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The Beat is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Carolyn Hinds, Edward Douglas, Hannah Lodge, Joelle Monique, Julian Lytle, Kay-B, Kyle Pinion, Samantha Puc, Therese Lacson.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Rental Family (2025) Julian Lytle Rental Family is a great film, and it’s perfect for the holiday season. It has strong performances by its cast and a story that has a lot of heart and a good window into the human experience and the need for human connection.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Samantha Puc Whatever the reason for this documentary’s unique warmth, speaking solely from the perspective of a fan, it feels right for Gibson and their legacy. It also feels right for Falley, whose work has been fundamentally altered by the loss of her partner.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Julian Lytle Overall, though, Zootopia 2 is a hilarious movie. It’s clearly made for general audiences with jokes for kids and jokes that adults and even hipper adults at some points, that never leaves anyone lost.
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Julian Lytle One Battle After Another is easily one of the best films of the year, a gripping family drama wrapped inside a sprawling, chaotic epic only Paul Thomas Anderson could create.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Kyle Pinion A nuclear bomb of a film seething with anger.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Kyle Pinion Johnson's third Knives Out mystery drowns in two-and-a-half hours of smug messaging and paper-thin characters, more an endurance test than a compelling whodunit
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Hannah Lodge It would be a huge disservice to Obsession to say that it’s the second-best comedy-horror film this year about breaking a stick to make violent things happen.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Red Sonja (2025) Julian Lytle Red Sonja was a waste of my time, which is something I find hard to forgive. I don’t like tearing apart people’s creative work because so much effort goes into it from their end, but this movie was truly awful, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Julian Lytle Here we have The Fantastic Four film, which many people have dreamed of seeing for decades, and I’m happy that I was able to experience it.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Heads of State (2025) Julian Lytle Heads of State is a perfect summer movie and a film that many should enjoy, making it worth taking the time to watch on Prime Video
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Julian Lytle For me, this is Gunn’s best superhero movie, and it works as a great Superman movie, big summer extravaganza, and sets up the DCU so well.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballerina (2025) Julian Lytle I think if you want to see a good action movie, this is a great choice of what’s out there. I don’t know where the franchise is going, but Ballerina does give me hope that the spinoffs can be just as good
Posted Jun 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Julian Lytle Thunderbolts* has some outstanding fight choreography and scenes, a solid story, and a fun new team added to the MCU. This movie will be very rewatchable and is better than the last entry, Captain America: Brave New World.
Posted May 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Julian Lytle The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is a very entertaining and excellently made animated movie, and it’s a good return of these characters to the movie screens.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Julian Lytle Captain America: Brave New World surprised me by not being what I thought it would be. It kept the history of Captain America films as the best subseries in the MCU by holding to likable stories and strong, relatable themes to give a good superhero movie
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Dog Man (2025) Julian Lytle Dog Man is going to be a solid hit and one of the best movies purely made for children I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not about adults at all. This is for the Dog Man lovers, and it hits it out of the park.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) Julian Lytle This movie does skew a bit towards “dad movie,” but with most of the awards bait films & family films being the main thing in the theater, a movie with stealing diamonds, driving fast cars to escape, & shooting big guns with the Italian Mafia on top
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Julian Lytle The film tries to be everything to everyone and ends up being for no one.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Julian Lytle Alien: Romulus is a tense, creepy, and welcome return of the franchise to more of its origins than what the last two were for most. It’s a film that could bring a new storyline to connect to a whole new generation of audiences.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Underwater (2020) Samantha Puc [The monsters are] revealed a bit too early; the impact of the finale is somewhat lessened by the fact that we know what the monsters look like well before the final showdown.
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
The Knight Before Christmas (2019) Samantha Puc The Knight Before Christmas certainly isn’t going to win any awards this year, but that isn’t why it exists — and that’s okay. The cast looks like they’re having an excellent time; I had an excellent time watching them play out this big-hearted rom-com.
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Charlie's Angels (2019) Samantha Puc Charlie’s Angels is a genuinely entertaining, nearly flawless movie that draws you in from the jump, takes you on a wild ride, and then sends you off with a smile on your face.
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) Samantha Puc There’s a distinct feeling that the filmmakers wanted this sequel to feel as stakes-heavy and intense as something like Return of the King, which is honestly just too ambitious.
Posted Jul 10, 2024  Edit critic review
The Silence (2019) Samantha Puc The cult plot in The Silence is as poorly handled as nearly every other part of the film. With the exception of a great cast, headed by Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, and Miranda Otto, the film lacks any cohesion and feels almost unwatchable.
Posted Jul 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Kyle Pinion The most mesmeric experience I’ve had in a theater this year, perhaps in a few years.
Posted Dec 13, 2022  Edit critic review
A
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Therese Lacson After multiple movies that, while entertaining, ultimately felt aimless and grasping, Wakanda Forever is cohesive and emotionally impacting regaining some of the MCU luster.
