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Seattle Refined

Seattle Refined is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Candice McMillan.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Candice McMillan Avatar: Fire and Ash is a breathtaking epic, a superhuman feat of filmmaking, a full emotional, visual and visceral movie-going experience... and it will inevitably feel like a repeat of its 2022 older sibling.
Posted Dec 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Candice McMillan The threads of [director Rian] Johnson's cinematic creations rely on massive ensemble talent-wrangling and character building, perfectly-coifed suspense and the sneaking snowball effect of masterful plot development.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Candice McMillan Its intricate interweaving of characters and their relationships with one another never takes a hammy turn, preferring instead for the film's message to seep slowly through the calm and collected interactions, saying more with less.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Candice McMillan [Jessie] Buckley is our dashing, daring, feral lead whose mercurial portrayal is as hypnotizing as it is gutting.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Candice McMillan [Wicked:] For Good is like the end of a sleepover: all the fun has already been had, and you're left to clean up the mess before you go.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Candice McMillan The Running Man is cheap and glossy... As a director who has tackled the gamut, from solemn action dramas to satire comedies, Wright lands The Running Man closer to Hot Fuzz than Baby Driver, but it is, against our better judgement, still terribly fun.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Candice McMillan They rip through synths and blow up ships, audaciously tear through foreign, antagonistic foes and give the first swashbuckling, riotous time I've ever experienced in a Predator movie.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Candice McMillan [Director Scott] Cooper aims and generally succeeds at characterizing Springsteen without glorifying any one action, song or person, riding his many lows to a high note, delivering a film that, like the Boss himself, isn't trying to sell you anything.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Candice McMillan While the film can be frustrating at times in its unrelenting philosophical positioning, there is more temptation to partake in the hunt than to peruse from the sidelines.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
TRON: Ares (2025) Candice McMillan Like the leviathan did the small marionette, viewers are swallowed whole by the momentarily sensuous and overpowering storytelling, only to be spit back out into a fable of mortal failings with a soulless premise led by Leto's solidly wooden performance.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Candice McMillan There may be dancing in the ring, but the rest of the film is clunky and slow, lacking rhythm and flow, bobbing along under the pretense that a "transformation" is enough to keep viewers hooked.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Candice McMillan Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's genre-defying, career-defining piece of classic cinema... One Battle After Another dances from start to finish, a triumph of storytelling.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Candice McMillan Despite its overt attempts to convince viewers that it's a freewheeling adventure through time and space, the film feels unalterably stuck on a track, racing towards the tearful, uplifting ending one would expect from a title so blatantly optimistic.
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Long Walk (2025) Candice McMillan There are graphic sequences, as well, but the real terror lies in the unknown of what is ahead. Don't be completely fooled by the character study at the story's center. It's a long walk, and there is plenty of road with which to strangle each other.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Candice McMillan Few dark comedies find the tricky equilibrium required to both engage and revolt audiences, but Twinless nails the balance with subtle, though no less cringy, fury.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Together (2025) Candice McMillan Together would not work as well as it does with the Franco-Brie combo... They came "Together"; I couldn't forget the rest if I tried.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Candice McMillan The film picks up pace, turning away from its metaphorical bombast and into a deranged action-thriller, one that sparks our own excitement too late in the long bog of pandemic pondering.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Candice McMillan Particularly original, it is not. Rebirth labors to add a sibling, though at times it feels like it's attempting a clone of the franchise's first film. The features are eerily recognizable, but there is something hollow at its core.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Candice McMillan A hypnotic affair... Song's contemplative writing and ethereal relationship-setting deserve some credit. She has a knack for making even the most complicated things simple and beautiful.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Candice McMillan Most frustrating is its lack of connectedness, a theme that frequently rears its head in Anderson's works. For a film about a father trying to bridge goodwill with his estranged daughter, there is no real communion between the two.
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Bring Her Back (2025) Candice McMillan A confined, very tangible world as well as one that contains a multitude of possibilities, hiding places for evil to lurk, linger and eventually from which to lunge.
Posted Jun 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Shadow Force (2025) Candice McMillan While there are elements that could warrant a watch for non-discerning viewers, the film's medium-octane sequences and lackadaisical plot resolution leave an unsatisfying taste in whatever mouths are compelled to leave their house to see this in theaters.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Candice McMillan What makes Thunderbolts* - an otherwise straightforward story about a sundry squad of misfits - is the chemistry of its players... There is something positively irresistible about this cast of oddballs, deviants, yet still earnest crusaders.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Candice McMillan The role [that communing with the dead via music] plays in this film and how it connects the horror that ensues to the horrors that have already happened is where [director Ryan] Coogler strikes a compelling and utterly devastating thesis.
Posted Apr 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wedding Banquet (2025) Candice McMillan The film is more of a wedding buffet than a stodgy, antiquated banquet. The winding through dishes and perusing of relationships is delivered with quick-witted efficiency without losing its main course.
Posted Apr 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Candice McMillan [Writer-director-actor Tim] Key's delivery, full of sincerity and earnestness, sells the film, regardless of what predictable avenues it eventually peruses... Ballad is simply a joyous celebration of how film can reach through the screen and make us feel.
