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Reactor is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Emmet Asher-Perrin, Kathryn Porter, Leah Schnelbach, Molly Templeton, Monita Roy Mohan.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Dust Bunny (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin Just, stop sleeping on these beautiful realities that have such chicken butt lamps in them.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin Parts of Eternity are deeply enjoyable, but in a world where these sort of romantic comedies (being the sort where death and love intersect in silly ways) number far higher than you might expect, I was hoping for just a tiny bit more deconstruction.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Leah Schnelbach I love Wake Up Dead Man. It may not be the best of the three Benoit Blanc mysteries, but it is my favorite, and, unless something truly cinematically extraordinary happens in the next six weeks, it will tie with Sinners as my favorite film of the year.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Leah Schnelbach I never expected a Predator movie to be a buddy comedy? But to be fair, I also never expected a Predator movie to become a touching found family narrative. Predator: Badlands is both; the world is full of wonders.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Keeper (2025) Leah Schnelbach Keeper creates a fantastic atmosphere, but that atmosphere often slipped into vagueness that pushed me out of the story rather than pulling me in.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin What seems “meant to be” rarely plays out as we anticipate. The fact that many of us were elated at the idea of Guillermo del Toro adapting the arguable first work of the science fiction canon may have been a warning in and of itself.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin It seems as though, with the advent of highly advanced computer graphics, designers have lost a step in how to imagine this world[...] What sort of design should the filmmakers emulate, and does it even matter if everything can look hyper-realistic?
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Happyend (2024) Leah Schnelbach "[Happyend is an] extremely confident, measured, and loving film. I walked in bracing myself for a grim dystopia, and came out with a head full of characters I’d walk into traffic for, and at least a tiny shred of hope for the future."
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin There’s a problem with this film, in that it falls under a list of movies I’ll call: This Should Have Been a Play.
Posted Sep 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) Leah Schnelbach Boys Go To Jupiter is joyous and colorful, and made me miss a place I used to hate. The movie gets Florida right, but in a really nice way.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Artemis Fowl (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin While Artemis Fowl, Jr. (Ferdia Shaw) does say those exact words—“I’m a criminal mastermind”—at the end of the film, there is nothing in the movie that explains why Artemis might think that or why the audience should believe him.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Old Guard (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin [The Old Guard] is easily one of the better films of this genre in the past decade, and deserved a theatrical release. It also deserves a sequel, so do the world a solid and add to their ratings by giving it a watch.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Project Power (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin While there are a few superhero stories on screen that haven’t shied away from the issue of medical experimentation, none have tackled the idea with such an eye toward truth as Project Power.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Save Yourselves! (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin For a ninety minute comedy that can ultimately be read as a metaphor for unyielding Millennial angst, there’s a lot to unpack, but that’s part of what makes it such a fun ride.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Craft: Legacy (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin The Craft: Legacy never quite lives up to its promise. It’s distressing because there is a lot of charm between its frames, working hard to wriggle its way out and steal a little sun.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) Emmet Asher-Perrin It would have been far more effecting to have simply suggested that Diana was having a rough go in the 80s; despite how much fun making nostalgic movies can be, it’s likely that Diana would have had difficulty in the “decade of excess."
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Luca (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin If the creators of Luca had paused for a moment to realize the accidental allegory emerging in their story, they could have done some restructuring and told a tale they’d truly never told before.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Widow (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin Black Widow proves that Natasha always had what it took to hold up her own corner of the MCU and then some—it just took the assembling (ahem) of a team that cared enough to tell her story.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin Ultimately, much of what is presented in this first half is perplexing because it’s unclear what changes to the story are being made. It is possible that as a whole, Dune will read far better, but we can’t know until the second half arrives.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternals (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin Eternals is [...] packed with a bunch of charming characters, pointed flashbacks, and gorgeous locations, but [...] needed to be at least two movies and says some alarming things about the state of humanity without seeming to realize that it’s doing so.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin Despite the film’s often lighthearted nature, there are certain problems that don’t have easy fixes. Certain battles that won’t be won the way you thought. There are losses that you’ll have to absorb along the way, though they might turn you inside out.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin It’s beautiful, and naturally ironic, that a film that spends so much time deconstructing how art effects consciousness, how love and grief alter perception, almost never came to be: How it had to be catalyzed by grief and completed out of love.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Emmet Asher-Perrin It’s too bad because the unwillingness to scratch at some deeper thoughts about Batman’s cultural positioning leaves us with… an almost-decent neo-noir knockoff.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Emmet Asher-Perrin While Ragnarok might still be the stronger film in a more technical sense, Love and Thunder is a worthy addition to Waititi’s oeuvre, and a welcome shot in the arm to the MCU’s ever-homogenizing options.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin All of this is made more awkward still by the same problem we had in the first Shazam movie—namely that Zachary Levi (as the titular hero) and Asher Angel seem to be playing two completely different versions of Billy Batson.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin Dial of Destiny is by no means a return to form. It’s only half of a good movie, in fact. But that half, funny enough, is still lingering in my mind.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin The possibility of evolution arises, and Barbie the movie finds itself asking the question very few films seem ready to pose of late: What if humanity is the goal, not the pitstop, or a thing to be hacked and overcome?
