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Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)

Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ty Burr.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/4
The Rip (2026) Ty Burr I was entertained, even if for the longest stretches I couldn’t have told you who was doing what to whom. Chalk it up as yet another twist in the tale of Matt ‘n’ Ben – two Yin/Yang talents who will be yoked together for eternity.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Zelig (1983) Ty Burr Zelig is a movie that will remain timeless as long as people are willing to sell their souls to be part of something. It’s very funny until the laughs stick in your throat.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Ty Burr When all is said and done, the movie’s an expansion of "Uncut Gems" without quite being an improvement, and it showcases a director whose talent keeps increasing even as he may be running out of things to say.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Köln 75 (2025) Ty Burr A pleasant little pick-me-up.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Resurrection (2025) Ty Burr Resurrection is a full-sensory experience; indeed, each chapter is framed around the theme of the six Buddhist senses: Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and mind.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Ella McCay (2025) Ty Burr It is not a coherent movie, let alone a very good one, and, most depressing of all, it is a diminishment from one of the most skilled observers of the human comedy we've had.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Bugonia (2025) Ty Burr This is not everyone’s cup of tea, obviously, but it’s pitched expertly on a fulcrum of absurdity and caustic honesty about the fix we’re in while poking the sore spots of various modern social ills.
Posted Dec 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine (2025) Ty Burr It’s a good, heartening send-off to a songwriter who was one of the very best this country has produced and to a sensibility that only this country could have produced – Mark Twain meets Man Ray with a side of heartbreak.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Ty Burr Thoroughly enjoyable without meaning terribly much beyond the standard (if welcome) message that you shoulda stopped to smell the roses, and maybe it's not too late.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Ty Burr Pungently filmed, with a haunting central performance by Tsai as the mother.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) Ty Burr The Stringer comes to a more convincing judgement and in doing so illustrates the mutability of memory, the whims of chance, and the dodginess yet ultimate stubbornness of truth.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Return (2024) Ty Burr t’s a haunting, primal first feature about two young brothers and the reappearance of their long-absent father.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Christophers (2025) Ty Burr The Christophers is a charming and challenging tennis match between two opposing acting styles, one of them confident with the certainty of youth and the other with the mastery of old age.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Good Fortune (2025) Ty Burr Good Fortune rests on the universal fondness with which we hold its leading angel, who has the rare knack of being in on the joke while somehow remaining too pure for it.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Frankenstein (2025) Ty Burr I haven’t been truly sold on Elordi until now, but underneath the heavy prosthetics beams a battered nobility that’s unique in the many film iterations of this property.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Hamnet (2025) Ty Burr The overarching force of “Hamnet” is not feminist but humanist, and it embraces Will, his wife and their children while radiating out to the Globe.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Last Viking (2025) Ty Burr As always, Jensen and company are making a screwball comedy, with dark and violent undertones, about finding a community of exceedingly strange strangers with whom you can be as broken and deluded as you need to be.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Bad Apples (2025) Ty Burr An entertaining but awfully heavy-handed black comedy– or maybe it’s heavy-handed but awfully entertaining – about an idealistic grammar school teacher who takes extreme measures when dealing with a disruptive class bully.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Ty Burr The older I get and the more movies I see, the more I welcome a commitment to crazy, and The Testament of Ann Lee absolutely qualifies.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Ty Burr Sometimes a movie is more fun for the people making it than the audience watching it, but this is not one of those times. Even so, “Wake Up Dead Man” balances its comedy with a pointed contrast between a faith that divides and a faith that unites.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Ty Burr Easily one of Panahi’s best, a savage comedy, the blackest of black.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Ty Burr A family drama, one that at first seems as if it’s about a daughter, then a father, then another daughter, until you realize it’s about all of them and more, and about how damage – both personal and historical – rolls downhill through the generations.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020) Ty Burr Is “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” exploitative or enabling? On the contrary, it is friendly, clear-eyed, and wise — tender about our follies and unsentimental about where they lead us.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Ty Burr Overloaded with action and extras and garish CGI sets and songs that float by mellifluously without ever lodging in your head that the movie all but short-circuits itself.