Reviews

A restless conveyor belt, always in forward motion without any suggestion that there will be much relief.

Rarely has the micro and macro blended so seamlessly.

Some years just aren’t good movie years, and 2025 was one of ‘em. Fortunately, there’s enough to make for a solid top 10, one that feels personal.

Gives the impression of substance without providing any.

So desperate to be cleansing it doesn’t realize it’s actually ointment, oily and only a mask for scars.

Roughly just as bad as “Dominion” but in different ways.

Like an appalling first date, this movie smugly declares itself smart and funny and then delivers all evidence to the contrary.

Barely wagering anything at all.

Thanks for the reminder that “Crimson Tide” rules.

Offbeat even when familiar, with enough quirks without being quirky, to just barely get over the line even as it struggles to reach 83 minutes.

It’s an incredible and incredibly rare problem to be laughing so hard that you miss the next jokes a movie delivers before you calm down.

There’s so much to explore about modern dating and sex and technology and confronting problematic people and situations, and “Swiped” turns everything complicated into a list of bullet points.

Understands the fear of relationship impermanence, and the fork between revealing yourself or hiding, and how vulnerability breeds both revulsion and connection. And the complicated thing that remains even when a dynamic goes bad.

Anyone who expected “Platonic” to be better better scroll to “Sweethearts,” even if the latter is set a few years/a lifetime before the former.

Like Paul, “Borderline” is too amused with itself and almost entirely wrong about what’s being accomplished.

If this sounds familiar that’s because it is, and “A Little Prayer” never turns common into compelling.

Disgusting and ugly, exhausting and depressing, and at 110 minutes the longest “Final Destination” by far, which won’t make you wish for death but certainly could spark a question about why you’re spending time this way.

It takes something that’s difficult to convey visually and authentically, and does just that.

Needs a closer study of pretty much everyone and everything in it.

Neither good nor terrible nor surprising nor remotely believable. See it if you want to, or don’t.