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Ann Hornaday

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The American President (1995) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Annette Bening is just such a star, and The American President belongs entirely to her. ” – Austin American-Statesman Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Boogie Nights (1997) 91% EDIT “It's a grand, sweeping nostalgia trip that evokes the sickness of an era even as its tries to find its essential humanity.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 24, 2025 Full Review To a Land Unknown (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT “This is the world as it is, Fleifel seems to be telling us. What it could be is left up to our own moral imagination.” – Washington Post Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “Aster isn’t wrong, but by the grotesque, Oedipally tinged conclusion of his cri de coeur, what might have been an energizing or at least enraging cautionary tale ends in a what-just-happened shrug. Let the bad times scroll, on and on.” – Washington Post Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Tough, tender and observational, “Sorry, Baby” suggests that Victor’s promising career has been suitably launched. The best, with luck, is yet to come.” – Washington Post Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “In Corenswet, Brosnahan, Hoult and their co-stars, Gunn has clearly found a capable, congenial ensemble to usher Clark, Lois and Lex into a new era. ” – Washington Post Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Heads of State (2025) 68% 2/4 EDIT “As a blithely likable blunt instrument, “Heads of State” gets the job done, justifying its anesthetized mayhem with a sweet-natured message about the importance of friendship, international alliances and institutional continuity.” – Washington Post Jul 2, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a plot as old as the horseless carriage, but in “F1,” it’s fuel-injected by an exceptionally appealing cast.” – Washington Post Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Marks the emergence of a new genre: the rom-con, not in the sense that it’s against the vicarious pleasures of flirting, seduction and finally finding true love, but that it’s painfully aware of the coldhearted calculation that so often lies beneath.” – Washington Post Jun 12, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “At its fleeting best — in its meditation on the transactional and the transcendent — this one feels like it’s reaching for something more than surface charm.” – Washington Post Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Alternately self-conscious and disarmingly sly film about the band Pavement.” – Washington Post Jun 5, 2025 Full Review The Last Rodeo (2025) 69% 3/4 EDIT ““The Last Rodeo” may not be bodacious, but it’s a satisfying ride.” – Washington Post May 23, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% 3/4 EDIT “A celebration of bibliophilia and cinephilia alike.” – Washington Post May 22, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/4 EDIT “An entire generation has grown up learning what a movie is from “Mission: Impossible”... Cruise has taught them that it isn’t a conglomeration of CGI pixels or green-screen fakery, but something of genuine awe and, at its best, sublime artistry.” – Washington Post May 21, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “"Friendship" is primarily a movie for Robinson's hardcore fans, but, for the Tim-curious, it serves as an amusing — if haphazard and uneven — introduction to his distinctive sensibility. ” – Washington Post May 15, 2025 Full Review Secret Mall Apartment (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Thanks to its thoughtful protagonists and filmmaker Jeremy Workman, what starts out as a quirky human interest story becomes a profoundly humane portrait of creativity and community. ” – Washington Post May 9, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “De Palma's cool style and hypnotic fascination with digitocracy has rendered "Mission: Impossible" as hermetic and bloodless as a mainframe, which no number of Schifrin-esque music cues can remedy.” – Austin American-Statesman May 6, 2025 Full Review Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round (2024) 3/4 EDIT “An illuminating chronicle of a germinal moment in civil rights history.” – Washington Post May 2, 2025 Full Review Rust (2024) 58% 2/4 EDIT “On its own modest terms, it’s a perfectly competent, if inert, throwback: a pastiche of movie characters, gestures and narrative devices that are instantly recognizable to anyone who worships at the altar of John Ford.” – Washington Post May 2, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Call it the film critic’s version of Stockholm syndrome, but in between the requisite fight sequences and snippy-sniping dialogue, I found the thematic elements of “Thunderbolts*” to be unexpectedly effective, even profound.” – Washington Post Apr 30, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% 1.5/4 EDIT “Despite its reliable stream of action-movie beats, “The Accountant 2” is a tediously talky movie, as heavy on exposition as it is on explanation.” – Washington Post Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Veering confidently between pulpy and profound, this ambitious, if occasionally uneven, meditation on art, appropriation, betrayal and redemption never sacrifices what’s on its mind for its primary aim, which is to shock and enthrall.” – Washington Post Apr 16, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Mendoza has crafted a taut, harrowing reenactment that initially brings to mind the adage that war can best be described as interminable boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. ” – Washington Post Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Scream 3 (2000) 45% 2/4 EDIT “Manages to wring some ironically metaphysical comedy from the movie-within-a-movie motif, and Parker Posey turns in a typically sly performance as the movie-within-a-movie Gale Weathers.” – Baltimore Sun Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Mulan (1998) 91% 3/4 EDIT “As wonderful as this is to watch, though, Mulan ultimately inspires a pang of ambivalence. ” – Baltimore Sun Dec 20, 2024 Full Review
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