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Rob's Movie Vault

Rob's Movie Vault is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Rob Gonsalves.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
D
Primate (2025) Rob Gonsalves ...best described as a hard-R splatter movie, with Ben drooling and screeching as he rips faces and jaws off or beats people to death. People have been testifying to how 'fun' it all is, but I found it repulsive and unpleasant...
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
Marty Supreme (2025) Rob Gonsalves I felt as hustled as Marty’s various marks must feel; Safdie never stops agitating on behalf of Marty, pleading his case that he’s a worthy subject of a film. He didn’t convince me.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
F
Anaconda (2025) Rob Gonsalves It seems to want to be a cross between 'Tropic Thunder' and 'Be Kind Rewind,' both of which, like this film, starred Jack Black, and both of which were far funnier. For that matter, so was the original 'Anaconda'...
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Die My Love (2025) Rob Gonsalves The movie is valuable to me, but if it doesn’t sound worthwhile to you, I’m not about to try convincing you otherwise. You know whether you’re up for this.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Hamnet (2025) Rob Gonsalves The movie would be nowhere without Jessie Buckley, to whom they may as well hand the Oscar now and save the fuss.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Rob Gonsalves At this point, Craig’s legacy deserves to rest at least as much on Benoit as on James Bond, possibly more so. Certainly he was never this much fun to watch as Bond...
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Train Dreams (2025) Rob Gonsalves The film may sound like a high-toned bummer, but there’s a surplus of pleasure in its visual beauty, in its underplaying, in the hushed but firm way it takes the measure of the intractable facts of the world.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Running Man (2025) Rob Gonsalves Some dialogue in 'The Running Man' is a little obvious, but in general Wright uses the plot to illustrate the peril of prizes awarded for winning the corporate/government game.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Good Fortune (2025) Rob Gonsalves Ansari, as a filmmaker, is as good-hearted as Gabriel; he makes pretty much everyone onscreen likable.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Rob Gonsalves At best it’s a new ensemble of good to great actors asked to convey how they might react to an impending existential lights-out. If you approach it without looking for more than that, it might offer more satisfaction.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Frankenstein (2025) Rob Gonsalves The gothically inclined who love doomed dark romance may appreciate this 'Frankenstein,' and I wish I could join them. I wish it worked for me.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Queens of the Dead (2025) Rob Gonsalves Tina Romero has made a fun, flashy tribute to her father’s work, and it packs the usual scares and flesh-eating while incorporating a bit of autobiography.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
A+
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Rob Gonsalves Whale wanted to deliver a 'hoot,' something heavily gay-coded and lightly disdainful of hetero normies. The result is a proto-goth, proto-punk slice of dark chocolate cake with purple and green icing.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Good Boy (2025) Rob Gonsalves Feels like a project that warrants applause for having been accomplished at all, and expecting some of the more challenging technical spots to be more clearly rendered, or expecting Indy to have the range of a trained dog actor, sounds a little churlish.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
A
One Battle After Another (2025) Rob Gonsalves The compositions and lighting always enthrall; the editing takes us forward sometimes faster than we want to go, yet never confusingly. The action set pieces always seem to pop out of nowhere...
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Megadoc (2025) Rob Gonsalves Actors, and especially actors who dream of working with Coppola, may get more out of 'Megadoc' than the rest of us could.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Long Walk (2025) Rob Gonsalves It’s probably as sharp and alert a movie as could be made from this legendarily “unfilmable” King book. But films about endurance tests like the Walk have one big problem: we’re not at all sorry to see them end and to escape into the fresh air.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Rob Gonsalves The director and star bring the confidence and relaxation of maturity to their work here; they keep things perking along while not denying the pull of the story’s gravitas.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Caught Stealing (2025) Rob Gonsalves What’s weird about this latest film from a director known for weirdness is that word I’ve used twice now and will again: fun.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Honey Don't! (2025) Rob Gonsalves The tone and the themes are, and end up, at odds, and we’re not sure what our ultimate feelings should be. Maybe Coen and Cooke intended that. If so, hats off.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Weapons (2025) Rob Gonsalves It’s possible to want to see the movie again just to enjoy the subtle actors’ moments. It’s possible to want to do that while not quite being sold on 'Weapons' as the genre’s new silverback gorilla.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Nobody 2 (2025) Rob Gonsalves It doesn’t hurt that Odenkirk has the mighty Connie Nielsen to play off of.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Naked Gun (2025) Rob Gonsalves Something of a Gen-X nostalgia trip; I have no idea what it’ll have to say to zoomers, many of whom were in grade school when Leslie Nielsen died in 2010.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Rob Gonsalves Even by Marvel Cinematic Universe standards this thing is fairly thin and forgettable.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Sovereign (2025) Rob Gonsalves Nick Offerman’s work as this broken man, who is also capable of gentleness and humor and only becomes truly dangerous when pushed to the wall by the desperation and horror he has made for himself, is unforgettable.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Superman (2025) Rob Gonsalves Luthor hates Superman. Superman must stop Luthor. That’s the essential story of "Superman." But there are so many characters, and so many convolutions, that the narrative keeps stepping on its own cape.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
F1 The Movie (2025) Rob Gonsalves Pitt gives a no-sweat star performance, amiable and weightless. Joseph Kosinski is not, to put it gently, an actor’s director, and he has not made a movie that challenges actors at all.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
28 Years Later (2025) Rob Gonsalves The problem with these post-apocalyptic thrillers is that they’re long on the sort of merciless action and gore-horror that we’ve been harrowed with before, and it becomes less harrowing in repetition.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A
The Life of Chuck (2024) Rob Gonsalves "The Life of Chuck" is a gem and a modern classic.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Rob Gonsalves I’m glad Wes Anderson has the clout to do whatever he wants to do, and he can still charm us. But does he have anyone around him honest and courageous enough to tell him when his films are becoming self-parodies, labored and, frankly, boring?
