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Thirty, Flirty + Film is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Cate Young, Zosha Millman.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
A-
Marty Supreme (2025) Cate Young It’s the relentlessness of his endlessly compounded reckless behaviour that gives the film its magnetic draw. Marty is someone who doesn’t know how to take no for an answer. He is a whirlwind of chaos.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Cate Young The entire main cast is a delight, especially Pedro Pascal as Mr. Fantastic. His tightly wound terror about parenthood screams for a Lexapro prescription that may not yet exist in this timeline.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Zosha Millman Only you get to decide what you want it to say — an agony "If I Had Legs I’d Kick You" knows all too well.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Zosha Millman If it’s not always a great movie it’s a fairly consistently great blockbuster.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Zosha Millman In a time (if we’ve ever not been in one!) where queerness feels so under attack, it honestly feels refreshing to see something like "Hedda."
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
A++
TRON: Ares (2025) Cate Young Silly and indulgent as it is, Tron: Ares truly is a movie of the moment, that engages with our current anxieties around artificial intelligence in a dazzling showcase of tech, music and imagination.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
HIM (2025) Cate Young Him gestures at the vision Tipping wanted to realize and express, but he hasn't quite figured out the kinks. Problems aside, it's a fictive world I'd love to revisit once he's managed to do precisely that.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
A++
Sinners (2025) Cate Young Music is the tool we use to access the escape we need to keep going. The Blues are called the blues for a reason.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Cate Young Ariana Grande (who plays co-lead Glinda) and Cynthia Erivo (who plays Elphaba) have a dazzling chemistry onscreen that’s hard to miss. You could recommend the movie on the strength of their performances alone.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Cate Young The substance promises much but takes even more. It makes a sick kind of sense that the ramifications of engagement aren’t illuminated until it’s too late to make a difference. Youth is everything. Vanity is vile. How you square the two is up to you.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) Cate Young Seeking Mavins Beacon is less a documentary than it is a meditation on and manifesto for black women. An attempt to firmly root Black woman in the digital world, the film makes it clear that Black women have always been in those spaces.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) Cate Young Holland’s performance is rage, bluster and grief. Tarrell’s struggle is made viscerally real in his every movement. There’s a vibration that emanates from him and brings his pain dangerously close to the surface.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Veni Vidi Vici (2024) Cate Young It's always a disappointment when a film doesn't stick the landing. A clever premise cleanly executed is all one needs for a good solid onscreen romp. But Veno Vidi Vici doesn’t deliver.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Daughters (2024) Cate Young It's hard to argue for the cultural merit of a corny dad joke. But in the deeply moving new documentary from directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae, dad jokes are nothing short of a mark of triumph.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Cate Young May December is a not-so-subtle pirouette in triplicate. The three leads circle each other like wolves in the night, their emotional triptych fighting for dominance as psychological truths are discovered.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Bottoms (2023) Cate Young The film’s unrelentingly dry tone contributes to its playfully ridiculous feel — it is at once the thing and a send-up of the thing. Teen sex romps have a formula for a reason.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Past Lives (2023) Cate Young A first love is a precious thing. And despite the inherent irrationality, it can be hard to let go of the golden sheen that covers a fond memory. But that is precisely what Song guides her characters to achieve in her film.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Cate Young Ruben Östlund’s English language debut Triangle of Sadness is not a movie one enjoys. Instead, one tolerates that questionable art still has the right to exist.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fabelmans (2022) Cate Young In some ways, The Fabelmans is a movie about making The Fabelmans. It may seem counterintuitive, but the film is essentially a record of its own existence — a retelling of why Spielberg needed to create stories in the first place.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Cate Young There is nothing wrong with a Black female character who is sexual. Scandal, Greenleaf and Being Mary Jane made sure to cover that ground. But sexuality is fraught for Black women too, and it’s clear that PTA did not bother to engage with that reality.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Zosha Millman To borrow from a different sport, Smashing Machine calls its shot early, demonstrating a lesson it will drill into its audience with all the vigor that Mark approaches his bouts with. And in the end, that’s really all the movie is.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) Cate Young Was she defending Bach, or her own long whispered-about behavior? Is this a tell that her previous and habitual misdeeds have been on her mind? In a way, she tips her hand. No one questioned the merits of the work, merely their relationship to it.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Cate Young Highest 2 Lowest is billed as a crime thriller, but for much of the film, it feels like Lee didn’t quite get the memo. What on the surface should be a taut, tension-filled fight to the finish, reads instead as a languid stroll through a mediocre drama.
Posted Sep 27, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Zosha Millman What does it mean to keep choosing to live? 28 Years Later stalks this question strangely (complimentary), already a bit of a novelty to take on as earnestly in the zombie genre as it has.
Posted Jul 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Cate Young "It’s a valid critical interpretation that Top Gun: Maverick is merely propaganda wrapped in a very pretty bow. But boy, that bow is really something."
