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Kent Turner

@film4ward.bsky.social
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Editor of Film-Forward.com, New York Film Critics Online, @RottenTomatoes, director of programming at Monmouth Film Festival, formerly @SFFILM Festival

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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#ItEnds The feature film debut of Alex Ullom makes for a confident first impression shorturl.at/zGy4U That it successfully builds its own mini-horror limbo on limited resources is a testament to Ullom’s ingenuity @neon-rated.bsky.social @benwasserman.bsky.social
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It Ends
From left, Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, and Noah Toth in It Ends (Neon) Time loops in movies are rarely just a supernatural occurrence. They tend to have a larger, often psychological meaning conn...
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hollywood has long struggled to make an entertaining dinosaur movie that is not stuck in JURASSIC PARK'S shadow. Despite some occasional stumbles, #TheEndofOakStreet is that entertaining movie shorturl.at/64xV3 @benwasserman.bsky.social
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The End of Oak Street
From left, Ewan McGregor, Christian Convery, Maisy Stella and Anne Hathaway in The End of Oak Street (Warner Bros.) Even before dinosaurs show up, not all is well with the Platt household. A family...
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#CampMiasma For those who still hold onto a lingering nostalgia for the “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” series, there is much to relate to in Jane Schoenbrun’s latest fantasia shorturl.at/j3ogu @jdbrecords.bsky.social
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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Hannah Einbinder, left, and Gillian Anderson in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (Mubi) For those who came of age watching rented VHS tapes of the “Friday the 13th” and “A Nightmare on Elm Stre...
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
#MotorCity A 1970s-inspired/Grindhouse-influenced crime thriller, with the catch being the director’s commitment to a near-wordless depiction of events shorturl.at/ssg1m Fists and firepower do the talking @ifcfilms.bsky.social @benwasserman.bsky.social
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Motor City
Alan Ritchson in Motor City (Independent Film Company) Alan Ritchson has been a working actor for over 20 years, but it wasn’t until Prime Video’s Reacher that Hollywood finally started recognizing...
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
More than just a commentary on leadership and hubris, #TheOdyssey is an adventure film, a romance story, a coming-of-age tale, and a Greek tragedy all rolled into one shorturl.at/047dn @benwasserman.bsky.social
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The Odyssey
Matt Damon and Zendaya in The Odyssey (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures) For this longtime fan of Greek mythology, the Percy Jackson books, and Christopher Nolan movies, The Odyssey feels like...
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Milly Alcock’s performance helps stitch #Supergirl's underdeveloped ends into something reasonably engaging: a competent but uneven planet-hopping adventure film-forward.com/action/super... @benwasserman.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I LOVE BOOSTERS Satirical absurdism cranked up to at least 15 film-forward.com/american/com... One of 2026’s most inventive movies by a long shot. Anything goes with this movie’s brand of off-the-wall black comedy @neon-rated.bsky.social @benwasserman.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#TheSheepDetectives wears its heart on its wool, courtesy of a playful script by Craig Mazin film-forward.com/book-adaptat... Agatha Christie meets Shaun the Sheep meets Babe @benwasserman.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Ghosts of the past haunt BLUE HERON, Sophy Romvari’s powerful semi-autobiographical film that reveals a frightening family struggle through the eyes of a young girl film-forward.com/star-reviews... Now @ifccenter.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In AMRUM, Jasper Billerbeck plays one of the most memorably multidimensional young wartime protagonists since THE TIN DRUM and EMPIRE OF THE SUN film-forward.com/star-reviews... Now at NYC's Quad Cinema @kinolorber.com
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
François Ozon’s vision is quite faithful to Albert Camus’s novel #TheStranger and filled with details that enrich and contextualize the status of colonial France in Algeria through a critical lens film-forward.com/foreign/fren... Now @filmlinc.bsky.social @musicboxfilms.com
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#TheChristophers There’s a verbose richness to Ed Solomon’s text & Steven Soderbergh’s cool visual flair that works wonderfully together here film-forward.com/star-reviews... McKellen is extraordinarily commanding, moving through dense text with prowess & ease @neon-rated.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For History buffs and cinephiles: FIUME O MORTE!, a witty hybrid documentary that intertwines farce and tragedy film-forward.com/documentary/... Lessons for our time, perhaps? @icarusfilms.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#Exit8 A compelling psychological horror story that doesn’t require preexisting gaming knowledge film-forward.com/foreign/japa... That it can hook viewers without them being aware of its source material is impressive. In theaters @neon-rated.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@stealthisstory.bsky.social Part biopic, part media analysis, and part history of the last 30 years of major progressive news stories film-forward.com/documentary/... Highly recommended @ifccenter.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In #TheDrama, both Zendaya and Robert Pattinson carry the exhausting burden of inflating what ultimately feels like a soon-to-be-deflated balloon of a movie film-forward.com/dark-comedy/... Ultimately a shell of a film
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I worked for the distributor of the rarely seen haunting memory piece REUNION, written by Harold Pinter and directed by Jerry Schatzberg. It's true. It "was in theaters on Friday and out of theaters on Monday" film-forward.com/star-reviews... Now @filmforumnyc.bsky.social
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I'm hired.
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Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s?
To work for Anna Wintour in Vogue's glory days, you had to know a little bit of everything. Take the quiz to find out if you would have made the grade.
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
My favorite Buster Keaton film
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Kent Turner @film4ward.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One of my favorite films at this year's strong Rendez-Vous w/French Cinema has one more screening 3/15: the electrifying AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM film-forward.com/foreign/fren... @filmlinc.bsky.social It has a great cast led by Gilles Lellouche and Ludivine Sagnier
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