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World of Reel is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jordan Ruimy.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
C
Frankenstein (2025) Jordan Ruimy The script is full of inflated, theatrical moments that exist only because someone thought they’d look good on screen.
Posted Aug 31, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Cover-Up (2025) Jordan Ruimy Watching “Cover-Up” feels like an encounter with history, journalism, and a man who won’t stop fighting the powerful, even as the powers-that-be continuously aim to shut him down.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
After the Hunt (2025) Jordan Ruimy In the end, “After the Hunt” frustrates, even alienates, but it refuses to comfort, and that defiance is worthy enough.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Orphan (2025) Jordan Ruimy The film drifts. The boy steals from shops, kicks around with friends, lashes out — Nemes, with his usual command of the camera, makes every frame beautiful, but you start to wonder if that beauty is all the film has.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B
No Other Choice (2025) Jordan Ruimy The film insists on its own logic, as absurd as it sounds. It is at once a satire, a violent thriller, a family melodrama, and a farce.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Jay Kelly (2025) Jordan Ruimy In the end, it works because it’s anchored in performance, and because Baumbach, even at his most commercial, can still dig beneath the surface.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C
La Grazia (2025) Jordan Ruimy The narrative itself is too stiff, repeating the same ideas in slightly different ways. Scenes change visually, but not emotionally or thematically, making the film feel mechanical.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Bugonia (2025) Jordan Ruimy A grotesque carnival of idiocy that somehow wildly entertains you.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Eddington (2025) Jordan Ruimy I admired the swing, especially in the last hour. Few films dare to be this messy, this provocative. In a cinematic culture content with safe stories and sanitized emotions, “Eddington” feels like a slap in the face
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Superman (2025) Jordan Ruimy Gunn wanted to reboot the DCU with heart, humor, and hope. What he’s made instead is a watchable, well-intentioned film — neither a triumph nor a disaster, just a movie that never quite figures out what it wants to say.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Sorry, Baby (2025) Jordan Ruimy The film, shot with an astute eye for comic detail by Victor, is filled with the quirks and story beats that have turned the token “Sundance movie” into its own cliche.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
F1 The Movie (2025) Jordan Ruimy There’s no denying that Joseph Kosinski’s “F1” is a feat of technical precision. Sometimes, that’s all a summer movie needs to soar. Check your brain at the door and envelop yourself in its frenzied images.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
28 Years Later (2025) Jordan Ruimy The tonal shifts don’t always work. Yes, it comes apart. Defiantly so. Then again, the film doesn’t seem to care about narrative precision. It’s about dread, decay, and the unavoidable march of time.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Materialists (2025) Jordan Ruimy Song clearly has ideas, but here, she’s stuck between two modes and commits to neither. The result is a film about love and money that ends up feeling oddly cheap by its climax.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
The Life of Chuck (2024) Jordan Ruimy There’s a part of me that wishes to embrace ‘Chuck’ a little more, especially in how beautifully the whole film is crafted, but Flanagan also can’t help himself with the schmaltz.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Jordan Ruimy Anderson stretches his diorama-like style to its breaking point here. In the end, we’re left with a film more admirable than affecting.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Bring Her Back (2025) Jordan Ruimy The genius of “Bring Her Back” isn’t just in the extremity of its imagery — which is extreme — it’s in the way the Philippous refuse to give you a comforting narrative roadmap.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Jordan Ruimy I was disappointed by this one—not because it’s a bad film, but because it’s a tangled, overcomplicated experience that forgets what made this series special in the first place.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Friendship (2024) Jordan Ruimy This film has some of the year’s best laughs. Some of the irreverent gags and setpieces had me howling It plays like a gonzo, derange riff on “I Love You Man.”
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Warfare (2025) Jordan Ruimy This is a minimalist war film. No character development, but viscerally penetrating action. Claustrophobic in its attempt to put you right inside the stakes.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Julie Keeps Quiet (2024) Jordan Ruimy A film filled with silence as its titular protagonist painstakingly hides her anxiety and anger. This is an absorbing and intense debut film for Dijl.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Magazine Dreams (2023) Jordan Ruimy Ultimately, flaws and all, this should be seen as the Jonathan Majors show — the commitment he brings to his role is damn-near terrifying to behold.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Misericordia (2024) Jordan Ruimy An oddly delirious murder screwball.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Black Bag (2025) Jordan Ruimy I won’t lie in admitting that I expected more from Soderbergh’s stylish spy thriller. It can at times feel convoluted, too self-absorbed, to fully register. With that said, it’s an admirably light, and entertaining affair that runs a brisk 93 minutes.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Mickey 17 (2025) Jordan Ruimy I fear many critics are giving Bong a free pass on this one. For all its gonzo vision, the film meanders, and feels stitched up with incompatible parts.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Companion (2025) Jordan Ruimy It’s amazing the kind of things you can do with sci-fi on a budget that’s reported to be under $10M. This film has creativity and style to spare.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Presence (2024) Jordan Ruimy As its little mysteries unfold, it turns into an engrossing experience: smart, visually elegant, increasingly ominous, and deeply affecting.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Hard Truths (2024) Jordan Ruimy Leigh, 81, has made a winning return to the kitchen sink dramas that brought him great acclaim in his career. It might not be one of his best films, but it’s a worthy addition to a filmography that keeps aging like fine wine.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Jordan Ruimy As a visually driven filmmaker, Levy’s style is dull and uninspired — he over-directs the action, to the point where nothing feels effortlessly conceived, and everything turns out slick and flat
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
B
The Bikeriders (2023) Jordan Ruimy Nichols' film is ultimately a restrained and valuable work on his part, albeit one that I wish could have cracked open its characters a little more.
