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About Boulder is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Tim Brennan.

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Mercy (2026) Tim Brennan On the surface, the script is a riff on Minority Report and The Fugitive, only updated to reflect our current anxieties. Dig a little deeper and you’ll see that it’s a script that never gets below the high-gloss facade.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Tim Brennan 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is one hundred percent worth the risk. It’s an outstanding film that functions due to its laser focus on character.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Tim Brennan When it comes to showing the horror and humor of capitalism, is No Other Choice a masterpiece? If it isn’t, it’ll do until a masterpiece comes along.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Bitter Desire (2025) Tim Brennan The core idea of this script isn’t bad, and in principle, I have nothing against erotic thrillers. But it needed a few serious passes to improve the structure, up the tension, and enhance the characterization.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dummy Detective (2025) Tim Brennan If you’re making a movie about a ventriloquist detective, you need to be prepared to go to some strange places. What we’re left with is a screenplay that promises something much weirder than it actually delivers.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Time Travel Is Dangerous (2024) Tim Brennan Presumably, Reading had a microscopic budget, yet his film never feels cheap. It’s got a charming handmade quality, as if everyone pitched in to create ingenious practical solutions instead of throwing money at problems.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Tim Brennan Safdie’s tone here is a little different from his work on Uncut Gems. It’s a little looser, funnier, and ever so slightly optimistic.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Tim Brennan Wake Up Dead Man is a strong contender to be the best in the Benoit Blanc series.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Tim Brennan As I watched the film, I kept thinking that it felt like an action movie from the 90s, such as The Rock or Speed. One of those films based around a ridiculous central premise that digs into the concept.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Tim Brennan The bad news is, each time the timeline is re-set, tension drains from the film. Then more time needs to be taken to focus on new characters while also jacking the tension back up. It’s an extremely gutsy decision, and the execution doesn’t quite work.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Sincerely Saul (2024) Tim Brennan When it comes to Sincerely Saul, I believe that if you are a) a sentient human being who is b) alive, you will not have a nice time with this movie. I also believe that director Ian Tripp has made precisely the film he’s set out to make.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Tim Brennan He’s made a film that simultaneously honors the nineteenth century source material and feels relevant to the twenty-first century.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Roofman (2025) Tim Brennan For the most part, Cianfrance’s tone matches the personality of the main character. It’s likable, bouncy, and very often feels less plot-driven and more of a genial hangout movie.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Tim Brennan From a technical perspective, Leonberg’s direction is so skillful that it should be in this year’s Academy Award conversation.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The G (2023) Tim Brennan From time to time, we’re treated to a solid movie featuring an outstanding lead performance that elevates the whole damn thing. That’s exactly what The G is.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Tim Brennan The Long Walk is a good movie. Maybe not one of the best of the year, but it has fearsome power, and it balances that with unflinching humanity.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Make Me Famous (2021) Tim Brennan Oh, you’ve never heard of Edward Brezinski? Don’t worry, this documentary will fix that.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Unpacking (2022) Tim Brennan While a lesser screenplay would reduce the characters to cliches, this script drills down into real, three dimensional characterization. We see why these women have come to the retreat, what they think of each other, and what they think of themselves.
Posted Sep 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Magnetosphere (2024) Tim Brennan For every comedy moment, there’s a quieter moment where we see how Maggie views the world for good or ill. Those moments feature lovely animation that’s so deliberately chosen, we intuitively understand what Maggie is feeling and experiencing.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Tim Brennan Do you love movies like Highest 2 Lowest, movies large enough to fit the greatest city in the world and the heart of a desperate man? Because if so, you know what you need to do.
Posted Aug 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox (2024) Tim Brennan Tim Travers and the Time Travelers Paradox is sophisticated, crude, sleek, occasionally plodding, and ridiculously ambitious. Just like the title, the movie itself is a paradox.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Naked Gun (2025) Tim Brennan The Naked Gun is proof that spoof movies might be the hardest genre of film to pull off. Being that stupid takes immense intelligence.
