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Rendy Jones
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Cinephile with little braincells | owner of RendyReviews.com Entertainment journalist |Autostraddle | Them | Roger Ebert | Den of Geek | Rolling Stone | Paste Member: Critics Choice, GALECA, NYFCO
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 4d
Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is at the service of a hokey hypothetical that intends to detonate your suspense, manipulate your current American fears, and winds up imploding on itself. Bring Pre-Hurt Locker Bigelow back, please!

My #NYFF63 review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'A House of Dynamite' Review: Kathryn Bigelow's American Nuclear Thriller Explodes in a Vacuum
While enjoyable for its technical aspects, it’s another example of Kathryn Bigelow's tendency to spin her wheels by producing films with the same old frustrated aura.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 2d
TRON: ARES is an expensive ass 404 Error. If you can afford subwoofers for the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack that's a better investment than seeing this chaotic flashy noise-fest with a Chat GPT-type script on a big screen.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'Tron: Ares' Review: Time to Pull the Plug on this Series, Permanently
Haha, bad script go 101010101010101010101010101.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 2d
TRON: ARES is an expensive ass 404 Error. If you can afford subwoofers for the Nine Inch Nails soundtrack that's a better investment than seeing this chaotic flashy noise-fest with a Chat GPT-type script on a big screen.

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'Tron: Ares' Review: Time to Pull the Plug on this Series, Permanently
Haha, bad script go 101010101010101010101010101.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 3d
Haha thank you.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 3d
AFTER THE HUNT might be one of the most insufferable movies I had the displeasure of watching this year. A frustrating smorgasbord of dated topics with Diet Tár energy. One of Guadagnino's and 2025's worst films. #FilmSky #AfterTheHunt

My #NYFF63 Review:

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'After the Hunt' Review: Luca Guadagnino's Pretentious Misfire of a #MeToo Psychodrama
'After the Hunt' is an incoherent and dated psychodrama, bogged down by Luca Guadagnino and Nora Garrett's active disinterest in confronting its heavy subjects through an incorrigible, self-indulgent ...
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 3d
AFTER THE HUNT might be one of the most insufferable movies I had the displeasure of watching this year. A frustrating smorgasbord of dated topics with Diet Tár energy. One of Guadagnino's and 2025's worst films. #FilmSky #AfterTheHunt

My #NYFF63 Review:

www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'After the Hunt' Review: Luca Guadagnino's Pretentious Misfire of a #MeToo Psychodrama
'After the Hunt' is an incoherent and dated psychodrama, bogged down by Luca Guadagnino and Nora Garrett's active disinterest in confronting its heavy subjects through an incorrigible, self-indulgent ...
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 4d
Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is at the service of a hokey hypothetical that intends to detonate your suspense, manipulate your current American fears, and winds up imploding on itself. Bring Pre-Hurt Locker Bigelow back, please!

My #NYFF63 review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'A House of Dynamite' Review: Kathryn Bigelow's American Nuclear Thriller Explodes in a Vacuum
While enjoyable for its technical aspects, it’s another example of Kathryn Bigelow's tendency to spin her wheels by producing films with the same old frustrated aura.
www.rendyreviews.com
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 4d
Kathryn Bigelow's A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is at the service of a hokey hypothetical that intends to detonate your suspense, manipulate your current American fears, and winds up imploding on itself. Bring Pre-Hurt Locker Bigelow back, please!

My #NYFF63 review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
'A House of Dynamite' Review: Kathryn Bigelow's American Nuclear Thriller Explodes in a Vacuum
While enjoyable for its technical aspects, it’s another example of Kathryn Bigelow's tendency to spin her wheels by producing films with the same old frustrated aura.
www.rendyreviews.com
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 6d
In Kent Jones’ LATE FAME, Willem Dafoe portrays a former poet who gets nostalgia for a life not lived while navigating today’s bleak nepo baby-driven NYC art scene. Easily, I ate this up.

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'Late Fame' Review: Willem Dafoe Navigates Career Uncertainty and Nepo-Babies in Mellow NYC Satire
Kent Jones’ entertaining and scathing contemporary adaptation of 1895 fable about a an older poet and his new and younger adorning fans earns a snap or two.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 7d
With THE SMASHING MACHINE, Benny Safdie holds up Mark Kerr up like Rafiki with Simba but fails to signify why he's holding him up in the first place. Watched twice wanting it to TKO me, but, alas, it's only full of light jabs. #FilmSky #MovieCritic

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
‘The Smashing Machine' Review: Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson's Sports Bio-Drama is Full of Light Jabs
Benny Safdie's technical mastery and filmmaking craft are undeniable in 'The Smashing Machine', but despite a respectable performance from Dwayne Johnson, the film delivers a dull, one-note character ...
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 7d
In celebration of GOOD BOY out today, I wrote a top ten Best Dog performances for @denofgeek.bsky.social. Yes, this included INDY THE DOG!