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Creator (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin When all is said and done, The Creator is not the answer to our over-franchised future than some might have hoped.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Marvels (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin Hiccups aside, The Marvels is a delightful journey that’s high on laughs, space-faring adventure, and three women who deserve a lot more attention from the MCU.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin It’s only unfortunate that behind Panem’s greatest tyrant is another whose motives seem far less complex, in an exercise that is arguably about recognizing the humanity of even the most odious people.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Wonka (2023) Emmet Asher-Perrin As a film, Wonka is trying to have it several ways: It wants to be a classic musical. It want to be a prequel. It wants to be a heartwarming tale of those in need for once triumphing over avarice. It probably wants to start a franchise, too.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin If you had the ability to reconsider one of the cornerstones of the science fiction genre, what would you do with that chance?
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin It’s the toughest balancing act of all to heap a story with nostalgia while you stitch it to something fledgling and painful that fights to stay alive.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Inside Out 2 (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin It’s a reminder to everyone watching, no matter their age, to seek out community when problems arise, to strengthen bonds of support rather than shun them.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin The problem is that Deadpool is a character of meta-fiction—but knowing when to use meta to its greatest effect is a skill, and one that should be used at least a little thoughtfully.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin Beetlejuice Beetlejuice instead hangs in the air like an eerie mist, daring us to imagine a world where you make a sequel… only because you really wanted to make one.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wild Robot (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin I’m hard-pressed to come up with another film that so easily communicates the joy of being alive while never once underselling life’s inherent traumas. In many ways, The Wild Robot takes themes from adjacent films [...] and does them each one better.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin Which leads us to dear Harleen, and perhaps the worst decision that Folie à Deux makes. The film poses a simple question: What if this time around, Harley was the abuser in the relationship?
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Emmet Asher-Perrin While the rest of the superhero genre flails frantically [...] the Venom films have quietly done their thing to an enduring hum of enthusiasm that studios are seemingly keen to ignore because they can’t figure out the secret sauce that’s making it go.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin Brave New World is not a Captain America movie. It’s a movie with Captain America in it. Maybe that sounds like semantics, but Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) is by no means the focal character of this film.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin It is a story about many things, but perhaps, ultimately, a story about getting the catharsis we are due.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin The regular world manages to feel just as fantastical as the wilderness Yuri sets out into, the people in it as confusing as wildlife. [...]there’s no big villain to this story. Only delightfully odd people with their largely invented problems.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Old Guard 2 (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin [...]because as we see over and over, rather than an insistence that immortality makes a person callous and disconnected, the Old Guard maintain an empathy for humanity and each other that is staggering and beautiful.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin At a point in time when cynicism and distrust are at load-bearing capacity in so many facets of our lives, if we can’t conceive of a way to make goodness interesting… we might as well pack it in. We’re toast, y’all.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Emmet Asher-Perrin Is this world more utopian than our own? Shouldn’t they bother to tell us how it came to be that way? And if the answer is “the Fantastic Four were around,” shouldn’t we all be concerned over how creatively and ethically bankrupt that concept is?
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
The Green Knight (2021) Leah Schnelbach This movie is a visual poem. It's the kind of thing that reminds me why I go to theaters, and why I love film.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Molly Templeton Seeing it on screen cracked something in me that needed cracking, especially after this last year. I hope it does the same for you.
Posted Mar 09, 2021  Edit critic review
Space Sweepers (2021) Emmet Asher-Perrin Space Sweepers is [...] joyful without being trite, humorous without being cruel, fun without being vacuous.
Posted Feb 17, 2021  Edit critic review
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Emmet Asher-Perrin Imperfect as it is, The Rise of Skywalker often feels like being wrapped up in a warm blanket. It's not a risky venture, but it has enough heart to power a galaxy. And that makes for a fitting ending in my book.
Posted Dec 20, 2019  Edit critic review
Knives Out (2019) Leah Schnelbach Rian Johnson has taken the coziest, tropiest of genres and used it to tell a story about America-and he's made my favorite movie since Mad Max: Fury Road.
Posted Nov 29, 2019  Edit critic review
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