Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Adam Nayman

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

A 21 year old film critic at Eye Magazine in Toronto, Adam has been writing about movies for as long as he can remember, and just can't believe they're paying him for it.

Favorites:

2001: A Space OdysseyGrand IllusionManos: Hands of Fate400 Blows

Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “A high concept brought low by middling execution; an allegory about our tendency to rush to judgment made without conviction. But not without its pleasures, guilty or otherwise. ” – The Ringer Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “Father Mother Sister Brother is a throwaway that’s also a keepsake.” – The New Republic Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “It might seem silly to invoke The Lord of the Rings as a point of comparison, but Garland and Boyle -- and now DaCosta -- are working in a similarly mythic, epic register.” – The Ringer Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “If “Dead Man’s Wire” feels more like a modest triumph of engineering than a major artistic statement, there’s still plenty of virtue in seeing a job well done.” – Toronto Star Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 3/4 EDIT “It’s hard to say if it’d be a better movie with a more evolved approach. Metaphors for grief and trauma are all well and good, but sometimes, a rabid chimpanzee is just a rabid chimpanzee: the fundamental things apply.” – Toronto Star Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The fact Stewart doesn’t quite stick the landing scarcely matters when her debut represents such a real and agile leap of faith in the first place.” – Toronto Star Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The story is set in 2003, a period expertly evoked via strategic scattering of vintage track suits and portable CD players. But its grim vision of masculinity toxifying in real time gives it the feeling of a movie of the moment.” – The Ringer Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (1997) 41% EDIT “The challenge with poking fun at the original Anaconda -- even in the form of an affectionate, scare-quoted homage -- is that it’s already in on its own joke.” – The Ringer Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Riddle Of Fire (2023) 79% EDIT “Weston Razooli's retro-styled debut is a patchy but sincere tween adventure film following a group of kids on a surreal mission to procure a blueberry pie in exchange for the password of their parents’ smart TV.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Sasquatch Sunset (2024) 71% EDIT “A family of sasquatches must contend with harsh weather, dangerous predators, and existential dread in the Zellner Brothers’ smart cryptozoological satire. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Whatever else one can say about No Other Choice, it is a formidable and frequently gobsmacking exercise in craft.” – Reverse Shot Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “Fastvold is willing to take her material over the top. But it belongs there, and at a moment when so many big-ticket movies feel earthbound, The Testament of Ann Lee deserves credit for at least trying to defy gravity.” – Toronto Star Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “If one measure of a successful period piece is that it’s hard to imagine the people on-screen scrolling through TikTok, Marty Supreme feels genuinely transporting. ” – The Ringer Dec 23, 2025 Full Review A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) 86% EDIT “Despite an affecting central performance from Lupita Nyong’o and some thrilling action sequences, this apocalyptic origin story feels thin. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Devil's Bath (2024) 91% EDIT “That The Devil’s Bath is a tough movie to watch is a testimony to its makers’ talents, as well as their real and ruthless sense of principle. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Crow (2024) 22% EDIT “Rupert Sanders’ lifeless remake of the cult 1994 resurrection thriller fails to whip up any sense of passion between its two leads, Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Housemaid feints in the direction of genuine transgression, only to fall back into affirmative, politically correct uplift. In the end, its niceness is the least convincing thing about it.” – Toronto Star Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% EDIT “ Between its energetic low-budget engineering and superbly modulated lead performances, there’s no denying that Strange Darling is an accomplished piece of work; the question of what it actually accomplishes, meanwhile, remains open. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Paying for It (2024) 88% EDIT “Paying For It may be a modest movie, but it’s not prudish or squeamish in the least; it’s got a humane spirit. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Oddity (2024) 96% EDIT “The jump scares, when they inevitably come, are handled just the right ratio of shamelessness to skill. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 66% EDIT “It’s a fine line between Late Style and helpless camp, and Oh, Canada walks it less sure-footedly than one might hope, although there’s something to be said for Schrader’s refusal to kowtow to fashion” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% EDIT “[Swaps] creepy humour of its opening scenes for unconvincing Grand Guignol and subordinates dramatic logic to a set of plot gimmicks whose blatant shamelessness is ultimately unforgivable, whether for an audience or some hovering higher power. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “ It’s grand, it’s ambitious, and it works, maybe in spite of itself.” – The New Republic Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “There are worse feelings to have at a movie than the suspicion that everything will work out just fine for the people who deserve it, and taken on its own terms, Brooks’ tale of virtue as its own reward is sufficiently endearing. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “Simply put, no working filmmaker is better at taking the audience for a ride.” – Toronto Star Dec 12, 2025 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More