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VitalThrills.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Alan Cerny, Jenna Busch, Joshua Starnes, Sarah Musnicky.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
6.5/10
Wicked: For Good (2025) Alan Cerny What could have been great, like the film’s title, is merely good.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Frankenstein (2025) Alan Cerny Jacob Elordi has given us a Frankenstein’s Monster for the ages, one that rivals Boris Karloff himself.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
9.5/10
The Long Walk (2025) Alan Cerny One of the very best adaptations of Stephen King’s work, a bold statement considering that so many great films have sprung from his novels. But I’d put The Long Walk right next to The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me in that honored, holy place.
Posted Sep 08, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Alan Cerny The Fantastic Four: First Steps is outstanding superhero cinema, and I can’t wait to see it again.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
9/10
Superman (2025) Alan Cerny Look, up at the screen. It’s a great comic book movie.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
7.5/10
F1 The Movie (2025) Alan Cerny A well-made cheeseburger is still a cheeseburger, but when you’re biting into one, it doesn’t matter if it tastes good. F1 The Movie is a high-end, satisfying cheeseburger, and it does the job.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Bring Her Back (2025) Sarah Musnicky Bring Her Back is an undeniable psychological lesson in torment and unease. It is flinch-inducing and relishes in its meanness, making this a refreshing horror outing. That and a possible trip to a heavily vetted therapist after.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Joshua Starnes Looking back, we thought the outcome of Fallout showed a filmmaking team that had cracked the code of the series, hinting at increasing success to come. Instead, we were at the apex and didn’t realize it. It was all downhill from there.
Posted May 19, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Sarah Musnicky Even if the story itself could have used a bit of work, The Legend of Ochi is an excellent tableau, cluing us into the mind and ingenuity of first-time feature-filmmaker Isaiah Saxon.
Posted Apr 18, 2025  Edit critic review
7/10
Kraven the Hunter (2024) Joshua Starnes There is a solid action thriller buried within Kraven the Hunter‘s heart — it’s easily the best of the Sony non-Spider-Man films so far (it’s a low bar) — and with a little more restraint it could have brought out.
Posted Dec 13, 2024  Edit critic review
9/10
Wicked (2024) Alan Cerny (Wicked) is about as crowd-pleasing and bursting with emotion as many of the great musicals of yesteryear and, with time, may be remembered just as fondly. Wicked is the best big-studio release of the year.
Posted Nov 19, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Gladiator II (2024) Alan Cerny Gladiator II may lack the elegance of the first, but it is fully Ridley Scott’s vision, and that is to be respected. Come for the sweeping storytelling; stay for Denzel Washington’s gleefully anarchic performance.
Posted Nov 11, 2024  Edit critic review
6/10
Megalopolis (2024) Joshua Starnes Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a grand experiment. A frustrating but enthralling dive into Coppola’s vision of what film (and, by extension, life itself) are, have been and could be.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Alien: Romulus (2024) Alan Cerny Is Alien: Romulus worthy of the Alien franchise? Absolutely. Are there missteps? A couple, but not enough to detract... Alien: Romulus is as thrilling, exciting, and scary as the best of the Alien Saga.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Jenna Busch " ... it really is full of heart (and possibly a few actual hearts) ... [the film] does something I thought was impossible. It gives the MCU a soft reset, and a chance to untangle themselves from the spaghettified mess that is the multiverse saga."
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Alan Cerny ...there are some extraordinarily satisfying and surprising moments in DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, and they deserve to be experienced fresh...
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
8.5/10
The Imaginary (2023) Jenna Busch "... it completely taps into the feel of how detailed and rich a kid’s imagination can be, but the simplicity of the stories they tell themselves because they have only lived so much."
Posted Jul 23, 2024  Edit critic review
5/10
Madame Web (2024) Joshua Starnes It’s the kind of movie destined for repeat 10 p.m. viewings on TNT or Netflix: a product of talented professionals who have gathered together to create something empty and disposable.
Posted Feb 13, 2024  Edit critic review
7/10
Wish (2023) Sarah Musnicky Wish is an enjoyable film. But, when weighed against past films, it is not the strongest film Disney has delivered.
Posted Nov 17, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Joshua Starnes In the world of Scorsese it is impossible to grasp for any sort of earthly reward and attain love; they are mutually exclusive. Scorsese’s films have been, to one degree or another, about human greed driving a wedge between men and God.
Posted Nov 09, 2023  Edit critic review
6/10
The Marvels (2023) Joshua Starnes Most of the time the film is as displaced and fractured as its leads, bouncing from character introspection to family comedy to musical with a manic pride. DaCosta and company have A LOT of ideas of what The Marvels could be.
Posted Nov 09, 2023  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Blue Beetle (2023) Joshua Starnes Heartwarming and exciting but also overstuffed and tripping over its own feet, Blue Beetle is a frequently charming, frequently frustrating attempt to re-write (or at least re-aim) the classic superhero narrative and intermittently succeeding.
Posted Aug 18, 2023  Edit critic review
3/10
Strays (2023) Alan Cerny Strays plays like a movie thought up in a stoner’s house, watching Pixar movies and telling his buddies, “You know what would be funny? If the dog from Up said F*** a lot.”
Posted Aug 18, 2023  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) Joshua Starnes Confident and competent, Neill Blomkamp‘s adaptation of the popular racing game is a 100-minute commercial for Sony which still manages to have more under the hood than you would expect.
