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JoySauce.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Carolyn Hinds, Siddhant Adlakha, Weiting Liu, Zachary Lee.

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The Rip (2026) Siddhant Adlakha A tale of Miami cops caught up in a drug money seizure while trying to solve a murder mystery, the movie’s tight, sub-two-hour runtime forces a number of movie stars front and center, allowing them to carry an old-fashioned law enforcement thriller saga
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Siddhant Adlakha That Zootopia 2 is more politically coherent than its predecessor is, admittedly, a low bar. But you have to admit: it’s nuts that in 2025, a studio movie aimed at children has a cogent political metaphor you could easily map onto numerous ongoing crises
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Its tension, between the poignant and the pedagogical, contorts Hamnet in intriguing ways and stretches it to its breaking point, yielding in a work of rigor and emotional severity that is very, very good, but ought to have been great.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The form it takes is far too straightforward to explore such an intriguing and loopy concept, so despite its stellar performances, its drama suffers.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Between its fealty to past versions of the story, and its unwillingness to break free from even the most rigid emotional and formal modes, the sequel refuses to even attempt to defy gravity, making it sink like a stone.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Takes the form of eye-popping watercolors, turning its Japanese setting into a gorgeous vision of childhood memory
Posted Nov 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The movie’s backdrop alludes to Chinese myth, for a saga that doesn’t quite come together, but affords Farrell some remarkable physical and emotional work.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The perfect encapsulation of [Park's] talent and outlook, despite it ranking among his more scattered works.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Zachary Lee This is a world where everyone is prepared but no one is ready, and Bigelow’s film shows the horror of when people have to put their training to the test.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Despite bearing the appearance of a children's fable, Aziz Ansari’s supernatural comedy Good Fortune is surprisingly politically engaged. It’s also incredibly funny, though it takes a beat (and then some) to settle into these rhythms.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A film of maddening grief and agonizing power
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Siddhant Adlakha At the center of Tron: Ares is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (Past Lives) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto (accusations from underage girls), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Dear Stranger (2025) Siddhant Adlakha At times obvious and overt. And yet, its conception as a tale of language and suppressed secrets lends itself to these broad strokes, and allows its actors to dig gradually deeper into surprisingly complex notions of identity.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Amoeba (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Punk rock treasures like Amoeba don’t come around very often.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A film that, by nature, is sure to repel many viewers with its cloying sentimentality, written in the broadest possible strokes. However, if you’re on its specific wavelength, it might just turn your heart inside out.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Lucy Liu delivers a towering performance in Rosemead, a strange and often uneven drama... Knowing the true story beforehand yields a curious, malformed sense of inevitability, while going in none the wiser results in an off-kilter climax.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The actors’ work stands out in spite of the movie’s drama, rather than because of it, thanks in part to a languid, topsy-turvy dramatic structure that obfuscates what the movie is even about.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The game’s goofy, spooky happenings still unfold at regular intervals, but what’s more chilling in the movie version is that an outside world clearly exists, imbuing the story with realistic, dread-inducing stakes
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Preparation for the Next Life (2025) Siddhant Adlakha In Preparation for the Next Life, the idea of romance is reduced to texture and connective tissue—to the right lighting and music cues. It rarely takes shape as relatable, exciting, invigorating human behavior
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Contact Lens (2024) Carolyn Hinds As a filmmaker who also took on the mantle of editor and producer, Lu and her production team all did a brilliant job in conveying the philosophy of “less is more.”
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Lurker (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The tale of a starstruck store clerk who worms his way into a pop star’s inner circle, the Sundance hit unfolds with electric tension, courtesy of a remarkable subtlety that—for the most part—works wonders.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Shin Godzilla (2016) Siddhant Adlakha The biting satire from Toho Studios ranks amongst the best kaiju movies ever made, and returns the classic Japanese monster to not only his humungous on-screen prowess, but his raw political symbolism.
