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JD Duran

JD Duran's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

JD Duran is the founder of InSession Film, and the host of the InSession Film Podcast. Find JD at @RealJDDuran & @InSessionFilm

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Miami, FL

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Magellan (2025) 89% A EDIT “The polarity here between the banality of exploration and the real devastating consequences of colonialism is absolutely incredible. ” – InSession Film May 7, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% B+ EDIT “The Devil Wears Prada 2 is one of my favorite surprises of the year, as it's one one of those rare legacy sequels that evolves its characters while tapping into a subtle emotional underbelly.” – InSession Film May 7, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% A EDIT “I loved every second of it, and I hope David Lowery keeps making ghost stories until the end of time.” – InSession Film May 6, 2026 Full Review Alpha (2025) 58% B+ EDIT “Obviously working as an HIV allegory, however I think you could argue that needles/disease is just a conduit for what it's really about in terms of that panic and suffocating anxiety you feel you're deathly afraid of getting sick. ” – InSession Film May 6, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 46% D EDIT “There are five jump scares a minute, and because there's so much of it, the film can't devote enough time to its characters or emotion.” – InSession Film May 6, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% A- EDIT “Yes, there have been a lot of films lately to examine the fallout of social media lately, but the way it uses remakes as a foundational basis to say something about the numbing of violence via social media is pretty clever and effective here.” – InSession Film May 6, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 76% B- EDIT “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice isn't reinventing the wheel or aiming its sights too high, but it's funny and diverting for what it is.” – InSession Film Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% A EDIT “The film is playful and inviting, asking its unknowing participants to play along with their silly goofiness. They are not the subject of the joke. ” – InSession Film Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% B+ EDIT “Laura is mysterious, clearly suffering and wrestling with her identity. A deliberate choice as Laura's lostness becomes Betty's solace, exploiting Laura to fill emotional gaps in her life.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% B+ EDIT “I find Grace's cowardice provocative. I deeply love that he never cared about being the hero. He just wanted to live his life and go home.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% C+ EDIT “The Bride! is an ambitious mess that's narratively disjointed, performantly outlandish, thematically uneven and tonally all over the place. So, naturally, I kinda dug it.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% C+ EDIT “Hoppers is a weird one. As a Pixar film, there is a lot to love, but simultaneously to say its politics are murky is putting it mildly.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% B+ EDIT “I love how it plays with the genre, offering a zombie buffet that mimics everything from the slow Walking Dead variety to the fast-running likes of 28 Days Later, and others in-between.” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% B+ EDIT “As far as Michael Mann rip-offs go, this is about as good as it gets. ” – InSession Film Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% A- EDIT “It's the kind of campy, funny horror we come to love from Sam Raimi, and it's one of his very best movies. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% C- EDIT “Instead of adapting Wuthering Heights, we essentially get a disconnected, subdued narrative that's more concerned with petty revenge and misses the sophisticated nuances of the novel. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 81% B+ EDIT “(Verbinski) is not usually subtle anyway, and given the material here and how desperate he feels in terms of how prevalent AI has become, he certainly doesn't feel like now is the time to be subtle. ” – InSession Film Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% A EDIT “Hamnet destroyed me in ways that's almost hard to articulate. It's absolutely devastating, but what I really love about it is how it's equally interested in life, love and family.” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% B EDIT “Nouvelle Vague is Richard Linklater’s most insufferable film to date (complimentary). ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% C- EDIT “I just can't get over how banal it looks visually. The pacing is uneven. The new songs don't add anything. Jon M. Chu's storytelling is a problem. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% A EDIT “Mary Bronstein, I'm sorry, I wasn't familiar with your game. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% B+ EDIT “Tessa Thompson's Hedda Gabler is the best movie villain since Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan in Love & Friendship.” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% A- EDIT “I never expected this for Wake Up Dead Man, but it's genuinely one of the best films about faith in recent years. The phone call scene is one of the very best of the year. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 76% B+ EDIT “I really responded to Noah Baumbach's meta-take on career ambition, the personal costs along the way and how it balances those things with a deep reverence for cinema. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% A+ EDIT “The Mastermind is straight out of the New Hollywood era. It's almost as if it time-traveled from the 1970s into 2025. ” – InSession Film Jan 7, 2026 Full Review
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