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Paul's Trip to the Movies

Paul's Trip to the Movies is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Paul McGuire Grimes.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
The Rip (2026) Paul McGuire Grimes The Rip would have made for a great theatrical release as a summer blockbuster, but there’s something to be said about a mindless entertaining night in on your couch.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes While The Testament of Ann Lee is technically executed well with a strong performance from Seyfried, I never felt emotionally connected to the material. I felt like I was at a distance watching it unfold without being in the story.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Housemaid (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Playing Nina Winchester allows Seyfried to let it rip and be completely unhinged...We rarely get to see Seyfried in a role like this, but she handles it with ease with the high wire act that it is.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Hudson and Jackman bring so much joy to this film - its infectious. Writer/director Craig Brewer taps into this and wants to bring that joy to the audience with this love story.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Moon (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes This is a small and intimate film that probably caters to a niche audience. It’s fascinating to sit and understand what drove some of the greatest songs of the Great American Songbook.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Train Dreams is an emotional wallop of a film that is somewhat indescribable as I talk about it. You have to trust that it will sneak up on you and hit you when you least expect it.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Goodbye June (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Goodbye June is a tender film. Director Kate Winslet has a keen eye on how to tell this story so her audience can understand and relate to these characters.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Avatar has never looked better, but after three movies and nine hours, I expected more of a build, greater tension, new dynamics, but Fire and Ash felt like more of the same.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Friedman has a winning production thanks to her direction and the incredible cast she assembled. Jonathan Groff is one of our great leading men of Broadway who sings Sondheim in effortless fashion.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Safdie has written a wordy screenplay, and Timothee Chalamet handles it all with ease in his go for broke performance. He knows the depth of the role and will take it wherever he and Safdie are willing to take Marty.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Glenn Close has a fantastic entrance chewing up every ounce of screentime as a kooky church lady. She’s worthy of an Oscar nomination for her work here.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Byron Howard and Jared Bush have a smart sequel on their hands as they’ve retained everything we loved about the first film without feeling like it’s a total rehash.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes This is probably the most introspective Clooney has ever been on screen. It’s one of the best performances, if not the best, of his career.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes [Arnett] gives a career-best performance never mugging too hard or working too hard for a laugh. He’s honest with the messiness Alex finds himself in post-divorce.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Keeper (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes It’s a little over an hour in when [Osgood] Perkins and [Nick] Lepard finally let it rip and the story becomes freakish in nature. It borders on feeling like two different movies.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Director Hikari asks you to go in with an open mind and an open heart. Its extremely heartwarming and exactly the movie you may need to put a little extra inspiration in your day.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes By nature of this being the second part, Wicked For Good works as a conclusion to the story instead of being its own story. It comes with a beautiful ending with a final image to tie everything together.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Hamnet (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes The ending packs an emotional wallop that left me in tears. I’m a father and lover of Shakespeare, so this story further reminded me of the power of art and healing.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Running Man (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes It packs a punch when you sit back and realize how Stephen King’s once dystopian view has now become a reality.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes A House of Dynamite is a smart thriller, packed with the complex inner workings of Washington. A film like this may have once felt like a political fantasy or satire, but now feels all too real.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Christy (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes It all comes off as artificial and surface level without narrowing in on its obvious themes of inner survival and self-acceptance. Christy Martin is set up to fail from the beginning and you’re wondering how far it will go and for how long.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Frankenstein (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Del Toro makes this a universal story as we think about the outcasts and the monsters in our everyday life. They may not be who you expect.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes The new Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere feels like the acoustic version of your standard music biopic. That’s a good thing.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
John Candy: I Like Me (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Director Colin Hanks has made a beautiful and moving tribute to John Candy. This documentary is a prime example of the “laughter through tears” emotion.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Going down memory lane is fun and enjoyable but the heart of the documentary is felt toward the end. Rocky Horror found its core, devoted audience as it was a place for community, a place to feel seen, heard, and appreciated.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Kiss of the Spider Woman has all the right ingredients, but something is missing as it doesn’t quite come together.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5
