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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Peter Pan (1953) Glenn Lovell "Peter Pan" comes alive whenever the animators cut back to Hook and his scurvy swabbies.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
UHF (1989) Glenn Lovell It is entertaining and funny enough to ensure the video satirist an encore performance as a small-town bungler named George Newman.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Night Patrol (2025) Randy Myers As what happens with the best grindhouse movies, “Night Patrol” spares no one, gets a bit messy and is devoutly uninterested in playing it safe as it hits us with one surprise after another.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Randy Myers A strong supporting cast — Lukas Gage, Molly Shannon, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jameela Jamil and Lucien Laviscount – ups the entertainment value. Since rom-coms have been a bit blah of late, this one will satisfy that itch even if it’s no gamechanger.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Randy Myers Some might take issue that actual recordings get used, but given the message this expertly made film so emphatically presents, that haunting voice makes the film all that more powerful, meaningful and dispiriting.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
All That's Left of You (2025) Randy Myers A potent and gripping family drama that enlightens and moves us in equal measures.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Rosemead (2025) Randy Myers This is the very definition of a tough but important watch, and it’s handled with sensitivity by all involved, especially the Fremont-born Shou and Liu.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
I Was a Stranger (2024) Randy Myers It’s a suspenseful handwringer that features one of the most nerve-wracking boat-raft passages I’ve ever seen on film. Andersen has also come up with a perfect ending, one that illustrates so much by saying so little.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Randy Myers Van Sant’s feature re-creates the 1977 details to perfection while the screenplay by Austin Kolodney wields a rapier wit and an awareness that this tale, which tips its hat to Sidney Lumet’s great Dog Day Afternoon and other great ’70s American films.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Goodbye June (2025) Randy Myers To its credit, the cast works wonders with the little it is given, but that just isn't enough.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Choral (2025) Randy Myers The Choral has top-tier production values to its credit, but it all seems cobbled together from other oft-told stories. In the end, it should have taken a cue from Guthrie’s tinkering about with dated material and punched it up a bit more.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
No Other Choice (2025) Randy Myers Somehow he makes the casual act of a drinking a boilermaker one of the most intoxicating and thrilling images of 2025. What an extraordinary treasure Park Chan-wook is.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Randy Myers The stars’ charisma outshines the flaws of “Song Sung Blue,” a satisfying portrait of two Neil Diamond lovers who weathered hard times and sang their way into the hearts of others back then and now with this admirable film.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Anaconda (2025) Randy Myers Anaconda is inspired and silly and even advocates, just as "Marty Supreme" does, for all of us to dream as big as you can even when the odds are stacked against you. "Anaconda" will make you laugh and then slither its way into your heart.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Randy Myers Is This Thing On? is gratefully never cynical, just aware that the happily-ever-after scenario doesn’t cover the the scope of what relationships are all about.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Randy Myers Pure lighting in a bottle that leaps boldly out of the starting gate and never slows down until it hits the finish line.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
David (2025) Randy Myers Phil Cunningham and Brent Dawes — who also wrote the screenplay — venture beyond that well-known slab of the story to give us another timeless moral tale about standing up for what we believe and doing the best for our community.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Randy Myers Does it hit many of the same narrative beats and fight scenes? It does, but there’s just enough new here to whet our appetite for a fourth film. One can only hope it’s just a tad shorter.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Cactus Pears (2025) Randy Myers This is a gentle beauty of a film from a filmmaker who is on his way to greatness.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Randy Myers Silent Night, Deadly Night can be enjoyed for its appreciation and reverence to all those ‘70s and ‘80s slasher flicks, and for perhaps cleverly skewering all those pious and high-minded critics of said horror films who chastise their existence.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Influencers (2025) Randy Myers Kurtis David Harder sharpens the cutlery for his attack on social influencer culture, all but garroting the obscenely rich, tin-souled click baiters out there.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Dust Bunny (2025) Randy Myers That “Dust Bunny” also comments with restraint on parenting and all monsters we need to purge from our lives, elevates it even more so. As does Mikkelsen’s envious wardrobe.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Glenn Lovell "Big Top" is sluggish, flat and mildly naughty.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Randy Myers The Secret Agent serves as a warning shot about today and is rife with Filho relishing in surprising audiences, his calling card. That leads to a masterful epilogue that shook me and moved me to my core. This is great filmmaking.