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Criticker Newsletter - 25 August 2025
Published 26 Aug 2025

Movie News

The world of cinema lost one of the greats this past week, with the death of Terence Stamp, at 87 years of age. The British actor's six-decade career was defined by a magnetic screen presence and extraordinary range. He rose to prominence with his Oscar-nominated role in 1962's Billy Budd, won the Best Actor award at Cannes for The Collector, in 1965, and became an emblem of the Swinging Sixties.

Franz Richter (User:FRZ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Stamp later found global fame as the cold and charismatic villain General Zod in the Superman franchise, forever imprinting the phrase "Kneel before Zod" into the pop-culture lexicon. His unforgettable performances spanned roles such as Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and complex characters in The Limey and Last Night in Soho.

Criticker has over 60 credits for Terence Stamp in its database, so there's almost definitely a performance of his that you haven't yet discovered. Check out the list, and find a classic film from the 60s, or one of his many well-regarded recent performances to put on the TV tonight!

Criticker News

One of the most-requested features since the dawn of Criticker has been the ability to mark one’s own reviews (or report those of others) as containing spoilers. Now, we've made this a reality! If you've got something to say about the unexpected twist at the end of the film, you can now do so without worrying about spoiling the surprise for others.

You can also report any spoilers you find as such, so that others don't have endings ruined. This is just one of the many changes we unveiled earlier this week, in our latest batch of bug fixes and improvements.

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Recent Mini-Reviews Getting Love

5 Stars for BeeDub's review of Superman
Silly and weird and wholesome and funny and dorky and cool and touching and thrilling and wacky and endearing and and and
4 Stars for BeeDub's review of The Road Warrior
Probably the best movie of the post-apocalyptic subgenre ever made. I can't fathom the cajones it took to film stunts like this on the budget they had. Gonzo entertainment of the highest octane possible.
3 Stars for BeeDub's review of Sketch
Finally, we're getting kids' movies that aren't afraid to terrify their target audience again. This movie hits all the expected beats for a story like this, but does so with a refreshingly non-saccharine tone, a lot of creativity in the details, and some meaningful things to say about the grieving process as well. Evokes the adventurous (and often scary) spirit of '80s kids' movies more gracefully and organically than something like Stranger Things.
3 Stars for Paxton's review of Hypnotic
I took my teenager son to a water park recently and he had what could only be described by a teenager as the worst day of his life because he didn't want to be at a water park with his dad. Surrounded by fun, miserable. I wasn't mad though, this kind of thing happens where you're doing something fun but just not feeling it. I mean, just take a look at Ben Affleck in this movie. Surrounded by fun, miserable.
2 Stars for deaddilly's review of Weapons
Immense fun! It may not hold up under a microscope, but it leans into that and is all the better for it. Unlike so many recent misery-coded horrors, Weapons has real spirit (much like Barbarian) and delivers one great cinematic payoff after another, again and again.

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