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Parallel Tales (2026) 19% 2/5 EDIT “Parallel Tales feels completely hollow. Whatever its formidable inspiration might be, this could have easily been titled A Long Film About Peeping based on how bluntly it mangles the complex themes of Kieślowski or Simenon.” – IONCINEMA.com May 15, 2026 Full Review Fatherland (2026) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Beyond the various confrontations with singing chorus members accosting them at every step of their journey, this is a joyless endeavor, capturing a specific catch-22 conundrum mashing together doomed cultural and familial expectations.” – IONCINEMA.com May 14, 2026 Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s difficult to point to any other recent cinematic grapplings which so enchantingly elevate what’s long been dismissed as low brow to the heights of such a stridently sacred altar.” – IONCINEMA.com May 14, 2026 Full Review A Woman's Life (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Patches of narrative banality and fussy details are thankfully overshadowed by an effervescent lead performance which manages to unite all the messy threads into a satisfying melancholic portrait of a rigid personality.” – IONCINEMA.com May 13, 2026 Full Review Nagi Notes (2026) 94% 3.5/5 EDIT “Certainly, Nagi Notes feels like Fukada at his gentlest, and there are passages which could easily be mistaken for something by Hirokazu Kore-eda. However, Fukada eventually slices through the ambiguities.” – IONCINEMA.com May 13, 2026 Full Review The Electric Kiss (2026) 59% 2.5/5 EDIT “Salvadori’s greatest crime is denying Antoine and Suzanne the space to develop the chemistry which makes their budding romance seem plausible.” – IONCINEMA.com May 12, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Hokum thankfully doesn't live up to the implications of its title, a sinister slow-burn expertly building dreadful folk horror flourishes atop subtexts on the kindness of strangers. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) May 5, 2026 Full Review Obsession (2025) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “In Obsession, love meanings always having to say you're sorry, as Curry Barker delves into upsetting, nightmarish exaggeration of how our projected desire can have the propensity to overwhelm, degrade, and ultimately destroy...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Blue Film (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Blue Film is a rare cinematic unicorn in that it vaults over the moral high ground and stop gaps assigned to visualizations of human nature instead to wallow in the uncomfortable reality of blurred boundaries...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Deep Water (2026) 71% 2.5/5 EDIT “The water might be deep but the storytelling techniques are not in Deep Water, Renny Harlin's action packed survival thriller which sees the director returning to shark infested territory in this calamitous but well-paced cheese. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 30, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Various themes of deeper resonance (dematerialization of contemp. industry and architecture) are scuttled by frantic velocity in the nonsensical narrative...its beloved characters resurrected as desiccated corpses propped up in a bejeweled straitjacket. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Fuze (2025) 73% 2/5 EDIT “Mackenzie's pulpy, workman-like heist thriller Fuze eventually fizzles thanks to a convoluted plot overwhelming substandard and overtly nefarious characterizations from a principle cast who seem forced to rely on the appeal of...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% 2.5/5 EDIT “Fuqua's steering of Michael Jackson's trajectory is a heartfelt homage to his incomparable talents but is ultimately a glossy slice of fan fiction deftly navigated by a fantastic Jaafar Jackson. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Apex (2026) 66% 2/5 EDIT “Kormakur's familiar survival thriller is so lean on narrative it feels absolutely skeletal, squandering the weirdness of its villain to satisfy a derivative sense of empty catharsis. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Segel and Weaving are odd but charming bedfellows in this dark cuckold comedy, dependably conveying how the couple that slays together stays together - but not much else. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Buoyed by a sense of humankind's propensity for hope even when faced with certain demise, Project Hail Mary is a crowd pleasing odd couple melodrama leaning heavily on sentimentality, sometimes to its detriment. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Dolly (2025) 62% 2.5/5 EDIT “As far as backwoods horror films go, Dolly is running on empty story wise, but Blackhurst channels the grimy, grainy ambience of 70s charnel house terror well enough to tolerate its existence. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Blah, Blah, horror film Have you anything to say? Yes sir, yes sir And in the simplest way” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% 2/5 EDIT “A provocative conception reveals itself to be disappointingly skin deep in Slanted, reifying the insidiousness of white privilege while also simultaneously ignoring the ingrained Eurocentric beauty standards actually inspiring the protagonist's...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 56% 1/5 EDIT “Colleen Hoover returns with more deviance and dysfunction defining her commonplace and woefully simple working class heterosexual characters who exist in the morbid realm of a Lifetime film and yet always ascend to the horizon of a Hallmark card greeting.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review The Gates (2026) 48% 2.5/5 EDIT “Too many odd and sometimes jarring choices tend to mar an otherwise tense and unfortunately pertinent thriller concerning the realities of bigotry and religious charlatans. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come may retain the devil-may-care posturing of its predecessor but this cash grab sequel lazily repeats the same template, and if there's anything blasphemous to Beelzebub, it's making him boring. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “Rose Byrne leads a formidable cast in Tow, a glossy sitcom treatment of enormous disparity requiring a bit more grit to properly convey the kitchen sink miserabilism and mental health issues lurking underneath a hollow David v. Goliath triumph. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 76% 2/5 EDIT “Nostalgia itself is not a subtext upon which to pointlessly center a comedic narrative, especially when the final product also happens to be as joyless, generic, and inconsequential as Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Though more silly than sinister, They Will Kill You at least justifies the definitive promise of its title while the familiarity and ludicrousness of its narrative are often ameliorated by a vibrant Zazie Beetz...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Apr 17, 2026 Full Review
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