Movies Reviews
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Anniversary Commemorates the Rise of American Fascism with Chilling, Stagy Drama By Jesse Hassenger October 30, 2025 | 11:16am
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Old Ghosts Plague Unpolished Reproductive Horror House of Ashes By Jim Vorel October 29, 2025 | 3:47pm
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This Southern Crime Thriller Reaches Gruesome, Engrossingly Violent Ends By Jim Vorel October 28, 2025 | 3:07pm
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A Vicious Central Performance Almost Saves Clunky Sleepwalking Horror Dream Eater By Jim Vorel October 27, 2025 | 2:23pm
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The Voice of Hind Rajab Is a Groundbreaking but Ultimately Futile Docudrama By Nadira Begum October 27, 2025 | 10:56am
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NYFF: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Isn't So Boss By Jesse Hassenger October 24, 2025 | 10:30am
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Tessa Thompson Shines As a New Hedda By Jesse Hassenger October 24, 2025 | 9:15am
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River of Grass Is a Lyrical Walk Through the Everglades with the Ghost of Marjory Stoneman Douglas By Jim Vorel October 21, 2025 | 1:15pm
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Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia Makes Absurd Mockery of the American Psyche By Nadira Begum October 20, 2025 | 10:02am
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100 Meters Asks if You Can Find the Meaning of Life in a 10 Second Sprint By Elijah Gonzalez October 20, 2025 | 9:30am
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Keanu Reeves Lifts Aziz Ansari's Gentle Comedy Good Fortune By Jesse Hassenger October 17, 2025 | 9:15am
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NYFF: Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? Keeps the Stage Small and the Feelings Big By Casey Epstein-Gross October 16, 2025 | 9:15am
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Colin Farrell Bets the House He Doesn't Have in Ballad of a Small Player By Jesse Hassenger October 15, 2025 | 1:15pm
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The Perfect Neighbor Presents a Mundane Murder in Infuriating Slow Motion By Jim Vorel October 15, 2025 | 9:15am
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It Was Just an Accident Is Jafar Panahi's Suspenseful and Human Search for Answers By Rory Doherty October 14, 2025 | 11:15am
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NYFF: Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Nails the Joke, Then Keeps Telling It By Casey Epstein-Gross October 13, 2025 | 10:26am
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Smiles and Kisses You Is a Sweet, Sad Tale of Loneliness and A.I. Delusion By Jim Vorel October 12, 2025 | 9:15am
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Jennifer Lopez Goes Full Musical in a New Kiss of the Spider Woman By Jesse Hassenger October 10, 2025 | 11:15am
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Harris Dickinson’s Homelessness Drama Urchin Is Powerfully Honest British Social Realism By Brogan Morris October 10, 2025 | 9:15am
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Somewhere Between Freedom and Forgiveness, Find Andrew Durham’s Fairyland By Audrey Weisburd October 9, 2025 | 11:15am
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Kathryn Bigelow Ponders America At DEFCON 1 In A House of Dynamite By Jarrod Jones October 9, 2025 | 9:15am
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John Candy: I Like Me Documents a Great Guy, and a Poor Documentary Subject By Jim Vorel October 8, 2025 | 3:32pm
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Something Has Been Corrupted in the Copied Code of Tron: Ares By Jason Gorber October 8, 2025 | 10:05am
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NYFF: In Father Mother Sister Brother, Jarmusch Equates Subtlety with Stillness By Casey Epstein-Gross October 6, 2025 | 10:24am
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V/H/S/Halloween Is Barely “Found Footage,” But It Is Plenty of Fun By Jim Vorel October 2, 2025 | 9:15am
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Horror Heartbreaker Good Boy Is Much More than Its Doggy Gimmick By Jim Vorel October 1, 2025 | 9:15am
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Nouvelle Vague Falters as a Filmic Facsimile of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless By Natalia Keogan September 30, 2025 | 11:00am
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Play Dirty Is an Overstuffed Action-Comedy Caper Saved by Classic Shane Black Cheese By Jim Vorel September 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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NYFF: George Clooney Looks Back at a Fake Career in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly By Jesse Hassenger September 29, 2025 | 10:10am
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Bone Lake Is a Hot and Heavy Throwback Thriller By Jim Vorel September 29, 2025 | 9:15am
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NYFF: Daniel Day-Lewis Returns with Family On His Mind in Anemone By Jesse Hassenger September 28, 2025 | 5:30pm
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A Former New York Film Festival Programmer Becomes the Programmed with Late Fame By Jesse Hassenger September 27, 2025 | 9:00am
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Parenting And Resistance Are Just One Battle After Another (And Another And Another) By Andy Crump September 26, 2025 | 5:17pm
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Kelly Reichardt Pulls Off Another Quiet Heist with The Mastermind By Jesse Hassenger September 26, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Strangers: Chapter 2 Is Actually Pretty Good for an Hour By Jesse Hassenger September 26, 2025 | 9:43am
