Brian Tallerico
Movie Reviews

As You Wish: Rob Reiner (1947-2025) | Tributes

As the world was mourning the antisemitic murders on the first night of Hannukkah in Australia and America’s all-too-common gun violence, this time

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“One Battle After Another” Wins Record Number of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Festivals & Awards

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” broke the record Thursday night for the most wins by any film from the Chicago Film

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“One Battle After Another,” “Sinners” Lead Chicago Film Critics Association Nominees | Festivals & Awards

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” (also named the best film of the year by this site today) and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners”

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“Call of Duty: Black Ops 7” Signals a Franchise in Stasis | Video Games

“Call of Duty: Black Ops 6” was one of the more underrated games of 2025, a blockbuster experience with a genuinely engaging campaign

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Welcome to the Family Captures Chaos & Coolness of One of Hollywood’s Most Memorable Franchises | Books

An author needs to meet a subject on its own terms to find the right tone for the story being told. For example,

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“Battlefield 6” Seeks to Reclaim the Front Line of Multiplayer Shooters | Video Games

“Battlefield” has been around for over two decades. Still, even its most diehard fans would probably argue that it’s been a bit of

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CBS Wants Your Sitcom Time to Be Spent at the “DMV” | TV/Streaming

There’s something comforting about a well-done workplace comedy. It’s the relatability of people sanded down by capitalism, forced to go into cubicles or

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Criterion’s “The Wes Anderson Archive” is the Blu-ray Box Set of the Year | DVD/Blu-Ray

Collectors of physical media need to get their hands on Criterion’s box set of the year, a beautiful collection of the first ten

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Fantastic Fest 2025: CAMP, Bad Haircut, Theater is Dead | Festivals & Awards

My final dispatch from the annual genre fest known as Fantastic Fest highlights three young filmmakers, a reminder of how much this event

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Fantastic Fest 2025: Mārama, Mother of Flies, Bulk | Festivals & Awards

One of the best things about Fantastic Fest is the programming team’s willingness to import hits from other festivals. It’s actually the fest

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