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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/4
No Other Choice (2025) Rob Thomas After the relative restraint of his last film, the Hitchcockian "Decision to Leave," Park lets loose in "No Other Choice," a funny, violent and, above all, angry satire about the dehumanizing effect of the modern workplace.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Chronology of Water (2025) Rob Thomas You don’t so much watch "The Chronology of Water" as drown in it.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Rob Thomas "Is This Thing On?" isn’t really a comedy. But, fatally, it’s not enough of a drama either, skimming over the surface of these roiling emotions and grasping for easy answers rather than hard truths.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Rob Thomas "Marty Supreme" is exhilarating entertainment, keeping us off-balance and riveted as we want to see if Marty will make it or not. And, to our complete amazement, finding ourselves on his side throughout.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Rob Thomas Craig Brewer’s "Song Sung Blue" is a hammy and heartfelt ode to the everyman musicians that are the lifeblood of any good local music scene, the mechanics, hairdressers and dentists who dream of their moment in the limelight.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Rebuilding (2025) Rob Thomas "Rebuilding" is a little gem that deserves to be seen, an ode to resilience and empathy, that lingers in the mind like a fond memory.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Rob Thomas The film grooves to its own beat over its 158-minute running time, moving from suspenseful sequences to surreal comedy, and Filho finds humanity in each of his characters, good or bad.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Rob Thomas Reinsve and Skarsgard are both brilliant actors who can convey so much without saying a word, and von Trier knows how to give each actor time and space to do their work.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Rob Thomas It’s as achingly sincere as a Glinda ballad and as crazy as an army of flying monkeys. It may not be my thing, but I have to tip my crooked black hat to the effort.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Trifole (2024) Rob Thomas I get the impulse to make a film that’s more forthright and melancholy than expected, but the second half of "Trifole" really breaks the spell cast by the first half.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Christy (2025) Rob Thomas This is a harrowing and effective film that, if you can stay standing in the ring with it, is worth seeing.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Rob Thomas “Die My Love” is never one thing, and it revels in its contradictions. Ramsay can suffuse a day at the beach with horror and dread, or making a raging forest fire seem beautiful and cleansing. It’s a challenging, confounding, exposed nerve of a movie.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nuremberg (2025) Rob Thomas Vanderbilt tries to make “Nuremberg” as entertaining a film as he can, a gripping courtroom drama in the mold of the Aaron Sorkin-penned “A Few Good Men” with a big all-star cast, snappy dialogue, and even a few laughs here and there
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) Rob Thomas Watching “Sunfish” does feel like a weekend up at the lake, enchanting and rejuvenating.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Frankenstein (2025) Rob Thomas With a painter’s eye and a fan’s reverence for the source material, del Toro has put all his gifts as a filmmaker onto the screen, creating a “Frankenstein” that’s as romantic as it is gory, as empathetic as it is scary.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Blue Moon (2025) Rob Thomas This is one of those imitative performances that Hawke rarely does, where he tries to completely disappear into a real-life figure.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (2025) Rob Thomas “Who Killed the Montreal Expos?” is briskly paced and does a good job keeping track of all the different players, both on and off the field, as it delivers a teary-eyed post mortem for the team.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Mastermind (2025) Rob Thomas “Mastermind” is partly a suspenseful heist thriller, complete with a jazzy score by Rob Mazurek as the thieves plan and execute their scheme. But it’s also just as curious about the inner lives of its characters as Reichardt’s other films.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) Rob Thomas “I Like Me” is a moving tribute to a brilliant performer, and also a poignant reminder that you never know what other people are going through.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
After the Hunt (2025) Rob Thomas “Hunt” is an op-ed column masquerading as an academic thriller. And a poorly thought-out, strident and unconvincing op-ed as that.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Rob Thomas “It Was Just An Accident” is his most audacious and moving in years, confronting the horrors of a totalitarian regime head-on. And yet, as weighty as the subject matter, it’s also a humane and even funny film at times.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
TRON: Ares (2025) Rob Thomas If this is eye candy, it's top-shelf Dubai chocolate.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Stranger Eyes (2024) Rob Thomas As a mystery, “Stranger Eyes” doesn’t play by the rules. But as a portrayal of modern disaffection, viewed through an unblinking lens, it’s hard to shake.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Roofman (2025) Rob Thomas Channing Tatum essentially resets his career with a wonderful, soulful performance as Jeff, capturing the thief’s cleverness, his vulnerability and his penchant for repeatedly screwing up his life and the lives of those he loves.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Videoheaven (2025) Rob Thomas At nearly three hours, “Videoheaven” is so long that if I had rented it, I doubt I would have finished it in time to beat the late fee. But it’s a witty, erudite, and slightly wistful deep dive into a time in American culture that has ended.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Play Dirty (2025) Rob Thomas “Play Dirty” somehow manages to raid the vault of one of America’s great thriller writers, and come away with pocket change.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Dreams (2024) Rob Thomas “Dreams” is almost a parody of a Scandinavian love story, where the most erotic scene involves two characters trying on sweaters. But with a strong lead performance and a dry wit, “Dreams” is intriguingly clear-headed about matters of the heart.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Dead of Winter (2025) Rob Thomas As the tension rises and more blood gets spattered in the snow, “Dead of Winter” delivers as a satisfying small-scale thriller with just enough of an emotional core to keep the viewer locked in.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Code 3 (2025) Rob Thomas Like the paramedics, we have no idea what the next call will bring – a funny anecdote or a painful trauma – and that uncertainty creates a special kind of tension watching the movie.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Baltimorons (2025) Rob Thomas The two leads have terrific chemistry that occasionally edges into the romantic, and it’s a pleasure to roam late-night Baltimore with them.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Lurker (2025) Rob Thomas The fact that Russell clearly knows his way around the Los Angeles music scene, and the insulated ecosystem that both supports and feeds off a celebrity, gives “Lurker” a rich texture and absorbing tension.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Threesome (2025) Rob Thomas Screenwriter Ethan Ogilby’s script has enough plot twists to fuel a week of soap operas, but director Chad Hartigan keeps things on a very human and relatable level, coaxing charming and heartfelt performances from his three leads.
