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Send Help
(2026)
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Peter Martin
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From its very first minute, Send Help self-identifies as a nervy comedy of discomfort. ... jolts of broad humor that may be questionable in taste, even as they fit into the completely satisfying, darkly outrageous, and contagiously amusing Send Help.
Posted Jan 26, 2026
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4/5
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The Testament of Ann Lee
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Rigorously replicated and taking full advantage of the big-screen experience, The Testament of Ann Lee is often mesmerizing in its sincere depiction of faith and persecution, and the joy that Ann Lee and her followers sought.
Posted Jan 23, 2026
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Mercy
(2026)
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Peter Martin
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Starting at a boil, Timur Bekmambetov’s Mercy has nowhere to go but over the top. And that’s where it proceeds, early and often, throughout its 100-minute running time.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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4/5
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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The movie feels Tony’s pain. ... It knows what it’s like to continually seek satisfaction for wrongs that have befallen you by those in positions of power. ... The rich are different from you and me: they never say they’re sorry.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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4/5
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Instantly gripping, intensely chaotic, and deeply touching.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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3.0/5.0
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Killer Whale
(2026)
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Peter Martin
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Taken on its own terms, Killer Whale is a great movie for a lazy afternoon, primarily because Virginia Gardner and Mel Jarnson really sell their characters. ... [They] kept me involved and rooting for them to survive, somehow, against all odds.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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2/5
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Very much like an old joke that you’ve heard a thousand times before: you remember that you laughed once, and rarely since.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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Rosemead
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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It’s like watching a slow-motion automobile accident, and being helpless to stop it. ... Reminds that appearances can be deceiving. No matter how successful someone may appear to be, they may be drowning emotionally, and unable to call for help.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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3.5/5.0
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Having them together ... is a combustible mix. ... Paul Feig triumphs once again ... a seasonal treat that is steamy, spicy good fun.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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Stitch Head
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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It’s always a pleasure when an animated film treats its audience with respect in its storytelling, as well as its kindly, indulgent attitude toward its characters. ... That makes Stitch Head eminently worthwhile for all ages.
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Yet audiences today need to be pushed a little to garner a more pungent reaction; as it is, Bugonia is well-performed and well-produced, but never feels like essential or vital entertainment.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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5/5
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Mostly, we see Guillermo del Toro's vivid imagination at work, playing on the biggest train set that Netflix money can buy. ... in truth ... a fabulous manifestation of the imagination of many people working together to create something magical.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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4/5
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Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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A veritable explosion of action that is overwhelming in its complexity and scale. ... Uses every inch ... to impress with the fury of its motion and the splendor of its animation. ... a battle-fueled epic that is seasoned with humor and romance.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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2/5
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Mostly, the film plays as though it’s a dog chasing after its own tail, clumsily doing the same thing over and over again. ... One exits the theater, grateful for the performances, and infuriated by all the pointless arguments.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3.5/5.0
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Lyrical and poetic, an incessant barrage of words that never feel forced, just extremely fluent, and modulated to the tune of everyday language. ... Charming to the end, Blue Moon enchants even those who are most stubbornly resistant to its charms.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Benny Safdie has no interest in a traditional bio-pic structure; he tears it apart, limb by limb, like the doors that ... Mark Kerr destroys on more than one occasion, so that he can focus on the challenges that Kerr faced and how he handled them.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4.0/5.0
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Once it gets rolling, One Battle After Another is like a runaway freight train barreling down a steep hill at breakneck speed until it crashes through the finish line. ... One Battle After Another is a story of decades.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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3/5
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Feels like a curious misfire for much of its running time. ... Yet there are snatches that feel ripe with potential ... Even with those reservations in mind ... feels like the kind of film that will improve with the passage of years.
Posted Sep 16, 2025
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Weapons
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Fully-armed to entertain audiences, thanks to a compelling and mysterious setup, a suspenseful atmosphere throughout, and sharply aimed performances. ... A wildly entertaining thrill ride through the shadows of an abandoned amusement park.
Posted Aug 06, 2025
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Freakier Friday
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Picking over territory that has been trod upon so many times that precious little new juice can been squeezed. ... Not a truly terrible movie; there are pleasures to be found in the performances, and some of the comic sequences.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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Eddington
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Unwieldy and utterly unpredictable ... defies easy description, which may be its primary allure. ... It's vaguely uneasy about most things, and its uncertainty makes it ultimately a frustrating experience, a stab in the dark that never finds its target.
Posted Jul 15, 2025
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Superman
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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In short, Superman is the best movie ever made by a co-chairman and co-CEO of any company. For the rest of us, it’s a rousing and refreshing experience, filled with delightful surprises for comic book nerds and movie fanatics and dog lovers.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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M3GAN 2.0
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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A brutally funny thriller ... easily decimating one obvious target — Artificial Intelligence — while deftly touching on deeper issues of change and growth and trust. And dancing with the one that brought you.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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2.0/5.0
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Spectacular racing footage ... demands to be experienced on the largest screen in the loudest theater available. ... Relies on an entirely predictable and, yes, formulaic method to tell its story that becomes tiresome to watch in its first half hour.
Posted Jun 17, 2025
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3.5/5.0
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Elio
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Briskly entertaining, with a big heart, Elio is amusingly inventive throughout its runtime.
Posted Jun 17, 2025
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Echo Valley
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Feels like a spec script influenced by twisty thrillers from the 80s and 90s that ticked multiple commercial boxes and integrated outrageous twists and turns.
