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A-
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Jared Rasic
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It elevates horror into groundbreaking new places, while also treating the audience like intelligent adults who want more than arterial spray from their spooky movies.
Posted Jan 22, 2026
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A
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Thirty minutes into Marty Supreme I was in love with Josh Safdie’s technical brilliance and the clarity of his grimy, 1950s vision. After an hour and a half, I was exhausted and had completely moved away from exhilaration into a numbed weariness.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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A
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Regardless of your feelings for the work of Shakespeare or Elizabethan drama, Hamnet almost defies categorization as a cinematic work.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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C
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Cameron and his team of writers seem more interested in playing around with their own Campbell-esque, archetypal hero monomyth tropes than actually telling a captivating story.
Posted Dec 24, 2025
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A
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
(2006)
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Jared Rasic
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It’s still one hell of a movie, 20 years later.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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B
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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This isn’t a cynical cash grab from Disney, even if it fails to capture the same ephemeral magic of the original.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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A
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Director Mary Bronstein hasn’t just crafted an impeccably well-written and acted film, but as a visual artist, she has immediately stepped into the rarified air of auteur.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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A-
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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A film of such achingly gorgeous frames and hauntingly lonely interior lives that it wounds the viewer with its sharp edges and jagged splinters.
Posted Dec 02, 2025
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D+
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Erivo is a force of nature and the movie is always interesting to look at with gorgeously realized sets and design. But regardless, it’s a shallow waste of nearly bottomless cinematic resources.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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B+
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It’s gorgeous, lush, and perversely violent even as it follows story beats so familiar that they feel a part of our collective unconsciousness.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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B+
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Bugonia is just as darkly, absurdly funny as the best of Lanthimos’s earlier work, while feeling like a step forward for him as a technician and artist.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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I couldn’t tell you half of the plot points or story ideas in Ares, but as a visual ride, it’s pretty incredible.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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A+
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Every detail is executed flawlessly in a way that most movies don’t even come close to achieving, making One Battle After Another feel momentous even as you’re watching it, but without crystallizing as to why until after it’s over.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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A-
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The History of Sound
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Director Oliver Hermanus crafts the film with a gentle and unassuming eye. The film is handsome to look at, but it is still mostly understated in its framing and compositions.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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D+
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The script of this movie is so shallow, so empty of genuine human emotion and honesty that it feels like the cinematic equivalent of a Live, Laugh, Love towel holder.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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B
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Watching this lovely company of actors take their final bows as these beloved characters is a treat, whether the film is perfect or not. This is cinema as comfort food, a cozy blanket for trying times.
Posted Sep 18, 2025
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B
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It shows Lee more energized behind the camera than I’ve seen him in years, using all of his tricks with editing, score and performance to craft a genuinely compelling film.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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B+
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The Roses
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The Roses actually works better than the original, with Cumberbatch and Colman having such a gorgeous and homey chemistry that you genuinely want them to fix their problems and not destroy each other’s lives.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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B
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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While Caught Stealing is most assuredly a departure from Aronofsky’s earlier work, there still runs beneath the surface a deadly serious undercurrent that gives even the wackiest moments a violent weight.
Posted Sep 05, 2025
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Eden
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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The only actors that really manage to get away unscathed are a magnetic Kirby and quietly powerful Sweeney, who both layer their characters with multitudes beyond what they’re given.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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I love watching Qualley and Aubrey Plaza teaming up to kick ass and chew scenery, but the tones and themes are too disparate to make the sun-soaked neo-noir film feel like anything more than a scattered and brief diversion.
Posted Aug 28, 2025
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B+
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Together
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Together is not only a cringe-inducing thriller with two or three of the scariest shots I’ve seen in a film all year, but also a razor-sharp and hilarious metaphor for relationship anxiety and codependency.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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B
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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In a time where everything feels so fraught and serious, there's something beautifully cathartic about a film so purposefully stupid and hilarious that you can shut your brain off with no negative consequences.
Posted Aug 05, 2025
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B+
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It’s not perfect and might not cure audiences’ recent apathy towards Marvel, but it feels like a good step in the right direction.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Eddington
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The film manages to be hilarious, heart-wrenching, shocking, infuriating, and genuinely exciting, while still feeling like an honest, microcosmic appraisal of America.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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B+
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Superman
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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David Corenswet is a wonderful Superman and Clark Kent because he radiates a warm decency that I’m not sure we’ve seen since Christopher Reeve played this dual character.
