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Tina Kakadelis

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Biography:

Tina Kakadelis is a Pittsburgh-based critic, author, and one-time winner of a middle school poetry contest. She has been in love with film ever since she randomly decided to watch Celine Sciamma’s “Water Lilies” as a fourteen-year-old. Find Tina @captainameripug

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Mārama (2025) 100% EDIT “Mārama is a revenge tale, but simply calling it that would ignore the fuel that keeps the story running at full force until its final moments. Mārama is retribution.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 37% EDIT “Michael is another entry in the genre of biopics that doesn’t want to handle the reality of the person they’re shining the spotlight on.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% EDIT “Erupcja is an encapsulation of the magic, pain, and lingering loss of a person who has changed.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 20, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 46% EDIT “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy lacks that bite in its evil entity, and if the film isn’t fueled by a millennia-long sense of ire, there’s not much that separates it from the standard horror of a popcorn flick.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 19, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% EDIT “Exit 8 is monotonous. It’s a walk that eventually ends and the audience is told that The Lost Man had some emotional growth without seeing the process of achieving that change.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “The 2026 Faces of Death is introspective and gnarly, making the viewer ask why they’re even watching in the first place.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 6, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 77% EDIT “The Drama provides a series of dramatics, but isn’t interested in engaging with them to get to the heart of this relationship.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 3, 2026 Full Review Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) 80% EDIT “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is a love letter to a place and a season, and how they affect us all in different, beautiful ways.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Basic (2026) 100% EDIT “Basic is the type of rom-com we’ve been missing. Sharply funny, anchored by gracious performances from Meester and Park, Basic is an ode to the mess we carry around inside of us and how, sometimes, the most unexpected person can help us tidy up.” – Film Obsessive Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Their Town (2026) 90% EDIT “Their Town is an affirmation of existence for all of us, no matter what age.” – Film Obsessive Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 74% EDIT “Forbidden Fruits has the pieces of a cult classic, they just belong to different puzzles.” – Film Obsessive Mar 21, 2026 Full Review A Safe Distance (2026) EDIT “A Safe Distance is about what happens when we get too close, both physically and emotionally, and how liberation can confine those it seeks to free.” – Film Obsessive Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 97% EDIT “Hokum doesn’t have sharp teeth, which makes it difficult to sustain a feeling of tension or fear. Without that, there’s not much left in the world of horror movies, and Hokum feels vaguely empty-handed.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Cornbread Mafia (2026) EDIT “Cornbread Mafia is one of those stories that would be too ridiculous to believe if it were written as fiction. How could a group of farmers in a town of 200 in Kentucky be responsible for tons of marijuana over the course of a decade?” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Adam's Apple (2026) EDIT “Adam’s Apple is an attempt to capture life’s beautiful, fleeting nature and the changes we all go through to find ourselves.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Black Zombie (2026) 100% EDIT “"Haiti is not resilience. Haiti is resistance." It’s hard to disagree with that sentiment when the history of the nation is explained so eloquently in Black Zombie, a multigenerational, multilayered production that captures the richness” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story (2026) EDIT “Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story is for the rambunctious, fierce girls who saw the endlessness of adolescence as a chance to try a million different things. To act, to sing, to borrow a line from Hamlet, to dream.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Anima (2026) 85% EDIT “Anima is about the ineffable nature of connection and its ability to be brief, disjointed, or lengthy. The beauty of it, the reason we crave it, is that we cannot know which version we’re going to get until it happens.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Drag (2026) 93% EDIT “Drag is the type of movie that’s intoxicating to experience for the first time and every time after.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Sparks (2026) EDIT “Sparks is a lightning bolt of technicolor to the French New Wave by way of the dreamy, magical, sprawling American West.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Monitor (2026) EDIT “Monitor is a stressfully executed debut feature, Polly and Black are an excitingly confident new voice in the horror genre.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Big Girls Don't Cry (2026) 100% EDIT “Big Girls Don’t Cry captures how humiliating it feels to be a teenager who just wants to be seen for themselves despite not knowing who they are.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Brian (2026) 100% EDIT “Brian is an instant classic filled to the brim with comedy, heart, and love for this one life of ours.” – Film Obsessive Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 73% EDIT “Builds on the bloody mess its predecessor created to make a sweet, gnarly little popcorn flick about saving the world by making amends with your sister.” – Beyond the Cinerama Dome Mar 16, 2026 Full Review The Snake (2026) EDIT “The Snake may seem like a rambunctious odyssey across Prince Edward Island, but that skin is quickly shed to reveal something much more emotionally resonant.” – Film Obsessive Mar 15, 2026 Full Review
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