Backrooms
Here's what Backrooms is: a door opens in the basement of a furniture showroom. That door should not be there.…...
WOKE: 4.9
TRAD: 19.34
AUTH: 70%
Risen
A Skeptic Made Witness. Risen Is Unapologetically About What It Claims. - Read the full review for details....
WOKE: 1.8
TRAD: 28.6
AUTH: 91%
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Sequels to successful horror films face a specific structural problem: the first film worked because you did not know what was coming. The second film's audience does.…...
WOKE: 4.83
TRAD: 22.12
AUTH: 76%
Wednesday: Season 2
The first season of Wednesday was a cultural phenomenon by Netflix's own metrics, becoming the second-most watched English-language Netflix series ever.…...
WOKE: 21.1
TRAD: 15.4
AUTH: 58%
The Watchers
Ishana Night Shyamalan's directorial debut is a better film than its 27% Rotten Tomatoes score suggests and a less complete film than its atmospheric first act promises. The gap between critical reception and audience response (27% critics vs.…...
WOKE: 3.8
TRAD: 13.65
AUTH: N/A
undertone
Here is what horror films used to understand and largely forgot: the scariest thing in the world is not what you can see. It is what you almost see. What you hear from the next room.…...
WOKE: 3.7
TRAD: 21.98
AUTH: 82%
The Odyssey
PRE-RELEASE ANALYSIS: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey releases July 17, 2026. This review is based on trailers, production information, cast confirmations, and Nolan's documented approach to the material....
WOKE: 7.79
TRAD: 21.84
AUTH: N/A
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Horror has always been one of cinema's most reliable delivery systems for traditional values. At its best, the genre insists that evil is real, that families are worth fighting for, and that some things are worse than death.…...
WOKE: 1.7
TRAD: 16.24
AUTH: 80%
Hereditary
Hereditary opened to $13.5 million and eventually grossed $80 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. It holds a 90% Rotten Tomatoes score and an 87 Metacritic, making it one of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the decade.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 18.36
AUTH: 80%
Megalopolis
Here is the thing about Megalopolis that most critics got wrong in both directions: it is not a failure of craft. Francis Ford Coppola knows how to direct. Adam Driver gives a genuinely magnetic performance.…...
WOKE: 20.83
TRAD: 8.98
AUTH: 60%
Dune: Part One
Dune: Part One is the rare epic blockbuster that takes itself seriously without becoming self-important. Denis Villeneuve spent years fighting to get this film made his way, and the result earns every frame of its 155-minute runtime.…...
WOKE: 7.1
TRAD: 20.02
AUTH: 88%
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 2021 delivers exactly what the franchise's fanbase wanted and exactly what its critics expected: hyper-violent martial arts action, faithful adaptations of the game's iconic moves and fatalities, and a story shallow enough not to get in…...
WOKE: 4.6
TRAD: 8.19
AUTH: 74%
The Old Guard
The Old Guard surprised a lot of people when it became one of Netflix's biggest hits of 2020.…...
WOKE: 10.9
TRAD: 14.83
AUTH: 84%
Aladdin
Here's the honest take on the 2019 Aladdin: it's better than the critics said and not as good as the box office suggests. It grossed a billion dollars worldwide and earned a 57% critic score.…...
WOKE: 8.18
TRAD: 12.04
AUTH: 85%
Wednesday
Wednesday is the Netflix show that everyone watched. 252 million households in its first 28 days. The most-watched English-language Netflix series at its release. Jenna Ortega as the new Wednesday Addams became a genuine pop-culture moment.…...
WOKE: 16.1
TRAD: 10.64
AUTH: 62%
House of the Dragon
House of the Dragon is Game of Thrones's best legacy: a prequel that proves the world Martin built is deep enough to sustain great television without the Stark family at its center. It is also, from a VirtueVigil perspective, genuinely complicated.…...
WOKE: 12.92
TRAD: 14.54
AUTH: 58%
Bring Her Back
Sally Hawkins ruins you in Bring Her Back. There is no other honest way to start this review.…...
WOKE: 8.54
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 79%
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 is an old-fashioned American epic Western of a kind that Hollywood has largely abandoned - sweeping, unhurried, deeply patriotic, and unapologetically romantic about the American frontier.…...
WOKE: 6.35
TRAD: 28.98
AUTH: 82%
The Life of Chuck
The universe is ending. Nobody knows why. Billboards are appearing all over the world with the face of a man named Charles Krantz, an accountant, with the words: '39 Great Years.…...
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 15.75
AUTH: 82%
The Nun II
The Nun II is the best entry in the Conjuring Universe since the original Conjuring.…...
WOKE: 3.64
TRAD: 15.09
AUTH: 72%
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange is the MCU's most spiritually interesting film, and that is saying something given the franchise's general allergy to anything resembling genuine metaphysics.…...
WOKE: 5.35
TRAD: 14
AUTH: N/A
Dune: Part Three
Denis Villeneuve completes his Dune trilogy with a film that is simultaneously his most visually ambitious and most explicitly ideological.…...
