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The Rip (2026) David Sims That The Rip is such a bland venue for its charismatic stars’ reunion is a terrible shame... I’m not sure why this is the movie Damon and Affleck decided to reunite as co-leads for.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) David Sims This may be another zombie movie about the inhumanity of man, but it’s also deeply, triumphantly humane.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) David Sims The tone reminded me most of the work of Cameron Crowe... Nobody could lob a sincere, big-feelings dramedy over the plate better than Crowe. Is This Thing On?, in its strongest moments, brushes against those heights.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Christopher Orr In Out of the Past, Mitchum is an actor in the fullness of his powers, an unforgettable and supremely American combination of subtlety and commonness, an icon of cool.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Sophie Gilbert For how it illuminates a truly strange and callous moment in culture, it’s one of the best documentaries of the year.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) David Sims Marty is vivacious, and the film around him is buzzing at the same frequency: itchy, anxious, yet unbearably exciting throughout, each minute defined by some hairpin plot turn.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) David Sims I have no clue whether Cameron wants to keep working on the series... The director clearly isn’t trying to win people over in the meantime, but I’ll never turn down a chance to delve into this gigantic, goofy world.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) David Sims Yes, it’s the kind of movie Hollywood doesn’t make much of anymore, but honestly, even back in the day, the industry rarely ever pushed out something this delightfully weird.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) David Sims For all its powerful elements, though, Hamnet rings a bit hollow at its core. Perhaps the grand tragedies are just too overwhelming for some viewers to see beyond.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) David Sims The best I can say about For Good is that its two stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, are strong-enough performers to make the most bizarre turns feel functional. But even they can’t keep the film from collapsing under the lightest scrutiny.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) David Sims Clooney’s a strong-enough star to sell Jay’s achy heart, even amid the glitz and glamour. Baumbach’s odyssey into more treacly territory is an attention-worthy gambit, though one hopes he doesn’t lock the grouchiness away forever.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) David Sims What could have been the kind of bittersweet monster movie del Toro has excelled at instead feels shackled by its opulence, trudging through a two-and-a-half-hour run time to arrive at its expected conclusion.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Shirley Li Lawrence is superb at exemplifying Grace’s confusion. She alternates fluidly between domestic tranquility and feral rage, often in the same scene. Even as Grace’s grasp on reality seems to slip, her turbulence comes off as entirely natural.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) David Sims Linklater is thematically drawn to partnership and camaraderie... Here, the director wrests a radioactive joy from observing Godard generate ideas with his ensemble, even as others pull their hair out around him.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) David Sims Despite the wistful tone, it’s a bitingly funny viewing experience. Shrunken to Hart’s height and given his balding pate, Hawke is transfixing in the role.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Shirley Li Bugonia’s provocative premise doesn’t yield a sci-fi thriller. The film instead offers an intimate, unhurried exploration of human cruelty.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Mark Asch The film seems interested in the creative process...but largely skips over the unsuccessful full-band recording sessions that convinced Springsteen to release the demos as they were.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Shirley Li The Mastermind isn’t a heist movie so much as a character study that dismantles the criminal himself, one selfish act at a time.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Shirley Li The production design impressively transforms a London soundstage into New Haven, the plot is fabulously convoluted, and Roberts is particularly compelling to watch, clearly relishing the opportunity to deliver a slippery performance.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Shirley Li Roofman deftly blends genres to create a low-key crowd-pleaser -- one that avoids merely reveling in what made Manchester notorious in the first place.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) David Sims As its titular figure, Ares should be the movie’s focus. Yet Leto never shakes the role’s robotic nature, even as his character strives to become more human, and his acting partners struggle to play off that in a meaningful way.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (2025) Sophie Gilbert Lilith Fair is partly adapted from an excellent 2019 Vanity Fair oral history of the festival by Jessica Hopper, Sasha Geffen, and Jenn Pelly, but the documentary has the benefit of being able to draw on raw footage of Lilith’s prize asset: its audience.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
To Sleep With Anger (1990) David Sims To Sleep With Anger lingers long after you’ve watched it and only deepens with repeat viewings.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) David Sims One Battle After Another is rife with big ideas, but it’s never didactic; it’s too committed to emotionally investing the audience.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) James Parker Is Spinal Tap II funny? I’ll give you a qualified yes. The sensation of a new comic universe popping into being is absent, because you can do that only once, but the original elements are still vital.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught Stealing (2025) David Sims Referencing Scorsese, the forever king of the New York crime movie, is a risk Caught Stealing probably shouldn’t have taken. I spent much of the running time reminiscing on just how thoughtful and composed the best examples of this genre can be.
