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The Establishing Shot

The Establishing Shot is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jeff York.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Jeff York Seyfried brings the cra-cra. She aces the role of Ann Lee too, unafraid to show the full-bore obsession of the zealot’s fragile psyche.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Housemaid (2025) Jeff York Some is played too straight, some performances are far too arch, and the script is all over the map, turning on a dime from reasonable to irrational at whim.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Jeff York The film is a droll yet constantly amusing character study, as well as a scathing critique of our nation’s hubris after we saved the world from fascism in 1945. Movies as metaphors don’t come much larger.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Jeff York The entire enterprise here comes dangerously close to feeling cynical, like Cameron isn’t really trying to tell a great story anymore, merely milk his IP for all its worth.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Make Me Famous (2021) Jeff York In some ways, Brezinski’s greatest artistic creation was the bad boy image he painted for himself during his time in NYC, even if it was then and now, a rather unflattering portrait.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Hamnet (2025) Jeff York The acting, clothes, makeup, and cinematography all feel so real and rustic here, we’re not only placed wholly in this community and period, but in the very psyches of the tragic characters we’re watching.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Jeff York One genuine and welcome surprise here is that despite its setting, the film ends up being quite positive in its attitude towards God and faith.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Jeff York Perhaps the greatest humor in the film comes from the fact that for all the angst in the plotting, it brings everyone in the family closer together.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Eternity (2025) Jeff York It’s romantic without being blind about the realities that affect a couple. And it seems more down to earth than most (rom-coms), which is saying something considering that most of the story takes place in the afterlife.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Jeff York Grande is phenomenal, giving a performance that is chock full of nuance, charm, fear, and tragedy. She uses her voice, body language, pauses, and those large doe eyes of hers to convey hurt palpably throughout.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Jeff York A lot of the film works as it strives to paint a sad and moving story about the cost of fame, but too often it gets in its own way by having Clooney be so much like Kelly, and vice versa.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Nuremberg (2025) Jeff York Like some of the heavy-handed symbolism Vanderbilt leans into, he also relies heavily on screenwriting crutches to move the story along: titles explaining updates, newsreel footage, even characters carrying a lot of expositional dialogue.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Jeff York The film is easy to admire for its art and bravery of its participants, but sadly, much less so for the unrelentingly disheartening and ugly tale at its core.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hedda (2025) Jeff York DaCosta knows how to dramatize, put the money on the screen, and get the best from her cast. And in Tessa Thompson, she has an actress in the legendary role who gives one of the year’s very best performances.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Jeff York The details throughout, from the costumes to the production design to the Panavision lensing, give this period piece a vivid sense of authenticity, almost as if it was all filmed during the 1970s as well.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Jeff York While watching Byrne work, you might want to give her an Oscar. As for her character, you might want to give her a vacation, a do-over, or maybe even a kick in the pants.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Franz (2025) Jeff York It's grounded in its historical events yet countered by imagery and flights of fancy capturing the essence of Kafka’s playfulness. It might just be the most idealistically-matched biography subject and film style since "All That Jazz" or "Loving Vincent."
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Bugonia (2025) Jeff York It’s not only a sharp and timely dark comedy that sets its satirical sites on corporate America, internet conspiracies, and the healthcare crisis in the nation, but it is so bold and brazen, it’s breathtaking.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Frankenstein (2025) Jeff York Del Toro nails most of Shelley’s tone and moralizing too, making this adaptation ultimately quite fulfilling.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
After the Hunt (2025) Jeff York None of it gels. Instead, it’s heavy-handed, pretentious, stridently acted, and irritating as hell.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Jeff York A cinematic experience waiting to be cherished.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Anemone (2025) Jeff York It’s a tough and mean movie, but beneath all the off-putting machismo and pride of its onscreen men is a loving, beating heart after all.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Smashing Machine (2025) Jeff York You expect Johnson to be able to fulfill the physical demands of playing a professional athlete like Kerr, but what you don’t expect is for the scenes outside the ring to showcase Johnson’s talents even more.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Good Boy (2025) Jeff York Indy is not just a good boy; he’s a terrific actor.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Jeff York It starts at an 11 in gonzo energy and pacing and only goes up from there. At times, as pathos and graphic bloodletting get woven in, the film encounters tonality hiccups. Still, it's fascinating to watch in all of its excess.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Long Walk (2025) Jeff York Indeed, the ‘race’ we watch is punishing. We see their pain, we feel their pain, and we invest in their pain. It’s a tough sit but a very visceral experience of a film.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Twinless (2025) Jeff York An exceptionally witty, moving, and often tense character study of how people process loss and grief.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Roses (2025) Jeff York The war between these Roses while funny is still a devastating one. That makes this a strong and challenging work showcasing a worthwhile love dying a slow and sad death.
