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9/10
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Endless Cookie
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Endless Cookie is entirely unique, to the point where trying to examine it within the confines of traditional film criticism feels like a bit of a fool’s errand.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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9/10
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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Sarah Vincent
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The Chronology of Water’s abstract visual language is reminiscent of Train Dreams lyrical and picturesque montages except punk, raw, and jagged.
Posted Jan 11, 2026
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7/10
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Allyson Johnson
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A breezy, charming, jet-setting rom-com that delights with strong writing and charismatic leads.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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7/10
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Jingle Bell Heist
(2025)
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Jose Cordova
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Jingle Bell Heist doesn’t overstay its welcome. It knows what its strengths are and sticks to them, leaning on classic heist film tropes and a charming cast.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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5/10
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Justin Carreiro
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Hiding behind all the animatronics is a bloodless, bloated film that isn’t sure where it wants to go, despite its aspirations to keep the fun running free.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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9/10
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Yasmin Kleinbart
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Johnson’s nuanced approach and his diverse cast provide different, complex perspectives.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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7/10
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Dust Bunny
(2025)
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Claire Di Maio
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While Dust Bunny has its flaws, it’s encouraging to see a wholly original film that has its influences while trying to forge its own.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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7/10
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Jon Winkler
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It’s a restrained but deeply-heartfelt tale of redemption late in life, while also being one of the best romantic comedies in some time.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3/10
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Alyshia Kelly
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Song Sung Blue struggles with the transition from intimate documentary to narrative feature. While its intentions are heartfelt, the film’s scope and pacing work against it.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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5/10
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We Bury the Dead
(2024)
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Jon Winkler
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It’s unfair to say that We Bury the Dead is a complete loss. Sadly, it’s not unique enough to rise above prior genre subversions, let alone make up for its own shaky screenplay.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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8/10
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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This is weirdly Avatar at its most emotionally legible, as it’s a blockbuster willing to sit with the psychic toll of endless war, even as it engineers ever-larger battlefields on which to stage it.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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7/10
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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Zhao has made a mournful, meticulously assembled film, full of tactile detail and anchored by at least one outstanding performance. I admired it more often than I felt it, though.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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8/10
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Eternity
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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Eternity doesn’t reinvent metaphysical romance, but it does something a little rarer. It treats love with sincerity in a genre that often hides behind cynicism.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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4/10
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Apartment 7A
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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If the film had a more coherent point or was more willing to stand apart from its predecessor, it could have been something truly special. But, like its doomed protagonist, it just keeps stumbling under the spotlight.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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6/10
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Woman of the Hour
(2023)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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While Kendrick is clearly still finding her footing as a director, there’s more than enough promise here for viewers to be excited to see what comes next.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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7/10
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Hot Frosty
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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With Hot Frosty, it’s clear there’s still room for plenty of innovation even within the same basic framework. If you’re looking for some heartfelt vibes this holiday season, look no further.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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6/10
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Star Trek: Section 31
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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It’s hard to ignore the extent to which Star Trek: Section 31, the franchise’s first new film in over a decade, feels distinctly alien from the rest of the Star Trek franchise.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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9/10
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Dog Man
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Audiences deserve to enjoy a movie as good as Dog Man, and a movie as good as Dog Man deserves an audience.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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7/10
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Captain America: Brave New World isn’t bad. Not too long ago we would have been able to recognize it for what it is: fine.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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7/10
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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This is a joyful film that posits that animation can be more than billion-dollar box receipts.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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8/10
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Bullet Train Explosion
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Another feather in the cap of Higuchi, who is demonstrating an incredible talent for breathing fresh and exciting new life into existing franchises.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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8/10
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Mad Heidi
(2022)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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It knows exactly what it is and who it’s for and it never pretends to be anything else.
