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The Day the Earth Stood Still
(1951)
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Louis Turfrey
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The story contained within this 1951 version of the movie means more now than it ever did. Its warning was stark and still holds true today. As a classic is rates with the best science fiction of its time, and you can even forgive the overacting.
Posted Jan 15, 2026
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3.5/5
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Joe George
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Rian Johnson prioritizes religious introspection over Daniel Craig's Southern-fried Benoit Blanc. It's bold but disappointing.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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2/5
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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David Crow
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Kavner worked with Brooks on the sitcom classic Rhonda, but given how inauthentic most of the characters read on screen, this stuff might better play on Mork and Mindy. I’d certainly buy a few of them are from different planets.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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3/5
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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David Crow
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This thing is meant to be admired, consumed, and then like holiday lights forgotten about in a box until roughly the same time next Avatar season.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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2.5/5
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Joe George
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It’s a movie for kids just getting into horror, and if they understand something that eludes their parents then, well, the kids have already learned one of the genre’s most important lessons.
Posted Dec 04, 2025
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5/5
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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David Crow
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Marty is an addict drunk on the ego of youth and the delusion that talent and charm will always be enough. As a piece of cinema, it sure as hell is. For our protagonist… well, that remains the great tension of the movie.
Posted Dec 01, 2025
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4/5
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Eternity
(2025)
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David Crow
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Eternity is a romantic comedy the likes of which we regularly lament they don’t make anymore.
Posted Nov 26, 2025
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3/5
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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David Crow
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Still able to respectively conjure eager-beaver upstart energy and world-weary cynicism simply by clearing their throats, Goodwin and Bateman slip back into Hopps and Wilde like they’re a pair of well-worn winter slippers (with faux fur, of course).
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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3/5
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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David Crow
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It becomes an enchantment interrupted. The words are still eventually uttered, and a sorcery invoked, but the spell is broken. There remains some of that familiar magic, but we’ve had enough time to become aware of the illusion’s strings.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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4/5
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Joe George
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The meaning of those final moments make the difference between The Running Man being a fun but dumb exercise in blockbuster filmmaking or a true nightmare of totalitarian media control.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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David Crow
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Among the many films dealing with the perils of maternity that well-meaning (or oafish) husbands miss, Byrne, Bronstein, and Linda force everyone to stop and gawk at what viscerally feels like a five-car pile up. It might also be a five-star triumph.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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Die My Love
(2025)
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David Crow
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It makes the pretense of trying to help, yet a lot like the characters onscreen fails to connect with the crisis at hand.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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4/5
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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David Crow
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For those who miss genre movies that played their Comic-Con conceits straight, and without a trace of self-deprecating irony, the sweeping helicopter shots of a Yautja and his robo-bae making tracks across New Zealand is like a blast from the Hall H past.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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4/5
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Pillion
(2025)
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David Crow
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from those unusual beginnings springs the most unconventional love story of the year. It is also the most surprisingly human and heartfelt we have so far seen, in spite of Raymond’s best efforts.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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4/5
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Hamnet
(2025)
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David Crow
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In a manner that seems to counter how history can so easily absolve men of their marital or paternal failings—or omit them entirely—Zhao and Buckley make the unstated indignities of domestic life monumental.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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4.5/5
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Dracula
(1979)
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Tony Sokol
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Badham doesn’t mind updating classic images from the original Lugosi Dracula, though. He has a lot of respect for the movie versions.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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2.5/5
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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David Crow
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It’s a long fuse that is meticulously laid by a talented writer and master director… and then never lit.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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3.5/5
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Joe George
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Anyone who spent time in wintry Christian camps of decades past (eg, this writer) recognizes the verisimilitude brought about by graffiti-riddled bunk beds and wide, yawning chilled cabins.
Posted Oct 15, 2025
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2.5/5
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Don Kaye
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It plays as a perfunctory cash grab; two hours of going-through-the-motions filmmaking. But hey, there’s always that score to listen to.
Posted Oct 08, 2025
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The Strangers: Chapter 2
(2025)
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David Crow
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Try as the movie might to assert that Petsch can best a boar, nobody is escaping this bore.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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David Crow
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Flashes and splashes of anti-Yuletide fun are couched in a movie that—whether by design or accident—better resembles a Hallmark holiday programmer, only now with a deep bodycount.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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2/5
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Vicious
(2025)
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David Crow
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Bertino, Fanning, and a slew of gifted collaborators fervently scurry between set pieces, determined to proclaim something profound or "elevated" in the horror space. But for all the profundity of its pretty wrappings, this holiday gift is barren beneath.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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4/5
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Bugonia
(2025)
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David Crow
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As with her previous Lanthimos joints—and even the indulgent misfire they made in between, Kinds of Kindness—Bugonia’s Michelle provides Stone with a striking departure from anything else in her repertoire.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Primate
(2025)
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David Crow
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It's as surface level as the pool that becomes many of the characters’ tomb. But like any Hawaiian body of water, there is something inviting about the picture’s monkey games.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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3/5
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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David Crow
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It is only when Johnson’s Kerr and Emily Blunt as longtime girlfriend Dawn Staples enter a verbal arena that Safdie’s movie becomes devastating—and certainly more exciting than anything occurring inside an octagon.
