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A Few Good Men (1992) Steve Erickson [Jack Nicholson's] dramatic crescendo in A Few Good Men evokes just enough energy, not true pathos.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Asher Luberto Bi Gan's Resurrection is a puzzle missing half its pieces, made up of ethereally meticulous sections that don't quite mesh together.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Asher Luberto The latest from director Oliver Laxe is a trip in more ways than one.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Asher Luberto Sewing together a career's worth intestines and dismembered body parts from his previous films, taking fleshy bits from former pictures and transfusing it into Mary Shelley's source material, Guillermo del Toro has...made the creation entirely his own.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Asher Luberto For those of you who know the difference between the French New Wave and a croissant, Nouvelle Vague is the movie for you.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Asher Luberto It's a tone that is serious and unserious, exciting, baffling, confusing, rip-roaring, depressing and uplifting in equal measure--which is to say, it's another Anderson classic.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Roses (2025) Asher Luberto They're certainly pushing the envelope on 'till death do us part," as literal murder attempts unravel and inevitably come crashing down in a bombastically overcrowded yet bemusingly entertaining final act.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Asher Luberto A cinematic version of doom scrolling, Eddington unmakes the controversies of the mask era.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Asher Luberto It's a bird, it's a plane...it's a Superman movie worth watching?
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Asher Luberto It seems no one is living in Anderson's movies anymore--the deadpan, blank-faced "humans" at the center of Anderson's movies are merely apart of the decoration, no more emotional but no less beautiful than the (designs) that draw our eyes to his films.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Fountain of Youth (2025) Asher Luberto It makes you long for the treasure maps that didn't cross the continents but the peaks, ridges and valleys of the human soul.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Robert Bentley [John Badham] takes the film from snores to shrieks and back again in a matter of minutes. Classic material and some talented people can't be totally deadened by a director's thickheadedness.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Re-Animator (1985) Bill Raden [Re-Animator] gets a hilarious push over the edge by director Gordon, who never seems to miss out on the campy ludicrousness of his undertaking.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
To Sleep With Anger (1990) J. Hoberman An ambitious attempt to fuse folklore and domestic drama, this may be Charles Burnett’s most original film—providing, among other things, Danny Glover’s career performance as an enigmatic trickster.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
DuckTales, the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) Mari Florence Once again, Disney is trying to revive the big-screen funnies of earlier days. What doesn't mesh is our contemporary world with these "cartoon classics" archaic values.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Chad Byrnes Song’s willingness to test the limits of a traditional genre is entertaining and smart, even when it splinters.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Meeting with Pol Pot (2024) Michael Atkinson Meeting with Pol Pot is an ellipsis of a movie, purposefully so...
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Chuck Wilson A film of many pleasures, even if it sputters a bit in the homestretch, writer/director Mike Flanagan’s big-screen adaptation of the Stephen King novella The Life of Chuck is a story told in reverse, in three different time frames.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Nathaniel Bell The movie is simply mean and ugly. But in a fun way.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Mountainhead (2025) Erin Maxwell While [Armstrong] occasionally pushes their portrayals into near buffoonery, the message remains loud and clear: this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a fistbump.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Michael Atkinson Often, Tom is running but we’re not exactly sure why. Action films are supposed to be all about visual precision, modulation, and surprise, but McQuarrie’s films are as dull as exercise routines.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Damned (2024) Michael Atkinson Minervini’s lovely, pensive odyssey has some fascinating moments... But with all the downtime, the film ends up feeling a little empty, and again, that attentional void encourages stray thinking.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Chad Byrnes Director Andrew DeYoung’s exploration of broken masculinity and middle-aged isolation manages to be the funniest — and the cringiest — film of the year.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Henry Johnson (2025) Nathaniel Bell All four original actors reprise their roles and there is an invisible intelligence, a discernible pattern, that keeps you glued to your seat.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught by the Tides (2024) Michael Atkinson The result is a recognizably Jia-esque odyssey, brimming with prowling camera pans, musical detours, documentary asides, and poetic iconography.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Summer of 69 (2025) Erin Maxwell There is a surprising amount of humor and sincerity thanks to a punchy script and the heartfelt performances of its leads.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Bonjour Tristesse (2024) Michael Atkinson Lovely to look at, and beguilingly analytical in its details, but ultimately an irrelevance, an almost chaste tale of sublimated desire that can’t seem to raise its own temperature.
