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Digital Trends is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): A.A. Dowd, Jeff Nelson, Rick Marshall.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Last Breath (2025) A.A. Dowd At a mere 93 minutes, Last Breath could use more complications. It’s fairly gripping from moment to moment, but also hemmed in by its own sense of historical integrity.
Posted Feb 28, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) A.A. Dowd No blockbuster that cost this much should look this shoddy.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Flight Risk (2025) A.A. Dowd Gibson botches the assignment at every turn. You needn’t harbor any contempt for the disgraced filmmaker to peg Flight Risk as cheap and choppy heckle fodder.
Posted Jan 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wolf Man (2025) A.A. Dowd The abandoned Dark Universe lives on through the sheer duskiness of Whannell’s imagery. Pray your local multiplex runs its projector bulbs on the brightest possible setting.
Posted Jan 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nosferatu (2024) A.A. Dowd Only when he flirts, like Coppola, with a kinkier kind of lunacy does Eggers threaten to really put his mark on what Murnau subtitled the symphony of horror.
Posted Dec 25, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Kraven the Hunter (2024) A.A. Dowd The only pleasures Kraven the Hunter has to offer are faint, dumb, and guilty, and mostly supplied by an ensemble putting wildly varying amounts of effort into their underwritten paycheck roles.
Posted Dec 13, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Gladiator II (2024) A.A. Dowd Without a star who can summon a little more of that Crowian command, it’s a fool’s errand. Sad to say, no one is unleashing hell at Mescal’s signal.
Posted Nov 22, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Juror #2 (2024) A.A. Dowd Around Hoult’s sweaty, largely reactive performance (a crucible of private culpability expressed mostly through his eyes), Eastwood builds a sturdy case for the timeless pleasures of the genre.
Posted Nov 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Saturday Night (2024) A.A. Dowd Reitman keeps insisting that Saturday Night Live was a revolutionary shock to the system, a show so much more out there and alive than anything on TV at the time. So why does his movie end up feeling so safe, its anarchy so contained?
Posted Oct 12, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) A.A. Dowd Phillips never pays off the promise of an extravagant song-and-dance spectacle, a full-blown Batman musical.
Posted Oct 04, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Megalopolis (2024) A.A. Dowd Dramatically and philosophically speaking, Megalopolis barely coheres. It seems unrealized even in its unlikely realization, still more of a glowing idea of a movie than the movie itself.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Substance (2024) A.A. Dowd “Gross” does not do justice to this movie’s anatomical perversions. Every ticket sold should come with a commemorative barf bag.
Posted Sep 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Cloud (2024) A.A. Dowd Cloud ends up playing like an outrageous riff on Assault on Precinct 13, blurring the line between action spectacle and home-invasion horror.
Posted Sep 11, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Relay (2024) A.A. Dowd It’s a reasonably smart thriller that dumbs itself down as it goes, replacing Hitchcockian chess moves with generic gunplay in the final stretch.
Posted Sep 11, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Alien: Romulus (2024) A.A. Dowd A straightforward Alien movie for the bloodthirsty purists. Unfortunately, it goes about tapping into the soul of the original in a rather thuddingly literal way.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Trap (2024) A.A. Dowd This patently absurd thriller doesn’t just strain credulity, it strangles it, wraps it in plastic, and leaves it rotting in a dumpster.
Posted Aug 02, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) A.A. Dowd Even draped in copious amounts of irony, the nonstop fan service grows wearisome.
Posted Jul 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Longlegs (2024) A.A. Dowd Beneath the all-out assault of unholy style, this is a fairly straightforward, even derivative manhunt thriller.
Posted Jul 12, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) A.A. Dowd The film ambles and meanders, going nowhere slowly. By the end of its mammoth runtime, the plot has barely inched forward.
Posted Jun 29, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hit Man (2023) A.A. Dowd There’s a refreshing unpredictability to Hit Man. Like its main character, the movie keeps twisting itself into surprising new forms.
Posted Jun 07, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) A.A. Dowd You won’t miss Max — Hardy’s or Gibson’s. Furiosa’s baptism in blood and petrol will do.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Beast (2023) A.A. Dowd It’s easier to admire the structural gambit of the film — to marvel at the scope of its genre-blending, century-jumping architecture — than to be drawn into its melodrama.
Posted Apr 06, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) A.A. Dowd The underwhelming effects give you new appreciation for what Godzilla Minus One did at a fraction of the cost.
Posted Mar 29, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Late Night with the Devil (2023) A.A. Dowd [Dastmalchian's] portrait of a Carson wannabe coming undone is the most persuasive thing about the movie, its realest touch.
