Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

John Anderson

Tomatometer-approved critic

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “It’s terrifying -- perhaps more terrifying in how it compels the viewer to imagine being in the same situation than in how the subsequent shark attacks are actually staged; some viewers will likely be as disturbed by the claustrophobia as by the teeth.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% EDIT “A sturdily entertaining, hyper-kinetic avalanche of action propelled by equal parts bullets and f-bombs.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 95% 4/4 EDIT “Jackson's job is creating a world, a believable vehicle for Tolkien's baroque tales of Middle-Earth... What Jackson's made of, and for, The Two Towers is a bewitching, beguiling and seductive universe.” – Newsday Jan 13, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% EDIT “Mr. Chase still tries to be funny here, sometimes desperately, and isn’t. Which along with a career’s worth of ill will puts the sting in “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”” – Wall Street Journal Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT ““In case anybody cares,” he tells his directors at one point, “this is becoming less and less fun.” Speak for yourself.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review The Best You Can (2025) 87% EDIT “The boomer afflictions that create the situations in “The Best You Can” -- physical, mental, financial, attitudinal -- are handled gently, though with enough weight to provide a foundation for the charm brought by Ms. Sedgwick and Mr. Bacon.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% EDIT “His premise is flawed, and not just in terms of release dates.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Sarah Squirm: Live + In The Flesh (2025) EDIT “It may well be an act, but her humor can be interpreted as a Beckettian grin in the face of overwhelming 21st-century angst, even existential terror. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Influencers (2025) 96% EDIT ““Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy. Watching poseurs brought down is fun, though. So is Ms. Naud.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 9, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% EDIT “The texture of the picture, as well as some camera moves straight out of the ’70s, makes this Jay Duplass-directed anti-rom-com into an instant retro-holiday chestnut, a double eggnog with a small-batch bourbon chaser.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Architecton (2024) 95% EDIT “Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Between Goodbyes (2024) EDIT ““Between Goodbyes” concerns the most important event that ever happened to the real people in this real story. And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria -- a quieting control, one might say -- that makes it so moving.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “The energy and style serve as an homage to Euro-spy thrillers of the past, but the technique also accomplishes something that’s been tried multiple times but not quite so well: translating the visual tack -- and smack -- of a graphic novel into cinema. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s a real shame Mr. Út didn’t speak to the people behind “The Stringer” because, given his absence, the film becomes far too much of an exercise in shame.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025) EDIT “ The new project is clearly out to teach us things and does... “Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember” is also a family portrait, and a tender one. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Louvre Heist: Minute By Minute (2025) EDIT “An economical and fairly breathless dash around the French capital, the crime scene and the details of the as-yet-unsolved robbery. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Champagne Problems (2025) 72% EDIT “It may be that movie jokes have more traction in a movie so aware of being a movie, and the humor probably works as well as it does because it comes out of the bleu and is so incongruous to the general mood of the piece. ” – Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 2025 Full Review ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) 100% EDIT “At one hour and one minute, “One Shot With Ed Sheeran” is both a novelty and a mini-immersion in its star’s music, which is fairly sui generis.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson’s story... The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America. ” – Wall Street Journal Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Life After (2025) 100% EDIT “While the art of the argument these days seems to require the use of the most extreme cases available, Mr. Davenport does report on some fairly shocking ones.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Ms. DaCosta achieves a sumptuous visual rendering of the landmark 1891 drama, taking it out of doors, into crowds and across dance floors, the camera snaking through human congestion like a particularly nimble waiter with a tray of wobbling gin martinis.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Country Doctor (2025) EDIT ““Think globally, film locally” might be the motto of “Country Doctor,” a sweet, intimate and troubling take on medicine in the rural U.S. and something else as well—a documentary about health care that’s also a feel-good movie. ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% EDIT “It really is a ludicrous exercise, the kind one hopes was fun for the actors because the results are so wacky, and the cast so prestigious.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review King of Them All: The Story of King Records (2025) EDIT “There are a lot of ifs in this tidy documentary directed by the Ohio-based artist and educator Yemi Oyediran, which focuses in part on the unlikely life of Nathan. But it is also about Cincinnati.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% EDIT “Bring Her Back contains enough gore to swamp a blood bank. But it also features a performance by Sally Hawkins that may be the best of the year, or even her career,” – Wall Street Journal Oct 3, 2025 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More