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

Brandon Lewis

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Brandon Lewis is a Film and Television Critic for Geek Vibes Nation, and the Founder of When Things Go Pop. He currently resides in New York.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
No Other Choice (2025) 97% 10/10 EDIT “It is another spoke on the wheel of Chan-wook’s incisive satire, where the concept of choice, either an abundance or a lack of them, is beside the point under the specter of capitalism. ” – Geek Vibes Nation Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 7.5/10 EDIT “Jay Kelly is a compelling standard-bearer for the magic of movie stardom.” – Geek Vibes Nation Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 7/10 EDIT “I can’t help missing the dizzying heights that Wicked reached, and wondering if a re-edited, four-hour version, tying in the best of For Good, would reach them.” – Geek Vibes Nation Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 9/10 EDIT “Marty Supreme may be one of the year’s best character studies, if not the best. ” – Geek Vibes Nation Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 9/10 EDIT “Mary Shelley’s indelible creation serves as del Toro’s comprehensive statement on how empathy tempers our monstrous instincts. ” – Geek Vibes Nation Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% B+ EDIT “With this film, Cooper expands the limits of his oeuvre, proving that he’s equally capable playing the minor keys as he is the major ones. Arnett [gives] a stunning, perhaps all-time great dramedy performance."” – AwardsWatch Oct 10, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% 6/10 EDIT “It isn’t hard to believe that A Big Bold Beautiful Journey wants to be that for its romance-starved audience. Kogonada indeed strives for it, and he just about ekes out a success, thanks to some, frankly, Herculean heavy lifting.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Laundry (2025) 8/10 EDIT “Even outside of its current relevance, the film feels like an urgent reflection of a largely stagnant geopolitical environment.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% 8/10 EDIT “The ambiguity, and Day-Lewis’s clear interest in how it interacts with the natural and intangible worlds, make for an engrossing experience, even at its most opaque. ” – When Things Go Pop Sep 28, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 7/10 EDIT “It isn’t the most engrossing or even inviting take on romance, but there is a loveliness to find within the stillness.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% 8/10 EDIT “It’s nice to have a film validate your belief that commutes are inherently terrible and exist to drive you insane. More than that, though, Exit 8 is a genuinely stressful and exhilarating horror experience.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 10/10 EDIT “ Her film is an overwhelming achievement of pain and grace, a devastating but exalted work of transformative cinema.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 38% 8.5/10 EDIT “While not without flaws, Evans and Gavras’s film is one of the year’s most effective unions of actor and auteur.” – Geek Vibes Nation Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Steve (2025) 78% B+ EDIT “Mielants bypasses the risks of triteness or exploitation by creatively and thoughtfully grounding us in who the people of Stantonwood are, rather than what they represent.” – AwardsWatch Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Eagles of the Republic (2025) 65% C- EDIT “Eagles of the Republic aims to convey the suffocating power of authoritarian regimes, illustrating that no opposing forces, not even movie stardom, can overpower it. It says and shows all the right things, but Tarik Saleh imbues them with little energy.” – AwardsWatch Sep 6, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 8/10 EDIT “While none of us will ever engage in a fight with Benedict Cumberbatch using obscenely expensive pottery as weapons, we can all understand the desire to leave the world better than we entered it.” – Geek Vibes Nation Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Love, Brooklyn (2025) 69% 8/10 EDIT “As natural (and valid) as it is to yearn for more complicated stories, there is real beauty in the softer complexities that Holder explores here.” – Geek Vibes Nation Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 9/10 EDIT “After half a century as one of our most important filmmakers, you sense that Spike Lee is embracing his unassailable cultural status while still rewriting his capabilities.” – Geek Vibes Nation Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 8/10 EDIT “The key takeaway of Caught Stealing is ultimately Austin Butler. As his first go-around as a leading man (without the aid of Elvis), the film is very successful, proving he has the screen presence and acting skill to entertain and captivate an audience.” – Geek Vibes Nation Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% B- EDIT “Chris Evans works best as a villain in a heightened setting, and Coen’s setting lets him go for broke. He delivers a balls-to-the-wall performance, unabashedly silly while sinister and volatile, having a blast in every scene.” – AwardsWatch Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% EDIT “For all the criminal antics, witchcraft, strawberries, and Dolly Parton needle drops, Oh, Hi! succeeds as an extreme tale about how bonkers dating can make us. It’s not a new or surprising insight, but it doesn’t need to be.” – When Things Go Pop Jul 27, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% EDIT “The film’s answer to the mutual responsibilities of heroes and the public doesn’t feel like the end of the conversation. Still, it is a largely successful expansion that openly invites future comic book films to engage.” – When Things Go Pop Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 8/10 EDIT “James Gunn reintroduces a superhero who has been notoriously difficult to conceive on the big screen with an entertaining and relevant interpretation.” – Geek Vibes Nation Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 10/10 EDIT “While the last quarter-century has spurred more artistic explorations of trauma, they tend to be restricted and limited in scope. Sorry, Baby is a powerful and successful expansion effort, helmed by an artist whose storytelling command is remarkable. ” – FandomWire Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 9/10 EDIT “Song elevates honest (or honest enough) communication between the trio, manifesting in some of the most mature exchanges in the history of the rom-com genre.” – When Things Go Pop Jun 9, 2025 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More