WOKE: 8.2
TRAD: 15.5
AUTH: 92%
Weapons
Weapons is the rare horror film that conservatives do not need to apologize for enjoying. In fact, they may find themselves grinning through it....
WOKE: 6.2
TRAD: 22.04
AUTH: 82%
KPop Demon Hunters
KPop Demon Hunters is the kind of cultural event that forces you to evaluate it on two entirely separate tracks: as a piece of entertainment, and as a vehicle for ideas. On the first track, it is an unqualified triumph.…...
WOKE: 24.18
TRAD: 16.42
AUTH: 85%
The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is a film that tells you exactly what it is from the very first frame, and it does not care if you approve. That was true before release, and it is doubly true now that audiences and critics have had their say....
WOKE: 22.1
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 10%
David
Angel Studios just proved that faith-based cinema can compete with the big boys, and they did it with a 3,000-year-old story about a shepherd kid with a sling....
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 28
AUTH: 55%
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro has been trying to make this movie since the mid-1990s. That is not a figure of speech. He first announced Frankenstein as a project at Universal in 2008. Before that, he had been sketching designs and taking script notes for years.…...
WOKE: 11.66
TRAD: 20.86
AUTH: 68%
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
The DCEU died the way it lived: drowning in its own ambition. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom was supposed to be a triumphant send-off for DC's most commercially successful franchise.…...
WOKE: 31.2
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 42%
Frozen II
Frozen II is the rare Disney sequel that takes bigger ideological swings than the original, and it connects with roughly half of them.…...
WOKE: 19
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 68%
Frozen
Disney's Frozen is both less radical and more subversive than its reputation suggests.…...
WOKE: 13
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 74%
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Twenty-five years after the original Final Destination, the franchise delivers its best installment. That's not faint praise -- Final Destination (2000) was a genuinely clever horror film, and Bloodlines earns comparison to it.…...
WOKE: 2.52
TRAD: 4.48
AUTH: 55%
Wonka
Wonka is the rare prequel that earns its existence. Where most origin stories exist to explain away the mystery of beloved characters, Wonka does something different: it deepens the mystery by showing you where the magic came from....
WOKE: 2.75
TRAD: 14.28
AUTH: 72%
Napoleon
Ridley Scott's Napoleon is a film at war with itself. The battle sequences are extraordinary. The portrait of Napoleon the man is deliberately, sometimes frustratingly, small.…...
WOKE: 10.18
TRAD: 11.28
AUTH: 48%
Wish
Disney's centennial celebration is a fitting monument to everything wrong with modern Disney. Wish is technically competent and thematically empty - a film that cost nearly $200 million and made audiences feel absolutely nothing....
WOKE: 17.45
TRAD: 11.9
AUTH: 58%
Encanto
Encanto is that rare modern Disney film that actually earns its emotional payoff. Set in a magical Colombian valley, it tells the story of Mirabel Madrigal, the one family member without a supernatural gift, who must figure out why the family's magic…...
WOKE: 8.68
TRAD: 18.27
AUTH: 72%
Death of a Unicorn
Let's get the headline out of the way. Yes, Death of a Unicorn has a political lean. It is an anti-capitalist satire wrapped in a creature feature, and it does not try to hide it. The rich people are cartoonishly evil.…...
WOKE: 16.9
TRAD: 12.3
AUTH: 10%
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Tim Burton made a sequel to Beetlejuice 36 years after the original, and the result is exactly what you'd expect from a director who has been coasting on his own aesthetic for at least a decade: a film that looks like a Tim Burton movie, sounds like …...
WOKE: 16
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 43%
Companion
Companion is a sharper movie than you expect and a more ideologically loaded one than the marketing lets on.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 48%
Black Mirror - Season 7
Black Mirror returns for its seventh season with six new episodes that collectively demonstrate both why the show has endured and why it has never been fully co-opted by any one ideological tendency.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 55%
Mercy (2026)
Timur Bekmambetov's Mercy arrives with a killer premise and proceeds to do almost nothing interesting with it.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Andor - Season 2
Andor Season 2 is probably the finest piece of television Disney has produced under the Star Wars banner - and it is, without reservation, the most explicitly political. These two facts are related.…...
WOKE: 15
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 65%
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is a cinematic achievement of genuine rarity. A sequel that expands the scale, deepens the craft, and improves on its predecessor at nearly every technical level.…...
WOKE: 19.36
TRAD: 11.55
AUTH: 72%
Paradise - Season 2
Dan Fogelman built his reputation on This Is Us - a show that knew exactly how to make you cry, that understood emotional architecture with almost clinical precision, and that often used that precision in service of specific progressive narratives ab…...
WOKE: 16
TRAD: 22
AUTH: 68%
Poor Things
Hollywood has always loved a metaphor. But rarely has the industry deployed one this nakedly, or this aggressively, and then handed it four Oscars.…...
WOKE: 47
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 78%
Stranger Things
There was a time when Stranger Things felt like a miracle. In the summer of 2016, Netflix dropped this weird little show about a missing kid in small-town Indiana, and it captured something audiences had been starving for.…...
WOKE: 13
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 62%