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NBC News THINK is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ani Bundel, Aramide Tinubu, Bryan Reesman, Jenni Miller, Noah Berlatsky, Ronda Racha Penrice.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Marvels (2023) Ani Bundel While there are parts that are too thin and a few mystifying plot holes, the movie more than makes up for them with an irreverent and joyful story about found family that features truly wonderful chemistry between its three leading women.
Posted Nov 18, 2023  Edit critic review
TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) Ani Bundel Swift’s film isn’t trying to be the best. It’s just trying to be good enough -- a bar it clears easily.
Posted Oct 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Alice, Darling (2022) Noah Berlatsky Sometimes it’s important to tell stories even when, or especially when, they aren’t the stories we’re expecting.
Posted Jan 21, 2023  Edit critic review
M3GAN (2022) Jason Bailey It’s built to meme, filled with bonkers images, memorable one-liners and welcome winks. The filmmakers know exactly what they’re doing, and the audience has a blast.
Posted Jan 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Spirited (2022) Ani Bundel It is a bizarre and somewhat grotesque rewriting of the story’s moral... seen through the lens of bothsiderism.
Posted Dec 06, 2022  Edit critic review
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) Ani Bundel The problem is Scrooge. The film wants him to be good person deep down and keeps finding psychological excuses for his poor behavior.
Posted Dec 06, 2022  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Ani Bundel A delightful trifle of a mystery movie, a laugh-out-loud comedy that deserves to be a mass market theatrical hit.
Posted Nov 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Aramide Tinubu A stunning tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Bryan Reesman A breath of fresh air for not hiding its fabrications. The hilarious production is an inversion of the famed musical comedian’s life.
Posted Nov 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Till (2022) Aramide Tinubu Through Deadwyler’s powerful performance, viewers will feel the palpable fear of Black mothers knowing they can never fully protect their Black children in white America.
Posted Oct 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) Ani Bundel The result is a joyful film that works well for both the 5-year-old child who is finally getting the hang of Halloween and the 15-year-old who still enjoys kid movies at heart.
Posted Sep 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Don't Worry Darling (2022) Noah Berlatsky “Don’t Worry, Darling” is a movie that airily warns you to watch out for illusions even as it revels in a film’s power to create a world deliberately untethered from reality.
Posted Sep 24, 2022  Edit critic review
The Woman King (2022) Wilson Morales A powerful film about sisterhood, family and unity that’s entertaining and educational.
Posted Sep 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Noah Berlatsky George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is a film about romance and stories and wishes that traps you in the same old historical tropes, only to turn them into smoke before your eyes.
Posted Aug 30, 2022  Edit critic review
The Gray Man (2022) Ani Bundel Unfortunately, this movie’s by-the-numbers plot and dull action sequences make for exciting background noise but not a gripping big-screen bonanza.
Posted Jul 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Noah Berlatsky The movie can be seen as a restaging of Peele’s own first film. Or it can be seen as a call to peers to find new spectacles, bigger, better and less racist than Kong.
Posted Jul 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Persuasion (2022) Ani Bundel This new movie feels as if it had been written by someone who had never cracked a Jane Austen novel, just watched a few trailers for “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma,” opened Wikipedia for a plot summary and went from there.
Posted Jul 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Noah Berlatsky Waititi wants you to know that when you’re scared or alone, he’ll show up in that rocky CGI face and tell you about some awesome space Vikings.
Posted Jul 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Elvis (2022) Noah Berlatsky Baz Luhrmannn’s “Elvis” is a bloated, glitzy, behind-the-music biopic that makes no pretense about pandering.
Posted Jun 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Lightyear (2022) Ani Bundel It is the perfect movie to draw audiences back to theaters, with all of the joy and heart (and tear-jerking) one expects from a studio known for making millennials (and now their children) cry.
Posted Jun 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Sam Thielman “Maverick,” with its ridiculous fake adversary, its claims of overwhelming military victories during peacetime, and its ludicrous secrecy, has none of this. It’s a copy of a copy; a blurry Xerox of a historic hero.
Posted Jun 02, 2022  Edit critic review
House of Gucci (2021) Ani Bundel While these performances will probably doom the film come awards season, they are the movie’s saving grace. The sheer silliness of the proceedings neutralize the film’s attempts at plumbing the dark side of wealth and the corruption...
Posted May 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Ani Bundel This “Dr. Strange” epic is one of the best examples yet of how the empire Kevin Feige created manages to keep succeeding over and over and over again. Perhaps its rivals should take notes.
Posted May 06, 2022  Edit critic review
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) Ani Bundel It seems unlikely that Cage’s turn as Cage will truly be recognized by the awards shows... But as a way to both return to the megaplex and highlight his entire persona in one two-hour long sizzle reel, it’s a grand slam.
Posted Apr 26, 2022  Edit critic review
The Northman (2022) Noah Berlatsky The Northman" offers elaborately staged hatred and death. It was popular then; its popular now.
