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Moviebob Central is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bob Chipman.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
5/10
Mercy (2026) Bob Chipman Takes a pass at mashing-up the 'screenlife' genre with a proper big-screen sci-fi/action blockbuster and comes up with 'What If Minority Report But Stupid?' as a result.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
8/10
Primate (2025) Bob Chipman 'College students trapped in a house on a hill with a rabid killer chimpanzee' in a brutally-violent horror flick that's exactly as good (or not good) as it's premise sounds, depending on your point of view.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
6/10
Anaconda (2025) Bob Chipman Buoyed unexpectedly by a fresh-feeling 'Where was she keeping THIS??' bro-down comedy turn from Newton, who's never done a performance exactly like this but feels like she should've been doing it for years.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
8/10
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Bob Chipman Hard to believe this fits together, but it does.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
6/10
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Bob Chipman Anyone seeking a straightforward scary-story will start wishing it would just get out of its own way and deliver the goods.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
8/10
Zootopia 2 (2025) Bob Chipman Stretches animal puns and socially-aware allegories to fuzzy extremes in pursuit of its well-intentioned, mostly-earned 'Teamwork makes the dream work' payoff.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
7/10
Shelby Oaks (2023) Bob Chipman Occasionally evokes an Ari Aster feature (but about people who work for a living.)
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
5/10
Wicked: For Good (2025) Bob Chipman The back half of a musical that infamously drops off in Act 2 becomes a sequel that's not as good as the first one. Who could have seen that coming?
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
5/10
The Running Man (2025) Bob Chipman Manages to make what felt boldly predictive in 1982 feel drably predictable for 2025; with an interesting cast stranded amid inconsistent characterizations and cultural commentary that's the opposite of cutting.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Predator: Badlands (2025) Bob Chipman Surprisingly, the elevator pitch of 'Predator Versus Everything-From-Alien-BUT-The-Alien This Time' turns out to NOT be too twee for it's own good and makes for a satisfying space-monster action-figure sandbox romp.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
One Battle After Another (2025) Bob Chipman Crackles with topical energy and great performances, while also playing as left-of-center inversion of 'Taken' or 'Nobody' with DiCaprio's endearing "radical" aged into an authentically ordinary middle-aged burnout nonetheless called to Avenging Dad mode
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
Ne Zha II (2025) Bob Chipman Goes BIG on spectacle, less so on comprehension - wickedly funny little chaos gremlin protagonist keeps getting lost amid his own movie's compulsion toward video game fireworks (all of which look great, but less so when one isn't holding the controller.)
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Bob Chipman Gory, gross and possessed of authentic 'power to the people' punk rock spirit for the chronically beaten down that earns its grimy revolutionary edge precisely because it doesn't even TRY to care about precision in its shotgun-blast satirical rage.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Nobody 2 (2025) Bob Chipman I'm almost EMBARASSED by how much I loved this.
Posted Aug 13, 2025  Edit critic review
10/10
Superman (2025) Bob Chipman Feels like an era-defining moment for the genre and industry - like you're seeing Hollywood's future (or at least the next 20+ years of superhero features) being born: And that future is colorful, corny, achingly sincere and has BIG things on its mind.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Bob Chipman Actually pretty good, but can we stop doing this before we have to watch live-action 'Minions?'
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Bob Chipman Less engaging when straining for allegory about the threat of A.I., with Cruise's 'living manifestation of destiny' as analog movie stardom's John Henry flexing his jawline versus a wannabe Skynet that isn't half as scary as your average Twitter troll
Posted May 16, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Thunderbolts* (2025) Bob Chipman A Marvel riff on 'The Boys,' if it were written for adults instead of edgelord teenagers with oppositional defiant disorder
Posted Apr 29, 2025  Edit critic review
10/10
Sinners (2025) Bob Chipman An action/horror masterpiece that will rate among 2025's best films - see it before anyone tells you anything about it
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Bob Chipman 'A Minecraft Movie' is a Minecraft movie, and I don't know what else it could be.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
A Working Man (2025) Bob Chipman Statham is about the best in the business at this exact sort of role, but you've seen him do it better in a dozen other movies and it lacks Ayer's usual more imaginative flourish until too later in the game
Posted Mar 27, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Disney's Snow White (2025) Bob Chipman A slight but agreeable adaptation that in its best moments offers similar charms to a well-mounted theme park parade (or maybe 'Disney on Ice?')
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
10/10
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Bob Chipman Feels like the movie [Looney Tunes] fans have been begging the studio for since at least the mid-90s. It's perfect. A must-see.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Bob Chipman Marvel goes back-to-basics with a lean, fast-paced throwback to Tom Clancy potboilers and its own 'Winter Soldier'/Phase 2 mode of solo-franchise "multiverse, what's that?" sequels, to largely satisfying results.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Bob Chipman Please, PLEASE stop making entire sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots to 'address' things that only YouTube video essayists ever (sort-of) cared about a decade ago.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
Emilia Pérez (2024) Bob Chipman If anything, it's sort of 'middlebrow;' which in a sense is more a statement of progress and forward-thinking than anything that's actually in the movie.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Nosferatu (2024) Bob Chipman So good in exactly the ways you expect it's almost difficult to find things to 'say' about it.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Dog Man (2025) Bob Chipman Plays like a kid-friendly mashup of 'ROBOCOP' and 'THE NAKED GUN.' Likely to be one of the funniest films of the year - I laughed my goddamn a** off!
