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3.5/4
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Marty Supreme
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Imagine if Forrest Gump was a prick, only instead of randomly bumping into history he sought out to become history through a series of deceptions and little con jobs. The hero America deserves, everyone.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3/4
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The Rip
(2026)
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Erik Childress
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Carnahan directs the hell out of this picture setting up a tense squeeze and never pulling back with the ever-committed Damon & Affleck who appear personally determined to assure us this is not just another throwaway streaming release.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3/4
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Erik Childress
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Like the Mad Max world and even Romero’s Dead films this series has not been afraid to explore more than just the hook that audiences come to expect. Nia DaCosta continues that streak with bleak nihilism and calming beauty.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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2/4
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All You Need Is Kill
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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When the film moves away from the purposely repetitive action beats that the animation stales pretty quickly, the focus on Rita as an individual going through an existential crisis of meaning is momentarily interesting, but its merely a moment.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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3.5/4
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Standout: The Ben Kjar Story
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The first half-hour of this documentary is enough of an arc for a classic Hollywood underdog tale. But there is no need for another movie since this one already accomplishes all the emotional beats that Ben’s story deserves.
Posted Jan 16, 2026
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3.5/4
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The Chronology of Water
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Kirsten Stewart’s tough, confident debut as a filmmaker envelops us in the cycle of abuse of this woman whose varying attempts to escape it through accomplishment and less rewarding vices and makes for a breathless experience.
Posted Jan 14, 2026
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2.5/4
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Erik Childress
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When the story abandons its clear influences and dopey concoctions to keep two attractive people from announcing they are attracted to one another it does open up for moments that occasionally feel real for the situation. Just not enough.
Posted Jan 12, 2026
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2/4
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Dead Man's Wire
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The details of the incident itself are particularly underwhelming so the screenplay supplements with side characters instead of truly digging into the socioeconomic issues that led to it or a more complete portrait of the instigator’s life.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3/4
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Primate
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The special effects are very effective so when Ben is on screen his sheer presence represents an unpredictable force that lives up to the age-old wisdom that pet chimps will eventually rip your face off.
Posted Jan 10, 2026
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3.5/4
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Ella McCay
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Despite what you may have heard, James L. Brooks doesn’t miss and has crafted another funny, witty and lovely film anchored by Emma Mackey’s terrific performance. Ignore the hate and enjoy.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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0.5/4
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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If you felt the first film failed to deliver its one job of creating animatronic robot pizza place mayhem and replace most of its running time with manufactured trauma horror, rest easy because the second film delivers even less.
Posted Jan 08, 2026
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The Merchants of Joy
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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There have been so many lovely Santa-based documentaries about Christmas that it is about time we had one dedicated to the (competitive) world of tree sellers dedicated to putting a bow on your enjoyment of the season – as well as self-preservation.
Posted Jan 07, 2026
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3.5/4
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Dust Bunny
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Pushing Daisies meets The Professional aptly describes Bryan Fuller’s feature debut but its imagination & production design are just part of this cinematic dessert sprinkled with a fun script and great work from Mikkelsen, Sloan, Weaver and Dastmalchian
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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3.5/4
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The confluence between art and healing has been represented well on film lately but the build up to Jessie Buckley’s reaction to the climactic creation is likely to provide every viewer a moment of catharsis for themselves.
Posted Jan 04, 2026
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3.5/4
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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A fascinating journalistic mystery offering another instance of bad actors trying to distort the history of America’s involvement in Vietnam.
Posted Jan 03, 2026
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1.5/4
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Goodbye deranged killer Santa who outraged parents in 1984. Hello guy who was once hypnotized by Michael Myers and now by robbing shotgun Santa created by someone who watched Bill Paxton’s Frailty a lot.
Posted Jan 03, 2026
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1.5/4
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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If you have not been on board with the Avatar universe since the beginning there is nothing here that will make you care any further about it. If you HAVE subscribed to Pandora, even you may admit the story is getting thinner.
