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The Confession (2025) Aimee Hart What follows is an 87-minute hotpot of different genres that somehow remains cohesive right up until the finale.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B
We Bury the Dead (2024) Jesse Hassenger We Bury the Dead isn’t as boldly stylized as either of Danny Boyle’s forays into zombieland, but it does benefit from location shooting, the steady clarity of Hilditch’s compositions, and Ridley’s haunted yet determined performance.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Jake Kleinman Much like a doted-on youngest child, the saga’s final entry may get pampered with the biggest reveals and plot points. But as far as middle entries go, The Bone Temple is one of the best.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Jesse Hassenger Silent Night, Deadly Night takes the material seriously without any suffocating fealty to its low-rent aesthetics.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Influencers (2025) Jesse Hassenger It’s the same principle that made the James Bond movies look so opulent: Yes, explosive action and special effects can show off a big budget, but just providing a travelogue of sorts for the audience also feels inherently cinematic.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Matt Patches Nothing in this movie is entirely novel and, yet for the first time in this series, I cared deeply about where the actual story of Avatar was going, and felt satisfied over how Cameron landed his personal leonopteryx.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) Isaac Rouse Although Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution delivers an exciting preview for what’s to come, I wish the Shibuya stuff were more extended, especially the fight between Mahoraga and Sukuna.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Dust Bunny (2025) Aimee Hart Dust Bunny speaks to your inner child, while also being a not-so-gentle reminder that your fears are only as strong as you make them out to be. It’s a visually and thematically distinct horror fairytale, and one that fans of Fuller will love.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Chris Hayner If Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 was meant for a mass audience, it should make some concessions for that audience. Instead, FNAF 2 left me feeling excluded from the party other people were having.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Samantha Nelson Zootopia 2 isn’t as narratively tight as the original... But it’s just as ambitious in its earnest effort to drive home a big moral message by inviting viewers into an incredibly detailed, vibrant world.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Chris E Hayner In the moments where we get to see these younger magicians marvel at the Horsemen, while also showing them the dated nature of some of their magic, Now You See Me: Now You Don't is a really enjoyable movie.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Samantha Nelson While there's plenty of CGI-packed action, there's no real tension.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Elixir (2025) Claire Lewis It's mostly serving up scares. But they're effective scares, and because the film gives each character enough room to grow and doesn't punish them for having flaws, the result is an engaging and enjoyable entry in the zombie horror genre.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Oli Welsh It’s all very sweeping. If it’s not quite as moving as the director wants it to be, it might be because Elordi’s lovely, soulful monster eclipses most of the human players with ease.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) Isaac Rouse A great time, a terrific point of entry, and a memorable love story.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Samantha Nelson Rønning’s dazzling action sequences and the killer soundtrack might be enough to satisfy fans, but Tron: Ares feels just as likely to get lost among a sea of the type of films Tron inspired.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Shelby Oaks (2023) Jake Kleinman Shelby Oaks is a worthy meditation on what happens when early internet culture comes face-to-face with modern-day horror.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025) Aimee Hart Ashes of Rage drops gobsmacking visual hints and puzzles throughout its tightly structured narrative, and they're wonderful to analyze and pick at, especially on a second viewing.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
War of the Worlds (2025) Matt Patches If the movie were any good, I might fear the implications.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Samantha Nelson It’s a silly family-friendly story that stands on its own, without expecting its audience knows what came before or cares much about what comes after.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Smurfs (2025) Oli Welsh Smurfs is garbage. It’s a randomized assortment of Stuff That Happens in Kids’ Animated Movies, which scriptwriter Pam Brady and director Chris Miller seem to have organized into a narrative by means of free-association.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Distant (2023) Matt Patches Long Distance has brains, brawn, and a sappy sentimental side.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Superman (2025) Jesse Hassenger Gunn’s real superpower is his ability to wear this comic-book nonsense lightly — to take it seriously within the world of the movie without feeling like he’s assigning homework.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Woman in the Yard (2025) Zosha Millman Jaume Collet-Serra and writer Sam Stefanak don’t savor the promise of Woman in the Yard’s premise. Instead, they point toward an ending like a pool player calling a pocket. Which makes it all the more disappointing that the movie can’t even sink its shot.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Zosha Millman The Shrouds splashes around in the deep end of a lonely pool, the frustration of loving, longing for, and feeling left behind by a partner who’s passed on.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later (2025) Samantha Nelson With 28 Years Later, Boyle and Garland have once again produced a remarkable, surreal film by stretching and evolving the genre’s tropes.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Our Times (2025) Samantha Nelson Rather than obsessing over the idea of fixing the past, Our Time is a bittersweet meditation about personal growth and the way relationships shift with circumstances.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
71/100
Ballerina (2025) Tasha Robinson Ballerina may not satisfy all the John Wick stalwarts. But it does have its own satisfying angles, thanks to two things the filmmakers do radically differently from the rest of the franchise — and one thing they take straight from the series’ heart.
