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Thom Ernst

Thom Ernst's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Mercy (2026) 23% B EDIT “A courtroom drama without the courtroom? A futuristic action film featuring precisely one flying vehicle? A cop drama told in semi-real time? Mercy is all of those things—and so much less.” – Original Cin Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% B- EDIT “Despite my perhaps unreasonable expectations of chimp-centric emotional realism, Primate does deliver where it counts. When it commits to chaos, it does so with ferocity, confidence, and the occasional gasp-inducing surprise. ” – Original Cin Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% A EDIT “What rescues Wake Up Dead Man from being buried beneath its own mystery-comedy tropes is Johnson's willingness to parade those tropes like familiar suspects—letting us recognize them before he bends them somewhere unexpected. ” – Original Cin Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% A- EDIT “If John Wick is a ballet of ultra-violent choreography, then Sisu: Road to Revenge is its bad-ass country cousin: a full-contact square dance where, yes, you swing your partner, but off the top of a speeding train, headfirst into a tree. ” – Original Cin Nov 21, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% B- EDIT “The Running Man arrives as a surprise — not unwelcome, just surprisingly stilted for a director who usually spikes his films with mischief. Wright’s fidelity to King borders on reverent, as though the author is standing over his shoulder with a red pen.” – Original Cin Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% B- EDIT “The two films are different enough to stand alone. Where the original thrived on human-inspired terror, the sequel folds itself into supernatural cliché. One is not necessarily better than the other…except that, in this case, one is.” – Original Cin Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Your Host (2025) 71% C+ EDIT “Your Host is less a thrill ride than a rerun: watchable in its moments, frustrating in its missed opportunities, and in need of a tighter script if it ever hopes to climb the ratings.” – Original Cin Oct 6, 2025 Full Review V/H/S Halloween (2025) 89% B+ EDIT “V/H/S Halloween is delightfully nasty and pushes limits of what’s accepted as fair game. Sacred cows are dead hooves walking, and even calves are up for slaughter. The surprise comes not from taboos being broken, but in how gleefully they’re dismantled.” – Original Cin Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Killing Faith (2025) 76% A- EDIT “Killing Faith is one weird western. Is it worth seeing? Absolutely. Because sometimes it’s the films that bewilder us that leave the deepest marks: hoofprints on wet grass, difficult to follow but impossible to forget.” – Original Cin Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Compulsion (2025) 8% C EDIT “The performances, whether dictated by Marshall or chosen by the actors, land with the strained intensity of a teenager practicing “sexy” in the mirror. Everyone smoulders, broods, and coldly dismisses advances, confusing intensity with allure. ” – Original Cin Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Scared Shitless (2024) 94% B+ EDIT “In the end, Scared Shitless is that rare gross-out comedy that proves good filmmaking rises to the surface, even when the premise comes out of a toilet bowl. ” – Original Cin Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% A- EDIT “No one should mistake The Long Walk for fun. But there’s satisfaction in the way grim inevitability drives the narrative. By the end, you’ll feel as if you’ve marched every mile alongside the boys exhausted, shaken, and strangely, perhaps, wanting more. ” – Original Cin Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% B+ EDIT “Where Lloyd Kaufman’s original film gave us ooze, director Macon Blair gives us something oozier and with a budget. Things are still sleazy, still slimy, still nasty; a refinement of the unrefined rather than a mockery of the parody.” – Original Cin Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Nobody 2 (2025) 76% B+ EDIT “A quintessential summer movie by any metric, this ultra-violent sequel delivers brutality without hesitation. And maybe, this summer, we need that more than ever. ” – Original Cin Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% A EDIT “Propelled by allegory, dark comedy, and slow-burn suspense, Weapons joins what might be termed the “elevated horror” genre also successfully mined by Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, Ryan Coogler, and here by Zach Cregger.” – Original Cin Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% C+ EDIT “A corny, tepidly enjoyable, thematically recyclable, narratively entangled cinematic situation — sort of like watching four people trying on the same style of sweater in different sizes. ” – Original Cin Aug 6, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% C+ EDIT “There are a few kills worth a horror fan’s smirk, but mostly, IKWYDLS is an underwhelming collection of tropes and throwbacks. It never justifies its existence beyond brand recognition. And the title still has more words than the film has actual scares.” – Original Cin Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Bang (2025) C+ EDIT “Kaosayananda directs like someone who’s binged every available made-for-Tubi gangster flick and cranked the dials to 11: graphic violence, relentless shootouts, inexplicable nudity, and moral ambiguity. Bang is so bad, it’s almost watchable. ” – Original Cin Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Push (2024) 65% C EDIT “Seemingly forgetting that it’s supposed to be a thriller, Push unfurls too slowly, getting lost in the maze of its own setup. You get the feeling something important is being said, but that somehow you missed the beginning of the conversation. ” – Original Cin Jul 7, 2025 Full Review 40 Acres (2024) 89% A- EDIT “For all its reflective history and pointed socio-political commentary, 40 Acres is first and foremost a vivid and wildly entertaining action film. Though it stops short of horror, it carries the haunted spirit of a dark thriller.” – Original Cin Jul 3, 2025 Full Review M3GAN 2.0 (2025) 57% C-plus EDIT “M3GAN 2.0 swerves into broader comedy and bigger spectacle. But in doing so, it trades suspense for slapstick and tension for martial arts action. Despite some high-tech window dressing, the humour is scattershot and the themes are undercooked. ” – Original Cin Jun 26, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% A-minus EDIT “Dean DeBlois, the Canadian writer/director long involved with HTTYD, could have settled for accurately recreating the original—which, in part, he does. But his direction transcends the source material, with a seamless evolution of ideas and performances.” – Original Cin Jun 11, 2025 Full Review The Ritual (2025) 9% C EDIT “For all its proclamations of authenticity, The Ritual feels no more grounded than a message from a Ouija board. And that, perhaps, is the real possession at work here: truth, struggling to be a spectacle.” – Original Cin Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% B+ EDIT “Though still early in their careers, with Bring Her Back, the Philippou brothers solidify their position as genre innovators, unafraid to confront the raw nerves of the human condition.” – Original Cin May 31, 2025 Full Review Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) 92% B EDIT “Though billed as a reboot, Bloodlines wisely tweaks the formula without tossing it out. Death makes a formidable return in the franchise that taught us to fear flying, highways, roller coasters, stock car races and bridges. ” – Original Cin May 17, 2025 Full Review
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