Now Showing
The Social Reckoning – A Procedural Without a Pulse
Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning trades Fincher's kinetic tragedy for a dry, well-acted Facebook procedural that informs rather than shatters.
Read the reviewDallasNovember 2026261 reviews
Lunara Film
Reviews, Journal files, and the Oscar Ledger, edited as one publication in motion.
The Lunara Film Debrief
Every review ends with three more films.
Theme Echo, Counter Program, and Career Context close every Lunara Film review — the next three movies after the credits, each selected individually by me.
Fresh from the debrief of Backrooms – Mapping Is the Prison
Fresh movement from the Lunara Film Journal
Gremlins 3 Slides to 2028, and It Needs to Pick a Lane
Gremlins 3 moves to October 2028. Chris Columbus wrote the first one, so at least it's not a stranger playing with the toys.
Of Course Robert Eggers Isn’t Modernizing Shakespeare
Eggers is making Romeo and Juliet in Elizabethan English. Zeffirelli did it pretty, Luhrmann did it loud. I can't wait to see him do it dark.
Stanley Tucci Is Stealing the Mona Lisa, and That’s All I Needed
Stanley Tucci plays a thief going after the Mona Lisa with two strangers who turn out to be his kids. That's all I needed to hear.
Clayface Looks Like It’s Going to Be Gnarly
A body-horror movie about one of Batman's grossest villains, from the guy who made Eden Lake. Somebody at that studio said yes to this.
Letterboxd Is Getting Treated Like a Taste Machine
Letterboxd being shopped is not the boring tech deal it wants to look like. Once A24, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and even The New York Times are in the…
Intermission · The Oscar Ledger
Walk 98 ceremonies through their posters.
66 categories, 12,138 nominations and 3,516 winners on the record.
Open the Ledger
The Running Order
Every review, newest first.
All 261 reviews-
The Uprising What Could Have Been
★★½
-
Hope — The First Hour Is the Movie
★★★
-
Resident Evil – The Worst Night of His Life
★★★★
-
The Dog Stars — Going Nowhere Beautifully
★★
-
One Night Only — All Invitation, No Appetite
★★½
-
Spider-Man: Brand New Day — Never Allowed to Stay on the Block
★★★½
-
The Invite — The Predators Wear Nice Sweaters
★★★★
-
Tony — The Picture Stays With the Kid
★★★★½
-
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — The Head Loses
★★★★½
-
The End of Oak Street — All Killer, Full Heart
★★★★★
-
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
★★★★★
-
The Odyssey — I Walked Right Back In
★★★★★
Lunara Film Sweep Watch
The Odyssey across the 99th Academy Awards
One film, fifteen live paths. Nolan, Damon, Hathaway, Pattinson, and the craft team anchor a board that will move as the season hardens.
Best Picture
The Odyssey
The season starts with its gravitational center: a global-scale epic whose emotional reach, industry admiration, and technical command give every branch a reason to rank it.
Open in Ledger
Best Director
Christopher Nolan — The Odyssey
Nolan turns impossible logistics into clean dramatic momentum; the scale is obvious, but the control of point of view is what makes this a directing front-runner.
Open in Ledger
Best Actor
Matt Damon — The Odyssey
Damon carries the spectacle without disappearing beneath it, turning Odysseus into the human scale against which the entire production is measured.
Open in Ledger
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway — The Odyssey
Hathaway gives Penelope the film's still center, supplying intelligence and emotional consequence while the epic machinery moves around her.
Open in Ledger
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Pattinson — The Odyssey
Pattinson is the ensemble's sharpest supporting threat, but this remains the acting branch's most crowded and campaign-dependent Odyssey path.
Open in Ledger
Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Nolan — The Odyssey
Nolan compresses Homer without reducing him, building a legible emotional spine through a story whose scale could easily have swallowed character and consequence.
Open in Ledger
Best Casting
John Papsidera — The Odyssey
Papsidera assembles a star field that still reads as a dramatic ecosystem, balancing iconic presence with enough friction to keep the ensemble from becoming pageantry.
Open in Ledger
Best Cinematography
Hoyte van Hoytema — The Odyssey
Van Hoytema makes all-IMAX capture feel expressive rather than merely monumental, preserving faces, weather, distance, and danger inside images built for the largest screens.
Open in Ledger
Best Editing
Jennifer Lame — The Odyssey
Lame gives a nearly three-hour journey propulsion and shape, making chronology, memory, and spectacle feel like one argument instead of three competing movies.
Open in Ledger
Best Original Score
Ludwig Göransson — The Odyssey
Göransson supplies the film's pulse and dread without simply repeating Oppenheimer, turning rhythm and pressure into an elemental part of the voyage.
Open in Ledger
Best Production Design
Ruth De Jong — The Odyssey
De Jong builds a tactile mythic world that looks inhabited before it looks expensive, grounding ships, palaces, battlefields, and ruins in material history.
Open in Ledger
Best Costume Design
Ellen Mirojnick — The Odyssey
Mirojnick gives the enormous cast immediate social and geographic definition while keeping the clothes weathered, functional, and dramatically legible at IMAX scale.
Open in Ledger
Best Sound
The Odyssey
The soundscape makes sea, wood, breath, impact, and silence carry narrative weight; this is not volume alone, but physical storytelling engineered for a theater.
Open in Ledger
Best Visual Effects
Andrew Jackson — The Odyssey
Jackson's effects work extends practical scale without announcing the seams, though Dune: Part Three keeps this one of the season's clearest craft battles.
Open in Ledger
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Odyssey
The physical wear of a decade-long war and voyage is credible enough for the branch conversation, but the category still needs clearer campaign evidence.
Open in Ledger