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  Review by George Napper ★★★

  It’s been a minute since we’ve seen Frankie Muniz of ‘Malcom in the Middle’ fame on our screens. I’d say Renner is worthy of his talents, although he certainly elevates the material at times. The first foray into science fiction by established indie director Robert Rippberger, ‘Renner’ isn’t quite up to ‘Ex Machina’ levels, but it’s still an interesting bottle film focused on artificial intelligence and its capacity to change the landscape of our lives.

  Full review at TheArtsSTL!

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  Review by jmull13 ★★★

  Let me get this straight. You have a neighbor who is a barista (regular, non-bikini kind), lives with her deadbeat/jobless “brother” and admittedly comes from a family with no money. Yet she somehow lives on the 31st floor of an incredibly posh looking apartment in a very large city. And now she has a newfound interest in you and your billion dollar tech you’ve created? C’mon Renner! It doesn’t take AI to figure out that she might have ulterior motives.

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  Review by mike dikk ★★

  Frankie Muniz is currently a full time NASCAR Truck series driver and recently drove a Renner themed truck in a race, making him one of two people to ever race a car with their own face on it. That alone made me want to see this. 
  It turns out, Renner is not very good! I’m sure the poster art tipped you off though. Muniz plays an
  incredibly unlikeable nerd with severe OCD that builds an advanced AI life coach.  He meets a girl and then hijinks ensue. Most or the hijinks are predictable until the ending when they get downright stupid. Honestly it would have been a little better if it didn’t look like one of those early 00s Puppet Master movies.

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  Review by Cinemaniac247 ★★

  Dude what?

  Review coming soon!

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  Review by kara ★★★★★ 4

  #dayinmylife

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  Review by Dave ★★★

  He’s OCD and stans physical media? Bro just like me frfr

  Not reinventing the AI wheel here, but a fun-enough blend of Her and Psycho.

  A man stopped us afterward and asked our thoughts on the movie, I said it was nice to see Frankie Muniz again and for a clearly small-budget project the sound design and editing were pretty good. Turns out he was the screenwriter, and in an even bigger coincidence is from my hometown; cool to support local cinema, even if it’s by accident on a random Super Bowl Sunday morning

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  Review by gosha ★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Undeadcow ★★★

  Minimalist anxiety stuff that goes hard at the end . An aging Frankie Muniz is back and more neurotic in a dark scifi character drama. He is a bit too neurotic even to a point his character is obnoxious and the script feels condescending at times but eventually it gets nicely tense. The script is an ambitious one using small scale and character moments looking at romance and science through that lens of neurosis; for the most part it pulls this off despite sometimes taking things to extremes. It nails an element of uncertain paranoia that feels unpredictable until an end that is maybe predictable but feels unpredictable. The uncertain paranoia is top tier.

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  Review by Roemer ★★★

  Saw this on a whim because we needed to kill some time before our Super Bowl party later and we accidentally watched it with the writer and his friends?? Very cool experience and he was so eager to hear our thoughts after the film. Thought we were out here just supporting Frankie Muniz but lo and behold we’re supporting local writers and sound guys too! Some fun twists and I’m glad I saw it. Loved what it had to say (especially after speaking to the writer) about the difference between AI and humans making moral decisions. Go see Renner!

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  Review by Stephen Spanellis ★

  There are a lot of movies with sex scenes, but only Renner (2025) has a post-sex scene OCD montage where Frankie Munoz frantically scrubs himself in the bathtub as his mom/AI bot shouts all of the possible STDs he could have gotten from the sex.

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  Review by kristen ★★★★ 2

  this is just me crashing out every other day lowkey

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  Review by sami⋆☕︎ ★★★★ 2

  together we are renner