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Homegrown (2024) Beandrea July I wanted to turn it off at many points, but I'm glad that I stuck with it, because the whole film is deep verité. You don't have any notion of who is behind the camera... It does a reality check that I found gratifying.
Posted Jan 24, 2026Edit critic review
Love, Brooklyn (2025) Christy Lemire The movie itself is such a sanitized and heightened version of Brooklyn that it never feels like a real place where real people live.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Love, Brooklyn (2025) Lael Loewenstein The energy from the film evaporated -- it just needed something more.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Cut (2024) Christy Lemire It's not a great movie, but I did appreciate the extremes that [Orlando Bloom] would go to transform himself.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Hamilton (2020) Lael Loewenstein The camera here is so much more sophisticated and intricate than pretty much any stage production I've seen filmed, and that is to its credit.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Tinā (2024) Lael Loewenstein It manages to be both familiar and entirely different... It taught me about a culture I didn't know much about and opened my eyes to a different experience.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Preparation for the Next Life (2025) Christy Lemire Sebiye Behtiyar is a star!
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Preparation for the Next Life (2025) Lael Loewenstein It could have been more connected narratively, but it was beautifully told and for most part moving.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Lael Loewenstein Such an effective black comedy. It melds so many different themes: grief, longing, loss, the need to connect, against a really well-developed character arc.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Christy Lemire If you love all these movies, there are lots of greatest hits elements here.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Clemente (2024) Christy Lemire I loved this and needed this as a balm.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Clemente (2024) Tim Cogshell This is awesome. Even more than baseball fans will want to see this.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Riefenstahl (2024) Christy Lemire It's an incredible piece of editing... Laid out as it is, you see all the contradictions.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) Christy Lemire It is so sweet, so understated, and just a wonderful slice of life.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) Tim Cogshell Very funny. It reminded me of a 1990s Ed Burns movie.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) Charles Solomon Anyone who likes this very popular franchise is just going to have a ball.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Christy Lemire I found it quite cozy.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Tim Cogshell I actually enjoyed this film, but I know that you have to be "in the know" to really enjoy it.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Tim Cogshell If you're thinking about it, and you're in a certain demographic, go check it out.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Christy Lemire This is really painfully unfunny.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Christy Lemire It is not for the faint of hear, but it will stick with you.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Tim Cogshell This weighed heavily on me, and it was very, very disturbing.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Waltzing with Brando (2024) Claudia Puig It feels like a bad sitcom.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Democracy Noir (2024) Claudia Puig Well made, eye-opening, and extremely timely.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Xeno (2025) Tim Cogshell This is a lot of fun -- a girl and her ugly alien movie.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
The Summer Book (2024) Claudia Puig Glenn Close is wonderful in it. Besides her performance, the main it has going for it is this evocative sense of place.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025) Tim Cogshell This is a wonderful documentary about media, media commentary, and the necessity of freedom of speech.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Another End (2024) Tim Cogshell Crunch this down and it'd be a good 30-minute short.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Another End (2024) Claudia Puig A vaguely sci-fi story that's so lifeless and apathetic it's almost inert. It doesn't deserve these vibrant actors.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Tim Cogshell This movie loses it in the third act... They start explaining. Never explain!
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Tim Cogshell The elements don't all quite come together... But I can definitely feel the intention.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Claudia Puig A misfire with about as much emotional depth as a greeting card.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Adulthood (2025) Christy Lemire An exciting, different kind of role for Josh Gad.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
All the Devils Are Here (2025) Manuel Betancourt Still, boring, and listless, and there's a twist that had me rolling my eyes.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) Manuel Betancourt I really enjoyed the vibes of it all because it's really trying to capture a moment... The sense of surveillance feels integral rather than flashy.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) Christy Lemire There's way too much stuff going on.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) Christy Lemire It got its arms around a lot in a very affectionate way.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) Manuel Betancourt It was too baggy without enough focus for it really honor the legacy of Rocky Horror.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Manuel Betancourt Pop culture anthropology at its best.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Christy Lemire This is so eye-opening and caused me to really think differently about this show.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Dead of Winter (2025) Manuel Betancourt I was trying to think if I've seen a worse Emma Thompson movie, and I couldn't come up with anything.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Christy Lemire It makes this tonal shift that would be tricky for a veteran filmmaker, and Scarlett Johansson, as great an actress as she is, was not ready for this.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Manuel Betancourt June Squibb is doing fantastic work, but for the most part I was baffled by the very concept of the movie.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Manuel Betancourt It's so nimble, fleet-footed and moves with such pace that you really are along for this ride from the beginning.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Christy Lemire Essential viewing for what is happening in our country right now.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Norita (2024) Tim Cogshell A very strong film set in Argentina during the 1970s.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Tim Cogshell This dog has personality and can really act.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Coyotes (2025) Tim Cogshell These coyotes, which don't look remotely real at all, undermine everything else that's going on in the movie.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Viva Verdi! (2024) Tim Cogshell This a fantastic film about a fantastic thing.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
Are We Good? (2025) Tim Cogshell [His relationship with Lynn Shelton] is a very powerful dynamic in this film.
Posted Dec 31, 2025Edit critic review
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