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Tim Stevens

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Film Critic, ComicsVerse and Freelance Writer, Marvel.com, ComicsVerse, and The Spool amongst others.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% EDIT “In the case of People We Meet on Vacation take the trip on the page, not on the screen.” – The Spool Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “To the film’s credit, it frequently eschews answers, putting ellipses, not periods, at the end of thoughts.” – The Spool Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “It is Johnson’s most earnest effort in the Knives sequence and likely the best studio film about religion this year. But if you are as allergic to religion as Blanc himself, please don’t let this fact scare you off.” – The Spool Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “It’s silly, cheesy, and unapologetically over-the-top. It may not be Houdini, but for generations raised on Copperfield maximalism, mindfreaking, and Blaine unsettling, invasive arrogance, it fits the bill.” – The Spool Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “[T]he audience is left with a picture easy to admire but hard to feel for.” – The Spool Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) 62% EDIT “It is still, ultimately, a very silly exercise in nostalgia.” – The Spool Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Night Always Comes (2025) 52% EDIT “Night Always Comes is the very definition of less than the sum of its parts.” – The Spool Oct 31, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “The film's most interesting structural choice also proves its undoing.” – The Spool Oct 31, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% EDIT “It isn’t that things don’t wrap up, but rather that they do so cleanly, so blandly that The Woman in Cabin 10 is already evaporating from your mind as you reach for the remote.” – The Spool Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Play Dirty (2025) 42% EDIT “Play Dirty is ultimately a headscratcher. There’s humor, there’s action, there’s femme fatales and tragic loyal friends. And yet, as a whole, it never pays off on all that promise.” – The Spool Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% EDIT “It is a shot of adrenaline right to the heart that keeps all but the coolest of cucumbers staring at the screen. However, the film’s postlude reminds the audience that there was little beyond that adrenaline.” – The Spool Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Bad Man (2025) EDIT “Bad Man ends up a fine enough movie when credits roll. But there are enough strong moments to suggest it could’ve been far better.” – MovieJawn Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “The result is a frequently compelling effort that never clearly says anything beyond, “Enjoy this ride.”” – The Spool Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Almost Popular (2024) EDIT “Almost Popular, on the other hand, doesn’t offer enough to cover up that sense of mimicry. It would’ve been better served if, instead of just copying Mean Girls, it could’ve stolen some of that film’s zest as well.” – MovieJawn Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Sketch (2024) 95% EDIT “If Stranger Things married Amblin’s ’80s “kids on bikes” camaraderie and curiosity with the horror novels and films of that era, Sketch is a purer, gentler return to the form.” – MovieJawn Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Nuked (2024) 61% EDIT “At 86 minutes, it’s strangely in no rush to get where it’s going.” – MovieJawn Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Iconic (2024) EDIT “With viewers long ago losing touch with any concept of the stakes, though, Iconic can’t wring even a mild gasp from the audience.” – MovieJawn Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Superman isn’t flawless. Still, what it gets right, it gets very right.” – The Spool Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% EDIT “Good action set pieces, solid jokes, and a gooey heart make Heads of State the kind of silly, run, fight, and explode film worth your time. It’s the right amount of clever about its dumbness to leave audiences satisfied.” – The Spool Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Echo Valley (2025) 52% EDIT “[I]t feels like we waited in line for someone to tell us what the roller coaster would’ve been like if we got on.” – The Spool Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) 95% EDIT “Given [Predator's] simplicity, it is galling how often media has struggled to deliver on its promise. Thankfully, Predator: Killer of Killers is one that largely gets it right.” – The Spool Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 74% EDIT “Mountainhead is at its best in the middle third when the four monitor the falling of governments, assassinations, and looting as if they’re getting the scores on a basketball game they’re too anxious just to sit down and watch.” – The Spool Jun 3, 2025 Full Review The Trouble with Jessica (2023) 60% EDIT “It has all the makings of a claustrophobic, unnerving, and darkly funny film. You spend the movie waiting for it to become that but it never does.” – MovieJawn May 27, 2025 Full Review Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) 27% EDIT “Fear Street: Prom Queen’s shortcomings...run deep. All the problems add up to a movie that’s nothing more than just below mediocre.” – The Spool May 24, 2025 Full Review Summer of 69 (2025) 89% EDIT “There’s an agreeably shaggy quality to Summer of 69, an awareness that it is a hangout film with very little to do and thus no need to rush.” – The Spool May 16, 2025 Full Review
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