Posted Sep 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Roses (2025) Rob Thomas Like watching The Rock and Jason Statham duke it out in “Hobbs & Shaw,” the draw of “The Roses” is to see two heavyweight rhetorical fighters finally square off in the ring.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Relay (2024) Rob Thomas When Ash uses his deep knowledge of obscure postal regulations to outwit his opponents, I knew “Relay” was my kind of movie.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Descendent (2025) Rob Thomas Smartly using every penny of what looks like a low budget, Cilella foregrounds the actors’ terrific, lived-in performances, using the barest snippets of visual effects to maintain an unsettling mood.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Sketch (2024) Rob Thomas “Sketch” feels like the action, humor and heart are all flowing effortlessly from the same place, and Worley expresses his vision with the same enthusiasm and excitement of a child running up to you with a piece of paper, shouting “Look what I made!”
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Architecton (2024) Rob Thomas This is a weighty documentary in every sense, inviting us to lose ourselves in the impassive majesty of both natural and artificial edifices.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Last Swim (2024) Rob Thomas It’s a sparkling debut that makes me look forward to what Nathwani will do with a screenplay that’s a little less hazy.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Oh, Hi! (2025) Rob Thomas Unfortunately, in its attempt to be a rom-com, a black comedy and a bit of a “Misery”-like thriller, the movie is as ill-defined as its central relationship.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) Rob Thomas It's a harrowing political thriller about a white ruling class on the wrong side of a populist upheaval. And it’s a deeply-felt drama about how childhood endures in even the worst of circumstances.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Abraham's Boys: A Dracula Story (2025) Rob Thomas “Abraham’s Boys” certainly feels like a short story that has been padded out to feature-movie length.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Queen of My Dreams (2023) Rob Thomas Fawzia Mizra’s vibrant family dramedy brings Bollywood pop and sparkle to a deeply felt personal story of a multigenerational South Asian family.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
40 Acres (2024) Rob Thomas “40 Acres” is a thought-provoking and thrilling movie, and will satisfy those hungry for something a little different in the post-apocalyptic action genre.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Rob Thomas “Rebirth” goes back to basics as a stripped-down survival adventure movie built around some very suspenseful sequences. The dinosaur stuff in “Rebirth” is good. The human stuff? Not so good.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hot Milk (2025) Rob Thomas “Hot Milk” feels like a nervy leap into the unknown, and if it doesn’t quite get all the way where it’s going, there’s something enticing about the attempt.
Posted Jun 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
F1 The Movie (2025) Rob Thomas Like the F1 cars themselves hugging the track, the movie knows exactly where we want it to go, and gets there fast.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
A Photographic Memory (2024) Rob Thomas “A Photographic Memory” is an achingly personal film about Rachel’s attempts to stitch together a new kind of memory from those archival materials, to not just understand a woman she never knew but to somehow feel her mother’s presence within her.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Life of Chuck (2024) Rob Thomas Flanagan the storyteller keeps us so invested in figuring out what’s going on, and how all the pieces fit together, that we might not even realize how much the film is slipping past our defenses and affecting us emotionally.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Ballerina (2025) Rob Thomas If the “John Wick” films are equivalent to the elegant, sinister Continental Hotel, “Ballerina” is more like a budget-friendly Continental Motel located off the freeway.
Posted Jun 07, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) Rob Thomas It’s not a typical romantic fantasy to imagine yourself slow-dancing with a naked man in a Chinese restaurant. But then, “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is not a typical romantic comedy.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
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