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Movie Mom is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Nell Minow.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B
Mercy (2026) Nell Minow The last part of the movie gets over-complicated, cutting some logical corners. But Pratt is, as always, a likable presence and we want to see him prove that he is innocent — and that at least for now humans can still outthink machines.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Nell Minow A twisty plot, a knock-out cast, a dash of commentary about contemporary life and searching for meaning. Josh O’Conner continues to impress with his exceptional range and the precision of his characterization.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Best You Can (2025) Nell Minow Real-life couple Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon are pure magic on screen. Their skill, their powerful chemistry, and the modest intentions of "The Best You Can Do" elevate this small film into something special.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Resisterhood (2020) Nell Minow Crim deftly brings the stories together and some of the film’s most powerful and moving scenes are the family members who are all inspired to continue the tradition of speaking out for others.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Song Sung Blue (2025) Nell Minow Two huge Hollywood stars, very slightly dimming their imperishable glamour, in one of the most purely enjoyable films of the year, with heartfelt performances and joyous music.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Nell Minow Like its predecessors, the visuals are stunning, the action is dynamic, the story is thin, and the dialogue is painfully basic...Next to the visual splendor, the other reason to watch the film is the villain, played with sinuous menace by Oona Chaplin.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Rental Family (2025) Nell Minow One of the most heartwarming and humane films of the year.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Wicked: For Good (2025) Nell Minow Jonathan Bailey gives Fiyero a quiet smolder as he goes from dancing through life to thinking about choices to following his heart. It is subtle, not a term that comes to mind when considering the joyful maximalism of the "Wicked" film.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Nell Minow When I say that a better title might be: "Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Think Too Hard," that doesn’t mean I didn’t thoroughly enjoy this third in what is being set up to be a "Mission Impossible" or "Fast and Furious"-style franchise.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Nuremberg (2025) Nell Minow "Nuremberg" is well paced, as a thriller, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of history and the human capacity for evil and for good. It is never didactic or heavy-handed.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Satisfied (2024) Nell Minow This intimate film reflects the evolution in storytelling as individuals bypass intermediaries and tell their own stories in the most unfiltered and direct way possible (and usually in vertical mode, filmed on a phone).
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Bugonia (2025) Nell Minow I’d say that the movie goes off the rails after this, but it was never really on the rails...The movie sets itself up for insights about conspiracy theories, economic disparity, and predatory corporations, only to let us know it has nothing to say.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Blue Moon (2025) Nell Minow One of the most heartbreaking and beautifully written scenes of the year has Rodgers (Andrew Scott) and Hart (Ethan Hawke) talking about the possibility of working together again.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Nell Minow We are not just watching this mother; we begin to feel the pressure she is under.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Regretting You (2025) Nell Minow “Regretting You” is not a good movie. It is soapy and insipid. But somehow, thanks to its actors, it is still mildly, wait-for-streaming, watchable.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Nell Minow Elements of the film tell us it may be a dream, a fantasy, or a deathbed hallucination. Or perhaps it is hell, with Doyle/Riley stuck in some kind of loop of big risks and bad decisions.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Good Fortune (2025) Nell Minow A smart, fresh, and funny take on the switched lives fantasy that has some punch in its depiction of the gig economy, the people who struggle with it and the people who profit from it.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Grow (2025) Nell Minow Grow is that rare theatrical release that is a genuine treat for the family, filled with charm and lightly dusted with whimsy.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
TRON: Ares (2025) Nell Minow The latest in the series about sentient characters in a digital world follows in the tradition of its two predecessors: the creativity is in the visuals, with very little in the storyline, and almost none in the characters and dialogue.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Are We Good? (2025) Nell Minow The film will be of most interest to Maron fans, though they prefer his comedy specials and acting appearances. But seeing someone whose inclination is to maintain distance between thoughts and feelings grapple with loss shows us what even comedy cannot.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) Nell Minow The likely audience for the film might be happier just watching the series.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Eleanor the Great (2025) Nell Minow Sqiibb, Kellyman, Johansson, and first-time screenwriter Tory Kamen have made a film about loss, friendship, and compassion. Eleanor may not always be great, but this movie lets us see the parts of her that really are.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
One Battle After Another (2025) Nell Minow The film is a grand epic, balancing action, politics, metaphor, and satire, with heightened characters who are larger than life but still feel real and a knockout, urgently percussive score from Johnny Greenwood.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
London Calling (2025) Nell Minow Like its handsome anti-hero, this movie sometimes misfires, but it is easy on the eyes.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Nell Minow The story’s encouragement for those who have the courage to take a risk and change old patterns has a quiet optimism that may send some of us to open a few bold and beautiful doors ourselves.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Nell Minow It’s great fun to get a reprise of “Listen to the Flower People,” and yes, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) is still captivated by the possibilities of music technology. I hope the end does continue forever. Rock on, Nigel, David, and Derek, rock on!