Posted Apr 17, 2025  Edit critic review
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Candice McMillan Of those millions of hypothetical trajectories A Minecraft Movie could take, it becomes painfully apparent that there won't be any attempt to correct course, keeping steady along the path of easy pivots and unremarkable resolutions.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Candice McMillan What sends the film adrift is its off-kilter tone and pacing, its one-note character arcs and, if we're being honest, the unrelenting homicide of a beloved creature who should be left well enough alone.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Disney's Snow White (2025) Candice McMillan For this reviewer, who once dreamed of being a princess like Snow White, I'll forgo a true Brothers Grimm retelling if it means the right audience can get butts in theaters for this thoughtful and no less magical bite off the poisoned apple.
Posted Apr 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Candice McMillan More of the director's pointedly political, yet consumable arthouse style, showcasing another wacky, bizarre and fantastical landscape onto which Bong Joon Ho refines his critical voice.
Posted Mar 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Last Breath (2025) Candice McMillan Last Breath is a refreshing entry to a subgenre that might be hard on the blood pressure, but that is worth the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes excruciating plunge.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Monkey (2025) Candice McMillan [Director Osgood Perkins] proves he isn't a circus chimp, pulling off the same trick over and again. He killed that metaphorical monkey and memorialized it with what is sure to be the campy horror classic of the year.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Candice McMillan It's an unfortunate revelation that this brave new post-"Endgame" world was not quite ready to give [Anthony Mackie] a sunny spot where he could shine.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Love Hurts (2025) Candice McMillan But when the bullets land and the destruction is complete, the quiet of the lackluster script and its nonsensical dialogue is a painful reminder of any love for the film subsequently lost.
Posted Feb 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Candice McMillan Produced by the team that made Barbarian, Companion may not be quite as perverted and grotesque as the creature in the basement, but it is a mysterious, sexy and totally deranged creation that warrants some love this holiday.
Posted Feb 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Presence (2024) Candice McMillan There may be an element of gimmick that the film can't shake, but its earnestness is hard to overlook. The quiet filmmaking Soderbergh commits in Presence has a surprising amount to say and is too enticing for viewers not to hang on his every shot.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Wolf Man (2025) Candice McMillan Wolf Man can't find its tail. It has its head. It eventually grows some teeth, but its back end is suspiciously cut short. For that matter, its belly is also a little empty, a product of a meatless plot that certainly wouldn't sustain the beast.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Candice McMillan There is an effervescent quality about its story, and [Adrian] Brody's László is a befuddling lead ushering us through this immigrant story. Brutal as it may be, Corbet's vision is a salt-of-the-earth spectacle that is made for silver screen consumption.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Candice McMillan Timothée Chalamet has yet to have a bad performance and keeps that streak alive as Dylan... That, dear reader, is what makes A Complete Unknown worth its while.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Candice McMillan The greatest winner here is Mufasa, a character long-lamented yet underutilized in its previous iterations. Given the time and space to develop his character, this entry is successful in all aspects.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Kraven the Hunter (2024) Candice McMillan Its weak, clunky, clichéd script offers no room for thoughtful, nuanced or even interesting performances... They would have been better off hunting down a smarter, more engaging plot.
Posted Dec 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Nightbitch (2024) Candice McMillan The concept of equating the onset of motherhood to that of a transformation into a werewolf is a good one. But to make a truly compelling argument, we're gonna need a little more plot and character development to sink our teeth into.
Posted Dec 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Moana 2 (2024) Candice McMillan A return to the ocean that gets caught up in a few undercurrents and loses the wave, but, like most trips to the beach with kids, involves enough roughing around in the sand and the distraction of exotic sea creatures to keep young adventurers entertained
Posted Dec 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Candice McMillan What viewers want from Wicked is not to "defy gravity," but to placate fans and entertain newcomers with a by-the-book silver screen adaptation. Because that’s exactly what “Wicked” does so impeccably well, with style, grace and a sweeping vision.
Posted Dec 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Heretic (2024) Candice McMillan There is no way to compete with the all-consuming and utterly mesmerizing performance of heartthrob-turned-unhinged-psychopath Hugh Grant ... He is charming in a grotesque way, like a blueberry pie mottled by maggots.
Posted Nov 23, 2024  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Candice McMillan There is depth in both the writing and the corresponding performances, which play ergonomically on the tragedy of the past and the irony of the present ... endearing and entertaining, fresh in the hands of these two longtime performers.
Posted Nov 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Candice McMillan It will make viewers feel empowered by her pluck and deflated by the forces pushing against her as she tries unrelentingly to escape her circumstances. Classic fable or just a wild time, Anora has our attention.
Posted Nov 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Candice McMillan A bonafide thriller showcasing catty contestants on an ancient game show where the goal is to undermine, backstab and degrade their way to the greatest prize in Rome.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Smile 2 (2024) Candice McMillan [Writer-director Parker] Finn writes the slow burn into the pit of insanity, carefully and leisurely turning the dial so as not to let audiences realize that he's cooked us well-done.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Saturday Night (2024) Candice McMillan For fans and frequent viewers of the late night comedy sketch show, the energy, the vibrancy of fresh ideas and the steady stream of humor make this reimagining of the beloved show such a personal watch.
Posted Oct 28, 2024  Edit critic review
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