Posted Jan 02, 2026
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3/4
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Song Sung Blue
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The film does right by the 2008 documentary, the real-life couple and the music with terrific, natural performances by Jackman and Hudson while Craig Brewer’s script never lets the story’s twists and turns feel like emotional cliches.
Posted Jan 01, 2026
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1/4
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The Housemaid
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Despite a real commitment from Amanda Seyfried, the film is stuck in the limbo between trashy and deadly serious and just ends up as straight trash that completely brushes off the horrific fate one puts into motion for another as a good, sensible plan.
Posted Dec 31, 2025
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4/4
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The brilliant puzzle boxes that Johnson concocts become incidental to the grander themes the franchise has tackled from class to disruptive influencers and now faith and false prophets, the mysteries that have plagued us for centuries and still relevant.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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2/4
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Eternity
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The film’s afterlife ideas are not particularly original and there is an inconsistency to the rules of the deceased that eventually gives way to a Clue-like climax that gives us every possible ending and rendering them all moot emotionally.
Posted Dec 29, 2025
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3/4
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The first film was a bit too fits-and-starts with its action and carnage. This one certainly shortens that wait and never repeats itself in finding some great new ways to dispense of the bad guys.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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1.5/4
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The Family Plan 2
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The sequel can at least divorce itself from the staleness of the family not knowing what’s up to give them a more active role, but that still leaves the audience with an inconsequential villain and even more forgettable action.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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2/4
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Glen Powell is an interesting Richards but Edgar Wright was not the right fit as this adaptation leans into faithfulness and uninspired action over suspense, rarely wrestling with its ideas and flaming out with lame alterations to its climax.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Thoughts & Prayers
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Zackary Canepart & Jessica Dimmock have a darkly humorous approach to the capitalistic boon that have risen out of children dying while never losing sight of the tragedies and outrage that deserve to follow everyone who continues to dismiss and ignore.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3/4
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Rebuilding
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Josh O’Connor has the ability to earn our empathy in every moment. From his soft spoken interactions to the way he carries himself or simply leans we are watching someone who has lost so much but is still standing.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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1.5/4
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The momentum built with the exciting, showstopping intermission break of Part One (aka Act One) is completely squandered in a lackluster second one more determined to connect ties with 1939 rather than connect with its greater ideas.
Posted Dec 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Die My Love
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Motherhood is bring put through the wringer this year and Jennifer Lawrence deserves to be in the conversation of the best performances of the year alongside Rose Byrne and Jessie Buckley for her darkly funny work here.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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2.5/4
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Nuremberg
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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There is some crisp early writing and the pleasure of Michael Shannon snark in the post-WWII era, but the longer it goes on with Malek’s doctor it never meets his or the film’s moment to mark the signs of how it was allowed to happen then and even now.
Posted Nov 13, 2025
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2/4
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Basically a role reversal from Prey’s story only with the antagonist becoming the protagonist in an overly cutesy narrative that owes more to the world of Alien then Predator and feels more like CGI-on-CGI Jurassic vs. Transformers by the end.
Posted Nov 12, 2025
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2/4
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Christy
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The screenplay simply has no curiosity about exploring anything deeper about its subject or her sexuality beyond hitting the Wikipedia bullet points nor the success rate of women in the sport handled to greater effect in last year’s The Fire Inside.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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3/4
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Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
(2023)
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Erik Childress
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For those whose entry point to the bad was their Breakfast Club anthem, the documentary will certainly fill in their origin story and trigger a few ‘oh that’s their song’ moments.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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2.5/4
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Lurker
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The performance by Théodore Pellerin is of a real special brand but unlike a film like Nightcrawler, the film slowly gets less interesting the more ingrained he gets into the group and offers little new on the fame creep angle that is as old as time.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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2/4
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Self-Help
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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A very confused movie that opens as stabby horror, shifts into cautionary cult terror, and then alternates with tacked-on gore while asking us to take seriously the lead’s path into mental wellness.
