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Eric Francisco

Eric Francisco's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “It's Cregger's masterful yet graceful direction, along with calculated performances from its principal cast that oughta give Weapons its rep as a killing machine that livens up an otherwise bummer summer for horror. ” – Esquire Magazine Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) 65% EDIT “An uptempo, deliriously enjoyable sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a movie so kinetic it feels like your own ticket could light on fire.” – Inverse Jun 4, 2024 Full Review Arcadian (2024) 78% EDIT “While a mostly confident production from Brewer with flashes of awe-inducing brilliance — nearly all of it owed to its harrowing monsters — Arcadian is too unengaging to really raise hell, and too uninspired to stand tall in its crowded genre space.” – Inverse Apr 16, 2024 Full Review I.S.S. (2023) 61% EDIT “Galvanic and compact, I.S.S. is a middleweight thriller whose pressure-cooker plot heats up to a satisfying boil.” – Inverse Jan 16, 2024 Full Review The Iron Claw (2023) 89% EDIT “Though Durkin’s movie isn’t terribly innovative in its stagecraft, it is overwhelming as an emotionally impactful drama that soars thanks to its sublime direction and its terrific actors who overpower the screen with their sweaty, out-of-breath efforts.” – Inverse Dec 13, 2023 Full Review Godzilla Minus One (2023) 99% EDIT “It is not hyperbole to say Godzilla Minus One is perhaps one of the finest movies of the kaiju genre ever put to screen since Ishiro Honda’s Gojira kicked off the franchise in 1954.” – Inverse Nov 29, 2023 Full Review The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) 64% C+ EDIT “Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes squanders a potentially rich premise and winds up as a stock-issue Romeo and Juliet riff with nothing new for the die-hard faithful or the curious newcomers. ” – AV Club Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) 65% C EDIT “Neill Blompkamp’s Gran Turismo is too unconfident, too distracted, too rote, and simply too short on gas to earn a place on the winner’s podium.” – AV Club Aug 8, 2023 Full Review Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 51% EDIT “Without either Michael Bay’s maximalist flair or Bumblebee’s tenderness, Rise of the Beasts manages to be one of the lesser entries of a saga with an already low bar to clear. ” – Inverse Jun 15, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% EDIT “Across the Spider-Verse nimbly weaves an intricate all-ages blockbuster with rare style and aplomb. It is both magnificent and exhausting, sometimes all at once.” – Inverse May 31, 2023 Full Review Knights of the Zodiac (2023) 21% EDIT “Knights of the Zodiac is secretly brilliant in its holistic understanding of what makes anime appealing as a medium.” – Inverse May 12, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% EDIT “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 brims with animalistic fury and human complexity, beautifully expanding upon the series’ foundational theme of found families.” – Inverse Apr 29, 2023 Full Review Renfield (2023) 58% EDIT “Renfield’s overabundance of worn self-aware humor and inordinate bloodletting collectively amplify its most damning curse of all: the absence of an appealing personality.” – Inverse Apr 13, 2023 Full Review The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) 59% EDIT “With a pixel-thin premise and a plot propelled by a candy-induced sugar rush, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is an overstuffed 90 minutes of colorful, inoffensive fun.” – Inverse Apr 4, 2023 Full Review Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 91% EDIT “At best, Honor Among Thieves is an entertaining (eldritch) blast that harnesses the unbridled spirit of the thing it’s based on. At worst, it’s a noisy blockbuster too comfortable by the warm fires of familiarity. ” – Inverse Mar 27, 2023 Full Review Inside (2023) 62% EDIT “Inside evangelizes against the wastefulness of wealth, but its gravest sin is feeling like a waste of time.” – Inverse Mar 20, 2023 Full Review Jung_E (2023) 52% EDIT “Yeon’s latest is altogether a disappointment, lacking both the brain power and the beating heart that made his other movies so full of humanity.” – Inverse Jan 23, 2023 Full Review Plane (2023) 78% EDIT “It’s not that Plane is bad, it’s just so nauseatingly functional that you have to question the circumstances that has led you to watching Plane at all. The only logical conclusion is that you’re on a plane and you’ve got an hour and 47 minutes to kill. ” – Inverse Jan 11, 2023 Full Review Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 76% EDIT “It demands the biggest screen you can find so that its most potent elements — from its impossible scale and skillful spectacle, to its more complete range of emotions and thematic romanticism — can be completely absorbed. ” – Inverse Dec 13, 2022 Full Review Violent Night (2022) 74% EDIT “Watching Santa break, impale, and eviscerate faceless bad guys has its charms, but the gore frequently eclipses its grace, and even action aficionados will be left wishing for more.” – Inverse Nov 30, 2022 Full Review The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) 94% EDIT “Funny and just a little bizarre in the ways the Guardians movies have always been, "Holiday Special" is also authentically warm and thoughtful in the same way as a lovely gift from a friend feels.” – Inverse Nov 28, 2022 Full Review Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 91% EDIT “ An electric standalone sequel by writer/director Rian Johnson with nearly all of the same bugs and features of his predecessor, albeit with new flavoring.” – Inverse Nov 17, 2022 Full Review Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) 84% EDIT “"With ruminations on personal loss and the pride of nations, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a monumental epic whose thematic and narrative maturity elevates the superhero genre to breathtaking new heights."” – Inverse Nov 8, 2022 Full Review Werewolf by Night (2022) 90% EDIT “While most of its appeal is merely surface-level novelty — the black and white tragically feels more like an Adobe Premiere filter than a genuine artistic experiment — there is still a transformative experience in meeting Werewolf by Night on its terms.” – Inverse Oct 21, 2022 Full Review Black Adam (2022) 39% EDIT “Ultimately, the needs of the DC Universe butt up against the overwhelming star power of Dwayne Johnson, and the film ends up losing many of the entertaining qualities it might have had.” – Inverse Oct 18, 2022 Full Review
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