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John Urbancich

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Sun Newspapers, Clevelandmember, BFCA

Location:

Cleveland, Ohio

Official Website:

http://www.sunnews.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Mercy (2026) 24% 2.5/5 EDIT “Their resulting flashback-driven give-and-take actually works quite surprisingly before a convoluted, 30-minute, pile-on ending just keeps going and going and never takes a backseat to the Energizer Bunny. ” – JMuvies Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “Back from "The Brutalist," the music of Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg easily follows Lee's various movements from England into young, new world America where, as the facts-filled end credits suggest, the Shaker movement kept going and growing.” – JMuvies Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Toss in a small but typically tough-guy performance from the marvelous Al Pacino, as the wealthy and everything-but-sympathetic father of the hostage, and this "Wire" gets convincingly tighter as it goes.” – JMuvies Jan 17, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Movie star Ralph Fiennes and young newcomer Alfie Williams, the terrific twosome from last June's nifty coming-of-age "Days," return with more extreme moments, especially in a truly gruesome early-going.” – JMuvies Jan 17, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “Jodie Foster is not the only reason to peek into "A Private Life," but she certainly is the best one.” – JMuvies Jan 17, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/5 EDIT “There are as many spectacular visuals as outrageously silly moments, which do carry the film along, as evidenced by loud, lengthy guffaws from Canadians in Toronto, where I saw it last September. ” – JMuvies Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3.5/5 EDIT “Such efficient mixing of nice with lonely makes this not-really-so-amusing "Thing" more pertinent than profound.” – JMuvies Jan 10, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It should be quite simple to follow the bouncing ball in a ping-pong movie but, when the title player becomes the here, there, and everywhere Timothee Chalamet, your eyes are in for a really special treat.” – JMuvies Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “The two stars feed off each other's good looks and chemistry, and writer/director Craig Brewer gives Jackman and Hudson plenty of time to show off their capabilities to deliver his movie's finest moments, both on-stage and in family calamity mode.” – JMuvies Dec 26, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Filho, himself a former film critic, likely would never give away much in a loaded screenplay that toys with connect-the-dots inclusions like a constantly evolving severed leg or screaming crowds watching "The Omen" and "Jaws." Marvelous choices!” – JMuvies Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 2.5/5 EDIT “Toss in director Paul Feig, whose best film remains "Bridesmaids" a full dozen years ago, propping up debut screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine's career as a small-screen scribe, and no wonder their smarmy shebang looks and feels like an OK television movie.” – JMuvies Dec 20, 2025 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% 3/5 EDIT “A Saturday morning screening filled with small fry and their high-pitched squeals of laughter only eventually ended with their loud applause over the film's nifty closing credits.” – JMuvies Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Get past all those nicknames, which include the constant if affectionate "Puppy" that Kelly gets called by his longtime manager (the simply terrific Adam Sandler), and you might even sympathize with a superstar trying to make it right.” – JMuvies Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The often sad and sumptuous "Hamnet" offers a feast for the eyes, a performance for the ages by Jessie Buckley, and a book-based story that may or may not be a load of malarkey about how William Shakespeare came to pen his most famous tragedy.” – JMuvies Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 2.5/5 EDIT “The good news here becomes the incredible list of names in the vocal ensemble, with the most significant new contribution coming from comedian Fortune Feimster truly delivering as Nibbles Maplestick, a richly loquacious beaver.” – JMuvies Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 3.5/5 EDIT “Better and funnier yet, none of it gets morbid since director David Freyne and co-screenwriter Pat Cunnane creatively work in clever sales pitches from adults looking for company in their own respective ever-afters. ” – JMuvies Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “Other memorable co-stars include Elle Fanning, as a top Hollywood actor whose presence does not exactly go the way you think it will, and the big old, Borg family house, with secrets, memories, and love enough to fill an unforgettable film.” – JMuvies Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “Johnson leaves room not only for audience guessing games about who killed a shady monsignor but also has non-believing sleuth Benoit Blanc asking questions and actually trying to understand the convictions of a parish's devoted few.” – JMuvies Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 4.5/5 EDIT “That final act adeptly soars and scores with an affecting on-going rendition of "For Good" by bewitching co-stars Erivo and Grande, who have been joined at the hip, anyway, while promoting and laughing about their double-duty "Wicked" experiences.” – JMuvies Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 3.5/5 EDIT “The "TIFF Tribute Award for Emerging Talent" sounds like a reasonable fit for a filmmaker who mostly knows how to embrace an audience with smart characters and such gently appealing images of the huge Tokyo metropolis to match.” – JMuvies Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 3.5/5 EDIT “Most of those early-20th century landscapes radiate from the far reaches of the Northwest, where Edgerton speaks with his eyes in the same way that Bentley and director of photography Adolpho Veloso affectionately point their cameras.” – JMuvies Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% 2.5/5 EDIT “Movie magic notwithstanding, the slickest trick actually might appear if and when audiences prove eager to see a third film about a fabled quartet of illusionists almost a decade after the last one disappeared.” – JMuvies Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “ Linklater's reverent lens radiantly shows off the boorishness of Godard (Guillame Marbeck) as much as it does his genius in using unconventional methods to fashion his debut masterpiece and incite another kind of French revolution.” – JMuvies Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 4/5 EDIT “it certainly has it all: Razor-sharp grass, man-eating tree limbs, truly special effects, genuine laughs, daunting beasts, and a couple of lead actors (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Elle Fanning) bonding productively.” – JMuvies Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3.5/5 EDIT “Sydney Sweeney pulls off the performance of her young career by defining Martin as a strong woman who morphed into the tough West Virginia "Coal Miner's Daughter" and became a champion inside and outside the ring.” – JMuvies Nov 8, 2025 Full Review
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