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Roger Friedman

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Holding Liat (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT “The very powerful film — eligible for an Oscar, now playing at New York’s Film Forum and starting Friday in Los Angeles — should be seen by everyone because it humanizes a horrific time that resonates even more today. ” – Showbiz 411 Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/4 EDIT “The bottom line is that Josh Safdie’s made an incredibly entertaining movie, full of fun, that ends on an uplifting note. Audiences won’t be able to get enough of 30 year old Chalamet” – Showbiz 411 Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Wicked For Good" continues the idea that The Wizard of Oz — a befuddled con man in "The Wizard of Oz" — is evil, doing Trumpian like things like caging the flying monkeys and dozens of other animals as if they were arrested immigrants. ” – Showbiz 411 Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 2/4 EDIT “The initial hype was that Lawrence gave an incredible performance even if the movie wasn’t worth it. . But a movie only counts if people want to see it. Otherwise, what’s the point?” – Showbiz 411 Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3.5/4 EDIT “Jackman and Hudson. They have lots of chemistry, and make lovely music together. With Jackman, it’s not a big surprise. Didn’t you see “The Music Man”? But Hudson — daughter of Goldie Hawn — finally gets a spotlight and uses it with grace and wit. ” – Showbiz 411 Oct 28, 2025 Full Review In the Hand of Dante (2025) 43% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is the kind of movie we used to see from the great auteurs of the 70s like Scorsese, who is also executive producer of this film. “In the Hand of Dante” is the kind of exciting work we see infrequently now and need so much for cinema to survive.” – Showbiz 411 Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 4/4 EDIT “Tatum and Dunst have chemistry off the charts. Plus there’s a stellar cast put together by the legendary Bonnie Timmerman including Peter Dinklage, Ben Mendelsohn, Uzo Adaba, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Melonie Diaz, Molly Price, and Tony Revolori.” – Showbiz 411 Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT “Cooper is really a director, and he looks for moments in all of the scenes that lift what could be well trodden business into something sweet, poetic, and funny. ” – Showbiz 411 Oct 12, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 4/4 EDIT “George Clooney and Adam Sandler lead a really stunning cast who never miss a beat. Baumbach, directing from a screenplay he wrote with actress Emily Mortimer, has made maybe his most accessible and embracing film, certainly since “The Meyerowitz Stories."” – Showbiz 411 Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (2025) 4/4 EDIT “The King of Inbetween” is a love letter...It’s about a mixed race poet from Brooklyn with the musical chops of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Goffin and King, who couldn’t bend to any genre.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 23, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “PTA has taken the bare bones of a story about American revolutionaries in the 1970s and overhauled it completely. ...It might be Anderson’s best work ever, and it will be the heavy favorite in awards season.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Fellowes lays it all out in a finely tuned screenplay. He imbues his characters — especially the younger ones — with enough prescience to be aware that their royal life is undergoing a seachange.” – Showbiz 411 Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a violent punk comedy full of visual splendor. If you’re not too sensitive, this film is kind of a late summer relief. ” – Showbiz 411 Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “ Denzel: he’s one name now. He can do no wrong. Even with Jeffrey Wright seriously trying to pull attention as the second banana, Denzel knows to pay out his charms slowly. By the time he builds to a crescendo, you see what greatness on film can be. ” – Showbiz 411 Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) 62% 1/4 EDIT “ It’s 29 years since the original. Sandler now releases his comedies on Netflix, which doesn’t give viewing numbers and no box office reports exist. He can just churn out garbage, and not worry what anyone has to say.” – Showbiz 411 Jul 27, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT “What Shakman has pulled off is no small thing. He’s given these characters a satisfying environment that is clever and sweet and comforting while letting them lampoon their own comic book history. ” – Showbiz 411 Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 4/4 EDIT “ Gunn has given the new DC Comics Superman the energy of his first “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie without the total sarcasm but still stressing profundity about the character and his self-appointed mission in life.” – Showbiz 411 Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Any Day Now (2025) B+ EDIT ““Any Day Now” isn’t perfect, but when Guilfoyle gets to sing the Standells’ “Dirty Water” it’s like that moment in Belfast for Jamie Dornan. Marty is a man of many layers and Guilfoyle makes the most of his nuanced past.” – Showbiz 411 May 19, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “se are continually reminded by everyone that “only Ethan” can save the world. The hero worship is anted up as high as possible. This is amazing since Ethan never eats, goes to the bathroom, or sits down. God bless him.” – Showbiz 411 May 14, 2025 Full Review Rust (2024) 58% C+ EDIT “it’s style over substance. The screenplay by Baldwin and Souza is Costner Lite for a modern western. The story is one cliche after another: hard livin’, High Noon shoot outs, barroom brawls, the local call girls, an occasional Native American. ” – Showbiz 411 May 2, 2025 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 78% B+ EDIT “The extremely charming and well made film stars Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, and an actual penguin. The latter may actually be up for Best Supporting Actor.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 29, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% 4/4 EDIT “Bottom line: Levinson and co have made what we now call “a real movie,” worth go to see in a movie theater. That’s kind of a relief after going through this Oscar season.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 19, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% 2/4 EDIT “When they [the actors] speak you can actually see the gears turning as the actors try to figure what they’re saying.” – Showbiz 411 Mar 15, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 4/4 EDIT “Chalamet could have come off as an impersonator doing an “SNL” sketch. Instead, he inhabits Dylan self-effacingly. Among rock and roll biopic performances this one is right up there with Sissy Spacek as Loretta Lynn and Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.” – Showbiz 411 Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 4/4 EDIT ““Babygirl” could take the route of “Fatal Attraction” as Samuel starts popping up on Romy’s home turf. But Reijn won’t let it go that way. She avoids cliches throughout and always has her eye on a third act. ” – Showbiz 411 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review
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