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Tim Miller

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Tim Miller, co-president of the Boston Society of Film Critics, is the film critic of Cape Cod Wave Magazine. Previously, he served as film critic for the Cape Cod Times for more than 35 years. A Detroit native (and hardcore Tigers fan), he’s been obsessed with movies since skipping school in 1962 to see “Lawrence of Arabia” with his parents when he was 7. You can find his reviews at capecodwave.com/author/tim-miller. Twitter: @TimMillerCritic

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Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 4/4 EDIT “Memories, family dynamics and the pursuit of art collide in Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s breathtaking drama about a filmmaker (Stellan Skarsgard) who re-enters the lives of his two adult daughters (Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas).” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Shih-Ching Tsou directed … this light drama about a 5-year-old girl (Nina Ye), her older sister (Shih-Yuan Ma) and her mother (Janel Tsai) who move to Taipei and open a noodle stand. … These three are survivors, and it’s a pleasure to get to know them. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 4/4 EDIT “It’s a history of America, through one man’s existence, that captures the bigness of life in a profound and beautiful way.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% 4/4 EDIT “Johanne writes a novella which suggests a passionate romance. Is she merely projecting her desires or reflecting the truth? As we consider this, we also are challenged to consider the role of art, conflicting perceptions of reality, and much more. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 4/4 EDIT “Based on a Stephen King novella … it movingly captures the enormity of life mostly through the experiences of one person. … Strange and poignant, the film is enhanced by the narration of Nick Offerman. Tom Hiddleston plays the adult Chuck. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 4/4 EDIT “Director Ron Howard presents a stranger-than-fiction true story about three groups of people, all with different motivations, who arrive on a previously uninhabited Galapados island in Ecuador around 1930. Power struggles and violence ensue. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% 4/4 EDIT “Godard’s stubborn resistance to doing the expected is funny, but, given the results, also inspiring. Linklater ... shows us that directors ... can be silly or pretentious or maybe even obnoxious, but that doesn’t mean they can’t create something great.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Nov 8, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% 4/4 EDIT “Hawke makes us feel Hart’s overwhelming sense of jealousy, resignation and despair as he finds himself gazing at youth, success and romance … at the parade of life that is passing him by.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “Together has its gross-out moments (the worst, involving swallowing hair, had me gagging … and I wasn’t the one swallowing!). That said, this new chiller ... is scary and smart. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 2/4 EDIT “Frank Jr. gets involved in a murder case involving a stolen P.L.O.T. device (ouch). ... When Beth walks into his office, Frank says, “Take a chair,” and she replies that she already has one (double ouch). It’s that kind of comedy. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Finally, director Matt Shakman (the miniseries WandaVision), four screenwriters and a new cast deliver the right combination of sci-fi drama, action, humor and likable characters to create a worthy vehicle for the superhero quartet. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Brosnahan makes an especially good Lois Lane, a thoughtful reporter who challenges Superman in an interview with uncomfortable questions, and Nathan Fillion gives a terrific comic performance as an overbearing, egotistical Green Lantern.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Bad Shabbos (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “The Trouble With Harry meets La Cage Aux Folles/The Birdcage in director Daniel Robbins’ lightweight sitcom of a movie. Comedian-actress Vayntrub is especially good as the somewhat sardonic sister. But Method Man walks away with the movie. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% 3/4 EDIT “Director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tosses in plenty of red herrings and suspects to keep us guessing, and enough horror action to keep us on edge. But the dialogue is what makes this film an unexpected surprise.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Aug 13, 2025 Full Review Prime Minister (2025) 93% 4/4 EDIT “It’s moving to see someone in public office exhibit such common sense, character and heart; don’t be surprised if you get choked up long before New Zealand/Australian band Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over accompanies the end credits.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Viva Verdi! (2024) 4/4 EDIT “The beauty and power of music, and the passion and vitality it continues to inspire in the home’s guests, is certainly one of the primary themes. ... But the film goes even deeper as it poignantly explores life and death through the eyes of the elderly. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 31, 2025 Full Review The Summer Book (2024) 83% 3.5/4 EDIT “There’s no big payoff, emotional or otherwise; no great pronouncements. And that’s what makes this film so good. You’re left to make of it what you will, to experience it as you will. It feels like real life, bittersweet and sublime.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy (2024) 3/4 EDIT “In their film about Michael Dukakis, the three-term Democratic Massachusetts governor who ran against George H. W. Bush for president in 1988, Trahan and Schmidt cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 31, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 4/4 EDIT “28 Years Later ... offers so much more than horror-movie mayhem. Yes, it’s scary as hell. ... But it’s also a brilliant coming-of-age drama ... a profound, heartbreaking meditation on death, and ... briefly, a rousing, somewhat comical ... action film. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 3.5/4 EDIT “The characters – especially those played by star Brad Pitt and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) – are engaging, and director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) knows how to shoot action scenes that leave your heart in your throat. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 2/4 EDIT “The characters may change, the dinosaurs may change, the specific story details may change. But there’s an irritating sameness to these films. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review M3GAN 2.0 (2025) 57% 2/4 EDIT “Director Gerard Johnstone ... embraces the camp possibilities here, making “M3GAN 2.0” more a comedy than a horror flick. Not that it’s particularly funny, or scary. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “Song isn’t necessarily promoting ... shallow values, but suggesting that practical concerns are a ... part of healthy relationships while love still reigns supreme. If this is the idea, though, her movie doesn’t make a very convincing case for it. ” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review My Mom Jayne (2025) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Hargitay emerges as a genuine, grounded person who shows her vulnerability as she uncovers family secrets and what amounts to her mother’s Rosebud.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Shoshannah Stern, in her directorial debut, focuses on the life and career of Matlin, who, at 21, became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, for Children of a Lesser God. It’s an inspiring story, told with an engaging honesty.” – Cape Cod Wave Magazine Jul 22, 2025 Full Review
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