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The Saturday Evening Post is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Bill Newcott.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Bill Newcott A stately, historical fever dream blessed with a ferocious performance by Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee relates the origin story of a nearly extinct American religious sect with unblinking authenticity and Olympian artistry.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Rosemead (2025) Bill Newcott Liu gives a devastating performance, seeming to physically shrink as Irene’s cancer and concerns conspire to rob her of literally everything she holds dear.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Bill Newcott A thrilling but sobering contemplation of the lengths people might go for justice, whether they deserve it or not.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Bill Newcott Brewer never seems quite ready to call it quits on a scene that has already wandered past one or two likely cutaways.
Posted Dec 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Bill Newcott A film that speaks in closeups the way John Ford spoke in vast Western landscapes
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Bill Newcott Movie stars, it turns out, are like the rest of us mostly in the bad ways. And that makes painting a sympathetic, relatable portrait of one a naggingly tough sell.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Bill Newcott In a franchise that was already the smartest kid on the block, it’s a remarkably ambitious effort from writer/director Rian Johnson.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Hamnet (2025) Bill Newcott Zhao's...long, wordless, nature-evoking sequences call to mind Terrence Malick’s what’s-your-hurry artistry in movies like Days of Heaven and The Tree of Life. The approach requires a bit of patience, but the payoff is more than worth it
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Frankenstein (2025) Bill Newcott You may watch portions...through latticed fingers, but as in all of the director’s finest work, you’ll come away remembering the humanity hidden in the horrible; the beauty baked into the beastly.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nuremberg (2025) Bill Newcott Crowe draws us into Göring’s’ dark charismatic cloud, (but) while he lulls us into kind of enjoying Göring’s company, he never, not for one second, masks the truth that we are in the presence of a monster.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Bill Newcott The film’s real power lies in the story of Martin’s tragic relationship with her violent, insecure husband/manager, James, played with slow-burn explosive energy by Ben Foster
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Bill Newcott Fraser, through Phil’s sympathetic eyes, helps us see beyond our Western aversion to such high-stakes cosplay and ultimately embrace a culture’s mechanism, however convoluted, that endeavors to scatter the stigma of loneliness and rejection.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Bill Newcott Gamely sporting the world’s worst comb-over, breathing rings of cigar smoke, wearing a face that transparently evokes pride, hope, desperation and love sickness, Hawke gives the performance of his career.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe (2024) Bill Newcott You’d expect a biographical documentary about a living artist to be respectful, but this documentary about Italian singer Andrea Bocelli will leave you wondering why the Vatican is waiting so long to just go ahead and declare him a saint.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Swiped (2025) Bill Newcott I do hereby challenge every single male in any traditionally male profession to sit through Swiped...and not see shades of their own workplace, and maybe even themselves.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Lost Bus (2025) Bill Newcott The resolution of The Lost Bus may never be in doubt, but you will never forget the fiery, frantic, fantastically fraught ride to the end.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Roofman (2025) Bill Newcott Channing Tatum proves he's more than just a chiseled face in (a movie that asks): Can you change who you are without facing the consequences of who you once were?
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Eleanor the Great (2025) Bill Newcott Johansson labors at times to balance the heaviness of the material with the raucous persona of Eleanor...Happily, Johansson allows Squibb lots of time to fill in the blanks of her character, capturing moments of indecision, regret, and swelling sentiment.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Thursday Murder Club (2025) Bill Newcott What could go wrong? Nothing. That doesn’t make (it) a particularly good film. But even in a middling movie, when absolutely everybody in a ridiculously talented company is clicking on all eight cylinders, you’d have to be criminally grouchy to nitpick.
Posted Sep 14, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Jaws (1975) Bill Newcott Among the most seamlessly structured, exquisitely paced, superbly acted films of all time.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Eden (2024) Bill Newcott Ron Howard has constructed a sweaty, steamy, bloody Grand Guignol "Gilligan," one that explodes with violence and rumbles with excruciating peril.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
East of Wall (2025) Bill Newcott If there is any justice in the universe of cinematic legacies, Tabatha’s monologue in East of Wall will endure right up there with Quint’s in Jaws and Colonel Kurtz’s in Apocalypse Now.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Sketch (2024) Bill Newcott A miracle of cinematic alchemy, improbably blending elements of Alien, Cloverfield, and Carrie with shards of The Goonies, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Harold and the Purple Crayon — adding shoutouts to Psycho and North by Northwest for good measure.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mr. Blake, at Your Service! (2023) Bill Newcott A gentle comedy/drama; a welcome cloud of friendliness where the good people are golden, the gruff people are merely misunderstood, and the troubled will soon find relief.
Posted Jul 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sovereign (2025) Bill Newcott The scariest movie of the year.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Bill Newcott (Blending) the earnest hagiography of Martin Scorsese’s "The Last Waltz" with the irreverent satire of Eric Idle’s "The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash," Reiner’s ingenious bit of alchemy yields, some argue, the greatest rock and roll film ever made.