Posted Oct 03, 2025
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5/5
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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David Crow
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One Battle pivots on an all-time sinister big screen villain. Penn is indeed a personification of white American hegemony and hypocrisy in one of the best turns of his career.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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4/5
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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David Crow
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It’s best when it spends long stretches of its running time just asking us to enjoy the company of those we meet, and then leave, along the way.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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4/5
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Weapons
(2025)
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David Crow
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This is better than a “twist movie.” Like a well-told storybook fable, learning the various characters’ fates and destinies takes on a life of its own—one filled with wonder and horror.
Posted Aug 08, 2025
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3/5
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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David Crow
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When the film started during an ostensibly tense bank heist with a seething score which imitated a ticking clock, I wondered for a moment whether the composer was trying to emulate Hans Zimmer or Lorne Balfe. It turned out the composer is Balfe.
Posted Aug 02, 2025
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Together
(2025)
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David Crow
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Tim and Millie are a co-dependent couple doomed to get a lot closer in what either amounts to the most disturbing of body horror nightmares… or a swoon-worthy alternative rom-com, depending on your disposition. (Or fetish.)
Posted Aug 02, 2025
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3/5
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Waterworld
(1995)
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Simon Brew
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I like Waterworld. Always did, and continue to do so. It’s no classic, it’s horribly derivative of the Mad Max saga at times, but I always warmed to the sheer scale of it.
Posted Jul 28, 2025
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3.5/5
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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David Crow
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The Fantastic Four as a family unit has finally been done justice on the big screen, even if their first adventure doesn't quite live up to the '60s Kennedy era optimism they exude.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/5
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Eddington
(2025)
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David Crow
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In its attempt to essay every quirk and eccentricity of an America eating itself, the film becomes gluttonous.
Posted Jul 16, 2025
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2/5
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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Rendy Jones
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An embarrassing slasher that makes you wish someone would hook-slash the legacy sequel trend once and for all.
Posted Jul 16, 2025
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4/5
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Superman
(2025)
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David Crow
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Unlike every other live-action actor since 1980, I wasn’t watching some guy playing Superman. I was simply watching Superman. And he is opposite likely the best onscreen Lois we’ve ever had. It really is a nifty effect.
Posted Jul 09, 2025
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3/5
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M3GAN 2.0
(2025)
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David Crow
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Rather than embrace the fatalism this unlikely franchise represents, M3GAN 2.0 essentially becomes a modern tech bro’s best case solution for “acclerationism.” Yeah, AI might try to wipe us out one day, but we can make an app for that.
Posted Jun 25, 2025
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4/5
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Day of the Dead
(1985)
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Glen Chapman
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Claustrophobic, uncompromising and incredibly gory, Day Of The Dead easily holds its own against the other two additions to the original trilogy.
Posted Jun 24, 2025
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4/5
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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David Crow
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The film becomes a meditation about family and community, hearth and kin, and what happens if a civilization really returns to the “good old days” where education is more about how to use a weapon than a book.
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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5/5
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Rosie Knight
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In an era where movies about trauma are at the center of the horror conversation, Bring Her Back stands as one of the best in its genre.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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2/5
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Don Kaye
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All the brutal action, heavy-handed callbacks, and predictable cameos in the world can’t make this Ballerina into a better dancer.
Posted Jun 05, 2025
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5/5
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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David Crow
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The Life of Chuck is a deceptively epic character study; an opera without singing--though there’s plenty of dancing. It is even, I reckon, a masterpiece.
Posted Jun 03, 2025
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3.5/5
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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David Crow
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As played by Margaret Qualley with an authentic Carolina lilt, Honey ascends in the movie's best moments into becoming a kind of Southern-fried, queer Marlowe.
Posted May 26, 2025
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4/5
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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David Crow
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It’s a balmy good time where Anderson admirers again get to spend an evening with impeccably dressed cheats, droll scoundrels, and other variants on the unseemly father figure.
Posted May 26, 2025
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3/5
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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David Crow
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Less of a full-stop for the series than a trailing off question mark, Final Reckoning fights against itself and the notion of closing the book or bidding farewell to almost anything, especially Cruise.
Posted May 14, 2025
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4/5
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Starman
(1984)
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Carley Tauchert
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Although having a fairly predictable plot, Starman has the advantage of having John Carpenter behind the camera, a director who is underappreciated when it comes to his ability to capture human emotions and actions on film.
Posted May 12, 2025
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3.5/5
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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David Crow
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Thunderbolts will have plenty of fans shouting like a Nordic god for another, even with all that mess of glass on the floor. That’s gotta amount to at least a B+ effort for Marvel’s C-team.
Posted Apr 29, 2025
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3/5
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Joe George
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Anyone who wants to enjoy The Accountant 2 must be willing to overlook these glaring departures from reality... But anyone who can approach The Accountant 2 as pure fiction will have a blast and enjoy it as a fun and dumb crowdpleaser.
Posted Apr 25, 2025
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
(1985)
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Shamus Kelley
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Battle for Endor is a beautiful example of early post-Original Trilogy weirdness, an experiment in trying a different tone and style for the franchise.
Posted Apr 24, 2025
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4/5
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Sinners
(2025)
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David Crow
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This is an epic yarn and tall tale befitting the world it depicts, and where the satisfaction stems from the textures and details a raconteur as gifted as Coogler can provide. It's a Southern ghost story with a bloody punchline.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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3.5/5
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Warfare
(2025)
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David Crow
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Warfare presents an immediate snapshot of a hellish moment of agony in a handful of lives. It’s brief, constrictive, and still impossible to look away from because you can track its honesty in a second.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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