Below
Below arrives on Netflix the same week as The Social Reckoning, and the contrast is instructive.…...
WOKE: 2.08
TRAD: 8.14
AUTH: 80%
Clayface
Clayface is Mike Flanagan doing what Mike Flanagan does best: taking a supernatural premise and digging into the human horror underneath.…...
WOKE: 1.5
TRAD: 14.18
AUTH: 72%
Yellow Eyes (2026)
Yellow Eyes is a 2026 independent supernatural horror film from director Jesse Korman that arrived on Screambox in August 2026 with little fanfare but a clear sense of what kind of movie it wants to be: an old-fashioned possession-and-curse story sho…...
WOKE: 0.06
TRAD: 7.41
AUTH: 99%
Apartment 7A (2024)
Apartment 7A is a fascinating ideological artifact: a film that uses feminist horror language to tell a story whose moral conclusions are more at home in a church than a gender studies seminar. The satanic cult is evil. Christianity is truth.…...
WOKE: 11.6
TRAD: 20.44
AUTH: 86%
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th is the purest example of a horror film that runs on traditional moral logic. This is not a film about a man in a mask.…...
WOKE: 0.3
TRAD: 12.8
AUTH: 80%
Christine (1983)
Christine is a movie about a boy and his car, and if that sounds like a joke, the film is smart enough to know it is not.…...
WOKE: 0.25
TRAD: 10.64
AUTH: 78%
Resident Evil (2026)
Resident Evil (2026) is the rare video game adaptation that understands its assignment.…...
WOKE: 2.2
TRAD: 7.98
AUTH: Low%
The Twilight Zone
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone is one of the few television shows that genuinely deserves the word 'timeless.' Created at the end of the 1950s -- an era of conformity, Cold War anxiety, and the first stirrings of the civil rights movement -- it used…...
WOKE: 2.87
TRAD: 23.94
AUTH: High%
Is The Conjuring (2013) Woke? | VirtueVigil Review
The Conjuring is one of the most traditionally conservative horror films ever made by a major studio, and its $319 million global box office on a $20 million budget suggests audiences were hungry for exactly that.…...
WOKE: 1
TRAD: 27.44
AUTH: N/A
Fall 2: Deadpoint
Fall 2: Deadpoint proves that sometimes the simplest premise still delivers the strongest punch.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 10.36
AUTH: 100%
Onslaught
Adam Wingard's Onslaught is a lean, mean, 92-minute action-horror movie that knows exactly what it is and refuses to apologize for it.…...
WOKE: 4.59
TRAD: 18.48
AUTH: 80%
American Psycho
American Psycho is a film that has been misunderstood by almost everyone at some point. It has been claimed by men's rights activists as a celebration of masculine aggression. It has been claimed by feminists as a condemnation of male violence.…...
WOKE: 7.28
TRAD: 15.3
AUTH: 75%
Halloween (1978)
Halloween is fifty years old and still nobody has done it better. John Carpenter's 1978 masterpiece did not invent the slasher genre, Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre came first, but it wrote the rules that everyone else has been following, ba…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 22.4
AUTH: 80%
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Jane Schoenbrun has made a film that knows exactly what it is and cares more about being celebrated at Cannes than about telling a story anyone outside a film festival would want to watch.…...
WOKE: 31.64
TRAD: 0.85
AUTH: 8%
The Walking Dead (2010)
The Walking Dead ran for 11 seasons, 177 episodes, and at its peak was the most-watched scripted series in cable television history. It absorbed an enormous amount of cultural energy and then, like most phenomena, faded.…...
WOKE: 5.45
TRAD: 23.34
AUTH: High%
Cuckoo
Tilman Singer's Cuckoo arrives with the kind of premise that horror fans dream about: a remote Alpine resort, a mysterious half-sister who cannot speak, a father who is clearly hiding something, and a creature that mimics the young to replace them.…...