Posted Jun 29, 2024  Edit critic review
D
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) Jordan Ruimy In the end, this plays like a greatest hits package. Chris Bremner and Will Beall’s script is pure trash. Smugness infects Lawrence and Smith's performances.
Posted Jun 29, 2024  Edit critic review
B
In a Violent Nature (2024) Jordan Ruimy There’s a mundane aspect to the film that is quite amusing, while other moments can be damn-near compelling in their sheer intensity.
Posted Jun 29, 2024  Edit critic review
B
Hit Man (2023) Jordan Ruimy A sexy, darkly funny screwball noir that can sometimes feel ever so slight.
Posted Jun 29, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
Last Summer (2023) Jordan Ruimy As always, Breillat manipulates the viewer with constant shifts in her narrative, but her approach is playful, even peaceful. “Last Summer” is a subversive treat.
Posted Jun 26, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Souleymane's Story (2024) Jordan Ruimy Lojkine uses handheld camera and injects visceral filmmaking to his story — it’s part socio-realism drama and part thriller. The result is a very moving film.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B-
Rumours (2024) Jordan Ruimy Guy Maddin's “Rumours” is his goofiest, most mainstream film to date. Working as a sort of comedy-satire that delves into the lunacy of governing.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
C
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) Jordan Ruimy The film plays like a 3-hour set-up for the second film. It’s all play and no action. There are so many characters, locales and storylines that it would have greatly benefitted from the breathing room of episodic TV.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
The Substance (2024) Jordan Ruimy An instant body-horror classic. This is an absolute onslaught of audacity— sound, imagery and blood, tackling Hollywood’s obsession with female beauty.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
C+
The Shrouds (2024) Jordan Ruimy The film both fascinated and frustrated me. Its first hour was captivating, but it then devolved into a convoluted plot filled with mundane conspiracy theories
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B-
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Jordan Ruimy in the film’s first 90 minutes we are thrust into the political unrest. The second hour is less successful, almost feeling like a different film altogether. At 150 minutes, Rasoulof’s film has passion to spare, but there’s a sense that he’s lost the plot.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
C
Parthenope (2024) Jordan Ruimy incredibly vacuous and flat. It plays like a glitz model ad mixed in with faux-philosophical ruminations.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
C
Oh Canada (2024) Jordan Ruimy Sadly, Schrader has made a total bore out of “Oh, Canada,” a meditation on mortality, memory and regret that turns to be muddled and uninteresting storytelling.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B-
Megalopolis (2024) Jordan Ruimy I definitely wasn’t bored by its batsh*t crazy vision. Coppola’s film is madly ambitious and staggering in its passion. What's it even about? Was the acting and dialogue purposely hammy? Has Coppola, 85, lost his mind? It plays like a madcap surreal dream
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Jordan Ruimy This is Lanthimos going back to his Bunuel-inspired roots — think “Dogtooth.” You can just hear Lanthimos telling the mainstream to f*ck off. He strives to alienate the timidest of viewers and, for that, we should be grateful.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B
The Girl With the Needle (2024) Jordan Ruimy A film that can be qualified as gothic horror and features some rather disturbing imagery, always stoked in realism. Von Horn's film is unsparing with nary a dull moment.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Emilia Pérez (2024) Jordan Ruimy A strange film, sometimes a silly one, that's all over the map, but despite the heightened reality and struggles to suspend disbelief, it’s very hard not to be won over by Audiard’s gonzo vision here.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
C+
Bird (2024) Jordan Ruimy There’s a lack of clarity in “Bird,” you’re never really sure if Arnold has found her voice in telling this story — unable to efficiently mix the fantasy elements with grounded realism.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
The Apprentice (2024) Jordan Ruimy Politics are set aside in Abassi’s film for a more nuanced approach, which is why certain scenes, where politics do come into play, don’t work as well, especially the last few minutes
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
Anora (2024) Jordan Ruimy A chaotically energetic film that’s filled with life. Can we call this one a nightmare romcom? It takes big swings, going back and forth in tone, and Madison somehow keeps it all together in a performance that is an absolute firecracker.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
B
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Jordan Ruimy Don’t get me wrong, it’s a “good” movie and you’ll no doubt be thrilled by some of the action set-pieces, but this is also the most bloated ‘Mad Max’ installment to date.
Posted May 25, 2024  Edit critic review
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