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MovieReelist.com is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): MontiLee Stormer.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4.5/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) MontiLee Stormer This standalone decisively links the Predator mythology with the relentless corporate monster of the Alien franchise. If the Yautja hunts for honor, Weyland-Yutani hunts for profit, seeking alien tech to dominate the bio-weapons market (or every market).
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Frankenstein (2025) MontiLee Stormer GDT builds a world dripping in texture, assisted by Eugenio Caballero’s production design, resurrecting the true, oppressive atmosphere of a mid-19th-C opium haze. You can practically smell the damp earth, human waste, and overripe scientific ambition
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bugonia (2025) MontiLee Stormer Bugonia is a study in contrast. Sympathy for the pharmaceutical villain, fear and mistrust of the clearly mentally ill conspiracy nut. The tender humanity of Teddy and the sociopathic corporate mindset of Michelle.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Good Fortune (2025) MontiLee Stormer Good Fortune wants to highlight the gig economy and how hard it is for those living on the margins to keep from falling behind, and like Gabriel, it does best when the plot stays simple and uncomplicated.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Phone 2 (2025) MontiLee Stormer If there’s one thing Black Phone 2 is offering, its gruesome deaths.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
TRON: Ares (2025) MontiLee Stormer It delivers all of that with Tron: Ares, keeping the smart people smart but not helpless, the villains complicated but not monologuing, and the thrilling action a constantly moving animal that only pauses to take a sip of air.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
V/H/S Halloween (2025) MontiLee Stormer Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting, pull out all of the stops when curating this batch of all Halloween stories. Even the wrap-around story is full of surprises and bright terror. V/H/S Halloween has the potential to redeem the franchise.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
House on Eden (2025) MontiLee Stormer How much was scripted, I do not know, but the chemistry of “Kris” and “Celina” give an uncomfortable realness, especially when the catty fighting began. These aren’t influencers acting; these are actors who have found roles that make them shine.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Long Walk (2025) MontiLee Stormer The Long Walk could be looking at Oscar nods, especially for its leads, Jonsson and Hoffman. The Long Walk is timely as it hits uncomfortably close to home while examining how far we would go to outlast people we barely know and haven’t had time to hate.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Eenie Meanie (2025) MontiLee Stormer Eenie Meanie is perfectly adequate date-night fun where you’re going to be chatting about the better things you’ve seen the actors in or background noise for cleaning out closets and vacuuming. It requires low brain power to follow.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
HIM (2025) MontiLee Stormer Justin Tipping wants to make HIM about the dangers of success at any cost. Unfortunately the diametrically opposed characters make this Faustian arrangement harder to navigate than Dante’s Inferno (1321) which I’ll admit I confuse with Faust all the time.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nobody 2 (2025) MontiLee Stormer Nobody 2 is bloodier and more gory, leaning heavily into the thriller genre, but that helps the comedy land when it counts. Unlike many sequels, it doesn’t skimp on the story or development holding out for another film
Posted Aug 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Naked Gun (2025) MontiLee Stormer Everyone plays the straight man to Drebin's straight man, creating a circular composition of cerebral clutter. It isn't anything anyone wants to be in the middle of, but it’s fun to watch from the safety of a recliner.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) MontiLee Stormer I Know What You Did Last Summer is full of characters played by actors who look like other actors from films we watched years ago but actually enjoyed.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) MontiLee Stormer The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a kickoff to new adventures with no hint or promise of a crossover, at least not in this installment. The lack of pressure to shoehorn in a third-string “hero” for the sake of content removes a lot of that pressure.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
M3GAN 2.0 (2025) MontiLee Stormer Not everyone will love it and that’s okay. The idea smacks of gross consumerism and an eye towards lucrative merch. However, once the lights go down, you’re in for 119 minutes of chaos, sure to leave your face sore from alternating laughing and grimacing.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5
The Sound (2025) MontiLee Stormer There isn’t enough story to pad out the climbing, and the characters were just a little too two-dimensional to tell apart. This isn’t a reflection of the actors, but without meaty material, emotions felt too superficial to climb a rock that massive.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
F1 The Movie (2025) MontiLee Stormer F1 didn’t set out to beat me over the head with facts and numbers, yet included me on an thrilling (if abbreviated) tour of the circuit helping build the momentum to the big finish.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Train Your Dragon (2025) MontiLee Stormer It’s long enough to get the story across without overstaying its magic. There are slapstick giggles for the young, and sly adult fare for the perpetually twelve. It doesn’t skimp on the flying or action, and you won’t feel cheated by the climax.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) MontiLee Stormer If you’re afraid you won’t remember any of the last seven movies over the last twenty-nine years, don’t worry! There are enough quick flashbacks to unlock core memories in even the foggiest of brains.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Thunderbolts* (2025) MontiLee Stormer I enjoyed the not-so-perfect adventure, the petty sniping that bubbled from that deep well of resentment, the sense that for every move, there was an unseen Sword of Damocles waiting to end everything. And Bob. You can’t not like Bob.
Posted Jun 28, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Sinners (2025) MontiLee Stormer Sinners feels like a musical, if musicals were subtle creatures birthing quietly and living as background processes in the blood.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Drop (2025) MontiLee Stormer Drop has everything I love about horror movies – a short running time, smart, relatable everyman characters, unwinnable odds, and loads of fun. Screenwriters Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach are veterans of the Blumhouse churn of a quick in and out
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Death of a Unicorn (2025) MontiLee Stormer The stellar cast of Death of a Unicorn, plus the near pitch-perfect script by writer director Alex Scharfman in his feature-length debut, right the scales of humor, shock, and gore.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Holland (2025) MontiLee Stormer If, like me, you’re wondering what would have made this movie better, maybe not cramming the unresolved plot points of six other movies would have helped.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2023) MontiLee Stormer Braun and Yanagimoto piece together the profile of its leader and the jagged timeline of his evolving doctrine, allowing the words of others to offer theories as to mentality and ultimate purpose.
