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Movies For The Rest Of Us

Movies For The Rest Of Us 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
4/5
Dust Bunny (2025) Bill Newcott Of course, we’re left wondering who the true monsters are, but happily there’s a lot of wild, senseless violence before we’re subjected to any sort of moral.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Napa Boys (2025) Bill Newcott A celebration of pitch-perfect cinematic failure; a must-see for all aficionados of bad movies.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The President's Cake (2025) Bill Newcott Devastating and profoundly human.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) Bill Newcott Jude Law steals the show as Vladimir Putin: Laser-eyed, stridently mannered, head slightly bowed in the manner of a lifelong spy accustomed to keeping a low profile.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Bill Newcott A darkly comic primal scream.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Steve (2025) Bill Newcott So intimate is the filming style, and so lifelike are the performances, you’ll keep forgetting this is, as they say, only a movie. Director Tim Mielants has assembled a young cast who seem to forget there’s a camera running.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Screamboat (2025) Bill Newcott "Screamboat" succeeds as the darkest of Disney dark rides.
Posted May 01, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Pennies From Heaven (1981) Bill Newcott The characters start at rock bottom, grab pneumatic drills, and excavate themselves even deeper. For them, Hope is a thing teamed up with Bing Crosby. Yet there is always escape in the songs that sustained Depression America through the unsustainable.
Posted Mar 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A Night Full of Rain (1978) Bill Newcott While holding an otherworldly essence, the people, places and events of the film seem genuine, at times painfully real, like a sculpture cut from a concrete cloud.
Posted Mar 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
All of You (2024) Bill Newcott Goldstein is a revelation to the universe that knows him primarily as the poker-faced, potty-mouthed footballer on Ted Lasso; Potts is pretty much perfect as the woman Simon can never forget: funny, whip smart and subversively sexy.
Posted Sep 12, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Unfrosted (2024) Bill Newcott By the time the assembled breakfast cereal mascots enacted the traditional “Full Cereal Honors” salute, your humble, stupid reviewer came as close as he ever has to rolling around on the stupid floor.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Irena's Vow (2023) Bill Newcott A reminder that the distance between domestic tranquility and Hell on Earth can be narrow as a line on a map—or the floorboards beneath a pair of spit-polished boots.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Sly (2023) Bill Newcott Stallone offers generous clips and candid conversation, but there’s always the sense that the star, while pretending to lift the curtain on his eventful life, is illuminating his story with a mighty narrow spotlight.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
3/4
The Expendables (2010) Bill Newcott Delivers precisely what it promises: which is to say the cinematic equivalent of a rocket fuel-laden tanker truck plowing into the mixing room of a nitroglycerine factory.
Posted Oct 16, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Eat Pray Love (2010) Bill Newcott There’s some love along the way, and a little bit of praying, but it’s the “Eat” in the title that gets the most attention, like a neon sign in the window of an all-night diner.
Posted Oct 16, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Sanctuary (2022) Bill Newcott It’s all exhausting fun, tapping into the cerebral circuits of brain teasers like Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth and David Slade’s Hard Candy.
Posted May 19, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Hotel (2022) Bill Newcott Years from now, film historians will...identify the Cinema of COVID: Stories that involve forced isolation, or helplessness in the face of an invisible foe, or solemn re-assessment of life’s priorities...elements (that) vex the characters in this film
Posted Sep 10, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Living (2022) Bill Newcott Delicate as the head of a good stout, sentimental as an old Scottish love song...the film at the very least stands as the crowning performance in Bill NIghy’s long and illustrious career.
Posted Sep 10, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Don't Look Up (2021) Bill Newcott You can't completely ruin a great concept, and McKay has hit on one...This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a bluster.
Posted Jan 10, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Free Guy (2021) Bill Newcott If you're not having fun watching Free Guy, don't demand your money back - insist that someone call 911.
Posted Aug 13, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
12 Mighty Orphans (2021) Bill Newcott Football often inspires... movies that could reduce a mad-dog lineman to a blubbering softie. Add to that list...12 Mighty Orphans. It's football - and orphans!
Posted Jun 18, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Court Jester (1955) Bill Newcott It's a Danny Kaye vehicle from the first frame...meant to be nothing more than a good bit of fun... More significantly, it's a reminder of how easily we can forget some of Hollywood's most extraordinary, if nonconforming, geniuses.
Posted Jan 30, 2021  Edit critic review
3 of 5
Penguin Bloom (2020) Bill Newcott If you cannot find it in your heart to draw enjoyment from the sweet-natured true story of a profoundly depressed woman who rediscovers joy thanks to a wounded magpie she nurses back to health, there is some dark hole in your soul.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Red Penguins (2019) Bill Newcott Even for those who don't know a slash from a slap shot, Red Penguins works as a fish-out-of-water tale, a stark history lesson, and a rousing sports epic. On anyone's ice, that's a nifty hat trick.