Posted Jul 18, 2025
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B
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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F1 is the definition of a crowd-pleasing summer blockbuster.
Posted Jul 03, 2025
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D-
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It's intermittently fun to watch these good actors trying to make something out of Koepp's lazy script and Edward's lifeless direction, but that only lasts for a few minutes.
Posted Jun 29, 2025
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B
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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28 Years Later is a singular, yet disjointed work of art from a filmmaker still obsessed with innovation and the actual craft of storytelling.
Posted Jun 29, 2025
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A-
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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The Life of Chuck worked on me. I found it spellbinding.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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B+
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Materialists
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Materialists has more to say about humanity than I was ready for.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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C-
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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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All this new one does is remind me that the old one exists and I would rather be watching it.
Posted Jun 23, 2025
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A-
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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In no world will The Phoenician Scheme convert disgruntled old fans or bring new ones into the Anderson cinematic universe, but it’s probably his funniest film since The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Posted Jun 11, 2025
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B+
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Friendship
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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Writer-director Andrew DeYoung takes the film in directions I genuinely couldn’t predict and left me covering my eyes more than once.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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B+
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It’s a powerful film, led by a never-better Hawkins, and one I’m not sure I will forget soon. If the final few minutes weren’t so messy with plotting and character, this would be an instant classic, but it still manages to be very, very good.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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B+
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The spectacle outweighs everything else, including dialogue, plotting, character, and logic.
Posted May 28, 2025
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B-
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Lilo & Stitch
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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There are a few curious changes to the source material, but most of them make the movie feel more like a product of today than the more innocent days of 2002.
Posted May 28, 2025
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B+
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Final Destination Bloodlines
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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Bloodlines is much better than it has any right to be, with solid performances, seat-squirmy deaths, genuinely inventive filmmaking, and a lovely goodbye to the dearly departed horror icon Tony Todd.
Posted May 21, 2025
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C+
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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The Surfer excels at sun-bleached paranoia vibes, but when it tries to unpack new things to say about toxic masculinity and mental illness, it gets lost in the weeds.
Posted May 15, 2025
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B
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Fight or Flight
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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The violence is so gleefully over the top that the film feels like a live-action Looney Tunes, but with Josh Hartnett swinging a chainsaw around a packed airplane.
Posted May 15, 2025
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B
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The Friend
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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Watching Watts and Apollo slowly grow to trust each other is genuinely moving, and even though the film feels a bit stiff and writerly in moments, The Friend is cozy comfort cinema, achieving nothing more or nothing less.
Posted May 15, 2025
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B+
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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While the film still suffers from the recent MCU problem of a wonky first act and an over-reliance on quippy banter, it ends up being such a heartfelt examination of what makes us human that it’s hard to pick too many nits.
Posted May 08, 2025
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A-
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Sinners
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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While the cast is uniformly great, the show is stolen by the timeless, grimy blues score by Ludwig Göransson and the lush, yet understated cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw.
Posted Apr 21, 2025
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B+
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Warfare
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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It’s a heartbreaking statement of purpose to create something so ugly and authentic, and the film exists as another of Garland’s black mirrors, reflecting one or two of our greatest traits as humans through the prism of our worst impulses.
Posted Apr 17, 2025
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F
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A Minecraft Movie
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The film remains ugly to look at while the FIVE credited writers fail to craft a single moment that authentically captures the wonder of making something exist in reality that wholly captures what you saw in your head.
Posted Apr 10, 2025
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D+
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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The new songs are unmemorable and one of them is outright awful (Princess Problems).
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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C-
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The Alto Knights
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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This feels like a Netflix mini-series edited down to two sleepy, derivative hours.
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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A-
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The Assessment
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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From the score to the performances to the cinematography, script, and direction, The Assessment is a singular work I won’t soon forget and Fortuné crafts some imagery here unlike anything that has come before in cinema.
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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B
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The Penguin Lessons
(2024)
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Jared Rasic
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I found myself deeply moved by the story and Coogan’s brilliant ability to weaponize his charming gruffness while creating believable, sympathetic and deeply flawed men.
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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D-
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The Electric State
(2025)
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Jared Rasic
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A garish, unfunny, Netflix original dumpster fire.
Posted Apr 07, 2025
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