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Cinemaholics is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Jon Negroni.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
A-
Weapons (2025) Jon Negroni If Barbarian was about what we bury in basements, Weapons is about what we bury in ourselves. Grief, blame, a national appetite for scapegoats over solutions.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
B
The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Jon Negroni What elevates The Bad Guys 2 above standard animated fare is not just the action or the comedy (though both are abundant), but the emotional integrity of its characters.
Posted Jul 31, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Superman (2025) Jon Negroni Bring on the age of superhero movies with an actual point of view, a personality even, a polarizing premise. In that respect, Superman (2025) could even save the genre while it’s at it.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Jon Negroni Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, if you choose to accept it, burns away your cynicism with every shot of Cruise grinning into death’s abyss and saying, “It’s just pain.”
Posted May 14, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Nickel Boys (2024) Jon Negroni His use of first-person POV places us inside Elwood’s mind at key moments, not as a gimmick, but as a demand: feel this.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Jon Negroni We get a movie that, much like the MCU itself these days, is merely running on autopilot. Captain America may still stand for something, but Brave New World sure doesn’t.
Posted Feb 12, 2025  Edit critic review
September 5 (2024) Jon Negroni I appreciated that the film didn’t take an Argo-like approach, turning it into a heist narrative about getting the reels to the right place. Instead, it treated the events with the gravity they deserve.
Posted Dec 10, 2024  Edit critic review
8/10
Conclave (2024) Jon Negroni With its gripping performances, striking visuals, and a smart mix of suspense and wit, Conclave is a heavenly whodunnit that feels both grand and surprisingly relevant.
Posted Dec 07, 2024  Edit critic review
6.5/10
Moana 2 (2024) Jon Negroni Moana 2 expands on the original’s lore with stunning animation and some fun moments, but it falls short on the overall music and character journey. While it’s a safe, family-friendly sequel, it lacks the magic that made the first film unforgettable.
Posted Nov 26, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
The Substance (2024) Jon Negroni The Substance takes a magnifying glass—or maybe a telescope—to empty Hollywood sleaziness that few movies have done quite as well, at least recently.
Posted Oct 24, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
Anora (2024) Jon Negroni Sean Baker's "This Americana Life" style of empathy filmmaking works better than most because his characters (and settings) are always balancing the lows and highs of people and places we can actually recognize.
Posted Oct 22, 2024  Edit critic review
B
Saturday Night (2024) Jon Negroni What if the first episode of Saturday Night was a 90-minute dark ride at Disney MGM Studios?
Posted Oct 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Jon Negroni Alien: Romulus goes boldly where many of the Alien sequels should’ve gone before. Hard.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Joy Ride (2023) Jon Negroni Joy Ride has a secret weapon. The same weapon wielded by Girls Trip, Game Night, and Booksmart before it. The movie is actually funny.
Posted Jul 03, 2023  Edit critic review
C+
Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Jon Negroni After 'Jurassic World Dominion,' we might just be racing toward the extinction of the Jurassic Park franchise.
Posted Jun 08, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) Jon Negroni Probably the nicest thing you can say about Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is that its even truer to the whacky, zippy, and obviously breezily adventurous video games than the first film.
Posted Apr 04, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Turning Red (2022) Jon Negroni It wont make you feel deep, existential sadness the way Pixar is knownor memedfor, but is there such a thing as deep, existential laughter? If so, heres that.
Posted Mar 09, 2022  Edit critic review
B
The Batman (2022) Jon Negroni The Batman is really just a series of well-made, nice-to-look at vignettes that just barely connect to each other or lead into each other with the energy and propulsion audiences crave from big-budget action spectacle movies at this level.
Posted Feb 28, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Uncharted (2022) Jon Negroni ...its a wonderfully unassuming, unpretentious blockbuster adventure with swashbuckling action, inventive set pieces, emotional character growth, and light-hearted quips that make the whole journey easy to sit through, let alone play through.
Posted Feb 16, 2022  Edit critic review
B
I Want You Back (2022) Jon Negroni I Want You Back will probably have curious viewers wanting to come back for seconds and maybe even thirds come this Valentine's Day and the next.
Posted Feb 11, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
Death on the Nile (2022) Jon Negroni Death on the Nile has its fair share of stakes and emotional development for Poirot, more-so than any other character in this sequel, which is a big reason why the film doesnt sink under its own weight.
Posted Feb 10, 2022  Edit critic review
Scream (2022) Jon Negroni It's not as clever a sequel in some respects as its predecessors, but it does succeed in navigating the current trends of horror in ways that serve its razor sharp story.
Posted Jan 12, 2022  Edit critic review
C
The 355 (2022) Jon Negroni The 355 is far from great or worthwhile, but if it were a Netflix film, it would probably be in their Top 10 for at least three weeks, then rarely ever talked about again.
