2026

Pruett’s reviews

• New movies to see, stream or skip in April 2026 – 4/12/26 – 828newsNOW
  • FACES OF DEATH
  • HAMLET
  • MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
  • VAMPIRES OF THE VELVET LOUNGE
• Animation station: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ and a new ‘Star Wars’ show – 4/8/26 – 828newsNOW
• Are ‘Ready or Not 2’ and ‘They Will Kill You’ the same movie? – 3/30/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Project Hail Mary’ is a grand, gorgeous, galactic good time – 3/24/26 – 828newsNOW
• Stabby’s dollhouse: ‘Dolly’ is derivative slasher fun – 3/13/26 – 828newsNOW
• 3 movies to see, stream or skip in March 2026 – 3/9/26 – 828newsNOW
  • HOPPERS
  • THE ALABAMA SOLUTION
  • SCREAM 7
• Oscars variety pack: ‘Kokuho,’ ‘Cutting Through Rocks,’ ‘Sirāt’ – 2/24/26 – 828newsNOW
• Killer double-feature: ‘How to Make a Killing’ and ‘Psycho Killer’ – 2/21/26 – 828newsNOW
• Oh bruther: ‘”Wuthering Heights”‘ is a frightful bore – 2/14/26 – 828newsNOW
• Charli XCX mockumentary ‘The Moment’ isn’t ‘Spinal Tap’ – 2/11/26 – 828newsNOW
• 3 new movies to see, stream or skip in February 2026 – 2/8/26 – 828newsNOW
  • GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE
  • VIVA VERDI!
  • THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 3
• The well-meaning ‘Whistle’ is a bit of a whiff – 2/5/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Send Help’ is campy, gross and total paradise for horror fans – 2/3/26 – 828newsNOW
• Zombie movie ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ has braaaains – 1/24/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘The Rip’ is the rare Ben Affleck and Matt Damon movie to skip – 1/16/26 – 828newsNOW
• Zombies, a killer chimp and… water polo? ‘The Plague,’ ‘Primate,’ ‘We Bury the Dead’ – 1/14/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ is more jet lag than romcom – 1/8/26 – 828newsNOW
• 3 new movies to see, stream or skip in January 2026 – 1/4/26– 828newsNOW
  • THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
  • THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
  • THE HOUSEMAID

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2025

Pruett’s reviews

• The 25 best movies of 2025 – 12/29/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Song Sung Blue’ is a messy melodrama, but sung sweet – 12/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 5 international movies of 2025 – 12/23/25 – 828newsNOW
• Threequel ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a lukewarm rehash – 12/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 5 animated movies of 2025 – 12/12/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in December 2025 – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
  • ETERNITY
  • OH. WHAT. FUN.
  • JAY KELLY
  • RENTAL FAMILY
  • ZOOTOPIA 2
• ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ has faith in Josh O’Connor – 12/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Ethan Hawke is a shooting star in Broadway biopic ‘Blue Moon’ – 11/30/25 – 828newsNOW
• Darker, Oz-ier ‘Wicked: For Good’ is a change for the worse – 11/20/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘The Running Man’ has a charley horse of a third act – 11/17/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in November 2025 – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
  • BUGONIA
  • CHRISTY
  • DIE MY LOVE
  • HEDDA
  • NUREMBERG
• ‘Predator: Badlands’ is a real good time– 11/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• Harrowing Iranian film ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is made of scar tissue – 11/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Scream queens: The 5 best horror movies of 2025 – 10/30/25 – 828newsNOW
• Scream scraps: The 5 worst horror movies of 2025 – 10/26/25 – 828newsNOW
• Jacob Elordi is electric in Netflix’s gorgeous, imbalanced ‘Frankenstein’ – 10/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ is a royal flush of style, but not substance – 10/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• Interlocking nuclear drama ‘A House of Dynamite’ blows its third act – 10/12/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in October 2025 – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
  • THE BALTIMORONS
  • BONE LAKE
  • GOOD BOY
  • THE SMASHING MACHINE
  • STEVE
• PTA’s phenomenal ‘One Battle After Another’ is a revolutionary revelation – 10/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ is dull, baffling malarkey – 9/21/25 – 828newsNOW
• Stephen King adaptation ‘The Long Walk’ trips over itself – 9/15/25 – 828newsNOW
• Hauntingly familiar ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ conjures up nothing new – 9/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in September 2025 – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
  • CAUGHT STEALING
  • EDEN
  • THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
  • THE TOXIC AVENGER
  • THE ROSES
• Body doubles: ‘Freakier Friday’ and ‘Nobody 2’ are subpar sequels – 8/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Weapons’ is a very smart, very scary horror epic – 8/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in August 2025 – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
  • CLOUD
  • THE NAKED GUN
  • SKETCH
  • SORRY, BABY
  • THE UGLY STEPSISTER
• ‘Together’ pokes fun at codependence but can’t stick the landing – 8/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• Fantastic… fine: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ review – 7/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Eddington’ is a satirical return to 2020 and a frightening vision of now – 7/20/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ remembers the 90s better than you – 7/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to stream or skip in July 2025 – 7/14/25 – 828newsNOW
  • 40 ACRES
  • ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY
  • ECHO VALLEY
  • KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
  • MISERICORDIA
• The new ‘Superman’ soars – 7/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 10 movies of 2025… so far – 7/6/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘F1’ is fast, formulaic, exhilarating race car stuntwork – 7/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ is a mutant misfire – 7/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Terminat-her: ‘M3GAN 2.0’ – 6/27/25 – 828newsNOW
• Dragons and alien abductions: ‘Elio’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ – 6/26/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Materialists’ is a match made in heaven for Celine Song fans – 6/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• Espionage, Wes Anderson-style: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – 6/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Ballerina’ is in step with the best of John Wick – 6/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• 3 new movies to see, stream or skip in June 2025 – 6/1/25 – 828newsNOW
  • BRING HER BACK
  • FRIENDSHIP
  • KARATE KID: LEGENDS
• The last and too serious: ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ – 5/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Lilo & Stitch’ is a harmless return to Hawaii – 5/23/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is fun for the whole family – 5/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• The Week-ugh: Jenna Ortega outshines The Weeknd in ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ – 5/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to see, stream or skip in May 2025 – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
  • ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR
  • BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
  • THE SURFER
  • THUNDERBOLTS*
  • UNTIL DAWN
• VIDEO: ‘The Shrouds’ review, plus all 23 Cronenberg movies ranked – 5/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• The bloody, bluesy ‘Sinners’ is the best movie of the year – 4/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• 5 new movies to stream, see or skip in April 2025 – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
  • THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
  • DEATH OF A UNICORN
  • DROP
  • MAGAZINE DREAMS
  • NOVOCAINE
• ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ as reviewed by a film critic and a nine-year-old – 4/9/25 – 828newsNOW
• Mirror, mirror, on the green screen: The ‘Snow White’ live-action remake – 3/27/25 – 828newsNOW
• Marriage advice from a spy movie: The romance of ‘Black Bag’ – 3/18/25 – 828newsNOW
• Robert Pattinson stars with Robert Pattinson in ‘Mickey 17’ – 3/15/25 – 828newsNOW
• Curious gorge: ‘The Monkey,’ ‘The Gorge’ – 2/22/25 – 828newsNOW
• Red Hulk, red hat, real bad? ‘Paddington in Peru,’ ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ – 2/17/25 – 828newsNOW
• My bloody Valentines: ‘Heart Eyes,’ ‘Love Hurts’ – 2/9/25 – 828newsNOW
• The big, bold beauty of ‘The Brutalist’ and misguided ‘Companion’ – 2/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• Camera is character in BP nominee ‘Nickel Boys,’ ghost story ‘Presence’ – 1/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘The Last Showgirl’ sparkles, bananas ‘Better Man’ bores – 1/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• The drama and yawns of ‘Juror #2’ and ‘A Complete Unknown’ – 1/5/25 – 828newsNOW