WOKE: 1.36
TRAD: 16.69
AUTH: 92%
The Last of Us - Season 1
HBO's The Last of Us is the rare video game adaptation that doesn't just work but transcends its source material.…...
WOKE: 4.8
TRAD: 23.52
AUTH: 85%
Insidious: Out of the Further
The Insidious franchise has been running for sixteen years now, and what keeps it going is not worldbuilding or lore, it is the same thing that has always powered the best horror films: the primal fear of losing the people you love.…...
WOKE: 0.5
TRAD: 9.24
AUTH: 73%
The End of Oak Street
The End of Oak Street is a tight, 99-minute family survival thriller that spends its runtime on exactly what the premise demands: parents trying to keep their children alive in an impossible situation.…...
WOKE: 2.35
TRAD: 20
AUTH: 72%
Ice Cream Man
Eli Roth returns to his grindhouse roots with Ice Cream Man, a summer horror that knows exactly what it is: a bloody, darkly comic crowd-pleaser about a demonic ice cream vendor terrorizing an idyllic small town.…...
WOKE: 1.5
TRAD: 13.93
AUTH: 10%
The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs is that rare film whose reputation is not inflated by nostalgia.…...
WOKE: 5.48
TRAD: 39.22
AUTH: 88%
Psycho
Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's most influential film and one of the few movies that genuinely changed what cinema was allowed to do.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 12.04
AUTH: 100%
Thrash
Thrash is a shark movie that knows exactly what it is and does not pretend otherwise.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 15.68
AUTH: 88%
The Thing
John Carpenter's The Thing was a commercial failure and critical punching bag in 1982, released two weeks after E.T. and savaged by reviewers who found its nihilism and body horror repellent.…...
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 21.56
AUTH: 95%
Stranger Things (Season 1)
Stranger Things Season 1 is the rare cultural phenomenon that earns every ounce of its acclaim.…...
WOKE: 5.4
TRAD: 26.74
AUTH: 83%
Scary Movie (2026)
Scary Movie (2026) is not a good movie in any conventional sense. It is a loud, crude, aggressively stupid 96-minute assault on taste, logic, and the human attention span.…...
WOKE: 4.27
TRAD: 10.94
AUTH: 75%
Leviticus
Leviticus is a competent horror film with a very clear ideological mission: to argue that religious communities opposed to homosexuality are not just wrong, but monstrous....
WOKE: 23.8
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 12%
Hungry
Hungry knows exactly what it is: a survival horror film about a hippo in the Louisiana bayou. It does not pretend to be anything else, and within that frame it delivers a tightly constructed 93 minutes of sustained tension....
WOKE: 3.4
TRAD: 12.52
AUTH: 63%
Knock at the Cabin
Let me tell you the most surprising thing about Knock at the Cabin: it is a film about gay people that arrives at a verdict more theologically conservative than anything Hollywood has produced in a decade....
WOKE: 10.64
TRAD: 14.22
AUTH: 57%
Kraken
The Kraken is real. That is the only premise Kraken (2026) needs, and to the film's credit, it commits to that premise without reservation....
WOKE: 7.38
TRAD: 11.06
AUTH: 60%
Alien: Earth
The Alien franchise has been waiting for someone to bring the xenomorph to Earth in a serious way since at least the 1990s. Two Alien vs. Predator films tried and largely failed.…...
WOKE: 11.18
TRAD: 13.92
AUTH: 55%
Alien
Alien is 47 years old and it still works. That says something about the quality of its construction....
WOKE: 7.74
TRAD: 16.38
AUTH: 68%
Squid Game: Season 3
Squid Game Season 3 is the conclusion Hwang Dong-hyuk was always building toward. It is bleak, morally committed, and technically excellent. Whether you find it satisfying depends almost entirely on whether you share his politics....
WOKE: 18.7
TRAD: 12.92
AUTH: 41%
The Crow
The original Crow is one of those films that should not work as well as it does. Brandon Lee plays a murdered rock musician who comes back from the dead to kill the people who murdered him and his fiancee, guided by a literal crow.…...
