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Buddy (2026) Sam Adams The movie’s hilarious and unsettling disjunctions come from the way it introduces genuine menace into Buddy’s world without needing to rewrite its rules, because the menace was already bubbling just under the surface.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Rebecca Onion Everything that annoyed me about Book Poppy gets so much worse in this movie.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) Nadira Goffe The music isn’t half bad, and the brothers do come off as charming.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Dana Stevens Wake Up Dead Man marks not just a return to form but an expansion of the series’ potential.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Dana Stevens Linus Sandgren’s lambent cinematography captures the sumptuous melancholy of Jay’s gilded-cage life, and Nicholas Britell’s lush symphonic score adds a sometimes ironic note of classic-Hollywood glamour.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Sam Adams It restores Thurman’s performance to a unified whole rather than presenting it in two disconnected halves, allowing us to see her career-defining work in one gloriously unbroken arc.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Heather Schwedel The resulting film is pretty darn cute.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) Sam Adams The Stringer goes to great lengths to investigate the question of where Nick Ut was on that road, constructing a timeline of events and plucking his blurry silhouette out of the background of photos focused on other subjects.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Nadira Goffe Though Zootopia 2 is not quite as funny as the first, it’s still got a banger new song by Shakira and many rapid-fire gags.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Dana Stevens Zhao captures the book’s lyrical naturalism and attention to sensory detail in scenes involving the couple’s courtship and time spent playing with their young children.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) Imogen West-Knights Ultimately, it’s fine. It’s not so much the single-take gimmick that makes this special worth noting, but something else that it captures: the dehumanizing effect of fame,
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Rebecca Onion Beautiful, moving, and thoughtful.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Dana Stevens Any sense of disappointment that Wicked: For Good doesn’t quite live up to the first movie pops like a big pink bubble the moment Erivo and Grande unite one last time to sing the showstopping duet “For Good.”
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Keeper (2025) Nadira Goffe Keeper is a movie that starts with immense promise but squanders it minute by minute. Despite a great performance from Maslany, Keeper struggles to remain innovative and definitely doesn’t stick the landing.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Rebecca Onion Every franchise needs to find a way to mix things up, and Trachtenberg has done it.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Scaachi Koul Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is, more than any of the other installments, a feature-length exposition dump.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Sam Adams It sparks to life only for brief periods.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Dana Stevens Though it’s only two hours and 13 minutes long, Sentimental Value packs a whole novel’s worth of emotional texture and telling visual detail into that run time.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Heather Schwedel Christy doesn’t spend enough time on Martin’s interior life. Instead, you’re left wondering whether to root for a character who often acts like a jerk, whose more human side we barely get to know.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Dana Stevens Kaplow’s script neatly avoids both claustrophobia and staginess, dividing the story into three discrete acts.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Dana Stevens Nouvelle Vague darts forward at the effervescent pace of the cultural youth movement it chronicles.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Sam Adams A chilling and provocative look at the limits of policing, particularly when the laws the police are called to enforce present more of a problem than a solution.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Nadira Goffe The determination of DaCosta’s Løvborg to secure that professorship is provided fresh urgency, given her uphill battles as a woman entering a boys’ club.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Regretting You (2025) Rebecca Onion Regretting You will aggravate anyone with a low tolerance for watching easily resolvable misunderstandings persist throughout a story, driving unnecessary conflict.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Carl Wilson It’s a film that feels as if it has many endings, and also many middles, several of them a bit boring.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Dana Stevens By straining in its closing moments toward philosophical grandeur, the film instead does a disservice to both its characters and its audience.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Dana Stevens Del Toro has made a version of the story that’s indelible, but not definitive.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Dana Stevens A House of Dynamite’s brisk 112-minute run time barrels toward what looks like an inevitably catastrophic conclusion, yet the film keeps surprising you right up to the end.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Nadira Goffe Despite its heavy-handedness—best exemplified by the literal ticking noises—you will leave wondering what it was trying to say.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Sam Adams Ares has all the reflectiveness of an earnings call.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) Laura Miller Stone’s application of high-Hitchcockian gloss to this revamped tale of class paranoia works impressively well.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Dana Stevens The script gives Byrne too few moments to modulate the intensity of her performance, or to communicate who Linda is in any register other than blind panic as she careens from one crisis to the next.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Dana Stevens Safdie’s camera and the film’s sympathies remain at arm’s length, obscuring what’s going on inside Mark’s gigantic cranium even more effectively than his dinner-plate-sized hands.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Alex Kirshner Sometimes the movie is such a mess that it also stabs itself, but even if it won’t be topping anyone’s list of the greatest football movies, it still makes some novel contributions to the canon.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Dana Stevens It's a brainy meditation on our dystopian present that's also a whacked-out roller coaster ride.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Megadoc (2025) Sam Adams Megadoc is fascinating in its own right.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Sam Adams A filmmaker who has worked in both fiction and documentary—and been nominated for both international-film and documentary Oscars—Ben Hania periodically reminds the audience just how faithful the re-creation they’re watching is.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Sam Adams The difficulty of connection, the fact that Farsi has to grab every chance to talk even if it means propping a phone up on her laptop screen or squatting on the floor of a rented room, becomes a powerful through line.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Rebecca Onion Stephen King has been adapted a lot, but this is the leanest, meanest adaptation of his work in a long time.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Dana Stevens Though it never reaches the heights of the original—if that film went to 11, this one tops out at around 7.5—Spinal Tap II also never feels like a soulless cash grab or a betrayal of the first movie’s impish comic spirit.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Nadira Goffe Twinless isn’t what you might expect it to be. It’s much more normal, and therefore much more haunting, than that.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Sam Adams A thrilling, roof-shaking blast.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) David Edelstein When we watch these wonderful comedians—Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer—we can taste how much they love embodying their roles.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Roses (2025) Rebecca Onion The little gestures toward class conflict in Adler’s novel and DeVito’s adaptation get flattened out, bringing the Roses closer together, making their conflicts look more like a product of the narcissism of small differences.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) Laura Miller Columbus’ touch as a filmmaker is always heavy. Where Osman is tender—particularly in his depiction of Elizabeth’s relationship to Stephen—Columbus is merely sentimental.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) Sam Adams Half a dozen or so good jokes notwithstanding, the movie is a slog, shockingly bereft of even the Coens’ baseline virtues.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
DEVO (2024) Sam Adams It’s about as comprehensive as a brief history of a band’s 50-year career can be.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) Sam Adams Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow grabs you from its opening frames and, despite its substantial length, never loosens its grip on your soul.
Posted Aug 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Dana Stevens Highest 2 Lowest may not represent Lee's work at its finest, but it's worth seeing on the big screen for its ambitious visuals and for its canny casting—not only of Washington and Rocky, but of Jeffrey Wright, who quietly steals every scene he's in.
Posted Aug 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Blue Beetle (2023) Cat Cardenas The stakes are higher for them. They’re not just trying to figure out the new reality of having an overnight superhero in Jaime, they’re also trying to understand what it means for the already precarious place they occupy in their world.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
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