Posted Jul 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Sinners (2025) Bill Newcott Sinners is about a lot more than juke joints and vampires. When the numbness of what you’ve just experienced these two-hours-plus wears off, you’ll spend a week thinking about every minute.
Posted Jun 19, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Life of Chuck (2024) Bill Newcott Not only the most successful screen adaptation of a Stephen King work, but also among the past decade’s most challenging and poignant cinematic affirmations of our shared humanness.
Posted Jun 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) Bill Newcott The fact that Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is so charming, so life-affirming, so unreasonably fresh, is a tribute not only to the filmmakers, but also to the enduring appeal of an author who last laid down her pen more than 200 years ago.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Surfer (2024) Bill Newcott Whatever Cage does, he’s never, ever going to be boring.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Ruse (2024) Bill Newcott A handsome-looking effort with appealing performances by a cast that seems ready, at any moment, to break the fourth wall and apologize profusely.
Posted May 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Pink Floyd at Pompeii (1972) Bill Newcott The playlist, mostly lengthy early catalog selections, unfolds in dreamlike arcs and vales that seem ready to conjure up the ghosts of Pompeii — represented here by frescoes and sculptures shown in cleverly edited snippets.
Posted May 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024) Bill Newcott Marin pauses by a parked motorcycle. “Is this Dave’s bike?” he asks. If you need that joke explained to you, then you might not be the target audience for Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Shrouds (2024) Bill Newcott Mostly, The Shrouds stars its 81-year-old director, whose pain finds voice in a film that encapsulates, in the most personal way imaginable, his lifetime of marrying the humane and the horrific.
Posted Apr 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Luckiest Man in America (2024) Bill Newcott The real-life Larson was an incurable con man...but here he’s a straight-up folk hero, turning The Man’s system against him; a guy who wants, like everyone else, nothing more than to be seen.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
William Tell (2024) Bill Newcott A defiant throwback to a time when movie marquees boasted “a cast of thousands,” immersed audiences in chaotic, close-up widescreen Technicolor battle scenes and featured chiseled, virtuous heroes doing battle with smirking, thoroughly evil villains.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Bill Newcott (The) narrative journey — involving frequent shifts between the twee and the tragic — sometimes makes for a bumpy ride. But The Penguin Lessons has the always-reliable Coogan at the wheel and an adorable penguin navigating, and that’s enough.
Posted Apr 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Bill Newcott The gags — visual, verbal, and sometimes subliminal — flow in a torrent that could only have been pumped out by a tag team of cartoon veterans whose careers have crossed paths not just at Warner’s, but also at Disney and DreamWorks.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) Bill Newcott A comedy at heart, My Dead Friend Zoe blesses its characters with a happy ending while acknowledging the traumatized lives — and tragic post-deployment deaths — of too many American veterans.
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Flow (2024) Bill Newcott A universal ‘toon with enough broad action to entertain children of any age — and plenty of food for grownup thought.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blink (2024) Bill Newcott Steering clear of cheap sentimentality...a wide-eyed testament to the unique brand of bravery only families, standing astride misfortune with a defiant, come-and-get-us stance, can nurture.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
We Live in Time (2024) Bill Newcott Great performances can atone for a multitude of cinematic sins,...We buy into this pair’s instant attraction immediately — a miracle when you consider the uber-manipulative plot elements the filmmakers impose upon them.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Superboys of Malegaon (2024) Bill Newcott I’m imploring you, find a way to spend some time with this touching tale...As is my custom writing a review, I’m sitting here watching the trailer, and even now I’m finding it hard to keep it together.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Oh Canada (2024) Bill Newcott A fitting footnote to the lifework of Gere and Schrader, two men who have spent the decades since their former collaboration brashly setting their own agendas.
Posted Feb 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
I'm Still Here (2024) Bill Newcott Testimony to the grim fact that evil and oppression don’t unfold in haunted houses or dark alleys: They come at you in an unmarked car, smiling tightly, saying they only want to ask a few questions.
Posted Jan 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
September 5 (2024) Bill Newcott Upon this nerve-rattling account, director Tim Fehlbaum has layered not only a supremely human drama, but also... a meditation on where the responsibility to report the news begins and, more intriguingly, ends.
Posted Jan 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Babygirl (2024) Bill Newcott (A) by-the-numbers tale of a messy collision at the intersection of Lust and Love.
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Better Man (2024) Bill Newcott The dumb idea works surprisingly well. Even those unfamiliar with Williams’s music will have a good time swinging along with his simian self.
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) Bill Newcott Nick Park’s indelible appetite for analog fun is in full flower
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
A Complete Unknown (2024) Bill Newcott Why does Dylan keep building up relationships...only to casually and cruelly dismantle them? A Complete Unknown seems to be telling us “Because he wanted to.” That’s a hollow rationalization; one that cannot be filled in even by...first-rate performances.
Posted Dec 21, 2024  Edit critic review
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