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The AU Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Doug Jamieson, Harris Dang, Peter Gray.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Send Help (2026) Peter Gray Bold, unsettling, and wickedly funny, Send Help stands as one of Raimi’s most provocative works in years.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Bedford Park (2026) Peter Gray Heartbreaking, beautifully acted, and deeply personal.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Peter Gray It knows the formula it’s working with and embraces it wholeheartedly, delivering bruising action, sharp chemistry, and a playful swagger that makes the journey worthwhile – even if you’ve seen the road before.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Secret Agent (2025) Peter Gray The Secret Agent stands as one of the year’s most vital films: a work that pulses with anger, empathy and cinematic ambition, insisting that the past is never past, and that looking away is not an option.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Primate (2025) Peter Gray Director Johannes Roberts understands the assignment with almost admirable single-mindedness with Primate.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Moon (2025) Peter Gray For those willing to lean into its rhythms, Blue Moon is richly rewarding. And for Hawke, it stands as a career-defining reminder of what happens when an actor fully surrenders to a role – not to impress, but to tell the truth.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Mercy (2026) Peter Gray It plays like a film that can’t decide whether it fears technology, worships it, or just wants to use it as a convenient set of shiny props.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Peter Gray In the end, Marty Supreme is a thrilling, messy, exhausting ride – a film about belief as both weapon and liability.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Rip (2026) Peter Gray Despite its streaming-service gloss, this is one of Netflix’s most confidently cinematic thrillers in recent memory: tense, bruising, and unapologetically adult.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Peter Gray A quietly devastating triumph, a film that proves how little spectacle is needed when moral tension, lived experience, and cinematic restraint are in perfect alignment.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Gray It’s torturous and harrowingly beautiful in equal measure, a film that will leave audiences stunned, unsettled, and ultimately in awe.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Grow (2025) Peter Gray It turns out pumpkins have been waiting patiently for their cinematic moment. Grow gives it to them, and to us, with warmth, humour, and a surprising amount of heart.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Hamnet (2025) Peter Gray Hamnet is a film about carrying love differently after loss: how it changes shape, how it finds new vessels, how it refuses to disappear. It doesn’t ask to be admired so much as felt. And once it settles inside you, it doesn’t leave.
Posted Jan 11, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Peter Gray Like the song that gives it its name, it understands that happiness and sorrow often harmonise, whether we’re ready for them to or not.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Anaconda (2025) Peter Gray What makes Anaconda work – far more than it has any right to – is its razor-sharp meta self-awareness.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Peter Gray A beautiful, non-judgmental dramedy, Rental Family honours the service at its core.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Housemaid (2025) Peter Gray For the consuming 130 minutes (a running time that surprisingly flies by) of Sweeney and Seyfried’s game of upstairs-downstairs, you’d be hard pressed to find a more entertaining oeuvre.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The History of Sound (2025) Peter Gray It’s a beautiful film, without question, but it’s also one that’s quite deliberate in how it moves with purpose.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
New Fear's Eve (2023) Peter Gray Sick and self-aware, if horror fans are interested in a reprieve from the depths of the genre, it’s possible that this could be just what The Doctor ordered.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Ella McCay (2025) Peter Gray Don’t let all the names on the promotional material lull you into a false sense of security, Ella McCay is someone you should stay far away from.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Peter Gray Updates its concept with a sense of fun and ferocity, proving itself a remake that respects its original spirit without being bound to it.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Peter Gray Much of what takes place across the film’s 104 minutes feels telegraphed, a bit cheap and, sadly, resigned for a more 12-year-old mind-frame.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nuremberg (2025) Peter Gray Perhaps more successful as a character study and an examination on the psychology of such, Nuremberg is still a haunting feature that feels eerily, and unfortunately, relevant in today’s political climate.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Peter Gray With so much star power, it’s disappointing that Jay Kelly leaves as little impact as it does. It’s an agreeable film, pleasant enough and undemanding, but at 132 minutes it doesn’t hold much weight to justify its length.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Hunting Season (2025) Peter Gray Indulges in a certain neo-Western mentality, remains remarkably asexual, and ultimately culminates in a violent shoot-out where murky good triumphs over pure evil.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Under the Stars (2025) Peter Gray Whilst as a romantic comedy it isn’t perhaps the funniest venture – it’s the type of movie to elicit a warm smile as opposed to a belly laugh – Under the Stars is all so very agreeable that its shortcomings are forgiven.