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2.5/4
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Angelo Muredda Once you settle into Father Mother Sister Brother‘s relaxed groove and get accustomed to the variations on the theme, there’s an easygoing allure to Jarmusch’s associative approach, as there so often is.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Anaconda (2025) Walter Chaw With its winking cameos, perfunctory narrative skeleton, and exhausted routines, Anaconda ’25 is rancid bait so moribund that no self-respecting anaconda would even consider eating it.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Walter Chaw Song Sung Blue is a perfect bit of awards-season flotsam headed for the Hallmark Channel for the half-interested consumption of an audience needing a palate cleanser between Jennifer Love Hewitt movies.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
0/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Walter Chaw Ignore the offensive parts and what remains of Avatar 3 is a cacophonous mess of sentimental mumbo-jumbo.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Ella McCay (2025) Walter Chaw Ella McCay is terrible agitprop, terrible championing of policy wonkery, terrible political satire. It falls out of a boat and misses the ocean.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Angelo Muredda Celebrated New York portrait photographer Peter Hujar becomes the subject of a distinctive portrait himself in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a gentle, minor-key experiment in memorializing the everyday.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
No Other Choice (2025) Walter Chaw No Other Choice is fun, if typically brutal in that Park Chan-wook way.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Keeper (2025) Walter Chaw Perkins is a master of negative space.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Walter Chaw Die My Love is a difficult film to like. Thank God.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Predator: Badlands (2025) Walter Chaw It’s true, there’s a giant, beating heart in the middle of what could have been another hollow exploitation of our lamented childhoods.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Walter Chaw When this movie works, it works so well, although it won’t speak to everyone, and Cooper shouldn’t have tried to force it to.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Eternity (2025) Bill Chambers Once established, Eternity‘s love triangle offers no further turns of the screw: Joan must simply pick a lane.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Bill Chambers Dead Man's Wire has some of that Dog Day electricity up front but is too low-stakes and underpopulated to sustain it, no matter how many multimedia you-are-there inserts Van Sant cuts to from news crews and the like.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Good Fortune (2025) Walter Chaw Keke Palmer is woefully wasted.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
After the Hunt (2025) Angelo Muredda Guadagnino and Garrett’s characterization of these scholars’ work is pitiful.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Walter Chaw A House of Dynamite has the whole world as its big blind, and yet it feels like there aren’t any stakes at all.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Furious (2025) Angelo Muredda Like Miao’s performance, The Furious does precisely what it’s asked to do and nothing more; who could complain?
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
The Ugly (2024) Angelo Muredda The Ugly is thrown into a full-blown panic attack by the aesthetic challenge posed by something as simple as depicting its disabled characters moving through the world.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Play Dirty (2025) Walter Chaw Play Dirty is a non-starter.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Angelo Muredda Like the song Max is obsessed with, the film is creepy, but it keeps you dreaming.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Obsession (2025) Bill Chambers I like how Obsession more or less skips the honeymoon phase and goes straight to the irony of Bear’s wish coming true, in all its hollowness and imprecise syntax.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) Bill Chambers A devastating adult drama, The Sun Rises on Us All is also a uniquely pulpy one.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Walter Chaw More than upbeat, it’s inspirational: a call to action, an invitation to the dance.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Tron (1982) Bill Chambers If a few sequences still captivate, the overall feeling of the film is one of a grimy datedness and a decided lack of impetus.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Blue Moon (2025) Angelo Muredda There’s a genuine thematic weight to the moments where Hart’s height disparity from the people he admires puts him at a remove.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Bugonia (2025) Walter Chaw I don’t know who Bugonia is for: I think it’ll disappoint fans of the original and of Lanthimos, and I think it’ll be as alien for neophytes and normies as a typically horrifying Lanthimos joint would have been.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Frankenstein (2025) Walter Chaw Frankenstein is the film Guillermo del Toro was meant to make.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Smashing Machine (2025) Angelo Muredda The problem is that outside of the acute depiction of opiate addiction and recovery and this amusingly incongruous portrait of a strong yet sensitive and soft-spoken man there’s too little here to justify the project.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Long Walk (2025) Walter Chaw If it's a warning, The Long Walk is too late. If it's a documentary, it offers no fresh insights. Greed and violence have broken America? Got it. Does The Long Walk resonate as an object, though? That I could possibly get behind.I
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Angelo Muredda The Testament of Ann Lee is a pleasantly odd text.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Walter Chaw Every performance in Sentimental Value is invisible and precious: the embodiment of a fully-formed human being in all their contradictions and ineffable subtlety.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Degrassi: Whatever It Takes (2025) Bill Chambers Rideout’s documentary is the story of a proud second-wave feminist becoming another compromised Boomer, though that makes this uneasy mix of fluff, hagiography, and reckoning sound more hard-hitting than it is.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Fence (2025) Angelo Muredda Though such pronouncements seem a little overwritten for Denis, The Fence still bears her unmistakable signature in everything from its moody ambiance to its shambling structure
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Walter Chaw Jay Kelly wants to preserve the inviolability of its sacred cake and eat it, too. It wants to be a bruising study of a failed man and an unironic celebration of a great artist. I don’t think you can do both of those things.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
0/5
Hamnet (2025) Walter Chaw What is art when it doesn’t communicate what the artist is experiencing, only that they are experiencing it and want you to bear witness? Selfish is one word. Insufferable is another.
Posted Sep 07, 2025  Edit critic review
0.5/4
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Walter Chaw Ballad of a Small Player is as misbegotten and ungainly as its title.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Walter Chaw This movie left me anxious and miserable, and also exhilarated and seen.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Angelo Muredda The Secret Agent’s pleasures are numerous.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Honey Don't! (2025) Walter Chaw Honey Don’t! is a contemptuous film that’s contemptuous of you. It thinks so little of its audience, in fact, that it punishes its characters to teach us a cautionary lesson about our callous insensitivity. At least it’s got “irony” nailed.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Weapons (2025) Walter Chaw Zach Cregger’s Weapons is joy.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Pumpkinhead (1988) Walter Chaw Pumpkinhead is literally about the impossibility of objective violence–every action, no matter how intimate or remote, has a spiritual impact on both victim and perpetrator. It’s a surprisingly rich vein for something like this to mine, and it resonates.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Cell (2000) Walter Chaw I used to regard it as exploitation; now, it feels more like a deeply immersive Francis Bacon exhibit. Watching someone’s dreams should feel icky.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Eddington (2025) Walter Chaw Eddington might be a satire of a situation that is impossible to satirize. It’s the sort of film that could play better in five years, that hindsight could lend gravity.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Superman (2025) Walter Chaw I felt younger than I have in decades watching it.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Silent Planet (2024) Walter Chaw Koteas is extraordinary here, and The Silent Planet is an interesting thought exercise.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Walter Chaw The picture is more a collection of vignettes–vignettes that replicate how children play with dinosaur toys–than it is a legible narrative.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) Walter Chaw Whatever the hot-button resonances of the plot, none of it matters. It so deeply doesn’t matter that I feel superstitious bringing it up.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
F1 The Movie (2025) Walter Chaw F1 is fantastic.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) Walter Chaw Although Superman IV is a lousy script and the wrong director, I’ll say its conclusion, wherein Superman realizes he’s pretty powerless in the ultimate fate and affairs of Man, is poignant.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Elio (2025) Walter Chaw Despite a Talking Heads needle-drop and a few chest-arresting Carl Sagan clips–two popular icons of neurodivergence–what’s missing is a real reckoning with Elio’s difference and difficulty fitting in.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
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