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Matt Pais

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Chicago

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Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “A funny, mildly challenging and darkly uplifting movie containing both recline and hunger, sudden clarity and total cognitive messiness, great scenes and ideas more complicated than they may seem.” – MattPais.com Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% D EDIT “Making a movie about horrible things isn’t a free pass to do a horrible job with them.” – MattPais.com Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% A- EDIT “A restless conveyor belt, always in forward motion without any suggestion that there will be much relief.” – MattPais.com Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% A- EDIT “Rarely has the micro and macro blended so seamlessly.” – MattPais.com Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% A EDIT “At once sentimental and alarming, a hopeful coming-of-age story underscored by existential dread, that dread somehow tweaked with gratitude and resilience, and all of it bent at just the right, odd angle.” – MattPais.com Dec 11, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% A- EDIT “Unhurried and elusive, beautiful and haunted, limited yet overwhelming. Amy Berg’s documentary about the legendary singer embodies Buckley without suggesting that every rock can be overturned about someone so simultaneously present and unreachable.” – MattPais.com Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% A- EDIT “A moving document of how we survive in the world, in whatever way we need to sustain us.” – MattPais.com Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “A different and highly affecting spin on loneliness, grief, and compassion.” – MattPais.com Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) 93% B+ EDIT “A complex and somewhat uncomfortable examination of how performing parents made it work, with an answer not meant to be entirely clear.” – MattPais.com Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% C EDIT “Gives the impression of substance without providing any.” – MattPais.com Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% D EDIT “So desperate to be cleansing it doesn’t realize it’s actually ointment, oily and only a mask for scars.” – MattPais.com Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% D+ EDIT “Like "Kong: Skull Island" if it looked fake and numerous shots were so badly staged that you want to rewind and see if the filmmaker’s decisions were really as terrible as those of the characters.” – MattPais.com Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% F EDIT “Like an appalling first date, this movie smugly declares itself smart and funny and then delivers all evidence to the contrary.” – MattPais.com Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% D+ EDIT “Barely wagering anything at all.” – MattPais.com Nov 5, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% C- EDIT “Thanks for the reminder that "Crimson Tide" rules.” – MattPais.com Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Sacramento (2024) 85% B- EDIT “Offbeat even when familiar, with enough quirks without being quirky, to just barely get over the line even as it struggles to reach 83 minutes.” – MattPais.com Oct 22, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% B+ EDIT “It’s an incredible and incredibly rare problem to be laughing so hard that you miss the next jokes a movie delivers before you calm down.” – MattPais.com Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 44% C- EDIT “There’s so much to explore about modern dating and sex and technology and confronting problematic people and situations, and “Swiped” turns everything complicated into a list of bullet points.” – MattPais.com Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% B- EDIT “Understands the fear of relationship impermanence, and the fork between revealing yourself or hiding, and how vulnerability breeds both revulsion and connection. And the complicated thing that remains even when a dynamic goes bad.” – MattPais.com Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Sweethearts (2024) 62% B EDIT “Anyone who expected “Platonic” to be better better scroll to “Sweethearts,” even if the latter is set a few years/a lifetime before the former.” – MattPais.com Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Borderline (2025) 59% C- EDIT “Like Paul, “Borderline” is too amused with itself and almost entirely wrong about what’s being accomplished. ” – MattPais.com Sep 5, 2025 Full Review A Little Prayer (2023) 93% C EDIT “If this sounds familiar that’s because it is, and “A Little Prayer” never turns common into compelling.” – MattPais.com Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) 92% D EDIT “Won’t make you wish for death but certainly could spark a question about why you’re spending time this way.” – MattPais.com Aug 18, 2025 Full Review I Love You Forever (2024) 78% B EDIT “It takes something that’s difficult to convey visually and authentically, and does just that.” – MattPais.com Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Opus (2025) 39% C EDIT “Needs a closer study of pretty much everyone and everything in it.” – MattPais.com Aug 7, 2025 Full Review
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