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Steve Pond

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Driver's Ed (2025) 80% EDIT “The fact that “Driver’s Ed” is an R-rated teen comedy may make it something of an anomaly these days, but it’s a fairly gentle and mostly goofy one that’s essentially spinning its wheels.. ” – TheWrap Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “Designed as a horror movie for the entire family, the film has its scares, but it’s just too wacky and too much fun to be disturbing. ” – TheWrap Sep 9, 2025 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 86% EDIT “Offstage Elvis informs onstage Elvis and vice versa, and the zeal with which Luhrmann whips it all up into an undefinable Elvispalooza is fit for a King.” – TheWrap Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Motor City (2025) 70% EDIT “It shouldn’t work but it pretty much does, at least for those who are big enough pulp fans to go along with this wacky thrill ride. ” – TheWrap Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “The tonal juggling act isn’t always seamless, but in a way, the contradictions are what give “Roofman” its life. It’s a sad movie, really, but it’s also a lot of fun. And if that doesn’t make sense, maybe it’s the whole point.” – TheWrap Sep 7, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% EDIT “There are times when the fiery landscape is staggering and times when it screams CG, but few directors can rev up a movie and keep it at a fever pitch the way Greengrass can. ” – TheWrap Sep 7, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% EDIT “This doesn’t make for a dark movie – the copious clips of Candy’s performances always keep things light and entertaining – but it does bring additional shadows into the story, which helps flesh out an affectionate, good-hearted portrait. ” – TheWrap Sep 5, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “By the time it’s over, Jared Harris has delivered a particularly wrenching performance as the Secretary of Defense, whose daughter is in Chicago, and one of Bertelmann’s best scores has gone from portentous chords to insistent pulses to staccato strings. ” – TheWrap Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “It’s not one of those triumphant sports movies we’re all tired of, but it’s not wrong to say that there is some triumph here.” – TheWrap Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Calle Málaga (2025) 94% EDIT “Calle Malaga is a delicate film to pull off, but Touzani and Maura find the right balance from the start. ” – TheWrap Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Broken English (2025) 91% EDIT “Disruptive and distracting, charming and challenging, the film by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth uses a fictional framework to tell a true story, even as it questions the nature of truth and strips away the usual signposts in a nonfiction film.” – TheWrap Sep 2, 2025 Full Review HIGHWAY 99: A Double Album (2025) EDIT “Then again, “Highway 99 a double album” is just full of lots of those three-minute songs, and Hawke is right when he says that they deserve a party. ” – TheWrap Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 94% EDIT ““Below the Clouds” doesn’t have the immediacy of “Fire at Sea” and “Notturno”; it’s not timely the way those films were, but there’s something evanescent and timeless about it.” – TheWrap Sep 1, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% EDIT ““The Wizard of the Kremlin” is a loud, bold film that is held together by the quiet performance at its center.” – TheWrap Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “It’s a filmmaker returning to his roots at a time when he has the skills to make those roots grow into something huge and singular. ” – TheWrap Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “A bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics... Cooper’s movie looks for little moments rather than grand statements, and trusts those to speak as loudly as they did on the “Nebraska” album itself.” – TheWrap Aug 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s not as virtuoso a blend of social commentary and wacko violence as, say, Park’s countryman and occasional collaborator Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” but it’s a kick nonetheless.” – TheWrap Aug 29, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT ““After the Hunt” does not make a strong case for moving to New Haven -- though all those delicious moral dilemmas and snarky one-liners are a good reason for actors to continue to flock to Guadagnino.” – TheWrap Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “It would be tempting to say that “Jay Kelly” belongs to Clooney, but that’s not true. Adam Sandler has his own wrenching moments as Kelly’s long-suffering manager, as do Laura Dern, Riley Keough, Stacy Keach and an arsenal of supporting players.” – TheWrap Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “This feels in a way like Lanthimos on automatic and in overdrive, churning out fun transgressions one after another because he and his leading lady have so much fun doing them. Then again, too much Lanthimos is still kind of a blast.” – TheWrap Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% EDIT “Orwell: 2+2=5 is an artful balancing act, one that dips in and out of Orwell’s life and work, but also uses a broad array of reference points as it swings from history to art to the most current of events. ” – TheWrap Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Peak Everything (2025) 75% EDIT “The phrase peak everything pretty much describes “Peak Everything,” the apocalyptic rom-com we didn’t know we needed.” – TheWrap Jun 2, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “The bracing thing about “It Was Just an Accident” is that it has married Panahi’s wit and humanism with real anger; if many of his previous films lulled you into realizing his points about oppression and injustice, this one is downright confrontational” – TheWrap May 21, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Highest 2 Lowest is a mixture of gleaming, professional filmmaking and curious choices. It’s a showcase for a classic powerhouse, Washington, and an upstart one, ASAP Rocky. ” – TheWrap May 19, 2025 Full Review Leave One Day (2025) 57% EDIT “It’s breezy enough to be mildly diverting and gently nostalgic, so maybe it’s best to think of “Leave One Day” as the little appetizer that’s been served before Cannes brings out the big meals.” – TheWrap May 19, 2025 Full Review
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