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The Cosmic Circus

The Cosmic Circus is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): James Preston Poole, John Daniel Tangalin, Joshua Ryan, Maxance Vincent.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Maxance Vincent It’s great that Soto knows how to keep the camera alive and exciting during high-energy, violent set pieces. This gives The Wrecking Crew an edge that few streaming films of the era sadly do.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) Maxance Vincent There are so many singular images in Raimi’s latest that seem to perfect what we’ve come to know and love from the filmmaker without feeling like he’s outright copying himself—or anyone else, for that matter.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Maxance Vincent If there’s one thing All You Need Is Kill makes the case for, it’s that critics of the timeloop genre may be the most vindicated people in the world right now.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Joshua Ryan The onscreen chemistry, especially between Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen, is electric, and although I was fairly certain how the story would end, the journey to get there was filled with emotion, laughter, and heart.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Maxance Vincent Hell yes.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Maxance Vincent It’s a Predator movie for the Cocomelon generation.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
V/H/S Halloween (2025) John Daniel Tangalin With Paco Plaza driving his characters to death from life, most of the other storytellers strive to take their characters to horrifying truths at a descent from decency. The monster that one becomes by the end is the only thing that matters.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) Maxance Vincent This approach to exposition—on the fly, with flashbacks acting as “gap fillers” whenever necessary—feels refreshing and actively turns this relatively complicated story into one of pure mythmaking.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Maxance Vincent Spinal Tap II is essentially a vehicle for Reiner to tell audiences, “Remember how great This Is Spinal Tap is? How about you watch that instead of wasting your time here!”
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Maxance Vincent This “life’s like a chapter; there’s nothing wrong when one ends and another begins” aspect of The Conjuring: Last Rites is where the movie actively works in its favor, even if it contains none of the hallmarks that paying audiences want to see.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) John Daniel Tangalin The Long Walk holds a point that carries on from the novel, but the lack of a solid narrative and multifaceted character development can hold this film adaptation back from attaining excellence. It’s a decent, must-see movie, but really, at what cost?
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Maxance Vincent Yes, it’s complicated and elaborate, as any good “subversion of expectations” piece from Rian Johnson must be, but it’s also shockingly confounding, emotionally hollow, and unimpressive.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Nobody 2 (2025) Maxance Vincent In a corpus of purposefully desolate and uncomfortable features, Nobody 2 feels like a breath of fresh air for [Timo] Tjahjanto, who employs the skills he’s developed in Indonesia in situations that only require fun on his (and the actor’s) part.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) James Preston Poole A sequel that can comfortably sit side-by-side with the original as a delightful piece of family entertainment.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Together (2025) Maxance Vincent The film contains the year’s most unoriginal and unimaginative screenplay.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Lumina (2024) Joshua Ryan The film drags on for two-hours. It’s an astonishing runtime, considering absolutely nothing of relevance or interest occurs until Lumina’s final act.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Slingshot (2024) Joshua Ryan Tropes and clichés are a necessary part of genre filmmaking, but Slingshot fails to bring anything new out of them or to use them in interesting ways.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Joshua Ryan Exposition and dream sequences are used to provide every bit of necessary backstory, and the dialogue feels harsh and unnatural.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) Joshua Ryan The story stands alone as a genuinely compelling action epic, while staying close enough to the source material to still feel relevant.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Disfluency (2021) Joshua Ryan Disfluency is a worthy enough entry into the long-running coming-of-age genre, though it fails to rise above the tropes and expected arcs that come with these types of films.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Joshua Ryan The story is just too thin, and the handling of real-life events feels mismanaged.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) Joshua Ryan As individual stories, they’re each interesting and left me wanting a more thorough exploration of their worlds, but as a joint movie, they feel unnecessarily disconnected and underdeveloped.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) John Daniel Tangalin As a reboot, Ball and Friedman’s film signals the arrival of what has not been seen in decades. Their beacon, then, has its roots in the sciences.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Maxance Vincent Jenkins can’t be derided for trying to infuse some life into the prequel to one of the most lifeless films ever made. And he mostly succeeds, which is a testament to his singular artistic talent.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Rumours (2024) Maxance Vincent You’re not going to get it. You’ll likely be frustrated by it, even storm out of the cinema in anger at the unsatisfying conclusion it gives its protagonists and story. But that’s precisely why I loved it.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
