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Ty Burr

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The Rip (2026) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “I was entertained, even if for the longest stretches I couldn’t have told you who was doing what to whom. Chalk it up as yet another twist in the tale of Matt ‘n’ Ben – two Yin/Yang talents who will be yoked together for eternity.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Zelig (1983) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Zelig is a movie that will remain timeless as long as people are willing to sell their souls to be part of something. It’s very funny until the laughs stick in your throat.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 27, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “There are winners in “No Other Choice,” but as Park makes clear in the film’s quietly devastating final images, they’ve won at a cost that hollows the soul. No translation necessary.” – Washington Post Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “When all is said and done, the movie’s an expansion of "Uncut Gems" without quite being an improvement, and it showcases a director whose talent keeps increasing even as he may be running out of things to say.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Köln 75 (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “A pleasant little pick-me-up.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 4/4 EDIT “Resurrection is a full-sensory experience; indeed, each chapter is framed around the theme of the six Buddhist senses: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and mind. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Hook (1991) 37% D+ EDIT “Something may be missing in Spielberg’s life, and this could be his attempt to address it. But the central myth he’s peddling here is a hokey Victorian conceit that insults both children and adults.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 1.5/4 EDIT “It is not a coherent movie, let alone a very good one, and, most depressing of all, it is a diminishment from one of the most skilled observers of the human comedy we've had.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “This is not everyone’s cup of tea, obviously, but it’s pitched expertly on a fulcrum of absurdity and caustic honesty about the fix we’re in while poking the sore spots of various modern social ills. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (2025) 3/4 EDIT “It’s a good, heartening send-off to a songwriter who was one of the very best this country has produced and to a sensibility that only this country could have produced – Mark Twain meets Man Ray with a side of heartbreak.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Thoroughly enjoyable without meaning terribly much beyond the standard (if welcome) message that you shoulda stopped to smell the roses, and maybe it's not too late. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Pungently filmed, with a haunting central performance by Tsai as the mother.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Stringer comes to a more convincing judgement and in doing so illustrates the mutability of memory, the whims of chance, and the dodginess yet ultimate stubbornness of truth.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 3.5/4 EDIT “t’s a haunting, primal first feature about two young brothers and the reappearance of their long-absent father.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Christophers is a charming and challenging tennis match between two opposing acting styles, one of them confident with the certainty of youth and the other with the mastery of old age.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Good Fortune rests on the universal fondness with which we hold its leading angel, who has the rare knack of being in on the joke while somehow remaining too pure for it. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “I haven’t been truly sold on Elordi until now, but underneath the heavy prosthetics beams a battered nobility that’s unique in the many film iterations of this property.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/4 EDIT “The overarching force of “Hamnet” is not feminist but humanist, and it embraces Will, his wife and their children while radiating out to the Globe. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “As always, Jensen and company are making a screwball comedy, with dark and violent undertones, about finding a community of exceedingly strange strangers with whom you can be as broken and deluded as you need to be. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Bad Apples (2025) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “An entertaining but awfully heavy-handed black comedy– or maybe it’s heavy-handed but awfully entertaining – about an idealistic grammar school teacher who takes extreme measures when dealing with a disruptive class bully.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “The older I get and the more movies I see, the more I welcome a commitment to crazy, and The Testament of Ann Lee absolutely qualifies.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Sometimes a movie is more fun for the people making it than the audience watching it, but this is not one of those times. Even so, “Wake Up Dead Man” balances its comedy with a pointed contrast between a faith that divides and a faith that unites.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Easily one of Panahi’s best, a savage comedy, the blackest of black.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A family drama, one that at first seems as if it’s about a daughter, then a father, then another daughter, until you realize it’s about all of them and more, and about how damage – both personal and historical – rolls downhill through the generations.” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Is “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” exploitative or enabling? On the contrary, it is friendly, clear-eyed, and wise — tender about our follies and unsentimental about where they lead us. ” – Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Dec 6, 2025 Full Review
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