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David Sims

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The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “That The Rip is such a bland venue for its charismatic stars’ reunion is a terrible shame... I’m not sure why this is the movie Damon and Affleck decided to reunite as co-leads for.” – The Atlantic Jan 21, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “This may be another zombie movie about the inhumanity of man, but it’s also deeply, triumphantly humane.” – The Atlantic Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “The tone reminded me most of the work of Cameron Crowe... Nobody could lob a sincere, big-feelings dramedy over the plate better than Crowe. Is This Thing On?, in its strongest moments, brushes against those heights.” – The Atlantic Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Marty is vivacious, and the film around him is buzzing at the same frequency: itchy, anxious, yet unbearably exciting throughout, each minute defined by some hairpin plot turn. ” – The Atlantic Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “I have no clue whether Cameron wants to keep working on the series... The director clearly isn’t trying to win people over in the meantime, but I’ll never turn down a chance to delve into this gigantic, goofy world.” – The Atlantic Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “Yes, it’s the kind of movie Hollywood doesn’t make much of anymore, but honestly, even back in the day, the industry rarely ever pushed out something this delightfully weird.” – The Atlantic Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “For all its powerful elements, though, Hamnet rings a bit hollow at its core. Perhaps the grand tragedies are just too overwhelming for some viewers to see beyond. ” – The Atlantic Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “The best I can say about For Good is that its two stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, are strong-enough performers to make the most bizarre turns feel functional. But even they can’t keep the film from collapsing under the lightest scrutiny.” – The Atlantic Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Clooney’s a strong-enough star to sell Jay’s achy heart, even amid the glitz and glamour. Baumbach’s odyssey into more treacly territory is an attention-worthy gambit, though one hopes he doesn’t lock the grouchiness away forever.” – The Atlantic Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “What could have been the kind of bittersweet monster movie del Toro has excelled at instead feels shackled by its opulence, trudging through a two-and-a-half-hour run time to arrive at its expected conclusion.” – The Atlantic Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Linklater is thematically drawn to partnership and camaraderie... Here, the director wrests a radioactive joy from observing Godard generate ideas with his ensemble, even as others pull their hair out around him.” – The Atlantic Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Despite the wistful tone, it’s a bitingly funny viewing experience. Shrunken to Hart’s height and given his balding pate, Hawke is transfixing in the role.” – The Atlantic Nov 4, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “As its titular figure, Ares should be the movie’s focus. Yet Leto never shakes the role’s robotic nature, even as his character strives to become more human, and his acting partners struggle to play off that in a meaningful way.” – The Atlantic Oct 13, 2025 Full Review To Sleep With Anger (1990) 93% EDIT “To Sleep With Anger lingers long after you’ve watched it and only deepens with repeat viewings.” – The Atlantic Sep 22, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is rife with big ideas, but it’s never didactic; it’s too committed to emotionally investing the audience. ” – The Atlantic Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Referencing Scorsese, the forever king of the New York crime movie, is a risk Caught Stealing probably shouldn’t have taken. I spent much of the running time reminiscing on just how thoughtful and composed the best examples of this genre can be.” – The Atlantic Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s a movie that gleefully kicks its characters out of their comfy environs to plunge them into New York’s rattling, noisy crowds -- and it’s worth watching with the biggest audience you can find.” – The Atlantic Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Weapons is the feel-bad, feel-good movie of the year -- a rare horror masterpiece that leaps beyond its genre without abandoning its sick, sad heart.” – The Atlantic Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “The world needs more comedies, and the sillier the better. The Naked Gun is happy to deliver plenty of chortles, along with some wild swings that are just slapsticky enough to work.” – The Atlantic Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “As an effort to breathe new life into a particularly moribund title, First Steps is essentially successful. What it somehow can’t manage to do is have much of a good time in the process.” – The Atlantic Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “This Superman is, more than anything, concerned with our society’s struggle to accept the possibility of inherent goodness. The result is an optimistic movie, one that sees a hopeful way forward for both Superman and the world’s other caped men and women.” – The Atlantic Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% EDIT “A plodding, disenchanting experience that adds some more roaring dinosaurs in exchange for any memorable characters or narrative stakes. It has little reason to exist, beyond cashing in at the summer box office.” – The Atlantic Jul 7, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “Sonny’s quest to prove his doubters wrong resembles the arc of many a sports drama. But Kosinski elevates that journey by capturing racing in all of its gorgeous, peculiar glory -- there’s never been a portrait of Formula One quite like it.” – The Atlantic Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% EDIT “In theory, I should be pro-change... except that Lilo & Stitch doesn’t really commit to its big alterations. ” – The Atlantic Jun 16, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% EDIT “To my own surprise, I liked the new version of How to Train Your Dragon about as much as I do its ancestor. Both, to me, are above-average bits of children’s entertainment that struggle with the same problems.” – The Atlantic Jun 16, 2025 Full Review
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