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B
Send Help (2026) Adam Graham As a genre experiment, it's a down-the-middle good time at the movies that offers thrills, chills and gross outs galore. No need to send help, Raimi's got this territory mastered.
Posted Feb 02, 2026Edit critic review
D
Shelter (2026) Adam Graham It's dull, standard action fare, rendered in shades of gray from director Ric Roman Waugh.
Posted Feb 02, 2026Edit critic review
B
H Is for Hawk (2025) Adam Graham It approaches its subject with respect and doesn't pretend to offer easy answers for complicated matters. Grief is difficult, as is hawk training, and Lowthorpe's film treats both with proper reverence.
Posted Jan 27, 2026Edit critic review
C-
Mercy (2026) Adam Graham "Mercy" is able to hold its own for a good portion of its running time before going off the rails in its final act, when the story gets exponentially ridiculous and characters begin acting erratically.
Posted Jan 22, 2026Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Adam Graham The care DaCosta gives the characters, and the life the actors bring to them, is soulful and enriching, even moving.
Posted Jan 17, 2026Edit critic review
B
The Rip (2026) Adam Graham "The Rip" rips.
Posted Jan 17, 2026Edit critic review
C
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Adam Graham "Greenland 2" is a strictly second-tier affair, with neither the special effects nor the set-ups raising the pulse of the on-screen action.
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
C+
Is This Thing On? (2025) Adam Graham It's a rough workshop of ideas, not quite ready for the stage.
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
B
Primate (2025) Adam Graham "Primate" is an old-school horror thriller that uses craft and technique to deliver a face-ripping good time.
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
B
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Adam Graham In "Father Mother Sister Brother," veteran filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers a warm story of family and all its inescapable quirks.
Posted Jan 09, 2026Edit critic review
C
Anaconda (2025) Adam Graham Rudd and Black are fun enough on screen, but "Anaconda" is so loosey goosey in its plotting and mechanics that it's difficult to invest too much into it.
Posted Dec 29, 2025Edit critic review
B
Song Sung Blue (2025) Adam Graham Jackman is bulletproof, using the sheer power of his charm and the cheesier aspects of his personality to bring Lightning beaming to life.
Posted Dec 24, 2025Edit critic review
A
Marty Supreme (2025) Adam Graham It's a hyperkinetic tribute to making mistakes, to not apologizing, and to the desperation and determination of one's 20s.
Posted Dec 24, 2025Edit critic review
B
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Adam Graham "Fire and Ash" is the first "Avatar" to feel its length. Impressive as it is, it's overkill.
Posted Dec 24, 2025Edit critic review
B+
The Housemaid (2025) Adam Graham The twists and turns in "The Housemaid" are way too delectable to spill. But they help it make for a highly entertaining moviegoing experience, a popcorn movie just begging for extra butter.
Posted Dec 17, 2025Edit critic review
C
Jay Kelly (2025) Adam Graham Clooney sure does look fabulous, the embodiment of Hollywood royalty, even if you're not quite sure what, if anything, is going on beneath the surface of that million-dollar smile.
Posted Dec 08, 2025Edit critic review
C+
Hamnet (2025) Adam Graham It's designed to be a tear-jerker, and it gets those tears flowing, although it's never quite as emotionally rich as it is on paper.
Posted Dec 08, 2025Edit critic review
C
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Adam Graham Scarier and more coherent than its confoundingly dull predecessor, "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" still suffers from a convoluted script, but it at least won't make viewers feel like they've had their head smashed in by a killer animatronic robot.
Posted Dec 08, 2025Edit critic review
B
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) Adam Graham The Brothers Jonas fold several songs into the film's scant 80-minute runtime, which is a holiday treat unto itself.
Posted Dec 02, 2025Edit critic review
B-
A Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025) Adam Graham "A Merry Little Ex-Mas" may or may not count as a comeback for Silverstone, but it's a reminder of her particular talents, and she makes "Ex-Mas" a tiny little holiday treat.
Posted Dec 02, 2025Edit critic review
B+
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Adam Graham "Wake Up Dead Man" finds ways to cleverly invert the "Knives Out" formula without exhausting it.
Posted Nov 26, 2025Edit critic review
B
Eternity (2025) Adam Graham "Eternity's" greatest strength is its sense of worldbuilding, and the way it eases viewers into its version of life after death.
Posted Nov 26, 2025Edit critic review
B-
Zootopia 2 (2025) Adam Graham "Zootopia 2" is more overt in its messaging, jackhammering its themes like a construction zone. It's a fine place to visit, but isn't as whimsical as it was the first time around.
Posted Nov 26, 2025Edit critic review
B
Train Dreams (2025) Adam Graham Joel Edgerton brings a quiet soulfulness to "Train Dreams" that perfectly complements director Clint Bentley's meditative portrait of an unassuming logger making his way through early 20th century America, and beyond.
Posted Nov 24, 2025Edit critic review
C+
Rental Family (2025) Adam Graham "Rental Family" seems reverse engineered to make people tear up and give them the warm fuzzies. Like the agency in the movie, it's providing a service. But how it arrives there could use a little tinkering.
Posted Nov 24, 2025Edit critic review
C
Wicked: For Good (2025) Adam Graham "Wicked: For Good" often feels like a strained journey through the wonderful land of Oz.
