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The movie’s official title didn’t need to be Lee Cronin’s The Mummy to tell us it was from Cronin. This movie feels exactly like his breakout major feature, Evil Dead Rise. So much so...
CRAWL (2019) is a horror/thriller written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen, and directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D), with a simple premise: If battling a hurricane wasn’t enough, what if...
The Drama (2026) With The Drama, Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli continues his fascination with the fragile absurdities of identity and relationships, following up his sleeper hit Dream Scenario (2023) with something both more romantic...
There’s nothing like the release of a new horror-action-comedy. Especially when it’s about two sisters fighting back against corrupt rich people who are secretly Satanists that have confined said two sisters in a fancy...
A common critique of modern trailers is that they often spoil too much story. Many give away key plot beats, the funniest jokes of a comedy, or the best scare scenes. The intent is...
Welcome back to Flickchart’s Countdown to Doomsday, an article series where we tick down each era of Marvel cinema as we head towards the MCU’s big multiverse clash in Avengers: Doomsday. We are looking...
Project Hail Mary is an artistic “all hail” to originality, at least mostly. This is an adaptation of a best-selling Andy Weir (The Martian) novel, but in a world where Hollywood big-budget sci-fi action...
A common refrain when it comes to adaptations is that the book is always better than the movie. And usually, that’s right. By their nature, books enjoy more robust storytelling as the only limit...
The Bride plays like a movie where its director and writer Maggie Gyllenhaal had about ten different ideas to reinvent The Bride of Frankenstein as a modern feminist tale. Rather than be discerning and...
For the fifteenth year in a row, Flickcharters have voted for their favorites in a wide variety of categories, from the worst and best of the previous year to the films that interest us...
Studio interference strikes again. Though with Scream 7, it strikes in a somewhat different fashion. While originally slated as the continuation of the characters and storylines from the recent fifth and sixth entries in...
I don't know that anything has been uniformly one way or the other across all superhero films. That said, I…
Do you think this is a return to the Reeve-style moral simplicity and fresh-and-fun superhero films? Or was this a…
It should be on there! I linked it to rank if you click on the film title!
been wanting to rank this for a couple weeks now and this hasn't shown up on the site yet
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…