Reviews

Has even less wisdom than “Celeste and Jesse Forever” about the reasons good things go bad or the seemingly extreme measures some take to turn anguish into joy.

Films with texture understand things that others don’t, and “Love of Your Life” has the conviction and sincerity to linger.

Like its subject, is pretty well made and clearly not a good idea.

Exciting and cute enough to hold kids’ attention while mercifully maintaining its avoidance of annoying pop culture references that would make it more frustrating to adults, not less.

Judge the taste, not the recipe.

Perhaps we need more movies about skipping.

Very long and very unpleasant.

Stupid, annoying and hard to see might be the holy trinity of crap.

A paperback you’d share with a friend after finding it at a used book store.

This is one of the best-reviewed movies of the year, and calling it amateur hour would be an insult to amateurs who show potential.

Points at something without trying to understand it.

A rom-com without jokes or wisdom or the guts to lean into the thing it claims to value above all.

These movies are nothing if not a portrait in courage and cowardice, free will determination vs. cruel and mindless obligation. And hell if it won’t always feel good to see the former win.

Sometimes a movie is too funny for you to care if it’s also kinda working against its own premise.

Needs to be about twice as deep and three times as surprising for its trajectory to work.

If the 2025 “I Know What You Did Last Summer” proves anything, it’s that you can be totally emotionally disengaged with a movie and also want to boo at the end.

Good animation, reasonably uplifting story, absence of obnoxious and desperate lunges at humor — a mid-range jumper counts for the same points as a 360 dunk.

At only 84 minutes “Ladies First” just kinda shrugs and leaves, far from sincere or intelligent about the issue at hand and very much feeling like a relic long ago conceived to be the most controversial movie of 1981.

Both bonkers and unexpectedly wise about college-age mistakes.

Makes people who haven’t read the book presume things worked way better on the page and those who have be like, yup.