Posted Jun 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Fountain of Youth (2025) Samantha Nelson Vanderbilt and Ritchie’s attempt to find some profound meaning in the search for lost treasure never really works, because their characters are too thin to make their emotional catharsis meaningful.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Matt Patches Dead Reckoning was satisfying, in a classic M:I way, but it needed a coda to wrap up all its open-ended plots.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Rose of Versailles (2025) Petrana Radulovic I can see how a recap movie with beautiful animation and song sequences would appeal to a longtime fan of this franchise, but for someone new to the story, it just feels like a frustrating hint of something even better.
Posted May 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Austen Goslin Marvel’s latest theatrical release, Thunderbolts*, feels like a return to the good old days. It features no multiverses and hardly any CGI nonsense, just exceptionally charming actors playing lovable characters in a story that’s actually about something.
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Until Dawn (2025) Austen Goslin Until Dawn’s movie adaptation doesn’t fail because it’s not faithful to the game. It fails because it’s boring, in a way the game never was.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Warfare (2025) Austen Goslin Smartly leaning on the tools of horror movies rather than war movies, the co-directors have made one of the most tense and scary movies of the year so far, along with some of the most harrowing cinematic combat ever put to film.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Siddhant Adlakha It’s surprising that it holds together, given the sheer number of tones on display. What’s practically a miracle, however, is that it’s also one of 2025’s most sharply conceived works of popcorn entertainment.
Posted Apr 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Gazer (2024) Toussaint Egan While it might be tempting to dismiss Gazer as wholly derivative based on that description alone, Sloan’s execution, the way he threads that referentiality throughout the plot, and the strength of Mastroianni’s performance all work to the film’s benefit.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Cass Marshall Thinking deeply about any aspect of the movie at all causes it to crumble. This is an adaptation that keeps the surface trappings of the original material, but fails to capture any of the joy and adventure in Minecraft.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
75/100
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Rafael Motamayor Death of a Unicorn delivers on its biggest promise — a gnarly, funny creature feature with a fantastic ensemble, and all the unicorn-themed gore you can imagine.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
82/100
Dead Talents Society (2024) Tasha Robinson Hsu frames the biggest action sequences as reality competition shows or prank shows, giving the whole movie an agreeably light, goofy tone that operates at breakneck speed. He steers hard into the comedy side of horror-comedy, but pours on the fake blood.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The specter of class trickles down generationally, before congealing into body fascism. The result is a smart, wildly fun, and viscerally jolting work, one that becomes downright upsetting when every aspect of its premise comes crashing down at once.
Posted Mar 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Disney's Snow White (2025) Petrana Radulovic Every character and subplot feels like it was brought in from a different movie. While each of them has some potential, they’re working against each other in one tangled mess of a movie.
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Opus (2025) Oli Welsh For anyone with an interest in music or pop culture journalism, there’s a lot to enjoy in Opus.
Posted Mar 18, 2025  Edit critic review
82/100
Ne Zha II (2025) Tasha Robinson It’s a lot to take in, but it’s joyously and creatively rendered, a fantasy epic brought to life in vivid color and with all the visual creativity a fantasy fan could want — puke jokes aside. It's an epic-sized tale designed for an epic-sized screen.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Susana Polo As a Captain America movie, Brave New World is batting strongly below average. Its plot is at least mildly reminiscent of 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but it’s both fair and unfair to compare the two.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
51/100
Love Hurts (2025) Tasha Robinson There are a few stunning fight sequences in the movie — manic, all-out battles that recall Bullet Train, or some of the later, goofier John Wick movies. But all the scenes stitching the fights together are a drag.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Petrana Radulovic All the threads are there, and they’re even looped in and out of each other. But they’re never pulled tight or tied together enough to hold the story together.
Posted Jan 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) Susana Polo It’s the weirdest Star Trek movie in tone, character lineup, and setting, and it doesn’t exactly work as a standalone Star Trek story.
Posted Jan 23, 2025  Edit critic review
89/100
Better Man (2024) Tasha Robinson While the movie is drawn from Robbie Williams’ life, it’s better to think of it as a fantasy feature. Michael Gracey plays with image and emotion over facts, telling a story through bold, expressive, visually startling sequences.
Posted Jan 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Oli Welsh It has no fresh blood in its veins.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
82/100
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Tasha Robinson Overlooked and underrated over the years. But in an era that appreciates pulp cinema for its own gleefully cheesy values, Ghost and the Darkness represents a fairly unique marriage between lowbrow creature feature and highbrow historical epic.
Posted Dec 17, 2024  Edit critic review
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