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AtHomeInHollywood.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Lisa Johnson Mandell.

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Mercy (2026) Lisa Johnson Mandell There's something very meta and annoying about watching inert characters on the big screen scroll through incriminating videos on small screens. We do enough doom scrolling on our own time.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It has the three necessary things we expect from a Knives Out film: gleeful direction by Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig as Southern fried gentleman detective Benoit Blanc, and a killer cast (literally).
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s fine, in fact it’s refreshing, to openly giggle at the obvious and roll your eyes at the torrid plot twists. This movie gives you an excuse to let off some pent up steam. Hottie holidays!
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell This is a big Hollywood take on a small, true story of a Milwaukee couple’s Neil Diamond tribute band. Bouncing between comedy and tragedy at a heartbreaking pace, it's surprisingly entertaining, mostly thanks to Kate Hudson's astonishing performance.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell From the opening frames, Fire and Ash reminds us why IMAX screens and 3D technology were invented. Cameron's world-building continues to astound.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s a nice, quiet contrast to the over indulgences of explosions, cruelty, blood and terror we see in so many films, but it’s hardly overflowing with wonder, awe or creativity. I found it lacking in sentimental value.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Byrne’s performance is electric, but audiences may feel as if they’re being electrocuted by it. It’s not exactly the entertaining experience most people hope for when they go to the theater.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The cinematography is interesting, but it’s not enough to convince an audience to be invested in such an and completely unlikable character, her depression or her mania.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell More than an inside Hollywood spoof, Jay Kelly is a tender, amusing, and sometimes ironic look at a gifted man taking stock of his life and occasionally coming up short. Surprisingly enough, most of us can relate.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Tapawingo (2023) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s like someone asked, "What if we gave Napoleon Dynamite a job, aged him up a decade, and threw him into a Charles Bronson revenge fantasy?"
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s impossible to watch director Chloé Zhao’s tender yet masterful film without shedding a heartfelt tear or two or two hundred. She tells this subtle yet shattering story with originality and sublimely soulful style.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Yes the film is bloody, absurd, and manipulative—in a good way. Audiences teeter back and forth as the plot unfolds. Is he…? Is she…? Are they…? And that’s half the fun of this dark and merciless comedy.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Too smug to be engaging, the fun and titillating magic are gone—sacrificed to the overwhelm of obvious CGI. When the audience realizes a trick couldn’t possibly be executed outside of a server farm, all sense of wonder evaporates.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Wicked: For Good is so much more than a mere continuation of its predecessor. It's a dazzling cinematic event—a lavish expansion of the Oz mythology that demonstrates director Jon M Chu’s mastery of brilliant, large-scale musical storytelling.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Of all the countless renditions of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic tale of the manmade monster, this may be the most lavish, poignant and profoundly beautiful work yet.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell A playful yet poignant riff on It’s a Wonderful Life, updated for an era of wealth disparity and disappearing job security, told with Ansari’s trademark sardonic humor and the most engaging performance ever from Keanu Reeves.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
A Time for Sunset (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell What impressed me was how sophisticated this looks despite its modest budget. The lighting creates genuine atmosphere with moody shadows and strategic highlights. Also, the score enhances without overpowering, which is refreshing these days.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The down to earth humility is what makes this film so appealing. It depicts small town America at its faithful, trusting, hopeful best. It’s so nice not to be blasted by car chases and super powers and giddy special effects for a change.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The characters are not very likable or relatable, so it’s hard to care about what happens to any of them. It doesn’t help matters that the plot has very little bark or bite. Neither the performances nor the script are anything to text home about.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Anemone (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Regardless of the stellar performances and Ronan Day-Lewis’s stylish vision, I can’t, in good conscience, recommend it. The obscenely vile monologuing overwhelms the film’s virtues, and leaves unwanted and unshakeable images.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Yet for all its weaknesses, it has its strengths. I admire Safdie for making an unconventional sports biopic, eschewing the stereotypical tropes of the genre. I also admire Johnson for breaking boundaries and putting in a performance unlike any other.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The movie races at head-spinning speed from start to finish, and is packed with action, drama, comedy, outrageously good performances, plot twists, irony and shocking surprises along the way.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a triumph, as is June Squibb’s performance. Tender and intimate, it’s a film overflowing with humanity—no boisterous CGI or special effects necessary to tell this remarkably moving story.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It appears Jordan Peele may have let the other producers do most of the heavy producing lifting (if there is such a thing), because Peele’s signature touches of nuanced storytelling have been gorily savaged, not unlike the characters in the film.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Waltzing with Brando (2024) Lisa Johnson Mandell Despite a co-lead stumble and a lack of cinematic gravitas—Waltzing with Brando is an engaging exploration of a fascinating chapter in the life of an American icon, with an uncanny performance by Billy Zane that deserves kudos galore.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The marvel of this masterful movie is that the vast majority of it is simply walking, limping, staggering, talking, shouting, baiting and crying. In the wrong hands, this could become tedious. But under Lawrence’s deft watch, every second is compelling.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
I Really Love My Husband (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Hawkins has crafted something that defies easy categorization; it’s part relationship autopsy, part tropical nightmare and part philosophical meditation on why we torture ourselves in the name of love.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell As well crafted and well intended as some parts of the film may be, the brutal, savage violence would make me feel as if I'd lost my sense of humanity if I found it entertaining. 
