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Memphis Flyer

Memphis Flyer is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chris McCoy.

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TRON: Ares (2025) Chris McCoy The Nine Inch Nails score is brilliant. The rest, not so much.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Chris McCoy Frankenstein is del Toro at the height of his filmmaking powers.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Chris McCoy Bugonia is essentially a two-hander between Stone and Plemons, who are both at the top of their game.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Chris McCoy O’Connor steals the show as the tortured true believer who is enraged by the hypocrisy he sees in the institution he takes so seriously.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Chris McCoy Avatar: Fire and Ash plays like a Pandoran hangout movie.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Chris McCoy Emotionally stunted and repetitive to the point of tedium, The Smashing Machine never manages to get out of first gear.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Chris McCoy But the biggest problem with the MCU is that it has become a conveyor belt of mediocrity. How many times have I written the same review, with different names? “It’s not terrible, just uninspiring and unnecessary.”
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Chris McCoy Yeah, this film is not subtle. If you can’t handle the punny heat, stay out of the Police Squad! kitchen. Or something like that.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) Chris McCoy It’s a thoughtful and deeply emotional film about a character who never quite fit in in life, and whose death was yet another Memphis tragedy.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Chris McCoy Cregger leads us down each story path in turn, revealing much about how his characters’ inner lives and responses to trauma inform their actions while also dropping details which slowly reveal the bigger picture.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Chris McCoy Highest 2 Lowest should be a triumphant victory lap for the most potent actor/director combo since Kurosawa and Mfune. Instead, the kidnapping drama plays out like a phoned-in cash grab.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Chris McCoy This Is Spinal Tap was lightning in a bottle, so it’s no surprise that the legacy act version lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. The sequel is fun for fans, but if you’re new to Tap, do yourself a favor and go watch the original. It goes to 11.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Chris McCoy The number-one priority is fun — which also explains the worldwide appeal of KPop itself.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Chris McCoy America is One Battle After Another.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Chris McCoy As George Romero taught us, the real villains are always the humans
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Chris McCoy To paraphrase LBJ, doing the right thing is easy — the hard part is figuring out the right thing to do. And that is how you write a good Superman movie.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Chris McCoy There’s a little bit of Robert Altman’s Nashville in the way Aster introduces a sprawling cast and quickly gives them motivations and flaws which set them on collision courses with both reality and each other.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Chris McCoy With a better lead, Materialists might have had a chance to make a statement about late capitalist love. But with Johnson droning on for an excruciating 117 minutes, it’s a slowly sinking ship. At least Titanic was romantic.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Chris McCoy With a fantastic look and a screenplay that keeps the action moving, The Phoenician Scheme is a return to form for one of the 21st century’s best directors.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Chris McCoy The real star of the show, and the only thing that makes A Minecraft Movie something other than an wildly successful corporate branding exercise, is Jack Black as Steve, one of the skins players can choose to represent themselves on the map.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Chris McCoy Sinners is one of our great filmmakers exploring the outer limits of his gifts. Let Coogler cook.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
One to One: John & Yoko (2024) Chris McCoy A couple’s therapist would have a field day with the picture of John and Yoko’s relationship Macdonald draws.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Chris McCoy Before we begin, I want to get one thing straight: I hate Bucky Barnes.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Chris McCoy Perkins is letting his freak flag fly in The Monkey, and it pays off big time.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) Chris McCoy Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’s stylish use of memoirs by people who were there, as well as copious archival footage, seeks to tame the sprawling Congo Crisis.
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Chris McCoy Mickey 17, explores the question of who counts as human with a little more humor than Blade Runner.
Posted Mar 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Chris McCoy If The Brutalist stopped after the intermission, it would be a near-perfect film, an immigrant story in the vein of The Godfather Part II.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Chris McCoy On the surface, it’s a tight techno-thriller with a sly sense of humor. But it’s also hinting at deeper issues, not just about feminism and the nature of consent, but also about our rapidly changing relationship with technology.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) Chris McCoy If you’re looking for dirt, it ain’t here. But if you’re looking for thunderous riffs delivered on a giant Dolby sound system, Becoming Led Zeppelin’s got ’em.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Chris McCoy Brave New World bears the mark of a film made by feuding, status-obsessed middle managers.
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Chris McCoy Eggers works in the high melodrama of vaudeville theater and silent film, challenging you to throw yourself fully into the gloom.
Posted Jan 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Chris McCoy Madison is absolutely perfect as a Cinderella who gets a glimpse of ultimate upward mobility, only to have it all crash down around her in a flurry of broken glass, baseball bats, and trashed SUVs.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Chris McCoy Washington’s gleeful wheelings and dealings, as Macrinus whispers poison into the ears of the emperors, are easily the best thing about Gladiator II. He seems to know exactly the level of camp to bring to the proceedings.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Chris McCoy None of the new material feels necessary, but with Erivo and Grande leaving it all on the screen, you probably won’t mind.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Chris McCoy Herisse, Wilson, and Tennie offer solid performances, and Ellis-Taylor’s turn as a loving grandmother who is losing the fight to bring her kin home brings the tears. But they all get overshadowed by the film’s technical achievements.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) Chris McCoy The War of the Rohirrim never feels more important than a footnote to the Lord of the Rings story, which is exactly what it is. But hey, at least it’s more entertaining than those Hobbit movies.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Chris McCoy Bob Dylan: musical genius, bad boyfriend.
Posted Jan 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Will & Harper (2024) Chris McCoy Will & Harper is a great documentary that proves the way to defeat hate is through courage, love, and a liberal dose of laughs.
Posted Nov 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Saturday Night (2024) Chris McCoy Saturday Night plays like a good episode of SNL: lots of amusing bits, a couple of belly laughs, and it never outstays its welcome.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Terrifier 3 (2024) Chris McCoy How is it? Well, it’s disgusting, and I mean that in a good way.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Blink Twice (2024) Chris McCoy Kravitz’ stylish visuals, sly humor, and satirical sense hold much promise for her filmmaking future.
Posted Oct 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Chris McCoy Beetlejuice Beetlejuice never quite recaptures the original’s dark magic, but you’ll be having too much fun to care.
Posted Oct 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Chris McCoy The Substance is what you would get if David Cronenberg directed Sunset Boulevard.
Posted Oct 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Megalopolis (2024) Chris McCoy You can’t say they don’t make ’em like Megalopolis anymore, because they never did.
Posted Oct 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Chris McCoy [It] isn’t the product of a visionary mind like Alien, nor a thrilling left turn like Aliens. But it is a tightly executed genre exercise with some memorable images and no shortage of visceral thrills. It’s a working-class film that gets the job done.
Posted Aug 21, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Chris McCoy Yes, these films are in conversation with the past’s lowbrow classics, but they never lose sight of their primary mission: Make it kick ass.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Longlegs (2024) Chris McCoy It’s once again proof that when you hire Nicolas Cage, you always get your money’s worth.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Twisters (2024) Chris McCoy Unfortunately, I’m here to tell you that Twisters is no Aliens.
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Chris McCoy Isn’t getting snarky about Marvel movies my job?
Posted Aug 16, 2024  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Chris McCoy As with all of Lanthimos’ films, this isn’t for everyone. But if you’re already on board with his unique, often disturbing world view, you will find Kinds of Kindness ranks with the director’s best work.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
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