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Superman Returns (2006) Harry Kloman ...Superman Returns is pure rehashed leftovers — a dull, unimaginative, two-hour-37-minute bag of bones, brought back to life in the rotting flesh of everything we've seen before.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible III (2006) Al Hoff ...what makes this third outing of the M:I franchise rock is [Philip Seymour] Hoffman. Sure, the arthouse darling is slumming here, but his restrained, cold-blooded performance tops any Snidely Whiplash histrionics.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Clemente (2024) Owen Gabbey If you’re unfamiliar with the legendary athlete's life and legacy, or you just need an uplifting story, Clemente is worth your time. The documentary is complicated, unruly, and not without its flaws, but also deeply inspiring.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Fallen Leaves (2023) Owen Gabbey Poysti and Vatanen do much of the heavy lifting in a film that could easily fall flat if its actors aren’t selling equal parts dryness and warmth. The two leads manage to sell the despondence, sure, but they sell the hope as well.
Posted Dec 19, 2023  Edit critic review
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Owen Gabbey An endlessly gripping pseudo-murder mystery with confusion and uncertainty becoming the center and lifeblood of the film.
Posted Dec 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party (2023) Owen Gabbey The performances showcased in the film are enrapturing; there are louder bands, more “shocking” bands, lyrically, but few match the sense of impending dread that The Birthday Party delivers here.
Posted Sep 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Air (2023) Owen Gabbey It takes a lot of restraint and skill to mine high drama out of standing in line at the airport or out of a meeting...Air succeeds because Affleck trusts his story, trusts his cast, and trusts himself to know that these moments are their own action movie.
Posted Apr 13, 2023  Edit critic review
The Outwaters (2022) Amanda Waltz Despite its interminable runtime, the film demonstrates Banfitch’s surprising skill, not only as a writer, director, and actor but as the talent credited with The Outwaters’ visionary special effects and sound engineering.
Posted Mar 15, 2023  Edit critic review
No Sleep 'Til Christmas (2018) Amanda Waltz The conceit of No Sleep 'Til Christmas is a stretch. That it actually manages to sell it is nothing short of a miracle.
Posted Feb 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Infinity Pool (2023) Owen Gabbey It's worth overlooking any shortcomings to enjoy the visual treat that is Infinity Pool.
Posted Feb 03, 2023  Edit critic review
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Hannah Kinney-Kobre All The Beauty and The Bloodshed finds a unity between Goldin’s aesthetics and her ethics, while making it clear that it’s the result of a life that never allowed her to separate the two.
Posted Jan 12, 2023  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Owen Gabbey There’s nothing like confidence to buoy a film into reaching for greatness, and Johnson has confidence in spades here.
Posted Nov 30, 2022  Edit critic review
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Owen Gabbey [All Quiet on the Western Front] an exercise in the miserable. A World War I story told from the perspective of the Imperial German Army, the film gives sympathy to those just following orders, bludgeons us with the hell of war, and... that’s about it.
Posted Nov 18, 2022  Edit critic review
Decision to Leave (2022) Matthew Monroy Hae-joon teeters on the knife's edge of obsession and love. Decision to Leave asks the question: Is the thrill of love in the meeting or the leaving? Leave it to Chan-wook to answer that question with another -- does it matter in the end?
Posted Oct 28, 2022  Edit critic review
InHospitable (2021) Owen Gabbey The film is ostensibly about the nation’s dearth of affordable healthcare, and how a series of nonprofit hospitals seemingly made more profit than ever before... However, despite a national reach, the focus lies primarily at the feet of Pittsburgh.
Posted Oct 13, 2022  Edit critic review
Blonde (2022) Owen Gabbey Here, armchair psychology and abject cruelty pass for a “complex portrait.” Try as he might, Dominick can't hide his contempt with superficial beauty.
Posted Oct 01, 2022  Edit critic review
The Gray Man (2022) Owen Gabbey That Anthony and Joe Russo can take an ensemble like that and a $200-plus million budget and still deliver an uninspired, bland waste of talent is a crime that deserves the same level of investigation as Watergate.
Posted Aug 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Owen Gabbey For all its visually stunning and terrifying glory, Nope does have its flaws, coming off as overstuffed with ideas, yet ending as suddenly as it began. But Peele’s commitment to overstuffing, to truly going for it, should be commended whenever possible.
Posted Jul 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Crimes of the Future (2022) Owen Gabbey There’s a lot of heart in Crimes of the Future, along with a lot of other organs.
Posted Jun 23, 2022  Edit critic review
RRR (2022) Hannah Kinney-Kobre If American blockbuster films have foreclosed fun, we can’t say the same for Indian ones; S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR is nothing but a good time from start to finish.
Posted Jun 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Playtime (1967) Hannah Kinney-Kobre Another genius movie that made the foibles of everyday existence into grand set pieces...
Posted May 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Hannah Kinney-Kobre Beneath the steely surface of Tsai’s aesthetic, Goodbye, Dragon Inn reveals itself to be full of the little plots that make up life as we understand it...
Posted May 09, 2022  Edit critic review
Dragon Inn (1967) Hannah Kinney-Kobre For a genre so concerned with the distant past, wuxia’s popularity in China is not premised strictly on nostalgia.
Posted May 09, 2022  Edit critic review
We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021) Hannah Kinney-Kobre Sublimation is never complete — the original feeling always lingers, and it’s this tension between the specific and universal that illuminates World’s Fair and makes it alive.
