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Michael J. Cinema

Michael J. Cinema is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Michael J. Casey.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Michael J. Casey Lowthorpe opts for a movie where the audience is allowed to sit within Helen’s sorrow with no clear-cut answers and marvel at the bird that provides none, yet seems to provoke the questions often unasked.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
28 Years Later (2025) Michael J. Casey I suspect Garland and Boyle are most interested in Dr. Kelson. He’s the steadfast pole around which all of Garland’s disparate ideas spin, and Fiennes gives a beautiful and still performance that grounds Boyle’s frenetic tone.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Michael J. Casey Despite all the physical and ideological provocation, I find these movies to be simplistic and a little silly.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Michael J. Casey An impressive piece of drama and a paradoxical portrait.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Choral (2025) Michael J. Casey "The Choral" is a movie without secrets.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
My Darling Clementine (1946) Michael J. Casey A magnificent movie, filled with poetry and conflicting ideals about the need for law and order, and the ease with which it corrupts.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
No Other Choice (2025) Michael J. Casey "No Other Choice" is the kind of flick I can get behind ... but why can’t Park get this engine to turn over?
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Michael J. Casey The story of a New York City con man barely skirting the gutter, streaked with cinematographer Darius Khondji’s images that attach themself so close to Marty you can almost smell his desperation.
Posted Dec 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Michael J. Casey Three installments and more than nine hours in, Earth’s colonizers war against Pandora’s natives have become so repetitive it’s baffling to think writer-director James Cameron has two more installments up his sleeve.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Michael J. Casey Sam Levy’s cinematography is impressive in its immersion, considering the self-imposed limitation of staying behind the proscenium arch without feeling like a member of the audience.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Michael J. Casey Strains against the story it wants to tell and the entertainment it needs to deliver.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Rental Family (2025) Michael J. Casey "Rental Family" is a sweet movie full of saccharine bromides with little interest in uncovering the causes or conditions of loneliness.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Michael J. Casey "Liberty Valance" illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Frankenstein (2025) Michael J. Casey Goth is good as Elizabeth—hell, they’re all pretty good, even Elordi, who has to do a lot under some heavy makeup—but it’s not enough to breath life into "Frankenstein."
Posted Oct 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Michael J. Casey You may not leave the documentary feeling hopeful for the future, but for almost two hours, you will not look away, and your attention will not drift.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Born in Flames (1983) Michael J. Casey Borden’s film persists 40 years on. And not simply because viewers agree with the message, but because the kinetics with which Borden presents it are electrifying.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Michael J. Casey "Battle" threads the difficult needle of engaging with the world without making the setting so specific that it limits the filmmakers’ scope.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Eleanor the Great (2025) Michael J. Casey Squibb might bring too many laughs to land the serious sentiments Tory Kamen’s script wants to deliver.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Michael J. Casey Shockingly sincere and literal to the point of perversion.
Posted Sep 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Michael J. Casey "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" may not be a perfect movie, but it’s damn close.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Caught Stealing (2025) Michael J. Casey The kind of movie I imagine a lot of film school students envisioned making after seeing "The Boondock Saints" and a couple of Guy Ritchie flicks.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Shoeshine (1946) Michael J. Casey "Shoeshine" is a beautiful film—Ivo Battelli’s production design inside the prison is top-notch—that practically glistens in this 4K restoration.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Cloud (2024) Michael J. Casey "Cloud" is not a fun watch, but it isn’t a dull one either. There are thrilling moments and a few twists that keep you engaged, but you won’t leave it feeling happy about the world.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Michael J. Casey When the movie shines, it radiates. When it doesn’t, "Highest 2 Lowest" plays like cheap melodrama.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Eddington (2025) Michael J. Casey "Eddington" is all reaction. The best it can come up with is that we’ve always been broken and we always will be. The only winners are those who take what they can while they can. And by making this movie, Aster might be in that camp.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Michael J. Casey "How to Train Your Dragon" makes a solid case for remakes in a world where the original is 15 years old and can easily be seen in multiple formats.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Caught by the Tides (2024) Michael J. Casey "Caught by the Tides" is a bit too much of a good thing. It’s inscrutable at times, accessible in others. If you’ve seen other Jia movies, then there will be moments that feel familiar, but that’s not really the point.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Wish You Were Here (2025) Michael J. Casey "Wish You Were Here" is one long, dull flight of fancy.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Gunman's Walk (1958) Michael J. Casey It’s a classic Saturday matinee that’s bound to stick to the ribs well after Sunday.
