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Bill Newcott

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Biography:

Bill Newcott is the award-winning film critic for The Saturday Evening Post, SaturdayEveningPost.com and MoviesForTheRestOfUs.com and producer/host of the Saturday Evening Post's "Movies For The Rest Of Us" YouTube series. He is the creator of AARP's Movies For Grownups franchise, where he reviewed films for 16 years. His most memorable movie moment was co-hosting an evening of films with Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “A stately, historical fever dream blessed with a ferocious performance by Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee relates the origin story of a nearly extinct American religious sect with unblinking authenticity and Olympian artistry.” – The Saturday Evening Post Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% 3/5 EDIT “Liu gives a devastating performance, seeming to physically shrink as Irene’s cancer and concerns conspire to rob her of literally everything she holds dear. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “A thrilling but sobering contemplation of the lengths people might go for justice, whether they deserve it or not.” – The Saturday Evening Post Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Brewer never seems quite ready to call it quits on a scene that has already wandered past one or two likely cutaways.” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 27, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “A film that speaks in closeups the way John Ford spoke in vast Western landscapes” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Of course, we’re left wondering who the true monsters are, but happily there’s a lot of wild, senseless violence before we’re subjected to any sort of moral. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Movie stars, it turns out, are like the rest of us mostly in the bad ways. And that makes painting a sympathetic, relatable portrait of one a naggingly tough sell.” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 4/5 EDIT “In a franchise that was already the smartest kid on the block, it’s a remarkably ambitious effort from writer/director Rian Johnson.” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “ Zhao's...long, wordless, nature-evoking sequences call to mind Terrence Malick’s what’s-your-hurry artistry in movies like Days of Heaven and The Tree of Life. The approach requires a bit of patience, but the payoff is more than worth it” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “You may watch portions...through latticed fingers, but as in all of the director’s finest work, you’ll come away remembering the humanity hidden in the horrible; the beauty baked into the beastly.” – The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Crowe draws us into Göring’s’ dark charismatic cloud, (but) while he lulls us into kind of enjoying Göring’s company, he never, not for one second, masks the truth that we are in the presence of a monster.” – The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 4/5 EDIT “The film’s real power lies in the story of Martin’s tragic relationship with her violent, insecure husband/manager, James, played with slow-burn explosive energy by Ben Foster” – The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Fraser, through Phil’s sympathetic eyes, helps us see beyond our Western aversion to such high-stakes cosplay and ultimately embrace a culture’s mechanism, however convoluted, that endeavors to scatter the stigma of loneliness and rejection.” – The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Gamely sporting the world’s worst comb-over, breathing rings of cigar smoke, wearing a face that transparently evokes pride, hope, desperation and love sickness, Hawke gives the performance of his career.” – The Saturday Evening Post Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe (2024) 83% 3/5 EDIT “You’d expect a biographical documentary about a living artist to be respectful, but this documentary about Italian singer Andrea Bocelli will leave you wondering why the Vatican is waiting so long to just go ahead and declare him a saint. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 44% 4/5 EDIT “I do hereby challenge every single male in any traditionally male profession to sit through Swiped...and not see shades of their own workplace, and maybe even themselves.” – The Saturday Evening Post Oct 11, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The resolution of The Lost Bus may never be in doubt, but you will never forget the fiery, frantic, fantastically fraught ride to the end. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 3/5 EDIT “Channing Tatum proves he's more than just a chiseled face in (a movie that asks): Can you change who you are without facing the consequences of who you once were?” – The Saturday Evening Post Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Johansson labors at times to balance the heaviness of the material with the raucous persona of Eleanor...Happily, Johansson allows Squibb lots of time to fill in the blanks of her character, capturing moments of indecision, regret, and swelling sentiment.” – The Saturday Evening Post Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Napa Boys (2025) 3/5 EDIT “A celebration of pitch-perfect cinematic failure; a must-see for all aficionados of bad movies. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Devastating and profoundly human.” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% 3/5 EDIT “Jude Law steals the show as Vladimir Putin: Laser-eyed, stridently mannered, head slightly bowed in the manner of a lifelong spy accustomed to keeping a low profile. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A darkly comic primal scream.” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “So intimate is the filming style, and so lifelike are the performances, you’ll keep forgetting this is, as they say, only a movie. Director Tim Mielants has assembled a young cast who seem to forget there’s a camera running. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Thursday Murder Club (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “What could go wrong? Nothing. That doesn’t make (it) a particularly good film. But even in a middling movie, when absolutely everybody in a ridiculously talented company is clicking on all eight cylinders, you’d have to be criminally grouchy to nitpick.” – The Saturday Evening Post Sep 14, 2025 Full Review
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