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A
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Told tightly and succinctly, it's an inspiring piece of work, enhanced by the diverse collection of voices assembled as first-hand witnesses.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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A-
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The Best Summer
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A nostalgia play in some ways, but also a loving scrapbook to youth and rock and friendship.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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A-
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Josephine
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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what Josephine captures is the way that trauma can still be experienced even if a person doesn't fully understand what happened.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B+
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Lady
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Manages two remarkable achievements at once: Delivering both a slice-of-life narrative, rich with cultural details, while at the same time telling a galvanizing, even inspiring story about a person finding her voice to demand real change.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B+
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Extra Geography
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Miriam Battye's script (adapting the short story by Rose Tremain) is packed with lines both simultaneously blunt and clever, as both girls discover what they're going to leave behind, in their rush to grow up.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B+
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Union County
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A deeply empathic picture, powerful in its attention to detail, and still capable of real hope.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B
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Public Access
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Though the project-focused structure keeps the movie from having much pure momentum, Public Access is ultimately a lovely tribute to underground media and its importance to so many marginalized groups.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The ending perhaps doesn't feel fully earned. But it's still a powerful reminder that no matter how messy life may get, it's still possible for the human spirit to prevail.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B
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Carousel
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Rachel Lambert proves to have a solid grasp of tone, building a quiet yet casual intimacy between Noah and Rebecca that leads to some of the film's best scenes.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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B-
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The Musical
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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It never feels like director Giselle Bonilla and writer Alexander Heller want us to think of Doug as a heroic figure, but he's an unlikeable enough presence that it's hard to be sure of their intentions.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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C+
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Sentient
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The doc's revelations don't compensate nearly well enough for the emotional trauma any animal lover will experience while watching.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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A-
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The Muppet Show
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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What this new Muppet Show confirms is that in the hands of fans, Jim Henson’s legacy is safe — but specifically these fans, who understand the formula and know just how much to tweak it for today.
Posted Feb 03, 2026
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F
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Melania
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Look, Leni Riefenstahl was a terrible person, but at least she had some style. Accused sex pest/confirmed hack Brett Ratner, meanwhile, captures the proceedings with all the flair of an HGTV show.
Posted Jan 30, 2026
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B-
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The Moment
(2026)
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Paolo Ragusa
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As either comedy or commentary, it never quite breaks free from the very commercial constraints it sets out to expose.
Posted Jan 24, 2026
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A-
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
(2026)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The Bone Temple once again pulls off the 28 Days Later trick of finding moments of grace at the end of the world, with enough beautiful moments to balance out the grotesque ones.
Posted Jan 13, 2026
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B
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Anaconda
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A movie far less scary than its campy 1997 predecessor, but far funnier — on purpose.
Posted Dec 23, 2025
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B+
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Is This Thing On?
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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As personal as some of this material feels, it feels like a real collaboration of artists, all enabling Cooper to tell a heartfelt story with universal scope.
Posted Dec 18, 2025
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B
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Everything is always loud, from the music to the visual design to the emotions. It's an approach ensuring that Cameron's message will be heard by even the most distracted viewer.
Posted Dec 16, 2025
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A-
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Wake Up Dead Man feels less like the third movie in an ongoing series of mysteries and more like the confident Season 3 of a prestige TV show — one where the creators feel fully seated in their powers, certain to deliver something captivating.
Posted Nov 25, 2025
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B-
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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For Good doesn’t sell Elphaba’s decree that "no good deed will I do again," one of the movie’s many muddled moments. It does, however, reflect an age where every message feels muddled, no hero can be trusted. All we know is that something is rotten here.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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B
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The Running Man offers a more anarchic message than we might be used to from standard Hollywood blockbusters, but that message gets drowned out, leaving behind a loud violent romp that's almost a bit too on the nose for these loud violent times of ours.
Posted Nov 11, 2025
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A-
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Badlands flips the approach and finds something fresh and wonderful and bold as a result — as if James Cameron had made Terminator 2 entirely from the T-800’s point of view.
Posted Nov 06, 2025
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C+
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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For those who loved The Menu, the odds are exceptionally good that Bugonia will also have equal appeal.
Posted Oct 30, 2025
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B
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Deliver Me from Nowhere doesn’t aim to be the definitive tale of Bruce Springsteen’s life, but it does make smart choices in trying to subtly showcase the reasons why his legacy extends beyond some great rock songs.
Posted Oct 21, 2025
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A-
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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There’s such humanity and spirit to what del Toro has done that despite the narrative differences, it genuinely feels like the definitive take on Shelley’s classic tale.
Posted Oct 16, 2025
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Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The human brain really wasn’t meant to watch 11 lyrics videos in a row, at least without some sort of accompanying herbal refreshment.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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B-
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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TRON: Ares doesn’t seem poised to change the culture in anything resembling a similar way; while it has a lot more life to it than the inert TRON: Legacy, Ares keeps its focus on big spectacle as opposed to big ideas.
