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Denerstein Unleashed is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Robert Denerstein.

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The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Robert Denerstein Although Hania's movie takes place in one setting, it's deftly assembled, and a strong cast recreates the intense efforts of harried volunteers who remind us that innocence, even that of a child, offers no protection from the violence of war.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Robert Denerstein A potentially rich premise becomes an excuse for a fragmented, digitally enriched collection of familiar plot elements and intermittent action.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) Robert Denerstein Lowthorpe captures the liberating beauty of Mable in flight, but never loses sight of the fact that the relationship between Mable and Helen contains an element of unease.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Robert Denerstein Avoiding big events and shocking plot twists, Jarmusch smartly explores situations that invite us to consider the unseen past that informs nearly every moment.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Robert Denerstein Let’s call it a footnote of a movie that keeps you watching -- even if it doesn't prompt much by way of further consideration.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Robert Denerstein I don’t think Bone Temple, the second in a proposed trilogy, matches its predecessor, but it stands as a wild and weird sequel that holds its own, providing you like your horror served with a helping of gore.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Robert Denerstein Director Johannes Roberts' streamlined hunk of mayhem may appeal to those craving some no-frills horror. Otherwise, this slick offering follows a blueprint that offers jolts, gore -- and not much else.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
My Neighbor Adolf (2022) Robert Denerstein Both actors do their best to keep the story on track, but a Grumpy Old Men quality seems misplaced, and the screenplay becomes increasingly implausible.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Robert Denerstein In tone and texture, The Plague resembles a horror film, but its ability to unsettle stems from its deeply rooted understanding of adolescent boys.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Robert Denerstein This one is meant to jerk tears, but if I were going to shed any tears, they would be for a cast that deserved better material. No hard feelings, though. These accomplished actors surely will triumph anew.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Robert Denerstein Gormican mixes broad comedy and satire about movie cliches, but the movie's laughs may have gotten lost in the jungle, and its additions of horror seem like transfusions of gore into an already lost cause.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Robert Denerstein No Other Choice has been assembled with the confidence of a master who has made a comedy about the way so many are drifting toward irrelevance. But not Park’s movie. By the movie's end, its relevance and stinging ironies have crystallized.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Robert Denerstein Fastvold and her team are as committed to their approach as Lee was to hers. She makes few concessions to crowd-pleasing even if her movie sometimes feels trapped by the same formality and rigor that defines its best moments.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Robert Denerstein The movie can be funny, but it can also feel punishing.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Robert Denerstein It's rare that a film leaves me speechless, but that's what happened with Sirat, a movie that struck me with the unsettling power of its immediacy.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Robert Denerstein Even if you haven't been yearning to take a plunge into Neil Diamond nostalgia, Hudson’s dynamism and the movie’s high spirits make for a rewarding diversion.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Robert Denerstein The movie is tolerable, but Cooper doesn't find much bite in its two-hour and four-minute runtime -- either in Alex's stand-up or in the movie itself.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Robert Denerstein The Housemaid may not be a great thriller, but it hosts enough plot twists to sustain interest while offering a lush mixture of sexual and psychological maneuvering.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Robert Denerstein As Avatar movies go, this one pulls out all the stops, wrapping up loose ends and adding new wrinkles -- all presented with Cameron's signature capacity for extensive, encompassing world-building.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Robert Denerstein I expected a movie that spoke to the moment, and found one that seemed to have been taken from the day-old cinematic shelf.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Robert Denerstein Filho’s film brims with flavors of ‘70s Brazil: spicy, hot, familiar, yet dangerous.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Robert Denerstein Had Merrily We Roll Along not been made into a film, I probably never would have seen it. For people such as me that may be the film’s biggest virtue.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Robert Denerstein The film has a plot, which, by necessity, means contrivance can’t totally be avoided. But the plot never overpowers the characters; the story feels like something they're living.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Robert Denerstein If the movie assesses the cost of stardom, so much the better. But for me, director Noah Baumbach's latest proved a disappointing immersion in the life of a big-time star whose ambitions have marred the lives of others.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Robert Denerstein ... it's impossible to watch Hamnet without constantly reminding ourselves of what Shakespeare was destined to become no matter how much Zhao grounds him in 16th century realities.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Robert Denerstein ...clever as it can be, Johnson's latest sometimes drags through its two-hour and 24-minute run time, fighting headwinds created by the story's storm of complications.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Robert Denerstein ... a clever movie that's good in the setup, amusing in its midsection, and overextended in its final act. Generosity lands me on the positive side of the ledger.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Robert Denerstein ...For Good feels as if it's working through two hours and 18 minutes of maneuvering to reach its inevitable conclusion.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Robert Denerstein Sentimental Value has its comic moments but Trier, working from a screenplay he co-wrote with Eskil Vogt, has made a rewarding dramatic work, one that allows gifted actors to create characters of uncommon complexity.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Robert Denerstein In short: Enjoy it. Then go about your business.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Robert Denerstein
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Robert Denerstein The Running Man has the all-too-familiar markings of a movie that wants to be a summer blockbuster. But, as I said at the outset, this is November.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Robert Denerstein The movie charts Christy's rise in conventional ways, but her relationship with her husband makes for an increasingly wrenching domestic drama...
