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Substream Magazine is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kt Schaefer, Leigh Monson, Murjani Rawls.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Murjani Rawls The Bone Temple" thoughtfully investigates the methods in which society or figures of power use idolatry as an infection within itself. The battle is not merely between Gods and monsters, but truth and diseased testament standing on opposing sides.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Murjani Rawls If "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" were an animatronic robot, it would be lacking both the parts and the power supply to get where it needs to go. 
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Murjani Rawls It's the commitment of all of its parts to the rollercoaster-esque track of the story ventures on - hands waving in the wind and gleefully screaming - where you'll find the experience is worth seeing through. 
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Murjani Rawls The film doesn't try to paint a rosy view or look at the bright side because sometimes there just isn't one. It allows us to sit uncomfortably and think about how desperation and love can drive us to do the unthinkable. 
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
It Ends (2025) Murjani Rawls "It Ends" feels that understanding the journey into adulthood comes at a cost. In thinking about the many memories and people you had to jettison to reach what we are told is happiness, you'll question why you had to in the first place. 
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Man Finds Tape (2025) Murjani Rawls While markers within "Man Finds Tape" will feel familiar, it taps into a modern dilemma. We have an insatiable appetite for sleuthing and the many platforms available to keep the (sometimes futile) pursuit of knowledge going.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Murjani Rawls "For Good" makes the case that nobody wins with pasted-on adaptations, slightly elongated to capitalize on a devoted fandom. 
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Murjani Rawls The 2025 iteration puts the spotlight on all of it, but also takes on the spirit of spectacle it’s hoping to damn.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebuilding (2025) Murjani Rawls You can predict where the film’s quiet thesis is headed, but it doesn’t manage to dilute its effectiveness. As it turns out, remembrance doesn’t take the pain away, but points to overlooked things you should pay attention to.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Murjani Rawls DaCosta lays out a mostly multilayered, fluid construction of Ibsen's original story that resonates throughout the generations. At points, you'll want to tear down the world Hedda lives in, and at other times, you'll wince as she does that to others.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Murjani Rawls Desperation spurns belief in the unfathomable, leaving those who deserve help at odds with morality. Perhaps the end won’t come with a “War of the Worlds” style invasion, but because we are now far too alien to one another.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Murjani Rawls “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is a plane that thrives because of the turbulent, dark skies it finds its way back home within. Yet, the film feels like it would rather be sitting in the safety of the tarmac.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Shelby Oaks (2023) Murjani Rawls Darke County is indeed a playground for hidden secrets, speaking to our innate need to uncover them all. The film’s affinity for comfortability despite its fruitful setup would rather keep the interesting parts hidden.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Murjani Rawls Enough magic, relatable conflict, and enjoyable fantasy are present to land the plane on the right note.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Phone 2 (2025) Murjani Rawls But only if the film is as self-assured in its interpretation of a main character’s gifts and the uneasy way it feels about them, where it could have been bigger than an homage.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Vicious (2025) Murjani Rawls Ultimately, the audience and the film’s protagonist are no closer to truly understanding what they’ve been through and why it happened.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
California Schemin' (2025) Murjani Rawls While the film’s beats have an inevitability to them, just enough smart deviations exist to make this an enjoyable debut.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Murjani Rawls You'll know the broad strokes and events of what Mark Kerr has gone through, but wonder if time could have been spent diving into more of what personality made him stand above the rest.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Charlie Harper (2025) Murjani Rawls Despite the display of thoughtfulness of displaying two people trying to figure out where it all went wrong, it’s the storytelling method that distills the impact of what this thesis concludes.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Murjani Rawls “Him” finds itself trapped in the Peele-ification of cinema, invoking elements of his visual style and satirical views on society without understanding why they were effective in the first place.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Eleanor the Great (2025) Murjani Rawls It would be easier to say Eleanor was a fighter pilot or some great philosopher. However, asking the cast to bridge the gaps in how loss resonates through generations, particularly in the context of death and catastrophic events, proves to be too much.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Murjani Rawls There’s a version where the outcome would be inspiring, even triumphant. However, Lawrence levies his blunt force reality in “The Long Walk” that even the purest of souls might not escape being tainted.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Murjani Rawls What comes out of “Exit 8” is not just a paint-by-the-number adaptation of the game itself, but something that is both emotionally engaging and gives the audience an incentive to hang on every decision, near miss, defeat, and triumph.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Weapons (2025) Murjani Rawls The human psyche will roam when there’s no set of words to nail down a feeling, and Cregger counts on this. The director’s best twist yet might be giving it to you and laying the groundwork for exploring other possibilities anyway.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Murjani Rawls “I Know What You Did Last Summer” screams to make room for it in the pantheon of late 90s horror franchises. Yet, the 2025 installment doesn't clear the hurdle of making the case of why the legacy matters and definitively saying it should continue. 