Posted Apr 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) Ani Bundel This franchise’s fanciful deck chairs are arranged appropriately for once, but it’s still sinking.
Posted Apr 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Morbius (2022) Noah Berlatsky Although Dracula has long represented the outsider, Morbius spends the whole film trying to be more normal.
Posted Apr 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2022) Sam Thielman Deep Water explores its two magnetic lead characters, played by Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck, in ways that more expensive entertainment has mostly stopped attempting.
Posted Mar 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Turning Red (2022) Ani Bundel It’s long been a Hollywood truism that centering women in coming-of-age stories guarantees that men will not watch them. Turning Red is a film that says fluff to all that.
Posted Mar 14, 2022  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Noah Berlatsky The Batman has some stylish trappings and some interesting ideas. But under the mask, weve seen it all before.
Posted Mar 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Death on the Nile (2022) Sam Thielman Branagh the actor still understands what makes his characters tick. Even loaded down with its huge terrarium of a drawing room and its silly plot holes and overwrought gunplay, this Karnak still has a working engine.
Posted Feb 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Cyrano (2021) Sam Thielman The film feels like a labor of love. Specifically, it seems to be the love of Dinklage's wife, playwright and director Erica Schmidt, who wrote the screenplay from her own musical adaptation staged several years ago.
Posted Feb 01, 2022  Edit critic review
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Sam Thielman The highest compliment I can pay The Tragedy of Macbeth is that I understood one of my favorite plays better after having seen it.
Posted Dec 27, 2021  Edit critic review
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Ani Bundel For those looking for that old cyberpunk dystopia... this reboot may be a disappointment. But as a vision of hope, Lana Wachowski has done something rare: taken back the story to finish it as she sees fit. Call it The Matrix: Reclaimed.
Posted Dec 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Ani Bundel An overstuffed homage to Sony and Marvel's two decades in the Spider-fam business, the film nevertheless manages to be utterly charming, a feel-good two-and-a-half hour last hurrah for fans.
Posted Dec 20, 2021  Edit critic review
Red Notice (2021) Noah Berlatsky Rawson Marshall Thurber's clever script is a shell game of plot twists and head fakes which keeps daring you to notice, or care, that you're watching a scam, a forgery and a fiction. It
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
No Time to Die (2021) Noah Berlatsky Even with familiar characters imperiled more effectively than in earlier installments, the stakes are virtually nonexistent. And a main character who exists in a vacuum is largely airless and empty.
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Last Night in Soho (2021) Noah Berlatsky Wright's new film "Last Night in Soho" is both about how uncomfortable he is with Hollywood's conventions and an illustration of his failure to overcome them.
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Eternals (2021) Noah Berlatsky But at this point, the MCU formula has been recycled so often that sitting through these movies starts to feel eternal.
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Silent Night (2021) Noah Berlatsky Director Camille Griffin understands that watching someone get their face torn off is often less upsetting than watching someone socially faceplant.
Posted Dec 11, 2021  Edit critic review
The Green Knight (2021) Noah Berlatsky The movie's modern, slyly deflationary approach to its material has as much to do with that classic film of antiheroism, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as it does with high Arthurian legend.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
A Quiet Place Part II (2021) Sam Thielman Krasinski's film is an adventure movie, a grisly family film, a thriller and a domestic drama, all without breaking a sweat. The characters will stay with you and the themes will resonate, but you'll also be glad you went back to the movies
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Sam Thielman Somehow, Space Jam: A New Legacy manages to both promote and insult great movies and cartoons by trying to make them part of a crummy, halfhearted promotional multiverse based on the Warner Bros. Entertainment organization chart.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) Sam Thielman It's a little silly, but it's also very entertaining. Our hero is, more or less, the bad guy, and the question of when he's going to finally do the right thing provides an interesting tension throughout the film.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
America: The Motion Picture (2021) Sam Thielman It's not bad in the sense that its humor is nasty, or even that the jokes are overly gross -- it's bad because you get the sense that it sort of hates its ideal viewer.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Mortal Kombat (2021) Sam Thielman The jokes are dumb and unfunny and the characters are barely there -- which is all sort of to be expected in a video game movie, though it would be nice to see one that tries a bit harder.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Pray Away (2020) Sam Thielman Stolakis' filmmaking is a little generic, but she is so deeply literate on conversion or "reparative" therapy ministries for LGBTQ Christians that... she still manages to pull together a devastating narrative arc.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Luca (2021) Sam Thielman There's something nicely old-fashioned about a children's movie that spends its time finding the borders and depths of a realistic setting instead of a fanciful one.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
The Card Counter (2020) Sam Thielman Schrader specializes in protagonists who seem mere moments away from exploding, occasionally literally, and in Isaac, he has an actor of near-total self-awareness and charisma, making us worry harder than usual.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Bad Trip (2021) Sam Thielman Most of the time, Bad Trip delights in capturing the shock people show when they're faced with something truly surreal, dangerous or gross. It's all there, in less than 90 minutes, the whole awful human experience.
Posted Nov 22, 2021  Edit critic review
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