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Jake Coyle

Jake Coyle's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Associated Press film critic.

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The Rip (2026) 80% 2/4 EDIT “Carnahan, who also wrote “The Rip,” has said the movie is inspired by real events as described to him by a Miami detective. But little in how the movie plays out will strike many as particularly plausible. ” – Associated Press Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Staying closer to the truth might have produced a more dynamic movie. But “Dead Man’s Wire” still works. ” – Associated Press Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Polinger’s film isn’t a comfortable watch and it’s not meant to be. It gets under the skin. That it’s drawn partially from its director’s own memories is surely one source of its potency. ” – Associated Press Jan 2, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “This is a director capable of conjuring menacing brutality with nothing but a hallway and hammer. And in “No Other Choice,” he remains at the peak of his powers.” – Associated Press Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “These remain epics of craft and conviction. You can feel Cameron’s deep devotion to the dynamics of his central characters, even when his interest outstrips our own. That’s especially true in “Fire and Ash."” – Associated Press Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 71% 2/4 EDIT “It’s a big swing, the kind filmmakers as talented as Hosoda should be taking, but it doesn’t pay off. Still, it’s often dazzling to look at it and it’s never not impassioned.” – Associated Press Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “The fun caper spirit of the first movie is alive enough to carry Bush and Howard’s film, but you can’t help feel like sequel-ization also means domestication.” – Associated Press Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “I rarely found myself lifted into a movie world, but rather sat watching it -- sometimes with admiration, rarely with delight -- from the mezzanine. The rub of going for maximum effect all the time is that the actors never have a chance to simply be.” – Associated Press Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “There’s plenty to admire in Ramsay’s uncompromising and delirious portrait of marital hell, particularly in the bracingly raw performance of Lawrence. The abandon with which she throws herself into the role is enough to make you exclaim “Mother!”” – Associated Press Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “The result is something endlessly stylish and almost absurdly uncanny, even if “Nouvelle Vague” never adopts the brash daring of its subject.” – Associated Press Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “By the time “Bugonia” reaches its unforgettable finale, it’s made chillingly clear just how feeble any such movement might be, and the movie’s apocalyptic air of resignation, of fait accompli, sounds a chastening death knell.” – Associated Press Oct 24, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 2.5/4 EDIT ““After the Hunt” deserves credit not so much more wading into these hot-button topics, but for trying to find its own way through them. It’s not a #MeToo procedural but more like a tragedy.” – Associated Press Oct 9, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “With riveting efficiency, Bigelow constructs a taut, real-time thriller that opens explosively but dissipates with each progressive iteration.” – Associated Press Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 2.5/4 EDIT “I happen to think Johnson is also very good in full movie-star mode... But it’s also captivating to see him so thoroughly settled into a character like he is in “The Smashing Machine” while totally shorn of his charisma.” – Associated Press Oct 3, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% 1.5/4 EDIT “If the issue of some thrillers is that they have nothing to say, the problem with “Him” is that it has exactly one thing to say, which it does again and again and again.” – Associated Press Sep 19, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “I’m sure that will bring debate, just as any good movie does. And I’m sure some will find its American portrait muddled and chaotic. But those aspects feel true, too, just as does the movie’s abiding fighting spirit.” – Associated Press Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “One of those little movies you might stumble across and be surprised that it hooks you. It does so despite -- or more likely because -- of its complete lack of flashiness or any self-evident attempt to “hook you.”” – Associated Press Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a little shaggy and you’ll occasionally yearn for a bit more humor along the way. But “Caught Stealing,” based on Charlie Huston’s 2004 novel, is a ride, foremost, in ‘90s nostalgia.” – Associated Press Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% 3/4 EDIT “This is -- even here in the low ebb of late summer -- an uncommonly adult farce of infidelity that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne might have chuckled at.” – Associated Press Aug 22, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 2/4 EDIT “It would be easy to hail The Naked Gun as something better than it is, since it simply existing is cause for celebration. But like most reboots... the best thing about the new Naked Gun is that it might send you back to the original.” – Associated Press Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Especially for a superhero team that’s never before quite taken flight on screen, "First Steps" is a sturdy beginning, with impeccable production design by Kasra Farahani and a rousing score by Michael Giacchino. ” – Associated Press Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Smurfs (2025) 21% 1.5/4 EDIT “You can almost feel IP-rights pressures animating the entire enterprise. See, there are other Smurf names out there. What about Corporate Mandate Smurf?” – Associated Press Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Something quite rare in the assembly line-style of superhero moviemaking today: human.” – Associated Press Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “The vaguest hints of real-world intrigue only cast a pale light on the movie’s mostly lackluster comic chops and uninspired action sequences.” – Associated Press Jul 1, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “In this remarkably fully formed debut, the moments that matter are the funny and tender ones that persist amid crueler experiences.” – Associated Press Jun 25, 2025 Full Review
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