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WBUR’s Arts & Culture is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sean Burns, Tom Meek.

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The Chronology of Water (2025) Sean Burns 128 minutes of this is probably too much. But the sensory overload is integral to the experience. The movie is a piledriver.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Sean Burns You can see why so many people followed her to America. I’d follow Amanda Seyfried anywhere.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Sean Burns Pokerfaced and exacting even by Jarmusch standards, this is one of those movies that’ll cause some viewers to complain that nothing happens, even though everything does. It all comes in under the radar.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Sean Burns I get the Chalamet thing now.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Sean Burns Few actresses can light up the screen like Kate Hudson, which is easy to forget because she’s spent the past 25 years starring in garbage.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Sean Burns One can be in awe of the effort while also wondering if it’s really worth going to all of this trouble in order to accurately render a performance by Sam Worthington.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Sean Burns In whatever form you may find it, ‘Kill Bill’ remains perhaps the purest distillation of its auteur’s fetishes and fixations.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Sean Burns It seems weird that they didn’t cast Anne Hathaway in a movie about Anne Hathaway.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Sean Burns By the end, you feel like you’ve witnessed something dazzling, even cosmic. It contains multitudes.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Sean Burns There’s a reason Broadway intermissions aren’t a year long.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Sean Burns …a playful, career-topping turn from Skarsgård as a father amusingly oblivious to his own shortcomings,
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Sean Burns Somewhat misleadingly being sold as an issue drama about postpartum depression, it’s really more of a morbid comedy about how everyday life is enough to drive anybody insane.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Sean Burns Linklater turns the unorthodox production of ‘Breathless’ into one of his ramshackle hangout comedies like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ except with cinephiles instead of stoners and jocks.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Sean Burns It’s basically a movie about pretending to be happy at your ex’s wedding.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Sean Burns As enervating a movie experience as you’ll have this year.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Sean Burns Elordi’s tender creature is so much more interesting than Isaac’s off-putting, one-note doctor that the movie doesn’t come alive until he does, which is unfortunately over an hour into the 149-minute feature.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Sean Burns While I could never in good conscience call this a good movie, there’s an irresponsible swagger to the picture that’s undeniably fun to watch.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Sean Burns There’s truth and honesty to be found in the film. And if you’re on the same wavelength as Bronstein’s macabre humor, the hamster scene is an instant classic.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Sean Burns Bigelow’s signature is her ability to put the screws to us like nobody’s business. ‘A House of Dynamite’ leaves you rattled and wrung out.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Sean Burns Almost like a screwball ‘Death and the Maiden,’ both playful and deadly serious, exhilaratingly alive to the possibilities of cinema.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Linda Linda Linda (2005) Sean Burns Accumulates ephemeral grace notes and wry asides before blowing the doors off with a euphoric climax of pure punk rock elation, one of the happiest endings I’ve ever seen in a movie.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Sean Burns This is all screamingly funny in that blustery, inarticulate way Anderson’s characters tend to express themselves.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Sean Burns Stuff like McCartney praising them as musical geniuses undoes the verisimilitude that made the first film so special. It’s just being silly with celebrity guest stars.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Sean Burns Imagine a version of ‘Stand by Me’ in which the kid from ‘Jojo Rabbit’ gets his jaw blown off for walking too slow.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) Sean Burns It’s like a Jim Jarmusch movie for little kids.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Splitsville (2025) Sean Burns A wild bedroom farce full of miscommunications, passive aggression and people adamantly insisting that they’re cool with things they’re obviously not cool with. It’s the funniest movie I’ve seen all year.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Jaws (1975) Sean Burns Spielberg’s most Altman-esque movie, casting a wary eye on institutions his later pictures would exalt. There’s a New Hollywood cynicism that time and success stripped out of the director’s subsequent work.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Honey Don't! (2025) Sean Burns Too slapdash to get a handle on. Nothing in the picture connects.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Sean Burns Bustling and alive in ways that make other movies in theaters right now look anemic
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Swimming to Cambodia (1987) Sean Burns Gray's descriptions are so vivid, you might later find yourself remembering things he recounts in the film as if you saw them with your own eyes.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) Sean Burns An ebulliently silly film.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh, Hi! (2025) Sean Burns There’s a line between watching young people who are still figuring things out and characters who make you question how they are able to feed and bathe themselves.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Sean Burns Aster skewers sacred cows and picks low-hanging fruit. ‘Eddington’ has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Sean Burns Bloody exhausting, even for people who care about this kind of thing.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Sean Burns There’s something comforting about how completely in command Kosinski and company are of their cliches.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Sean Burns Without that kind of corny, conventional catharsis, the film doesn’t end so much as it deflates into the closing credits.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Sean Burns It might sound strange to describe a Wes Anderson film as the summer’s most delightful action-comedy.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Sean Burns There are films about the life of Christ that spend less time proclaiming the divinity of their protagonist.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Sean Burns There are a few good gonzo moments if you like watching miserable oddballs try to capsize a movie — Brando does a whole scene with an ice bucket on his head — but the headliners have far less screen time than you’d hope.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Willow (1988) Sean Burns Captain Jack Sparrow owes an awful lot to Madmartigan.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Me Again (1989) Sean Burns Take out the f-words, switch it to black-and-white and the film could have been made in 1949. This is a compliment.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Mamma Roma (1962) Sean Burns The film’s final segment goes full Passion Play, including a faux crucifixion in which Magnani’s character serves as both Magdalene and Mary. Madone!
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
News From Home (1977) Sean Burns A haunting portrait of dislocation.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Sean Burns The work Rowlands did with Cassavetes blew out the boundaries of screen acting into something bigger, rawer and more dangerous than we’d seen before or since, both larger than life and more brutally intimate.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
All About My Mother (1999) Sean Burns There are few more moving depictions of the kindness of strangers.
Posted May 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Sean Burns In true Cronenberg tradition, the film is icky and unsettling, troublingly erotic and unexpectedly hilarious.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Sorry, Baby (2025) Sean Burns An uncommonly astute and sometimes shockingly funny debut.
Posted Apr 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Stolen Kingdom (2025) Sean Burns It’s a fun movie if you love Disney World, and maybe even more fun for those of us who hate it.
Posted Apr 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Pavements (2024) Sean Burns A sharp-elbowed movie that conjures the same sensation I often get when listening to Pavement, like there’s a part of the joke I’m not in on.
Posted Apr 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Happyend (2024) Sean Burns Remarkable. It's like if 'Superbad' took place during the end of the world.
Posted Apr 19, 2025  Edit critic review
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