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Film Obsessive

Film Obsessive is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Diana Tuova, Don Shanahan, Tina Kakadelis, Tony Black.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
Atropia (2025) Don Shanahan In Atropia’s type of satire, where war—and all its ugly realities—is being practiced as a performance for misplaced dominance, more than one mouthpiece is needed. Shawkat’s oppositional firebrand is not enough.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Signing Tony Raymond (2025) Don Shanahan Clever comeuppance is not the same as legitimate consequences, and that’s where the stiff reality of real-life outside the dramedy movie crashes the party.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Don Shanahan Because "Dead Man’s Wire" is candidly presents the positive and negative facets of those caught up in this frenzy, the even-handed movie grants intelligence to rub your chin, perk your ears, and question whether judgment or justification can be granted.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Dutchman (2025) Don Shanahan The movie never had to leave the train or the topics unleashed there. The originally intended inescapable struggle is demystified the moment it treads away from it.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Housemaid (2025) Don Shanahan When things get harsh and dicey, and the roasting commentary on privilege becomes more apparent, Paul Feig still varnishes with a suave coolness that is undeniably appealing.
Posted Dec 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Don Shanahan Diamond’s catalog gets shown off by big-time voices, and viewers get to engross themselves in a story detached from familiar and indulgent fame.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Don Shanahan Shockingly, a copy machine was used in place of a springboard, and the disappointing storytelling results show—no matter how pretty it all looks. 
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Don Shanahan Dilute the very intelligence of the character to possess little to no wherewithal and continuously pile on the exhausted disinterest from everyone else. By orchestrating this massively dismissive environment, the momentum does not support the underdog.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Don Shanahan We have to find a way to root for an asshole. Worse, depending on your own contempt or adoration for the debate of formality of table tennis versus ping pong, we have to root for an asshole playing that predominantly inconsequential sport.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rebuilding (2025) Don Shanahan You are not looking down on any perceived lack of ceremony or decorum, because what’s there and the people putting together this personal tribute are beautiful and caring in their own right. Rebuilding crafts this level of care into its entire narrative.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Don Shanahan Is This Thing On? asks incredible and intelligent questions that actually get chewed on with civility and dignity, ignoring the urge to shout hot drops of dialogue to the rhetorical rafters solely meant to let an actor show off.
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Don Shanahan This is the somber half of the musical, and the central acting matches that accordingly, with both female leads rising to even higher, compelling levels of challenged bonding than the first film.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Don Shanahan There’s an uncanny and inebriating magic here that is heartfelt, reverent, and surprisingly approachable amid the A-list souls involved and revealed.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nuremberg (2025) Don Shanahan James Vanderbilt had a choice, and he, as an experienced and successful screenwriter known best for his gaudy action flicks, perked up Nuremberg with a little pump and pomp. The result makes what would normally be wearisome moderately engrossing.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Outerlands (2025) Tina Kakadelis Outerlands is a truly special piece of filmmaking— immersive, intuitive, and illuminating, a reminder of the empathy that should be at the forefront of all storytelling.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Tina Kakadelis Anniversary feels frighteningly relevant. The film, and our society, would benefit most from the conversations we avoid.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Don Shanahan For "Blue Moon," taking place as so many of the Texan-based director’s best yarns do over the course of a single night, there’s an ambition for this film to meld both versions of Richard Linklater.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Truth & Treason (2025) Don Shanahan If it takes internal pleas like Truth and Treason to shake folks out of the usual escapist mood and towards shifted mindsets and higher calls to action, then the cinematic experiences to tell those cautionary tales were all the more worth it.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Looking Through Water (2025) Don Shanahan There’s something special about placing Michael Douglas's mystique in such a soft, simple position.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Don Shanahan True to its lasting cult success, no imaginative action idea was squelched or expense was spared in the set construction, prop creation, costume design, second unit, and stunt departments.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Affection (2025) Tina Kakadelis Rothe is a force in Affection, both in the physical nature of the role and as the emotional heart of Ellie.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Death of a Ladies' Man (2020) Don Shanahan What could have been a morose, listless slog about a bitter whiner is energized into something of a soul-stirring seance in many layers and moments.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Don Shanahan "The Smashing Machine" focuses on a story that breaks away from most of those stigmas to explore the very significant veins, sweat glands, and, most importantly, tear ducts that saturate the warrior souls of combat sports.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Doin' It (2024) Don Shanahan What’s refreshingly different about "Doin’ It" from the raunchy sex farces of a generation ago is that the unabashed gross-out humor done here comes from a chief pair of female gazes.