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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Anthony Breznican It’s a quiet and emotional story about a thorny and inscrutable moment of self-imposed isolation, but it rewards those who open their hearts to it.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) Rafael Sánchez Casademont [Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -Infinity Castle- is] more than two and a half hours of film that glues you to your seat, that lights up visually and audibly, that moves, amazes, and surprises you. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Eric Francisco It's Cregger's masterful yet graceful direction, along with calculated performances from its principal cast that oughta give Weapons its rep as a killing machine that livens up an otherwise bummer summer for horror.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) Brady Langmann While coming nowhere near the heights and ingenuity of its predecessor, Happy Gilmore 2 is still a blast, with every cameo tuned directly into Sandler's comedic frequency.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Josh Rosenberg Eddington doesn’t seek to provide the answers. But it might be the only film since the pandemic that understands that the current conflict in America has deeper roots for humanity’s problems than whether you vote red or blue.
Posted Jul 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Max Cea Anderson’s films often take multiple viewings to fully appreciate... I suspect that will be true of The Phoenician Scheme, as well.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Chris Nashawaty Yes, the helter-skelter hordes are back and hungrier than ever, but the film never quite works as either a primal, armrest-shredding horror flick or a Trojan horse delivery system for the sort of Big Ideas Garland and Boyle like to traffic in.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Will Dukes There's so much more to love in Sinners. Coogler's film-nerd 10,000 hours are on ecstatic display, from the Miller's Crossing–like antics in the woods to the Jack Torrance–esque theatrics of his clown-faced demonics.
Posted Jun 03, 2025  Edit critic review
One to One: John & Yoko (2024) Alan Light The months captured in the documentary are hardly John Lennon’s greatest creative era, but the velocity with which he’s moving, the excitement and energy he’s feeling, and the bravery of his personal journey are an inspiration.
Posted Apr 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Chris Nashawaty A giddy, gruesome, Grand Guignol step in the right direction. Horror lovers should gobble it up.
Posted Feb 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Presence (2024) Chris Nashawaty This howler of a ghost story wants to be an arthouse Poltergeist, but it can’t even be bothered to deliver either suspense or scares. It’s a haunted house movie that’s sabotaged by its own tedious minimalism.
Posted Jan 23, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Chris Nashawaty Over and over again, Mangold keeps stacking the deck with clichés until the film ends up feeling as dishonest as Dylan’s own self-mythologizing tall tales about growing up in a traveling carnival.
Posted Jan 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Rich Juzwiak This goth symphony of murder and despair is arranged within inches of its life and there’s little soul to spare.
Posted Jan 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Chris Nashawaty That’s a lot of movie, right there. But Scott manages to keep the overstuffed narrative humming along between volleys of shock-and-awe bombast... Are you not entertained? I was. And you will be too. Just not as much as the first time around.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Beatles '64 (2024) Alan Light The film is strongest when it sticks close to a real-time sense of the madness unfolding, of a culture trying to process a genuinely shocking transformation.
Posted Dec 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Josh Rosenberg You know what? Three cheers for Beetlejuice! Oh wait, no --!
Posted Sep 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Road House (2024) Brady Langmann Turns out that thirty-five years down the road, Road House is exactly what its predecessor is: a they-don’t-make-movies-like-this-anymore movie. When’s the last time you saw a hard-R blockbuster that kept your attention for more than fifteen minutes?
Posted Mar 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) Chris Nashawaty Dune: Part Two isn’t just an embarrassment of narrative and retinal riches; it’s the sort of big-canvas franchise storytelling we haven’t see since The Lord of the Rings came to a close back at the shire.
Posted Feb 22, 2024  Edit critic review
The Boy and the Heron (2023) Josh Rosenberg What’s clear after watching The Boy and the Heron is that the animation world is a scary place without Miyazaki.
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Leah Greenblatt It may not be the future of filmmaking, but for two hours at least, the past has rarely felt more present.
Posted Nov 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Little Big Man (1970) Jacob Brackman Little Big Man. an action-packed, wide-screen, family entertainment, is more... well, damn it, human than any movie of comparable eight-figure size. Never mind the horse-filled vistas. That's why it provides such a thumping good time.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Brady Langmann In telling the story of the Osage murders, the director strips everything down—and the result is pure horror, laid bare.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) Max Cea Watching Henry Sugar, perhaps more so than any other film I’ve seen, gives the sensation of being read a great picture-book -- albeit one that is fully alive, cinematic, and age-agnostic.
Posted Oct 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Strays (2023) Miranda Collinge Strays is not amazing. But that’s not to say it won’t find its audience.... Because isn't there, somewhere out there, a cabal of big-hearted teenage dudes just waiting to give this disgustingly loveable/loveably disgusting comedy a forever-home?
Posted Aug 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Talk to Me (2023) Sirena He Talk to Me feels fresh, due to the emotionally grounded performances of its young cast, and how the Philippous continuously raise the stakes on the consequences of their characters’ horrendous choices.
