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Backrooms (2026) Review – More Questions Than Answers

In one sentence: When a struggling furniture store owner discovers a mysterious liminal space hidden behind the walls of his shop, his attempts to understand it draw others into a surreal and increasingly dangerous world. A24’s popularity is growing with each of its movies and its latest film, Backrooms, directed by its youngest director, Kane…
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Ella McCay (2025) Review – A Film That Tries to Be Everything

In one sentence: Thrust into leadership by circumstance, Ella McCay struggles to balance public responsibility with private chaos as everything threatens to collapse at once. Some films try to balance ambition, emotion and quirk in equal measure, but Ella McCay struggles under the weight of its own intentions. What aims to be a warm, character…
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Love Me (2025) Review – A Film Overwhelmed by Its Own Ambition

In one sentence: Love Me imagines a future in which two artificial intelligences form a relationship by learning about human love through the digital traces people leave behind. Science fiction can offer sharp commentary on the world we live in and the direction we are heading. Love Me certainly aims to spark this kind of…