2/4 | | Stress Positions (2024) | If the film concentrated more on this and less on the increasingly chaotic proceedings on display, it might have become more than an endless litany of smug obnoxiousness. - RogerEbert.com |
3.5/4 | | On the Adamant (2023) | This is a soft-spoken but ultimately powerful work that makes the case for the importance of empathy in treating those with mental illnesses, and makes you hope that programs like the one depicted here will one day become the norm. - RogerEbert.com |
2/4 | | The Fox (2023) | Yes, it says all the right things about love and humanity and the folly of war. My problem is that it doesn’t say any of those things in ways that are particularly interesting or ultimately moving. - RogerEbert.com |
2.5/4 | | Outlaw Posse (2024) | Van Peebles clearly knows a good Western when he sees it, but he hasn’t quite made one himself as his effort proves to be an occasionally intriguing but too often unwieldy work that is unlikely to make anyone’s list of classic Westerns anytime soon. - RogerEbert.com |
2/4 | | Stopmotion (2023) | An undeniably grisly but ultimately tedious tiptoe through the genre tropes. - RogerEbert.com |
2/4 | | The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) | A movie that has a couple of amusing moments and nice visual flourishes but not nearly enough to combat the resounding mediocrity of the storytelling. - RogerEbert.com |
2/4 | | The Goldfinger (2023) | A curiously uninvolving work that takes what sounds like a potentially fascinating story and somehow manages to render it mostly inert due to a disappointingly shallow treatment. - RogerEbert.com |
1.5/4 | | Migration (2023) | “Migration” may pass the time, but my guess is that those kids will retain more lasting memories of whatever their parents got for them at the concession stand than anything up there on the screen. - RogerEbert.com |
3/4 | | Immediate Family (2022) | Serves as both a warm and undeniably tuneful nostalgia bath for those who grew up listening to their work and an effective oral history of a particular place and time in the history of American popular music. - RogerEbert.com |
| | A Disturbance in The Force (2023) | [I]t does a decent job of dissecting a show that never should have logically existed, exploring the circumstances that allowed it to exist and reminding us that the Boba Fett cartoon contained therein was genuinely cool. - The Spool |
| | The Inventor (2023) | While The Inventor does not wholly work, it is still ultimately worth seeing. - The Spool |
| | Wish (2023) | For a film that spends much of its time talking about magic, it's too bad that Wish displays so little of it. - The Spool |
| | Memory (2023) | Saarsgard and Chastain are both wonderful. - The Spool |
3.5/4 | | To Kill a Tiger (2022) | "To Kill a Tiger" tells an important story in a compelling manner that makes it worth watching, but its journey is so intense at times it might prove to be too much for some. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Dream Scenario (2023) | As the proceedings get stranger, [Cage] finds Paul’s humanity, ensuring the audience views the character as more than just a joke. - The Spool |
| | Limbo (2023) | The director makes the procedural narrative compelling by unflinchingly exploring the legal system’s abuses of the Indigenous people. - The Spool |
| | Evil Does Not Exist (2023) | The narrative takes a big turn, culminating in a finale so random and oblique some viewers may come away unsure what they have just seen and what it means. - The Spool |
| | Nyad (2023) | The big flaw is that the screenplay by TV writer Julia Cox is a flat and curiously uninvolving piece of writing. - The Spool |
| | Departing Seniors (2023) | [T]here have been Scooby-Doo episodes with more complexities than what's presented here. - The Spool |
| | La Chimera (2023) | This film is clever, ambitious, and funny throughout, but it also works as an intelligent meditation on our attitudes toward life, love, and death. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Fallen Leaves (2023) | [A] weirdly beguiling delight. - RogerEbert.com |
| | The Taste of Things (2023) | When it finally ended, I found myself hungry for a good meal and a better movie. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) | is as fresh, vital, and in tune with the concerns of today as anything else out there and made by a director who is still in total command of their considerable artistic powers. - The Spool |
| | TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) | Some rock stars struggle to make the charisma of their live appearances show up on camera or vice versa. Not Swift. - The Spool |
