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Owen Gleiberman

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Run Amok (2026) EDIT “Alyssa Marvin, who has the rare actor’s gift of wearing her feelings on the outside even when the character she’s playing is holding them on the inside, makes that a convincing journey.” – Variety Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 83% EDIT “A flagrant concoction that wants to do nothing more than make you laugh, and at that it succeeds. Yet in its way, there’s a bit of a vision to it.” – Variety Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 94% EDIT “[Lives up to expectations] in a way that’s so original, so brimming with surprise, so fresh and up-to-the-minute in its perceptions of how relationships work (or don’t), that you watch it in a state of rapt immersion and delight.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Buddy (2026) 80% EDIT “Casper Kelly is a talent to watch. In Buddy, he’s essentially reviving an old joke and doing multiple variations on it. But he has a gleefully rich understanding of the inner insanity that can drive pop culture.” – Variety Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 56% EDIT “I’m sorry, but this is not how an effective mockumentary works. I actually think “The Moment” should have pushed further into crackpot satirical extremes.” – Variety Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 87% EDIT “A flawed drama that can be disjointed, but by the end the movie feels worth it: mannered at times, touchingly real at others. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) EDIT “The Last First is a revealing look at how they risked their lives for an ideal, maybe for an addiction. It’s a movie that shows us the dark side of literally getting high. That’s engrossing, to a point, but it’s not exhilarating.” – Variety Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 23% EDIT “The premise of “Mercy” makes it sound like the sort of thin, doctrinaire anti-technology, anti-police-state thriller that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have starred in 40 years ago. But the movie turns out to be a notch or two better than you expect. ” – Variety Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% EDIT “Is “Primate” a slickly executed piece of slaughterhouse shlock? Very much so. Yet Ben, as a slasher, represents a minor triumph of practical effects.” – Variety Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Greenland 2: Migration (2026) 49% EDIT “Greenland: Migration is one of the soggiest excuses for a sequel in memory. The first Greenland, released at the end of 2020, was an environmental disaster movie. The new one is a post-disaster slog. It should have been called “Rubble.”” – Variety Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Princess Bride (1987) 93% EDIT “The surprise is how slow Reiner's gait is, and how little he brings to this story. Written by the veteran screenwriter William Goldman, who adapted his own bestseller, the film has some charming scenes, but it's plodding and mediocre. ” – Boston Phoenix Jan 7, 2026 Full Review I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) 92% EDIT “Zenovich isn’t doing a harangue against “cancel culture.” She’s asking, in a far more ingenuous and exploratory way: What do we think about someone like Chevy Chase? ” – Variety Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 82% EDIT “Don Drymon, the director of “Search for SquarePants,” was one of the show’s founding creative talents, and he certainly knows how to keep the butt jokes popping, but I’m sorry, they are not surprising butt jokes. ” – Variety Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% EDIT “The movie is fun in a slick, predictable way -- it's old hat, but it's done with flash.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 17, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% EDIT “It’s a movie of diabolical developments, and that’s what’s captivating about it. That, and Elizabeth Perkins’ droll performance as a mother-in-law from WASP hell.” – Variety Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The new movie, for all its inevitable Breathless Technological Advances, doesn’t feel as visually unprecedented as the last one did. If anything, though, it’s a better film and it certainly has its share of amazements.” – Variety Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s Van Sant’s most vital piece of work for the big screen in some time... In truth, though, it’s a bit like someone making a drama about the Patty Hearst kidnapping and presenting the members of the Symbionese Liberation Army as heroes.” – Variety Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Fackham Hall (2025) 74% EDIT “The movie, in its mud-on-the-doily way, is amusing enough to get by. But it never shocks you into laughter.” – Variety Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Terminator (1984) 90% EDIT “Unfortunately, a perfectly cast Schwarzenegger is still a morose, beady-eyed, I-just-do-exactly-what-the-director-tells-me-to-do Schwarzenegger. Call me a deviant, but I like my heartless assassins to have a little personality.” – Boston Phoenix Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) 16% EDIT “A supernatural video-game slasher movie of astonishing clunky crudeness. No, the movie isn’t dumb fun. It’s flat-out bad, maybe even worse than the first film. ” – Variety Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The New Yorker at 100 (2025) 64% EDIT “It gives us a close-up, between-the-lines portrait of how The New Yorker gets put together each week... And it folds all of this into the enticing story of the magazine’s vibe and aesthetic.” – Variety Dec 1, 2025 Full Review A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) 87% EDIT “The movie reaffirms their place in the pop firmament, but it also made me think: If they ever do start to get too old for this, Nick Jonas might have the big screen waiting for him.” – Variety Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% EDIT “The mood is low-key and naturalistic, yet a streak of trippy weirdness keeps intruding. And here’s the thing: The weird parts don’t add up. That’s likely by design, but that doesn’t make it good.” – Variety Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Released in 1987, “The Running Man” was a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. You could say that Edgar Wright, the director of the new version, has made it into a decent Bruce Willis movie.” – Variety Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “[Now You See Me: Now You Don't] does it all in good fun. Which is all this movie is or needs to be.” – Variety Nov 11, 2025 Full Review
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