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Eleanor the Great Is Lightweight Dramedy, Deep Fried in Schmaltz By Jim Vorel September 25, 2025 | 2:26pm
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Dead of Winter Is an Ice Cold Senior Citizen Thriller By Jim Vorel September 23, 2025 | 11:04am
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Steve Hands Cillian Murphy a Half-Baked Character Study By Jesse Hassenger September 19, 2025 | 12:15pm
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Alex Winter’s Pitch Black Humor Veils Family Sins in Adulthood By Jim Vorel September 18, 2025 | 3:49pm
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Is an Engaging Road Trip Until It Crashes Out By Tara Bennett September 18, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Style Bludgeons Substance In The Metaphorically Obvious Him By Jarrod Jones September 18, 2025 | 11:16am
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Predators Asks If To Catch a Predator Nurtured the Sadist in All of Us By Jim Vorel September 15, 2025 | 3:58pm
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The Man in My Basement Won’t Get Out of its Own Way By Jim Vorel September 12, 2025 | 2:02pm
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Nasty, Bizarre and Dripping with Style, Honey Bunch Is an Inscrutable Fever Dream By Jim Vorel September 11, 2025 | 3:15pm
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Bryan Fuller's Monster Debut Dust Bunny Is Ferociously Fun By Jason Gorber September 11, 2025 | 10:25am
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Depicting a Listless Rock Reunion, Spinal Tap II Feels Too Real By Jesse Hassenger September 11, 2025 | 9:28am
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The Smashing Machine is an Extreme Fighting Biopic That Sits at a Strange, Subdued Remove By Trace Sauveur September 10, 2025 | 11:09am
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Coming of Age in the Surveillance State in the Perceptive Happyend By Jim Vorel September 10, 2025 | 9:15am
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Francis Lawrence Takes The Long Walk Through Stephen King Country By Jesse Hassenger September 9, 2025 | 1:35pm
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Extravagant Gothic Sci-fi Melodrama is Alive in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein By Trace Sauveur September 9, 2025 | 9:48am
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Rabbit Trap Thrums on a Mesmerizing but Alienating Wavelength By Jim Vorel September 8, 2025 | 2:33pm
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Rian Johnson Takes His Murder-Mystery Series to Exhausting Ends in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery By Trace Sauveur September 7, 2025 | 1:51pm
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Zoey Deutch and Ruby Cruz Make Up Two-Thirds of a Good Rom-Com in The Threesome By Jesse Hassenger September 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Pretentious, Silent Actioner Motor City Mistakes Artifice for Art By Jim Vorel September 1, 2025 | 1:03pm
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Somnium Is an Overstuffed Genre Mishmash Saved by Compelling Performances By Jim Vorel August 29, 2025 | 3:04pm
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman Trade Barbs in The Roses, But its Thorns Aren't Sharp Enough By Jesse Hassenger August 28, 2025 | 9:43am
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David Strathairn, Jane Levy Are Kindred Spirits in Sweet, Heartbreaking A Little Prayer By Jim Vorel August 27, 2025 | 3:18pm
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Caught Stealing Is an Entertaining Late August Trifle from Darren Aronofsky By Abby Olcese August 27, 2025 | 9:39am
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Action Deficiency Dooms Samara Weaving’s Scattershot Eenie Meanie By Jim Vorel August 22, 2025 | 11:15am
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The Thursday Murder Club’s Stacked Cast Elevates a Delightful Cozy Mystery By Lacy Baugher Milas August 22, 2025 | 3:01am
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Eden Squanders Its A-List Cast with a Limp Takedown of Human Nature By Rory Doherty August 21, 2025 | 9:15am
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Is Splitsville the First Actually Funny Movie About an Open Relationship? By Jesse Hassenger August 20, 2025 | 9:43am
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Parasocial Thriller Lurker Finds the Nexus of Exploitation and Necessity By Jim Vorel August 19, 2025 | 2:57pm
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Margaret Qualley Bogarts Her Way Through the Delightful Honey Don't! By Jesse Hassenger August 19, 2025 | 12:15pm
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Devo Explores the Line Between Artistic Integrity and Success By Abby Olcese August 19, 2025 | 9:15am
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Vanessa Kirby Breaks Bad in Muddled Netflix Thriller Night Always Comes By Jim Vorel August 15, 2025 | 2:13pm
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Bob Odenkirk's Deadly Dad Remains a Delight in Nobody 2 By Jason Gorber August 14, 2025 | 11:14am
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Sydney Sweeney and an Eclectic Cast Leads the Entertaining Western-Noir Hybrid Americana By Jesse Hassenger August 14, 2025 | 9:45am
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Went Up the Hill Is an Emotionally Powerful but Ponderous Queer Ghost Story By Jim Vorel August 13, 2025 | 3:53pm
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Spike Lee and Denzel Washington Fall Back in Love with New York in Highest 2 Lowest By Jesse Hassenger August 13, 2025 | 9:15am