Posted Aug 11, 2023  Edit critic review
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Kent M. Wilhelm The world’s most deadly wife-guy returns to inflict his brand of elaborately choreographed mayhem on anyone that’s left to get in his way. If we have indeed seen John Wick’s final headshot, it’s a well-executed conclusion.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Oppenheimer (2023) Max Cea It’s not just the booms and blasts that are worthy of IMAX. It is Cillian Murphy’s oceanic eyes bulging out of his chainsmoker’s cheekbones. It is the alien emptiness of the New Mexico desert. And it is... Ludwig Göransson’s relentless score.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Black Is King (2020) Brooke Obie With the stunning Black Is King, Beyoncé has made another blueprint, a Lemonade for Black men.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Josh Rosenberg The stunts alone truly make the entire experience worthwhile.
Posted Jul 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Asteroid City (2023) Max Cea Earp’s play may be divided into three acts, but Anderson takes a looser, more poetic approach to narrative, paying little mind to characters’ wants or any sort of classic hero’s journey.
Posted Jun 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Josh Rosenberg We're saying goodbye to Indy, but it's no funeral. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gives audiences the chance to spend a couple more hours having fun with Indiana Jones again.
Posted Jun 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Flash (2023) Brady Langmann There is a lot of good in this film. There's also quite a fair amount of bad -- and so many quips, cameos, characters, explosions, and rewinds of movies you've already seen, that you might not even care to give a yay/nay to this particular [film].
Posted Jun 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Fast X (2023) Derek Lawrence Even if Fast X largely gives you the sense that the end of the road should be imminent, Part II is set up to be an epic swan song. And yes, I can’t quit this cult.
Posted May 18, 2023  Edit critic review
It Ain't Over (2022) Alex Belth It Ain’t Over is at its best breaking down Yogi’s remarkable, idiosyncratic skills as a hitter, and his intelligence and mobility as a catcher -- a welcome look at a certified baseball genius.
Posted May 12, 2023  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Brady Langmann Now, as you peruse many a bring your tissues! review of Vol. 3, let me offer some counter-programming: this movie is hilariously gross, in a horror-comedy sort of way.
Posted Apr 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Beau Is Afraid (2023) Max Cea An enormously fun -- if also mind-boggling and head-spinning -- trip through his twisted subconscious.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Renfield (2023) Max Cea Unfortunately, the latest entry into the Dracula canon, Renfield, doesn’t live up to the photos of Cage in that fiery fit.
Posted Apr 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Josh Rosenberg One good scene can't fix a film overloaded with so much plot -- and so many characters -- that you'll actually wish everyone slowed down to tell their corny jokes.
Posted Feb 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Amsterdam (2022) Josh Rosenberg The down-your-throat optimism at the end of Amsterdam is certainly not the vehicle this film needed for any sort of entertaining climax. I've got plenty of other places to be preached to.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
White Noise (2022) Max Cea It’s an adaptation that’s remarkably faithful to the book, so it shouldn’t disappoint fans on grounds of fidelity. And yet, in total? The film is not so much challenging as it is frustrating.
Posted Jan 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Navalny (2022) Olivia Pym Navalny knows the power of a compelling narrative and delivers a call to arms...
Posted Dec 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Shatner in Space (2021) Abigail Covington The mission of each is obvious: to curry favor for their subject and endear the general public to their respective plans.
Posted Oct 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Passing (2021) Zakiya Dalila Harris A timely—and timeless—exploration of racial identity.
Posted Oct 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Brady Langmann In Love and Thunder, Waititi pulls off a sneaky, deeply cool move—one that'll likely go unappreciated.
Posted Oct 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Beast (2022) Kevin Sintumuang Beast is not a great movie. Some may even say it’s terrible. Where the movie flounders is when director Baltasar Kormákur attempts to make it too much about a man reckoning the death of his wife via some very overwrought dream sequences.
Posted Oct 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Uncharted (2022) Brady Langmann If you squint hard enough, you'll see what makes Holland great—charm, charisma, aw-shucks levels of approachability—but none of it saves the flick from being utterly forgettable.
Posted Oct 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Night Raiders (2021) Jason Asenap Writer-director Danis Goulet's new film shines a light on a raw wound from which Indigenous cultures are still healing.
Posted Oct 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Moonage Daydream (2022) Alan Light Knowing what you want to avoid is different from knowing what you want to say, and director Brett Morgen’s meditation on David Bowie, a complicated, monumental creator, is largely one-dimensional and repetitive.
Posted Oct 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Ammal Hassan The directing duo, Daniels, turned down a Marvel offer to make their delightful new movie. We couldn't be happier.
Posted Oct 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Boiling Point (2021) Joshua David Stein Though it doesn’t leave you feeling good, it leaves you feeling and thinking and wondering, in a way I hadn’t considered as fully before, what should I eat for dinner.
Posted Oct 11, 2022  Edit critic review
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