Posted Aug 15, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Marriage Story (2019) Bill Newcott Two towering performances breathe uncommon humanity into writer/director Noah Baumbach's study of a marriage on the rocks.
Posted Aug 05, 2020  Edit critic review
5/5
The Tin Drum (1979) Bill Newcott Schlondorff treads the thin line between fantasy and nightmare... always rewarding his audience with precious bits of humor, horror, and pathos.
Posted Aug 03, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
King Kong (1976) Bill Newcott What we get then, is (with apologies to Patty Hearst), an urbane gorilla who would, if he could speak above an occasional growl, say "Please" before making off with a screaming and scantily-clad Jessica Lange.
Posted Aug 03, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Rollercoaster (1977) Bill Newcott Goldstone knows it's not the rumbling of theater seats that makes us feel good about shelling out $3.50 for a movie. His whimsical approach to a tired genre makes Rollercoaster a ride to remember.
Posted Aug 02, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
The Blue Lagoon (1980) Bill Newcott Fourteen-year-old Shields has the physical attributes of someone ten years older, but her acting is still somewhere this side of Annette Funicello.
Posted Aug 02, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
The Shining (1980) Bill Newcott (1980 Review) Aside from an occasional flash of brilliance it is tedious and, the fatal blow, not all that scary.
Posted Aug 02, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) Bill Newcott If you know [Esther] Williams only from clips in That's Entertainment, see this splashy epic to get an idea of what all the excitement was about.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Girl Crazy (1943) Bill Newcott Judy Garland, then 21, and 23-year-old Mickey Rooney were clearly pushing the envelope when they played crazy kids who put on a show one last time.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Lucky Grandma (2019) Bill Newcott (The film) has more than fun thrills in mind: It's also an unvarnished critique of the marginalization of older people in America - whatever their cultural outpost.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
2/5
Dumbo (2019) Bill Newcott The biggest problem with Disney's live-action remake of its animated classic...is as plain as the trunk on your face: It's just no fun.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Transit (2018) Bill Newcott An outlandish experiment that gets just about everything right.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Breakthrough (2019) Bill Newcott A poignant picture of a family driven by faith, but not immune to the pain of crises.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Missing Link (2019) Bill Newcott There are grownup delights aplenty...from its glorious color palate to the refreshingly angular character design
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) Bill Newcott Fans of the novel may take umbrage at the considerable narrative streamlining Linklater and his co-writers have applied to the film's third act, but the changes make for a thrilling and satisfying resolution.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
For the Birds (2018) Bill Newcott Moments..are almost unbearably sad...Yet, somehow, the film ends on a note of hope that...she can sustain a happy medium between bird lover and bird hoarder.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Charlie Says (2018) Bill Newcott Director Mary Haron has found a surprisingly relevant way to revisit the grisly events: Through the eyes of the women Manson somehow hypnotized into carrying out the slaughter.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (2018) Bill Newcott With just a little streamlining [the film] might have zipped by in a brisk, poignant hour and a half. At over two hours, it goes straight to the Dead Letter Department.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Safe Spaces (2019) Bill Newcott In this big-hearted, infinitely human comedy, no place is really safe: The soul is pre-programmed for being hurt - and for hurting others, whether it wants to or not.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Rapid Eye Movement (2019) Bill Newcott This nifty, efficient thriller has absolutely everything a small independent film needs: a clever premise, engaging characters, resourceful casting, and tight vision.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer (2019) Bill Newcott The men and women of The National Enquirer knew how to get the stories their readers wanted. Scandalous is a rousing account of the years they did it better than anybody in the business.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
The Current War: Director's Cut (2019) Bill Newcott Benedict Cumberbatch as boyish, blustery Edison and Michael Shannon as the reserved, ruminative Westinghouse - provide the juice to make this history lesson shine.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
36 Hours (1964) Bill Newcott The premise, based on a story by Willy Wonka creator Roald Dahl, is as outrageous as it is ingenious
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
Uncut Gems (2019) Bill Newcott Adam Sandler has played straight drama before, but nothing will prepare you for this adrenaline-pumped film that feels like a plunge into a vat of battery acid.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Knives Out (2019) Bill Newcott The resolution...seems a long time coming, and it isn't quite the out-of-left-field surprise you might have hoped for. Still, writer/director Rian Johnson keeps his audience sufficiently off-balance to make things interesting.
Posted Jul 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/5
Boy Erased (2018) Bill Newcott As a showcase for unforgettable screen performances, Boy Erased is indelible.
Posted Jul 27, 2020  Edit critic review
3/5
The Favourite (2018) Bill Newcott A comely comedy of manners, supported by a cast that knows when to go for scandalous laughs and when to play it straight.
Posted Jul 27, 2020  Edit critic review
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