Die My Love (2025; Dir.: Lynne Ramsay)
GRADE: C+
*Now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area and other select markets.
IMDB Synopsis: “Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless.”
Predator: Badlands (2025; Dir.: Dan Trachtenberg)
GRADE: B-
*Now playing everywhere.
IMDB Synopsis: “A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.”
In this questionably special mini-episode, film critic Daniel Barnes reviews two new releases – Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love and Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands.
Die My Love is an emotionally scorching anti-love story with a powerfully fearless lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence. Predator: Badlands is Trachtenberg’s third entry into the Predator-verse, and his second this year alone after the animated movie Killer of Killers.
Listen along as Daniel talks to himself about song surgery, doomed dogs and pandering predators.
Read more of Daniel’s reviews at Dare Daniel and Rotten Tomatoes, and listen to Daniel on the Dare Daniel & Canon Fodder podcasts.