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A private user reviewed Thunderbolts* (2025)

Thunderbolts*

Directed by Jake Schreier (Netflix’s Beef, Showtime’s Kidding) and written by Eric Pearson (Transformers One, Black Widow) and Joanna Calo (The Bear, Bojack Horseman), Thunderbolts* documents the emptiness surrounding Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) as she goes through the motions while working for the Ox Group led by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Yelena still hasn’t recovered from Natasha/Black Widow’s death and is sick of killing people and doing villainous tasks for money. After a ...

A private user reviewed You're Cordially Invited (2025)

You're Cordially Invited

'You’re Cordially Invited': bad movie! It's as unfunny as it is unlikeable, there isn't one character that I wanted to see appear in front of my eyes; and they attempt to redeem them all at the end, which falls flat. Also, Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon aren't the best match.

The end credit singalong with Ferrell and Witherspoon is the only part of this that I'd list under (mini) positives. There are a couple of ...

A private user reviewed Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/avatar-fire-and-ash-movie-review-james-cameron-finds-himself-between-technical-brilliance-and-creative-stagnation/

"Avatar: Fire and Ash leaves me with mixed feelings of technical admiration and creative exhaustion. It's a film that lives off its scale, scope, and technical audacity but fails to take the step forward the narrative required to become memorable on its own merit ...

A private user reviewed Guns Up (2025)

Guns Up

This movie is 90 minutes. In that sense it gets a 10 but in those 90 minutes there's not really all that much cool shit. Ricci does some cool shit. Dude does some cool shit. But there's not that much cool shit. The plot is dumb. So much dumb shit in the plot takes away from any potential cool shit. There is action but no comedy from what I can extract unless it's hilarious that Ricci is a badass. In that case it's not that funny. Whatever. Watch it. The images ...

A private user reviewed The Uninvited (2025)

The Uninvited

“Rose” (Elizabeth Reaser) is married to talent agent “Sammy” (Walton Goggins) and they are preparing for a make-or-break party at their home one evening when the sound of a repetitious car horn sends her out to investigate. That’s when she meets “Helen” (Lois Smith). She’s an elderly lady convinced that she lives in their house, and when “Rose” takes her in whilst trying to summon some help her presence seems to galvanise her family and their guests into a series of revealingly uninteresting and cocaine-induced home truths that drags the whole ...

A private user reviewed 28 Years Later (2025)

28 Years Later

Just a wealth of stupid, moronic, and ill-advised ideas.

The film starts out with a fairly strong intro, but the central character here doesn't have any impact on the rest of the film, so it feels wasted.

It switches plots halfway through after a strong start, inexplicably.

A private user reviewed Bambi: The Reckoning (2025)

Bambi: The Reckoning

Deceptive though it might seem, high camp can be a tricky artform to pull off successfully on screen, especially in genres like horror and sci-fi. It requires deftly managed, evenly sustained pacing – not necessarily at the breakneck speed of a screwball comedy, but certainly steady in its regular dispensing of delicious nuggets of wry and macabre wit with bridge segments in between them that move the story along without overstaying their welcome. Sadly, however, in his fourth feature outing, director Dan Allen only gets this down pat about half of ...

A private user reviewed In the Lost Lands (2025)

In the Lost Lands

With mankind reduced to living amidst a god-fearing zealousness in a city under a mountain where they are ruled by a decrepit overlord and his much younger queen (Amara Okereke), it would appear that their only hope of salvation from that salvation rests with the witch “Gray Alys” (Milla Jovovich). If she can make direct eye contact with you, then she can manipulate what you think and see. She has only narrowly escaped the “Enforcer” (Arly Jover) when she receives a couple of visitors who ask her for a favour. She ...

A private user reviewed A Little Prayer (2025)

A Little Prayer

Familial relations can be a dual-edged sword for many of us, often filled with all manner of seemingly contradictory love/hate dynamics. This can be particularly true for parents, who frequently find themselves simultaneously loving and becoming frustrated with their kids, even when their onetime youngsters grow into adulthood. Such conditions can be truly exasperating; we can feel for them and desperately want to help them, but, at the same time, we must also allow them the freedom to find their own way out of their challenges, painful though that might be ...

