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KOMO News (Seattle) 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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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Caught Stealing (2025) Candice McMillan This is a Butler star-vehicle, and man, can he drive the car... Like Aronofsky's past redemption stories, Hank's turns into a runaway train: loose, careless and fatal.
Posted Sep 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Nobody 2 (2025) Candice McMillan Another [limitation] be the unnecessariness of a sequel at all, but we're here now, and if you have a hankering for an encore of what "Nobody" delivered, then Hutch, at the very least, is here to spin island time into violent time.
Posted Aug 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) Candice McMillan Freakier is a cheap shot in the same spot, done louder though not better. As the body switch gains momentum, it requires almost too much energy to keep up. The action is frantic and frenzied. The performances are whatever is the opposite of nuanced.
Posted Aug 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Candice McMillan He-roes by any other name, perhaps, but as a kickstarter, Gunn's Superman aces the reboot with flying colors.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Candice McMillan For those willing to succumb to its formulaic sports movie schtick, "F1" will feel like a wholesome return to the studio features of 30 years ago. It's the Brad Pitt of racing movies: charming, electric, at least superficially, and easy on the eyes.
Posted Jul 05, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Candice McMillan An Odyssean, coming-of-age epic that has Trojan Horsed its way inside a horror sequel. What begins as a bloody thriller ends in contemplative rhapsody, shepherded along by remarkable performances and two storytellers who decided to infect the world again.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Candice McMillan While every film in this franchise feels like an uphill battle of good against evil, Final Reckoning operates solely in the tension of time's cruel ignorance, a symptom of McQuarrie's own sentimentality for a franchise of which he's directed exactly half.
Posted May 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Candice McMillan A high-stakes whodunnit ... a taut, sophisticated espionage thriller with big names, a big tagline and, thankfully, a big payout for those who choose to roll the Soderbergh dice.
Posted Mar 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Inside Out 2 (2024) Candice McMillan While it is impossible to recreate how Inside Out made us feel upon that first viewing, Inside Out 2 brings a host of new emotions to the table with a clever, succinct story that is, like its predecessor, a delightful surprise.
Posted Jun 19, 2024  Edit critic review
Cabrini (2024) Candice McMillan A beautiful story about strong women.
Posted Mar 25, 2024  Edit critic review
Argylle (2024) Candice McMillan Argylle was hit by a few bullets itself, and the various holes in its plot were often too frustrating to avoid ... [tipping] the ship enough that, with time (139 minutes to be exact), full submersion is inevitable.
Posted Feb 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Freud's Last Session (2023) Candice McMillan Theory doesn't always survive reality, and never has that been more apparent than in this film, a bloody crime scene of butchered genres and slaughtered character studies that take its last breath before it can take its first.
Posted Jan 25, 2024  Edit critic review
The Forever Purge (2021) Candice McMillan What do we get for $25 million? Nothing new, and, in fact, there are so many cliche characterizations that we're not just swimming in overt socio-political allegory, we're drowning in it.
Posted Jul 08, 2021  Edit critic review
Pixie (2020) Candice McMillan There is certainly something quite charming about [Pixie] ... But it is a novice whack at a story that could use help in highlighting its subtleties and cleaning its message.
Posted Mar 06, 2021  Edit critic review
Malcolm & Marie (2021) Candice McMillan There is only what is true for Malcolm and Marie, and what's true for us is that we can't keep our eyes off them.
Posted Feb 05, 2021  Edit critic review
Promising Young Woman (2020) Candice McMillan With her debut feature, writer-director Emerald Fennell creates a twisted, yet raucous comedy sobered by its real-life truths and made ironic by its sugar-coated color palette, a preference for pastel and floral that is both appealing and appalling.
