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Salvation (2026) 2/5 EDIT “The film’s final moments are indeed effectively shocking, but Salvation isn’t nearly as upsetting or propulsive as it could be. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 20, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 2.5/5 EDIT “There might not be a lot of belly laughs, but there are moments of wicked amusement courtesy of its little love bites. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip (2026) 40% .5/5 EDIT “Somehow, the "quality" of Tyler Perry's storytelling feels even worse when a positive, meaningful message is attempted, this time through the prism of Madea-universe regular Joe, a crass, nonsensical conduit for Black History 101...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Home Stories (2026) 1.5/5 EDIT “Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way... and sometimes those unhappy ways are boring. Such is the case with Home Stories. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Wolfram (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Wolfram utilizes old school parameters while also recuperating erased perspectives, and builds a strong emotional investment with its protagonists.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Iván & Hadoum (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Iván & Hadoum also feels subversively anarchic in its representation of dimensional characterization, reflecting how being trans is merely one element of an identity instead of the eclipsing factor defining every human interaction.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 19, 2026 Full Review I Understand Your Displeasure (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Friedrich’s narrative contends there is potential for hopefulness – but it requires a collective rejection of a poisonous but normalized status quo.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hammer remains fascinated with the ripple effects between lives connected to a specific event, and the heart of the matter here is a provocative one.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Nina Roza (2026) 2.5/5 EDIT “Questions are posed, but potentially undesirable responses are not pondered.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Dao (2026) 3/5 EDIT “While the film lives up to the definition of its title, the flow does not always feel cohesive, and is sometimes alienating.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Nightborn (2026) 70% 2.5/5 EDIT “Settling into a familiar groove, it’s a film wherein the idiosyncratic wavelength’s success depends solely on the increasingly untethered lead performance from Seidi Haarla, who certainly throws herself admirably into full tilt weird.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 35% 2/5 EDIT “If there’s any need to make another film about despicable, beautiful, filthy rich monsters, at least decide what, if anything, might be of interest to say. If families are rose bushes needing pruning, then so are scripts.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review At the Sea (2026) 38% 2/5 EDIT “While Amy Adams turns in an expectedly nuanced performance, it feels a bit for nought, surrounded as she is by a labored narrative.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Hüller is quite exceptional as the disfigured human grimly determined to succeed, sacrificing pleasure and comfort for control. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s a film of impressions, moulding the sometimes cliched struggles of artistic ambition and turning broken hearts into art. In the end, you really will dig Bill Evans if you don’t already.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Yellow Letters (2026) 2/5 EDIT “What really bogs down Yellow Letters is a tonal repetitiveness which feels unrelenting. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review In A Whisper (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Eya Bouterra’s performance deftly centers the film.” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review No Good Men (2026) 3.5/5 EDIT “Sadat sets the scene with details which could easily feel like a normalized miserabilism, but Naru’s exceptional combativeness overrides a sense of despair. ” – IONCINEMA.com Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 11% 1/5 EDIT “As a portrait of a vestigial appendage to the dangerous machine dissolving democracy, "Melania" is merely a well shot marketing campaign for the luckiest Stepford wife as she spouts innocuous, vague details on First Lady expectations...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “A straightforward but loving homage to the incomparable comic Maria Bamford examining her life and professional accomplishments, including how they intertwined to create one of the most uniquely down-to-earth innovators of her craft. ” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 97% 2.5/5 EDIT “Frustrating and formidably uncomfortable, Beth de Araujo presents a compelling portrait of the rippling effects of trauma but unfortunately spins wheels on repetitive characterizations, ultimately feeling a bit one dimensional and sometimes cliche...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 68% 2.5/5 EDIT “A bit too simple and too meandering to generate any significant emotional response, the chemistry between Pine and Slate is enough to coast by on in Lambert's old-fashioned adult romance, which could have used a bit of soap to lather up some sentiment.” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “Even as it relies too heavily on fantasy sequences, Thompson-Hernandez captures a solemn and profound portrait of dreams distilled by intergenerational trauma, ultimately delivering a beautiful, emotionally charged and stupendously shot drama...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Tell Me Everything (2026) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “Despite the dramatic parameters defining the backdrop of Tell Me Everything, Rosenthal establishes a somewhat tranquil but meaningful exercise on regret and reconciliation that italicizes the sentiment 'the truth shall set you free.'” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Natchez (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Natchez is about a specific place obsessed with and defined by a specific era, and perhaps it's not surprising that a documentary about antebellum tourism provides the most potent and observant microcosm of America's arrested development...” – Fish Jelly Films (YouTube) Jan 28, 2026 Full Review
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