Posted Aug 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Riding an awkward line between remake and re-invention, the legacy sequel Freakier Friday adds an overly complicated spin to its body-swap premise, while ignoring its full potential.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Weapons is one of the year’s most entertaining films. It’s also defined by a bone-deep sadness. And, given the way it channels how confronting death can send you into a tailspin, it feels like mass psychosis made manifest.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The original felt like a cheap cash-in on the Scream fad from a year earlier, and if it wasn’t clear then, it most certainly is now.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Cloud (2024) Siddhant Adlakha By the usual standards of J-horror virtuoso Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Cloud is impressively understated. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t downright eerie.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Old Guard 2 (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Begins with the immense promise of something fun and uniquely sardonic, but ends up forgettable even before its credits suddenly roll.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Remains propulsive, amusing, and catchy enough that its flaws take a backseat.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Relay (2024) Siddhant Adlakha Whip-smart until it isn’t, and absorbing until it can no longer be.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Its haunting historical scope makes it feel vast and enormous
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Siddhant Adlakha There are moments in Resurrection, just as in any film by Bi Gan, that might just put you to sleep. There are just as many that’ll make your jaw drop, in sheer disbelief that what you’re seeing is even possible on screen.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Fight or Flight (2024) Siddhant Adlakha The introductory images promise something farcical and fun. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie never quite lives up.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Sun Palace (2024) Siddhant Adlakha The way Tsang’s camera drifts between close ups, and the way her actors thoroughly embody longing and lived experience, is wonderfully humanistic. It feels momentous even in its stillness.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Elio (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Has all the makings of an animated Hollywood classic, but remains far too torn between divergent concepts to reach these heights. The result is decently fun, and occasionally meaningful, but it could have been so much more.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Siddhant Adlakha An act of franchise hubris. The series' cinematic relaunch is derailed by empty nostalgia.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Until its climactic collapse, Thunderbolts is good enough. It’s visually coherent, and it doesn’t depend too heavily on having a working knowledge of the Marvel universe. Then again, is clearing an ever-lowering bar really something to celebrate?
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Bullet Train Explosion (2025) Siddhant Adlakha It’s a bombastic, over-the-top work of action expressionism with a gooey, cheesy, utterly human core.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Forge (2025) Siddhant Adlakha It’s deliberate in its drama, but languorous in its unveiling, taking its sweet time to put its pieces together despite tipping its hand for the audience in advance.
Posted Apr 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Fucktoys (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A film set on the fringes of society, emanating from beyond the boundaries of “acceptable” taste. It’s a delicious throwback to the low-budget indie trash of early John Waters.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Siddhant Adlakha The perfect film for the age of generative A.I.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Slanted (2025) Siddhant Adlakha It’s anodyne, un-confrontational racial satire, with rote observations more befitting of an Instagram slide. Whatever version of the movie may have once existed, the final product has little intellectual or emotional rigor.
Posted Mar 26, 2025  Edit critic review
October 8 (2024) Siddhant Adlakha It's not very good or convincing as a piece of cinema, though its straightforward, flimsy form likely won’t matter when it’s preaching to the choir.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Revelations (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A rare misfire for South Korean maestro Yeon Sang-ho: a religiously themed saga told by capable actors, but filled to the brim with big ideas that barely hold together.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
We Are Storror (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Nail-biting, jaw-dropping, and simply beautiful, We Are Storror is Bay’s Broyaanisqatsi—a massive, globe-hopping piece of Godfrey Reggio-esque nonfiction, whose vistas of life in motion, or hanging by a thread, transform the frame into a mirror.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Rule Breakers (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A film of cheap sentiment, broad platitudes, and little sense of tangible reality, sprinkled with baffling hints of rah-rah Americanism.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
In the Lost Lands (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Both visually and narratively incomprehensible, it functions as a vehicle for wrestler-turned-serious-actor Dave Bautista, who unfortunately finds himself in exactly the wrong kind of film for someone who wants to be regarded with respect
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
A Letter to David (2025) Siddhant Adlakha At best, it’s a film that fails to be rigorous enough in its artistic self-reflections.
Posted Mar 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Where the Night Stands Still (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Plays like both an extension of [Lyric Dela Cruz's photography exhibitions on Filipino domestic workers] as well as an intricate deepening of the issues at play, via a dreamlike family reunion.
Posted Mar 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Longing (2025) Siddhant Adlakha A film whose wisdom and emotional complexity creep in slowly through the corners of the frame, often taking the viewer by surprise.
Posted Mar 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Electric State (2025) Siddhant Adlakha What are we doing here, folks?
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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