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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
1.5/4
Mercy (2026) Lindsey Bahr At times, it feels as tedious as watching a stranger’s increasingly frustrating call with a robotic customer service representative play out in real time.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) Patricia Bibby Like a seasoned politician, The American President puts on a good-natured public face, managing to be charming in an innocuous sort of way.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Rip (2026) Jake Coyle Carnahan, who also wrote “The Rip,” has said the movie is inspired by real events as described to him by a Miami detective. But little in how the movie plays out will strike many as particularly plausible.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
A Private Life (2025) Lindsey Bahr Anchoring it all is Foster, using the full force of her star power and impeccable French to make A Private Life, unwieldy and complex as it is, go down as easy as a glass of gamay.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Mark Kennedy The fourth entry in an ever-more engrossing franchise is absolutely bonkers -- and a triumph. It mixes dark, queasy disembowelment and laugh-out-loud humor in a way that both subverts the genre and leads a way out of it, too.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Jocelyn Noveck This sequel may be focused more on emotion and character -- since the whole comet thing happened long ago -- but the problem is, none of this is compellingly rendered, and is forgotten when convenient.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Bob Thomas It takes a quick mind to follow the vastly complicated plot... but Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and the others manage to keep things fairly well in hand.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Jake Coyle Staying closer to the truth might have produced a more dynamic movie. But “Dead Man’s Wire” still works.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Princess Bride (1987) Bob Thomas It may well be the most pleasurable movie you'll see all year.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Bob Thomas Courtrooms provide surefire movie drama and "A Few Good Men" presses all the buttons. Cruise turns masterful and Nicholson delivers the the desired testimony.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
We Bury the Dead (2024) Lindsey Bahr The very threat of zombies keeps things kind of interesting... but this film seems to be suffering the same plight as its protagonist. Both are searching for closure, a bigger point, something that might give the whole thing meaning.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Plague (2025) Jake Coyle Polinger’s film isn’t a comfortable watch and it’s not meant to be. It gets under the skin. That it’s drawn partially from its director’s own memories is surely one source of its potency.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) Robbin Coons Hollywood's first admittedly propaganda picture is a novelty that comes off better than you'd expect. Comes off, in fact, as an engrossing and dramatic movie.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Jocelyn Noveck It’s not unreasonable to ask: Why put so much energy and attention and craftsmanship into telling this particular story? Well, one answer is pretty simple: they had Seyfried.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
No Other Choice (2025) Jake Coyle This is a director capable of conjuring menacing brutality with nothing but a hallway and hammer. And in “No Other Choice,” he remains at the peak of his powers.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Jocelyn Noveck [Marty is] played by Chalamet in a delicious synergy of actor, role and whatever fairy dust makes a performance feel both preordained and magically fresh.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) Bob Thomas Just when the nation needed it, Steven Spielberg and company have prepared a grand holiday gift for one and all. He calls it "Hook," in honor of Captain James Hook, pirate extraordinaire. Audiences will call it pure joy.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Mark Kennedy Overall, it’s just not so good, so good.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Lindsey Bahr Hillenburg died in 2018, but his wholly unique, zany world lives on, now four features in. It might not be the best of the bunch, but the infectious childlike spirit (and intestinal fortitude) remains firmly intact.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Housemaid (2025) Mark Kennedy Santa left us a present this holiday season and it is exactly what we didn’t know we needed: A twisty, psychological horror-thriller with nudity that’s all wrapped up in an empowerment message... This naughty movie is definitely on the nice list.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Jake Coyle These remain epics of craft and conviction. You can feel Cameron’s deep devotion to the dynamics of his central characters, even when his interest outstrips our own. That’s especially true in “Fire and Ash."
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Scarlet (2025) Jake Coyle It’s a big swing, the kind filmmakers as talented as Hosoda should be taking, but it doesn’t pay off. Still, it’s often dazzling to look at it and it’s never not impassioned.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Goodbye June (2025) Lindsey Bahr Winslet, making her feature directorial debut, isn’t doing anything flashy here... This is a piece about characters and Winslet gives her actors space to build people that by and large feel pretty real.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Bob Thomas "Big Top Pee Wee" is a clever piece of pure entertainment.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Lisa Levitt Ryckman Full of all the fun stuff that makes his Saturday morning show so enchanting, the message here is that it's OK to be different. Big Top will make kids of all ages feel good about themselves.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Ella McCay (2025) Jocelyn Noveck It’s hard to understand how “Ella McCay,” the first original feature from writer-director Brooks in 15 years, goes so utterly haywire. Is this really the same mind that wrote the memorable “Broadcast News”? “Terms of Endearment”? “As Good As It Gets”?
