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The Scarecrow is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Robert Horton.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Robert Horton These musical sequences are exhilarating, dark and buoyant at the same time, as mad as their leadership. (A sect that discourages its adherents from having a sexual life had better have something else seductive going for it.)
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Robert Horton This movie hurtles through kitchen-sink realism and soaring near-surrealism, and it clicks because you believe in this world—not as reality, but as a fully-imagined movie construct.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Robert Horton With Fiennes, the immense craft of the British acting tradition suits the character perfectly; he's a Shakespearian who wandered into the world of George Romero, and concluded that this isn't so far from Titus Andronicus anyway.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Sure Thing (1985) Robert Horton The thing that lifts this above the average road-trip movie is the beautiful feeling for being on the road—the oddball trading posts and motels, the weird characters who turn up, the junk food consumed as a staple along the way.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Frankenstein (2025) Robert Horton Is it possible that del Toro spent too many years thinking about everything he wanted to pour into a Frankenstein movie? Because this one—as handsomely dressed as you would expect—is crammed with ideas, yet curiously lacking in there-ness.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Robert Horton Calling it a "country house" is akin to calling the Overlook in The Shining a "resort hotel." There's a lot more going on there.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Blue Moon (2025) Robert Horton Ethan Hawke nails the sentiment so wonderfully that in that moment actor, filmmaker, and long-dead lyricist seem to be speaking in one passionate voice.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Robert Horton The people onscreen unabashedly exist at a near-cartoon level. But it's hard not to love the movie in pieces, or to savor Anderson's sneaky subversion, the sense that the caricatures and Strangelovian doublespeak is in service to something real.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Sorry, Baby (2025) Robert Horton Victor is in some ethereal zone between Bud Cort in Harold and Maude and Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, and the performance itself carries the film through its more pedestrian passages.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Robert Horton Good enough for a zombie chapter, and even Kipling might've appreciated the "Will which says to them, 'Hold on!'" displayed in our hero's coming-of-age grit.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Life of Chuck (2024) Robert Horton Strange movie—neither fish nor fowl, neither shaw nor shank, and just a little too much uplift for this skeptic.
Posted Jun 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Robert Horton It goes on, and it's funny, and then you realize that it's wrapping up and that's going to be all, and Anderson comes up with a tender final sequence that would be an absolute knockout if the preceding film built more toward this moment.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Robert Horton Both the culmination and gravestone of the movie thriller. The culmination argument is obvious enough: This movie is giddy in its absurdly over-the-top action sequences, which all but demand we declare that "this is why we go to the movies."
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Sinners (2025) Robert Horton I feel almost churlish saying the movie is all over the place when "all over the place" is clearly a goal. But the flailing genre-mashing seen here plays closer to the chaos of Everything Everywhere All at Once than the surgical attack of Get Out,
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
When Fall Is Coming (2024) Robert Horton Almost perfectly balanced between Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, near-subliminal humor, and out-and-out camp. In short, Ozon is getting close to prime Almodovar territory.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Robert Horton With Coogan lending his acerbic persona (and presumably a collection of one-liners) to the project, The Penguin Lessons has moments that lift it out of the realm of formula.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Apprentice (2024) Robert Horton The Apprentice doesn't craft its tale with subtlety, but what exactly is the point of delicacy in a world where the rise of Donald Trump has destroyed the usefulness of subtlety, or really any kind of satire?
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Wolf Man (2025) Robert Horton "The starkness of the setting leads to monotony, and the themes are so prominent they remove any real mystery from the air."
Posted Jan 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
A Complete Unknown (2024) Robert Horton Does something that is unconventional, maybe even radical, in this age of popular art that must explain genius. It does not explain.
Posted Dec 27, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Brutalist (2024) Robert Horton There are many ideas in The Brutalist, and they do go on a bit. My first reaction to this big film is that it feels more literary in its conception than cinematic.
Posted Dec 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Trap (2024) Robert Horton This suspense mechanism is so deftly handled it almost brings tears to your eyes, at least if you have any feeling for film form.
Posted Aug 23, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Last Summer (2023) Robert Horton Suggests that despite Catherine Breillat's reputation (this is a director known for using sex in cinema like a French chef lays on the butter in an omelet), she is less interested in sex as a subject than existential discontent.
Posted Aug 09, 2024  Edit critic review
1/4
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) Robert Horton A grisly spectacle.
Posted Jul 12, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Green Border (2023) Robert Horton These stories, and the dramatic incidents, would be powerful in a lesser film, as a sort of Grapes of Wrath of modern Europe. But Green Border is abuzz with cinematic force, propulsive in its rhythm and haunting in its images.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Robert Horton Freakily enjoyable, a vision of a cruel world rendered in oblique strokes, its humor erupting in gasps.
