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Splice Today is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Noah Berlatsky, Stephen Silver.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Schizopolis (1996) Noah Berlatsky Why say anything, Schizopolis asks, when saying nothing is a lot more fun?
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Stephen Silver A movie that has a lot going on, perhaps too much. Its tonal shifts are overwhelming, but it does contain an outstanding Jodie Foster performance.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Noah Berlatsky Sex, Lies and Videotape remains a gloriously odd, perfect little film.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Stephen Silver Improves what worked in the last film, while also introducing some compelling ideas. It’s also a much more aesthetically enjoyable picture than the previous film.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Noah Berlatsky If you mainly sat down to see some gory special effects and a completely over-the-top Ralph Fiennes, the movie delivers.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Stephen Silver For its first and third acts, an inspirational, fun story of these adorable underdogs, cheerfully singing Diamond tunes to adoring audiences, with Hugh Jackman doing a lot of heartfelt singing. The second act is a dark parade of miseries
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Stephen Silver An enjoyably ridiculous movie, which begins as a high-concept horror concept which gradually becomes more and more ridiculous, until by the end it’s a comedy.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Stephen Silver It’s silly and stupid, but driven by the comic energy of Jack Black and Paul Rudd, it drew some laughs out of me.
Posted Dec 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Stephen Silver A delightfully trashy psychological thriller that’s full of twists and double-backs
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Noah Berlatsky If you love Neil and can stand Oscar-bait, Song Sung Blue will make you a (qualified) believer.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Stephen Silver Brooks’ movies have always been about the messiness of human relationships, and this one is too, but it’s the movie itself that’s the mess.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Family McMullen (2025) Stephen Silver The Family McMullen is more of a pure comedy than the first film, although it shares its combination of bed-hopping farce and sentimental appreciation of family.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Noah Berlatsky DaCosta uses her command of filmic resources to create a claustrophobic story of thwarted ambition and stifled love which is relevant in the current era of dwindling possibilities and escalating bigotry.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Noah Berlatsky A stylish, ambivalently ironic commentary on America’s obsession with anti-establishmentarian violent spectacle as a substitute for actual change.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Stephen Silver The result is a success, with Groff and Radcliffe in particular delivering heartbreaking work, and the songs sounding amazing.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Noah Berlatsky Polinger’s careful not to provide any catharsis or relief.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Stephen Silver The big problem with Anniversary is that it doesn’t have much to say about today’s political moment.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Stephen Silver A stunning marriage of visuals and narration.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Stephen Silver An oddity, one that aims for the heartstrings, but mostly devolves into predictable schmaltz
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Noah Berlatsky A broad, schmaltzy, and overly cutesy parable about the redemptive power of film, quirkiness, and love, not necessarily in that order.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Stephen Silver It’s a performance full of extreme physicality, and Lawrence brings her A-game. It’s refreshing to see her working with a great director, and not with David O. Russell.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Belén (2025) Noah Berlatsky As the rollback of abortion rights here demonstrates, sometimes you go backwards, and sometimes you lose. But Belén is a timely reminder that sometimes you don’t.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Stephen Silver It’s sluggish, boring, poorly-paced, not about one of the more interesting angles of the trials, and is bogged down by two central performances that are terrible, despite coming from past Oscar winners.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) Noah Berlatsky Asensitive and affecting entry in the genre of films about war’s aftermath and the lingering effects of PTSD.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Stephen Silver You don’t have to know all this history to enjoy the film, which is beautifully rendered.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Wolf Man (2025) Noah Berlatsky A horror movie in which you don’t really fear the monster and don’t feel invested in the fate of the victim isn’t much of a horror movie, and a werewolf film without teeth is pointless.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Stephen Silver The new del Toro Frankenstein is a gorgeous film, impeccably designed, costumed, and art-directed
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Stephen Silver Of all the stories throughout Springsteen’s more than 50-year career, why is this one a movie? I can think of a few better ideas
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Noah Berlatsky Without that adolescent sense of fear and failure in the face of growing up, and without the generational tensions, the film has nothing to say.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) Stephen Silver A disjointed comedy, with a surprisingly didactic political agenda, which doesn't offer much hint of Ansari's potential as a director.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Best Wishes to All (2024) Noah Berlatsky It’s in the tradition of Kafka or David Lynch, where the failure to cohere is part of the logic of nightmare.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Stephen Silver The film can’t quite reconcile its two halves, between a crowd-pleasing caper film and a sad drama about devastating heartbreak.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Play Dirty (2025) Stephen Silver Shane Black's film starts off promising, but loses momentum the more convoluted the plot gets.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) Noah Berlatsky One of the most jaded, and also most moving, retellings of the Cinderella legend—a retelling which finds hope not in marriage or beauty, but in sisterhood.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Stephen Silver This is meant to be heartwarming, and to some degree, it is. However, making that premise the focus of the film causes it to overreach, and it overwhelms the story it’s trying to tell.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Senior (2023) Stephen Silver It's hokum, but at least inoffensive hokum- essentially the same movie as Rudy, only if Rudy had been a nearly 60-year-old man.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Stephen Silver The obvious parody of late-career Tom Brady is just about the only good idea in a film that must’ve been written by people who barely know anything about the modern NFL
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Swiped (2025) Stephen Silver a celebration of the girlboss era, nearly a decade too late, and a knockoff of The Social Network, 15 years after the fact, only without the excitement or the resonance
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Noah Berlatsky Tucked away amidst the screaming and the blood, this is a remarkably affecting story about living with disappointment, death, and irrecoverable loss.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Stephen Silver The film concentrates almost entirely on nostalgia and callbacks. That might’ve worked if the jokes were any good, but they’re not.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) Stephen Silver Strassner and Larsen are non-traditional movie people with non-traditional movie faces, but they’re outstanding her
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Stephen Silver Especially its last two entries, this series has been marked by convoluted plotting and almost shockingly incompetent filmmaking.
Posted Sep 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives (2025) Stephen Silver This film steals about half of its ideas from the Hangover movies, and the other half from the old sitcom The League.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Borderline (2025) Stephen Silver The premise doesn’t sound funny, but it is, thanks largely to Nicholson, the son of Jack, who hadn’t made much of an impression on me in previous roles
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) Stephen Silver A parody of gig economy hustle culture, featuring a combination of humans, aliens, and other creatures, as well as the voices of a long list of respected actors and alt-comedians
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
East of Wall (2025) Stephen Silver A very satisfying work that deserves another look.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Stephen Silver The film has a sheen of respectability, at least by Troma standards,
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Roses (2025) Stephen Silver The film can never decide on a tone, between pitch-dark comedy and straight drama; it’s not funny enough for the former nor serious enough for the latter.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Days Later (2002) Noah Berlatsky In our current post-Covid gallop towards fascism, its particular misanthropy takes on a new resonance which makes a rewatch worthwhile, if not exactly necessary.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Americana (2025) Stephen Silver Part Coen homage, and part Tarantino, it’s a crime drama, featuring different elements, some more effective than others.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
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