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Good Boys and Girls: The Very Best Movie and TV Dogs
Kid trapped in a well? Movies and television have a canine hero for that situation and more!
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 7d
With THE SMASHING MACHINE, Benny Safdie holds up Mark Kerr up like Rafiki with Simba but fails to signify why he's holding him up in the first place. Watched twice wanting it to TKO me, but, alas, it's only full of light jabs. #FilmSky #MovieCritic

My review: www.rendyreviews.com/movie-review...
‘The Smashing Machine' Review: Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson's Sports Bio-Drama is Full of Light Jabs
Benny Safdie's technical mastery and filmmaking craft are undeniable in 'The Smashing Machine', but despite a respectable performance from Dwayne Johnson, the film delivers a dull, one-note character ...
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 10d
You’re cancelling Tilly Norwood for being an AI actress. I’m cancelling Tilly Norwood because I heard her use a racial slur on someone at an after-party. We are not the same.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 10d
You’re cancelling Tilly Norwood for being an AI actress. I’m cancelling Tilly Norwood because I heard her use a racial slur on someone at an after-party. We are not the same.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 10d
You’re cancelling Tilly Norwood for being an AI actress. I’m cancelling Tilly Norwood because I heard her use a racial slur on someone at an after-party. We are not the same.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 15d
Reviewed ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a new kind of PTA masterpiece that achieves, above everything else, being the right kind of satire America needs right now. Two viewings and had to smash that 5-star button. A damn perfect movie. #FilmSky #OneBattleAfterAnother

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‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Postmodern Spectacle is the American Satire We Need Right Now
'One Battle After Another' is an audacious and ambitious epic that tackles a huge range of topics under his commercialized lens yet stands among Paul Thomas Anderson's best works to date.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 15d
Reviewed ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, a new kind of PTA masterpiece that achieves, above everything else, being the right kind of satire America needs right now. Two viewings and had to smash that 5-star button. A damn perfect movie. #FilmSky #OneBattleAfterAnother

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‘One Battle After Another’ Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Postmodern Spectacle is the American Satire We Need Right Now
'One Battle After Another' is an audacious and ambitious epic that tackles a huge range of topics under his commercialized lens yet stands among Paul Thomas Anderson's best works to date.
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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 16d
"Although it provides some intriguing character dynamics and a glimpse into the post-apocalyptic world, the series is so hurried that it fails to deliver a compelling and well-developed story,” writes @rendy.bsky.social about the squandered potential of MARVEL ZOMBIES.
Marvel Animation's "Marvel Zombies" Doesn't Have Enough Flesh On Its Shambling Bones | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
An underdeveloped and underwhelming horror venture for Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 20d
Bro, I hated HIM. This is the most "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" review I've penned in recent memory. But Jesus Christ. It's like the Trey Edward Shults of horror movies. #FIlmSky #HimMovie

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‘Him’ Review: Obnoxious and Vapid Football Horror Fumbles the Hall at Every Play
A Peele-wannabe flick with little on its mind and nothing in its soul.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 20d
Bro, I hated HIM. This is the most "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" review I've penned in recent memory. But Jesus Christ. It's like the Trey Edward Shults of horror movies. #FIlmSky #HimMovie

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‘Him’ Review: Obnoxious and Vapid Football Horror Fumbles the Hall at Every Play
A Peele-wannabe flick with little on its mind and nothing in its soul.
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THEE Gutsy Woman🐝 🪷 @gutsywoman19.bsky.social · 23d
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 24d
He’s so effortlessly cool throughout it.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 24d
How come I have so many followers on here and yet so little engagement. Is there bots on Bluesky because this feels very weird.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 24d
Reviewed the very CAUGHT STEALING meets THIEF meets BABY DRIVER crime thriller TUNER. Daniel Roher can do a fun narrative and Leo Woodall can carry a movie, which is great considering I've never seen One Day or White Lotus. #TIFF50

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'Tuner' Review: Entertaining Crime Thriller About a Safe-cracking Piano Tuner Plays All the Right Keys
'Tuner' is as conventional as they come, but thoroughly entertaining nonetheless.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · 25d
Still catching up on #TIFF50 reviews here's my latest full one.

MILE END KICKS is a funny coming-of-age comedy that solidifies Chandler Levack as one of Canada's most talented voices of today.

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'Mile End Kicks' Review: Barbie Ferreira Rocks in Chandler Levack’s Delightful and Reflective Coming-of-age Music Dramedy
Featuring another rockin' Barbie Ferreira leading performance, 'Mile End Kicks' is a funny coming-of-age comedy that solidifies Chandler Levack as one of Canada's most talented voices of today.
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Rendy Jones @rendy.bsky.social · Sep 9
Swoley Swe—I mean Sydney Sweeney is fantastic in CHRISTY but Christy Salters deserved a knockout of a biopic than this conventional and calculated Oscar-baity flick. My first #TIFF50 review:
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‘Christy’ Review: Sydney Sweeney’s Mighty Punch Can’t Save This Generic, Oscar-Baity Sports Biopic
Sweeney, Foster, and Wever all do great work in ‘Christy’, but its lengthy and bland storytelling fails to give the source figure the powerful punch her story deserves.
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