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Sam Adams

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Sam Adams is a critic and staff writer for Slate. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and many other publications.

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Buddy (2026) 80% EDIT “The movie’s hilarious and unsettling disjunctions come from the way it introduces genuine menace into Buddy’s world without needing to rewrite its rules, because the menace was already bubbling just under the surface.” – Slate Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) 100% EDIT “It restores Thurman’s performance to a unified whole rather than presenting it in two disconnected halves, allowing us to see her career-defining work in one gloriously unbroken arc.” – Slate Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) 92% EDIT “The Stringer goes to great lengths to investigate the question of where Nick Ut was on that road, constructing a timeline of events and plucking his blurry silhouette out of the background of photos focused on other subjects.” – Slate Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “It sparks to life only for brief periods.” – Slate Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “A chilling and provocative look at the limits of policing, particularly when the laws the police are called to enforce present more of a problem than a solution.” – Slate Nov 4, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “Ares has all the reflectiveness of an earnings call. ” – Slate Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “Megadoc is fascinating in its own right. ” – Slate Sep 23, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “A filmmaker who has worked in both fiction and documentary—and been nominated for both international-film and documentary Oscars—Ben Hania periodically reminds the audience just how faithful the re-creation they’re watching is. ” – Slate Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “The difficulty of connection, the fact that Farsi has to grab every chance to talk even if it means propping a phone up on her laptop screen or squatting on the floor of a rented room, becomes a powerful through line.” – Slate Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 100% EDIT “A thrilling, roof-shaking blast.” – Slate Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% EDIT “Half a dozen or so good jokes notwithstanding, the movie is a slog, shockingly bereft of even the Coens’ baseline virtues. ” – Slate Aug 25, 2025 Full Review DEVO (2024) 85% EDIT “It’s about as comprehensive as a brief history of a band’s 50-year career can be.” – Slate Aug 20, 2025 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% EDIT “Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow grabs you from its opening frames and, despite its substantial length, never loosens its grip on your soul.” – Slate Aug 16, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s a creepy, nasty good time, with scares that will make audiences jump in their seats and a few that will leave them profoundly unsettled. ” – Slate Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “It’s dazzling and terrifying, a guide to a political movement that has been gathering steam for decades and shows no signs of letting up. ” – Slate Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% EDIT “Rebirth’s dinosaurs are everywhere, but the more you see, the less it means. They’re good for a scare now and then, but the sense of awe is long since gone.” – Slate Jul 3, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “Some telltale stiffness around the eyes notwithstanding, Pitt largely bears the marks of his age, and they’re part of his appeal. ” – Slate Jun 29, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “If Asteroid City was Wes Anderson’s defense of his own methods... The Phoenician Scheme is his exploration of everything those methods aren’t sufficient to encompass.” – Slate Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Titan: The OceanGate Disaster (2025) 74% EDIT “You can see in the outlines of the OceanGate tragedy the sickness writ small, like the seed of a virus from which a vaccine is engineered. Our immunity is still too weak.” – Slate Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Mountainhead (2025) 74% EDIT “For all its absurdist touches, Mountainhead hits hardest—and, not to put too fine a point on it, harder than just about any movie released in theaters this year—when it’s more quietly observant. ” – Slate Jun 2, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s a movie of righteous fury and bleak comedy, a howl of anguish that ends in a sputtering laugh.” – Slate May 28, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% EDIT “A movie that trumpets the power of revelation but makes few of its own.” – Slate May 21, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “The movie means to overwhelm, and it does, its frames packed with so many sight gags and reference points that it’s impossible to take them all in on a single viewing, and only a masochist or a die-hard would return for a second look.” – Slate May 21, 2025 Full Review Thunderbolts* (2025) 88% EDIT “The movie features not only some of the best actors in the MCU, but some of the funniest.” – Slate May 8, 2025 Full Review Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson (2025) EDIT “On its own, Leaving Neverland 2 is, unfortunately, not much to speak of. ” – Slate Mar 24, 2025 Full Review
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