Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Publications list

AWFJ.org

Tomatometer-approved publication.

Prev Next
Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Jimpa (2025) Valerie Kalfrin ... undeniably well-intentioned. ... But dividing its attention saps the dramatic momentum, leaving JIMPA feeling more like a series of scattered scenes instead of a unified whole.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Swedish Connection (2026) Valerie Kalfrin ... a fair wartime adventure that could benefit from more suspense, even if it depicts how even tiny cogs can disrupt a much larger machine.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Undercard (2025) Valerie Kalfrin ... a split decision. [Wanda] Sykes holds the screen as a former boxer turned trainer seeking connection and redemption with the son she once abandoned, but the plot occasionally gets stuck on the ropes.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Die My Love (2025) Valerie Kalfrin ... a fever dream of a film, more about a character’s headspace than a propulsive (some might say cohesive) plot. ... an ambitious work that seems to want to capture the disorientation and desperation of depression from the inside out.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Valerie Kalfrin ... a surprisingly fun crowd-pleaser full of eye-popping imagery, clever fights, and entertaining chemistry.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Valerie Kalfrin [F]eels like it’s several steps behind the times. Despite a few good performances, this updated remake of the 1987 original is essentially a 1980’s action movie with capable action but sorely in need of biting satire.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Valerie Kalfrin Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a B-movie for tweens and teens who adore the popular horror gaming franchise. Anyone else might find it a C at best, considering the threadbare characters and scattershot plot.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) Valerie Kalfrin Though its running time is an investment, ... [i]t’s heartening to see the passion for their work and how they find bravery in purpose, even as they mourn what the country they love has become.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Valerie Kalfrin Arriving almost ten years after the original ... Zootopia 2 loses none of its guts or its bite. Again tackling heady themes within a shady land-grab conspiracy right at home in Chinatown, Zootopia 2 still brings all the fun, fur, and feels.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) Valerie Kalfrin Cover-Up, the Netflix documentary focusing on award-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, is less a biography than sobering reminder of the importance of independent journalism.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Valerie Kalfrin Grief and memory, compassion and resilience braid throughout this tender film, forging a family’s intimate heartbreak into something universal and layered.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Valerie Kalfrin Ralph Fiennes is the MVP of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. ... [which] weighs what’s lost along with so much life, how easy or necessary it can be to lose one’s soul.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Valerie Kalfrin [A]n uplifting adventure about learning you really do have the right stuff. Including breathtaking IMAX imagery, this big-hearted sci-fi story hinges on an enchanting interstellar friendship that doesn’t hit one false note.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Project Hail Mary (2026) Susan Kamyab PROJECT HAIL MARY's main source of fuel is the outstanding performance by Ryan Gosling, whose quirky character brings life and laughs into an otherwise dark tale.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Spacewoman (2024) Jennifer Merin Hannah Berryman's documentary is a well-deserved tribute ro astronaut Eileen Collins who shattered the glass ceiling of space exploration by being the first woman to command a mission into space.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) Jennifer Merin A profoundly moving and utterly engaging cinematic metaphoric meditation on mourning and the transitory nature of life and nature, itself.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Natchez (2025) Jennifer Merin Takes viewers on tours of Natchez, the city. Lead by diverse guides, the tours tell the story of the city's shameful history of slavery. Slavery may no longer exist, but nuanced and extreme bigotry still do.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Invisible Warriors (2026) Jennifer Merin Invisible Warriors: Africa American in World War II is an important documentary that brings to awareness another chapter in the U.S.’s heinous history of racial and gender disrimination.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Beam Me Up, Sulu (2025) Jennifer Merin Beam Me Up, Sulu is a clear and compelling consideration of the importance and impact of storytelling in global culture — and politics.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Sirāt (2025) Diane Carson In Morocco a group treks across intimidating mountainous and desert landscape. Though some friction exists among the group, heart stopping shocks soon shatter their world with profound, unsettling impact, a credit to Laxe's masterful dramatization.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Two Prosecutors (2025) Diane Carson Director Sergei Loznitsa's "Two Prosecutors’" takes place in two locations: a rural Soviet prison and a Moscow Communist Party office in 1937, the height of Joseph Stalin's Reign of Terror. The actors' chilling performances intensify every grim element.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Betsy Bozdech Auberi Edler'sfastidiously observational about the tense 2023 school board race in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, lays bare the deep, painful divides that plague virtually every aspect of life in the United States.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Kokuho (2025) Diane Carson Over fifty years, through intertwined lives, Kikuo and Shunsuke grapple with their inheritance, their contrasting professional commitment or lack thereof, and their acceptance or rejection by the Kabuki world, all contributing to a consummate experience.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
For Worse (2025) Sarah Ward First movies, be it as a director, writer or both, can demonstrate promise, but For Worse fulfils it. Here, audiences always keen for more from Landecker well and truly get it.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Turbulence (2024) Sarah Ward To Aghion’s success, sitting down to Turbulence does indeed mimic standing in her shoes or slipping inside her heart and mind, experiencing her sorrows and struggles, then gleaning her realisations and relishing her wins.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
