Movie Film Reviews

With compelling pieces that don't always unify, Caught Stealing is almost great. While the plot can feel convoluted, its premise as well...

Highest 2 Lowest is a bold swing. Its moral dilemma premise yields strong motivations as well as nuanced arcs for its characters. There...

Freakier Friday is another mediocre legacy sequel. Its drama is wholly formulaic and, in turn, lacks true complexity or sincerity. Once...

Nobody 2 is mixed. It advances the premise by establishing work-life drama, a promising genre subversion. However, it slumps into old...

War of the Worlds (2025) is corporate trash. When it's not painfully cliche, it's downright amateur. The illogical plot is a series of...

Despite a middling reveal, Weapons builds natural drama from a tense premise. Its plot starts with an exposition dump before...

The Bad Guys 2 buoys questionable storytelling with flashy energy. Its plot and villain are generic. Easily resolved without growth or...

While it often tells over shows (resulting in exposition dumps and broad characters), KPop Demon Hunters  delivers a well-rounded story....

The Naked Gun (2025) is in spirit with its predecessor. Primarily rapid-fire jokes that don't necessarily need to land, its throwback...

Together has personality. Its premise is a catchy metaphor for its substantial drama. Struggles like codependency, anxiety, and...

Happy Gilmore 2 's plot meanders through a predictable formula with superficial gestures at themes. Its crude humor turns substantive...

Fantastic Four (2015) is butchered. Solely broad strokes, its writing is missing the details that make a story worth telling. It's all...

The Fantastic Four: First Steps establishes motivations, dynamic relationships, and relatable flaws. Its external conflict becomes...

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is paper thin. Its plot combines a generic romcom outline with a generic superhero outline....

I Know What You Did Last Summer is muddled. For such a simple concept, its plot is convoluted. There's a gaping lack of emotional...

Pushing into absurdity, Eddington is dark satire. Some might find it unduly centrist, lacking insight, or bloated, yet it's clearly...

Meta, The Prestige uses layered storytelling to examine layered storytelling itself. Driven by mystery, the plot is an escalating...

Often sidelining intriguing drama for dense plot, Superman is slightly overambitious. Dialogue is blunted by heavy exposition. Arcs are...

While cliche or thin by today's standards, Superman (1978) remains a template for modern blockbusters. Via flat characters with vague...

Jurassic World Rebirth is disinterested in its story. Though objectives are clear, the narrative is stale. This is worsened by missing...