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One Heat Minute is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Blake Howard.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Blake Howard On paper, it’s a familiar midlife recalibration story: work, marriage, identity, creativity. On screen, it plays like a series of almost moments that never quite click into rhythm.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Blake Howard What makes Nouvelle Vague special is Linklater’s confidence in the hang. He understands that revolutions don’t look revolutionary while they’re happening.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Blake Howard Johnson’s most tactile film in years... deliberate in composition, every candle, robe, and stone wall doing thematic work. It’s a mystery about faith that never preaches, a genre film engaged with the present without becoming a lecture.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Blake Howard The film is broader, messier, more overstuffed than the first two – and that’s the point. You feel the grief and conflict in the character beats: fire tribes, hallucinogenic rituals, Na’vi Maguas playing every side.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Blake Howard Reinsve is extraordinary. She lets thoughts flicker across her expression like notes on a piano: hurt, amusement, suspicion, love, all in a single glance.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
No Other Choice (2025) Blake Howard What lingers is the way Park blends the belly laugh and the nervous laugh — how a moment funny in the theatre becomes devastating two days later on the train...satire sharpened to a scalpel...
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Mastermind (2025) Blake Howard The Mastermind feels like Reichardt looking at the entire heist genre and asking, very quietly: when the dust settles and the mess is all that’s left… was any of this worth it?
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Train Dreams (2025) Blake Howard Watching it feels like slipping into a prayer. The noise of the modern world falls away, even if you’re watching it at home, and what remains is a sombre, quiet portrait of a man haunted by the moments he failed to act.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Baltimorons (2025) Blake Howard A man stands in the blue-black Baltimore cold, a little frayed at the edges, carrying the kind of wide-open heart John Candy used to smuggle into every frame. That’s Michael Strassner in The Baltimorons...
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Eephus (2024) Blake Howard By the time the light finally dies and the game winds down, Eephus has become something gently metaphysical: a film about how ordinary people rehearse for loss without ever admitting that’s what they’re doing.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) Blake Howard What’s bracing is the film’s refusal to settle into a single, comfortingly moral angle. Instead, it asks: who benefits from the stories we tell about these boys, and what do those narratives let everyone else off the hook for?
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Rebuilding (2025) Blake Howard Rebuilding is not a film of grand catharsis. Its beauty lies in accumulation: the glances exchanged, the chores shared, the small kindnesses that form a scaffolding around trauma.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Blake Howard Mendonça Filho builds his thriller out of dissonances: beach parties trembling under portraits of despots, bursts of music that curdle into menace, streets that look festive until you notice who isn’t smiling.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Broken Voices (2025) Blake Howard Broken Voices could have been punishing or moralistic; instead, it is quietly devastating, resisting exploitation by emphasising systems rather than scandals, the collective habits that allow atrocity to persist unseen.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
We Bury the Dead (2024) Blake Howard If We Bury The Dead’s premise sounds grim, its execution pulses with life: needle drops that shouldn’t work but do, pockets of absurd beauty amid ruin, and a finale that detonates with something like grace.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Splitsville (2025) Blake Howard Splitsville feels both ruthlessly timely and wonderfully old-fashioned—it has the buoyancy of 1930s screwball and the sting of post-Instagram intimacy.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Running Man (2025) Blake Howard For its first hour. the film hums. Wright's camera dances through grime and shadow as Richards hides his face, barters for clothes, and dodges the surveillance grid. The supporting cast is a gallery of pleasures. In the final act, it gets too big.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Predator: Badlands (2025) Blake Howard Predator: Badlands is brawny, sun-bleached pulp—closer to Milius and Conan than to brand-managed IP—anchored in the simple, elemental pleasure of a performer sweating under a suit.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Die My Love (2025) Blake Howard Ramsay transforms domestic irritant into sonic torture. The audience begins to flinch as Grace does. The empathy machine sputters, then surges: we don’t just watch her unravel; we feel the static of her mind.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Blake Howard For those of us outside the Springsteen nation—the Australians, the agnostics—the movie becomes an echo chamber of someone else’s nostalgia. You can feel the ache to honour a national treasure, but you can’t feel the pulse.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Blake Howard Panahi’s mastery lies in the misdirection. His compositions look spontaneous, but every cut lands like a blade.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Bugonia (2025) Blake Howard What Lanthimos understands—and few contemporary directors do—is that absurdity isn’t the opposite of realism, it’s its echo.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Yohanna (2024) Blake Howard There’s craft here, not thrift: a sensibility that recalls street-level realism without fetishising hardship, a belief that audiences can meet a movie halfway.