Posted Jun 13, 2025
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Predator: Killer of Killers
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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A visually arresting animated anthology that is, as might be described in the quaint ‘old days,’ super-violent. ... Barbaric and brutal and murderously efficient.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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More decidedly and broadly comic, while retaining his insistence upon design perfection in the costuming and production details, bolstered by a great lead performance by Benicio Del Toro and a splendid introduction to Mia Threapleton.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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Fountain of Youth
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Thrives on its cheeky throwback charm.
Posted May 22, 2025
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Vermiglio
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Starting with chilly scenes of winter, the film gradually warms up as spring arrives. ... As the narrative moves forward, the depth of their personalities are revealed, and the film becomes quite touching.
Posted May 20, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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A charming and delightful experience.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Uneven and unsteady at times, Death of a Unicorn resembles nothing so much as a newborn animal, taking fragile steps into an uncertain future. Where it goes, nobody can say for sure, but it’s impossible to deny the warmth of its overweening ambition.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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Little Miss Sociopath
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Jenny Tran gives a marvelous performance as Clem, capturing the comic, dramatic, romantic, and, yes, dangerous aspects of a multi-layered character who is not afraid of her own, sometimes deadly, personality. ... Funny, yet simultaneously empathetic.
Posted Mar 20, 2025
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The Gorge
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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Galloping at a steady pace that always keeps the narrative in clear focus ... does not reinvent the wheel so much as it decorates it with thoughtful details. At heart, it has a B-picture chassis with A-picture production values. ... A pure joy ride.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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2/5
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The Room Next Door
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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The script anchors the film like a lead weight and exerts a gravitational force upon the dramatic performances, making The Room Next Door a listless, lifeless experience.
Posted Jan 16, 2025
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Hard Truths
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Offers no easy answers or quick solutions ... Anyone ... who has suffered from (seemingly) unexplainable, deep-seated, and sudden pain that instantly embroils and overtakes the soul and causes it to explode in an angry outburst can ... relate.
Posted Jan 09, 2025
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3.5/5.0
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The Damned
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Increasingly gripping. ... Without spelling everything out, The Damned relies on sturdy production values and the cover of shadows and snow to imply and suggest, making for an unsettling experience that concludes with a startling stinger.
Posted Jan 02, 2025
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3.5/5.0
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House of Ashes
(2025)
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Peter Martin
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A fresh perspective on horror. ... A compelling trip into terror, beyond nightmare territory, and way beyond jump scares. Instead, it travels directly into those hidden places, somewhere where your own imagination starts to freak you out.
Posted Oct 24, 2024
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2.5/5
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Wolfs
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Perfectly fine, as long as you don’t expect anything more than stylish-looking fluff that already has begun to flee my brain, even as I write this review.
Posted Sep 27, 2024
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3/5
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The Good Half
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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The performances are all solid, and the production values are very good. ... Polished and easy to watch with the entire family, and may even prove helpful for younger ones who are dealing with the loss of a loved one.
Posted Sep 11, 2024
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2.5/5.0
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Between the Temples
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Out of this sadness, writers C. Mason Wells and Nate Silver have constructed a comedy that is rueful and heavy-hearted. As directed by Nate Silver, some things that happen are (lightly) humorous, though much of the film plays like a broad comedy.
Posted Aug 21, 2024
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3.5/5.0
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Good Bad Things
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Let’s be frank: we are all disabled, to one extent or another. In Good Bad Things, Danny Kurtzman stands up, opens his heart, calls for change, and gives a wonderful performance as an imperfect man who wants love in his life. As do we all.
Posted Aug 14, 2024
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3.5/5.0
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Kneecap
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Surging with anger, awash in passion, and filled with knockabout comedy, as well as a burning desire to make a lot of noise about meaningful issues, the film fuses together disparate elements into a madly entertaining romp.
Posted Jul 31, 2024
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3.5/5
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Young Woman and the Sea
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Even though the film changes around the timing of some important events, it feels true and fair to her legacy, which definitely deserves a greater, more lasting spotlight.
Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Ghostlight
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Transcending their natural ties, Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, and Katherine Mallen Kupferer elevate their family chemistry to create an indelible impression on screen. ... Ghostlight is a gift that keeps on giving.
Posted Jun 20, 2024
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Evil Does Not Exist
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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Director Hamaguchi has an uncanny ability to weave stories that are increasingly fascinating from the most unlikely of sources. ... Gains momentum as it goes ... a wonderfully mystifying film.
Posted May 09, 2024
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4/5
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New Life
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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A slam-bang thriller; simultaneously ... a meditation on the meaning of existence. ... All that in less than 90 minutes, with terrific performances, a great script, very good direction, and excellent below-the-line craftsmanship. Highly recommended.
Posted May 01, 2024
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The Beast
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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It feels like he’s an artist in search of the perfect color combination. His restless nature makes all his films, including The Beast, worth seeking out and seeing on the biggest screen possible.
Posted Apr 24, 2024
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LaRoy, Texas
(2023)
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Peter Martin
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May not completely succeed, but it’s easy enough to enjoy watching the actors in a dusty, small-town milieu that I found quite attractive. If your sense of humor aligns more completely with the film than mine, then you’re in for a good time.
Posted Apr 11, 2024
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Sting
(2024)
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Peter Martin
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Darting around expectations, Kiah Roache-Turner mixes ingredients from creature features of decades past, together with genuine thrills generated from the limitations of the setting, a dose of sometimes nasty humor and the sparkling chemistry of the cast.
Posted Apr 09, 2024
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