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Nov 26, 2025
Everything is wrong with Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, and I say that as someone who’s long been rooting for him. I’m a big fan of his early films Shaun...
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Nov 20, 2025
I've always enjoyed the Predator movies, starting with the incisive and thrilling first film released in 1987. Nobody could have appreciated more than me the fresh life...
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Nov 17, 2025
I finally saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is streaming on Netflix after a brief theatrical release. And I was astounded at what a mess it is. There’s an...
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Nov 12, 2025
I went to see Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon because I’m one of the extremely niche group of people still living who care about the life and work of lyricist Lorenz...
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Nov 10, 2025
Nobody will be more surprised than me that I quite liked Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, because I hate biopics as a rule. Also, the film’s previews seemed to indicate...
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Oct 16, 2025
Setting a tone of sweet quirkiness from the opening scene — complete with a Randy Newman–style clarinet-and-piano soundtrack — Roofman indicates right...
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Sep 30, 2025
Glory be, I really liked and admired Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. It’s enthralling, it’s hard-hitting, it’s up-to-the-minute in its...
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Sep 16, 2025
In adapting Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk, originally published under a pseudonym, the filmmakers made the bold decision to stick relentlessly to the...
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Sep 5, 2025
As far as I can judge, the primary complaint about Darren Aronofsky’s generally well-reviewed — though not very popular — new film, Caught Stealing,...
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Sep 2, 2025
I tried to give Spike Lee’s new movie Highest 2 Lowest every possible chance to have a powerful impact — so much so that I deliberately avoided rewatching the source...
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Aug 14, 2025
Weapons is writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to his breakout success Barbarian (2022), and it confirms his gifts for nifty high-concept horror and...
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Aug 1, 2025
The new light, bright, poppy Fantastic Four movie directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision) is a big hit just two weeks after James Gunn’s light, bright,...
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Jul 22, 2025
Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts itself in an absurdist state of entrapment. Midsommar, his best film, makes use...
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Jul 10, 2025
Look, it’s a Jurassic Park movie. If you go to see it, that’s on you. Crazy to have critics watch Jurassic World Rebirth and then gripe ferociously...
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Jul 7, 2025
Released under the dignified tagline of “sports drama,” Apple’s F1 is, at best, a camp classic in the making. Only Mystery Science Theater 3000 could...
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Jun 12, 2025
Attention all action film fans! Run, don’t walk, to the nearest movie theater to see From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Then set aside some time a day or two later to...
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Jun 5, 2025
Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release.
The feature debut of...
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May 12, 2025
Florence Pugh is so terrific in Thunderbolts* that she carries an entire Marvel movie on her shoulders. She manages this throughout the otherwise largely cumbersome Marvel...
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Apr 1, 2025
There’s no way a project as utterly cynical and misbegotten as the live-action remake of Walt Disney’s landmark 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven...
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Mar 26, 2025
I finally got to the theater to see The Monkey, which is surprisingly lively and enjoyable. Though it opened in February, it goes right on playing week after week,...
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Mar 13, 2025
Nobody could be sadder than I am to report that Mickey 17 is a disappointment.
I’ve been waiting eagerly for many months to see this latest effort by writer-director...
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Feb 19, 2025
The Gorge is a wildly silly action-sci-fi-horror-romance, released on Apple TV+ on Valentine’s Day to alert you to the way it stresses the “unusual love story”...
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Feb 6, 2025
By now, you’ve probably heard some of the critical hype around The Brutalist. You may have also heard about the unique way in which it was all shot — in...
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Feb 3, 2025
Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of...
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Jan 20, 2025
The biopic of British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, Better Man, is tanking badly in US theaters. Which figures — most Americans have no idea who Robbie...
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Jan 3, 2025
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown rests on three fairly safe assumptions about our culture. First, that many people enjoy conventional biopics. Second, that many people...
Nov 26, 2025Everything is wrong with Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, and I say that as someone who’s long been rooting for him. I’m a big fan of his early films Shaun...
Nov 20, 2025I've always enjoyed the Predator movies, starting with the incisive and thrilling first film released in 1987. Nobody could have appreciated more than me the fresh life...
Nov 17, 2025I finally saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is streaming on Netflix after a brief theatrical release. And I was astounded at what a mess it is. There’s an...
Nov 12, 2025I went to see Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon because I’m one of the extremely niche group of people still living who care about the life and work of lyricist Lorenz...
Nov 10, 2025Nobody will be more surprised than me that I quite liked Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, because I hate biopics as a rule. Also, the film’s previews seemed to indicate...
Oct 16, 2025Setting a tone of sweet quirkiness from the opening scene — complete with a Randy Newman–style clarinet-and-piano soundtrack — Roofman indicates right...
Sep 30, 2025Glory be, I really liked and admired Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. It’s enthralling, it’s hard-hitting, it’s up-to-the-minute in its...
Sep 16, 2025In adapting Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk, originally published under a pseudonym, the filmmakers made the bold decision to stick relentlessly to the...
Sep 5, 2025As far as I can judge, the primary complaint about Darren Aronofsky’s generally well-reviewed — though not very popular — new film, Caught Stealing,...
Sep 2, 2025I tried to give Spike Lee’s new movie Highest 2 Lowest every possible chance to have a powerful impact — so much so that I deliberately avoided rewatching the source...
Aug 14, 2025Weapons is writer-director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to his breakout success Barbarian (2022), and it confirms his gifts for nifty high-concept horror and...
Aug 1, 2025The new light, bright, poppy Fantastic Four movie directed by Matt Shakman (WandaVision) is a big hit just two weeks after James Gunn’s light, bright,...
Jul 22, 2025Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts itself in an absurdist state of entrapment. Midsommar, his best film, makes use...
Jul 10, 2025Look, it’s a Jurassic Park movie. If you go to see it, that’s on you. Crazy to have critics watch Jurassic World Rebirth and then gripe ferociously...
Jul 7, 2025Released under the dignified tagline of “sports drama,” Apple’s F1 is, at best, a camp classic in the making. Only Mystery Science Theater 3000 could...
Jun 12, 2025Attention all action film fans! Run, don’t walk, to the nearest movie theater to see From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Then set aside some time a day or two later to...
Jun 5, 2025Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release. The feature debut of...
May 12, 2025Florence Pugh is so terrific in Thunderbolts* that she carries an entire Marvel movie on her shoulders. She manages this throughout the otherwise largely cumbersome Marvel...
Apr 1, 2025There’s no way a project as utterly cynical and misbegotten as the live-action remake of Walt Disney’s landmark 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven...
Mar 13, 2025Nobody could be sadder than I am to report that Mickey 17 is a disappointment. I’ve been waiting eagerly for many months to see this latest effort by writer-director...
Feb 19, 2025The Gorge is a wildly silly action-sci-fi-horror-romance, released on Apple TV+ on Valentine’s Day to alert you to the way it stresses the “unusual love story”...
Feb 6, 2025By now, you’ve probably heard some of the critical hype around The Brutalist. You may have also heard about the unique way in which it was all shot — in...
Feb 3, 2025Like many of Mike Leigh’s films, Hard Truths is both extremely well-done and tormenting to watch. It always surprises me that Leigh’s cinematic portraits of...
Jan 20, 2025The biopic of British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, Better Man, is tanking badly in US theaters. Which figures — most Americans have no idea who Robbie...
Jan 3, 2025James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown rests on three fairly safe assumptions about our culture. First, that many people enjoy conventional biopics. Second, that many people...