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Region Free is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Joonatan Itkonen.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Joonatan Itkonen As The Bone Temple barrels towards the inevitable climax, DaCosta builds up one of the most fascinating and intellectually satisfying finales in horror history.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) Joonatan Itkonen There is an inkling of a great film buried within Send Help... Sadly, the timid script is hellbent on taking every lazy and unimaginative way out of the tantalizing setup, which leads to an unsatisfying ride held together by the luminous Rachel McAdams.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Joonatan Itkonen It must be Thanksgiving in January, there's no other way to explain a turkey of this magnitude.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Joonatan Itkonen As a visual feast, All You Need Is Kill is a satisfying thrill that should satisfy sci-fi fans everywhere.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Rip (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Two things can be true at once: The Rip is a great film and it is released at the absolute wrong time.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Primate (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Primate is a short and brutal experiment in stuffing as many kills into a single location as possible. But in its haste to get to the gore, it overlooks any semblance of character or setup necessary to make us care about the slaughter.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Joonatan Itkonen There's nothing to chew on here, no lines that stick with the viewer once the film ends. It's like being stuck in an elevator with a loudmouth braggart who believes shouting others into silence is the same as winning an argument.
Posted Dec 26, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Anaconda (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Anaconda isn't just a bad film; it's the kind of disaster that in the past would have rightfully ended careers.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Dead of Winter (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Like an airport novel, it has passages that surprise with occasional eloquence that are lost in a sea of tired tropes and aimless twists.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Bloated beyond belief, the third Avatar is an exercise in tedious plotting, ugly stereotypes, and dull action.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Wicked: For Good is a lifeless chore that feels like an extended second act of a film without structure. By the end, it exhausted me so thoroughly I was done. For good.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Running Man (2025) Joonatan Itkonen By the time the film reaches the final stretch... Wright pulls his punches even further. His third act plays everything so safe that we get the rare case where the adaptation has a worse ending than King's original book.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Now You See Me, Now You Don't is like watching a magic act where the magician is talentless and clumsy, but also so arrogant and smug there's almost a perverse pleasure in their ineptitude.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bulk (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Ben Wheatley's impish in-joke is almost too quirky for its own good, but it's also so outlandish and inventive that it's hard not to be swept away by the wild swings.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Flush (2025) Joonatan Itkonen At a lean and mean 70 minutes, it's packed with enough pitch-black humor and the finest of bad taste to remain hysterically funny and gross for its entire runtime. It's definitely not for everyone, but a select few will love it. Myself included.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Keep Quiet (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Like the masters of hardboiled noir classics, [Grashaw] subverts the genre to say something meaningful and it leaves the audience ragged and breathless. The result is one of the finest thrillers of the year.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Joonatan Itkonen If you want something that provides ample entertainment for the buck, Trachtenberg's latest is a breezy and fun way to spend a few hours. It won't challenge you, but it does deliver where it matters.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Bugonia (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I don't think Lanthimos likes any of his characters. They exist for his torment, which makes for some dull viewing.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Bruce's music is so universal at this point that it means different things to everyone who hears it. By trying to explain him in such reductive terms only harms that connection. Especially when it hinges on made up events.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Call of the Wild (2020) Joonatan Itkonen If I had seen this film when I was a kid, it would have left an everlasting mark on my soul. As an adult, it reminded me how that age felt, and to hug my dog when I got home.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Are We Good? (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Perhaps accidentally, Feinartz captures an elusive moment where Maron's armor cracks, and even if it feels sappy and hackneyed, it earns an answer to the grumpy sign-off that serves as the documentary's name.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I love the beginning and ending of Sisu, and I hate to be a downer about the rest. It's just that the rest of the film is built around the concept that Aatami can't die, which makes everything else feel pointless.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Rian Johnson is one of the best American filmmakers working today... Wake Up Dead Man is not just overflowing both stylistically and thematically, it's also one of his finest films in a career that continues to surprise and delight.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Retreat (2025) Joonatan Itkonen The results are a very mixed bag, but it's such a big swing that Retreat is worth watching just for the vision alone.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
100 Sunset (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Kyirong is a talented filmmaker who announces her strengths clearly with this debut feature. I think she will make something truly special one day. This isn't it, but it's a promising and often captivating start.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Christophers (2025) Joonatan Itkonen The Christophers is a finely tuned, often impeccably acted, and thoroughly compelling chamber piece that works like intellectual comfort food. It's a delight to spend time with.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
