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The Movie Cricket

The Movie Cricket is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sean P. Means.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
1/4
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Sean P. Means If the point of the franchise is that observers are supposed to survive in this creepy scenario, the makers should really make sure those entering Freddy’s world don’t die from boredom first.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Sean P. Means All of it is delivered through some of Sondheim’s best compositions, with complex rhyme schemes and intelligent wordplay. … [And] all three leads are a joy to watch.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hamnet (2025) Sean P. Means This is a movie that gives its rewards to those willing to sit with it, to follow Agnes as she brings their children together with nature and grieves when tragedy strikes, and to listen to Will turn those emotions into poetry.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Ella McCay (2025) Sean P. Means If Brooks is familiar with the advice given to writers, to "kill your darlings," he didn’t heed it here.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Sean P. Means Mendonça Filho steeps "The Secret Agent" in the film language of the ’70s — "Jaws," obviously, but also early Brian de Palma movies and the paranoid thrillers of the era, like "Three Days of the Condor" and "The Parallax View."
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
David (2025) Sean P. Means A feast for the eyes, though likely only nourishing to those who already know their bible stories.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Sean P. Means Fagerbakke's deadpan readings of the dead-brained starfish can squeeze a laugh out of pretty much anything.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Sean P. Means The star here, though, is Hudson, who’s pressed into mounting some powerful physical acting, and bringing warmth and soul to Claire’s backup and duet singing.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Sean P. Means "Marty Supreme" hits its stride at the exact moment when Marty starts to realize that not everyone thinks what he’s doing is cute.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
No Other Choice (2025) Sean P. Means Anyone fearing for their job in today’s corporate world can imagine being in the same position as Man-su, and making the same desperate choices.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Plague (2025) Sean P. Means A 21st-century variation on "Lord of the Flies," a situation where boys are given free rein to be who they want to be — and who that is turns out to be horrible little pricks.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Housemaid (2025) Sean P. Means Sweeney and Seyfried have the most fun, as their roles and perspectives shift through the narrative, and Sklenar puts his smoking-hot good guy persona … through the ringer in some entertaining ways.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Sean P. Means [Varang is] a character unlike any of the elongated Smurfs we’ve seen before in this franchise, and demonstrates what Cameron might do in a future installment — if he ever gets around to making one.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Sean P. Means It’s one of the most earthy, gutsy and compelling performances Lawrence has ever given, and it nearly makes "Die My Love" a mad masterpiece.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Nuremberg (2025) Sean P. Means There are solid performances aplenty, particularly from Shannon, Slattery and Richard E. Grant. They are the ones most successful at escaping the clutches of Vanderbilt’s wooden direction and heavy-handed script.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
In Your Dreams (2025) Sean P. Means Serviceable. It’s an adequate animated entertainment that gets the job done. But it’s nothing you or your kids will remember once the credits roll.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Sean P. Means The script is credited to five different writers, so it’s a bit of a surprise how well the story all holds together in the watching.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Sean P. Means The problem with "Rental Family" is that there are so many vignettes, so many clients, that no one story ever gets enough traction.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Sean P. Means Have you ever wondered how much it would suck to be George Clooney? Me neither, but director Noah Baumbach devotes much time considering that question in a surprisingly moving comedy-drama.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Sean P. Means Skarsgard is perfectly matched in Lilleaas as the caregiver who chose family over art, and particularly Reinsve as the daughter who, in a sense, had her father’s choice thrust upon her.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Sean P. Means While Erivo is as strong here as before, the exuberant surprise is Grande’s turn in the tricky role of Glinda.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Eternity (2025) Sean P. Means The most engaging of the three is Olsen, who brings a post-death sense of liberation to Joan — someone who, finally, gets to do what she wants rather than what’s expected of her.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Zootopia 2 (2025) Sean P. Means Bush’s script includes plot twists that would be welcome in any action thriller, as well as jokes that work for both the younger audience and the adults bringing them to the theater.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Sean P. Means Those [ecclesiastical] moments make "Wake Up Dead Man" more than just a fun murder romp, like "Knives Out" and its first sequel, "Glass Onion," but give the audience some deeper questions to ponder than just "whodunnit?"