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Peter Gray Ultimately, this is the gift that keeps on giving in that it serves as a reminder of how truly, naturally luminous [Michelle] Pfeiffer is on screen.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Peter Gray [Jalmari] Helander’s bloody sequel is a glorious celebration of the revenge genre at its most risible.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Eyed Girl (2025) Peter Gray [Marisa] Coughlan has always been a standout performer, if underappreciated, and both her comedic capabilities and emotional depth help Blue Eyed Girl elevate any of its standard structure.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Peter Gray With the arrival of Wicked: For Good, it can be wholeheartedly agreed upon that, yes, such a story – at least as it’s being told by [Jon M.] Chu – needed both films in order to let it breathe and cocoon wholly.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Trap House (2025) Peter Gray Its blend of machismo-driven physicality with a genuine sense of emotionality around parents protecting their kids, and how one personally navigates their own grief, lends the film an air of appreciated novelty.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
In Your Dreams (2025) Peter Gray It’s familiar, sure, but that doesn’t take away from just how special it all proves to be. With families a little starved for attention in the current cineplex market, In Your Dreams is perfect streaming value.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Playdate (2025) Peter Gray This is hardly going to change anyone’s day, but I dare say that Ritchson opposing his monstrous frame with a schoolboy enthusiasm is worth the streaming minutes alone; may you never look at Reacher the same way again.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Running Man (2025) Peter Gray An enjoyable effort that provides plenty of merit and, perhaps most importantly, continues the trajectory of Powell’s leading man persona – one that he has adopted with particular ease.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Beldham (2024) Peter Gray The more [Angela] Gulner’s script reveals itself, the clearer it becomes that this is a far more personal, deep-rooted drama than it is any type of haunted house or villainous parent genre effort.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Peter Gray Though this may ultimately prove more sweet in nature than many will expect, it builds a larger world of intrigue that [Dan Trachtenberg] wisely teases for future updates we can only hope he’s in charge of.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Dead Giveaway (2025) Peter Gray A biting mystery of a comedy that continually elevates beyond its premise due to the winning dynamic of leads Ruby Modine and Mikaela Hoover.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Wilderness (2025) Peter Gray In a time where original films and their personal connection to the storyteller feel lost in a haze of franchises and sequels, [Spencer] King bringing out such a work of art incorporating his own trauma makes The Wilderness all the more special.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Bugonia (2025) Peter Gray [Yorgos] Lanthimos and [Will] Tracy have no hesitation in unnerving audiences across Bugonia, manging to quite masterfully balance the film’s darkly humorous commentary with a more tragic state of mind.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Peter Gray It's difficult to deny just how much Kiss of the Spider Woman catapults itself to another stratosphere of awe whenever [Jennifer] Lopez graces us with her magnetism.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Shelby Oaks (2023) Peter Gray It’s not as special as it truly could have been, but there’s always some uneven footing in the journey towards creative contentment.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) Peter Gray The Hand That Rocks the Cradle takes pride in its restraint, letting both Winstead and Monroe unravel, before exploding with a violent mentality feels all the more surprising given the delicate terror that surrounds such.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
After the Hunt (2025) Peter Gray A crucial story frustratingly undone by its own self-importance.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Black Phone 2 (2025) Peter Gray With Black Phone 2 embracing the notion that all bets are off and no one ever truly dies in this universe, it’s a film that feels dangerous at every turn, which in itself only further enhances its emotional core.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Roofman (2025) Peter Gray Thankfully a story not ruined by a lesser director and the story’s obvious comedic, farcical possibilities, Roofman transcends its eccentric ingredients by honouring the humanity at its core
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Bark (2023) Peter Gray Bark rewards those that sit with its deliberate pacing and ironically claustrophobic setting.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Affection (2025) Peter Gray It’s conceptual, has an appreciation for practical effects, and continues the genre’s strength as a delightful playground for new voices to let their freak flags fly.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Peter Gray Rønning dares to pivot outside the virtual, though he does so without entirely sacrificing the films’ penchant for spectacle.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Looking Through Water (2025) Peter Gray Simplistic and reflective, Looking Through Water doesn’t alter its genre in any drastic fashion, but sometimes the safety of a story being told by reliable talent – both behind and in front of the camera – is enough to warrant a recommendation.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Play Dirty (2025) Peter Gray Whilst Play Dirty isn’t close to being [Shane] Black to his finest form, he at least injects his usual Christmas setting for good measure, as well as displaying that he hasn’t lost his knack for consistent action and amusing banter.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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