Posted Feb 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) Cate Young "With Fox’s help, Guggenheim creates a compelling if perhaps unintentional narrative about the way disabled people are forced to contort themselves into a world that doesn’t accommodate them — and the possibilities that open up for them when it does."
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Fair Play (2023) Cate Young "Fair Play is an explosive and audacious debut that earns every second of its tautly wound twist and turns. Domont, who also wrote the film, is clearly a talent to be reckoned with, and Fair Play hints at the exceptional promise to come."
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) Cate Young "Little Richard: I Am Everything contextualizes the way he shaped the entire spectrum of rock and roll music. The pioneers of rock and roll were black and queer, and Little Richard was at its zenith."
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Polite Society (2023) Cate Young "Polite Society has the same bouncy energy as Manzoor's excellent television show We Are Lady Parts. Her protagonist is self-assured and bold — a worthy addition to the lineage of Indian protagonists Mindy Kaling has made commonplace."
Posted Jan 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Lizzo: Live in Concert (2022) Cate Young "Lizzo stands in our culture as a figure of radical possibility. Her existence and success is proof positive that the lies replicated about fat people through the media, are in fact lies."
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
The Whale (2022) Cate Young "I shouldn’t ask because I know the answer, but why are filmmakers [...] so blind to the fact that it is the prejudices reinforced by lazy narratives like these that do us the most harm?"
Posted Dec 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Elvis (2022) Cate Young "Elvis may be the most Baz Lurhmann, Baz Lurhmann has ever been. And it’s hard to imagine there’s any way for him to top himself from here."
Posted Dec 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Women Talking (2022) Cate Young "Polley’s script deftly conveys the enormous weight of the impossible choice these women have been tasked with making. The extent of the harm that has been done to them is terrifying to behold."
Posted Dec 10, 2022  Edit critic review
West Side Story (2021) Cate Young "There’s no way to get around the fact that Spielberg’s West Side Story is a modern masterpiece. In a year chock full of live-action musicals, this one rises above the rest."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2022) Cate Young "A psychological thriller that earns the label, Resurrection is a chilling look at the dynamics of intimate partner abuse."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
My Old School (2022) Cate Young "The real hook here is the collective memory of this unique class of schoolmates, and how the experience shaped their lives. It’s kooky, funny, and endlessly enjoyable."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Sharp Stick (2022) Cate Young "This new entry into her directorial canon is a lazy, borderline offensive screed that struggles towards coherence and never achieves it."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Lucy and Desi (2022) Cate Young "It is a lovely portrait of a pioneering showbiz couple, that could only have been handled by a director with the reverence that Poehler demonstrates."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Master (2022) Cate Young "Diallo has a deft handle on the film’s tone and atmosphere, expertly creating the playground for her characters’ fears to manifest. But she never closes the loop on the narrative itself, leading to an unsatisfying and confounding end."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Nothing Compares (2022) Cate Young "Another entry into the ever-growing pantheon of films about women who are owed an apology, Nothing Compares is extremely effective at laying out how Sinead O’Connor found her moral conviction, and why she never abandoned it."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Fresh (2022) Cate Young "While the execution leaves room for minor improvements, Fresh is a highly commendable debut."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
The Lost Daughter (2021) Cate Young "The film is brilliant at parsing the dual sin of reluctant motherhood. In The Lost Daughter, love is not unconditional, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t there."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
CODA (2021) Cate Young "CODA is sweet, sincere and genuinely funny in parts, and it’s precisely the kind of coming-of-age film that we should hope to see more of. "
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
The Suicide Squad (2021) Cate Young "There is so little that is new or surprising in this genre, that it takes true innovation to get anywhere close to the inventiness that makes these films truly sing."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Silent Night (2021) Cate Young "Silent Night is a darkly funny take on the inevitability of climate collapse and the fecklessness of the world’s powers in the face of combatting a problem of their own making."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Cate Young "Resurrections is a film that argues against its own existence while bringing new weight to a universe that has captivated audiences for two decades."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) Cate Young "The film is beautifully rendered and expertly crafted. The immense research effort involved in this endeavor is readily apparent, and Miranda shows his work at every step of the way."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Knocking (2021) Cate Young "Knocking is gripping, and yet the suspense is so mundane it’s almost boring. But Kempff knows what she’s doing. Each time the audience might be inclined to drift, she pulls them back in, feeding new morsels to the line."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (2022) Cate Young "With skill and urgency, Carmichael creates a truth that reflects not just himself, but the painful pasts we all share — and figures out how to not be as sick as his secrets."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
Pleasure (2021) Cate Young "Thyberg — along with her star Sofia Kappel — creates a swirling tale of intoxication, agency and exploitation that focuses squarely on the desires of her protagonist."
Posted Nov 19, 2022  Edit critic review
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