Posted Oct 07, 2025
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B+
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Johnson’s most vulnerable moments as Mark are the defeated ones, brought to the screen with minimal melodrama but maximum impact.
Posted Sep 30, 2025
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A-
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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It almost seems like production on One Battle After Another wrapped yesterday, yet while its focus on issues like immigration and the rise of white supremacy are all too relevant, Anderson never loses sight of his characters.
Posted Sep 17, 2025
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A-
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Holds onto the real sense that these men, despite everything they've been through, have loved each other almost their entire lives... There's something beautiful about the fact that they've found their way to this moment, after so many decades.
Posted Sep 11, 2025
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B
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The Long Walk
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The Long Walk offers a gripping premise, a lot of characters who feel more like loose sketches than fully-realized personalities, and a narrative that maybe has some minor pacing problems towards the end, but is pretty impossible to turn away from.
Posted Sep 02, 2025
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B
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Caught Stealing
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Caught Stealing is the furthest thing from an Oscar play but still a surprisingly enjoyable time, a movie where even the end credits have real life and spontaneity to them.
Posted Aug 27, 2025
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A-
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Highest 2 Lowest
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A filmmaking flex that establishes just how good at the fundamentals Lee remains.
Posted Aug 14, 2025
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B+
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Weapons
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A cinematic experience that's powerful, scary, disturbing, and often quite funny.
Posted Aug 07, 2025
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A-
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The relaunch of the classic comedy series captures exactly what made the original, and other movies from the team behind Airplane!, so essential: An almost non-stop onslaught of silly and random moments, always going for the belly laugh.
Posted Jul 30, 2025
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B
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Happy Gilmore 2
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Between Happy’s family life and a whole new series of challenges for him to tackle, there’s enough freshness to the plot to keep it from feeling like a total rehash of what came before, while still delivering wild golf stunts and a huge range of cameos.
Posted Jul 25, 2025
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B+
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A solid comic book adventure that's not embarrassed by being a comic book adventure — in fact it finds real power in its love for its roots. Hopefully, that's an energy the MCU can carry forward with it.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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Eddington
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The one thing that Aster fails to accomplish — the one major issue holding the movie back — is that he never quite explains why he wanted to bring us back to this time in the first place. Especially because in so many ways, we're still living in it.
Posted Jul 17, 2025
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Smurfs
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Can any sequence in this movie be strictly described as “normal”?
Posted Jul 16, 2025
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B+
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Superman
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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A movie that doesn’t sacrifice its titular character in service to franchise-building. Instead, it focuses on celebrating the values that Superman himself has embodied from the beginning.
Posted Jul 08, 2025
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B+
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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The second-best Jurassic movie ever made. Admittedly, this isn't as huge a compliment as it could be, given the movies that have preceded it.
Posted Jun 30, 2025
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B
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Boyle and Garland’s return to the franchise seems deliberately set on reinventing as many cliches as it can, while also exploding our assumptions about what a zombie movie might be.
Posted Jun 18, 2025
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B+
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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While Tom Cruise did already his big race car movie back in 1990, it’s easy to imagine him watching F1 and seething with jealousy. Because the racing sequences look like they were as thrilling to shoot as they are to watch.
Posted Jun 17, 2025
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C+
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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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There are no major new storylines, or characters, or twists, yet somehow the same amount of plot has been stretched from 98 minutes to 125 minutes. HOW? It's truly a mystery.
Posted Jun 11, 2025
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A-
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Predator: Killer of Killers
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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Trachtenberg’s imagination here seems literally boundless. The Predator franchise is more than safe in his hands — it’s thriving.
Posted Jun 06, 2025
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C+
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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As a vehicle to add more lore and nuance to the JWCU — while also delivering numerous fun action sequences — Ballerina functions well. Unfortunately, it fails to give its star a real character to play, or a substantial plotline to follow.
Posted Jun 04, 2025
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B+
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The Phoenician Scheme
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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There’s nothing seismic here, just a colorful, enjoyable yarn by one of the best cinematic confectioners around. One with some real heart to it.
Posted May 28, 2025
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B+
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Pavements
(2024)
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Jonah Krueger
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Pavements is a genuinely unique watch that turns the idea of a rockumentary upside down. It at once delivers upon fans’ thirst to learn more about the band while respecting the fact that their inconsistent story is part of the appeal.
Posted May 27, 2025
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B
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Mountainhead
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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It’s hard to imagine the timing being better for this movie as a result, yet it doesn’t promise any solutions or hope for the problem it acknowledges: The way wealth can warp a human soul. The one problem money can’t fix.
Posted May 23, 2025
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B+
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Lilo & Stitch
(2025)
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Liz Shannon Miller
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While it may never fully replace the original in the hearts of its fans, this new Lilo & Stitch manages to capture the real emotion embedded in this story, while also nailing all the fun that comes from an agent of chaos discovering he has a heart.
Posted May 20, 2025
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