Posted Mar 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Last Breath (2025) MontiLee Stormer That’s all the explanation you need for this very short, very tight underwater thriller. There isn’t a spy on board sabotaging the mission, no one is out for revenge, and aliens aren’t invading topsid
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
I Heart Willie (2025) MontiLee Stormer I Heart Willie just isn’t very good. I can’t stop you from seeing it, because some horrors need to be experienced, but picking scabs into a staph infection might be a more productive use of your time.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) MontiLee Stormer If there is one HUGE problem Captain America: BNW cannot squash under flashy action scenes and clever quips, is the glaring and distracting CGI, which appears muddy and unfinished
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Renner (2025) MontiLee Stormer Renner isn’t a long film at exactly 90 minutes, but the runtime gives the suspense plenty of room to explore the duplicitous nature of humans and computers. It’s a solid film with good acting and that final act takes a turn I know I didn’t see coming.
Posted Feb 27, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5
Bone Face (2025) MontiLee Stormer Given what they’re working with, they’re engaging and human and unfortunately, completely in the wrong movie. Bone Face plays like a bloody version of Clue (1985), which is fine for a murder mystery, but lousy for a horror film.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
My Husband, the Cyborg (2025) MontiLee Stormer Upon first blush, this would seem like a cute couple’s project as they explore a new world of sensations on an intellectual and physical level. As it continues, it begins to feel mean-spirited and not as supportive as the synopsis would have you believe.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Blackwater Lane (2024) MontiLee Stormer I don’t know which parts were taken from Paris’s novel, but it would have been better if they were the passages with plot, action, compelling characterization, and an ending that wasn’t foreshadowed in the first twenty minutes
Posted Jan 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Wolf Man (2025) MontiLee Stormer There are no extended transformation sequences, which I'm fine with. Instead, there are bloody treats of body horror sprinkled throughout, from bear traps to pulsing open wounds, to the subtly changing landscape of the creature's body.
Posted Jan 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Wicked (2024) MontiLee Stormer Whatever doubts you had about the actors or the voices are put to rest within the first opening numbers.
Posted Nov 21, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Heretic (2024) MontiLee Stormer From comfort smells to internal warning bells, Heretic focuses on the intangible senses to crank the unease and draw out the dread. There’s just enough blood to satisfy your inner gorehound, without resorting to over-the-top jump scares.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Emilia Pérez (2024) MontiLee Stormer It suffers from its own identity crisis and in turn passes that disassociation to its characters.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Venom: The Last Dance (2024) MontiLee Stormer Venom: The Last Dance is choppy and nonsensical and isn’t even enjoyable as a hate watch. Sony even has the nerve to threaten the audience with a continuation of the worn-out series, and no one wants that.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Woman of the Hour (2023) MontiLee Stormer Alcala’s crimes—which spanned nearly a decade and claimed the lives of at least seven women and girls, though potentially more—are handled with care but without sugarcoating the horror.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Red One (2024) MontiLee Stormer I really enjoyed Red One, not only for its modern take on a tired trope but also for its dovetailing of other Yuletide myths into a decidedly Western monopoly. It’s warm and funnyn with familiarity that is profoundly amusing.
Posted Nov 14, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Monster Summer (2024) MontiLee Stormer Monster Summer is a solid mid-grade film that I enjoyed way more than I thought I would. It’s not hardcore horror but it’s a good film for those who want solid but thrilling scares for Spooky Season.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Piece By Piece (2024) MontiLee Stormer Piece by Piece is a documentary for people who need to be cajoled into seeing a documentary, which is likely how Pharrell was convinced to make one. The result is a vibrant, technicolor travelogue through time and music.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Smile 2 (2024) MontiLee Stormer Parker Finn, who also wrote and directed Smile, is clearly working through some serious, deep-seated psychological issues, and transferring them to the screen appears to be deliberate immersive therapy.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) MontiLee Stormer Who hurt these people?
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Hold Your Breath (2024) MontiLee Stormer The teetering of reality in the face of desperate survival is expertly crafted by writer-director Karrie Crouse, who keeps the threats of man and weather simple but elegant.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
1/5
Megalopolis (2024) MontiLee Stormer 2 hrs and 18 min later, we can see that it was absolutely a lot harder than he anticipated. A magical building material created from death and loss? A future-forward city that one can only see with eyes closed? Vestal virgin popstars? In this economy?
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) MontiLee Stormer While I’m not saying that seeing Helen Mirren in the altogether should not be on your bucket list, I’m saying her scenes foreshadowed her status as an actor I will watch in anything.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Speak No Evil (2024) MontiLee Stormer Speak No Evil is no better or worse than any other American thriller where the hardest future the characters face is therapy.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Never Let Go (2024) MontiLee Stormer Personally, I liked it. Light on blood and gore, its strength lies in the unraveling faith this tight-knit family has in one another. Did I have questions? Sure, but they aren’t going to keep me up nights.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) MontiLee Stormer It’s really messy, but – and maybe this is my nostalgia speaking – I think it works. I liked the breadcrumb callbacks, Lydia reduced to shy people-pleasing. I really liked the super dark tertiary story that becomes integral to the final third act.
Posted Oct 03, 2024  Edit critic review
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