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Clown in a Cornfield (2025) Rob Gonsalves It isn’t anything great or enduring, but it has a good heart and director Craig keeps things hopping.
Posted Jun 04, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) Rob Gonsalves It looks towards the past at a work that looks even further into the past. It deals lightly with some of the controversy that has buzzed around 'Maus' over the years, such as its banning in some schools.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Alphaville (1965) Rob Gonsalves It has its spot in history, and if you let yourself relax into what it’s doing — and respond to what it does instead of expecting it to do what you want — you’ll probably have a better time with it.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Rob Gonsalves Jocularly sadistic in the mode of the previous movies — but also unexpectedly affecting.
Posted May 20, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Henry Johnson (2025) Rob Gonsalves It all seems arrogantly empty and abstract other than the moral Mamet wants us to take with us. Which is this: Don’t even try to be better at the game of life than David Mamet.
Posted May 06, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
On Swift Horses (2024) Rob Gonsalves The places seem lived in, and the people seem alive. There’s just something of a spark missing.
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Sinners (2025) Rob Gonsalves A generous overhelping of rich ice cream; some falls out of the bowl, but whatever makes it to where it’s going is great. The movie will almost certainly benefit from more than one viewing.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Warfare (2025) Rob Gonsalves It announces itself as pure cinema that pledges allegiance exclusively to what happened. Narrative, though, isn’t only about what happened. It’s about who it happened to, and why.
Posted Apr 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
The Shrouds (2024) Rob Gonsalves The kind of precise, well-manicured cinema Cronenberg is known for. It’s the narrative that makes the film seem both foreshortened and overstuffed.
Posted Apr 09, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Eephus (2024) Rob Gonsalves The director and co-writer Carson Lund seems to have drafted a list of all the weak, clichéd things that could have happened in the film and then crossed them all out with extreme prejudice.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
The Monkey (2025) Rob Gonsalves Perkins doesn’t let the plot’s twists and turns get in the way of the fun. At the same time, he remembers that there need to be genuine scares, and he conjures an ominous mood.
Posted Mar 29, 2025  Edit critic review
A
I'm Still Here (2024) Rob Gonsalves A gratifyingly low-key treatment of very emotional and volatile material.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Rob Gonsalves ...sporadically funny at best.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Thank You Very Much (2023) Rob Gonsalves ...a fond piece of Kaufman 101.
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
F
Heart Eyes (2025) Rob Gonsalves The movie is insultingly slack. Holt and Gooding themselves are likable, but the try-hard banter they’re given doesn’t help them at all.
Posted Feb 11, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Companion (2025) Rob Gonsalves It’s the sort of fine, low-budget B-movie that’s been making a bit of a comeback lately. The less you expect from it, the more you might get.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Oh Canada (2024) Rob Gonsalves Schrader is aware of the ticking clock, the falling calendar pages. So I would like his swan song, hopefully many years in the future, to feel more substantial than this does.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Nosferatu (2024) Rob Gonsalves Eggers is a thoughtful filmmaker and "Nosferatu" has had thought put into it, even if Eggers sets so many plates spinning he can’t help dropping some, along with the ideas.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Heretic (2024) Rob Gonsalves It has been getting a pass, I fear, because it focuses much more on dialogue — as in the “let’s have a dialogue” sense of the word — than on rote scares. But the scares are rote anyway.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
B
From Darkness to Light (2024) Rob Gonsalves At its best the documentary speaks truthfully about when a creator opens a vein and then doesn’t know how to make it stop gushing.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
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