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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B+
Is This Thing On? (2025) Matt Pais A funny, mildly challenging and darkly uplifting movie containing both recline and hunger, sudden clarity and total cognitive messiness, great scenes and ideas more complicated than they may seem.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
D
Hamnet (2025) Matt Pais Making a movie about horrible things isn’t a free pass to do a horrible job with them.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Marty Supreme (2025) Matt Pais A restless conveyor belt, always in forward motion without any suggestion that there will be much relief.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Train Dreams (2025) Matt Pais Rarely has the micro and macro blended so seamlessly.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A
The Life of Chuck (2024) Matt Pais At once sentimental and alarming, a hopeful coming-of-age story underscored by existential dread, that dread somehow tweaked with gratitude and resilience, and all of it bent at just the right, odd angle.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Matt Pais Unhurried and elusive, beautiful and haunted, limited yet overwhelming. Amy Berg’s documentary about the legendary singer embodies Buckley without suggesting that every rock can be overturned about someone so simultaneously present and unreachable.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
The Tale of Silyan (2025) Matt Pais A moving document of how we survive in the world, in whatever way we need to sustain us.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Twinless (2025) Matt Pais A different and highly affecting spin on loneliness, grief, and compassion.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) Matt Pais A complex and somewhat uncomfortable examination of how performing parents made it work, with an answer not meant to be entirely clear.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Sentimental Value (2025) Matt Pais Gives the impression of substance without providing any.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Rental Family (2025) Matt Pais So desperate to be cleansing it doesn’t realize it’s actually ointment, oily and only a mask for scars.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Matt Pais Like "Kong: Skull Island" if it looked fake and numerous shots were so badly staged that you want to rewind and see if the filmmaker’s decisions were really as terrible as those of the characters.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
F
Materialists (2025) Matt Pais Like an appalling first date, this movie smugly declares itself smart and funny and then delivers all evidence to the contrary.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Matt Pais Barely wagering anything at all.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Matt Pais Thanks for the reminder that "Crimson Tide" rules.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Sacramento (2024) Matt Pais Offbeat even when familiar, with enough quirks without being quirky, to just barely get over the line even as it struggles to reach 83 minutes.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Naked Gun (2025) Matt Pais It’s an incredible and incredibly rare problem to be laughing so hard that you miss the next jokes a movie delivers before you calm down.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Swiped (2025) Matt Pais There’s so much to explore about modern dating and sex and technology and confronting problematic people and situations, and “Swiped” turns everything complicated into a list of bullet points.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Friendship (2024) Matt Pais Understands the fear of relationship impermanence, and the fork between revealing yourself or hiding, and how vulnerability breeds both revulsion and connection. And the complicated thing that remains even when a dynamic goes bad.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Sweethearts (2024) Matt Pais Anyone who expected “Platonic” to be better better scroll to “Sweethearts,” even if the latter is set a few years/a lifetime before the former.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Borderline (2025) Matt Pais Like Paul, “Borderline” is too amused with itself and almost entirely wrong about what’s being accomplished.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
C
A Little Prayer (2023) Matt Pais If this sounds familiar that’s because it is, and “A Little Prayer” never turns common into compelling.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Matt Pais Won’t make you wish for death but certainly could spark a question about why you’re spending time this way.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
B
I Love You Forever (2024) Matt Pais It takes something that’s difficult to convey visually and authentically, and does just that.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Opus (2025) Matt Pais Needs a closer study of pretty much everyone and everything in it.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Drop (2025) Matt Pais Neither good nor terrible nor surprising nor remotely believable. See it if you want to, or don’t.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Echo Valley (2025) Matt Pais Lazy critics sometimes like to rave “A great time at the movies!” No one will say this about “Echo Valley.” It’s a bad time, and not worth it.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Skincare (2024) Matt Pais Don’t worry if you have no interest in makeup or skin treatments or even either of those things as a metaphor; neither does “Skincare,” an extremely average thriller in which nothing is complicated and nothing much is concealed.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
F Marry Kill (2025) Matt Pais There absolutely is a way to mix the stakes of love and death, but the tone didn’t work in “Heart Eyes” and it doesn’t here either.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Love Me (2024) Matt Pais The kind of big swing that either leaves viewers cold and annoyed or totally transfixed on its wavelength. Or, like I was, both, landing somewhere in the middle.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
D-
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Matt Pais The first time in a long time that a movie featuring characters growing fond of someone who does nothing to earn it doesn’t star Adam Sandler.
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Babes (2024) Matt Pais Comedy needs a spark, and drama needs impact, and “Babes” comes up short in both areas.
Posted Jun 08, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Fool's Paradise (2023) Matt Pais Too funny to dismiss while also being too spotty to endorse beyond the mildest of mild enthusiasm.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Fountain of Youth (2025) Matt Pais You now have the answer if you’ve ever wondered “What if ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ totally sucked?”
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Heart Eyes (2025) Matt Pais Isn’t a fun genre mash-up so much as a chance to give half the effort and require twice the suspension of disbelief.
Posted May 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Adult Best Friends (2024) Matt Pais Very much like “Frances Ha” or “Bridesmaids” with all the laughs and personality and wisdom taken out.
Posted May 05, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Magpie (2024) Matt Pais A pretty decent twist can’t rescue a narrative that ultimately just features a terrible couple being horrible parents.
Posted May 04, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Black Bag (2025) Matt Pais More seductive than smart, “Black Bag” is a classy diversion about how every relationship finds a certain rhythm, and the bizarre ability for a word like “traitor” to apply in wildly different contexts.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Matt Pais I don’t often describe something as a good yarn, but “The Last Stop in Yuma County” is one.
Posted Apr 18, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) Matt Pais Pummels suspension of disbelief into something murky and tiresome until the lingering effect is only exhaustion.
Posted Apr 13, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Bob Trevino Likes It (2024) Matt Pais The kind of hopeful movie I want to believe in.
Posted Apr 05, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Holland (2025) Matt Pais Recommended only for people who think “American Beauty” has aged great, or stream nothing but Prime and are too lazy to scroll two inches down from new releases.
Posted Mar 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Goodrich (2024) Matt Pais Syrupy can have its comforting appeal, but “Goodrich” is less like what you put on pancakes and more like what you drain out of a fruit cup.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Don't Move (2024) Matt Pais A stirring depiction of a predator who doesn’t want to play fair and his target who will fight back in any way possible.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Your Monster (2024) Matt Pais Yes, it’s better than “The Shape of Water,” as most movies and some headaches are. But the cross-species rom-com “Your Monster” gets stuck in narrative nowhere.
Posted Mar 09, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Thelma (2024) Matt Pais A nice diversion, and then on with your day.
Posted Feb 26, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Matt Pais Hinges so remarkably on the impossible alchemy of each essential piece of a band that carves the groove, chugs through it, floors it off the tracks, and leaves smoke and rainbows in the dust.
Posted Feb 18, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
The Gorge (2025) Matt Pais Treats proximity like destiny and strands excellent actors in a movie that’s — pun only sorta intended — below them.
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
C
We Live in Time (2024) Matt Pais A film that doesn’t accumulate but merely plateaus, assuming it has captured and delivered something that remains very far off.
Posted Feb 07, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
You're Cordially Invited (2025) Matt Pais The cinematic equivalent of settling for someone you don’t want.
Posted Feb 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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