SUNDANCE 2026 - THE INCOMER (2026) REVIEW

 

Like a comedic 28 Years Later written by Taika Waititi, The Incomer is a very funny allegory about the material items we take for granted, and the innocence and wonder we lose as modern times go by, leading to the importance of community and belonging.
Louis Paxton is an impressive new directorial comedy voice, giving us hilarious dead pan, dark, violent comedy, amongst the rolling, soaring green Scottish vistas. With excitably fun performances from Domhnall Gleeson, Grant O’Rourke, and Gayle Rankin, Paxton’s tale of found family and growing up, is a torch for humanity before laws. 8/10. 

- Maurice Andre Jones

SUNDANCE 2026 - NIGHT NURSE (2026) REVIEW

 

Night Nurse is very Canadian feeling, very Egoyan, very tv movie, very schlock and it’s incredible. Switching tones from Georgia Bernstein’s previous short Snugglr that went down a comedic route, Bernstein’s debut full length completely goes down the quiet unsettling sex thriller route, while commenting on caretaker sexual relations and greedy elderly phone scams. Bernstein’s muse, Cemre Paksoy blows this tone out of the water, being versatile in comedy and drama, along side the chilling Bruce Mckenize and the legendary Eleanore Hendricks.

Night nurse has incredible visual staging and confrontational cinematography, and allows saturation to bring an impactful presence.
Bernstein knows exactly what she’s doing, calling back to the 90’s weirdo thriller, playing with sexual desire and sexual violence that lust can visually conjure, involved with the objectification of women in the workplace.

Night Nurse is pure uncut unadulterated dark sex schlock that we rarely see anymore, very well done, with a lot to say. 10/10.

- Maurice Andre Jones

MY TOP 20 BEST FILMS OF 2025

 1. Sirat (2025) - The scariest film of the year. 

2. 28 Years Later (2025) - The most reflective film of the year. 

3. Friendship (2025) - The funniest film of the year. 

4. Sorry, Baby (2025) - The calmest film of the year. 

5. The Mastermind (2025) - The most cathartic film of the year.

6. Kontinental '25 (2025) - The most comedically poignant film of the year.

7. Darkest Miriam (2025) - The most effectively Canadian film of the year. 

8. Marty Supreme (2025) - The most Safdie film of the year. 

9. Eddington (2025) - The most intentional film of the year. 

10. The Life of Chuck (2025) - The most anxiety filled 90's nostalgic film of the year. 

11. Bubble & Squeak (2025) - The best relationship film of the year. 

12. Sinners (2025) - The best Horror film of the year. 

13. One Battle After Another (2025) - The best PTA film of the year. 

14. Weapons (2025) - The most enjoyable "What is it?" film of the year. 

15. Sentimental Value (2025) - The best family drama of the year. 

16. The Smashing Machine (2025) - The best parody film of the year. 

17. Good Boy (2025) - The best tearjerker of the year. 

18. No Other Choice (2025) - The most uncomfortable film of the year. 

19. It Was Just An Accident (2025) - The most considered film of the year. 

Mickey 17 (2025) - The most assured ending in a film this year. 

SUNDANCE 2025: Sorry, Baby (2025)

One of the best of Sundance 2025 - Sorry, Baby has comedian Eva Victor creating a Kenneth Lonergan-Esque dramedy, about a serious incident and the process of moving forward in flashbacks with impressive subversion towards it’s serious subject matter. With her outsider humor and point blank partially comedic acting style, Sorry, Baby somehow deals with sexual assault within colleges by the hands of professors, and how colleges handle these situations, as well the affects on the victims, while remaining heartwarming, funny and realistic, under a mostly grey backdrop through the lens of a post grad school, alienated person. 10/10.

- Maurice Jones

SUNDANCE 2025: Bubble & Squeak (2025)

One of the funniest of Sundance 2025 - Almost like the film Yorgos Lanthimos didn’t direct, Bubble & Squeak is a fun and extremely funny absurdist comedy that has a twee soul about the urgency of a fascist situation that puts pressure on a relationship, bringing out the worst and best in two people leading to a turning point of forever companionship or divergence. Bubble & Squeak touches upon when a partner makes you do something you don’t want to, but you do anyways because you love them, and the moments of a trip with a partner, that makes you notice sides of them that you both don’t and do appreciate.

An absurdist fantasy tale, with great comedy moments from Dave Franco, Hamish Patel, Matt Berry and Sarah Goldberg that bring a warm feeling within a comedically violent fictional world. 9/10.

- Maurice Jones

SUNDANCE 2025: Atropia (2025)

 

One of the most mixed of Sundance 2025 - Atropia is a very funny satire about the clashing of Hollywood and political war, with a perfect role for the charming and always funny lead actor Ali Shawkat, as well as featuring a very funny supporting cast of who’s who, but unfortunately Atropia struggles to juggle the comedy and the seriousness of its subject matter and back drop, creating an experience that doesn’t feel complete as a comedy, with characters that feel unfinished and unsatisfactory, and a romantic subplot that doesn’t earn its meaningfulness. Atropia is half good, but once the love interest is injected things get confusingly whacky and therefore uninteresting, and the film wastes Jane Levy.  5/10.

- Maurice Jones

MY TOP TEN BEST FILMS OF 2023

 

1. Showing up - Best existential crisis 
   
   
   
2. When you finish saving the world - Best indie throwback
   
3. Beau is afraid - Best send up of the white male auteur 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Smoking Causes Coughing - Best comedy 
   
   
   
5. How to blow up a pipeline - Best suspense 
   
   
   
6. The Five Devils - Best time travel 
   
   
   
7. Polite society - Best cultural deconstruction
   
   
   
8. Asteroid City - Best growth as a filmmaker 
   
   
   
9. May December - Best 90’s satire 
   
   
   
10. The Royal hotel - Best horror movie

- Maurice Jones #BESTFILMSOF2023