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Melania

TRADITIONAL Film · Theatrical (Amazon MGM Studios) · February 19, 2026

A spoiler: Melania is not a documentary in any traditional journalistic sense. Melania Trump said this herself during the film's promotion, describing it as 'a created experience' and 'purposeful storytelling' rather than a documentary.…...

WOKE: 0 TRAD: 8 AUTH: 82%
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Marty Supreme

MIXED Film · Theatrical (A24 / Central Pictures) · February 19, 2026

A spoiler warning is necessary here: Marty Supreme is not the movie its marketing suggests it is. If you are expecting a conventional sports underdog triumph, a Rocky for ping pong, you will be blindsided by what Josh Safdie has actually made.…...

WOKE: 4 TRAD: 7 AUTH: 63%
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Wuthering Heights (2026)

WOKE TRAP Film · Theatrical · February 19, 2026

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights survived 179 years, multiple adaptations, and the entire twentieth century with its reputation intact.…...

WOKE: 36 TRAD: 26 AUTH: 48%
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The White Lotus — Season 3

WOKE TRAP Series · HBO · February 19, 2026

Mike White's third season of The White Lotus is the most spiritually ambitious television he has made, and that ambition is both its most compelling feature and its most revealing ideological tell.…...

WOKE: 16 TRAD: 9 AUTH: 60%
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The Brutalist

WOKE Film · Theatrical (A24 / Focus Features UK) · February 19, 2026

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a serious, demanding, three-and-a-half-hour epic that positions itself as a meditation on the American Dream, artistic integrity, and the immigrant experience.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 58%
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A Real Pain

MIXED Film · Theatrical (Searchlight Pictures) · February 19, 2026

Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain is a small, honest, and unexpectedly moving film about two cousins who travel to Poland to honor their recently deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. It is 90 minutes long. It does not waste a minute.…...

WOKE: 5 TRAD: 7 AUTH: 62%
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Challengers

WOKE Film · Theatrical (Amazon MGM Studios) · February 19, 2026

Challengers is a technically brilliant film and a moral void. Luca Guadagnino is one of the most gifted visual stylists working today, and he brings his full arsenal to this story of a love triangle set across thirteen years of competitive tennis.…...

WOKE: 7 TRAD: 3 AUTH: 32%
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Kinds of Kindness

WOKE Film · Theatrical (Searchlight Pictures) · February 19, 2026

Kinds of Kindness is a nearly three-hour endurance test from Yorgos Lanthimos that systematically dismantles any structure that might give human life meaning.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 2 AUTH: 22%
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Bridgerton — Season 4

WOKE TRAP Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

Bridgerton Season 4 wraps Benedict's story in silk and good intentions — and beneath the Regency corsets and ballroom choreography, quietly delivers one of the franchise's most ambitious ideological rewrites yet.…...

WOKE: 28 TRAD: 12 AUTH: 50%
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Hoppers (2026)

PREDICTED: MIXED Film · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 14 TRAD: 16 AUTH: 58%
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Reminders of Him

PREDICTED: MIXED Film · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 5 TRAD: 5 AUTH: 62%
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Outlander — Season 8

PREDICTED: TRADITIONAL Series · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 4 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 68%
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Youngblood (2026)

PREDICTED: MIXED Film · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....

WOKE: 48 TRAD: 52 AUTH: 62%
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Oppenheimer

MIXED Film · Streaming · February 18, 2026

There's a moment roughly two-thirds through Oppenheimer when J. Robert Oppenheimer — fresh from watching the bomb he built vaporize 80,000 people — stands before a cheering crowd in Los Alamos and tries to look triumphant.…...

WOKE: 30 TRAD: 26 AUTH: 46%
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Anora

WOKE Film · Streaming · February 18, 2026

Confidence: HIGH...

WOKE: 36 TRAD: 10 AUTH: 50%
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Killers of the Flower Moon

MIXED Film · Apple TV+ · February 18, 2026

The most disorienting thing about Killers of the Flower Moon is not its three-and-a-half-hour runtime. It is not the murders — dozens of them, deliberate and methodical.…...

WOKE: 19 TRAD: 15 AUTH: 75%
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Tár

MIXED Film · Streaming · February 18, 2026

Here is a film that has been celebrated by progressive film critics as a sober reckoning with #MeToo, praised by conservative commentators as the most explicitly anti-woke monologue delivered in a mainstream movie since anyone can remember, dismissed…...

WOKE: 7 TRAD: 28 AUTH: 50%
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The Bear

TRADITIONAL Series · Hulu / FX · February 17, 2026

Season 1 of The Bear is genuinely great television. Carmen Berzatto returns to Chicago after his brother Michael's suicide, inheriting a failing Italian beef shop, a mountain of debt, and a staff that ranges from hostile to barely functional.…...

WOKE: 5 TRAD: 9 AUTH: 82%
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Blue Moon

MIXED Film · Sony Pictures Classics · February 17, 2026

Richard Linklater's Blue Moon is a 100-minute hangout movie set in one restaurant on one night, and it works because Ethan Hawke refuses to let you look away....

WOKE: 13.25 TRAD: 18 AUTH: 90%
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I Can Only Imagine 2

STRONGLY TRADITIONAL Film · theatrical · February 17, 2026

The original "I Can Only Imagine" was a genuine phenomenon in faith-based cinema, pulling in $83 million on a shoestring budget and proving that audiences hungry for sincere Christian storytelling would show up in droves.…...

WOKE: 0 TRAD: 8 AUTH: 95%
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Blitz

WOKE Film · Apple TV+ · February 16, 2026

Steve McQueen's "Blitz" arrives dressed in the clothing of a wartime survival story, the kind of tale that should celebrate British resilience, familial devotion, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people under extraordinary duress.…...

WOKE: 11 TRAD: 7 AUTH: 65%
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Nightbitch

WOKE Film · Hulu · February 8, 2026

Nightbitch opens as a character study of maternal exhaustion — a woman losing her identity in the repetitive isolation of full-time parenthood. The performances are grounded. The frustration feels earned.…...

WOKE: 14 TRAD: 0 AUTH: 28%
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The Last of Us — Season 2

WOKE Series · HBO · February 3, 2026

Season 1 earned enormous trust through grounded storytelling and earned emotional beats. Season 2 leverages that trust to introduce ideological reframing that would not have survived scrutiny if presented upfront.…...

WOKE: 11 TRAD: 3 AUTH: 35%
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1923 — Season 2

TRADITIONAL Series · Paramount+ · January 15, 2026

Continues the Yellowstone universe's commitment to depicting traditional American values — land stewardship, family loyalty, personal sacrifice — without apology. Characters are defined by their choices and virtues, not by demographic categories.…...

WOKE: 2 TRAD: 10 AUTH: 88%

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