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Randy Myers At times, I got lost in the web of its own design but didn’t care too much about that since it’s so hypnotically stylish and mesmerizing to surrender yourself over to. And at under 90 minutes, it never outlasts its welcome.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Randy Myers Jackman’s adult fairy tale confection comes alive due to her directorial and storytelling savvy and the charisma of that Corrin-Monroe-Galitzine acting trifecta.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Randy Myers Oh. What. Fun. survives on the fluid talent of its cast instead of its lackluster and flaccid screenplay. It’s a holiday film that tries way too hard and just not hard enough.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Randy Myers Merrily We Roll Along will be embraced wholeheartedly by stage and movie musical fans and might even win over some staunch disavowers.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Fackham Hall (2025) Randy Myers It made me laugh, yes, and groan a time or two, but more importantly it took my mind off the world’s problems for 90 minutes.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Disinvited (2024) Randy Myers Lawrence and co-screenwriter Matthew Mourgides take big swings, and more often than not hit it out of the park. D
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! (2025) Randy Myers The plot is warm-blanket-comforting stuff, but the leads are delightful and the situations — a holiday escape room, a Christmas costume party — can perk up a bad mood.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Randy Myers Richard Linklater’s love song to both the crazy act of filmmaking and Jean Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic “Breathless” all but twinkles and is as light as a feather.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Randy Myers Left-Handed Girl tangles with numerous issues as this trio reckons with the past and the present and also with each other.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Randy Myers Their story is in the caring hands of director Ryan White and results in a beautiful tribute to a steadfast, caring love and to a talented woman whose poetry strikes chords in the soul.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Eternity (2025) Randy Myers If you’re sweet on romantic dramas, this will sate your appetite.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Randy Myers All are terrific, but it is the amiable pairing of Craig and O’Connor that make this such a crime to remember.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hamnet (2025) Randy Myers Max Richter’s score — including the use of his well-known “On the Nature of Daylight” — enhances the experience as does Łukasz Żal’s mood-setting cinematography. The finale overstates its hand but still packs an emotional punch.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Rebuilding (2025) Randy Myers O’Connor’s lived-in performance is a beauty in this fragile, quiet reminder that even when life is precarious, there’s hope that something will emerge that is just as important to protect and cherish.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Randy Myers It’s a testament to the cast, the screenwriting and Hikari that all these narrative threads weave together for an uplifting message about our need to connect with others and be part of a community.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Train Dreams (2025) Randy Myers It’s a film that all but welcomes and nurtures, telling us that, in the end, we all matter.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Murder at the Embassy (2025) Randy Myers Director Stephen Shimek and screenwriter Mark Brennan don’t overexert themselves by any means with this cozy mystery that could have used a whole lot more fizz to it.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Trifole (2024) Randy Myers This is a gorgeous, touching film that transports you in swelling operatic fashion, per Fabbro’s tradition.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
In Your Dreams (2025) Randy Myers Director/co-screenwriter Alex Woo and co-director/co-screenwriter Erik Benson don’t break new ground, but do know how to tell an appealing, family-friendly story.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Randy Myers The snake bit is indeed the highlight of this loopy film in which everyone overacts while delivering a freaky version of the Christ story that doesn’t, in the end, add much more to what we’ve known before.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Randy Myers In every other way, though, it's a miracle of craftsmanship.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Running Man (2025) Randy Myers Really this is just an exceptionally well-made hot rod of an action film that powers over the finish line swiftly and sleekly. It's a lightning bolt of pure moviemaking magic.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
I Wish You All the Best (2024) Randy Myers When a rare non-binary character appears in a film, often they’re saddled with the best friend or a sidekick... Tommy Dorman’s touching and joyful film gives them a deserved spot at the front of the cinematic table in a sweet, soulful coming-of-age drama.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Christy (2025) Randy Myers By the time “Christy” draws to a close you too will be filled with admiration for the real-life Christy Martin.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Nuremberg (2025) Randy Myers Nuremburg is long but doesn’t feel like it. It’s a solid film worth noting and heeding.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Randy Myers Lawrence is mercurial and magnetic. Ramsay demands a lot from the Oscar winner, and Lawrence is up to the challenge. She is panther-like, vulnerable and furious.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
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