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HuffPost is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Brandon Judell, Candice Frederick, Dan Lybarger, Derek Malcolm, Gregory Weinkauf, Jackie K. Cooper, Jenna Busch, Laura Prudom, Maureen Ryan, Nell Minow, Oliver Whitney, Zaki Hasan.

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SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) Candice Frederick While the various artists help assemble a humanistic picture of the great yet tragically flawed musician, they also bring to mind their own struggles to fit inside that impossible space: entertaining but socially conscious, Black but not too Black.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Six Triple Eight (2024) Candice Frederick I also just find it… interesting that a movie that is supposed to center the Black and brown women of this battalion was usurped by the love story of a dead white guy.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Candice Frederick “A Complete Unknown” never feels like much of a movie and certainly not a biopic. Rather, it comes across as subpar, reality-adjacent fan fiction.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
The Piano Lesson (2024) Candice Frederick But so much of the film is like inside baseball for people who already have seen this story in its many other forms. Neither the performances nor August Wilson are done justice here.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Candice Frederick There’s an interesting throughline between the two films that, while they both have different identities that favor a progression in time, make sense together in a franchise.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
The Honorable Shyne (2024) Candice Frederick While the film does a thoughtful job examining Barrow’s journey in Belizean politics... and how honored both his family and peers he’s managed to maintain in the hip-hop game are, it creates an intriguingly dichotomous portrait.
Posted Nov 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Piece By Piece (2024) Candice Frederick [Piece by Piece] presents a hagiographical portrait of a largely beloved figure and doesn’t question any of it, letting the subject run with his own story to the film’s detriment — regardless of how much of it is actually true.
Posted Oct 11, 2024  Edit critic review
The Apprentice (2024) Candice Frederick “The Apprentice” is a fascinating portrait of the kind of deeply entitled white man born into a powerful and rich family... whose encounter with a similarly powerful figure (Cohn) at a seedy bar one night shapes him into an even more volatile person.
Posted Oct 11, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Candice Frederick West grounds the film with the still relevant, precarious nature of (albeit mostly white) female mortality — particularly sexualized female mortality — in a landscape that idolizes and destroys it in equal measure.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Black Barbie (2023) Candice Frederick Thankfully, it doesn’t drift away from actual conversations in the classroom and the real world, making the last half hour of “Black Barbie” the most fulfilling part.
Posted Jun 20, 2024  Edit critic review
Brats (2024) Candice Frederick ... It would have behooved the director, amid his own seemingly self-obsessed rant about a nearly 40-year-old moniker, to also think about the advantages he was also granted with it that eluded many others.
Posted Jun 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Candice Frederick “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” is thoughtful and horrifyingly accurate about how many young, independent white women move through a world they think has done them wrong somehow.
Posted May 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Candice Frederick I think Zendaya does the best she can with all of this, but I think the movie ultimately fails her — and is just not interested in what she can do.
Posted Apr 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Candice Frederick All it actually does is kick up a lot of dust around controversial topics without actually examining or even adequately portraying any of them.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (2024) Candice Frederick There’s just not enough about this new “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” to justify its existence.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Monkey Man (2024) Candice Frederick Even with its flaws, “Monkey Man” stands alone as a testament to what an actor can do once he takes his career into his own hands.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Shirley (2024) Candice Frederick “Shirley” had all the potential to be something better. But it isn’t.
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Origin (2023) Candice Frederick The contents of the book themselves deserve a much closer, more complicated study. Perhaps a documentary where these ideas could really breathe would have been more effective.
Posted Dec 12, 2023  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) Candice Frederick Lanthimos delivers a gorgeously cinematic excursion of womanhood — albeit a white woman of substantial means and ability — propelled by a hunger for new life experiences, personal failures, tragedies and triumphs.
Posted Dec 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Saltburn (2023) Candice Frederick Fennell gives us such great dialogue in “Saltburn,” but not an inspired story. Though that’s certainly fun to watch, particularly among a large theatrical audience that’s game for it, it leaves a lot to be desired.
Posted Nov 20, 2023  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Candice Frederick We’re left with plaguing questions that challenge what we hold dear: our entertainment, our source of empowerment, our safety.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Thanksgiving (2023) Candice Frederick It checks off a lot of boxes that have been missing from too many genre entries today. Shock value? Check. Gore? Big time.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Candice Frederick It fails to validate its existence beyond the Hollywood routine of squeezing every dollar out of a successful franchise. It doesn’t really add anything to the overall narrative. It’s just… more story. And for no reason at all.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
What Happens Later (2023) Candice Frederick What’s missing in “What Happens Later” is outright startling: whimsy. Or maybe it’s heart — or both? Basically, there’s something vacant behind the metaphoric eyes of the film, because there’s nothing going on beneath the surface.