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Nell Minow As always, it is gorgeous to look at and revel in. The sumptuousness of the surroundings and the empathy for the characters bring this saga to most a satisfying conclusion.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Splitsville (2025) Nell Minow There are a bunch of very funny situations and comments. It just does not amount to much.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
The Roses (2025) Nell Minow Colman and Cumberbatch are so endlessly watchable that it’s almost easy to overlook that this is essentially a one-joke movie, as Ivy and Noah get increasingly more frustrated and hurt and lash out in increasingly more lacerating ways.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Ne Zha II (2025) Nell Minow Convoluted plot, gorgeous visuals. Stay for the credits for an extended extra scene that is one of the film’s best moments.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Honey Don't! (2025) Nell Minow There are moments of inspired derangement. Overall, though, there’s more style than substance, a hollowness that even Qualley’s star quality cannot make up for.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Nobody 2 (2025) Nell Minow Along the lines of a Looney Tunes cartoon, if Hutch was Road Runner AND Wile E. Coyote AND all the blow-up equipment from Acme...it would just be cartoonish without Odenkirk’s ability to make us understand Hutch’s layers of emotion.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Nell Minow It is an engrossing crime drama, a family story, a commentary on culture and society, bursting with ideas, masterfully acted by Washington, who just keeps getting better...an elegiac but vibrant story that is complicated and messy. Like life.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Freakier Friday (2025) Nell Minow Curtis and Lohan are producers and they know what the fans and newcomers to the story want, including a Pink Slip reunion so rousing that it might make us look forward to a Freakiest Friday someday.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Naked Gun (2025) Nell Minow Nothing is sacred here and everything is up for humor, including the franchise itself and the jokes fly by so fast and so shamelessly that by the time you realize you didn't like one, three funnier ones have appeared.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Oh, Hi! (2025) Nell Minow “Oh, Hi!” has four exceptionally appealing young actors who make the most of an uneven script from writer/director Sophie Brooks.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Nell Minow After three unsatisfactory tries Marvel Studios got it right, gorgeously produced, well cast, dazzling visuals, gracefully relegating the origin story to a few “archival” clips, and putting our quartet and us right in the middle of the action.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Nell Minow “KPop Demon Hunters” is an unexpectedly entertaining mash-up of two seemingly unrelated genres. It works because it is colorful, funny, imaginative, and above all heartfelt and sincere.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Superman (2025) Nell Minow While it is (thankfully) not an origin story in the traditional sense, it is a story about a man from another place whose sense of himself is tied to his ideas about his origin, and the ideas of those around him as well.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Heads of State (2025) Nell Minow The action tips too far into carnage, and the comedy is not as sharp as it should be. But there are cool locations, the action scenes are exciting, and Jack Quaid shows up midway though to liven things up, so a pleasant streaming time-waster.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Nell Minow It's what we came for: dinosaurs chasing (and eating) people. And, just to mix it up a bit, some people chasing dinosaurs. A sprinkle of humor, a touch of warmth, a very brief detour into morality, but mostly the aforementioned chasing.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Elio (2025) Nell Minow Pixar’s latest has everything we love about Pixar, a heartwarming story with endless imagination, charm, and wisdom, about an endearing character and the fears and joys of being human.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Bride Hard (2025) Nell Minow The problem with a concept that almost sells itself is executing a film that fully delivers on it. “Bride Hard” more concept than delivery, but it is still silly fun.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Nell Minow It may be completely unnecessary but this live action remake is still a great story. The story is heartwarming, the visuals are exciting, and the themes of courage used for a deeper understanding are still worthy.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Materialists (2025) Nell Minow The issues it wants to address are deep; the way they are addressed is thin. More than once characters talk about feeling valued or worthless. What makes people feel valued by themselves or others, is tantalizingly raised, but frustratingly sketched.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
The Life of Chuck (2024) Nell Minow While it includes dark and tragic themes, it is a story of profound humanity, ultimately spirit-expanding.
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Sorry, Baby (2025) Nell Minow Eva Victor makes an extraordinary debut as writer, director, and star of indie festival favorite “Sorry, Baby,” a story that includes profound trauma told with delicacy and even humor. The primary theme is not trauma but grace.
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Ballerina (2025) Nell Minow Yes, the stunts are always spectacular, but what makes the John Wick movies enthralling is the world, a parallel universe where international assassins operate in ultra-elegant surroundings without any interference from cops or, well, reality.
Posted Jun 07, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Nell Minow We’re in familiar but not unwelcome territory....No surprises here, but sometimes that’s just fine.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Bad Shabbos (2024) Nell Minow The tone of the film may be heightened, exaggerated for comic purposes, but unlike too many other movies this film never makes the Jewish characters into caricatures and the details are precise and affectionate. It’s very dark, but it is also very funny.
Posted May 24, 2025  Edit critic review
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