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| Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Sunday, November 9, 2025 |
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All I Want for Christmas Is You |
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NR 2025 |
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[Available Nov. 11 on various VOD platforms.] After a talented lounge singer and social media marketing whiz (Logen Cheatham) learns that her motorcycle-loving fiancé (Brad West) has disappeared in a snowstorm during the holidays on his way home from visiting his father (Brian LaBelle) who suffered a heart attack in Lake Tahoe in Ashish Chanana's award-winning, Hallmark-esque, unrealistic, heartfelt, bittersweet, 105-minute film, she eventually finds love with a kindhearted lawyer (Sean Perry) and herself in a quandary when her fiancé's father unexpectedly shows up telling her that his son is alive.
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Chrismystery, A |
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NR 2025 |
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[Available Nov. 4 on various VOD platforms.] After a widowed, big city detective (Jen Lilley) moves with her teenage daughter (Kylee Levien) back to her hometown in Missouri and accepts a job as a deputy sheriff in Matthew Toronto's heartwarming, family-oriented, Hallmark-esque, touching, predictable, 88-minute film, she finds herself investigating with the somewhat reluctant sheriff (Cody Mayo) the mysterious disappearance of the town's festive Christmas tree, colorful lights, the nativity scene, and decorations and then interrogating the local townsfolk, including the pastor (Micchael Ashcraft), the hardware store owner (Drew Pollock), a student (Rachel Londeree), a schoolteacher (Deneysha Richard), and the town hermit (Andreas Pliatsikas) and his sickly wife (Tessa Loving), and a "witchy" astrophysicist (Lisa Scott) whose cat has gone missing, to the dismay of the mayor (Betsy Hume).
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Christy |
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R 2025 |
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[Opens Nov. 7 in theaters.] David Michôd's captivating, factually based, gripping, well-acted, multilayered, moving, violent, 135-minute biographical film that showcases the rise of powerful, determined, gritty, resilient, bisexual boxer Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney), who is in love with high school basketball teammate Rosie (Jess Gabor) and lives with her prejudicial, homophobic, unsupportive mother (Merritt Wever), coalminer father (Ethan Embry), and brother (Coleman Pedigo) in Appalachia West Virginia, in the 1990s as she trained to become a world champion boxer under controlling coach and husband James Martin (Ben Foster) and eventually found fame with flamboyant promoter Don King (Chad L. Coleman) and in 2010 managed to survive a vicious stabbing and shooting by her abusive husband.
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Life After |
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[Played Nov. 3 on PBS's Independent Lens at 7 p.m. PST and 10 p.m. EST and available currently on the PBS APP and PBS YouTube.] Reid Davenport's compelling, educational, complex, eye-opening, controversial, insightful, profound, gut-wrenching, thought-provoking, 100-minute documentary in which the disabled filmmaker investigates what happened to quadriplegic Californian Elizabeth Bouvia who was in terrible pain, sought the "right to die," and was instrumental in the law that was finally passed in 2016 and consists of archival photographs and film clips and commentary by Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) assessor and provider Dr. Melissa Melnitzer, disabled employee Michal Kaliszan, care attendant Ann Gulliver, Canadian journalist Ash Kelly, disabled teenage student Jerika Bolen who wants to die, disability rights lawyer Carrie Ann Lucas, Elizabeth Bouvia's sisters Rebecca and Teresa Castner, Minister of Justice David Lamerti, Michael Hickson's wife Melissa Hickson, Toronto Metropolitan University professor emerita Catherine Frazer, right to die advocate Shanaaz Gokool, disability rights advocates (such as Sarah Jama, Krista Carr, and Megan Linton), Parliament member Arif Virani, Dying with Dignity Canada Helen Long, doctors Dr. Stephanie Green and Dr. Ramona Coelho, Riverside Hospital attorney Barbara Milliken, ACLU attorney Richard Scott, and Not Dead Yet activists Julie Farrar and Alex Thompson who oppose euthanasia.
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Dogma |
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R 2025 |
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[Opens Nov. 6 in 4K restoration in theaters in U.K. and Ireland to celebrate its 25th anniversary.] Kevin Smith's highly irreverent, hilarious, well-acted, wacky, religious, 130-minute, 1999 satire about an abortion clinic worker (Linda Fiorentino), the voice of God (Alan Rickman), two prophets (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith), the 13th apostle (Chris Rock), and a muse (Salma Hayek) who try to stop two fallen angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) from reentering heaven through the doors of a Catholic church in New Jersey.
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©2025 by Wendy Schadewald
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