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The Only Critic

The Only Critic is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Nate Adams.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B
Send Help (2026) Nate Adams "Send Help" may wobble as it unravels, but it ultimately sticks the landing, largely on sheer craft and nerve.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
D-
Mercy (2026) Nate Adams I would like to officially welcome back the "January" movie.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Nate Adams This fourth entry actively subverts expectations, balancing bursts of deadpan humor with the lingering cruelty of a world still very much capable of destroying itself.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Rip (2026) Nate Adams Testosterone pumps through its veins, even as the pileup of double-crosses and red herrings in the final act nearly unravels everything the film has worked to establish.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Nate Adams Where the original film thrived on its sense of panic and emotional relatability, "Migration" feels curiously hollow.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Primate (2025) Nate Adams "Primate" sticks to the basics and wisely avoids overthinking its simple but sturdy premise.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Song Sung Blue (2025) Nate Adams The musical sequences are naturally where the movie shines brightest, but my goodness, the moment these Jackman and Hudson step off the stage, everything around the movie crumbles faster than a Lifetime movie.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A
Marty Supreme (2025) Nate Adams It is equal parts thrilling and confounding, powered by some of the best stunt casting in recent memory and a hyper-kinetic, barnstorming lead performance from Timothée Chalamet.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The Housemaid (2025) Nate Adams "The Housemaid" is high camp executed with confidence. It’s the kind of movie that plays best with an audience willing to lean in rather than lean back.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Nate Adams At a time when the theatrical moviegoing experience feels perpetually on the brink of collapse, James Cameron once again rides in like a king returning to his throne.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Nate Adams “Wake Up Dead Man” flirts with existential questions about faith, purpose, and identity, and it finds surprising weight in the idea of extracting meaning from spiritual and emotional collapse.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Nate Adams The problem, once again, is that none of this makes any logical sense. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” operates on a dream logic that feels less like intentional surrealism and more like basic storytelling negligence.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Jay Kelly (2025) Nate Adams Ultimately, "Jay Kelly" feels like the kind of overindulgent Oscar bait that a fictional studio exec might fall asleep to in a screening room.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Zootopia 2 (2025) Nate Adams It is admirable, and the dad jokes hit more often than not, but the film never digs deep enough to feel substantial. It is pleasant, but also strangely disposable.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Eternity (2025) Nate Adams Underneath the logistical wobbliness is something undeniably tender, "Eternity" digs into what we define as love, purpose, and the weight of shared history.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Rental Family (2025) Nate Adams Fraser is warm, grounded, and compelling, and it’s good to see him back in full leading-man form. I just wish the movie around him had the courage to look its own ideas in the eye.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
A-
Train Dreams (2025) Nate Adams The cinematography captures golden-hour landscapes, paired with a somber score and crisp, comforting narration that wraps around you like a warm blanket. It makes you want to step into the frame and see the world as Robert sees it.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Wicked: For Good (2025) Nate Adams "Wicked: For Good," is heartfelt and heavy at times, but audiences who aren’t familiar with the musical are going to be taught quickly that Act II doesn’t deliver the same show-stopping bravado as "Defying Gravity" or the poppy, upbeat jolt of "Popular."