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Wicked (2024) Bob Chipman Ultimately an acceptably-overlong pop-concert experience that will please fans and isn't really meant to do a single other thing; buoyed by a pair of high-caliber diva turns that succeed well beyond where they need to.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
6/10
Moana 2 (2024) Bob Chipman At last, GenZ can experience firsthand what their Millennial elders were talking about in the Old Legends of not-exactly-'bad' but also not-exactly-'good'-either Disney 'sequels' hastily assembled from unmade Disney TV shows
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
5/10
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) Bob Chipman Not as good as the second one, if you were looking for something like a metric for these.
Posted Dec 18, 2024  Edit critic review
2/10
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Bob Chipman If any director should be making 2.5 hour apology sequels, it’d be Todd Philips for 'Joker;' but he's obnoxiously oblivious as to HOW his movie accumulated the toxic fandom he's now spent a whole sequel lecturing against.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Transformers One (2024) Bob Chipman Wraps a solid "Baby's First Revolutionary-Schism" sci-fi/action story around a lot of striking animation and satisfying robot-punching adventure business.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Bob Chipman Comedy sequels are almost never good, Tim Burton is only good a bit more than half the time and nostalgia legasequels are a plague on 21st Century pop-culture. So how did we end up in the timeline where 'BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE' is actually pretty great?
Posted Sep 04, 2024  Edit critic review
6/10
Alien: Romulus (2024) Bob Chipman Repackages franchise iconography for a theme park ride that's mostly good when scrolling through the best of "ALIEN" and "ALIENS" and mostly bad when it's obligated to remind us of... the rest. 'Disney Reboot' round goes to The Predator.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
6/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Bob Chipman 'Marvel Rumors Subreddit: The Motion Picture;' - a cameo-and-reference party that's plenty of fun doing what it does, but we probably don't need to do it again.
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Primevals (2023) Bob Chipman David Allen believed in this movie so much it out lived him. He won.
Posted Jul 02, 2024  Edit critic review
6/10
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) Bob Chipman Old-school low-key WWII 'dad movie' that feels like a mid-1980s Canon Films time-filler. Would probably be a starmaking turn for Alan Ritchson if anyone who's going to see this exact type of movie in April wasn't already watching 'REACHER'
Posted Apr 19, 2024  Edit critic review
2/10
Civil War (2024) Bob Chipman Funny in hindsight the 'CIVIL WAR' movie about Marvel guys punching eachother made by Mickey Mouse managed to give its characters a coherent ideological conflict but a 'CIVIL WAR' movie about the U.S. in 2024 made by the cool fancy art-kid studio COULDN’T
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
9/10
Monkey Man (2024) Bob Chipman I went bananas for it!
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Bob Chipman You really get your money's worth for your monkey's worth!
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
4/10
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) Bob Chipman I don't think we need any more of this. I think that's enough 'Ghostbusters.'
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
7/10
Dune: Part Two (2024) Bob Chipman If you're casting a hero whose Chosen One origin is 'I'm The Chosen One: I Have A Note From My Mommy.' Timothée Night Shyamalan is the actor you want.
Posted Feb 21, 2024  Edit critic review
10/10
Hundreds of Beavers (2022) Bob Chipman A one-of-a-kind modern comedy masterpiece that will inspire an entire generation of young filmmakers
Posted Feb 19, 2024  Edit critic review
7/10
Argylle (2024) Bob Chipman A convoluted action/comedy romp that's a lot of fun - once it gets to a point that takes too long to arrive.
Posted Feb 01, 2024  Edit critic review
9/10
The Beekeeper (2024) Bob Chipman Jason Statham is a Charles Bronson for the 21st Century; punching The Internet in the face on behalf of old people wronged by in a topical vigilante revenge fantasy that does for phishing scams what 'DEATH WISH' did for street crime.
Posted Jan 10, 2024  Edit critic review
4/10
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (2023) Bob Chipman ...call the end result 'Zack Snyder's 'STUPIDER ASCENDING.'
Posted Dec 20, 2023  Edit critic review
4/10
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Bob Chipman A 'Start of Darkness' sci-fi franchise prequel where we learn how convoluted political machinations and doomed romance led the series' main villain to evolve out of a tall moody sad boy with the personality of driftwood? Wonder how he feels about sand...
Posted Nov 15, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
The Marvels (2023) Bob Chipman A superhero movie clearly made and produced by people who have read their Marvel comics and also maybe their Archies. It feels like it was made for actual comic fans, which has of course always included teen girls.
Posted Nov 09, 2023  Edit critic review
5/10
The Flash (2023) Bob Chipman While I also don't love 'that part everyone is mad at,' the big NON-CGI punchline they've chosen to end on is such a glorious 'Go F yourselves!' to the last three decades of toxic internet comic book movie fandom in I can't NOT respect the hell out of it.
Posted Jun 15, 2023  Edit critic review
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