Posted Nov 24, 2025Edit critic review
B+
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Adam Graham Panahi masterfully lays out his scenario and keeps audiences guessing.
Posted Nov 18, 2025Edit critic review
B+
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Adam Graham "Nouvelle Vague" is inviting rather than exclusionary, down-to-earth rather than pretentious. It's a romp for film fans that celebrates the notion that cinema can change the world, 24 frames per second at a time.
Posted Nov 18, 2025Edit critic review
D
The Running Man (2025) Adam Graham Forget going the distance, this "Running Man" never makes it out of the starting gate.
Posted Nov 13, 2025Edit critic review
B+
Die My Love (2025) Adam Graham "Die My Love" is a work of brutal honesty, emphasis on the brutal.
Posted Nov 07, 2025Edit critic review
B+
Predator: Badlands (2025) Adam Graham "Badlands" still delivers the action that fans crave, but it finds new life in the "Predator" series precisely by not being so precious about itself or its lore.
Posted Nov 07, 2025Edit critic review
C
Christy (2025) Adam Graham "Christy" comes on strong, but in the end it winds up going down for the count.
Posted Nov 07, 2025Edit critic review
C
Bugonia (2025) Adam Graham Lanthimos is, of course, a vital filmmaker and one of our most gifted modern storytellers, but he's never been easier to dismiss than he is with "Bugonia." His unpleasantries have never felt emptier.
Posted Nov 03, 2025Edit critic review
C
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Adam Graham From a visual standpoint, it's often quite impressive to marvel at, but ultimately, "Ballad of a Small Player" is holding a losing hand.
Posted Nov 03, 2025Edit critic review
D
Regretting You (2025) Adam Graham It's extremely difficult to take any of it seriously when none of the characters seem to know what kind of movie they're in. Maybe it's a frothy beach read, but it's a mess of a movie.
Posted Oct 28, 2025Edit critic review
B
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Adam Graham Bronstein does a tremendous job of placing viewers inside Linda's head; you understand her mental state because the movie drops the audience inside her headspace without a net.
Posted Oct 28, 2025Edit critic review
B+
Blue Moon (2025) Adam Graham There's so much rage, bitterness and regret stirring just below the surface of Hawke's raw performance that it makes "Blue Moon" feel much bigger than it is. It's a minor film that packs a major emotional punch.
Posted Oct 28, 2025Edit critic review
B+
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Adam Graham It's a sweaty palms stress test for our uneasy times, ready to detonate at a moment's notice.
Posted Oct 27, 2025Edit critic review
C-
Shelby Oaks (2023) Adam Graham The specter of "The Blair Witch Project" looms large over the proceedings, but "Shelby Oaks" isn't able to conjure up the same level of atmosphere or dread as that seminal horror experience.
Posted Oct 24, 2025Edit critic review
B
After the Hunt (2025) Adam Graham "After the Hunt" never quite detonates, but it causes its share of fallout and leaves viewers with plenty to talk about while sifting through the rubble.
Posted Oct 22, 2025Edit critic review
B-
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Adam Graham Cooper's not interested in the Springsteen story, but rather a Springsteen story, and he delivers by making "Nowhere" a small film about a big subject.
Posted Oct 22, 2025Edit critic review
D+
Black Phone 2 (2025) Adam Graham "Black Phone 2" isn't worth answering, but McGraw holds the line all her own.
Posted Oct 16, 2025Edit critic review
C-
TRON: Ares (2025) Adam Graham It has a sharply defined visual language derived from its red and black color palette, and it often looks amazing, especially on an IMAX screen. But there's nothing here to hold onto.
Posted Oct 14, 2025Edit critic review
C+
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Adam Graham "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is a tribute to storytelling as a means of escape and the power of our imaginations, but it never quite finds its footing in the real world.
Posted Oct 14, 2025Edit critic review
B
Roofman (2025) Adam Graham Cianfrance is a sensitive, smart filmmaker, and he finds the gentle soul in Tatum's character.
Posted Oct 14, 2025Edit critic review
The Celluloid Closet (1995) Michael McWilliams One of the strengths of "Closet" is its openness to disagreement, and the skill with which its conflicts are framed.
Posted Oct 08, 2025Edit critic review
C
The Smashing Machine (2025) Adam Graham "The Smashing Machine" works so hard to not be certain things — a by-the-numbers biopic, a typical crowd-pleaser — that it never quite figures out what it's trying to be, or what it is.
Posted Oct 03, 2025Edit critic review
B
Bone Lake (2024) Adam Graham It has a good sense of humor about itself without becoming a farce, and knows how to play gore spots for laughs. It's a good time horror romp with more on its mind than just gross-outs.
Posted Oct 03, 2025Edit critic review
C+
The Lost Bus (2025) Adam Graham Greengrass and his team pay due respect to the real-life heroism that marked that day, but "The Lost Bus" relies on storytelling clichés that continually douse its fire.
Posted Oct 03, 2025Edit critic review
D
Anemone (2025) Adam Graham The story is seriously stagnated, and even one of the world's best living actors can't dig it out of its arthouse pretensions or narrative doldrums.
Posted Oct 03, 2025Edit critic review
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