WOKE: 13.92
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 42%
The Shining
The Shining is the most debated horror film ever made. Room 237, a documentary about fan interpretations of the film, dedicates ninety minutes to theories about what Kubrick was really doing, including the theory that the film is a confession that he…...
WOKE: 13.7
TRAD: 20.64
AUTH: 58%
The Exorcist
Let's get something out of the way first: The Exorcist is not a woke movie. It is the opposite of a woke movie.…...
WOKE: 2.8
TRAD: 26.74
AUTH: 89%
Aliens
There is a version of this review that starts with the film's feminist credentials and works backward. That version is not this review.…...
WOKE: 6.8
TRAD: 20.58
AUTH: 75%
Stranger Things Season 5
The final season of Stranger Things carries the weight of a cultural event. This is a show that built a genuine audience relationship over nearly a decade across five seasons. The finale has to be worth that investment. It mostly is....
WOKE: 10.66
TRAD: 18.48
AUTH: 63%
Midsommar
Midsommar is a genuinely good film. That's the most important thing to say before everything else, because it shapes how dangerous it is....
WOKE: 20.58
TRAD: 2.4
AUTH: 10%
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place is, without question, one of the most pro-family mainstream studio films of the past decade. That's not a political argument. It's a description of what the movie is about....
WOKE: 2.9
TRAD: 22.54
AUTH: 89%
We Bury the Dead
The Australian zombie film has developed a distinct subgenre identity in recent years, and We Bury the Dead belongs to the thoughtful end of it. This is not a film about survival.…...
WOKE: 6.44
TRAD: 15.54
AUTH: 71%
Backrooms
Backrooms is A24's biggest box office success to date, and it earns that crown by delivering a genuinely unsettling horror experience that respects its source material.…...
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 11.14
AUTH: 70%
The First Omen
The 1976 Omen is one of the great supernatural horror films. Robert Thorn is an American diplomat who discovers his son may be the Antichrist. The film is about a father trying to protect his family from a truth too terrible to accept.…...
WOKE: 15.32
TRAD: 7.88
AUTH: 58%
Obsession
Here is what Curry Barker understands that too many horror filmmakers get wrong: the scariest thing isn't a monster. It's what a person does to themselves when they're desperate enough....
WOKE: 4.4
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 71%
Corporate Retreat
Corporate Retreat is a survival horror film that uses the corporate team-building setting as a pressure cooker for examining moral choice, loyalty, and the true measure of a person under existential threat.…...
WOKE: 16.4
TRAD: 29.4
AUTH: 68%
Evil Dead Rise
Here's the question VirtueVigil readers want answered: is Evil Dead Rise just another female-led horror film where the message is that men are useless and women are the only ones capable of defending what matters? Short answer: no.…...
WOKE: 5.48
TRAD: 15.96
AUTH: 71%
Hokum
Gothic horror has always understood something that secular literary culture keeps forgetting: the past does not stay buried....
WOKE: 1.7
TRAD: 14.24
AUTH: 69%
The Shrouds
A man's wife died. He couldn't let her go. So he invented a way to keep watching her....
WOKE: 6.2
TRAD: 11.82
AUTH: 66%
Evil Dead: Burn
Evil Dead: Burn is the franchise asking the same question it has asked since 1981: what does it take to survive when the people you love try to kill you?...
WOKE: 3.1
TRAD: 13.86
AUTH: 67%
It
Stephen King's It is one of the longest novels ever written by a major American author. It is also one of the most thematically traditional.…...
WOKE: 7.4
TRAD: 15.54
AUTH: 68%
Get Out
Let's be direct about what Get Out is. It is a very effective horror film built on a very specific political argument: white liberals are the primary threat to Black Americans, they disguise their predation behind progressive language, and the approp…...
