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The Long Way Home: Remastered and Expanded (2026) William Schwartz The on-the-street and in-the-recording-studio depictions of the time are of greater interest than Grebenshchikov’s own celebrity.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Signing Tony Raymond (2025) William Schwartz The world of Signing Tony Raymond is not meritocratic. It isn’t even ethical. Just like America, money threatens to pervert everything, but because down-home Americans are good at heart, everything just about works.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shadow of the Sun (2023) William Schwartz The Shadow of the Sun is convincing despite the million reasons it could fail, mainly because it’s a mid-life crisis film except without the wallowing self-centeredness that art about that subject tends to imply
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) William Schwartz Unlike typical zombie genre films, We Bury The Dead does not need to put the world at risk for us to care what happens, just Ava. Instead of breadth, it aims for depth — the stake is not human survival but one human’s survival.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes (1999) William Schwartz Funny little behind-the-scenes factoids are what Wadd is focused on rather than providing any broader historical perspective of the industry.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Speed Train (2025) William Schwartz The ending of Speed Train is a foregone conclusion. The journey is the main appeal here, with cheesy, gory violence and crude fight choreography selling a bunch of one-dimensional archetypes doing their best to survive the train ride.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Stitch Head (2025) William Schwartz When Stitch Head dares to sit still — when it contemplates how terrifying it is simply to be a child — it comes remarkably close to being a true classic.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) William Schwartz It’s borderline brilliant how Lesbian Space Princess is able to skewer fragility culture while still indisputedly being about as queer as a sci-fi comedy can possibly get.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Code 3 (2025) William Schwartz Did you know that nobody can die in an ambulance? As nonsensical as that sounds, Code 3 does have a good explanation.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Driver (2024) William Schwartz The first ten minutes of Driver — abstract, sensory, almost experimental — would feel at home in a film festival. But labor is political. A film that avoids structural analysis in favor of isolated anecdotes feels evasive, not neutral.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025) William Schwartz One of the big services The Truth About Jussie Smollett does as true crime style retrospective journalism is that it clearly explains all the evidence arrayed against Smollett.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Shari & Lamb Chop (2023) William Schwartz Leans hard on hagiography while skating over the much weirder, more interesting question: Why was a woman talking to a sock puppet such a compelling figure in 20th-century American television?
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Ziam (2025) William Schwartz Zombie flicks aren’t exactly known for originality, but they usually at least try to be interesting. Even Muay Thai with all of its balletic grace and effective violence isn’t enough of a gimmick to make Ziam watchable.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Night, and Good Luck Live (2025) William Schwartz The play’s quite good, and I would even go so far as to say the telecast is better than the original film.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Times (1975) Neal Pollack Everything feels real and unadorned. It’s an apolitical view of the Depression devoid of melodrama or self-pity, which is kind of nice.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Caught Stealing (2025) Dan Friedman Hank, played here with blue eyes, impeccable abs and small-town charisma by Austin Butler, mostly stumbles through the film like a man who desperately wants a nap but instead keeps waking up in the ER or someone else’s crime scene.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Thank You Very Much (2023) William Schwartz The best conceptualization Braverman is able to offer as to why Kaufman is funny is that he was trying to take his audience hostage as they sat mystified, trying to decide whether or not he was actually telling a joke or just being excessively awkward.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024) William Schwartz Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie is as much about a bygone era where people conceptualized comedy itself in completely different terms as it is a documentary about Cheech and Chong specifically.