Posted Jan 30, 2021  Edit critic review
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) Candice McMillan Once the clerical work is out of the way and the groundwork has been laid, the story quickly finds its groove.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Dark Phoenix (2019) Candice McMillan The action sequences, though well done, aren't enough to shift the tides of this lukewarm superhero film bumbling in the dark for meaning, understanding, and, ultimately, closure.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Gemini Man (2019) Candice McMillan It feels lazy, like a toy boat pushed out into the Pacific Ocean. Even two Will Smiths can't save this sinking ship.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Little Women (2019) Candice McMillan Rarely does an adaptation so steeped in the national consciousness and embedded in popular culture hit the right notes in the right order for the right audience at the right time.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) Candice McMillan In a world full of sequels, be like this one.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Frozen II (2019) Candice McMillan The beauty of this sequel is that it is more intricate than the first, namely in plot. It ditches the simplicity of what boiled down to repairing a sister-sister relationship and opts instead for lofty, complicated concepts in a children's movie.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Five Feet Apart (2019) Candice McMillan The predictability of its plot and sweet but adolescent love story may infect the older audience members with chronic eye roll syndrome.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Bombshell (2019) Candice McMillan The film gives a firm voice to Kelly, Carlson and fictional Pospisil, demonizes Ailes who needs no help in that department, but otherwise offers no insight into how things have changed or, at least, how they should.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) Candice McMillan A bloodier alternative to the classic Rudyard Kipling novel for those who like a little grit with their fairy tales.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) Candice McMillan This final installment does exactly what fans of the series want it to ... allowing nostalgia and some fun, fast, flirty fight sequences to close up a property over 40 years old.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Fighting With My Family (2019) Candice McMillan It is thanks to Merchant that the film achieves what it sets out to do ... His characters, though based on real people, pop off the screen and take on a life of their own. They may just make a wrestling fan out of you by the end of it.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
1917 (2019) Candice McMillan Sam Mende's quiet WWI epic 1917 is a cinematic masterpiece, a near perfect war film that appeals to even those of us who don't particularly enjoy war movies ... To put it even simpler, this film is bananas.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
The Goldfinch (2019) Candice McMillan In what could possibly be the most ambitious adaptation of the year - if not of the century - The Goldfinch swings for the stars and lands with the birds in a supremely sentimental, highly cinematic and oftentimes unbearably manicured film.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Us (2019) Candice McMillan What sets Us apart from others in the genre, and likewise Peele apart from his contemporaries, is the voice that whispers a warning in every scene, a foreboding that follows you out of the theater and into your sleeping subconscious.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
The Great Hack (2019) Candice McMillan Great documentaries strike a cord that reverberates back into the world ... If the legal threat dangling over Netflix is any indication of its successful dissemination of truth, then perhaps we are in for a load of trouble.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
A Private War (2018) Candice McMillan Pike has the physicality required for such a role - even unashamedly stripping down to Colvin's infamous La Perla bra - but the magnificence of her performance is that she emotes just as piercingly true in the stillness as she does in the action.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
The Aeronauts (2019) Candice McMillan The Aeronauts is an unambitious telling of a totally wild story ... [The film] races forth, sputters loudly, but never really takes us off the ground.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Dolittle (2020) Candice McMillan The story is silly and hyperbolic. The performances are manic, at times ... But Dolittle is sure to charm a new generation of kids willing to take a journey into a magical world of talking animals and their one-of-a-kind hero.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Underwater (2020) Candice McMillan For true fans of the genre, Underwater isn't going to cut it. It's a rushed adventure that hopes the audience doesn't want to get too technical and will give it some leeway, sacrificing quality for a quick fix.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Sound of Metal (2019) Candice McMillan [Riz] Ahmed handles Ruben with both tender vulnerability and bulldozing assurance that teeters into complete loss of control.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Kajillionaire (2020) Candice McMillan Kajillionaire is a true master class on quirk, a dark comedy that frequently oscillates between laugh out loud and squirm in your seat. [Miranda] July's characters are so outlandish, they would feel inauthentic in hands other than her own.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Candice McMillan Quinn is simultaneously self-aware and oblivious, smart and ditzy, weak for a man and empowered by their split. The film rests on her dichotomy.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
My Spy (2020) Candice McMillan Screenwriting brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber deliver a comedy that is predominantly two things: predictable, yet charming.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) Candice McMillan But also, shoulder shrug. Haven't we seen it all? It sure feels like it, which is why perhaps the gags feel less 'gotcha' and more, 'yeah we know'.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
The Way Back (2020) Candice McMillan In many ways, it feels like we're watching Affleck star as real-life Ben Affleck at his worst. But even Affleck playing Affleck doesn't show The Way Back the way to our hearts.
Posted Jan 28, 2021  Edit critic review
Possessor: Uncut (2020) Candice McMillan The visceral images ... leave your stomach turning. And it is the entire premise that initiates an uneasy feeling, like the rug beneath you is primed for being pulled at any minute.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) Candice McMillan Sonic is a surprisingly fully realized character trapped in a two-dimensional film.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Chemical Hearts (2020) Candice McMillan If your bad poetry from high school about unrequited love was made into a film, it would be Chemical Hearts, an angsty young adult mope fest that beats the cliches of teenage soap operas to a plaid-wearing, meet-in-an-abandoned-factory pulp.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) Candice McMillan The film does an exceptional job of one crucial detail: it values character development over the faux romantic slodge typical of the genre.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
The Midnight Sky (2020) Candice McMillan The Midnight Sky is a consortium of parts that don't equal a whole. ... something for everyone, yet perhaps not enough for one person.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
EMMA. (2020) Candice McMillan [It] sets a spritely pace that doesn't lose its luster along the way ... Despite being over 200 years old, "Emma." has never felt so fresh.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Our Friend (2019) Candice McMillan As hard as the film is to watch, it still offers plenty of levity, thanks to the three leads whose chemistry is palpable and who each play their role with authentic kindness and reverence.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
Herself (2020) Candice McMillan The moral of the story is that women know how to pull themselves up by their boot straps, jumping into the fire in order to come out more fortified than before.
Posted Jan 27, 2021  Edit critic review
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