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Alison Willmore

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Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “Anaconda is too grown-up to work for the Jumanji set but not grown-up enough to actually explore these disappointments and deferred dreams.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “Ella McCay feels like outsider art — like it was made without any familiarity with the conventions of narrative structure or character beats.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “If The Secret Agent is as complex and rewarding as a taste from a dusty bottle of wine, it’s also part of an ongoing consideration in this year’s releases about what it means to be part of a resistance.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% EDIT “Zootopia 2 sets up parallels that strain even more at the seams.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 26, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “The Running Man is just close enough to our reality for what it’s missing to feel hopelessly distracting, and what it’s missing, more than anything, are the online forces shaping our reality. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “As a portrait of addiction or depression, Ballad of a Small Player is flat.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Hawke’s isn’t a showy performance, despite Lorenz’s brash persona. The excellence of it is in the little touches, the ways he lets the despair seep out, even when everyone around him knows to play along.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman is simply too odd a bird, a movie that sets out to be a romp but can’t bring itself to smooth over the rougher aspects of its material...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “The film is warm and generous to the people it puts on screen, and it never forgets that someone’s hobby can actually be their whole life, up there on a Greenwich Village stage trying to find themselves during five minutes at the mic.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 10, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “Mostly, when you watch Tron: Ares, you become aware of the degree to which this franchise has exhausted its own metaphor. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 7, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “Farrell and Robbie are adrift, but then Kline and Waller-Bridge (doing a broad German accent) never figure out the right tone for the touch of the surreal they represent. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 18, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is top-tier Paul Thomas Anderson -- not as good as There Will Be Blood or Phantom Thread but so much better than the average movie that it seems to belong in a different medium entirely.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “Like Lionel, The History of Sound becomes stuck on its youthful interlude, a period that’s more alive than everything that comes next, and that’s also, less successfully, presented as a mystery to be solved. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% EDIT “Spinal Tap II doesn’t have the sharpness or self-awareness necessary to make fun of itself that way or to make fun of anything in particular, aside from those hairstyles. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% EDIT “Without needing to preach, Preparation for the Next Life delineates the limits of immigrants reaching for solidarity from white Americans who may be experiencing their own hardships, but who are never going to be in danger of being deported. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% EDIT “Last Rites comes from Michael Chaves, the same director as that last film, but returns the series to what it does best, which is dealing with a supernaturally infested home.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% EDIT “I'd describe it as Lord of the Flies on foot, but it's really more like The Hunger Games for dudes (complimentary).” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “Caught Stealing finds more pathos in the endangerment of a pet than the death of a female character, and it's forever in a hurry to the next violent confrontation when all of its best parts are the ones in between.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “It may be a sad reflection of an existence, but what Lurker wryly suggests is that Oliver himself couldn’t exist without people like Matthew around him, believing in his importance, proving themselves willing to say or do anything to stay nearby.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 25, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “That it never ends up there [on the floor] is a testament to how precise a work the film actually is, creating an illusion of chaos that’s only possible with incredible control.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Architecton (2024) 95% EDIT “Architecton comes across as a more plaintive depiction of our desire to imagine ourselves able to leave a lasting mark on this planet.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 4, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT “Brie and Franco, in providing nuance and texture to Millie and Tim, may actually have worked against a film that would be better off allowing its characters to be in an unhealthy relationship from the beginning... rather than just a flubbed allegory.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) 62% EDIT “Happy Gilmore 2’s issues are, mostly, your standard Netflix-movie ones, which is to say that it feels haphazardly made, like it’s just aiming to be good enough. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Smurfs (2025) 21% EDIT “Smurfs rushes toward a finale so generic it could have been lifted from a variety of blockbusters over recent years. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “Instead of another origin story, it gives us sights we haven’t yet seen — like Krypto, bounding through the air after one of the many monkeys enlisted to rage-tweet from a Luthor-created pocket dimension. What a good, good boy.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 8, 2025 Full Review
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