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sirāt (2025) Blake Howard At Adelaide Film Festival, programmed cheekily as the “party movie,” it played like a barometer: audiences stepped into the afterparty with awe still clinging to their faces, deciding in real time whether to dance through the unease or let it sit.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jimpa (2025) Blake Howard Scenes slide between recollection and immediacy with the confidence of a director who trusts emotional continuity... a rapturous montage with the needle drop of The Japanese House’s “Still”— results in one of the most exalting moments in recent memory.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Frankenstein (2025) Blake Howard The film’s heart, belongs to Jacob Elordi’s creature. Towering, tender, and faintly bewildered, he carries the ache of every Del Toro outsider.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Megadoc (2025) Blake Howard Aubrey Plaza and Coppola's Zoom audition is worth the price of admission alone.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Blake Howard Anderson lets revolution play out not as grand spectacle but as flickering moments—of failure, of defiance, of absurd human persistence.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Blake Howard It’s hip-hop thunder and velvet shadow, New York refracted into Lee angles, spaces alive with the echo of voices past and present. Washington, haunted in his apartment mausoleum moves through this false life of money and legacy with a fretful gravity.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
28 Years Later (2025) Blake Howard I wasn’t ready for the slow, crushing force of 28 Years Later, the sensation of being steamrolled like some doomed Austin Powers henchman, flattened by a film that insists on life even as it stages the apocalyptic end of it.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Caught Stealing (2025) Blake Howard And yet, for all the twistiness and the parade of character actors (Schreiber, D’Onofrio, faces carved from New York concrete), what lingers is the tactile: the grey shorts, the cigarette glow, the way Matty Libatique’s camera makes grime shimmer.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Nobody 2 (2025) Blake Howard When two overprotective dads (Odenkirk and Ortiz) clash, you feel the movie spark, but it refuses to go deeper.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Blake Howard Happy Gilmore 2 feels like an unnecessarily self-referential slog with only a few genuinely funny moments, leaving me grateful for endlessly revisiting the first and unlikely to revisit this follow-up.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Naked Gun (2025) Blake Howard The Naked Gun is the funniest film I’ve seen in years—relentlessly silly, packed with gags I laughed through and missed, brilliantly played straight by Liam Neeson, and so joyous that I left wheezing, still quoting lines days later.
Posted Aug 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Weapons (2025) Blake Howard WEAPONS scares were the kind that catch you off guard—so surprising that you can’t help but scream or laugh—and the characters’ natural, beautiful reactions to the chaos often made those moments hilarious.
Posted Aug 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Blake Howard The opening 30 to 40 minutes and its montages have chemistry and pop, when it rests and you have to dwell on the individuals because you start to see the gaps and the deficiencies in some of these characterisations.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Presence (2024) Blake Howard Steven Soderbergh is a guy that you just get a ticket for. For any experiments...even when he's bored, he's still a genius.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Nosferatu (2024) Blake Howard An aesthetic marvel wrapped around warped and laughable performances.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Black Bag (2025) Blake Howard It's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Invitation.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Sinners (2025) Blake Howard Difficult to imagine a movie I’ll love more, this year.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Thunderbolts* (2025) Blake Howard Thunderbolts arrives like a defibrillator: a convulsive jolt, painful in its familiarity — and yet, somehow, a flutter of life returns.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Blake Howard Some of the most stunning action sequences ever conceived, but nearly chokes on explaining the stakes.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
F1 The Movie (2025) Blake Howard Shot during actual race weekends — smuggled into 15-minute intervals between live F1 sessions — the production is itself a kind of motorsport.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Blake Howard It’s a film about legacy, theatre, and the quiet absurdity of trying to make peace with the stories we tell about ourselves. Not essential Anderson, but essential if you understand that distinction.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Superman (2025) Blake Howard It leaves you with something the DCEU rarely did: buoyancy.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Blake Howard “Not executed in the same effortless way as….”The Mission” or “The Killing Fields”, but you can tell that Joffe is … has a real talent of myth-busting [history].”
Posted Feb 13, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Mission (1986) Blake Howard “De Niro is such an intuitive and impulsive performer, and what I think Roland Joffé gets out of him in this performance ... is restraining those impulses and … fury.”
Posted Feb 13, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Blake Howard “Incredible performances…the textures of this time, of band life… the milieu of this 80s, ‘Gen X’ youth movement…it [was] just unbelievable.”
Posted Feb 13, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
City of God (2002) Blake Howard “A gateway drug to world cinema … aesthetically pure… the world was bigger after I watched City of God.”
Posted Feb 13, 2023  Edit critic review
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