Posted May 09, 2022  Edit critic review
The Northman (2022) Owen Gabbey One of the most breathtakingly nuts movies in recent years, a died-in-the-wool Viking revenge epic that feels every bit like a visionary has been given money to burn for the first time in his life, and is going to take full advantage of it.
Posted Apr 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Cyrano (2021) Owen Gabbey Wright [is] going for something truly out there, with a high chance of failure. In the end, he misses the mark as much as he hits, but he finds the joy in the small moments enough to make Cyrano an interesting study of an interesting life.
Posted Mar 04, 2022  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Owen Gabbey What Reeves has done here should be taken as a remarkable accomplishment. In an era of studio properties, especially superhero movies, aiming for the safest possible outcome, The Batman is a legitimately out-there film.
Posted Mar 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Now Return Us to Normal (2016) Owen Gabbey The end result of Now Return Us to Normal is cathartic in a way, but there’s also a sense that closure will never fully be reached because how can it be?
Posted Feb 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Drive My Car (2021) Owen Gabbey Drive My Car is obsessed with language, how the same phrase can be morphed and changed to fit any particular meaning, and how we use our words to conceal our feelings, not expose them.
Posted Jan 20, 2022  Edit critic review
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Tia Bailey Nostalgia and redemption make up Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest release from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and possibly the best movie from the franchise yet.
Posted Dec 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Freeland (2020) Owen Gabbey It's pretty easy to overcome these flaws when you have a central performance as good as Fairchild's. The type of work that, if it had more eyeballs, would be considered for any and every award, she is masterful as Devi.
Posted Dec 16, 2021  Edit critic review
The Humans (2021) Owen Gabbey This is a cast and a writer/director with a full grasp on something unique, and they turn The Humans into one of the better films this year.
Posted Nov 18, 2021  Edit critic review
Antlers (2021) Tia Bailey While everything leading up to the reveal works, the promised Wendigo is disappointing, making me wish they had left the creature at least mostly unseen.
Posted Nov 12, 2021  Edit critic review
Spencer (2021) Owen Gabbey [Stewart] uses her innate awkwardness and reserved nature to turn in by far the best work of her career.
Posted Nov 05, 2021  Edit critic review
The Velvet Underground (2021) Owen Gabbey It's beautifully flawed, far too long, and deeply rewarding.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
Dear Evan Hansen (2021) Tia Bailey Overall, the movie's issues can be attributed to poor plotting. The cast and crew, including director Stephen Chbosky... did their best with the material they were given, but problems are still evident.
Posted Sep 24, 2021  Edit critic review
The Alpinist (2021) Owen Gabbey In the biggest compliment I can pay it, I left the film understanding why Leclerc did what he did, I just couldn't fathom doing it myself.
Posted Sep 16, 2021  Edit critic review
Candyman (2021) Owen Gabbey Stay for the impeccably crafted genre scares, but don't expect the film to provide any clear commentary, as it valiantly tries to address many important issues, but ultimately falls short.
Posted Sep 02, 2021  Edit critic review
Pig (2021) Owen Gabbey It's not a perfect film, but it's unique, it's often beautiful, and it certainly cares.
Posted Jul 22, 2021  Edit critic review
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) Owen Gabbey The film devotes a surprising amount of time to how a scandal like this could come to be in the first place, and it's here that it really finds its depth and point of view.
Posted Apr 23, 2021  Edit critic review
The Mauritanian (2021) Owen Gabbey The real battles waged here aren't between lawyers, or even really between countries. It's between information and the lack thereof, the war that was fed to the public, and the one that was actually happening.
Posted Mar 13, 2021  Edit critic review
Cherry (2021) Owen Gabbey There's something to be said for a nuanced look at what's happening to a generation of men growing up in a world collapsing around them. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Cherry was the right film to say it.
Posted Mar 12, 2021  Edit critic review
Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020) Hannah Lynn Kirshner and Savage actually have chemistry, but like the characters in almost every Hallmark movie, they are reduced to the blandest possible version of a person, not even daring to wear patterned clothing.
Posted Dec 18, 2020  Edit critic review
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) Hannah Lynn The film is engaging, not just for Wilson's work, or Boseman and Davis' performances, but for the music, the costumes, the makeup -- all of it.
Posted Dec 18, 2020  Edit critic review
Happiest Season (2020) Hannah Lynn Happiest Season is a perfectly fine holiday movie, but hopefully it's also just setting the scene for other, better movies in the sub-genre.
Posted Nov 25, 2020  Edit critic review
An American Pickle (2020) Hannah Lynn Despite its flaws, An American Pickle is still enjoyable, with enough real laughs to make you forget about the world for five minutes. And Rogen as Herschel is some of his best acting in a long time.
Posted Aug 06, 2020  Edit critic review
Vivarium (2020) Alex Gordon The movie is only around 100 minutes long, but it could stand to lose a few. More than anything, there's kind of an off-putting editing rhythm during scenes of dialogue,
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009) Al Hoff [An] inspirational documentary about ordinary people quietly leading extraordinary lives.
Posted May 18, 2020  Edit critic review
Spaceship Earth (2020) Hannah Lynn Made up of archival footage, present-day interviews, and news clips, it's a strange, fascinating, and eerie film to watch while we're all in quarantine, and while climate change ravages the earth.
Posted May 08, 2020  Edit critic review
Transsiberian (2008) Al Hoff Unfortunately, it all builds to a last reel that is truly off the rails - a strenuous bit of action-flick silliness seriously at odds with the more low-key, psychological thriller that precedes it.
Posted May 05, 2020  Edit critic review
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