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Ty Burr A sweet, sentimental and fairly soggy drama with a novel dramatic conceit.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Remember the Night (1940) Ty Burr Stanwyck has never been more appealing, a tough cookie thawing under the mistletoe, MacMurray reminds you that he was a terrific romantic comedy lead.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Freaked (1993) Ty Burr Honestly, the plot makes even less sense than that précis, but who cares when you have Mr. T cast as a Bearded Lady, Bobcat Goldthwait as a human sock puppet, an uncredited Keanu Reeves as Ortiz The Dog Boy.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Roofman (2025) Ty Burr It’s best for the quiet scenes between the leads, in which Dunst knows exactly what to do and shows her co-star the way.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Ty Burr The nichiest of niche projects, made with love and not a care for profit, and it’s a precise encapsulation of Linklater's strengths and limitations as a director.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Mastermind (2025) Ty Burr So, yes, like most of Reichardt’s work, it’s a period movie that’s extremely about our current moment in time, and it tightens slowly and impressively to a damning exclamation point. Patience is required but also rewarded.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Blue Moon (2025) Ty Burr The movie is director Richard Linklater (with writer Robert Kaplow) indulging himself, his star Ethan Hawke and us in a talky yet fascinating portrait of a damaged elfin genius dancing to the edge of his doom.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Ty Burr I like Jeremy Strong’s Jon Landau, deeply nerdy as only a rock critic can be, on top of everything as only a manager can be, movingly protective as only a friend can be.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (2024) Ty Burr Professionally shot, evocatively scored and edited like a thriller, the movie features a meaty central performance by Temi Ami-Williams as a grieving mother who transforms into an avenging angel.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Summer Book (2024) Ty Burr The Summer Book, both book and film, expands Jansson’s theme park back to childhood and forward to old age, fills it with summer light and sunset and the beautiful silence of God, and says you can’t grab it, but you must. But you can’t. But you must.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Crossing (2024) Ty Burr A sweet sleeper of a Georgian movie.
Posted Aug 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Superman (2025) Ty Burr The movie is a disaster – a snarky, jokey, overdesigned, overwritten, over-digitized, over-everything misreading of all we think the cultural property called “Superman” stands for.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Misericordia (2024) Ty Burr A simmering stewpot of rural melodrama and murder that called to my mind both Patricia Highsmith and the late, great Claude Chabrol, only with a playfully mean queer subtext.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Ty Burr The movie's a low-key charmer that promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is nice enough.
Posted Mar 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) Ty Burr It's an intentionally (if playfully) transgressive eruption of kitsch, punk rock, golden showers, abusive cops and rebellious sisterhood that features the director's first star discovery, Carmen Maura, as the most levelheaded of three friends.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Free Leonard Peltier (2025) Ty Burr A solid, stirring account of the fight to release Peltier, in his 80s and ailing, after five decades in prison for a crime everyone but the FBI believes he didn’t commit.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Ty Burr Eviscerates with wit and onscreen receipts the conventions of the true-crime genre that have been hammered into cliché over the past decades.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Ty Burr Documents a slow-motion disaster in which a local Karen nursed her grievances until they turned lethal.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Ty Burr This pitch-black comedy drama in which a heroic Rose Byrne stars as a working mother having the worst month ever starts with the intensity cranked to 11 and stays there for the entire running time.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) Ty Burr “Sly Lives!” does dive into the thorny issues of the movie’s subtitle, addressing the pressures exerted on a Black genius.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
All That's Left of You (2025) Ty Burr A powerful if dramatically diffuse and occasionally heavy-handed history lesson.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Where the Wind Comes From (2025) Ty Burr It's a standard road film in structure, but writer-director Amel Guellaty keeps the energy fizzing throughout, and Bellagha is a whirlwind in the lead – hilarious, heartsore, always making the wrong decision for the right reasons.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
DJ Ahmet (2025) Ty Burr Delightful and beguilingly sharp, “DJ Ahmet” is a reminder that if there are no new stories, there are new ways of telling them.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Together (2025) Ty Burr An engagingly, ultimately disposable body-horror comedy and maybe the worst date-night movie ever...
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Ty Burr "Kiss" is a three-star movie that I enjoyed as if it were four stars, but Tonatiuh is the real deal.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rebuilding (2025) Ty Burr Sincere to a fault, “Rebuilding” has great love for the vast Colorado panoramas and the people in them, and it brings the same empathy toward the kind of Americans who were once called “little people”.
Posted Jan 29, 2025  Edit critic review
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