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CBC News is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Eli Glasner, Jackson Weaver, Jason Anderson, Stephen Cole.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
Mercy (2026) Jackson Weaver Ignore the clunky and rushed ending, and Mercy is almost bearable as a make-dinner-to-this type of movie. But as it reaches its midpoint — and its egregiously stupid finale — Mercy morphs into a bizarre PR campaign for AI.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Jackson Weaver [28 Years Later: The Bone Temple] delivers an insightful and original message on the origins of baroque, systematized cruelty, its appetizing value to leaders — and potential strategies to defeat it.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Plague (2025) Jackson Weaver The Plague focuses on the unmoored experience of adolescence, the nonexistent logic in growing up and the often unrewarding costs of maintaining what you thought were your principles. And, as The Plague proves, there’s little more horrifying than that.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Jackson Weaver Your ability to remember and understand what’s going on may depend on how familiar you are with the various other stories [Avatar: Fire and Ash] seems to crib from.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Jackson Weaver [Merrily We Roll Along] is a musical so scattered and uninterested in commercial viability that it makes scathing criticism of fun, accessible art one of its central themes. In short, it’s fantastic.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Jackson Weaver That's an obstacle Jon M. Chu's [Wicked] has to grapple with... The fact that not only do all the bangers reside in the first half, but so, too, do almost all the actually compelling parts of the story.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Running Man (2025) Jackson Weaver We already have The Purge at home, Edgar Wright. No need to dress it up as Battle Royale.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bugonia (2025) Jackson Weaver It’s hard to avoid making more concrete connections [in Bugonia]: that while we want to believe something good, beautiful and ordered can spring from the depths of something dirty, polluted and diseased, it’s more likely a fairy tale. Good luck, everyone!
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Jackson Weaver While it will likely bring the “Bruce Tramps” into the theatres in droves, Springsteen being a talented artist, sufferer of depression and all-around good guy is not enough to make Deliver Me From Nowhere an interesting film.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Jackson Weaver If you ignore the techno-fetishization and the idea of AI somehow turning into the martyred saviour of mankind, Tron: Ares is slick and exciting enough to entertain. It’s just also kind of evil. Though these days, what that we consume isn’t?
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Jackson Weaver [The Smashing Machine amounts] to a lacklustre portrait of a terrible marriage and struggling athlete, without anything revealing or even unique to warrant paying attention. Like Foxcatcher meets Marriage Story, except without the shooter or showtunes.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Jackson Weaver One Battle After Another's thesis seems to be the darkly comic finding of how inescapable it is for us to rail against the system — to be caught up in an all-consuming explosion of violence, only to be beaten back or killed, miles from any real change.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Love That Remains (2025) Jackson Weaver [The Love That Remains] is about how your bravery or cowardice in the face of intimacy will define you through everything; about how being there for people means more than just being there. And, somehow, about bow-and-arrow safety.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Heron (2025) Jackson Weaver A dark horse favourite of many critics at this year's [Toronto International Film Festival], Blue Heron is an affecting and delightfully convoluted rumination on memory.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Christophers (2025) Jackson Weaver [The Christophers] is a story of backstabbing, fraud, criticism — of both the personal and art varieties — and celebrity. But in practice, its superpower is actually in its unambitious simplicity — along with Ian McKellen channelling Jack Sparrow.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Arco (2025) Jackson Weaver Falling right down the middle between being actually for kids versus for their usually bored parents, the story that French illustrator Ugo Bienvenu tells [in Arco] is as important as it is potentially confusing.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Jackson Weaver Ignore the nonsensical criticism of Hamnet being emotionally manipulative — which appears to be a bad-faith synonym for "narratively effective." Instead, it is a window into trauma too terrible to name, and a powerful reinterpretation of the Hamlet myth.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Jackson Weaver Never exalting or denigrating of its central figure, Ann Lee is instead a hallucinatory sort of experience; made by the creators of The Brutalist, it is also unerringly beautiful. Oh, and did we mention it's a musical?
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Jackson Weaver Feeling more like disjointed but interdependent parables than anything on the market today, [Rental Family] is also wholly unique and utterly refreshing in scope.
Posted Sep 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Steve (2025) Jackson Weaver Steve may not be perfect, but none of us are. If we were, we wouldn't need the movie.
Posted Sep 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Roses (2025) Jackson Weaver The Roses is a deeply funny movie — far more light than the squeamishly dour film it's remaking. But beneath the jokes and crab-based puns lies the answer as to why one might risk marriage in an era of skyrocketing divorce rates.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Ne Zha II (2025) Jackson Weaver Ne Zha II whipsaws from crisis to crisis like a beaver during flood season. And when the dam finally does break, do the floodwaters ever come: Just try to keep from crying during the heart-piercing curse in the Tianyuan Cauldron. I dare you.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Jackson Weaver Highest 2 Lowest doesn't really seem to have a cohesive message. The less charitable take for why that is would be that the interpretation of class and worth Spike Lee does eventually land on is as shallow as it is head-scratching.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Freakier Friday (2025) Jackson Weaver Here and there, a little recession pop escapism never hurts. And I ask, fellow millennials, who better to deliver it than Lindsay Lohan?