Posted Aug 08, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) Alan Cerny They should absolutely keep the creatives behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, as they clearly had fun making it and that joy is infectious to the audience. Mutant Mayhem is a good family-friendly time at the movies.
Posted Jul 30, 2023  Edit critic review
5.5/10
Haunted Mansion (2023) Alan Cerny Haunted Mansion as a movie feels too long, too labored, and doesn’t give us enough real characters, other than LaKeith Stanfield’s, to sympathize with or relate to.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Barbie (2023) Sarah Musnicky It’s a wild, hilarious, meta ride that will have you nostalgic for childhood in the midst of real-world issues.
Posted Jul 21, 2023  Edit critic review
10/10
Oppenheimer (2023) Alan Cerny Oppenheimer is the film that Christopher Nolan has been working towards his entire career. It is a staggering achievement in cinema, and easily the best film so far this year.
Posted Jul 20, 2023  Edit critic review
7.5/10
Talk to Me (2023) Alan Cerny Talk to Me is an original concept executed very well and showcases exciting new voices in the horror genre.
Posted Jul 17, 2023  Edit critic review
7.5/10
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Joshua Starnes Mission: Impossible idealizes Tom Cruise and his willingness to commit increasingly-dangerous stunts the way Mission: Impossible idealizes Ethan Hunt and his willingness to save the world.
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Alan Cerny Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One is the best action movie so far this decade, thrilling to the nth degree, and you should see it on the biggest screen possible.
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Joy Ride (2023) Joshua Starnes Joy Ride does eventually reach a grand destination but the trip to get there is uneven.
Posted Jun 27, 2023  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Alan Cerny It’s not the best Indiana Jones movie, not by a long shot, but it may be the best performance by Ford as Indy, and it’s brave and exciting for what it signifies. That may not be enough for the audience, but it was enough for me.
Posted Jun 25, 2023  Edit critic review
7.5/10
No Hard Feelings (2023) Joshua Starnes No Hard Feelings is equally heartfelt and hilarious and will stick in the memory long after other modern comedies have come and gone. At the very least you’ll never look at someone getting suplexed the same way again.
Posted Jun 24, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Elemental (2023) Sarah Musnicky While some aspects of the film were familiar, and the theming not so subtle, Elemental is a pleasant surprise.
Posted Jun 14, 2023  Edit critic review
6/10
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) Joshua Starnes The Bay versions of these films settled for fear or awe at these engines of destruction; now that’s not on the table anymore the filmmakers are at last trying to get something more developed out of it, but it may be too little, too late.
Posted Jun 10, 2023  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Alan Cerny Only time will tell how Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ranks among the best superhero movies ever made, but I’d say it should be in the conversation.
Posted Jun 01, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
The Little Mermaid (2023) Sarah Musnicky As Ariel, Halle Bailey shines brighter than the sun. She’ll silence the haters easily.
Posted May 22, 2023  Edit critic review
5/10
Fast X (2023) Alan Cerny Fast X is more video game than movie, where no one ever really dies, characters defy the laws of gravity and physics and brush themselves off afterwards, and the action sequences are pure zeros and ones.
Posted May 18, 2023  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Alan Cerny And while not every move James Gunn makes in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 lands, enough of them do that make this easily the best Marvel Studios film since Avengers: Endgame.
Posted May 03, 2023  Edit critic review
9/10
Evil Dead Rise (2023) Sarah Musnicky As his sophomore feature film, [Cronin] kills it, buries it, and resurrects hope and further excitement in this much-beloved horror franchise.
Posted Apr 19, 2023  Edit critic review
5/10
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Joshua Starnes Colorful, energetic and empty as a sugar-laden breakfast cereal, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the kind of kid film that gives kid films a bad reputation.
Posted Apr 06, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
Kill Boksoon (2023) Sarah Musnicky Writer/director Byun Sung-hyun crafts a film that feels familiar, yet still manages to excite with its beautifully choreographed and well-shot action sequences.
Posted Mar 30, 2023  Edit critic review
9.5/10
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) Alan Cerny If you’ve ever in your life slung a 20-sided die, spent hours debating alignment or the range of a fireball spell, let out a sigh of relief when you made a saving throw, rolled a natural 20, know what THAC0 means – you must see this movie.
Posted Mar 20, 2023  Edit critic review
8.5/10
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Alan Cerny With John Wick: Chapter 4 it’s safe to say they leave everything on the floor for this one.
Posted Mar 16, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
65 (2023) Alan Cerny If audiences give 65 a chance, and not overload it with expectations, I think they may find themselves pleasantly surprised. I know I did.
Posted Mar 10, 2023  Edit critic review
5/10
Scream VI (2023) Joshua Starnes A copy of a copy of a copy, Scream VI is a degraded photostat lacking all definition, showing only the rough contour of its antecedent but nothing in the interior.
Posted Mar 09, 2023  Edit critic review
6/10
Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) Joshua Starnes Magic Mike’s Last Dance may be the worst film Steven Soderbergh has ever made. Which isn’t to say it is bad, Soderbergh may be incapable of making an out and out bad film, but it is thoroughly mediocre in a way Soderbergh has never approached before.
Posted Mar 08, 2023  Edit critic review
8.5/10
Creed III (2023) Alan Cerny Creed III is a knockout.
Posted Feb 24, 2023  Edit critic review
7/10
Cocaine Bear (2023) Alan Cerny We didn’t buy tickets to see Ny-Quil Bear, did we? No we did not.
Posted Feb 23, 2023  Edit critic review
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