Posted Nov 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Halloween Ends (2022) Hannah Lodge The entire experience feels like a vision board or collage of ideas instead of a proper film.
Posted Oct 13, 2022  Edit critic review
Hellraiser (2022) Kyle Pinion A 2-hour long game of “spot the references and easter eggs”, built basically to make longtime fans feel like it’s respectful of the mythology, which apparently replaces the need for quality and depth of storytelling.
Posted Oct 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Hannah Lodge Glass Onion excels, particularly in the middle half of the film, at creating a satisfying narrative. But the large-scale ending overtook the feeling of satisfaction provided by its predecessor.
Posted Sep 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Hannah Lodge Nope joins a slate of films this year that make a case for the movies-as-a-thrill-ride argument, one that demands as big a screen as possible.
Posted Jul 21, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
The Sea Beast (2022) Therese Lacson If you’re looking for the next animated movie to watch with the family (or by yourself), then The Sea Beast is it.
Posted Jul 15, 2022  Edit critic review
D
Spiderhead (2022) Therese Lacson The lesson at the end of the day? Chris Hemsworth should play more villains, but let’s leave literary adaptations for projects that honor the original story.
Posted Jul 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Kyle Pinion Oh well, we’ll always have Ragnarok.
Posted Jul 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Hannah Lodge Marcel the Shell with Shoes On pulls off an impossible feat by being as funny and puzzlingly tender as its inspiration.
Posted Jun 27, 2022  Edit critic review
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Hannah Lodge It was a refreshing surprise to see that the latest entry to the MCU, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is, at its core, a Sam Raimi film.
Posted May 17, 2022  Edit critic review
Men (2022) Hannah Lodge By the time we get to Men’s graphic and surreal third act, its characters feel like paper dolls.
Posted May 17, 2022  Edit critic review
The Northman (2022) Kyle Pinion If this is how we get our big screen Sword & Sorcery revival, with inward seeking filmmakers taking a stab at arguably the most externally pleasurable genre, sign me up.
Posted Apr 21, 2022  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Therese Lacson A cathartic story for anyone who has sought acceptance from family, Everything Everywhere tells the story of a family on the brink who discovers how to heal and come back together wrapped in the glittery, technicolored paper of a sci-fi superhero movie.
Posted Mar 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Turning Red (2022) Therese Lacson With heart, humor, and a deep understanding of the Chinese experience, Turning Red is deeply personal and that’s what makes it great.
Posted Mar 11, 2022  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Therese Lacson The Batman is Matt Reeves most ambitious film yet. The jump from a tense detective story to thrilling action to melancholic romance to disaster film is a massive feat, but yes, Reeves has managed to pick up Nolans mantle where others have failed before.
Posted Feb 28, 2022  Edit critic review
D
Joker (2019) Kay-B As committed as I was to Phoenixs performance, I found myself walking out of the theater wondering, why did we need to tell this deeply violent and triggering story now? Where does DC go from here and this standalone film?
Posted Feb 09, 2022  Edit critic review
A
Black Is King (2020) Kay-B Showcasing Black excellence, beauty, and resilience, Black Is King is a celebration for us, and a beautiful body of Black art for everyone to consume and enjoy, but for us to truly delight in its cultural meaning.
Posted Feb 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Therese Lacson [A]lthough Resurrections uses flashbacks and footage directly from the trilogy, it's not interested in hand-holding the audience through its story.
Posted Dec 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Kyle Pinion Spider-Man: No Way Home is the anti-Eternals. It's bereft of any of that film's attempts at ambition, replacing it instead with gobs and gobs of fan service. On those merits, it succeeds in what it's trying to do.
Posted Dec 15, 2021  Edit critic review
Nightmare Alley (2021) Kyle Pinion Nightmare Alley feels like it's ripped right out of the pages of a classic EC Comic
Posted Dec 03, 2021  Edit critic review
Licorice Pizza (2021) Kyle Pinion I'm in love with this movie and I can't stop thinking about it. There's no chance you're going to find anything better this year.
Posted Nov 22, 2021  Edit critic review
Eternals (2021) Kyle Pinion A film that is constantly at war with itself, for nearly three hours.
Posted Oct 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Therese Lacson [It's] hard not to say that [Villeneuve has] done the impossible. He's adapted an accurate and artistically unique version of Dune.
Posted Oct 21, 2021  Edit critic review
Halloween Kills (2021) Hannah Lodge Halloween Kills doesn't reach the heights of the original or the 2018 legacy sequel, but its interest in taking the franchise and the mythos of Michael Myers to new places keeps the film fresh and fun.
Posted Oct 18, 2021  Edit critic review
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021) Therese Lacson FEAR STREET PART ONE: 1994 plays on horror tropes and high school angst, all while kicking off an exciting new trilogy.
Posted Oct 09, 2021  Edit critic review
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