WOKE: 16.14
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 20%
Deep Water
Deep Water is Renny Harlin's return to the shark-thriller genre that made Deep Blue Sea a classic. The film centers on a ship in open water where a shark encounter forces the crew into a desperate survival situation.…...
WOKE: 3.5
TRAD: 14.2
AUTH: 68%
Hunting Matthew Nichols
Hunting Matthew Nichols is a microbudget Canadian found footage horror film that punches well above its $275,000 weight.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 12.36
AUTH: 91%
Sinners
Ryan Coogler made a vampire movie set in Jim Crow Mississippi and turned it into one of the best films of 2025. That sentence should not work. It does.…...
WOKE: 15.04
TRAD: 29.96
AUTH: 78%
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%
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 Woman in the Yard
Here is what you need to know about The Woman in the Yard before you buy a ticket: this is not a haunted house film. There is no monster. The Woman standing in Ramona's yard is Ramona.…...
WOKE: 6.44
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 55%
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
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Movie Review: Is It Woke? | VirtueVigil
There's a store at the Highland Place mall called Free Eden. It sells cupcake-scented candles, charm bracelets, and the kind of overpriced cotton sundress that costs more than your rent. The employees are gorgeous. They have their own slang.…...
WOKE: 27.78
TRAD: 21.22
AUTH: 65%
Faces of Death
Here's something you don't expect to say about a Faces of Death remake: it has something on its mind....
WOKE: 10.3
TRAD: 10.36
AUTH: 82%
Exit 8
Let's start with the premise, because the premise is everything....
WOKE: 0.7
TRAD: 31.64
AUTH: 96%
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%
Smile
Smile opened to $22 million on a $17 million budget and eventually grossed $217 million worldwide.…...
WOKE: 5.04
TRAD: 14.82
AUTH: 75%
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%
Cast Away
Cast Away is one of the most stripped-down films Hollywood has ever produced. A FedEx systems analyst named Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) survives a plane crash in the South Pacific and spends four years alone on an uninhabited island.…...
WOKE: 1.75
TRAD: 18.97
AUTH: 88%
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is exactly what it needs to be. That's not as easy as it sounds....
WOKE: 9.18
TRAD: 8.68
AUTH: 55%
Us
Jordan Peele's Us has a problem that Get Out didn't have: it's trying to do too many things. Get Out was a scalpel. Us is a Swiss Army knife that doesn't quite close back up properly....
WOKE: 13.14
TRAD: 8.89
AUTH: 88%
Together
Together is a body horror film about codependency that takes its central metaphor more literally than any relationship drama has any right to.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 15.54
AUTH: 70%
Return to Silent Hill
Return to Silent Hill is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2, which has been called the greatest psychological horror narrative ever made.…...
WOKE: 15.38
TRAD: 16.24
AUTH: 52%
Clown in a Cornfield
Clown in a Cornfield is a competently made slasher with a clear political agenda that it conceals until past the midpoint and then delivers with zero ambiguity. If you enjoy slasher genre mechanics, the first half delivers them.…...
WOKE: 23.49
TRAD: 4.9
AUTH: 25%
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%
The Menu
The Menu is a slick, well-crafted class satire that will make you laugh and make you uneasy, sometimes at the same time. It is also a film whose ideological message is more muddled than its admirers want to admit....
WOKE: 9.3
TRAD: 9.66
AUTH: 74%
Nope
Jordan Peele's third film is his most formally ambitious and his most politically restrained, which may be why it polarized audiences in ways his earlier work didn't.…...
WOKE: 6.66
TRAD: 20.79
AUTH: 70%
Terrifier 3
Art the Clown is back. He is dressed as Santa Claus. And he is going to ruin your Christmas in the most graphically violent way imaginable....
WOKE: 8.22
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 72%
Scream VI
Scream VI moves the franchise from Woodsboro to New York City, trades Sidney Prescott for the Carpenter sisters, and delivers exactly what a Scream sequel is supposed to deliver: a satisfying whodunit structure, escalating kill sequences, meta-commen…...
