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The Housemaid

WOKE Film · Theatrical (Lionsgate / Hidden Pictures) · February 19, 2026

Let's be honest about what The Housemaid is before we decide whether it's any good.…...

WOKE: 8 TRAD: 5 AUTH: 42%
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Hurry Up Tomorrow

MIXED Film · Theatrical (Lionsgate) · February 19, 2026

Let's get something out of the way. Hurry Up Tomorrow is a vanity project. It may be the most unambiguous vanity project to receive a wide theatrical release in recent memory.…...

WOKE: 4 TRAD: 5 AUTH: 52%
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Crime 101

MIXED Film · Theatrical (Working Title / Universal) · February 19, 2026

Bart Layton's Crime 101 is the kind of movie Hollywood used to make all the time and rarely bothers with anymore.…...

WOKE: 6 TRAD: 8 AUTH: 62%
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Crime 101 (2026)

TRADITIONAL Film · Theatrical · February 19, 2026

Old-school doesn't have to mean simple. Crime 101 is the kind of crime picture Hollywood used to make before every heist had to double as a statement about something. There's a jewel thief with a code.…...

WOKE: 8 TRAD: 19 AUTH: 65%
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Love Lies Bleeding

WOKE Film · Theatrical / MGM+ · February 19, 2026

Rose Glass made Saint Maud on a very small budget, got it into A24's catalog, and watched it become a cult film about a woman whose religious intensity crosses into psychosis.…...

WOKE: 26 TRAD: 9 AUTH: 70%
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How to Make a Killing (2026)

MIXED Film · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

Glen Powell murdering his way through a family tree to reclaim stolen wealth sounds like the pitch for a crowd-pleasing dark comedy — and largely, How to Make a Killing delivers exactly that.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 14 AUTH: 50%
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They Will Kill You

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: 4 TRAD: 4 AUTH: 55%
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Scarpetta

PREDICTED: CAUTION 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: 58 TRAD: 42 AUTH: 55%
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Psycho Killer

TRADITIONAL Film · Theatrical · February 18, 2026

Andrew Kevin Walker wrote Se7en — one of the most morally coherent crime films of the past thirty years, a movie that understood evil as evil and paid the price for staring too long. That screenplay took years to get made. So did this one.…...

WOKE: 3 TRAD: 29 AUTH: 78%
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Conclave

WOKE TRAP Film · Streaming · February 18, 2026

Edward Berger's Conclave is the most dangerous kind of progressive film: one that is genuinely excellent....

WOKE: 42.6 TRAD: 3.85 AUTH: 10%
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Saltburn

WOKE TRAP Film · Streaming · February 18, 2026

Confidence: HIGH...

WOKE: 35 TRAD: 3 AUTH: 50%
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Ozark

WOKE Series · Netflix · February 17, 2026

Ozark is genuinely good television. Across its four-season run, it delivered some of the tightest crime-thriller writing on any streaming platform.…...

WOKE: 9 TRAD: 5 AUTH: 64%
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Yellowjackets

MIXED Series · Showtime / Paramount+ · February 17, 2026

Yellowjackets arrived with a pitch that practically dared you to watch: a girls' soccer team crashes in the Canadian wilderness, and over nineteen months they descend into tribal violence and cannibalism. Season one delivers on that promise, mostly.…...

WOKE: 8 TRAD: 6 AUTH: 70%
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't

WOKE Film · · February 15, 2026

This transcript is a glossy, crowd-pleasing heist fantasy that repeatedly moralizes theft as “justice” and uses modern political talking points as applause lines.…...

WOKE: 18 TRAD: 7 AUTH: 50%
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Severance — Season 2

MIXED Series · Apple TV+ · January 22, 2026

The anti-corporate themes are structurally embedded and largely organic to the world-building. Some ideological markers are present but remain secondary to genuine narrative ambition.…...

WOKE: 6 TRAD: 4 AUTH: 72%

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