Posted Aug 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Accountant 2 (2025) Stephen Garrett Overcomplicated plotting and a mysterious killer known as Anaïs (Daniuella Pineda) are the overwrought filigree to the film’s real purpose, which is to watch Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal ham it up as odd-couple siblings.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Stephen Garrett The Final Reckoning adds a valedictory air to all the tense conversations and dazzling mayhem, making sure we know that not only is the fate of the world at stake, but also the fate of the franchise.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Stephen Garrett Genteel thriller The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson’s most single-minded, plot-driven, self-mocking movie in years—a propulsive hoot that inevitably indulges but rarely dwells on precious tangents and eccentric caricatures.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Ballerina (2025) Stephen Garrett The best part about watching Eve in face-off after face-off is the messiness.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later (2025) Stephen Garrett Unlike many sequels, 28 Years Later brings back the original brain trust: mischievously manic director Danny Boyle, prophetic futurist screenwriter Alex Garland, and digital-video maestro cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Stephen Garrett The racing scenes are simply sublime and Kosinski is smart enough to make sure most of the movie stays on the race track.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Stephen Garrett Dinosaurs attack, humans fight to survive, and audiences will be thrilled and bored in equal measure. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman (2025) Stephen Garrett Watching Gunn’s Superman is like picking up this month’s latest issue from your favorite comic book racks: charming, effective, satisfying enough until the next one.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
An Officer and a Spy (2019) Stephen Garrett A taut, nuanced and often gripping drama about systemic abuses of power and moral corruption tinged with unspoken shame.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Weapons (2025) Stephen Garrett Pain gets inflicted in every direction, especially when we don’t intend it and don’t even understand why. Weapons weaponizes our cultural malaise of zombified helplessness.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Sinners (2025) Stephen Garrett Coogler’s movie-making sensibility is creating a body of mainstream work that explores the American black experience with a thrilling, boundary-pushing clarity.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Amateur (2025) Stephen Garrett Dorks turn deadly in The Amateur, a serviceable espionage thriller with an admittedly novel gimmick.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
A Working Man (2025) Stephen Garrett Let’s hope Ayers and Statham find another way to work together that brings back the playful oddness of movies like The Beekeeper.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Bag (2025) Stephen Garrett Black Bag is classic bespoke Soderbergh: elegantly crafted, impeccably tailored, cleverly calculating, with self-aware camerawork, efficient storytelling, and coolly controlled emotions, all set to a funky pulsing retro-infused David Holmes score.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mickey 17 (2025) Stephen Garrett Dying is easy, comedy is hard: that cheeky chestnut encapsulates the strengths and weaknesses of Bong Joon-ho’s joyously silly Mickey 17, a semi-hilarious and half-baked sci-fi satire that delights in debasing human life.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Stephen Garrett Brave New World succeeds mostly by breaking in Mackie as the new Cap—a very mortal man with tremendous tech and excellent physical training who’s also polylingual and thoughtful enough to ask after people’s relatives.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Brutalist (2024) Stephen Garrett The Brutalist is about all those manifestations of legacy: the ways in which the world molds, deforms, and reshapes what we do, who we are, and what we leave behind.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nosferatu (2024) Stephen Garrett Overwrought and overthought, Robert Eggers’ cerebral creepfest Nosferatu forsakes hair-raising and spine-tingling for carefully curated arthouse-homage spooks.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Queer (2024) Stephen Garrett A swoony-sweaty look at the uncertainty of love, Luca Guadagnino’s febrile period piece Queer is a mournful reverie for all the hapless, hopeless, feckless, reckless souls aching to connect.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Gladiator II (2024) Stephen Garrett This sword-and-sandals epic serves up the same basic outline of the first movie without any of its compelling characters.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked (2024) Stephen Garrett A sumptuous, glamorous, bedazzled and ardently faithful spectacular-spectacular.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Blitz (2024) Stephen Garrett It’s paint-by-numbers petty behavior punctuated with noble valor: diverting but never really enthralling.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Emilia Pérez (2024) Stephen Garrett A woozy doozy of a genre-busting musical, the bold and breathtaking Emilia Pérez swings for the fences with a lusty bluster.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Stephen Garrett Over three proudly unserious movies, eccentric character actor Hardy has clearly reveled in this bizarre buddy comedy riff on Marvel’s fatuous superhero save-the-universe schtick.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Smile 2 (2024) Stephen Garrett Constructing Smile 2 all around a cracking-under-the-pressure Lady Gaga type who is losing her sense of sanity is a playfully inspired stand-alone sequel idea.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Saturday Night (2024) Stephen Garrett Millennials and Gen Z won’t get all the references, but they will pick up on the vibes: that scrappy sense of something new being born, of a culture-defining Zeitgeist beginning to form in all its natal potency.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Stephen Garrett If you were expecting more from this sequel, then the joke’s on you.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wolfs (2024) Stephen Garrett You won’t be howling over Wolfs, a subpar megawattage buddy action-comedy with grumpy glamourpuss Hollywood hunks and a rudimentary sense of after-hours mischief.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Substance (2024) Stephen Garrett It’s a fantasy-turned-nightmare that owes a deep debt to David Cronenberg’s pulpy existential ruminations but blazes a new vision for femme phantasms. Long live the new flesh, even if it means creating the Monstro Elisasue.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Stephen Garrett Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a messy sequel, and it’s maybe all the more enjoyable for being just that, with a loosey-goosey energy so painfully lacking in Hollywood movies these days.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Stephen Garrett Serves up the long-awaited face-off between two superhuman mutants with regenerative healing factors, offering yuk-it-up bloody tussles that are endless roundelays of gratuitous meat-sack evisceration.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Stephen Garrett Fly Me to the Moon doesn’t exactly soar, but it doesn’t completely crash and burn either.
Posted Aug 26, 2025  Edit critic review
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