| | Rules of Engagement (2000) | Stephen Gaghan’s screenplay...huffs and puffs but never really gets anywhere. - The Spool |
1/4 | | Expend4bles (2023) | [A] laughably lazy exercise in utility-grade meat-and-potatoes filmmaking. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Je'vida (2023) | This is a strong and assured filmmaking debut that ... shines a light on the myriad ways in which an entire culture has been systematically threatened with eradication and how it has still managed to survive those efforts. - The Spool |
| | Deal of the Century (1983) | Nonetheless, in the end, the best thing that can be said about it is that it is slightly better than Best Defense. - The Spool |
| | The Brink's Job (1978) | Despite it being clear Friedkin is not 100% comfortable with the material, his work is not without interest. - The Spool |
1/4 | | Retribution (2023) | A film so devoid of thrills, excitement, or purpose that it seems to have been custom-made to play in empty multiplexes during the traditionally dead last weeks of summer. - RogerEbert.com |
4/4 | | Winter Kills (1979) | It seems to have grown even bolder with age in its willingness to take on sacred cows in the craziest manner imaginable. - RogerEbert.com |
3.5/4 | | The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) | An often striking take on the tale that makes up for what it lacks in surprise with a lot of style and some undeniably effective scare moments. - RogerEbert.com |
| | The League (2023) | [A] smart and revelatory look at a piece of American history, - The Spool |
| | Joy Ride (2023) | [The jokes] will inspire laughter from all but the most churlish and easily offended of viewers. - The Spool |
| | Mad Heidi (2022) | The problem with Mad Heidi isn’t that it’s trash—it’s that it’s cut-rate trash that tries way too hard without being near as wild or as provocative as it seems to think it is. - The Spool |
| | Rather (2023) | [F]or the most part, Rather is an admirable portrait of a more-than-admirable man and his work. - The Spool |
| | The Blackening (2022) | The cast is attractive and seemingly game for anything. Still, not even they can quite manage to sell material that’s never as smart, savage, or subversive as it thinks. - The Spool |
| | Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) | [D]espite the hiccups and poor reputation, Something Wicked This Way Comes remains a surprisingly potent work of dark fantasy. - The Spool |
| | Marinette (2023) | The best thing about Marinette—the thing that ultimately makes it worth watching despite its abruptness and overfamiliar storytelling—is Marillier’s performance of Pichon. - The Spool |
| | Flamin' Hot (2023) | Flamin’ Hot isn’t so much bad as it is innocuous—too often feels like it is more interested in celebrating a major corporation than in the person who succeeded in spite of the obstacles inherent in such organizations for anyone who isn’t a white male. - The Spool |
3.5/4 | | Rise (2022) | The dance sequences are put together so beautifully that most viewers will easily forgive the story's more cliched aspects. - RogerEbert.com |
2/4 | | Blood & Gold (2023) | This unabashedly trashy project from director Peter Thorwarth has its moments of invention and excitement in the early going, but the constant spray of bullets and body parts proves numbing. - RogerEbert.com |
0/4 | | Buddy Games: Spring Awakening (2023) | Spectacularly awful in every imaginable aspect. - RogerEbert.com |
4/4 | | Monica (2022) | A quiet, heartfelt, and beautifully nuanced drama that feels unique and universal. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Cherry (2022) | Dramatically convincing and enormously entertaining. - RogerEbert.com |
.5/4 | | Ghosted (2023) | A tedious exercise in sheer greed and laziness that presumes if enough money and famous faces are tossed into the mix, no one will notice. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Schlock (1973) | [F]or all the amateurishness on display, there is something about its earnest goofiness that allows one to forgive its occasional dull moments and misfired gags. - The Spool |
1.5/4 | | Spinning Gold (2023) | The problem with “Spinning Gold” is not that it's a bad movie so much as a boring one about a true story. - RogerEbert.com |
| | Mustache (2023) | [A] coming-of-age story that, while familiar enough in broad strokes, contains sufficient intriguing details and winning performances to be a definite crowd-pleaser. - The Spool |
| | Fremont (2023) | [Anaita Wali Zada] beautifully conveys both Donya’s quiet sense of guilt-fueled alienation and her gradual efforts to reconnect with the world around her. - The Spool |
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