WOKE: 7.4
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 70%
The Black Phone 2
Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone 2 is a sequel that earns its existence by asking a genuinely good question: what happens to the kids who survive?...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 10.15
AUTH: 79%
Smile 2
Parker Finn's Smile 2 is a bigger, louder, more technically ambitious horror film than its predecessor. It is also, paradoxically, a more traditionally structured morality tale.…...
WOKE: 8.1
TRAD: 10.92
AUTH: 80%
M3GAN
M3GAN became a cultural phenomenon in January 2023. The viral dance clip. The meme economy. The gay icon discourse. The TikTok explosion. None of that tells you anything about what the film actually argues....
WOKE: 7.8
TRAD: 14.98
AUTH: 82%
Heart Eyes
It's Valentine's Day in Seattle. A serial killer called the Heart Eyes Killer is hunting couples. Jay and Ally are coworkers pulling overtime who have made it professionally painful that they cannot stand each other.…...
WOKE: 5.45
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 69%
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%
Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear is the rare case of a movie that fully delivers on its premise without apology or pretension. You came to see a bear on cocaine commit grievous violence against an ensemble of unlucky bystanders.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 9.87
AUTH: 60%
Until Dawn
Until Dawn is the rarest thing in video game adaptations: it is honest about what the source material is and makes smart choices about what to translate.…...
WOKE: 2.2
TRAD: 12.2
AUTH: 60%
The Ugly Stepsister
Emilie Blichfeldt looked at Cinderella and asked the question nobody wanted answered: what would the ugly stepsister's story actually feel like if you told it honestly? The answer, it turns out, involves tapeworms, butcher knives, and more blood than…...
WOKE: 18.12
TRAD: 11.24
AUTH: N/A
The Gorge
The Gorge is a high-concept premise executed with genuine craft. Two elite soldiers, one American and one Lithuanian, are posted to guard towers on opposite sides of a remote classified gorge for one year. No contact with each other.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 12.25
AUTH: 72%
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%
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: 34.83
TRAD: 10.36
AUTH: 10%
Five Nights at Freddy's
Five Nights at Freddy's is not a great horror film. But it is something rarer and more interesting: a mainstream Hollywood production built on a conservative Christian creator's values, made with his direct creative control, and released at a moment …...
WOKE: 2.5
TRAD: 14.35
AUTH: 34%
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come takes the original's eat-the-rich horror-comedy formula and dials it up to a global conspiracy. Whether that's a feature or a bug depends entirely on how you felt about the first film.…...
WOKE: 16.85
TRAD: 11.2
AUTH: 48%
Primate
Take Cujo, replace the dog with a chimpanzee, move it to a gorgeous Hawaiian cliff house, and crank the gore to eleven. That is Primate in a sentence, and honestly, that sentence sells it better than any marketing campaign could....
WOKE: 3.3
TRAD: 15.52
AUTH: 30%
The Monkey
This review contains detailed plot analysis and reveals key story elements including the film's ending....
WOKE: 10.8
TRAD: 20.8
AUTH: 65%
Scary Movie 6
Twenty-six years after the original and thirteen years after the widely reviled Scary Movie 5, the Wayans brothers are back. And they're bringing a flamethrower to the culture war....
WOKE: 7.4
TRAD: 13.66
AUTH: 64%
MaXXXine
Ti West's X trilogy ends the way it began - with a woman who refuses to apologize for wanting more.…...
WOKE: 31.5
TRAD: 13.6
AUTH: 55%
Wolf Man
Wolf Man is a small, grim, effective horror film that works best when it stops trying to say something and just lets you watch a man fall apart....
WOKE: 7.8
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 58%
Drop
Drop is the best contained thriller since Searching (2018) and one of the most effectively constructed genre films in recent memory.…...
