to make sense of hatred, instead using it to power a mostly effective exercise in suspense and plot turns, which Burr handles to the best of his ability.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Preschool (2026) D EDIT “Duhamel plays it safe with the picture instead, providing a tired sense of mischief with a movie you’ve seen before.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 56% B EDIT “Caswill remains remarkably committed to preserving a human touch to "Reminders of Him," delivering a feature with some honest emotions and a less manipulative way of doing business.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% B- EDIT “Lord and Miller attempt to go very big with the offering, which remains engaging enough, but the directors are definitely out to win hearts with the feature, getting a little too pushy with sentimentality as the story unfolds.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 69% B+ EDIT “The movie isn’t razor sharp and doesn’t get weird enough, but Wang’s creative voice remains clear in this thought-provoking offering.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% C EDIT “Sound is basically all "Undertone" has, unable to cook up a more dynamic haunting to follow as everything in the movie goes crash, bang, boom.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Bodycam (2025) 86% B- EDIT “There’s nothing here that bests the highlights of the "V/H/S" franchise, but Christensen lands a few punches during the run time, requiring a little more patience with the pace of the effort.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth (2023) 95% B EDIT “"The Optimist" runs into storytelling issues late in the film, but it remains a powerful understanding of endurance, providing intimacy with crisis and compassion.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 10, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% D EDIT “Unbearable permissiveness just sinks the whole thing.” – Blu-ray.com Mar 6, 2026 Full Review
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