C
I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) Susan Kamyab May not be a "must-see", however, it’s not a waste of time. If you were a fan of the first film, you will surely appreciate this one and its heartfelt message about overcoming your inner demons and being thankful for every day.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Red Spectacles (1987) Diane Carson Abandon customary expectations for this inventive dystopian world. Mixing truth and illusion, allegory and social critique, director Oshii creates a mind-bending two hours with mounds of dead bodies, loud violence, and illogical twists and turns.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Hold Onto Me (2026) Sherin Nicole You find contentment in watching and listening to this pair: one who’s looking for a hero and the other needing a reason to be one. Most cleverly, director and screenwriter Aristidou never lets you guess which is which. Neither do Iris or Aris.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Sherin Nicole Despite its sometimes unfiltered extravagance, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! is a guiltily cathartic case of a woman stumbling through grief while tripping the light fantastic.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Extra Geography (2026) Sherin Nicole Extra Geography is a gleefully glib English boarding school satire that tumbles down a tangled path.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) Sarah Ward Unforgettable, as well as essential, important and urgent viewing.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Solo Mio (2026) Susan Kamyab Solo Mio is a breezy, heartfelt watch that’s sure to bring a smile to your face.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
C
The Choral (2025) Lynn Venhaus Accomplished storytellers, with British sensibilities, yet the film feels perfunctory and restrained. It is rather theatrical in its staging, only it’s not very original or fresh, although some characters are more engaging than others.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Calle Málaga (2025) Lynn Venhaus Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Tousani's warm and tender dramatic exploration of a simple, gentle life cycle is invigorated by the expressive Spanish actress Carmen Maura as a vibrant 79-year-old widow. Maura commands the screen like a maestra seizing a baton.
Posted Feb 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother of Flies (2025) Nadine Whitney Mother of Flies is an outstanding folk horror work of art where the script is darkly lyrical and the visual elements at times simply jaw-dropping.
Posted Feb 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mother and the Bear (2024) Valerie Kalfrin A frosty relationship between an overbearing mother and her daughter thaws in unexpected ways. This is a midlife coming-of-age story about a reluctant woman who comes to see her daughter in whole new light.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Honey Bunch (2025) Liz Braun "As cinematic sleight-of-hand goes, Honey Bunch manages to be simultaneously disturbing and delightful — no mean feat."
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C
7 Keys (2024) Lynn Venhaus This had potential but lacked follow-through. With their relatable spark, Postlethwaite’s and McDonald’s sheer force in creating credible characters deserved better. T
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) Sarah Ward A thoughtful delight that stirs the soul and lingers in the mind like a gorgeous tune.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Diane Carson After a car accident, former Iranian prisoner Vahid believes he found his torturer. To confirm identification, he enlists fellow detainees. Debates include slapstick humor as the group confronts the serious ethical dilemma of revenge.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Diane Carson Based on a true story beginning February 8, 1977, in Indianapolis, Gus Van Sant thrusts audiences immediately into startling events. Though it lacks satisfying intellectual complexity. it benefits from its dire emotional ordeal amidst tense suspense.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Diane Carson Alex and Tess Novak find their emotional distance from each other perplexing and complex, so they separate. Adapting a perceptive, poignant story, Bradley Cooper makes sure the vulnerable and uncomfortable details dictate every scene.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Sarah Ward A film to worship... Rare is a series’ fourth entry, let alone a film helmed by a new director after two prior triumphs by one of its originators, that understands so firmly what made its previous outstanding entries such marvels.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Sarah Ward Reflecting reality with sparkling clarity doesn’t make Park Chan-wook’s black comedy any less sharp or savage, the latter in a so-truthful-it-cuts-to-the-bone fashion.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Rosemead (2025) Lynn Venhaus While difficult, the film’s intensity gives it an urgency about mental health issues overall, and especially in the AAPI community. Grim but gripping,...Liu’s shattering performance lingers.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Diane Carson Chronicling one hundred plus years of cinema’s history, including multiple genres and the unique stylistic signature for each, Chinese director Bi Gan’s "Resurrection" astonishes with its imaginative flourishes and sustained engagement.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Diane Carson Set in the eighteenth century, director Mona Fastvold’s "The Testament of Ann Lee" delivers an animated musical interpretation of the catalyst for and realization of Shakers’ fervor. A fine tribute, it incorporates song, dance, and religious euphoria.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Diane Carson Set in 1977 Brazil, academic leftist and technology expert Armando retreats to his home town of Recife to reunite with his son, hoping also to elude violent retaliation perpetrated under General Ernesto Geisel’s military dictatorship.
Posted Jan 04, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) Diane Carson Chilean writer/director Diego Céspedes’ profiles an isolated drag queen community living in a 1982 remote mining town. Amusing and dramatic, the story presents a serious, metaphorical commentary on a tragic misunderstanding of the AIDS epidemic.
Posted Jan 04, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) Sarah Ward Hilditch’s movie is so assured, so certain of its place in multiple canons, so patently its own and so effective.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Prev Next