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The Sultry, Silly Witchboard Is a Handsome Horror Return for Chuck Russell By Jim Vorel August 12, 2025 | 1:49pm
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Serial Killer Mockumentary Strange Harvest Slashes With Flair, But Loses Potency in the End By Jim Vorel August 8, 2025 | 2:17pm
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With Weapons, Zach Cregger Crafts a Ferociously Wicked, Heady Brew By Jarrod Jones August 6, 2025 | 4:12pm
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Dreamy, Beautiful but Meandering, Boys Go to Jupiter Is a Unique Curio By Jim Vorel August 6, 2025 | 2:22pm
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Freakier Friday Adds More Body Swaps but Keeps the Original’s Charming Comedy By Matt Goldberg August 5, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Eddie Murphy Is Left Holding the Bag in Dull Amazon Crime Comedy The Pickup By Jim Vorel August 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Bad Guys 2 Gets Louder, But Duller By Jesse Hassenger July 31, 2025 | 9:28am
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Startlingly Creative Fantasy Sketch Gets the Most Out of Every Scribble By Jim Vorel July 30, 2025 | 3:07pm
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Liam Neeson Draws an Impeccable Deadpan for a New Naked Gun By Jesse Hassenger July 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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Alison Brie and Dave Franco Are Stuck Together By Jesse Hassenger July 29, 2025 | 9:38am
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Fleetingly Funny Happy Gilmore 2 Shanks its Repetitive Comedy By Jim Vorel July 25, 2025 | 12:23pm
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Is One Giant Leap Forward For Marvel Studios By Jarrod Jones July 24, 2025 | 10:40am
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Teenagers Take on the Scandinavian Wilderness in Folktales By Ana Carpenter July 23, 2025 | 9:15am
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Monster Island Picks Clean the Bare Bones of its Creature Feature Premise By Jim Vorel July 21, 2025 | 2:27pm
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Rihanna Is Smurfette, So Why Does Smurfs Still Star James Corden? By Jesse Hassenger July 19, 2025 | 11:11am
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Coherence Gets the Hook in I Know What You Did Last Summer By Jim Vorel July 18, 2025 | 4:02pm
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Eddington's Bleak Fantasy Bemoans a Nation in its Death Throes By Jason Gorber July 18, 2025 | 10:36am
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Cloud Drifts Between Two Tones: Disturbing Grifter Thriller and Boilerplate Action Yarn By Jarrod Jones July 15, 2025 | 2:07pm
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Abraham’s Boys Is a Clever Horror Drama on the Isolation and Uncertainty of Childhood By Jim Vorel July 11, 2025 | 3:18pm
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Ziam Certainly Does Punch Some Zombies in The Face By Jim Vorel July 10, 2025 | 10:47am
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Nick Offerman Does a Scary Version of Ron Swanson in Sovereign By Jesse Hassenger July 9, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Videoheaven Is a Nostalgic, Bloated Tribute to Video Store Culture By Jim Vorel July 8, 2025 | 3:45pm
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Earnest But Overburdened, James Gunn's Superman Can Barely Fit in Its Suit By Kevin Fox Jr. July 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Netflix’s New Sci-Fi Thriller Is Dumb as a Brick By Jim Vorel July 7, 2025 | 10:31am
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Post-Apocalyptic Thriller 40 Acres Has Skillful Set-Up, Then Fences Itself In By Jesse Hassenger July 3, 2025 | 11:37am
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The Old Guard 2 Is a Deeper, Yet More Frustrating Sequel By Liam Gaughan July 2, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Gareth Edwards Brings His Sense of Scale and Weight to Jurassic World Rebirth By Jesse Hassenger June 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Shark Whisperer’s Passionate Conservation Hints at the Inner Darkness of Ocean Ramsey By Jim Vorel June 28, 2025 | 9:15am
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Please Disregard Destry Allyn Spielberg’s Please Don’t Feed the Children By Jim Vorel June 27, 2025 | 1:45pm
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Brad Pitt's Racing Drama F1 Looks Good While Going in Circles By Jesse Hassenger June 27, 2025 | 10:30am
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M3GAN 2.0 Is an Eclectic, Buggy Upgrade By Jesse Hassenger June 25, 2025 | 12:00pm
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No Apology Necessary; Sorry, Baby Is A Marvel By Andy Crump June 24, 2025 | 9:15am
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Blandly Upbeat but Earnest, the Outer Space Adventures of Elio Are a Lightweight Summer Diversion By Amy Amatangelo June 19, 2025 | 2:45pm
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28 Years Later Isn't Too Long for a Super-Sized Zombie Sequel By Jesse Hassenger June 18, 2025 | 5:00pm
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Kathleen Chalfant Devastates in the Graceful, Dignified, Indelible Familiar Touch By Jarrod Jones June 18, 2025 | 10:40am
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Tribeca 2025: Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman Say Oh, Hi! to Relationship Woes By Jesse Hassenger June 17, 2025 | 9:15am
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Materialists Is the Rare Dramedy That Unites the Hearts of Romantics and Cynics By Tara Bennett June 12, 2025 | 10:16am
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Tribeca 2025: Everything's Going to Be Great Doesn't Live Up to Its Title By Jesse Hassenger June 11, 2025 | 10:34am