Roofman (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Derek Cianfrance has another strong film on his hands as he asks for empathy and understanding for a complicated central character who has made some terrible decisions.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lost Bus (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes An eye-opening film for many people are not accustomed with the dangers of wildfires. It showcases those everyday unsung heroes. Paul Greengrass is phenomenal at building tension and the high pressure stakes are felt for the entire movie.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes One Battle After Another is nerve-wracking to the core with Anderson’s dark sense of humor shining through... This is a movie for right now and is the best movie I’ve seen so far in 2025.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Downton Abbey The Grand Finale ends in a sweet, whimsical fashion that acts as a tribute to the television series as both the cast, the characters, and the audience says goodbye.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Long Walk (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Francis Lawrence balances the hard violence of the piece next to the rich dialogue and banter that naturally occurs between the men...He finds the humanity next to the horror, which is a key element of Stephen King’s writing.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Twinless (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes James Sweeney is a gifted storyteller who balances unique themes while finding the universal truths at hand. I’m incredibly intrigued to see what kind of stories he wants to tell next.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was playing it a bit too safe for most of the movie...Robinson finally takes some big swings in the climax that will shock some longtime die-hards of the franchise.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Caught Stealing (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Butler is quickly proving his worth as one of the great young actors of his generation. His rough sexy vibe here is reminiscent of a young Brad Pitt. Butler has a very natural presence on screen.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Roses (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Maybe the biting humor landed better in the late ‘80s, but The Roses feels a little too real, a little too unbalanced and not silly enough to counter the edge.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Weapons (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes With only two films under his name, Zach Cregger has made a name for himself in the horror genre with Barbarian and now Weapons. It’s one of the best horror movies in recent memory that will be dissected and praised for decades to come.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Freakier Friday (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Director Nisha Ganatra infuses this film with a funny, bright, cheerful aura that’s felt from the very beginning. It’s a treat to see Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis slip back into these roles.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Pickup (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes There was nothing surprising or revelatory here... That being said, The Pickup still works at a very base level as its easy for Eddie Murphy to make his audience laugh in his banter with Pete Davidson.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Together (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes [Franco and Brie] are giving the best performances of their careers in Together going to places they’ve never explored on screen.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes While the film leans heavily into its comic book look and the cast sells these characters, the actual story and conflict feel a bit undercooked.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Superman (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes David Corenswet is perfect casting. He has the charm, dashing good looks as Clark Kent while bringing a vulnerability and responsibility to Superman. He has incredible chemistry with Rachel Brosnahan who plays Lois Lane.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Old Guard 2 (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes It’s unfortunate to see The Old Guard 2 void of what made the first film work so well. There’s a generic quality here when this franchise is anything but generic.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Gareth Edwards deliberately goes back to basics studying how Steven Spielberg made Jaws and Jurassic Park so groundbreaking and unique. He returns to the horror elements that made the original so frightening.
Posted Jul 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Just like any good sequel, M3GAN 2.0 is bigger, bolder, and wilder than the original without feeling like a total copycat of what the filmmakers and cast accomplished with the first.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes F1: TheMovie is an absolute nail-biter full of adrenaline. Director Joseph Kosinski and cinematographer Claudio Miranda are a dream team for the action genre. They make these truly immersive experiences that need to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Materialists (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans do great work here thanks to the specificity of how Song writes these three characters. As a writer and director, there’s a restraint on her part with how this all unfolds.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes Dan Trachtenberg has now proven with Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers that he has a strong new vision for the Predator franchise moving forward. I’m excited to see what’s in store for Predator Badlands.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes The Phoenician Scheme is a welcome mental escape to a fantasy land far removed from today’s messy headlines.
Posted Jun 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Paul McGuire Grimes The Life of Chuck is deeply moving and inspiring with that reminder that we are multitudes. Stephen King and Mike Flanagan reiterate the importance of the human connection and believing in yourself. There won’t be a dry eye in the theater.
Posted May 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) Paul McGuire Grimes There are serious writing issues here, but the film does have heart as evidenced by the new characters. Ben Wang has terrific screen presence as Li Fong.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
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