Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Alissa Wilkinson

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Alissa Wilkinson is Vox.com's film critic. Formerly, she was chief film critic at Christianity Today. Her writing has appeared at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Paste, and others. She lives and works in New York City, and you can find her @alissamarie.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Our Land (2025) 97% EDIT “Stories that Chuschagasta men and women tell Martel... bear witness to other Indigenous people who, like Chocobar, suffered or died defending their ancestral land, but without cameras there to watch, and only the community left to tell their stories.” – New York Times May 1, 2026 Full Review Animal Farm (2025) 23% EDIT “There’s a reasonably OK movie somewhere inside Animal Farm, but it’s drowning in ideological confusion, which wouldn’t be such a big deal except that this is Animal Farm.” – New York Times Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Bernstein's Wall (2021) 100% EDIT “While his celebrity has largely faded, “Bernstein’s Wall” makes the case that his charge to artists to lead the way in culture is timeless, and more vital than ever.” – New York Times Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Omaha (2025) 90% EDIT “There’s great material packed into “Omaha.” Sometimes redrawing the road map can get you to your destination.” – New York Times Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 38% EDIT “This Michael is flat, barely human.” – New York Times Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025) 100% EDIT “The cryptocurrency story, [McKenzie] argues, is powerful because however we feel about it, we agree on its premise: Our current economic system is broken, and somebody’s got to fix it.” – New York Times Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 100% EDIT “Beddoes’s performance as the troubled teen may be the best in the film.” – New York Times Apr 16, 2026 Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 93% EDIT “Makes a strong case that a plurality of independent outlets and more journalists, not fewer, are vital to a healthy democracy — and that without a revitalization of the independent press, we may lose the ability to discern the truth altogether.” – New York Times Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 67% EDIT “It reveals how seismically and rapidly the relationship of what we see to what we believe has changed. ” – New York Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% EDIT “I have rarely enjoyed watching two actors’ rapport the way I loved watching McKellen and Coel; it could have gone on forever and not been long enough. ” – New York Times Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Jimmy & The Demons (2025) EDIT “The Cathedral embodies everything that’s lovely about his work — its impishness, its openheartedness and its darkness, too — and “Jimmy & the Demons” captures all of that with a spirit that matches its subject.” – New York Times Apr 3, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 43% EDIT “There’s a flat empty nothingness to “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” even more than its flat empty predecessor, and that’s a huge bummer. ” – New York Times Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 90% EDIT “There’s some value, though, in sorting through what’s being said. Collecting bites of it in one place to muse upon is at least somewhere to start.” – New York Times Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Lumière! The Adventure Continues (2024) EDIT “Making a film like this, which restores and celebrates some of the movies’ earliest creators and innovators, is a way to place faith in humanity.” – New York Times Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% EDIT “Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.” – New York Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% EDIT “Still, it’s a properly scary movie, the kind that merits watching in a theater with a good sound system.” – New York Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% EDIT “Hoppers possesses that certain charm that comes with pudgy beavers and dastardly caterpillars, and a touch of weird humor beside. Cute animals and a little absurdity can make any mildly overcrowded plot more watchable. ” – New York Times Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% EDIT “So this is really a movie for hard-core McCartney (or Wings) fans who want to see all of the rare archival footage — or, conversely, for curious newbies who want a fast-paced introduction to one of the most talented songwriters of all time. ” – New York Times Feb 27, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 16% EDIT “There’s just not enough space given to these characters to grow into full beings, or for us to understand the full import of their actions before we’re whisked away elsewhere. ” – New York Times Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “This is a fun movie, and a revealing one, too.” – New York Times Feb 20, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s that sharp contrast of beauty with an undercurrent of pain that makes “My Father’s Shadow” so bittersweet, and it’s why it cuts to the quick. ” – New York Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 81% EDIT “ The weird gets piled on top of more weird, and there are twists and revelations and — well, I don’t really think it’s a satisfying ending, but you might, and it certainly lands with a bang.” – New York Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 88% EDIT “It’s a good story, well told, and Polgar makes for an interesting subject. ” – New York Times Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Natchez (2025) 97% EDIT “The wish the mayor voices slowly cracks apart; we witness progressively more uncomfortable encounters that show how even agreed-upon histories clash with one another. ” – New York Times Feb 2, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% EDIT “[The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn’t about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art.” – New York Times Jan 29, 2026 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More