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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Lisa Laman Offering up such a fresh tableau really lets DaCosta’s filmmaking instincts soar, particularly in a bombastic climactic set piece that’s nothing short of enthralling.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Lisa Laman Primate’s weird screenwriting problems are especially exasperating as the monkey, er, ape business is far better-than-expected.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Sarah Gorr Primate is classic B-movie schlock in the grand tradition of Grizzly and Alligator.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Tim Stevens In the case of People We Meet on Vacation take the trip on the page, not on the screen.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Sarah Gorr Diaz manages an impossible feat instead. He expands the story of Magellan while shrinking the man at the same time.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Dust Bunny (2025) Lisa Laman [Dust Bunny's] full of vibrant images and aesthetics that a fresh wave of audiences can call their own.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Lisa Laman Unfortunately, [Paul Feig's] straightforward visual sensibilities rob The Housemaid of the unpredictability it needs to flourish as a trashy thriller.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Sarah Gorr The Voice of Hind Rajab needs not just to be witnessed, but witnessed right now as the war in Palestine rages on, ceasefire or no.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Tim Stevens To the film’s credit, it frequently eschews answers, putting ellipses, not periods, at the end of thoughts.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Lisa Laman Writer/director Chloé Zhao’s latest cinematic triumph, Hamnet, unflinchingly chronicles corporal agony.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Tim Stevens It is Johnson’s most earnest effort in the Knives sequence and likely the best studio film about religion this year. But if you are as allergic to religion as Blanc himself, please don’t let this fact scare you off.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Lisa Laman [T]he film geek in me couldn’t ignore how Chu’s cinematic vision too often lacks verve.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Lisa Laman [A] remarkably crafted production rife with extraordinary performances, imagery, and even a smattering of deftly executed comedic moments.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Sarah Gorr Handily, one of the best films of the year.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Lisa Laman The revolution may start with The Running Man, but it is a stumbling beginning.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Tim Stevens It’s silly, cheesy, and unapologetically over-the-top. It may not be Houdini, but for generations raised on Copperfield maximalism, mindfreaking, and Blaine unsettling, invasive arrogance, it fits the bill.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Sarah Gorr Lawrence’s turn is so powerful that it is as if the actor alone understands Grace even as she is a mystery to the audience and maybe even herself.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Theater Is Dead (2025) Lisa Laman A movie that once breezed along at a good clip now juggles way too many narrative elements for its own good.
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
CAMP (2025) Lisa Laman valon Fast’s attempt to make Ginger Snaps/Jennifer’s Body/Raw by way of Lost Highway is better as individual pieces than as a cohesive whole
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Lisa Laman Boonbunchachoke keeps things inspired right until the intentionally abrupt cut to credits.
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Restoration at Grayson Manor (2025) Lisa Laman If there’s a problem, though, it’s that McQuaid and Chapman can’t come up with a fittingly bizarre or darkly hysterical finale to wrap everything up.
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Lisa Laman [T]here’s a shocking dearth of vigor.
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) Lisa Laman Good Fortune’s low-key tempo is sometimes competent but not very impactful. Not even the charms of Keanu Reeves and Keke Palmer can minimize that reality.
Posted Nov 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Tim Stevens [T]he audience is left with a picture easy to admire but hard to feel for.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Tim Stevens It is still, ultimately, a very silly exercise in nostalgia.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Night Always Comes (2025) Tim Stevens Night Always Comes is the very definition of less than the sum of its parts.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Tim Stevens The film's most interesting structural choice also proves its undoing.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) Tim Stevens It isn’t that things don’t wrap up, but rather that they do so cleanly, so blandly that The Woman in Cabin 10 is already evaporating from your mind as you reach for the remote.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Cian Tsang Re-Animator isn’t tasteful, but it’s absolutely artful.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Play Dirty (2025) Tim Stevens Play Dirty is ultimately a headscratcher. There’s humor, there’s action, there’s femme fatales and tragic loyal friends. And yet, as a whole, it never pays off on all that promise.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Lisa Laman Cianfrance can’t quite nail his own feat of transitioning from Blue Valentine bleakness to crowd-pleaser cinema.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Are We Good? (2025) Sarah Gorr This is also the real genius of Feinartz. In narrowing his lens to the journey with grief and how it fits into the context of Maron's life, the film expands.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Sarah Gorr Writer and director Mary Bronstein sucks us inside Linda’s (Rose Byrne) head and pins us there.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Lisa Laman One Battle After Another’s virtues would enthrall in any era.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lost Bus (2025) Tim Stevens It is a shot of adrenaline right to the heart that keeps all but the coolest of cucumbers staring at the screen. However, the film’s postlude reminds the audience that there was little beyond that adrenaline.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Lisa Laman [S]tagnancy epitomizes HIM’s greatest sin. It’s a buttoned-up movie struggling to channel freak impulses.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Lisa Laman Throughout A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, there’s often too much exposition or self-referential “isn’t this weird?” quips.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Lisa Laman Accentuating the compelling nature of The Long Walk is its sterling collection of performances.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The History of Sound (2025) Sarah Gorr It’s nothing short of sheer magic.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Tim Stevens The result is a frequently compelling effort that never clearly says anything beyond, “Enjoy this ride.”
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) Lisa Laman Alas, Honey Don’t!, while not devoid of Ethan Coen charms or queer gal joys, left even this lesbian cinema lover cold.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Ne Zha II (2025) Lisa Laman It recalls Hellboy II: The Golden Army or Evil Dead II as a sequel that drastically improves on the original.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Nobody 2 (2025) Lisa Laman Unfortunately, serious storm clouds harsh Nobody 2’s sunny action vibes, courtesy of Derek Kolstad and Aaron Rabin’s overly cluttered screenplay.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Saiyaara (2025) Lisa Laman Going all-in on Kapoor in the third act is extra strange screenwriting decision considering Saiyaara has been filtered through Batra’s eyes up to this point. Drastically recentering the story’s focal point isn’t a gambit that pays off at all.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Lisa Laman Zach Cregger’s Weapons is many things. A visual tour de force. A sporadically riotous dark comedy. The greatest showcase ofJulia Garner’s talents since The Assistant five years ago.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
She Rides Shotgun (2025) Lisa Laman A solid mixture of a Corman McCarthy novel, Road to Perdition, and early 70s Al Pacino movies like The Panic in Needle Park or Scarecrows.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Lisa Laman These realistic nuances to Franco and Brie’s work reaffirm how well Together works as a down-to-earth production. It’s frustrating that those stronger writing impulses didn’t translate to the entire runtime.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Lisa Laman The Naked Gun delivers as an exceedingly wacky comedy. Not only is this a funny movie, but there’s real craftsmanship to even its dumbest gags.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh, Hi! (2025) Sarah Gorr That understanding [of modern dating], and the humor with which it delivers it, is what makes ignoring Oh, Hi’s faults so easy.
Posted Jul 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Lisa Laman The Hereditary/Midsommar auteur’s creative reach hasn’t just exceeded his grasp. It’s like he’s barely reaching out at all in this limp slog.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
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