Posted Nov 03, 2023  Edit critic review
The Creator (2023) Candice Frederick “The Creator” asks the audience to care excessively about AI and dismiss the justifiable concerns of its human characters — even as our real-life battle against the technology rages on. Why should we?
Posted Sep 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Dream Scenario (2023) Candice Frederick A darkly funny, and often truthful, look at the rapid hysteria of our real-world cancel culture, Borgli’s latest helps cement him as a provocative and wildly entertaining voice for our times.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
His Three Daughters (2023) Candice Frederick Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne astound as siblings who are stubbornly at odds with each other and whose only common ground is the impending death before them.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Solo (2023) Candice Frederick Showing equal care for both the dazzling drag performances and the more delicate moments in the film, Dupuis delivers a beautiful reflection of the human spirit.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Concrete Utopia (2023) Candice Frederick Concrete Utopia remains disturbingly and crushingly human.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
We Grown Now (2023) Candice Frederick We Grown Now is a satisfying experience of home through a child’s eyes.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Sleep (2024) Candice Frederick Though it doesn’t stray far outside the typical ghost movie, it is proof that you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel if you have a solid story and excellent use of effects.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Fitting In (2023) Candice Frederick Fitting In is an at-times hilarious and consistently engrossing look at a flawed but earnest teenage girl in the process of redefining her new normal.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Candice Frederick Triet masterfully turns our attention from potential crime-solving to the inner workings of two imperfect people and one complicated marriage. It’s absolutely riveting.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) Candice Frederick The film is a taut, fascinating drama about the hills we choose to die on.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Woman of the Hour (2023) Candice Frederick Woman of the Hour isn’t a great movie. It’s a film about a lot of things that don’t always come to fruition.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
American Fiction (2023) Candice Frederick It ultimately feels like it wants to be a broad comedy about race, yet wholly uninterested in what it wants to say about it.
Posted Sep 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Candice Frederick Is “Barbie” a fun time at the movie theater? Absolutely. Will it make you laugh, and maybe even tear up at points? For sure. Then the filmmakers, and Mattel, did their job.
Posted Jul 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Candice Frederick Amid its terrific action sequences, comedic wit and — somewhere deep within that — heart, the movie is helping to sound a much-needed alarm.
Posted Jul 12, 2023  Edit critic review
The Little Mermaid (2023) Candice Frederick Yes, to have a Black princess in a major Hollywood film is, sadly, forward-thinking in 2023. But there is nothing innovative or reformist about what happens in this movie.
Posted May 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Beau Is Afraid (2023) Candice Frederick It starts out intriguing, great even, before spiraling into something bizarre and pointlessly bloated.
Posted Apr 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Air (2023) Candice Frederick Consider this framing all in the name of a thrilling cinematic experience that serves the main objective of every film: to tell a great story. And “Air” is a riotous, worthwhile and surprisingly heartfelt film that does just that.
Posted Apr 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Creed III (2023) Candice Frederick A fascinating film from a new director who seems unafraid of moments of teary defeat that manifest into something far more introspective and self-nourishing — even when that’s between two brawny Black men at odds with each other and themselves.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Candice Frederick If there is some kind of allegory on violence that is supposed to be going on in “Knock at the Cabin,” the movie and its story are certainly not smart enough for it to come to fruition.
Posted Feb 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) Candice Frederick Tatum, whose stripper past first inspired the character, looks more comfortable than ever in a role that, like the film, is in equal parts funny, playful, sexy and sincere — despite being in the business of fantasy.
Posted Feb 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Mamacruz (2023) Candice Frederick A simple yet masterful feat all around.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
The Persian Version (2023) Candice Frederick A funny, soulful journey across language and time that also offers an illuminating look at the complexities of motherhood and identity.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
birth/rebirth (2023) Candice Frederick Truly haunting stuff.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) Candice Frederick This is one of those instances where a film thoughtfully reexamines previously established truths about a musician’s legacy so fervently that it completely upends you.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Fair Play (2023) Candice Frederick Has the distinction of being both slick and thorny at the same time — and utterly arresting.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
Judy Blume Forever (2023) Candice Frederick You’re not expecting this documentary detailing the storied life and impact of beloved YA novelist Judy Blume to touch you the way it does, to the point you’re on the verge of tears.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
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