Posted Aug 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Splitsville (2025) Faith Hill A sense of limitation -- even more anxiety provoking in the age of dating apps, when prospects can seem plentiful -- is the boogeyman of Splitsville. But the movie also knows that limits can be helpful.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) David Sims It’s a movie that gleefully kicks its characters out of their comfy environs to plunge them into New York’s rattling, noisy crowds -- and it’s worth watching with the biggest audience you can find.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) David Sims Weapons is the feel-bad, feel-good movie of the year -- a rare horror masterpiece that leaps beyond its genre without abandoning its sick, sad heart.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Marc Maron: Panicked (2025) Vikram Murthi The pleasure of Maron’s stand-up is witnessing him use his voice to continually revise thoughts amidst shifting winds -- not a conventional sort of entertainment, but a style that still counts for something.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) David Sims The world needs more comedies, and the sillier the better. The Naked Gun is happy to deliver plenty of chortles, along with some wild swings that are just slapsticky enough to work.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) David Sims As an effort to breathe new life into a particularly moribund title, First Steps is essentially successful. What it somehow can’t manage to do is have much of a good time in the process.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Shirley Li The movie is nasty and cynical -- and also eerily accurate in its rendering of the digital reality of pandemic life.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
My Mom Jayne (2025) Mayukh Sen The result is an affectionate tribute to a woman often impugned as Monroe’s dime-store variant; it also doubles as a portrait of Hollywood’s studio system in a state of free fall.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) David Sims This Superman is, more than anything, concerned with our society’s struggle to accept the possibility of inherent goodness. The result is an optimistic movie, one that sees a hopeful way forward for both Superman and the world’s other caped men and women.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The King of Kings (2025) Chris DeVille The film’s on-the-nose approach seems unlikely to win over viewers who aren’t already on board with its message.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) David Sims A plodding, disenchanting experience that adds some more roaring dinosaurs in exchange for any memorable characters or narrative stakes. It has little reason to exist, beyond cashing in at the summer box office.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) David Sims Sonny’s quest to prove his doubters wrong resembles the arc of many a sports drama. But Kosinski elevates that journey by capturing racing in all of its gorgeous, peculiar glory -- there’s never been a portrait of Formula One quite like it.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Shirley Li Before the movie began, I worried whether Boyle and Garland would be able to top themselves more than two decades after 28 Days Later; by the time it ended, I was laughing at just how fantastical and wild their efforts were.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Shirley Li The film’s glossy veneer of confidence, much like that of its lead, belies an uncertainty. Apart from some punchy dialogue probing the economy of marriage, its tale is shallow, with almost nonexistent stakes.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Lilo & Stitch (2025) David Sims In theory, I should be pro-change... except that Lilo & Stitch doesn’t really commit to its big alterations.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) David Sims To my own surprise, I liked the new version of How to Train Your Dragon about as much as I do its ancestor. Both, to me, are above-average bits of children’s entertainment that struggle with the same problems.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Shirley Li I fell for the film’s earnest insistence that each of us has access to an inner world no one else can ever fully know; that message, as trite as it may be, is particularly touching because of its pointed delivery.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) David Sims The sense of aimlessness is an issue with so many spin-offs... Ballerina ultimately succeeds as a piece of junky fun, however, because it attempts to expand the Wick canon rather than deepen its titular protagonist.
Posted Jun 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) David Sims Each set is carefully assembled, with the blocking of each shot perfectly aligned, and Anderson’s rat-a-tat dialogue is delivered exactly as written. Still, there’s a spontaneity to the storytelling and the world it’s moving through.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) David Sims Hawkins is up to the challenge, and the rest of the ensemble is strong enough to keep pace. But many of those story beats feel perfunctory; the film comes to life in the nastier, grislier set pieces.
Posted Jun 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Shirley Li Instead, it fearlessly—and wackily—reckons with how confounding people can be in their bid for one another’s approval: at work, at home, at their new friend’s house while dressed in their finest Ocean View Dining clothing.
Posted May 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) David Sims Even when the plot kicks into a higher gear, The Final Reckoning never quite settles into the cheerfully goofy groove that propelled the franchise toward its peaks.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) David Sims Bloodlines is well plotted and brilliantly grisly, but most important, it knows how to enjoy itself. I’d say that having fun, more than anything, is what people are seeking from the communal cinematic experience.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) David Sims It may not be the most original idea; the first Avengers entry could be boiled down in the same way. But I’ll take an iteration done this competently over a new adventure featuring the Red Hulk.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
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