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Baltimorons (2025) Don Shanahan For the audience who has missed the casualness of this style, "The Baltimorons" is comfort food not unlike the hearty plates both these characters wouldn’t mind partaking in with loved ones before the day is out.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Tina Kakadelis Twinless is as dryly humorous as it is quietly devastating, and emotionally thought-provoking in the best way.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Tina Kakadelis Frankenstein is missing the intimacy of Shelley’s novel which makes the film feel as though it is a mere recreation of life instead of life itself.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Renoir (2025) Tina Kakadelis Renoir creates nostalgia for the moments Fuki is living through in a way that asks the audience to remember their own thorny adolescence as it is unperceptively shifting toward adulthood.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Retreat (2025) Tina Kakadelis Retreat is the sort of identity-driven genre filmmaking that people have been begging for. It’s something wholly unique, a film that asks its viewer to evaluate the way that community can be twisted in coercion and control.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Ghost School (2025) Tina Kakadelis Ghost School isn’t entirely about comprehending the depths of the corruption in her town. At the very least, it’s about recognizing how she can rebel in her own way.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Bunch (2025) Tina Kakadelis Honey Bunch is an extreme attempt to discover how to love someone and how to manage the mistakes we make as we try to create a relationship built on devotion.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Heron (2025) Tina Kakadelis Blue Heron is a quietly constructed rumination on love, loss, and the lifeboat of memories.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) Tina Kakadelis Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is a stunning piece of memory-driven filmmaking. It’s a purposeful attempt to chronicle emotions of importance in a young girl’s life in a way that echoes in our own lives.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
California Schemin' (2025) Tina Kakadelis McLean Ross and Bottomley, as Silibil N’ Brains, are like puppy dogs with a dream they refuse to let go of...They are so easy to root for, and so is California Schemin’.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Tina Kakadelis It is love that powers her, and it is love that powers A Useful Ghost, a stunning fusion of genres that will help us discover where our future leads.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Tina Kakadelis To experience Hamnet is to fall in love, to be pulverized by the grand emotions that make us alive.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Dust Bunny (2025) Tina Kakadelis Dust Bunny is meant to entertain as much as it’s meant to frighten. Where snappy dialogue provides as much of a thrill as every creak of the floorboards.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Tina Kakadelis Train Dreams is a miraculous wonder. The kind of movie that forces you to stop and take stock of this planet.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Love, Brooklyn (2025) Don Shanahan "Love, Brooklyn" offers a bountiful, conversation-driven romantic drama that exudes intelligence, not only in its portrayal of the neighborhood's dynamics but also in its exploration of the hurdles modern relationships face.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Tina Kakadelis Obsession provides a powerhouse platform for Navarrette, and she provides a performance that will make you remember her name.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Tina Kakadelis Mile End Kicks will stir up a lot of positive nostalgia for many viewers, but for others it’ll feel more like a cover than an original.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Forastera (2025) Tina Kakadelis Forastera is a powerful debut feature that captures the tendency of adolescence to swing between freeing and stifling. Between youthful joy and adult sadness. Somewhere in the middle is life itself, in all of its painful, achingly lovely glory.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Bayaan (2025) Tina Kakadelis Like most crime thrillers, Bayaan is an indictment of a system that has long been broken and that now requires someone who values truth above all else to repair it.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
We Strangers (2024) Tina Kakadelis We Strangers unwinds the tightly wound, quietly sinister effects of assimilation in an almost Lynchian fashion to capture a slice of modern, midwestern American life.
Posted Sep 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Stranger Eyes (2024) Don Shanahan Stranger Ways encapsulates proliferating dangers in an almost entrancing, methodical way, wholly different from the norm, all due to conflicting background emotions.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Balconettes (2024) Tina Kakadelis The Balconettes is Rear Window for the anarchists who find power in claiming what they’ve endured, not hiding it.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Map That Leads to You (2025) Don Shanahan Weathering a compatibility of opposites that creates the necessary tension and doubt cast in the film’s central relationship, Apa’s wide smile welcomes Cline's fawning eyes and lip bite nicely when the moments are softened and the drama is forgotten.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Don Shanahan The movie could have been two hours of the young cub stepping to the old lion, and we would still be enraptured, Kurosawa homage or otherwise.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Knife (2024) Don Shanahan A taut and efficient movie that makes the most of its single location and single night of drama, holding its secrets as long as it can and not wasting a minute before then.
Posted Aug 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
My Mother's Wedding (2023) Don Shanahan Actress Kristen Scott Thomas’s directorial debut generously tries its hand at offering more than just pure ceremony.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
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