Posted Jan 07, 2022  Edit critic review
B
The Matrix Resurrections (2021) Jon Negroni It's nowhere near as innovative and generational as its forefather, but there's something disarming and affectionate about how hard it tries not to be.
Posted Dec 21, 2021  Edit critic review
B
The Lost Daughter (2021) Jon Negroni A crushing, honest drama about the cruelties of motherhood.
Posted Dec 18, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Jon Negroni Spider-Man: No Way Home should be the worst Spider-Man movie ever made, yet it's somehow one of the best
Posted Dec 15, 2021  Edit critic review
C+
The King's Man (2021) Jon Negroni It's a film crammed with good starts to good ideas, only for them to end abruptly or go in directions that don't feel inevitable or thought through to their fullest potential.
Posted Dec 14, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
West Side Story (2021) Jon Negroni The new West Side Story, while not superior to the original in every single away, is a vast improvement in so many others, it's easy to tune out what still doesn't work.
Posted Dec 10, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Jon Negroni Love or hate The Tragedy of Macbeth, there's no question it contributes something refreshing and new to an outdated genre.
Posted Dec 08, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Nightmare Alley (2021) Jon Negroni An adult movie for adults that isn't ashamed of that fact, and it's certainly an attraction worth its ticket price. Just be sure to manage expectations, lest you be swindled.
Posted Dec 07, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
The Power of the Dog (2021) Jon Negroni The film is terrific at telling a traditional story about aggression without showing traditional aggression.
Posted Dec 03, 2021  Edit critic review
A
Red Rocket (2021) Jon Negroni Many films have been made about the last 5 years of American politics, but Red Rocket could very well be the first great one.
Posted Nov 24, 2021  Edit critic review
C
House of Gucci (2021) Jon Negroni You have to sit through a lot of pain and suffering in this runtime, which might cost you more than you're willing to pay for the brand.
Posted Nov 23, 2021  Edit critic review
A-
Licorice Pizza (2021) Jon Negroni Just when you think PTA has run out of ingredients, he surprises us with something entirely new and impossible to forget.
Posted Nov 19, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
King Richard (2021) Jon Negroni It's not the greatest of all time, but for some it will easily be a grand slam.
Posted Nov 17, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) Jon Negroni A smart, low-key sci-fi adventure until it gets haunted by its own past.
Posted Nov 17, 2021  Edit critic review
C
Clifford the Big Red Dog (2021) Jon Negroni If we do get another movie about this lovable red dog, the least these filmmakers can do is make the dog big.
Posted Nov 16, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
Belfast (2021) Jon Negroni Though it is presented in black and white, the atmosphere and performances couldn't be more lively and colorful.
Posted Nov 08, 2021  Edit critic review
B
Finch (2021) Jon Negroni A quietly simple, elegant, gem of a sci-fi tale.
Posted Nov 07, 2021  Edit critic review
B+
Spencer (2021) Jon Negroni In Spencer, we see Spencer, the traumatized woman underneath the spotless gowns, in all her vulnerability, both the lows and the highs.
Posted Nov 04, 2021  Edit critic review
C
Last Night in Soho (2021) Jon Negroni While trying to transition from dreamlike spectacle to absolute nightmare, the film somehow becomes duller despite the blood and ghouls.
Posted Oct 27, 2021  Edit critic review
C+
Eternals (2021) Jon Negroni There's a small comfort in knowing that there probably never will be a Marvel film like this one. Even if you end up hating it or finding it completely forgettable.
Posted Oct 26, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) Jon Negroni Perfectly clever enough to get by, even as a bit of a transitory film for this studio, which I do think has mounds of potential, much like Ron himself.
Posted Oct 23, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Halloween Kills (2021) Jon Negroni It's another rebranded retread of the same feeling the original innovated. But the filmmakers know that and are purposefully making a tribute, not art for its own sake.
Posted Oct 17, 2021  Edit critic review
C+
Dear Evan Hansen (2021) Jon Negroni Dear Evan Hansen should have come out in 2012, not 2021.
Posted Sep 23, 2021  Edit critic review
6/10
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Jon Negroni It's sad to see what could've been a rousing standalone finish its journey as little more than a pitstop to something much better.
Posted Aug 23, 2021  Edit critic review
10/10
The Green Knight (2021) Jon Negroni Thank god (or gods?) for David Lowery.
Posted Jul 28, 2021  Edit critic review
B-
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) Jon Negroni If the best thing you can say about a G.I. Joe movie-particularly one centered around Snake Eyes-is the drama and characterization, then clearly someone dropped the ball, here.
Posted Jul 22, 2021  Edit critic review
False Positive (2021) Jon Negroni It's dripping in suspense, but due to the convolutions of the main character's suspicions, the film often seems to be dabbling in a bit of satire.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
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