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It’s my favorite time of year. It really is. It’s time to talk about the best and worst movies of 2025, and every year (for as long as I’ve been doing this, which is now 40 years) film critics like myself have to dig into our hearts and our guts and our brains and figure out which movies we loved the most. Forty years. I can’t believe it. March of 2025 marked my official 40th anniversary as a professional film critic. And yes (shameless plug here) to honor that milestone, I p

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, September 5th, 2025. 1) THE CONJURING: LAST RITES So here we are, allegedly at the end. The Conjuring: Last Rites  is being sold as the final entry in the mainline series, the fourth "Conjuring" film, the ninth overall in the so-called Conjuring Universe . A universe I could live without. I'll be honest: I like