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3/5
North (1994) Rob Salem Director Rob Reiner is all over the place, scrambling to find the right tone, but never quite succeeding. At least, not for long.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The American President (1995) Judy Gerstel Stylishly directed by Rob Reiner and cleverly written by Aaron Sorkin, The American President is a spirited, feel-good diversion.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Misery (1990) Craig MacInnis Misery, Rob Reiner's taut and troubling adaption of the Stephen King novel, is a black comedy to end all black comedies.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
0/4
Mercy (2026) Peter Howell Lazily written, chaotically directed and played out with all the zest of a convenience-store security video, it lacks not only vision and purpose but the faintest hint of entertainment.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Jack Karr Like other pictures of its type, The Day the Earth Stood Still puts quite a strain on credulity... but it has its fascination nonetheless.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Clyde Gilmour Visually and sonically, this super-western is a credit to its genre.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Adam Nayman If “Dead Man’s Wire” feels more like a modest triumph of engineering than a major artistic statement, there’s still plenty of virtue in seeing a job well done.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Primate (2025) Adam Nayman It’s hard to say if it’d be a better movie with a more evolved approach. Metaphors for grief and trauma are all well and good, but sometimes, a rabid chimpanzee is just a rabid chimpanzee: the fundamental things apply.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Jack Karr To assist in the freezing of your bloodstream, the producers have told their eerie tale with a splendid cast.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Howell Your rapt attention is assured, but wrenching tonal shifts may leave you exiting the theatre feeling like your skull has been zipped open by a hungry Alpha.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Ron Base Reiner manages to take the cliches and find something new and often quite original in them.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Jack Karr "Out of the Past" serves its purpose.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Peter Howell What connects these tales isn’t narrative propulsion but pulse. Jarmusch is patiently attuned to people trying, and largely failing, to bridge the small emotional gaps that can turn into chasms.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Craig MacInnis In terms of performance, there is hardly a false note sounded anywhere in the film.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Alice in Wonderland (1951) Hugh Thomson There's an engaging, wayward intellectuality and inverted logic that will please the adult mind, while the kiddies will drink in the play of fancy and imaginative absurdities as part of their world of vivid make-believe.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Chronology of Water (2025) Adam Nayman The fact Stewart doesn’t quite stick the landing scarcely matters when her debut represents such a real and agile leap of faith in the first place.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) Rob Salem It's often very wordy, especially Cusack's speeches, but even when there's too much of it, the dialogue is sharp and funny.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Ron Base A series of clever, often very funny scenes; the good parts that never come together to form much of a whole. You get to the end of "Princess Bride" and discover something is missing -- a plot. But that's okay. Its absence is hardly noted.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
We Bury the Dead (2024) Peter Howell Ridley’s quiet magnetism steadies We Bury the Dead through its shakier stretches, while Hilditch steers by emotion rather than fear. Both are chasing a reckoning with loss that flickers, achingly, just beyond reach.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Adam Nayman Fastvold is willing to take her material over the top. But it belongs there, and at a moment when so many big-ticket movies feel earthbound, The Testament of Ann Lee deserves credit for at least trying to defy gravity.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Peter Howell You may leave the theatre exhausted, but the unstoppable sphere that is “Marty Supreme” keeps bouncing long after the credits roll.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Clyde Gilmour Everybody is a cartoon instead of a third-dimensional individual.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Catherine Dunphy It's not fair to kids. With all his technical flair, Spielberg has created the equivalent of the 70-year-old with dyed hair, troweled makeup, in tie-dyes and high tops. And in doing that, messed with Neverland. Spielberg is old enough to know better.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Housemaid (2025) Adam Nayman The Housemaid feints in the direction of genuine transgression, only to fall back into affirmative, politically correct uplift. In the end, its niceness is the least convincing thing about it.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Peter Howell It’s an achingly authentic portrait of a marriage quietly losing oxygen, less a conventional breakup story than an observational study, shot with the intimacy of reality TV.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Christine (1983) Ron Base Carpenter has a terrific sense of the nuances of high school life and he gets lively performances from his cast that almost make you forget that just beneath the contrived reality needed for this movie lurks deep pools of silliness.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Peter Howell A certain sameness has set in. The film, an extension of the previous chapter, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” feels like it’s hitting multiple speed bumps on a road it has already driven, twice, in an even bigger car.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Resurrection (2025) Adam Nayman Simply put, no working filmmaker is better at taking the audience for a ride.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
