The Unsolicited Film Critics

The Unsolicited Film Critics

Have you ever watched a movie and had an unpopular opinion that you were afraid to voice? Well, you've come to the right place. We're here to give you all the unsolicited critiques that you never wanted or even asked for. Welcome to The Unsolicited Film Critics. Find us on Instagram & Threads @theunsolicitedfilmcritics

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July 18, 2025 60 mins

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In this minisode, Katie and Grace lean into a world where remakes are king, one-off movies get sequels, and viewers get tricked into funding more of the same. If original ideas are dead, Katie and Grace get zombified with 28 Days Later (2002), 28 Weeks Later (2007), and 28 Years Later (2025).

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Have you ever found yourself on a speeding train on the way to take your daughter to see the parent she likes best forcing you to confront your general failings as a parent and while you’re on said train, it suddenly get taken over by zombies and you’re forced to fight for your life and become the parent you always needed to be? Yeah, neither have we but those on their way to Busan sure have. 

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December 2, 2024 84 mins

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One short day down deep in The Hive where a laboratory accident turns everyone into zombies and a special military unit run by amnesiac Milla Jovovich must save us all from the end of the world. Join Grace and Katie as we fight our way through flesh-eating monsters in Resident Evil (2002).

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November 18, 2024 82 mins

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Ever wonder what would happen if that sense of impending doom was actually foreshadowing the end of the world? Do you ignore it, do you run from it, do you fight it or do you accept it? Join Katie and Grace as we brace ourselves against a storm of apocalyptic proportions in Take Shelter (2011). 

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November 4, 2024 92 mins

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Ever find yourself befriending a giant imagery bunny rabbit who happens to show you visions of the end of the world and you’re just like, yeah that’s cool? Neither have we, but troubled teen, Donnie, sure has. Join Grace and Katie as we time-travel our way through the apocalypse in Donnie Darko (2001). 

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October 21, 2024 98 mins

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In a fictional world that didn’t feel fictional at all and could have taken place in 2020 instead of 2011, a star-studded cast struggles to overcome a pandemic that’s ravaging the planet and may or may not be a prophetic film for the future. Join Katie and Grace as we are reluctantly exposed to a virally bad time in Contagion (2011).

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You know that thing where you wake up after a night of “making it” with your coworker (on the same night a comet passes overhead) and you suddenly find yourself in a zombie apocalypse? Well, Regina and Samantha Belmont know this situation all too well. 

Join Grace and Katie, and special guest Ally, as we traipse through a desolate downtown L.A. trying to escape flesh eating zombies and sinister scientists in ...

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September 23, 2024 76 mins

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You’re cordially invited to the welcome ceremony of our new intergalactic friends from Mars! Please join us in Pahrump, Nevada as we come together in celebration of this momentous event. Whats the worst that could happen?

Katie and Grace brace themselves for an out of this world time in Mars Attacks! (1996)

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September 9, 2024 86 mins

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Major sexual tension between James Bond and Sarah Connor, children risking this lives to save their grandma and the 2nd best town to live in in the Pacific Northwest. Join Grace and Katie for a pyroclastic surge for the ages in Dante’s Peak (1997). 

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August 26, 2024 89 mins

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Super…oh wait, it’s actually…more birds! Join Katie and Grace for the second episode of our disaster season as nature takes its revenge (in true Hitchcock fashion) in The Birds (1963). 

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August 12, 2024 75 mins

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Giant two-person run Jaegers, giant alien Kaiju, mind-melding and some less than sexual tension. Join Grace and Katie for the Season 5 premiere of The Unsolicited Film Critics as we dive to the depths of the pacific in an attempt to save the world with Pacific Rim (2013).

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July 29, 2024 5 mins

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Hear ye! Hear ye! Grace and Katie are back for another season of unsolicited film opinions. Want to know what they're getting into this time? Tune in to this teaser to find out!

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June 24, 2024 106 mins

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Patrick Bateman isn’t your average young and wealthy New York investment banker in the 80s. He’s so much more than that. He cares about slowing down the nuclear arms race, stopping terrorism and world hunger, providing food and shelter for the homeless, opposing racial discrimination, promoting civil rights, while at the same time, promoting equal rights for women and most importantly promoting general social concern ...

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June 10, 2024 86 mins

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Do you have questionable morals or malleable convictions? Are you willing to give up your dignity and set aside empathy and sympathy towards others in need? Are you willing to stage crime scenes just for your benefit? Do you even have empathy? If any of these sound familiar, then a job in Nightcrawling might be the job for you! After all, “If you wanna win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket.”
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Sorry to bother you, but is your rent too high? Are your bills piling up? Are you grossly under paid, under appreciated and over worked? Then look no further than WorryFree. Leave all of your worries behind…

Join Grace and Katie as we fight to not be consumed by corporate greed in Sorry to Bother You (2018).

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Young hot people making poor decisions, being chased by the undead, ritual sacrifices and gambling on the outcome of the lives of others. Just another typical day at the office, am I right?

Join Katie and Grace as we try to avoid bringing about the end of the world in The Cabin in the Woods (2011).

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April 29, 2024 73 mins

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Unsatisfying day jobs, numerous animal roommates, dreaming about being the world’s greatest puppeteer and wanting to escape your daily doldrums by jumping into someone else’s head for 15 minutes. And so we pose this question to you: where would the portal to your mind be located? 

Join Grace and Katie as we jump on the chance to be someone else in Being John Malkovich (1999). 

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Andy Sachs is not like other girls and she’s most certainly not like the girls who work themselves to the bone in the cut throat yet glamorous world of fashion. At least not yet.

Join Katie and Grace (and our special guest Ally) as we done our cerulean sweaters and attempt to claw our way to the top of the Runway food chain. All the while combating the domineering (yet iconic) working woman we all love to fe...

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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

Ever find yourself at rock bottom and think that it can’t possibly get any worse? Well, just know that it can and Bridget Jones knows that better than most. She drinks too much, she smokes too much, her boss is sexually harassing her, and her love life is DOA (a fact every person she’s ever met has no problem reminding her of). Not to mention she’s over ...
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March 25, 2024 55 mins

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We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this important message.  *SPOILERS AHEAD*

The 80s cult classic Road House, starring the incomparable Patrick Swayze has been brought back to life. Resurrected, if you will. That’s right, folks! 35 years after Swayze blessed us with high kicks and even higher hair, Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the titular role of bouncer extraordinaire Dalton at the bar tha...

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