New Years Rev (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Hopelessly long, poorly paced, and so insistent that it's doing something radical by making the most pedestrian and safe product imaginable that all of it ends up feeling noxious. To use a dated reference, it's the Hot Topic of punk rock movies.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
& Sons (2025) Joonatan Itkonen & Sons... swings and misses, and does so with just enough force to make the effort itself interesting. It's a weird and tonally inconsistent mix of genres and styles packed with great performances that captivate even the material itself doesn't.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Roofman (2025) Joonatan Itkonen It's just frustrating that even at the end, where the film reveals just how much of the story actually happened, it never feels like it's taking any of this seriously.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Good Boy (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Good Boy is a smart and surprisingly moving film that pushes the boundaries of how we experience the horror genre. It is one of the most startlingly original and fun experiences all year that reminds us how lucky we are to have dogs in our lives.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Easy's Waltz (2025) Joonatan Itkonen In the history of great Las Vegas movies, Easy's Waltz is a surprise contender as one of the better ones. This is thanks to a revelatory performance by Vince Vaughn, who hasn't been this good since his tragicomic turn in Swingers.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Joonatan Itkonen This is one of the great films of the year. In time, it will become one of the best in a decade, then one of the movies that people speak of when asked what inspired them in their life. It is a masterpiece.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Joonatan Itkonen In a way, it's tragic that Luhrmann's fascination and love only reinforces that this is the most elaborately beautiful gilded cage if there ever was one.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Ugly (2024) Joonatan Itkonen The Ugly is still a difficult film to recommend. I'm not entirely sure it makes a strong enough case to warrant such misery... And yet, it is the work of a talented artist who understands how humans function, especially when we're at our ugliest.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is a film fiercely dedicated to not taking a stance. It makes fun of everyone, which means it ultimately says nothing.
Posted Sep 20, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Fastvold's portrait of a bygone world feels true and lived-in. It echoes with spirits and souls of the past. Dense and beautiful, anchored by a career-best performance by Amanda Seyfried, it will be one of the best films of the year when it releases.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) Joonatan Itkonen This is not a bad film in the least, despite its issues. If you can look past the pacing and occasional odd bit of casting... you'll discover a wealth of fascinating truths about where we are, and how we got here.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dust Bunny (2025) Joonatan Itkonen For once, we have a family film for everyone that treats its audience with emotional maturity they deserve.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Frankenstein (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Frankenstein is a breathtaking and deeply moving adaptation of an iconic literary achievement. It is the product of two worlds a century apart, yet it feels timeless and original as if just told for the first time.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Normal (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Imagine if Walter Hill directed Hot Fuzz and then added a whole helping of Tom & Jerry into it and you'll get Normal.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Tuner (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Tuner is a wry and classically competent crime comedy so full of charm that it almost coasts by on sheer vibes alone.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Peak Everything (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I would have welcomed a swift cataclysm if it meant an end to this ponderous and navel-gazing dramedy.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
(undefined) Joonatan Itkonen Fuze is everything you'd want out of a night out at the movies. In the 90s, it would have stood proudly alongside films like The Rock as a perfect date night title.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) Joonatan Itkonen John Candy: I Like Me is more a of a celebration than it is a documentary, but that doesn't diminish its worth one bit.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Joonatan Itkonen A tremendous piece of directing and acting working together to remind us that beyond the glamour and showmanship, Dwayne Johnson is a bonafide actor waiting to break out of his shell.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Lost Bus (2025) Joonatan Itkonen While an impressively true story, this is effectively a melodrama without the drama that feels like a theme park ride. Except the seats don't move along with the movie.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Sacrifice (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I had fun with Sacrifice. It made me laugh more than once, and I was never bored, despite the lengthy runtime. Which is more than I can say for some other smug satires about rich people ruining the very things they claim to protect.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Eagles of the Republic (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Fares Fares is magnetic in Tarik Saleh's compelling film about fascists using art for their own means.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Karmadonna (2025) Joonatan Itkonen This is a film that would be a chore to watch even as a short film, let alone as something pushing the two-hour mark.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Hamnet (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Here is a fascinating contradiction: a film I recognize to be well made, beautifully shot, and terrifically acted that I did not connect with at all.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
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