Posted Jun 28, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
In Our Day (2023) Robert Horton A slim and wistful entry in Hong's work, a modest example of his offhand style. But it has its moments.
Posted Jun 14, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Tuesday (2023) Robert Horton To be a truly funny actor invariably requires a level of honesty, and Louis-Dreyfus brings an unvarnished plainness to this film's most emotional scenes—and does it without the need to let you know she's "acting."
Posted Jun 14, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Coup de Chance (2023) Robert Horton Not a dud, but it's not a return to form, either.
Posted May 31, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) Robert Horton The movie is a tough go, but it's impressive, and defiant in playing by its own rules.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Robert Horton The Wasteland has never looked bleaker than it does in the finish, stripped of its boss vehicles and steampunk bric-a-brac and whackadoodle characters—here it's just Furiosa and Dementus, talking through existential truths and grinning into the void.
Posted May 24, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Robert Horton Sequences are punctuated with pop songs, in a late-90s way that seems legitimate even if clichéd, as though we are actually watching a movie made in the Donnie Darko era.
Posted May 17, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Crazies (1973) Robert Horton The movie feels like picking up a newspaper from the early 70s and scanning the downbeat headlines. (Truffaut said that The Night of the Hunter was like “A horrifying news item retold by small children”; The Crazies is a newscast delivered by the insane.)
Posted May 03, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Civil War (2024) Robert Horton Some of the film's ideas are provocative, some are standard-issue dystopian, some are vague. But what's unforgivable is the flatness of so much of the staging.
Posted Apr 12, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) Robert Horton Has some of the method and free-roaming curiosity of Godard's movies, and about the same amount of interest in following conventional storytelling modes.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Robert Horton At some point you just have to roll with the confident daftness of the thing.
Posted Mar 15, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Dune: Part Two (2024) Robert Horton Part Two is not merely an improvement but almost a different film. Villeneuve's imagination is unleashed here in a way that frequently thrills, even if the actual storytelling is sometimes dutiful; it's more Jodorowsky than Lucas.
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) Robert Horton Doesn't have the uncanny touch of the best Coen films, nor the gravity that tugs at even their most ridiculous premises. It just hurtles at you, breathless, insisting on its transgressive zing.
Posted Feb 26, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The Taste of Things (2023) Robert Horton The final stanza is especially fine, mostly set in the kitchen, a magnificently imagined room that I would like to live in.
Posted Feb 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Perfect Days (2023) Robert Horton The sense of life boiled down to its precious essentials is touching.
Posted Feb 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Occupied City (2023) Robert Horton This approach is closer to Steve McQueen's early work as a museum-installation kind of artist than to his other movies, and maybe this is his best mode.
Posted Jan 19, 2024  Edit critic review
4/4
The Zone of Interest (2023) Robert Horton The film's organization would suggest repetitiousness, but this isn't true—Glazer finds new ways of seeing things, and there is no end to the shock waves that ripple across the scenes.
Posted Jan 19, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) Robert Horton It is, admittedly, a test at times, and yet I can say that Jackson (this is her first feature) creates a few of the most remarkable shots I've seen in movies this year.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
1/4
The Boys in the Boat (2023) Robert Horton This film is dutiful and glossy. It has a bright digital sheen that drains the texture out of every shot—the film image is practically Botoxed.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
The Killer (2023) Robert Horton A satisfying film, yet I can't tell whether Fincher appreciates that his variations on the formula are still formula.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Maestro (2023) Robert Horton If this kind of acting is a little out of fashion—except at the Oscars, obviously—it really works here. The Bernsteins are buzzy and social, jazzed on New York's theatre world, finishing each other's sentences in the film's overlapping dialogue.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
Showing Up (2022) Robert Horton The gentle touch is firm, and somehow Showing Up is about the world today, even if its reach looks small.
Posted Dec 15, 2023  Edit critic review
4/4
Fallen Leaves (2023) Robert Horton There is a Kaursimäki wonderland. He finds it in those unpromising, frosty, ashtray-littered locations. Fallen Leaves is one of the most wondrous of his films, and one of the simplest.
Posted Dec 15, 2023  Edit critic review
2.5/4
May December (2023) Robert Horton A movie made by smart people, but it feels half-digested.
Posted Dec 08, 2023  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Napoleon (2023) Robert Horton What is this movie meant to be? It moves at gratifying speed, but looks rushed and downright dingy at times—an especially disappointing point, because if Ridley Scott is hardly given to introspection, he is nimble at making surfaces shine.
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
Saltburn (2023) Robert Horton If the film's aggressive appetite for transgression eventually begins to feel like affectation, well, there is an awful lot of good unclean fun to be had on the way.
Posted Nov 19, 2023  Edit critic review
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