Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Publications list

Boston Hassle

Boston Hassle is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Anna Hoang, Joshua Polanski, Kyle Amato, Oscar Goff.

Prev Next
Rating Title | Year Author Quote
A Useful Ghost (2025) Anna Hoang Think LARS AND THE REAL GIRL with its vital organs replaced by a Yorgos Lanthimos character, and A USEFUL GHOST might be close to that Frankensteined monster of black comedy.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Oscar Goff The Bone Temple is everything a zombie sequel should be: raucous, funny, surprisingly smart, and bloody enough to make you avert your eyes into your popcorn.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Anna Hoang Gus van Sant’s first movie in several years, is not at all a bad movie...but I can’t shake the feeling that it falls short of saying something, instead blunting an otherwise sharp topic for a passive entry onto the collective conscience.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Oscar Goff It’s not as audacious as some of the filmmaker’s most celebrated pieces, but it remains warm, funny, and altogether lovely.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Anna Hoang [The film] sticks to a more thoughtful, modern approach and intersection between mental illness and culture. Somewhere in the dark, there is a small light in knowing that there are people who are trying to get it right.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Anna Hoang Hind’s voice serves as the writer and painter, adrenaline and sympathy, and the eventual conclusion.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Anna Hoang The circumstances in [the film] are part of Park’s nefarious repertoire of bleak comedy, and at this point of the game, Park is having fun.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Anna Hoang It’s unquestionably a movie about movies, and its conclusion feels like acknowledged resignation to an uncertain death, but it holds a simplicity about the truth in connection we have with each other.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Oscar Goff There is an underlying humanity to Marty Supreme, something that runs deeper than Gems’ film-noir-on-speed nihilism.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Oscar Goff If Death Race 2000 is trash, then it’s really great trash.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Oscar Goff It’s one of the best films of the year, tackling deadly serious subject matter with a wry playfulness which will keep you off balance from its first scene to its last.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Zootopia 2 (2025) Kyle Amato It’s easy to like this movie, but it’s certainly not trying to be actual art.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) Kyle Amato VRMMM WHIRRR BUZZZZ BOOM!
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Roofman (2025) Kyle Amato There’s nothing two of cinema’s best criers cannot do when they’re together.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Dust Bunny (2025) Kyle Amato A standalone imaginative work from someone who has left his bizarre stamp on American television.
Posted Dec 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Oscar Goff Reflection in a Dead Diamond is as gleefully hyperbolic as its title, but it is made with more craft and artistry than a dozen 007 epics.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Anna Hoang Time slows down when the three are together, which emphasizes just how important and valued it is when they get to be in the same room. All of their issues and attitudes in their lives feel miniscule for the better part of the film’s dynamic.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Anna Hoang SENTIMENTAL VALUE challenges the temporal spaces of feeling sentimental: it doesn’t have to exist for the closed chests of the past, but to power the forgiveness and opportunities of the present.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Anna Hoang I'll make the case that BALLAD is still a redeemable watch, mostly on the fact that its vibrancy makes it stick out from other movies this year.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Anna Hoang Outwardly, [the film] may seem outrageous to laugh at, but Panahi’s lived experience for the absurd legal interference in Iran’s arts gives him the edge to make a piece of sordid affairs.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Oscar Goff Die My Love is not a horror movie in the strictest sense of the word, but will still likely leave you in a daze.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Oscar Goff No new ground is broken, but to fans of the movement it will be close to irresistible.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Anna Hoang Reichardt’s blueprint for J.B. was tailored right down to the bone, which is a masterful accomplishment for a movie that could have depended on plot or character-arc certainties to make it tolerable.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Oscar Goff For those on its wavelength, Bugonia is one of the best and funniest movies of the year, nimbly written and effortlessly suspenseful.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Anna Hoang The film suffers from the absence of a push or pull, denouncing any stake between the two characters to make it or break it at the end.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Oscar Goff The film is discomfitingly glib in the face of extremely serious subject matter, yet too unremittingly dour to have very much fun with.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
From Beyond (1986) Oscar Goff From Beyond has never gotten the recognition of Re-Animator, but for my money it’s every bit as entertaining, and far more ambitious as a film.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
F
TRON: Ares (2025) Kyle Amato This is a franchise going zero for three, and at some point Disney needs to admit that neon frisbees do not a compelling story make.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Kyle Amato I still prefer the original film, but this one is going for something a bit different, more grandiose.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
D
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Kyle Amato I’m not sure what Bigelow should do next besides “knock it off.”
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Deathstalker (2025) Oscar Goff I can’t say I laughed as hard as I have at some other Kostanski films, but I had a great big smile on my face from beginning to end.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Happyend (2024) Anna Hoang Its strongest selling point is the fact that it’s a good movie about teenagers, and how the interstitial moments are monumental to the adolescence-turned-adult stage.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Oscar Goff What Safdie brings to the table is a texture, a look and feel very much unlike the stereotypical guts-and-glory dad film.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Anna Hoang The documentary is indubitably well-executed. It forbids sensationalism from taking hold of the story and doesn’t relent to pure victimizing of the predators.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Oscar Goff One Battle plays in this queasy incongruity, electrifying it into a three-hour entertainment of lunatic proportions.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Everything Will Be Alright (2023) Joshua Polanski And there’s something both violent and beautiful within [the film's] vulnerability.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Cat Call (2023) Joshua Polanski The film just isn’t funny. It’s a bit perturbing
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) Anna Hoang The best way to describe THE BALTIMORONS is that it feels rooted in something real. The hijink-energy that pushes the characters into new scenarios is down-to-earth while being cinematically serendipitous.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Joshua Polanski The warm colors and curious kineticism make the Phoenix City a city of great loves. And the Academy aspect ratio, in turn, boxes in the big emotions Bethany struggles to express.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Griffin in Summer (2024) Kyle Amato Griffin in Summer is a gay Bildungsroman that is vital representations for anyone who used to be a grating theater kid with big dreams unaware of how his words and actions affect those around him.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Dog 51 (2025) Joshua Polanski The French in Dog 51 and in real life right now both certainly do something right: fight when their rights are being taken away.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The Long Walk (2025) Kyle Amato Undeniably one of King’s bleakest stories, The Long Walk succeeds thanks to its leads Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, elevating this material and making you feel everything they suffer through.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Joshua Polanski Just like fruit, the longer franchises persist, the greater chance they have of spoiling.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Anna Hoang The fast-paced wordplay in STRAIGHT UP is boiled down to meaningful deliveries of silence, pain, and misunderstood emotions between Dennis and Roman. They spend more time listening to each other instead of fighting to be the scene’s supreme wisecrack.
Posted Sep 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass (2024) Oscar Goff Even a lesser work by a pair of master artisans should be celebrated, and it speaks to the duo’s astounding career that Sanatorium might even be suggested as a “lesser work.”
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Love, Brooklyn (2025) Anna Hoang It feels like it contends with the troubles of gentrification as much as the idea of wanting to believe that the characters have good taste and enough money to not have roommates.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Oscar Goff Ultimately, I can’t quite recommend the new Toxic Avenger, as it’s simply not quite successful at what it’s trying to do— but I do appreciate that it is trying to do it.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) Kyle Amato Butler is in a constant state of suffering during the film, taking a page from Tom Cruise’s star persona. He plays every action scene scared for his life, alternating between rage and tears.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) Oscar Goff Despite all of these individually promising elements, the film itself, on a fundamental level, simply does not work.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Videoheaven (2025) Oscar Goff Like a know-it-all with a shelf of staff recommendations next to the checkout counter, Perry earns his snottiness through quick wit and earnest cinephilia.
Posted Aug 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Prev Next