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Abyss (1989) Dolores Barclay The first two-thirds of "The Abyss" amount to a fairly good adventure-thriller, with lots of sparkling, hip dialogue, good character development and non-stop action. The last third is a joke.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Bob Thomas James Cameron, whose Terminator 2 set a new standard for movie stunts, exceeds himself with True Lies.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Bob Thomas Never has the screen been filled with so much mind-blowing action.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
0/4
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Mark Kennedy It’s an incoherent mess, something that, back in the day, would be straight to DVD. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” has an after-school special vibe with no real horror and no real awareness that it should.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Fred Rothenberg The man who played a fire-breathing Army general in "Dr. Strangelove" lends a strong comic sense to the role and manages to bring shading to one of literature's most crotchety cheapskates.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Lindsey Bahr If the idea was to make something for the moms, “Oh. What. Fun.” is about as thoughtful as a hastily scribbled card on a piece of printer paper the morning of her birthday. We can all do better.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Mark Kennedy There’s no way you can solve this one so just relax and let it stutter-stop several times to its overcooked end.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Lindsey Bahr The Secret Agent is the best kind of personal film, imbued with so many things that Mendonça Filho loves, both resurrection and elegy.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Zootopia 2 (2025) Jake Coyle The fun caper spirit of the first movie is alive enough to carry Bush and Howard’s film, but you can’t help feel like sequel-ization also means domestication.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Eternity (2025) Lindsey Bahr Is it romantic? Is it depressing? Is it woefully limited in its idea of what a human life amounts to? Yes? It’s committed, clever, comforting simplicity is also pretty satisfying -- a contained, crowd-pleaser that does not go on for eternity.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hamnet (2025) Jocelyn Noveck [Chloé Zhao] goes straight for the tear ducts, with crucial help from a superb cast led by Buckley -- who, like her character, seems to have an extraordinary ability to dispense with artifice and access a wildness simmering beneath the surface.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Train Dreams (2025) Lindsey Bahr Train Dreams might veer a little too close to sentimental at times, but perhaps that’s an intentional respite from the aching loss at its core.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Jocelyn Noveck The broader message may simply be that genuine connection, that holy grail we all crave, can sometimes be found in the oddest of places -- even in a bizarre no man's land between fake relationships and real ones.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Mark Kennedy Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in "Jay Kelly," director Noah Baumbach's love letter to Hollywood that, in other hands, could so easily have become just a love letter to Clooney.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Jake Coyle I rarely found myself lifted into a movie world, but rather sat watching it -- sometimes with admiration, rarely with delight -- from the mezzanine. The rub of going for maximum effect all the time is that the actors never have a chance to simply be.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) Bob Thomas The songs are predictable, the decor overproduced. Surprisingly, Richard Pryor fails to score as the bogus Wizard. Sadly, Diana Ross is miscast.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Mark Kennedy “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” does what sequels apparently must do these days -- load up the characters, return to favorite bits and go global -- but nails the trick, a crowd-pleasing return.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Jake Coyle There’s plenty to admire in Ramsay’s uncompromising and delirious portrait of marital hell, particularly in the bracingly raw performance of Lawrence. The abandon with which she throws herself into the role is enough to make you exclaim “Mother!”
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Nuremberg (2025) Lindsey Bahr It’s interesting, morally murky territory fitting of the filmmaker best known as the screenwriter of “Zodiac” that does gesture toward some provocative ideas... But it can’t quite synthesize its classical form with the bleak, sobering truths at its core.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Predator: Badlands (2025) Mark Kennedy It’s hard to underestimate Fanning here, who keeps us interested. She doesn’t just add comic relief, she adds a much-needed human element.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Jake Coyle The result is something endlessly stylish and almost absurdly uncanny, even if “Nouvelle Vague” never adopts the brash daring of its subject.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hallow Road (2025) Lindsey Bahr Ultimately, it’s an effectively minimalistic thriller that leaves much room for interpretation and debate, and a good option for anyone looking for something creepy to watch this Halloween without the gore.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Regretting You (2025) Jocelyn Noveck “Regretting You” ...has its share of grief. But the strange way the tears give way to smiles, quips and then full-on rom-com corniness feels a little awkward — and then just weird and annoying.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Bugonia (2025) Jake Coyle By the time “Bugonia” reaches its unforgettable finale, it’s made chillingly clear just how feeble any such movement might be, and the movie’s apocalyptic air of resignation, of fait accompli, sounds a chastening death knell.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
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