Posted Nov 05, 2025
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2/4
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Violent Ends
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The opening scrawl sets us up for something worthy of a follow-up Ozark series, but apart from two dynamic performances from James Badge Dale and the chameleonic Billy Magnussen its just a pretty standard revenge tale.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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1.5/4
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Ballad of a Small Player
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Macau is very pretty. Gambling less so, but is usually more compelling on screen, especially if you understand the rules. This is as interesting as wandering a casino with empty pockets.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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3/4
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Anniversary
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The events that take place over the course of five years in Jan Komasa’s film would have been summarily dismissed as hogwash just a year or two ago, but now fearfully sounds a bigger alarm than anything in A House of Dynamite.
Posted Nov 02, 2025
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1.5/4
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Queens of the Dead
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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While missing the boat entirely on satirizing the idiotic political assertions of the drag community in a way that would have made George proud, Tina Romero’s film also is severely lacking in laughs, tension and zombie mayhem.
Posted Nov 01, 2025
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3/4
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The film occasionally ventures into Walk Hard territory with its composite relationship and Jeremy Strong bringing the audience up to speed on Bruce’s psyche. But when it focuses on the creation of the music, Cooper & White find the right balance and tone
Posted Oct 31, 2025
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3/4
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The Mastermind
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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As the film draws parallels to our nation’s involvement in Vietnam, Reichardt crafts the notion of another no-win scenario where the sadness of crime becomes explicit in the isolation it renders from those around you.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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2/4
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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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An at-times aggressively nasty remake that holds interest for a while in potentially offering alternative guilt and motivation from the original only to venture into violent territory that for one is unnecessary and the other unforgivable.
Posted Oct 29, 2025
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1/4
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Regretting You
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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There is an alternate version of this film where the two male leads are serial killers and when that is immortalized in all its fake trailer glory it will be more entertaining and more tolerable than this melodramatic goop.
Posted Oct 27, 2025
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3.5/4
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Ethan Hawke gives one of the very best performances of the year and his career. Humor, regret and heartbreak intersect in a fantastic screenplay that weaves an artist’s creative and personal story with the changing landscape of his medium.
Posted Oct 24, 2025
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2/4
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Death of a Ladies' Man
(2020)
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Erik Childress
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Is the lead character interesting enough to revisit a past full of debauchery with some magical realism? The answer is not really and the ending is a betrayal of having made its audience to sit through his attempt at redemption.
Posted Oct 23, 2025
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3.5/4
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Del Toro has been building up to this film his entire life and after a familiar first half of the story, the second half with a terrific Jacob Elordi performance opens up the emotional stakes in ways as successful as any of his films, if not more.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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2/4
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Black Phone 2
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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The visual landscape of the dream sequences feel like we’ve gone back into the Sinister universe more than Black Phone. Madeleine McGraw does really good work and when Hawke’s Grabber does appear it can be riveting, but it takes too long to get there.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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3/4
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Good Fortune
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Rogen and Ansari are funny as always but Keanu is the clear MVP, getting a chance to put down the weaponry and deliver one of his best comic performances in one of the more consistently funny pictures of the year.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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2.5/4
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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There is a case to be made that this film hates everyone associated with the #MeToo movement from its perpetrators to those affected and everyone who ever had something to say about it.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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2/4
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Deathstalker
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Sometimes the film wants us to go along with its mythology, other times it seems it wants to be The Naked Gun. The blood flows and the creature design is creative and is a tribute to a bygone era but beyond that there is not much to recommend.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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3/4
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Roofman
(2025)
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Erik Childress
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Channing Tatum is very likable in this breezy crime comedy, maybe even too likable as the film romanticizes his story to the point that others in his life ultimately come off as adversaries to his happiness. But it is still very likable.
Posted Oct 20, 2025
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