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Robert Denerstein Nouvelle Vague reminds us of a time when audiences were discovering movies that felt fresh, invigorating, and full of promise.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Robert Denerstein The movie's softer tone (for a Predator movie) and PG-13 rating may displease hardcore franchise fans. But Badlands is more fun than I expected.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Robert Denerstein Sometimes, I wondered why I was watching Grace unleash her furies, often in cruel ways. But if Ramsay and Lawrence set out to create a character too combustible for "normal'' life, they've succeeded.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Robert Denerstein ...Paton's narration can be viewed as part of the film's fabric, helping Bentley to play a trick that gives the movie its poignance...
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Robert Denerstein It can bog down in exposition that tends to be instructional, something on the order of Nuremberg 101. Still, Vanderbilt's conventional telling of the story is compelling when it needs to be.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Robert Denerstein It Was Just an Accident...qualifies as an important movie from a director whose struggles with oppression haven’t extinguished the spark that makes him human; that's the same spark that allows him to tell stories that touch our humanity as well.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Robert Denerstein Ballad of a Small Player might be the most brightly lit noir ever.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Robert Denerstein At times, it resembles a demented sketch. Still, the bold and unapologetic Bugonia commands attention, taking us deep inside a world in which insanity seems the norm.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Robert Denerstein If Deliver Me From Nowhere were an album, you might say that not every song is a hit, but many are strong enough to carry the day in a story about a man teetering on the cusp of losing himself.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Regretting You (2025) Robert Denerstein Despite dropping a tragic bomb into the story, the movie scatters little emotional shrapnel. AMC Theaters receives a major product placement in a film that comes up short on interesting characters and credible behavior.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) Robert Denerstein Despite the difficulties of being the children of people whose careers dominated their lives, neither Ben nor his sister seems irreparably harmed, and the movie emerges as a love story...that navigates enough difficulties to keep it percolating...
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Robert Denerstein Linklater and cinematographer Shane F. Kelly mostly defeat the limitations of a single-setting story dominated by a character whose ability to annoy others sometimes spills off the screen, irritating us.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Robert Denerstein My idiosyncrasies aside, del Toro's boldly conceived version of Shelley's first novel finds some of the tragic grandeur in an oft-told tale
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Fortune (2025) Robert Denerstein I don't give movies stars, but if I did, I'd tag Good Fortune as the quintessential ** 1/2 star entertainment, a predictable comedy that delivers its message with bit of amusement and without too much hectoring.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Robert Denerstein I may be pushing the point, but After the Hunt sometimes felt as if a high-class helping of pulp somehow had gotten into Yale.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Robert Denerstein I seldom felt the one quality any movie, whether virtual or reality-based, should provide: involvement.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Robert Denerstein Bigelow’s movie serves as a sobering tap on the shoulder from someone intent on reminding us that other dangers lurk.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
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