Posted Aug 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Freakier Friday (2025) Jeff York Comedy needs set up, timing, and yes, a certain seriousness to be effective, and yet all of those disciplines are lost in this rushed, loud, and overplayed exercise.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Went Up the Hill (2024) Jeff York It's disturbing due to its dreamlike state and slow, hypnotic pacing. It’s as if we are being lulled into its ghostly netherworld along with the two protagonists
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Honey Don't! (2025) Jeff York Margaret Qualley continues to illustrate that she is one of today’s most exciting actresses with another performance that shows range, nuance, and wit.
Posted Aug 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Weapons (2025) Jeff York Ultimately, what should have been an examination of primal fear and the abuse of innocence turns into something more resembling an exercise in genre exploitation.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun (2025) Jeff York This one is fun, well-played, and even charming at times. So, some gags flounder; there’s always another coming in mere seconds to land better. Most beneficial is the up-for-it-all Neeson who knows just how to play it straight and get us laughing.
Posted Aug 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Together (2025) Jeff York A horror movie that seems perfectly content to gross out with gusto while leaving something shrewder and adult, even more moving, far behind.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Jeff York For me, the whole thing wasn’t just fantastic, but it serves as a phenomenal return to making the MCU must-see cinema once again.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Sorry, Baby (2025) Jeff York A small, intimate cinematic experience filled with deep thinking, light humor, and rich characters.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Jeff York The filmmakers are assuming that we in the audience know all the minutiae of their franchises like the back of our hands. It becomes a filmgoing experience that practically needs those Amazon Prime notations on the side.
Posted Jul 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Superman (2025) Jeff York It’s shocking how so many of Gunn's ideas about the Man of Steel in his new take on Superman feel like they aren’t guarding the property at all.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
House of Abraham (2025) Jeff York ...an indie frightener that manages to not only deliver a novel concept, but is made with exceptional craftsmanship, boasts an accomplished cast, and exudes a genuinely disturbing air from first frame to last.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Jeff York The thrill of seeing the beasts done as state-of-the-art CGI creations lost its luster decades ago. Additionally, no sequel to the classic 1993 original film has even come close to being as rewarding, including this new effort.
Posted Jul 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) Jeff York A funny thing happened on the way to this sequel – the nasty AI doll has shed almost all of her horror genre dressing. It’s very funny, but it feels like a betrayal of the source material.
Posted Jun 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
F1 The Movie (2025) Jeff York The latest from star Brad Pitt and director Joseph Kosinski delivers thrills, stunts, and gleaming production values like few blockbusters these days.
Posted Jun 25, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
28 Years Later (2025) Jeff York Sure, there is plenty to engage horror fans here, and I admired a great deal of it, but logic problems and a lack of contextualization shouldn’t be as shocking to those watching this long-gestating sequel as all the bloody carnage on display.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Ballerina (2025) Jeff York It's a one-dimensional and morose sequel where director Len Wiseman and screenwriter Shay Hatten have not only failed to unlock the secrets of the Wick universe, but they’ve done their star Ana de Armas and their audience zero favors.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Jeff York For my money, Anderson stands alone today. His films are hilarious and his stylization helps make them so. Consistently.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Life of Chuck (2024) Jeff York I cannot think of a more inspiring film in the last few years as this one boldly urges us to keep trying, keep loving, and keep living as fully as we can.
Posted Jun 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Bring Her Back (2025) Jeff York It has a lot of jump scares, good performances (particularly by Wong), and some truly vivid bloodletting. But it never makes sense on all the levels that we need to suspend our disbelief.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Jeff York It’s a strong finish, albeit far too serious on the whole.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Companion (2025) Jeff York The entire cast is terrific, especially the two leads. And after this film and Heretic, I’m ready to be the president of the Sophie Thatcher Fan Club.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Another Simple Favor (2025) Jeff York In the original film, Feig walked a fine line between telling a crackerjack mystery and making fun of some of the conventions of the genre. Here, it all feels like an SNL skit. A bad one.
Posted May 01, 2025  Edit critic review
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