A private user reviewed Rosemead (2025)

Rosemead

How far would you go to protect the welfare and well-being of a loved one? Are there any bounds in this, or is it something driven by the care and concern we hold for the individual we’re looking to support, something that knows no limitation, even if it involves violating legal, social and ethical standards? On top of all that, when circumstances reach a critical level, can we bring ourselves to follow through on our intentions? Those are among the hard questions raised in this fact-based drama about a terminally ill ...

A private user reviewed A Minecraft Movie (2025)

A Minecraft Movie

Alright, buckle up, because I just saw a movie that completely blew my mind! Seriously, I'm still buzzing. From the very first scene, I was absolutely hooked, and it didn't let go until the credits rolled.

The story? Oh my gosh, the story! It was so clever and well-crafted. It had twists and turns I never saw coming, but it all made perfect sense in the end. It was like a puzzle that slowly came ...

A private user reviewed The Threesome (2025)

The Threesome

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ movieswetextedabout.com/the-threesome-movie-review-when-ambition-gets-lost-in-melodrama/

"The Threesome is a victim of its own ambition.

The story, which begins by intelligently questioning social conventions and the nature of relationships, gets lost in narrative devices and an unequal treatment of its protagonists. Despite Zoey Deutch's visible efforts to give her character depth, the lack of the same type of personal development ...

A private user reviewed Warfare (2025)

Warfare

A squad of American soldiers seemingly randomly select an house in Ramadi and having relocated it’s sleeping occupants to the ground floor, set up a sniper station from where they can monitor the goings on around them. Initially, this all looks harmless enough as the Iraqi locals go about their business, but gradually the spotters become suspicious of repetitive activity, the odd person who seems to be snooping on them - and then, well all hell breaks loose leaving them facing an existential threat that will test their mettle, their equipment ...

A private user reviewed Sorry, Baby (2025)

Sorry, Baby

When we experience a traumatic tragedy, we often can’t fathom how we’re going to respond to it. Some reactions may follow expected patterns. But others may come across as wholly unpredictable, in large part because we don’t quite know what to make of them ourselves. That can become considerably more complicated when we don’t even know how to speak about them, to find the words to sufficiently express our feelings. And, when you combine all of these elements, you have the basis for the quandary faced by unnerved protagonist Agnes Ward ...

A private user reviewed The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025)

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Only just tall enough to go on the big boy’s ride, “SpongeBob” and his best pal “Patrick” are lured onto the pirate ship of the dreaded “Flying Dutchman” and promised an exciting adventure before he is rewarded with his swashbuckling certificate. Meantime, “Mr. Krabs” races in hot pursuit because he knows that his enthusiastic, but gullible, young protégé is being lead on a perilous journey that could end up releasing untold terror on the high seas. There are loads of semi-slapstick escapades here and by putting it all underwater, they gets ...

A private user reviewed Echo Valley (2025)

Echo Valley

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/echo-valley-review/

"Echo Valley is an effective thriller that blends emotional and narrative tension with strong performances and technical finesse.

While it doesn't break the conventions of the genre or explore all of its central themes in depth, it offers enough atmosphere, twists, and intensity to merit attention. Michael Pearce once again proves himself to be ...

A private user reviewed The Accountant² (2025)

The Accountant²

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/the-accountant-2-review-ben-affleck-and-jon-bernthal-shine-in-a-surprisingly-superior-sequel/

"The Accountant 2 turns out to be a surprisingly superior sequel to the original, driven by the smart bet on the fraternal relationship between Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal.

Featuring more polished action set pieces, genuinely funny moments, and enough emotional depth to engage the audience, Gavin O'Connor delivers a story that is both ...

A private user reviewed Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

The best thing about Mission Impossible films is you watched one - you watched all; and you watched all - you watched one.

It's a typical mindless mild entertainment Mission Impossible film - that is all there to this film. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less ...

A private user reviewed Red Sonja (2025)

Red Sonja

"Red Sonja" is an unpolished, sword and sorcery, romp.

There's a discernible lack of care and polish, in this production. Its by no means in in the same class as earlier cinematic iterations, such as the film from 1985 ...

A private user reviewed The Old Guard 2 (2025)

The Old Guard 2

The longest filler episode I've watched. There is no reason besides money that this film is nearly 2 hours long. It could've been a 5-10 minute intro to catch people up, but instead they drew it out to have an entire film.

With barely any lines to learn, this movie leans heavily on needless action and a confusing plot that leads up to "and next time on The Old Guard". There is no mystery, no ...