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Nate Adams Instead of Wright’s usual kinetic confidence, we get a blender full of half-formed social commentary about surveillance states, media manipulation, and systemic oppression.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Nate Adams The interplay between the old guard and the new recruits gives the movie a shot of energy its predecessor sorely lacked. Like the "Fast and Furious" series, these movies function less as intricate capers and more as found-family action comedies.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Predator: Badlands (2025) Nate Adams It’s a sanitized, self-aware spin on a franchise that used to feel raw and dangerous.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Die My Love (2025) Nate Adams With Lawrence and Robert Pattinson going head-to-head, Ramsay seems content to wind them up and watch them implode. It’s hard to look away, but it’s equally hard to feel much beyond the spectacle.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Christy (2025) Nate Adams “Christy,” for all its sweat and struggle, lands with the limp thud of a pulled punch.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Bugonia (2025) Nate Adams Lanthimos seems to be asking whether the human experiment is nearing its expiration date and whether conviction, empathy, or madness will define our final act.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Shelby Oaks (2023) Nate Adams “Shelby Oaks” feels less like a debut from a new voice and more like a patchwork quilt of borrowed ideas from better, braver films.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Nate Adams Ultimately, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” plays like a greatest-hits collection without the hits, a series of loosely connected moments that drift by without much dramatic payoff.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Nate Adams The film captures how frighteningly close we already are to annihilation, and how, when that moment comes, all anyone can do is stand by and watch the countdown.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Blue Moon (2025) Nate Adams But as the smoke thickens and the conversations circle, “Blue Moon” begins to feel like the dying gasp of its own subject: brilliant, tragic, and just a little too in love with its own melancholy.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Black Phone 2 (2025) Nate Adams Do yourself a favor: let this call keep ringing.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
After the Hunt (2025) Nate Adams The film mistakes verbosity for insight and leaves viewers stranded in the fog of its own self-importance.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Good Fortune (2025) Nate Adams Reeves is the movie’s secret weapon, delivering a performance so pure and delightfully odd that it feels like Paddington reincarnated as a man.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
TRON: Ares (2025) Nate Adams Credit where it’s due, this is one of the studio’s more visually daring swings in recent years, even if it can’t quite outpace its own circuitry.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Nate Adams The tragedy of Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” isn’t that it’s bad; it’s that it keeps brushing against greatness and then pulling back.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Smashing Machine (2025) Nate Adams You have to admire the ambition, but “The Smashing Machine” doesn’t have the discipline or clarity to elevate the material into something lasting.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Good Boy (2025) Nate Adams A nifty little chiller that’s far more devastating than the playful advertising suggests.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Bone Lake (2024) Nate Adams Like a trashy reality TV binge with an erotic edge, "Bone Lake" takes its title literally, carving out a sexy, suspenseful dissection of trust, temptation, and betrayal.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) Nate Adams When the film plastered “To be continued” across the screen, I groaned. It means I’ll be back here next year, enduring this all over again.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
A
One Battle After Another (2025) Nate Adams This is Anderson at his boldest: a blistering political thriller that accurately captures the paranoia and dread of our modern hellscape.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
HIM (2025) Nate Adams For all its flaws, it’s hard to call it boring, the spectacle alone may be enough to keep some viewers watching.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The Long Walk (2025) Nate Adams It asks what happens when survival becomes entertainment, when violence becomes normalized, when youth is treated as expendable. Its answers are grim, but its message is timeless.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Swiped (2025) Nate Adams Desperately trying to be “The Social Network” but for the rise of Tinder and Bumble, “Swiped” offers a surface-level story that shows little interest in actually exploring the revolution of online courtship.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Nate Adams “Spinal Tap II” doesn’t quite crank it up to 11, but it lands at about, oh, a 6.5.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Predators (2025) Nate Adams David Osit’s gripping documentary “Predators” doesn’t ask us to sympathize with the men caught on tape. Instead, it pulls back the curtain on our culture’s fixation with the series and asks the larger question: did it actually accomplish anything?
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Nate Adams But it’s hard to shake the feeling the series has become the very thing it once set out to correct: a stitched-together collection of clichés, running on fumes.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Twinless (2025) Nate Adams Dylan O’Brien sinks his teeth into James Sweeney’s offbeat dramedy “Twinless” with a performance that’s as layered as it is fearless.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Caught Stealing (2025) Nate Adams It doesn’t quite knock it out of the park, but its bruised sincerity, sense of place, and yes, affection for cats, give it a scruffy charm.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Nate Adams Ultimately, this “Toxic Avenger” plays like an extended sizzle reel designed to showcase gallons of blood, guts, and goo. That’s fun for a while, but with an ensemble this stacked, it’s disappointing the film doesn’t aspire to more.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) Nate Adams How can you put this many A-listers in a murder mystery and still fail to deliver anything even remotely engaging?
Posted Aug 27, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Eden (2024) Nate Adams Howard often feels like he’s too far out of his element to really capture the grisly edges the story demands.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Fixed (2025) Nate Adams “Fixed” could have been a clever, heartfelt spin on an absurd premise. Instead, it’s a shaggy-dog story that mistakes relentless crudeness for comedy and chases its own tail until it collapses.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
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