Posted Nov 27, 2025
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6/10
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Final Cut
(2022)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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At its best, the film’s willingness to acknowledge the challenges of remaking a beloved original empowers its strongest moments. At its worst, these choices only highlight the ways in which the film pales when compared to its predecessor.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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4/10
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Expend4bles
(2023)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Indiscernible from the bargain-basement action films getting dumped onto streaming services with minimal fanfare.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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8/10
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The Animal Kingdom
(2023)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Kircher’s incredibly nuanced performance drives The Animal Kingdom's emotional complexity, driving the film to powerful highs and devastating lows.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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4/10
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Sasquatch Sunset
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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The fact this film even exists is admirable. Unfortunately, that’s not quite enough.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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6/10
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IF
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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With a cast this strong, it’s easy to enjoy the ride for what it is, even if it’s not much.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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4/10
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Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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This doesn’t bode well for what’s to come.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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8/10
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Officer Black Belt
(2024)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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Established fans of Jason Kim will be delighted. The new ones will be excited to see what he does next.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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4/10
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Allyson Johnson
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A lumbering, poorly shot slog of a ride that, in its pursuit of epic maximalism, stumbles into dull regurgitation instead.
Posted Nov 22, 2025
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8.5/10
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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The film has asked whether art can function as a form of reconciliation, and its answer, if it has one, is resistant. A movie can help you see your life differently. It cannot live it for you.
Posted Nov 22, 2025
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9/10
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Angel's Egg
(1985)
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Allyson Johnson
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From the opening, introductory moments until the dazzling yet puzzling conclusion, Angel’s Egg embarks on an unlikely operatic, tumultuous journey.
Posted Nov 21, 2025
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8/10
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Jon Winkler
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Predator: Badlands is more of a sci-fi smoothie, mixing the cartoonish creativity of a series on Toonami with the over-the-top violence of an M-rated video game.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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6/10
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Keeper
(2025)
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Yasmin Kleinbart
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Keeper has a lot of potential, but a poor script keeps it from being truly great.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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10/10
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
(2025)
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Pedro Luis Graterol
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We owe one another the dignity of bearing witness, and by inviting us to do exactly that, this documentary becomes an essential and urgent work of filmmaking.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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8/10
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Rental Family
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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HIKARI continues to cement herself as one of the most empathetic filmmakers working today. The film may not change the world, but it might nudge you to text your mom and at least look twice at the stranger sitting across from you on the train.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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9/10
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Sarah Vincent
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Die My Love is what you get if you make Nightbitch without worrying about being approachable.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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6/10
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Jon Negroni
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By the time The Running Man stumbles into its finale, it’s hard not to wish someone had hit pause around the halfway mark.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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9/10
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Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc
(2025)
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Evan Griffin
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At its heart, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc is a coming-of-age romance with a tragic turn of consequence.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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6/10
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Alyshia Kelly
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At its best, Black Phone 2 is eerie, atmospheric, and competently made. At its worst, it feels like an echo of something that once felt original.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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5/10
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Shelby Oaks
(2023)
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Jon Winkler
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There’s plenty of potential in Stuckmann’s filmmaking skills and hopefully he can find it before he faces the horrors of today’s greatest monster: YouTube algorithms.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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8/10
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Tyler Carlsen
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With a solid script, some truly memorable performances, and beautifully haunting music from a legend of the industry, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere shines light on a true music talent who was having trouble getting out of the darkness.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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7/10
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Hedda
(2025)
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Claire Di Maio
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Hedda is a crowning achievement in Thompson’s already-exceptional career.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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6/10
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Anniversary
(2025)
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Jose Cordova
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Anniversary bites off more than it can chew, but the topics it engages with are so relevant to our current reality that it almost overcomes all stumbles.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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8/10
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Isabella Cantillano-Sanchez
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Lanthimos’s absurdist directorial style feels especially suited to examine the current moment, and the result is mostly successful.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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10/10
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Brogan Luke Bouwhuis
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This is, quite simply, one of the greatest adaptations of one of the greatest works of English literature.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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6/10
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Coyotes
(2025)
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Sarah Vincent
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When there are people to root against, Coyotes is a blast. Once it turns into a redemption quest for a Hollywood Hills dad, it drags.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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7.5/10
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Urchin
(2025)
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Allyson Johnson
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Thought-provoking, unexpectedly funny, and rich with life, Urchin is a promising debut from a talent just at the start of his career.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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8/10
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Everybody Loves Me When I'm Dead
(2025)
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Sarah Musnicky
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Tharatorn’s message rings clearly in the final moments of Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead, with the ending wrapping everything up in a well-earned, slightly nihilistic bow.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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6/10
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Roofman
(2025)
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Alyshia Kelly
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Too grounded to thrill, too restrained to really move you, it lands somewhere in the middle: not a failure, but not the breakout crime drama it could’ve been.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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