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Running Man (2025) Sean P. Means There’s a serious theme in here. ... But “The Running Man” is more comfortable, and more fun, when it just lets loose with the cinematic mayhem.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Truth & Treason (2025) Sean P. Means It’s clear [director Matt] Whitaker has more on his mind than a totalitarian regime that’s been gone for 80 years. The question is whether the movie’s target audience will make the connection to current events.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Good Fortune (2025) Sean P. Means Where Ansari goes off the track with “Good Fortune” is that he’s trying to make both movies — a light comedy and a serious movie about how the working class gets screwed over — and it never gels convincingly on either front.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
After the Hunt (2025) Sean P. Means Director Luca Guadagnino finds new ways to be confrontational in … the college-set drama “After the Hunt,” a bitter drama about the things privilege can and can’t get a person on a modern college campus.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Regretting You (2025) Sean P. Means The one redeeming thing about “Regretting You” is Mckenna Grace, who at 19 is blossoming into grown-up roles after showing talent as a child actor.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Frankenstein (2025) Sean P. Means The make-up designs capture a being that’s evolving in front of our eyes, subtly growing and changing as his indestructible body heals. Elordi works from within to find, or at least search for, the creature’s soul.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Sean P. Means [The movie] succeeds not only as an examination of Springsteen’s songwriting genius, but also as one of the most honest depictions of depression on film.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Sean P. Means Rose Byrne gives the performance of her career in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” a dark yet weirdly manic drama that never matches what Byrne is giving.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Sean P. Means The way Panahi blends suspense with dark humor is a skill we haven’t seen displayed so skillfully since perhaps the best days of Alfred Hitchcock.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Bugonia (2025) Sean P. Means What’s happening to Michelle is both horrifying and absurdly funny, a territory Lanthimos has made a second home in his past films.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
East of Wall (2025) Sean P. Means Beecroft and cinematographer Austin Shelton … beautifully capture the rough beauty of the South Dakota plains and badlands. They also find similar beauty in the people like Tabatha and Porshia …, embodying the land’s uncompromising spirit.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nobody 2 (2025) Sean P. Means Odenkirk shows a remarkable physicality, and a continued ability to take a fake punch, that give the fight sequences an authenticity that make the ridiculousness seem just plausible enough to make an audience worry about the guy’s health.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Sean P. Means There’s one set piece that ranks among the best work Lee has ever done: A sequence where David has to hand off a backpack with the ransom, shot through a lively Puerto Rican neighborhood festival.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Relay (2024) Sean P. Means The ride is so engaging that you think it can’t last. And, unfortunately, it can’t.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Ne Zha II (2025) Sean P. Means If you can keep up with the plot (it’s not Shakespeare or anything), the movie rewards with gorgeous spectacle and breathtaking action.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Honey Don't! (2025) Sean P. Means If we can’t get the Coen brothers back together, can we at least give Joel temporary custody of Margaret Qualley?
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Roses (2025) Sean P. Means Even when stranded by McNamara’s overly busy script and Roach’s idiotic direction, Colman and Cumberbatch come close sometimes to displaying the acid wit and mendacity this movie requires.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Caught Stealing (2025) Sean P. Means Butler doesn’t play Hank as a dupe or a fall guy, but as a man who is a step behind the story but capable of catching up and turning the tables.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Splitsville (2025) Sean P. Means Where Covino and Marvin get the most laughs are in a series of set pieces — particularly an 11th birthday party for Julie and Paul’s son, Russ (Simon Webster) — where Paul and Carey are confronted with the consequences of their romantic choices.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Sean P. Means Because I’m not invested the way a fan would be, I could appreciate the way Fellowes and director Simon Curtis (“My Week With Marilyn”) set up the storyline to cash in on the fans’ nostalgia for these rich folks and their ceaselessly loyal staff.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Long Walk (2025) Sean P. Means [Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson] play well opposite Hamill’s intensely nasty Major, and find the soul within the savagery of a tyrannical America that we can only hope we won’t see outside the movie theater.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
HIM (2025) Sean P. Means What nearly rescues “Him” is Wayans’ performance, a symphony of sports-driven rage masked by bro-code friendliness.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Sean P. Means Somehow the balance of whimsy and melancholy never feels right.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Dead of Winter (2025) Sean P. Means It’s refreshing to see a thriller like this entrusted to two strong women actors like Thompson and Greer, and the cat-and-mouse games between will keep viewers riveted — before the plot mechanics kick in.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Sean P. Means A masterpiece from a filmmaker who’s made his share of them. … It’s also an intensely timely movie, showing the divide that’s splitting America in half — and reminding us that there are some battles that have to be fought, and won.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Sean P. Means “A House of Dynamite” presents the threat of nuclear war as we would hope it would be handled, but the true horror is how it makes us think about how poorly it would play out in this reality.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
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