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Naked Gun (2025) Jackson Weaver The Naked Gun truly shines when it dares to be new; to play around with even moderately current issues that have nothing to do with the original.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Superman (2025) Jackson Weaver Despite generally entertaining action and impressive acting performances all around, [Superman is] less for 14- or 40-year-olds, but instead, splits the difference. It's a perfect shooting strategy — if you want to hit nothing.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Elio (2025) Jackson Weaver Elio is Pixar's best, most beautifully brilliant movie in a decade.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Jackson Weaver Despite the many, many bumps on the road, F1 [The Movie] still manages to roll us across the finish line — something a bit easier perhaps for a genre whose only demand is showing things go really fast.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Jackson Weaver In essence, the Green Book of terminal cancer.
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Jackson Weaver How to Train Your Dragon initially seems more like typical nostalgia bait than something remade for any legitimate reason. Any yet, this time, one is left wondering something else: How did the new How to Train Your Dragon end up sort of … actually good?
Posted Jun 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
The Ritual (2025) Jackson Weaver The Ritual is dreary, dumb and dangerous. And misogynistic. Also, it sucks.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bring Her Back (2025) Jackson Weaver It is a strange but surprisingly common thing to say that though it is not really frightening, Bring Her Back is one of the best modern horror movies in ages.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Lilo & Stitch (2025) Jackson Weaver Regarded in a vacuum, 2025's Lilo & Stitch is fine, and likely to entertain the littles. But compared to a stimulating, genre-defining, all-ages masterpiece from two decades ago, it's nothing but demoralizing.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Jackson Weaver Moments of bad-faith levity are all we have to hold on to [in Hurry Up Tomorrow]. Here, laughing at Tesfaye's navel gazing is the only lifesaver to keep you from drowning in the boredom of his imagination.
Posted May 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Jackson Weaver While not the series' best, Final Reckoning is solidly middle-of-the-pack, and as always, the set pieces are reliably thrilling — if not quite as marketably dangerous.
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg (2025) Jackson Weaver Aside from a late and tenuous revelation... there are few depths to plumb [in The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg]. And without them, the majority of this documentary amounts to a platform for Vogelsang to make the case that he's sorry.
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Thunderbolts* (2025) Jackson Weaver Thunderbolts* is not overwhelmingly dour. But there's something darker there too, handled with more seriousness, respect and directness than feels possible. It's a refreshing sign of life from a franchise that long ago seemed to have given up the ghost.
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Track (2025) Jackson Weaver The beautifully shot, majestically scored and professionally paced doc [The Track] is as much an examination of the indomitable nature of hope as it is the wonderfully odd sport at its core.
Posted Apr 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) Jackson Weaver As 2000 Meters to Andriivka so accurately captures, there is nothing beautiful about death.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sinners (2025) Jackson Weaver Action-musical-vampire-romance flick Sinners is perhaps a bit over-ambitious in trying to tackle its final genre: social satire and critique. But even for its small faults, it is also something else: in short, an incredible, best-of-the-year achievement.
Posted Apr 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Warfare (2025) Jackson Weaver Warfare is constantly efficient and exciting, expertly choreographed with harrowing and believable performances. But its electricity comes from an unending maelstrom of bullets, buttressing a film absolved of questioning how we should feel about them.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Jackson Weaver A Minecraft Movie — even grading on a kiddie grade-curve — is no classic. And at the same time, a clumsy attempt to have its cake and eat it too leads to a moral at complete cross-purposes with itself.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Disney's Snow White (2025) Jackson Weaver Snow White is firmly in the pantheon of films that chip away at our culture simply by existing, stupidly forcing a story designed for animation into live action where it can't help but showcase the shortcomings of one while invalidating the other.
Posted Mar 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Novocaine (2025) Jackson Weaver Novocaine is, in a word, amazing. Though if we're using two, it would be amazingly gross.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mickey 17 (2025) Jackson Weaver If something like Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded disaster Megalopolis proved that artists should sometimes listen to someone other than themselves, Mickey 17 might just prove the opposite.
Posted Mar 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Monkey (2025) Jackson Weaver There's nothing under the hood, no real message or even originality in delivering and redelivering the spectacle. The Monkey is not a Cadillac without an engine; it's a rusty clown car running in a closed garage.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Jackson Weaver The MCU is event cinema, and the bigger it gets, the more an audience expects in return. Two decades in, a low-rent Iron Man with wings just doesn't cut it.
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Love Hurts (2025) Jackson Weaver Love Hurts hurts. It hurts to look at. It hurts to sit through. And it hurts me to look at a smiling Ke Huy Quan at the start of his comeback tour, and put him down like I'm Wesley Snipes in New Jack City.
Posted Feb 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
I'm Still Here (2024) Jackson Weaver I'm Still Here is a fundamentally solid and rewarding watch that lives and dies by Torres's quiet, fierce performance. But what makes it so appetizing to the Oscars' lineup is also its worst quality: sterility.
Posted Feb 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Hard Truths (2024) Jackson Weaver Hard Truths might be the most accurate portrayal of borderline personality disorder ever put on screen. In fact, it could find use as shorthand. Instead of uncomfortable conversations, worried relatives could ask:"Just curious, have you seen Hard Truths?"
Posted Jan 25, 2025  Edit critic review
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