We Live in Time (2024) Maxance Vincent The aesthetic approach of We Live in Time automatically removes the ounces of sincerity it might have had if Crowley had taken a linear approach.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Maxance Vincent Joker: Folie à Deux is a true visual marvel and constantly holds your attention by looking at how Sher employs IMAX cameras for its quieter moments and capturing its elaborate musical scenes. However, it never justifies its purpose.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Trap (2024) Maxance Vincent Through Shyamalan’s deft and precise eye, his frames feel more powerful than ever before. Each pan, dolly, tilt, dissolve, and even split diopter feels like a true shock to the system. The camera only moves when it should.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Baby Assassins: Nice Days (2024) Maxance Vincent One of the best action movies ever made.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Penalty Loop (2024) Maxance Vincent All of these brilliantly subversive moments pull you into the picture, and it’s hard not to stray away from it, even if the movie fumbles the bag with a twist so uneventful it almost sinks the entire movie.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Brave Citizen (2023) Maxance Vincent Its photography severely lacks finesse. [...] Even the film’s final fight, a massive boxing match between the two characters, doesn’t have any sense of visual flourish, nor is the stuntwork that impressive.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Longlegs (2024) Maxance Vincent It's hard to discern exactly what Longlegs is talking about when Perkins doesn’t develop any of the storylines he presents on screen, even from a visual perspective.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) Maxance Vincent God, does it feel good to see [Eddie Murphy] don his iconic Detroit Lions jacket and peruse the streets of Beverly Hills in full-on detective mode. I only wish to have seen this legendary return on the big screen.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Robot Dreams (2023) Maxance Vincent Its easygoing nature will prove crowd-pleasing for moviegoers looking for a cozy, uncomplicated time on the big screen.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) Maxance Vincent Inspired by Michael Bay‘s revolutionary filmmaking techniques, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah will teach audiences to look at action cinema differently and perhaps bring the kinetic energy needed to revitalize the summer box office after a dreary start.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Civil War (2024) Maxance Vincent With that sole belief guiding Alex Garland that journalists themselves must remain objective and apolitical, with precise methods that detach them from their own personal baggage, Civil War becomes immediately misguided at best and perfunctory at worst.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Monkey Man (2024) Maxance Vincent Rarely have we seen such visual (and acting) mastery from a first-time director, but Patel is a true force to be reckoned with.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Dune: Part Two (2024) Maxance Vincent With a miracle like Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve makes us dream about our own personal wishes and shows us that they are much stronger than we think. After all, they’re messages from the deep.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Alienoid: Return to the Future (2024) Maxance Vincent Alienoid: Return to the Future turns classic time travel tropes on their head in an attempt to breathe new life into a stale genre and finally give justice to the “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.” tenet.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Pain Hustlers (2023) Maxance Vincent Everything in Pain Hustlers feels unimportant, and its distractingly flashy style certainly doesn’t help. It’s great to see Yates doing something else than Harry Potter, but his first real Wizarding World break doesn’t leave a good lasting impression.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Pope's Exorcist (2023) Maxance Vincent It may not be the most inventive movie ever made, but I’ll promise you that if you take the movie with the same tone Crowe embodies Father Amorth, you’re going to have a blast.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Scream VI (2023) Maxance Vincent Scream VI was better than it had any right to be. It doesn’t pull any punches on its gratuitous violence, and the chemistry between the leads is palpable, especially Jenna Ortega, who is a massive standout.
Posted Jul 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Maxance Vincent Some may end up feeling disappointed that this bizarre legacy sequel doesn’t live up to the quality of writing and character development they’ve expected from The Karate Kid for the past seven years…
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Electric State (2025) Maxance Vincent A book full of life and creativity, with images that stick with you long after you’ve read it, is turned into pure nonsense by two directors who have lost touch with what cinema is all about: an act of profound human creation.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Monkey (2025) Maxance Vincent Unfortunately, the two main draws that would make The Monkey such a fun time – good kills and being funny – are entirely absent inside a film that lacks a true sense of identity beyond the visual elements it consistently steals from.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) James Preston Poole I’ll be frank: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the best film Tim Burton has made since 2003’s Big Fish. A love letter to the spooky-inclined, this sequel might even top the movie that came before.
Posted Sep 06, 2024  Edit critic review
AfrAId (2024) James Preston Poole Thinly written, confusingly acted, and completely inconsistent in every way that matters, Afraid is bottom of the barrel for tech-based horror.
Posted Sep 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) James Preston Poole It’s hard to think of a directorial debut, especially from such an established actress, this exciting in recent memory. Blink Twice is major, a wickedly smart crowd pleaser that has its cake and eats it too.
Posted Aug 31, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) James Preston Poole Fede Álvarez concocts a blend of dread-fueled horror, whacked-out mad science, and thoughtful characterization that brilliantly bursts out of the thin shell of mandated IP-mining courtesy of Disney.
Posted Aug 18, 2024  Edit critic review
5/5
When Evil Lurks (2023) James Preston Poole Defiantly crossing several lines even the most twisted of films in the genre wouldn’t dare step over, and coursing with a helpless, hopeless feeling, When Evil Lurks has the makings of a new high-mark for horror, for those who can stomach it at least.
Posted Jul 13, 2024  Edit critic review
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