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Stephen Thompson

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The Rip (2026) 80% EDIT “It is not a wildly unpredictable movie. But to me, I felt like this was the sort of basic cable, mid-grade, two to three-star, fun Saturday afternoon, bucket of popcorn kind of movie. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “If you can stomach the torture porn and you have seen 28 Years Later from last year, I recommend this film for the payoff that exists late in this film, which I am not going to spoil, which I found enormously enjoyable, extremely funny.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Anaconda (2025) 48% EDIT “If you liked [the original Anaconda], you should definitely see this. They're both approaching, kind of, popcorn film history with deep, deep love and kind of meta appreciation.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% EDIT “There is almost no story here.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “ I'm not necessarily a deep Shakespeare guy... I still found myself moved by the parallels between the story and the work, and was sort of fascinated by the way this film is...” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “This is basically, across the board, a wonderfully-acted film.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “This is a film that understands [that] this stuff is a little silly. These people are a little cheesy. This is kind of goofy. But, ultimately, it's just kind of serving up delights.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “If bleak isn't your bag, I'd sit this one out. But I'm glad that we have filmmakers who are clearly given a fair bit of free reign to follow their extremely idiosyncratic vision. I'm glad that Lanthimos is able to be as prolific as he is.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “What you wind up getting in this film is a love letter to male friendship, a love letter to extremely effective management and a love letter to having a great team of people around you.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% EDIT “It's a very, very effectively made disaster movie.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Oct 8, 2025 Full Review The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) 58% EDIT “The film is extremely credulous in the way that it portrays these people. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Jaws (1975) 97% EDIT “The only way that this film feels in any way degraded by 50 years is in some of the kind of cheapness of some of the effects. But the film is so well made in every other way, and so restrained in the way it's telling this story.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “...the performances at the center of it are grand. I think it does such a beautiful job conveying the horror of precariousness...” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Aug 26, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “[Akiva Schaffer] is a huge, huge part of what makes this movie work....He's from "The Lonely Island," and he's coming in and bringing not only that sensibility, but of course, the sensibility of the original Naked Gun movies. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Aug 6, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 48% EDIT “Turning Minecraft into a movie presents a challenge, because the film has a lot of character development to catch up on. But, as The Lego Movie and Barbie have demonstrated, it's possible to get it spectacularly right.” – NPR Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) 71% EDIT “I would like for it to have built the story a little bit more than it does. It is fun. It is gorgeous to look at.” – NPR Mar 18, 2024 Full Review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) 95% EDIT “If you've stayed away from TMNT over the years — whether because of "Cowabunga!" or "Ninja Rap" or Michael Bay or whatever — don't be afraid to break out your swords, shout something that sounds cool and leap back into the fray.” – NPR Aug 4, 2023 Full Review
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