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The Reveal

The Reveal is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Keith Phipps, Scott Tobias.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
1.5 / 5
Mercy (2026) Keith Phipps That set-up might make Mercy sound like it’s attempting a classic act of sci-fi irony [...] but hold up! Mercy’s attitudes toward artificial intelligence, due process, and the surveillance state are a lot more nuanced. Way too nuanced, really.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Private Life (2025) Keith Phipps Zlotowski understands that the real appeal of most mystery movies comes from the characters and the setting more than the plot, but A Private Life’s not-quite-fatal flaw is how little effort it puts into its plot’s central element,
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Keith Phipps [I]t just keeps going, offering a weird, bleak, viscerally uncomfortable, and sometimes bitingly funny exploration of the persistence of evil even among those severed from the past. Yes, there are zombies. But the real monstrousness lies elsewhere.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Keith Phipps A lot of zombie movies get so caught up in the business of survival—fast or slow, the undead can be formidable foes—they seem to forget that all those shambling corpses used to be somebody’s loved ones.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Anaconda (2025) Keith Phipps There’s nothing awful about it, but there’s little to recommend it, either. In a year in which comedy has struggled to regain its place in movie theaters, Anaconda doesn’t make a strong case for making the trip to the multiplex in search of laughs.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Keith Phipps [I[t’s a bittersweetness that really unites each story.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Keith Phipps It evens out to an engaging-enough biopic, but if Song Sung Blue had found a way to interpret their bittersweet love story with a Lightning & Thunder-like intensity, it could have been even more.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Keith Phipps It’s a film that could have been tailor-made for 2025 and, even more chillingly, for seemingly every year in the foreseeable future.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Keith Phipps What worked in The Way of Water works here, just not quite as well.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Keith Phipps For long stretches, Is This Thing On? works better on a scene-by-scene basis than as a cohesive film.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Keith Phipps The iffy de-aging effects are less of a problem than a ramshackle construction that makes it feel like the film will never get started. An even bigger problem: it never really does.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Keith Phipps As the record of a landmark staging of a great play [the film] feels like a gift to all those who wish they could have been there, or want to return.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Keith Phipps Even while laying bare the mechanics he would use to tell a story likely to trip viewers’ b******* meters and calling out one genre cliche after another, Zodiac Killer Project almost works as a compelling true crime doc anyway...
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Keith Phipps [A] charming and ultimately moving comedy
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Keith Phipps Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer 'Jay Kelly' offers two complementary depictions of men forced to reckon with where life has taken them as they approach the back half of middle age.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Christy (2025) Keith Phipps It’s Sweeney that sets it apart.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Keith Phipps Whishaw and Hall deliver lovely, tender performances that capture the friendship between the writer and her subject
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Keith Phipps Bentley transforms Johnson’s story into a Terrence Malick-inspired reverie of images and overlapping emotions, accompanied by large chunks of Johnson’s prose via Will Patton’s narration.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Keith Phipps Linklater’s not particularly interested in exploring anyone’s inner lives [...] but his ability to reshape the story into a lighthearted hangout movie, in which characters put aside their differences to get a job done, makes it brisk and entertaining.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Frankenstein (2025) Keith Phipps Once the film finds its true hero, it becomes exactly as good as the idea of a del Toro adaptation promised: the defining 21st century cinematic Frankenstein.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Keith Phipps The first film Panahi made after his 2022 arrest, the most recent of his many conflicts with the Iranian government, It Was Just an Accident is both typically uncompromising and, for long stretches, disarmingly funny.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Keith Phipps Hawke’s ability to convey flashes of self-awareness elevates his performance from a brilliant impression to a fully realized tragic portrait.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Good Fortune (2025) Keith Phipps Ultimately the film mostly serves as a reminder that being poor sucks. It’s the work of someone who didn’t take the time to realize he had nothing to say, then decided to say something anyway.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Keith Phipps Though thoughtfully mounted, Condon’s film never comes fully to life, even in the “movie” scenes that do their studied best to capture the look and feel of classic MGM musicals without really capturing their heart.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Keith Phipps That [Bigelow] and Oppenheim have clearly done their homework about how such a scenario would play out and the many possible catastrophes it might create makes A House of Dynamite both terrifying in the moment and haunting after the fact.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Keith Phipps Anyone looking for a smart science fiction movie exploring the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence and other concerns should look elsewhere. Anyone in search of a new alternative to Laser Floyd at the planetarium: this one’s for you.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
All of You (2024) Keith Phipps 'All of You'’s science fiction concept more or less fades away and the film becomes a familiar drama of yearning and forbidden love, albeit one played with enough sincerity and easy chemistry to stay reasonably compelling for a while.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Keith Phipps There’s not a trace of the bravado Johnson usually brings to a performance, either on film or as a professional wrestler. This would be a transformative performance even without the hair topping his head.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Predators (2025) Scott Tobias Apart from anything else, Predators is a clinic in documentary ethics, but Osit’s intellect doesn’t mute his pain, sensitivity and outrage. It’s a film for the heart and the head.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5 / 5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Keith Phipps As a love story, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey doesn’t really work. And given that much of the movie is concerned with telling a love story, that's a pretty big problem.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Scott Tobias Reiner and company indulge in a victory lap that feels weirdly like an extended promotion for Tap-related merchandise, with McCartney and John doing their part to bolster the sales pitch.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Long Walk (2025) Scott Tobias There’s integrity to the no-frills human horror of The Long Walk and Lawrence, working from a script by JT Mollner, follows through on its uncompromising bleakness.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Honey Don't! (2025) Scott Tobias The Coens never made a film anywhere near as bad as Honey Don’t!