Posted Apr 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sinners (2025) Michael J. Casey "Sinners" is a massive film ... and incorporates more characters and ideas than three or four run-of-the-mill Hollywood offerings.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Friend (2024) Michael J. Casey A movie that manages to strike the right notes in the wrong order.
Posted Apr 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
King Lear (1987) Michael J. Casey The kind of nonsense that makes Godard’s cinema inscrutable to some and electrifying to others.
Posted Feb 11, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Winchester '73 (1950) Michael J. Casey "Winchester ’73" plays the Wild West motif like a myth.
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Better Man (2024) Michael J. Casey What a weird movie "Better Man" is. It might not be the best movie you’ll see this month, but I bet you’ll be thinking about this one long after forgetting the others.
Posted Jan 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Moana 2 (2024) Michael J. Casey "Moana 2" is fun. The story here is better than most sequels—it almost starts to rehash the plot of the first movie before finding new zigs to zag—and the overall structure of the journey feels more akin to mythology than rote adventure. Not
Posted Nov 27, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Gladiator II (2024) Michael J. Casey Scott has made the act of movie watching an enjoyable one—even if you forget just about everything a week after watching it.
Posted Nov 21, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) Michael J. Casey A riveting piece of history that doesn't get talked about a lot.
Posted Nov 06, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Pursued (1947) Michael J. Casey "Pursued" stands on its own thanks to New Mexico’s stunning rock walls and vistas (shot by ace cinematographer James Wong Howe), an overheated performance from Wright, a detached Mitchum, and plenty of accidental death.
Posted Nov 06, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
We Live in Time (2024) Michael J. Casey Time doesn’t seem to hold any more significance to these two than it does for anyone else. The whole movie is like that.
Posted Oct 25, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Blink (2024) Michael J. Casey "Blink" is full of hope for these kids—and their ability to learn how to navigate the world—and these parents, who will be with them every step of the way. At no point do you worry about the Pelletiers.
Posted Oct 04, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) Michael J. Casey It’s refreshing to watch a movie in 2024 that use the western genre without subverting it, inverting it, or reinventing it.
Posted Oct 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sleep (2024) Michael J. Casey Told in three chapters, with some very adept camerawork by cinematographer Tae-soo Kim, "Sleep" is an alluring ghost story that benefits from its parameters.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Megalopolis (2024) Michael J. Casey "Megalopolis" is more confusion than excitement.
Posted Sep 25, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Merchant Ivory (2023) Michael J. Casey "Merchant Ivory" is a fairly nuts-and-bolts look at the titular men behind the camera and their life-long relationship bolstered by many talking heads.
Posted Sep 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Substance (2024) Michael J. Casey Written and directed by Coralie Fargeat, "The Substance" takes a recognizable desire, a familiar addiction, and a routine story and morphs it into something entirely its own.
Posted Sep 18, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Saving Casa Bonita (2024) Michael J. Casey "¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!" is kind of like "Kitchen Nightmares" but with celebrities and a beloved artifact of kitschy 1970s Colorado history.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Michael J. Casey The Italian western that launched a genre.
Posted Sep 11, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) Michael J. Casey The whole movie is shot through with silent artistry.
Posted Aug 29, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Gun Hawk (1963) Michael J. Casey Rich with story and replete with well-rounded characters.
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Alien: Romulus (2024) Michael J. Casey Alvarez, who did an impressive job with the "Evil Dead" remake, isn’t to blame. He is a smart director with an eye for visual flair, but in "Romulus,' he apes too much of the original for it to be surprising.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
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