True Lies (1994) Rob Salem It is both epic and intimate, light-hearted yet explosively action-packed, a relentlessly inventive mix of high adventure and romantic comedy.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Norman Wilner It's technically flawless, utterly riveting and one of the best love stories ever put to film.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Catherine Dunphy Nothing detracts or distracts from [the film's] cost. Not the plot - too lame, too limp, too tense but with no tension. Not its look - it has the sleek, blue-ice sheen of a music video. Not its script - which reads pompous, the way only bad sci-fi can.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Peter Howell Cameron's mania for detail, and his own vast diving experience, gives the film authority and depth, while the special effects of the aliens remain unequalled.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Terminator (1984) Ron Base The action is fast and furious and executed with the ferocity of film-makers possessed of B-movie sensibilities, armed with A-movie budgets and a knowledge that, if anyone stops moving or bleeding, someone will have to start talking.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Adam Nayman The complexity of the storytelling here is considerable, and probably wouldn’t work without a strong, grounding central presence. It’s thus hard to say enough about the quality of Moura’s performance.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Peter Goddard When the movie stays with the conflict between people and the machines they play with, it works. When it tries to enter the '80s fantasy film sweepstakes, it sinks.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Peeper (1975) Clyde Gilmour Director Peter Hyams never seems to make up his mind whether he is trying to make us laugh or trying to chill our spinal columns.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Journey Back to Oz (1974) Clyde Gilmour It doesn't even begin to match the quality of its celebrated forerunner.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Peter Howell It is darker, denser and in many ways more interesting than its predecessor, though newcomers should beware: entering Oz here without context is like being dropped into a tornado.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Adam Nayman What’s gruelling, then, is the way Hikari -- a talented visual stylist with an eye for urban landscapes -- belabours the various plot points. It’s as if she’s worried that if she doesn’t hold our hand at every turn, we’ll get lost.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) K. Jill Rigby Ross overacts and makes her part more of a mother, psychoanalyst and social worker than a naive young girl.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Peter Howell Clooney is at his smoothest in “Jay Kelly,” but the best thing about the film is its generosity toward supporting stars, especially Sandler, Dern and Crudup.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Running Man (2025) Adam Nayman Wright’s grim, grayed-out backdrop feels ripped from King’s pages, but the tone isn’t quite right. The filmmaker’s great gift is for pop uplift, and his buoyant sensibility is at odds with the heavy melancholy of King’s tale.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Predator: Badlands (2025) Adam Nayman All of this is reasonably absorbing, with Trachtenberg once again proving a spirited -- if conventional -- purveyor of B-movie tropes and thrills, albeit in a slightly anodyne register.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (1987) Rob Salem While it may not be the best Arnold movie, it is certainly the funniest. The screenplay is a hoot, crammed with silly cartoon characters and hilarious throw-away one-liners.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Bugonia (2025) Adam Nayman The film is a case study in glib nastiness masquerading as satire, a mode that’s become increasingly attractive to talented artists trying to make a mark in a fraught moment.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator (1987) Rob Salem ...though erratically paced and more than a little gore-happy, the flick is more fun than a barrel of heat-seeking mortar shells.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator 2 (1990) Catherine Dunphy It's violent and mean.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Clyde Gilmour Oppressively pretentious.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Clyde Gilmour The script and the direction badly let [Frank Langella] down.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Shelby Oaks (2023) Adam Nayman That there aren’t too many horror films exactly like “Shelby Oaks” is probably a compliment. That same uniqueness also ends up amplifying our disappointment.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
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