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2024

Pruett’s reviews

• The strange sizzle of ‘Babygirl’ and Gothic perfection of ‘Nosferatu’ – 12/27/24 – 828newsNOW
• Cats and dogs: Amy Adams is ‘Nightbitch’ and a ‘The Lion King’ prequel – 12/21/24 – 828newsNOW
• Daniel Craig in ‘Queer’ and an animated ‘Lord of the Rings’ – 12/13/24 – 828newsNOW
• Apocalyptic triple-feature: ‘Werewolves,’ ‘Flow,’ and ‘Y2K’ – 12/6/24 – 828newsNOW
• Jingle bell ‘The Rock’: ‘Red One’ and ‘Moana 2’ reviews – 11/29/24 – 828newsNOW
• Defying graviator: ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ film reviews – 11/22/24 – 828newsNOW
• Tragicomic truthfulness: ‘Anora’ and ‘A Real Pain’ – 11/16/24 – 828newsNOW
• True believers: ‘Here’ and ‘Heretic’ – 11/11/24 – 828newsNOW
• Vampire flick ‘Abigail’ is a bloody pirou-letdown – 4/29/24 – The Appalachian
• ‘Civil War’ doesn’t pick a side, and that’s the point – 4/23/24 – The Appalachian
• Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ comes to baboone – 4/10/24 – The Appalachian
• The church of Sydney Sweeney: ‘Immaculate’ Review – 3/26/24 – The Appalachian
• ‘Dune: Part Two’ is more than sandworm sci-fi – 3/6/24 – The Appalachian
• Space thriller ‘I.S.S.’ rockets into nowhere – 2/2/24 – The Appalachian

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2023

Pruett’s reviews

• The magnificent melodrama of ‘May December’ – 12/18/23 – The Appalachian
• Netflix’s ‘The Killer’ hits its target – 11/29/23 – The Appalachian
• ‘Napoleon’ shorts out with curbed Kirby, fussy Phoenix – 11/28/23 – The Appalachian
• DiCaprio, Gladstone score with Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ – 11/8/23 – The Appalachian
• Pru’s boo reviews: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ fails to frighten – 10/30/23 – The Appalachian
• Pru’s boo reviews: ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ – 10/29/23 – The Appalachian
• Pru’s boo reviews: 19 years of ‘Saw’ – 10/13/23 – The Appalachian
• Pru’s boo reviews: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ – 9/20/23 – The Appalachian
• Paddington meets powder: Reviewing ‘Cocaine Bear’ – 3/22/23 – The Appalachian
• QuantuMESS: Reviewing ‘Ant-Man 3’ – 3/2/23 – The Appalachian
• Disturbingly delicious: Reviewing ‘The Menu’ – 1/20/23 – The Appalachian
• Don’t bother, darling: “Don’t Worry Darling” review – 10/25/22 – The Appalachian