Posted Mar 23, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Dune: Part Two (2024) A.A. Dowd Who knew it was possible to be so amazed and so bored at the same time?
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) A.A. Dowd If there’s a certain delight to seeing Ethan let his freak flag fly, the nagging feeling the movie leaves you with is that two Coens are better than one.
Posted Feb 23, 2024  Edit critic review
1/5
Madame Web (2024) A.A. Dowd Madame Web is the kind of bad you don’t see that often in the modern age of machine-tooled, quality-controlled superhero fare.
Posted Feb 14, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
The Beekeeper (2024) A.A. Dowd David Ayer has made a special kind of folly this time: an imbecilic and inept pileup of action-movie clichés redeemed only by the occasional hilarity of its caveman excess.
Posted Jan 12, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Society of the Snow (2023) A.A. Dowd Shouldn’t a true story of life, death, and cannibalism be a little more gripping?
Posted Jan 05, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) A.A. Dowd It’s a total mockbuster: Star Wars but cheaper and — given the man responsible — grimmer and grayer, too.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Poor Things (2023) A.A. Dowd Excess is half the fun of an outsized satire like Poor Things. In the words of Ruffalo’s ridiculously foppish Duncan, it is meant to be “inhaled with gusto, like life itself.”
Posted Dec 08, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
The Marvels (2023) A.A. Dowd The good stuff in The Marvels has been hacked and slashed within an inch of its life.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Killer (2023) A.A. Dowd Leave it to Fincher to find something personal in an ode to impersonality.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Priscilla (2023) A.A. Dowd Spaeny resists all temptation to take Presley’s complimentary remarks as direction, to play Priscilla too mature or worldly, too wise beyond her years.
Posted Nov 03, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) A.A. Dowd Killers of the Flower Moon takes its time, but doesn’t drag. How could it, with editor Thelma Schoonmaker once more shaping the flowing path of conspiratorial incident, like a river winding steadily and unstoppably across open country?
Posted Oct 20, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) A.A. Dowd It’s B-movie pulp executed with just the right amount of Masterpiece Theatre classiness — a refined monster mash.
Posted Aug 11, 2023  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Meg 2: The Trench (2023) A.A. Dowd It makes the original look like, well, Jaws by comparison.
Posted Aug 04, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Passages (2023) A.A. Dowd Sachs leans heavily on his actors, all terrific.
Posted Aug 04, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Talk to Me (2023) A.A. Dowd Knowing the shoe is going to drop doesn’t make its landing any less shocking. The centerpiece sequence of the movie is harrowingly intense.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Oppenheimer (2023) A.A. Dowd Not since The Master, perhaps, has a filmmaker used the large gauge to such intimate effect, making a vast canvas from one man’s troubled features.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) A.A. Dowd As always, Cruise’s escalating feats of Evel Knievel daredevilry, which he’s now performing in his 60s, mark him as an analog hero in a world of digital superheroes.
Posted Jul 11, 2023  Edit critic review
2/5
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) A.A. Dowd In terms of personality, the Transformers still only come in two varieties: annoying and [404 error: character traits not found].
Posted Jun 09, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Jeff Nelson Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 concludes Gunn’s trilogy on a positive note, reminding us why we ever fell in love with this band of misfits, and giving us even more reasons to look back on their journey with fondness.
Posted May 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) A.A. Dowd Walk Hard got to a lot of this stuff 15 years ago, and with much more precision.
Posted May 02, 2023  Edit critic review
The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) A.A. Dowd Further proof that Farrelly did better, more charming work when he ballasted his soft side with raunch.
Posted May 02, 2023  Edit critic review
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) A.A. Dowd Your eyes will not believe some of the things they see in this movie. The only question is whether your stomach can handle them.
Posted May 02, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
Cocaine Bear (2023) Rick Marshall Dumb fun with a great cast, Cocaine Bear manages to deal the good stuff without forgetting the sort of film it's trying to be.
Posted Feb 25, 2023  Edit critic review
6/10
We Have a Ghost (2023) Rick Marshall It isn’t going to leave you pondering life’s mysteries, your own mortality, or any other heady topics, but it accomplishes what it set out to do: generate plenty of laughs. Sometimes that’s enough.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Rick Marshall Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opens up another new, wonderfully weird avenue for adventures in the MCU, but the film’s ambition occasionally outpaces an otherwise fun cast and the intriguing concepts it teases.
Posted Feb 17, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Rick Marshall While it falls short of hitting the marks set by some of Shyamalan’s best films, Knock at the Cabin also offers a much more rewarding and fascinating story than his most maligned projects.
Posted Feb 04, 2023  Edit critic review
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