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eden (2024) Keith Phipps Shot with stark beauty by Mathias Herndl, Eden offers enough twists and robust performances that it never becomes boring. But it’s also frustratingly superficial.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Scott Tobias One half makes you worry the old guy’s lost his touch and the other proves the old guy’s still got it. Looking at the scorecard, Lee wins here by split decision.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Nobody 2 (2025) Keith Phipps Nobody 2 sheds both the novelty value and the style that set the original film apart.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Souleymane's Story (2024) Keith Phipps The film makes it impossible for us to see him as just another name on a list for the government to place a “yes” or a “no” next to. Whether his undeniable humanity will have an effect on his fate is another question entirely, however.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Keith Phipps "Like its namesake, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a thoroughly watchable, instantly forgettable slasher film built around a whodunnit plot that doesn’t really make a lot of sense."
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Eddington (2025) Keith Phipps Often queasily dead-on in capturing the madness of 2020, Eddington benefits from Aster’s technical precision and commitment to dark humor (no matter how touchy the subject), and Phoenix’s intense, cryptic performance.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman (2025) Keith Phipps With Superman, Gunn took on the formidable task of laying the foundation for a whole world. He not only pulled it off, he made it one that feels worth visiting, or if you’re a superpowered visitor from another planet, risking everything to save.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Eephus (2024) Keith Phipps Eephus lets that sense of finality hum as background noise to a low-key comedy built around an Altman-esque ensemble of colorful characters who drift in and out of the spotlight as they day progresses.
Posted May 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Keith Phipps [I]t’s a visually appealing showcase for the endearing pig-and-duck combo. They’re still big. It’s the bottom-line-obsessed corporate entertainment structure that got small.
Posted May 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5 / 5
Sister Midnight (2024) Keith Phipps 'Sister Midnight' might seem merely weird for the sake of being weird if Uma’s metamorphosis, and Apte’s performance, didn’t keep it purposeful.
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Friendship (2024) Keith Phipps 'Friendship' is extremely funny, but also filled with dark undercurrents that intensify over the course of the film, as Craig’s desperation mounts and his attempts to recover his footing prove alternately short-lived and disastrous.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Disney's Snow White (2025) Keith Phipps [A] serviceable-enough reimagining of the classic film. Webb moves the action along.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wedding Banquet (2025) Keith Phipps [T]hough Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet never achieves the comic momentum or emotional depth of Lee’s original, it’s an unfailingly pleasant film filled with endearing characters...
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Shrouds (2024) Keith Phipps It’s Cronenberg’s Finnegans Wake. He’s speaking his own cinematic language now.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Keith Phipps "It’s just a shame the film’s storytelling is never as assured as Saxon’s other creative choices."
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pavements (2024) Keith Phipps "Works remarkably well as an informative recounting of the band’s history, a reality-bending experiment, and a distillation of the Pavement spirit, in which irony masquerading as earnestness could sometimes serve as cover for a subterranean sincerity."
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Thunderbolts* (2025) Keith Phipps It’s the best MCU film in a while, in part because it often plays like an anti-MCU film.
Posted May 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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