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John Serba

John Serba's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025) 88% EDIT “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie is just fine.” – Decider Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Beast of War (2025) 89% EDIT “Beast of War is far from groundbreaking, and the story is thin. But it’s also a taut 87 minutes, and offers just enough of a variation on familiar stories to be worth your time.” – Decider Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Big Fake (2026) EDIT “The Big Fake is more period fashion show than intriguing drama. ” – Decider Jan 27, 2026 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “It’s a testament to the film’s tonal ineffectiveness that I kept wondering why, as Sarah and David allowed themselves to be yanked through this dull, maudlin star-crossed-lover horse-manure story full of cloyingly precious tender moments.” – Decider Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “Twinless is enough of a rollercoaster that you feel like you’re still on it the day after you watch it. It clung to me like a shroud. It’s not immediately likable, but the more you ponder, the greater its status in the mind.” – Decider Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) 100% EDIT “Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is well-meaning, it’s well-done, it’s unexceptional – but it’s also worthwhile. ” – Decider Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% EDIT “It takes a bit of intestinal fortitude to make it through Search for SquarePants’ surreal joke barrage. But you’ve probably been acclimated to the SpongeBob waters by now. ” – Decider Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “Rental Family is a finely crafted melodrama with a strong central performance that nonetheless reeks of unfulfilled potential. Mixed feelings then, but it tugs at our heartstrings in a meaningful enough manner to warrant a mild recommendation. ” – Decider Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “Song Sung Blue perfectly channels the mega-cornball showbiz majesty of the hokemeister Diamond himself, who wrote and sang songs that transformed base emotions into grandiose gestures.” – Decider Jan 17, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “The Rip delivers as advertised, albeit in a disappointingly unmemorable manner compared to Carnahan’s better films.” – Decider Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Bone Lake (2024) 84% EDIT “Bone Lake is no game-changer, but its rock solid filmmaking and fleeting flirtations with greatness has us looking forward to Morgan’s next film.” – Decider Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Good Night, and Good Luck Live (2025) 100% EDIT “ It’s easy to see why the play earned a handful of Tony nominations for its convincing mise-en-scene.” – Decider Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Soul on Fire (2025) 67% EDIT “Soul on Fire seems to think it can coast on the inherent power of its true story, but its sub-par execution doesn’t do its subject much justice. ” – Decider Jan 14, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% EDIT “People We Meet on Vacation is engineered to be predictably satisfying, and offers few real surprises. It’s generally content to be vague on character details and heavy on the romantic yearning, rendering it less substantial than it could be. ” – Decider Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “Oh, and stop your whining that Predator has gone PG-13 and lost its edge. Badlands delivers the goods enough that you won’t miss the blood and guts. ” – Decider Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Home (2025) 29% EDIT “The plot works its way through its hodgepodge of this ‘n’ that plot mechanisms to get to a conclusion that’ underwhelming and over the top at the same time.” – Decider Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “Hell of a movie. But to actually recommend it to anyone? That’s a bridge too far, my friends.” – Decider Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (2025) EDIT “Evil Influencer’s flimsiness underscores its inability to justify its existence as a piece of worthwhile journalism. ” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Son of a Thousand Men (2025) EDIT “The film is at times quite beautiful, but the interwoven drama and overlapping character arcs are leached of subtlety and humor.” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “You’ll wish Nuremberg was more willing to get its hands dirty in exploring the inner lives of its characters, and less willing to conform to genre standards. But it’s a rock-solid watch nonetheless. ” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% EDIT “The doc is eminently watchable and absorbing, and Zenovich lets the facts sit out in the open without judgment or justification. ” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Jester 2 (2025) EDIT “While watching The Jester 2, I wanted to cast a spell and make myself disappear.” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “ Wicked: For Not As Good.” – Decider Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “The story of Hersh spotlights some of modern America's darkest, ugliest moments, balanced out by the need to hold power to account for such things.” – Decider Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% EDIT “The narrative slowly, witlessly, listlessly builds to the inevitable unleashing of mayhem, and to call said mayhem underwhelming is gross understatement.” – Decider Dec 29, 2025 Full Review
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