WOKE: 5.6
TRAD: 10.5
AUTH: 71%
Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil is one of the most uncomfortable films of 2024. It's a clinical, precise horror film about a man who cannot protect his family because he has spent his adult life outsourcing confrontation to social norms. Deeply effective.…...
WOKE: 9.18
TRAD: 6.78
AUTH: 44%
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: 2.06
TRAD: 6.66
AUTH: 55%
Presence
Presence is the most technically inventive horror film of early 2025. It is also a quietly progressive film wearing an arthouse horror mask....
WOKE: 22.36
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 32%
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
The Bone Temple is better than it has any right to be. After the messy second half of 28 Years Later, expectations for this direct sequel were low.…...
WOKE: 10.04
TRAD: 14.26
AUTH: 52%
28 Years Later
28 Years Later is two movies welded together, and the seam shows....
WOKE: 11.94
TRAD: 12.46
AUTH: 48%
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a frustrating film to score because it's genuinely well-made and carries real emotional weight, right up until you look at what it's actually saying....
WOKE: 10.8
TRAD: 11.69
AUTH: 41%
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The Conjuring: Last Rites is not the best film in the franchise. That distinction still belongs to James Wan's 2013 original.…...
WOKE: 5.1
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 80%
Send Help (2026)
Sam Raimi has been making gloriously unhinged movies for over 40 years. From the cabin in the Tennessee woods to the streets of Manhattan to the multiverse itself, the guy runs on one fuel: controlled chaos delivered with a grin.…...
WOKE: 24
TRAD: 39.25
AUTH: 72%
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is one of the most uncompromisingly traditional horror films made by a major director in the past decade.…...
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 18.9
AUTH: 72%
Longlegs
Longlegs is the most unnerving American horror film of 2024 and one of the few in recent memory that takes Satanism seriously as a moral force rather than as ironic aesthetic.…...
WOKE: 6.3
TRAD: 12.6
AUTH: 71%
Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein is Diablo Cody's Jennifer's Body with worse reviews and a better aesthetic. That sentence is both a description and a verdict....
WOKE: 21
TRAD: 4.2
AUTH: 68%
Iron Lung
This review contains spoilers. Iron Lung earns its ending and the ending requires discussion....
WOKE: 5.1
TRAD: 14.7
AUTH: 71%
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney spent years developing Immaculate as a vehicle that would let her operate in the horror genre while carrying a message she clearly believed in.…...
WOKE: 25.4
TRAD: 3.5
AUTH: 72%
Dracula: A Love Tale
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a strange, kitschy, deeply sincere movie. And that sincerity is precisely what saves it....
WOKE: 7.2
TRAD: 25.2
AUTH: 78%
Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is the best Alien film since James Cameron's Aliens (1986). That is not faint praise.…...
WOKE: 10.5
TRAD: 16.8
AUTH: 65%
Abigail
Abigail does exactly what it promises and does it with more craft than the premise deserves. That is meant as a compliment....
WOKE: 7.2
TRAD: 8.4
AUTH: 72%
The Substance
Hollywood has always fed on its own. Stars rise, burn bright, and are discarded - usually on a schedule dictated by age, gender, and the appetite of an industry that treats women as decorative objects with expiration dates.…...
WOKE: 37.28
TRAD: 13.18
AUTH: 70%
The Strangers: Chapter 3
The original The Strangers (2008) earned its place in horror history with a deceptively simple premise: three masked killers, a couple, an isolated house, no explanation offered and none needed.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 7.2
AUTH: 48%
Ready or Not 2
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: 6
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 48%
Heretic
Let's not dance around it. Heretic is not a horror film that happens to touch on religion.…...
WOKE: 41.2
TRAD: 13.65
AUTH: 15%
Opus
For audiences who agree with progressive critique of celebrity, capitalism, complicity: film works. For conservative audiences or those seeking entertainment: film is betrayal dressed in transgression. Woke trap real.…...
WOKE: 8.4
TRAD: 5.1
AUTH: N/A