Posted Aug 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Tim Brennan The 1960s retrofuturism production design pops, and it provides the film with a welcome degree of style and energy.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Tim Brennan Most of Eddington is effective. Long stretches of it pull us back to those dangerously dumb days of May 2020, and remind us what it was like. I wonder if Ari Aster set himself up to fail, by asking what the pandemic meant.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Tim Brennan It’s important you know that James Gunn has made possibly the comic bookiest comic book movie in the history of the genre. Gunn’s film feels like you’ve been handed issue #237 of the Superman comic book and are expected to keep up. From
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Tim Brennan I will say the set pieces are cleverly done and feature a number of fun reversals. Everything just feels a little lopsided, and I wished there was a bit more of a balance between character and carnage.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
This Is Your Song (2023) Tim Brennan In a world where more films than ever are focused on spectacle and IP, This Is Your Song is the proof that films can and should be art.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Tim Brennan 28 Years Later has the raw power of one of its alphas, and the pure emotion of the person it once was.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Tim Brennan The Life of Chuck certainly has its flaws. Those valleys frustrated me at times, but my frustration fell away during the film’s numerous peaks.
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
The North (2025) Tim Brennan The North is a low key masterpiece.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Bound (2023) Tim Brennan Props to director Isaac Hirotsu Woofter for making a gritty drama with feature elements that never dip into grimdarkness or needless cruelty.
Posted Jun 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Tim Brennan Anderson’s film is still made with a high degree of care and precision. He’s committed to his art as opposed to his audience, and if we want honest art, that’s the right way to go.
Posted May 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Tim Brennan Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is not a bad movie, but holy smokes, is it a mess.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Tim Brennan From Yelena’s depression to Walker’s failure at becoming a hero and more, all of these characters are damaged, traumatized, profoundly screwed up. Rather than playing it for laughs, the script takes it all seriously and effectively.
Posted May 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Neighborhood Watch (2025) Tim Brennan For me, the film’s low key charm and unfussy direction makes it an understated hit.
Posted May 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Step Back, Doors Closing (2024) Tim Brennan If there’s one thing that Step Back, Doors Closing reminds us it’s the idea that our strongest connections can come out of nowhere. It’s a smart, sweet, perceptive indie film that deserves to be seen.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Drop (2025) Tim Brennan Landon understands that his job is not to screw around. He’s made a tight, one hundred minute film that introduces the players, sets up the premise, executes quite a lot of the variations of the premise, and gets us out of the theater with a smile.
Posted Apr 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Liquor Bank (2025) Tim Brennan Cox’s edits, cinematography, and scene blocking simply serve to enhance the emotions of the moment. It’s direction that’s quiet, efficient, and confident.
Posted Apr 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Breakup Season (2024) Tim Brennan It’s a perceptive and bittersweet dramedy virtually anyone can relate to.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Tim Brennan While it may have issues with pacing and some screenplay problems, Death of a Unicorn will impale its way into (and through) your heart.
Posted Mar 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Tim Brennan The film never feels sloppy or rushed. Rather, Soderbergh has trimmed off all the fat he possibly can to make a sleek, sexy espionage thriller that never feels self serious.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A/way (2024) Tim Brennan This jewel of a film knows that when the luggage is packed and you step outside your comfort zone, you’re actually expanding it.
Posted Mar 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Alien Love (2024) Tim Brennan Alien Love is ultimately a swing and a miss. A severely undercooked script, inconsistent acting, and direction that needed more time and preparation all undermine this film.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Tim Brennan It fights against the notion that Captain America is political, while also including political imagery all the time. It’s at war trying to decide whether Captain America represents America or represents what America could and should be.
Posted Feb 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Séance (2024) Tim Brennan Seance uses the trappings of the parlor game spook show to say something tragically accurate. It’s an elegant film made with keen intelligence.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Daruma (2023) Tim Brennan Films that embrace real representation are more than just respectful. They create a genuine perspective shift for viewers. One of the best examples of this is Daruma, an indie drama that makes a real impact.
Posted Jan 27, 2025  Edit critic review
September 5 (2024) Tim Brennan September 5 certainly has its issues, yet the way it portrays a historical event and the people doing the best they can with it is effective
Posted Jan 20, 2025  Edit critic review
From Ground Zero (2024) Tim Brennan It’s a mix of twenty-two short films made by people who live within the Gaza strip. To emphasize, these twenty-two directors, along with their casts and crew, prioritized making movies in the midst of a war zone.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Scrap (2022) Tim Brennan It’s a low-key gem that announces a new and necessary voice in film.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Tim Brennan Even better are Mangold’s musical sequences. Instead of feeling like glorified jukebox numbers, they feel organic, as if they’re happening right now. That decision gives them an energy that’s lacking in so many other biopics.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
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