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Dominic Griffin

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Biography:

Dominic Griffin is a pop culture polymath who lives on the internet. He is the host and producer of The Armchair Auteur, a YouTube series of film criticism. He writes about film, music, television, comics, and professional wrestling at any publication that will support his unhealthy obsessions with Drake, Michael Mann and the X-Men. You can find him on Twitter and Letterboxd (@allnewdom) probably talking about Carly Rae Jepsen or maybe Mamet.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 9/10 EDIT “More than just a vehicle for one of this generation's most vital stars to ball out and push his personal brand. It is one of the most impressive films of the year, an ambitious and exhilarating effort whose biggest sin is fumbling a bit in the finale.” – Looper.com Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 7.5/10 EDIT “In many ways, The Running Man feels like the win Wright and the audience both needed, but the shortcuts it takes to please the crowd hold it back from genuine greatness.” – Looper.com Nov 11, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 6/10 EDIT “Ares works best as a rollicking action picture with some strong visuals and incredible soundscapes. It lacks the acting acumen and depth of writing to achieve much more. ” – Looper.com Oct 7, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “It is so soundly, devastatingly, and unequivocally the movie of the year that we’re all going to spend the rest of 2025 talking about it, no matter what.” – The Baltimore Beat Sep 26, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% 5.5/10 EDIT “Him is a decent time at the movies and possesses an impressive sense of execution. It's just that the vision its putting forth feels like one we've seen a lot of in recent years, and some pretty pictures can't overcome the sense we've been here before.” – Looper.com Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Questionable conclusions and inconsistent themes aside, at the end of the day, Spike is still a thrill to watch work. ” – The Baltimore Beat Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% 7/10 EDIT “While the movie does a fine job sending off the Warrens, it lacks some of the charm of its predecessors, and in the end, feels more like a comforting rerun than an exciting new horror effort.” – Looper.com Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 8/10 EDIT “The film is not exactly exemplary or paradigm shifting, but it is entertaining, heartfelt, earnest, and largely unashamed of its comic book origins.” – Looper.com Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 5.5/10 EDIT “...a fascinating film whose high points are sure to grow in the public estimation with the distance of time, but whose murky themes and punishing runtime have more in common with advanced torture tactics than with traditional cinematic expression.” – Looper.com Jul 19, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “As children, many of us would pick up a random issue of a comic book from a grocery store’s spinner rack, without knowing what came before or could come in the future. “Superman” is the first superhero film to capture that inimitable experience. ” – The Baltimore Beat Jul 17, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 7/10 EDIT “Yet at the end of the day, the roar of the engines is loud enough to drown out any meaningful discussions about the intersection of commerce and art. For a movie about cars racing fast, it delivers.” – Looper.com Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Ballerina (2025) 75% 6/10 EDIT “While this one is the first canon spin-off and not just another convenient doppelgänger, it does rely more heavily on the presence of Keanu Reeves' iconic boogeyman than the trailers might suggest. ” – Looper.com Jun 5, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% 7.5/10 EDIT “O'Connor himself has referred to it as "Rain Man" on steroids, and he's not entirely wrong. It's at once a fun and crowd-pleasing picture in that classic's vein as well as an extrapolation of what worked so well in the last outing. ” – Looper.com Apr 24, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 7.5/10 EDIT “The film is a gargantuan undertaking and its heights will reverberate through pop culture for the foreseeable future. But some of its bigger swings don't quite connect and suggest that it is possible for a movie to try to be too many things at once.” – Looper.com Apr 15, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 47% 6/10 EDIT “...may have reached a new low in seeing how boilerplate a premise can be while still leading to a satisfying moviegoing experience.” – Looper.com Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “As fun as “Mickey 17” is, it’s in these fleeting moments of ecological despair that it rings the truest and in its brief bursts of justifiable rage at the state of the world around us.” – The Baltimore Beat Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% 8.5/10 EDIT “It's a sharp, sexy, and intoxicating drama that has more in common with Patrick Marber's play "Closer" than with most spook stories. And did we mention it's only 93 minutes?” – Looper.com Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% EDIT “...the first capital G-great film of the post-DEI era. ” – The Baltimore Beat Feb 26, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% 7/10 EDIT “Plays like a rhyming piece with the Russo brothers' work on "Winter Soldier." But for anyone hoping for more than secondhand nostalgia — a 2025 film homaging a 2014 film homaging a broad simulacrum of the 1970s — "Brave New World" will likely disappoint.” – Looper.com Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% EDIT “If someone of Jenkins’s pedigree can’t, with all this budgetary power behind him, best some poster on Elon Musk’s X typing “lions fight on mountaintop epic” into Sora, then Hollywood is truly cooked.” – The Baltimore Beat Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% 5.5/10 EDIT “There's a tender, wholesome story buried underneath all the unoriginal repetition, and it could have been a welcome balm for audiences living in murky times.” – Looper.com Nov 13, 2024 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% 7.5/10 EDIT “A comforting reminder of Eastwood's sturdy film craft and his lighter touch behind the camera. But some minor nagging issues hold it back from being something truly memorable, the sort of picture that would thrive in reruns on TNT. ” – Looper.com Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Venom: The Last Dance (2024) 40% 7/10 EDIT “"Venom: The Last Dance" is the closing chapter of an unlikely trilogy, a springboard for further IP mining, and a touching send-off to the hero some of us didn't even want but will now surely miss. ” – Looper.com Oct 23, 2024 Full Review It's What's Inside (2024) 80% EDIT ““It’s What’s Inside” mines a well-worn horror set-up for a thrilling and inventive mystery that’s as crowd-pleasing as it is disorienting. ” – The Baltimore Beat Oct 23, 2024 Full Review Rebel Ridge (2024) 95% EDIT ““Rebel Ridge” rejects expectations for the kind of film it is presented to be, for better and for worse.” – The Baltimore Beat Sep 25, 2024 Full Review
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