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Brick (2025) Murjani Rawls A natural energy emerges once the film begins to solve the mystery. However, it often stalls because the emotionality is wasted as the main event, rather than a set piece.
Posted Jul 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Murjani Rawls It’s commendable of Gunn to affirm that Superman’s origin is why his heart of America values are so strong. “Superman” is not so much of a new take. It’s rather messy, but more of an inspired redo and mulligan to get you to look up in the sky again.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Elio (2025) Murjani Rawls The Pixar “formula” is still present, but only if it was brave enough, like the aspiring 11-year-old star gazer it abandoned.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) Murjani Rawls M3GAN 2.0” sounds the alarm of a technological crisis and then elects to choreograph dance moves to its loud, discordant melody, like a cobra entranced by a digital snake charmer.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Murjani Rawls In dipping back into the universe he began, Boyle proves that the Scythe of the Grim Reaper stings in losing the ways we lived, too.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Murjani Rawls Kosinski has an affinity for fast cars, planes, rugged anti-heroes of the past, and those who are their air apparent. "F1" might not end up leading the sport drama pack, but it will make things interesting. 
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ritual (2025) Murjani Rawls The film serves as a completionist manual for those who may have an inkling of the actual story that inspired a wildly popular subgenre of horror. Otherwise, the sums of its parts are out of time and ten steps behind the path it helped to pave.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The Scout (2025) Murjani Rawls The film’s success stems from the fact that you’ll wish the conditions were ripe for the main character to experience her own story more (and take some time off).
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Oh, Hi! (2025) Murjani Rawls “Oh, Hi” will make you wish these characters had a succession of twenty-minute conversations before they hit confirm on the booking reservation.
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A Tree Fell in the Woods (2025) Murjani Rawls The film effectively portrays the feeling of scarcity in a sincere manner. It fails to allow its players to fully realize the other side of it.
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) Murjani Rawls Boyson jokes at the parables of the film without making a mockery out of them and uses the more shocking imagery not to hammer a message home, but to give you something weighty to ponder.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Sovereign (2025) Murjani Rawls At “Sovereign’s” end, people have been failed at the altar of many things beyond their control. However, there are clear-cut reasons why this is the case, and the film elects to keep them ambiguous. It undercuts the unsettling imagery at its conclusion
Posted Jun 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Murjani Rawls If “Talk To Me” is a twisted, layered spin on a teenage coming-of-age story marked by wanting, then “Bring Her Back” is the snarling beast.
Posted Jun 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Murjani Rawls “The Final Reckoning” has all the hallmarks you would come to expect, but I wish the final entry didn’t bow to the pressure of overexplaining what’s at stake.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Murjani Rawls “Final Destination: Bloodlines” entertains while incentivizing the audience to want more of these installments. How are they going to top themselves with a seventh film? If this entry indicates anything, someone will find a way.
Posted May 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Opus (2025) Murjani Rawls “Opus” says plenty but lacks the lasting impression necessary for its points to be decisive.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Another Simple Favor (2025) Murjani Rawls Here, lunacy rules, and it is doused in expensive bottles of champagne, boats, parties, and jewelry that is probably a mortgage down payment. Even if you're extremely confused, at least the beachfront view is beautiful.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Murjani Rawls When you’re down a few points in basketball, you need a couple of back-to-back buckets to swing the momentum to get you back in the game. While “Thunderbolts*” doesn’t completely erase the deficit, it might put Marvel in a position for a comeback.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Surfer (2024) Murjani Rawls Finnegan takes a little bit to get there, but it doesn’t prove any less effective to show how men like Scally are powerful in the eyes of the broken in the real world.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Rosario (2025) Murjani Rawls Ultimately, 'Rosario' falls into a space of knowing the story it wants to tell, but moves in too many directions before it lands the plane.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Until Dawn (2025) Murjani Rawls In total, this effort is probably the best route an “Until Dawn’ film could have taken – a haunted house or, in this case, rotating scenarios of horror, you know, with a somewhat believable story at the center.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Murjani Rawls You’re taught certain things when you’re younger and then spend a part of your life redefining what things are. As long as these themes resonate throughout generations of people, films like “The Legend of Ochi” will have their place.
Posted Apr 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Murjani Rawls “Sinners” has the fingerprints, pen strokes, and Coogler’s trademark iconography to ultimately state how the blood, sweat, and celebration of artistry might be the way through the terrors of life.
Posted Apr 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Drop (2025) Murjani Rawls One theme doesn’t outrun the other or overtake the spotlight completely. If anything, the film acts like an enjoyable night on the town that knows you have an early morning ahead.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
One More Shot (2025) Murjani Rawls With stories like “One Last Shot,” unless they seek to deviate from the script, you can see where everything is going. Then, the gimmick feels like it’s only there to stall before the inevitable realization happens.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
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