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Nobody 2 (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Today it’s more fun than ever to see the powerful bad guys get what’s coming to them, even if one of them is the iconic (and here, maniacally scary) Sharon Stone.
Posted Aug 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell You may find yourself exhausted and confused by an overabundance of gaudy, giddy and garish big production scenes and montages loosely strung together, seemingly crammed in for raucous impact, rather than to advance the plot.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell There's plenty of content to keep the grownups entertained as well as the kids. Some of the smart and sassy humor will go right over the wee ones’ heads. But even the most mature among us are not immune to the virtues of fart jokes.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell If you’re too young to have clocked the original, welcome to the wonderful world of over the top, crazy, slapstick humor—sans a heavy coating of irony. Give it a chance. You won’t regret it.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell This is an original story that leaves viewers feeling both satisfied and squeamish. Satisfied in that the characters get their just desserts, and squeamish in that some of the images truly curdle the stomach—which indicates 'Together' did its job well.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The kookie kitschy cool retro future world setting is summarily stylish, and perfect for creating an alternate universe where creators get to make up their own rules.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Fans of the franchise will take delight in the many nostalgic throwbacks. But there’s also a decent amount of suspense, adventure and cinematic wonder for those who are not as familiar with the franchise. The special effects are as fabulous as ever.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Director Gerard Johnstone strayed a little too far from the appealing conceits of his original, and packed the sequel a tad too full of sci-fi camp. But there is still fun to be mined from it—just not quite as much.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It's just what the box office doctor ordered; fast pace, dazzling star power, spectacular cinematography, a little romance, thrills, suspense, action and a fine payoff—in addition to an opening for a sequel.
Posted Jun 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Elio (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Even though Elio will likely rank closer to the bottom of the impressive Pixar output heap, young children will enjoy it, and it has some nice messages for them. For all its cloying candy coated sweetness, at least it won’t give them tooth decay.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Materialists is a clever and sometimes comically horrifying look at today's dating scene, love and marriage. It will make those of us who are happily married tingle with relief, and could actually simplify things for those who are still searching.
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Fifteen years after the original animated film came out, it's time for a new generation of Toothless fans to have their own version, with CGI flourishes that better suit their tastes.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It's sleek and stylish—brimming with non-stop, outrageous action, which is weirdly mesmerizing. Also, the addition of dueling flame-throwers is genre genius.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Mountainhead (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Razor sharp, frightfully prescient and punctuated by some of the best acting you'll see on the small screen.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) Lisa Johnson Mandell French writer/director Laura Piani hit just the right mark for an artfully crafted romance without the cheap quips and cliches of most modern American romcoms.
Posted May 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Things Like This (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell This isn’t just a “feel-good” movie—it’s a celebration of queer love that refuses to apologize for existing. In a media landscape still lacking meaningful LGBTQ+ representation, director Max Talisman has created something both necessary and entertaining.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Lilo & Stitch (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The sweet intimacy can partially be attributed to the thoughtful yet whimsical touch of director Dean Fleischer-Camp, who is also responsible for the extraordinarily original and moving "Marcel the Shell With Shoes On."
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell Thrilling? Check! Adrenalin pumping? Of course! Action filled? Obviously! Absurd? Absolutely! That very absurdity is half the fun. It’s called Mission: Impossible, for heaven’s sake. This is exactly why most of us go to see these films.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Another Simple Favor (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell The plot is needlessly complicated with heavy helpings of silly on the side, but that’s beside the point. The scenery! The repartee! The wardrobes! It’s worth the watch just to ogle Lively’s outrageously sexy pantsuits.
Posted May 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s an amusing history, sociology, zoology and psychology lesson all wrapped up in one feel good package.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Friend (2024) Lisa Johnson Mandell The movie’s heart is in the right place, and the story is a poignant one—so much more fulfilling than those about violence, degradation, and emptiness of soul.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Novocaine (2025) Lisa Johnson Mandell It’s doubtful that any actor could have pulled off the role of Nate so flawlessly, endearingly, smartly, dopily and endearingly, all at the same time.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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