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Brian Lowry

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Biography:

Brian Lowry is the Hollywood correspondent for Status.news. He has previously worked as a critic and columnist at CNN, Variety and the Los Angeles Times.

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Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% EDIT “The better -- or at least more entertaining -- bet, “Breakdown: 1975,” examines the risk-taking filmmaking that swept over Hollywood in the mid-1970s.” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 7/10 EDIT ““Cover-Up” at first proves a little too enamored with its 88-year-old subject, whose long list of scoops run from the My Lai Massacre to Abu Ghraib. The film gets more complex in its second half.” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 7/10 EDIT “Chalamet delivers a memorable performance while adding more indie-film cred after his dutiful turns in big-studio fare like "Dune" and "Wonka." That said, "Marty Supreme" isn't quite "Uncut Gems," although he's definitely a diamond in the rough.” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 6/10 EDIT “A 197-minute epic that piles on breathless rescues and battles in a manner whose ultimate goal seems to be exhaustion as an artistic choice, if not outright “Kneel before Zod” submission.” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 7/10 EDIT “The movie’s too long and a bit too cute, while wrestling issues of religion and faith along the way. The main drawback is the characters don’t quite pop... While the franchise certainly isn’t dead, the EKG is flickering.” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 4/10 EDIT “With its mostly half-baked ideas and lifeless elements, about all “Ella McCay” will do -- except perhaps for Brooks completists -- is make people feel dumb for parting with money to see a movie that’s barely worth finding the time to stream. ” – Status News Jan 8, 2026 Full Review ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) 100% 6/10 EDIT “As gimmicks go, this one-shot, continuous one-hour Netflix music special is a fun if slightly weird one.” – Status News Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 66% 5/10 EDIT “The less-headline-worthy assessment is the film’s just so-so and would have benefited from a more expansive limited-series format, giving the characters time to breathe. ” – Status News Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 7/10 EDIT “If the slightly shorter second half doesn’t fully measure up to the original that does little to detract from director Jon M. Chu’s overall accomplishment, or the emotional wallop of the concluding chapter.” – Status News Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Being Eddie (2025) 75% 6/10 EDIT “Being Eddie in his heyday was clearly great. “Being Eddie” is just OK. ” – Status News Nov 15, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 5/10 EDIT “Ultimately, Wright’s vision proves too disjointed to fully work as either dark satire or R-rated action, getting a boost from Powell’s charisma and, with everyone else essentially reduced to extended cameos, not much else.” – Status News Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 6/10 EDIT “After “Prey” and the animated “Predator: Killer of Killers,” director Dan Trachtenberg adds another mindlessly entertaining wrinkle to the “Predator” mythology that nobody really needed.” – Status News Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 6/10 EDIT “The film starts strong, using the book’s flashback framing device, but eventually feeling rushed and striking some false notes toward the end. So while it’s worth watching, what clearly aspires to be the definitive telling of the story ultimately isn’t.” – Status News Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% 9/10 EDIT “Like all of Peck's work, "Orwell: 2+2=5" is highly cinematic, and as urgent as a punch to the gut. ” – Status News Nov 5, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 4/10 EDIT “What the 21st-century versions of "Tron" miss are the simple pleasures and unassuming fun of the original, which took the protagonist, and by extension the audience, inside a video game, boasting a look that felt very much ahead of its time.” – Status News Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% EDIT “Whether viewed as a flight of fancy or something deeper, Wicked deserves the chance to be seen and shared, which, given the film’s charms and the current cultural moment, could leave the holiday season’s other box office hopefuls feeling green with envy.” – MSNBC Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% EDIT “Beneath the outlandishness, half-dozen belly laughs and nerd-centric beats resides sweet nostalgia for the last quarter-century of superhero movies, while demonstrating that Marvel Studios possesses the power to laugh at itself.” – CNN.com Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “Director Lee Isaac Chung tackles this major-studio assignment without bringing anything particularly distinctive to it, relying a little too much on how good his leads look wet and sweaty.” – CNN.com Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Faye (2024) 89% EDIT “It’s a perfect introduction to an actor who has worn the dreaded “D” word -- “difficult” or “diva,” take your pick -- throughout her career, in a film that serves as an unvarnished but appropriately laudatory tribute.” – CNN.com Jul 15, 2024 Full Review Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) 82% EDIT “Having comics as the principal storytellers adds a level of humor and wit to the conversation, but there’s a pointed side to all this as well.” – CNN.com Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Fly Me to the Moon (2024) 66% EDIT “Less than weighty in the comedy part of its equation, the film largely works as a vehicle for Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, even without completely sticking the landing.” – CNN.com Jul 11, 2024 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% EDIT “Stepping up in class in terms of casting, the film works best as an ode to the movies and grime of 1980s Hollywood, and a bit less as a mystery built around its driven starlet-in-waiting.” – CNN.com Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) 67% EDIT “"Axel F" only turns up the heat to a low simmer, but as breezy escapism goes, those armed with the proper attitude might find themselves doing the neutron dance, or a version of it, all over again.” – CNN.com Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Despicable Me 4 (2024) 55% EDIT “A tired, disjointed medley of madcap visual gags, the animated film yields roughly as many legitimate laughs as can be counted on a Minion’s three-digit hand.” – CNN.com Jul 2, 2024 Full Review A Family Affair (2024) 36% EDIT “While the Nicole Kidman-Zac Efron pairing should provoke curiosity, the tired beats of this romantic (and only occasional) comedy don’t rub together well enough to generate many sparks.” – CNN.com Jun 28, 2024 Full Review
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