Posted May 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Erin Maxwell Thunderbolts* may not redefine the superhero genre, but it effectively balances action, character-driven storytelling, and moments of levity, setting the groundwork for Marvel’s continued evolution.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
April (2024) Michael Atkinson You’re not waiting in a Kulumbegashvili film, you’re living on the cliff edge, and life there runs on its own clock.
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Michael Atkinson That [Cronenberg] knew it would fail to make the necessary connections, like Karsh’s cemetery “shroud” technology, doesn’t mean the experiment wasn’t worth conducting, and that the resulting artifact isn’t eloquent in and of itself. ❖
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
The Amateur (2025) Erin Maxwell While it forgoes flamboyant world-building, extreme violence, and over-the-top set pieces, the story of a grieving genius and his clever, Jigsaw-style kills remains a tale worth telling — even if it doesn’t leave a lasting mark on the minds of moviegoers.
Posted Apr 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Gazer (2024) Michael Atkinson All told, the film fairly seethes with ingenuity, however much it must frequently do battle with its lack of originality.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Grand Tour (2024) Michael Atkinson Gomes crafts two movies at once, one a travel doc, one a colonial tale of out-of-place Europeans, and lets them occasionally entangle.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Chad Byrnes The action sequences are surprisingly intense, violent, funny, and deftly handled.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Assessment (2024) Michael Atkinson Vikander is the secret weapon here... and as Virginia toggles between android-like government agent and guileless woman-child, Vikander becomes the film’s unstable nucleus, just as a baby becomes the center of a new family’s cyclone.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Electric State (2025) Erin Maxwell Packed with uninspired bot battles, formulaic character arcs, and occasional goofy sidekicks, The Electric State unravels into a disjointed spectacle, devoid of soul, originality, and any meaningful connection with its audience.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Quiet Ones (2025) Michael Atkinson Hviid’s film opts instead for tough-guy posturing, frenzied camerawork, and storytelling shortcuts.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Erin Maxwell More than anything, it feels like just another cog in the MCU machine.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Chad Byrnes Thankfully, MacMahon’s profile of the band is so seamlessly crafted and engaging that you might not miss the dirty details of the band’s personal lives, instead surrendering to the film’s primary subject: the music.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Them Down (2024) Chuck Wilson The film’s extraordinary lead actors are so fearless in their willingness to descend into the mad muck of it all that moviegoers with an instinct to dash for the exit when onscreen events turn disturbingly violent are likely to hold on for one scene more.
Posted Feb 07, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Land (2024) Asher Luberto As a documentary, and as a statement, the message of No Other Land is obvious but vitally important: that war affects everyone, not just soldiers, and that we should set our political differences aside to allow everyone to live harmoniously in peace.
Posted Feb 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Michael Atkinson Companion is too slick and glib for its own good.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) Michael Atkinson The rich comedy of Grand Theft Hamlet drips mostly from the mix between the actors’ nonplussed dialogue over the absurd action and the game’s preposterous violence, uncanny glitchiness, and open-to-the-public messiness.
Posted Jan 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Back in Action (2025) Erin Maxwell While it may not captivate die-hard action fans, it provides a lighthearted, family-friendly adventure that might capture the attention of fans of the core cast and folks in need of a breezy comedy.
Posted Jan 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) Asher Luberto With their signature style, which feels even more fresh now that animation has gone digital, Aardman has crafted another comedy that stands out amidst the crowd.
Posted Jan 07, 2025  Edit critic review
The Girl With the Needle (2024) Michael Atkinson It’s a black marble of a movie, unforgiving and cold-eyed and chillingly constructed, with the bolero-like sense of inevitable doom that must’ve been familiar, as a social condition, to too many pre-contemporary women to count.
Posted Jan 04, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Chad Byrnes Although the film lacks the dramatic thrust and discernible character arc of Mangold's other biopic, Walk the Line, it's still an engrossing examination of talent and the pitfalls of fame.
Posted Jan 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Chad Byrnes Reijn has a way of playing off-key notes with precision, shedding light on moments where awkwardness and intention share the same troublesome space.
Posted Jan 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Michael Atkinson Bill Skarsgård is both unrecognizable and undecipherable but properly cadaverous, while as his object of desire, the rather dewy Lily-Rose Depp is frequently electrified by screaming, toe-curling seizures... easily the movie’s most arresting spectacle.
Posted Dec 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Chuck Wilson Herisse and Wilson do fine work in roles that must have presented complex technical challenges.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
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