Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Alistair Ryder

Tomatometer-approved critic

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “Clearly salvaged by a talented filmmaker and two exceptional performers doing their best to elevate one-note, thinly sketched material.” – The Film Stage Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% 5/10 EDIT “Will be lost to the algorithm within weeks, and if it does become a success, it will still be forgotten by all those who watched it. It's never less than watchable, but lacks anything special that could live up to its twisty potential.” – Looper.com Jan 17, 2026 Full Review People We Meet on Vacation (2026) 75% 6/10 EDIT “A shameless copy of "When Harry Met Sally" can't help but carry over some of the charm of its inescapable influence, even if it does attempt to be trendy and oddly aspirational in a way that will initially seem alien to anybody who has seen that movie.” – Looper.com Jan 10, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “When the characters are kept entirely separate from the adult world, the creeping paranoia is at its most affecting.” – The Film Stage Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3/10 EDIT “Every scene looks like it cost five times more than it actually did, and yet the sheer visual spectacle looks indistinguishable from either of the movies that came before it.” – Looper.com Dec 16, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% EDIT “Feels less like a radical reimagining of a foundational work of literature than a post-Bridgerton romance that lazily riffs on the many tropes it initiated, with an overarching feminist message obvious to the point of being condescending to its audience.” – The Film Stage Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% EDIT “Look past the chastity cages, pup masks and Prince Albert piercings and you’ll find one of the most incisive, painfully relatable stories about modern queer romance to have arrived of late.” – Vague Visages Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 7/10 EDIT “It's not perfect, but even the parents dragged along by their kids will be happy to see a third movie — and by modern Disney standards, that is nothing short of miraculous.” – Looper.com Nov 25, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “The most spectacular sequences here are when [Edgar Wright] allows himself to let loose, working towards his instincts rather than against them.” – The Film Stage Nov 11, 2025 Full Review She's the He (2025) 100% EDIT “She’s the He is a successful attempt at not just carving out a space for LGBTQ identity amidst the overbearingly heterosexual narrative tropes, but also bending those tropes so they can fit into a tale of trans awakening, not the other way round. ” – Vague Visages Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% 6/10 EDIT “Dan Trachtenberg has attained a similar status to Phil Lord and Chris Miller a decade ago, taking pitches that sound disastrous and turning them into non-compromised crowd-pleasers against all the odds.” – Looper.com Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% EDIT “A simple but striking drama about growing up in a family living paycheck-to-paycheck.” – The Film Stage Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “This is the problem with Hamnet in a nutshell: as soon as one suspends disbelief and allows the protagonists’ personal lives to feel honest, it becomes clear that these are famous historical figures whose mythology has been tampered with for the screen.” – Vague Visages Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Bad Apples (2025) 83% EDIT “Bad Apples tackles a very specifically British institutional issue in a way I’m not sure will fully translate outside of its home country. It’s a damning political indictment disguised as a fun, twisty thriller.” – The Film Stage Oct 15, 2025 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow ceases to feel authentic every time it has to pause and contextualize the fraught political context to its audience. ” – The Film Stage Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “As a film about the healing properties of the creative process, Sentimental Value is rare in that the in-movie writing, performances and direction aren’t cathartic for the characters, functioning as obstacles when they try to unpack their feelings.” – Vague Visages Oct 14, 2025 Full Review The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) 28% 5/10 EDIT “If, like me in writing this review, you have to think about it for more than a second, it completely falls apart.” – Looper.com Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Everything you want from a Knives Out movie precisely because it has no interest in singing from the same hymn sheet — the boldest subversion of murder mystery tropes yet, disguised as comforting business as usual.” – Vague Visages Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% EDIT “Plainclothes isn’t necessarily a kinky film — it just does better than most tales of life in the closet to explain why this can be more alluring than coming out and finding somewhere to make these connections in the open. ” – Vague Visages Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 8/10 EDIT “Pet owners will likely be moved to tears by Good Boy, but not for the reasons they're afraid of.” – Looper.com Oct 1, 2025 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) 15% 6/10 EDIT “While it doesn't offer anything you haven't seen in a slasher movie before, the pivot to survival thriller mode feels like a breath of fresh air after a tiresome prior instalment with no unique ideas.” – Looper.com Sep 22, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “The political is inextricable from the personal, in a way that transcends a mere commentary on Trump’s America. If we woke up tomorrow in a utopia, Anderson’s father/daughter tale would resonate just as strongly as it does right now.” – Vague Visages Sep 22, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% EDIT “HIM feels like a movie from the first Donald Trump administration that was left on the shelf and dusted off in the second.” – Vague Visages Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% EDIT “a flat, uninspired retread of Coen's most beloved films, executed without any semblance of imagination or inspiration.” – Vague Visages Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The Sun Rises on Us All (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “The film is at its best when keeping the unresolved emotions between its two leads at the forefront, affording them no chance to reconcile or redeem themselves, no matter how many times they talk through the events that led to their estrangement. ” – View of the Arts Sep 8, 2025 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More