All of my film criticism in one place.

2026

• ‘Send Help’ is campy, gross and total paradise for horror fans – 2/3/26 – 828newsNOW
• Zombie movie ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ has braaaains – 1/24/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘The Rip’ is the rare Ben Affleck and Matt Damon movie to skip – 1/16/26 – 828newsNOW
• Zombies, a killer chimp and… water polo? ‘The Plague,’ ‘Primate,’ ‘We Bury the Dead’ – 1/14/26 – 828newsNOW
• ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ is more jet lag than romcom – 1/8/26 – 828newsNOW
• 3 new movies to see, stream or skip in January 2026 – 1/4/26– 828newsNOW
  • THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
  • THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
  • THE HOUSEMAID

2025

• The 25 best movies of 2025 – 12/29/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Song Sung Blue’ is a messy melodrama, but sung sweet – 12/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 5 international movies of 2025 – 12/23/25 – 828newsNOW
• Threequel ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ is a lukewarm rehash – 12/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 5 animated movies of 2025 – 12/12/25 – 828newsNOW
• ETERNITY – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• OH. WHAT. FUN. – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• JAY KELLY – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• RENTAL FAMILY – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• ZOOTOPIA 2 – 12/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ has faith in Josh O’Connor – 12/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Ethan Hawke is a shooting star in Broadway biopic ‘Blue Moon’ – 11/30/25 – 828newsNOW
• Darker, Oz-ier ‘Wicked: For Good’ is a change for the worse – 11/20/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘The Running Man’ has a charley horse of a third act – 11/17/25 – 828newsNOW
• NUREMBERG – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• CHRISTY – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• HEDDA – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• DIE MY LOVE – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• BUGONIA – 11/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Predator: Badlands’ is a real good time– 11/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• Harrowing Iranian film ‘It Was Just an Accident’ is made of scar tissue – 11/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Scream queens: The 5 best horror movies of 2025 – 10/30/25 – 828newsNOW
• Scream scraps: The 5 worst horror movies of 2025 – 10/26/25 – 828newsNOW
• Jacob Elordi is electric in Netflix’s gorgeous, imbalanced ‘Frankenstein’ – 10/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Ballad of a Small Player’ is a royal flush of style, but not substance – 10/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• Interlocking nuclear drama ‘A House of Dynamite’ blows its third act – 10/12/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE SMASHING MACHINE – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE BALTIMORONS – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• STEVE – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• GOOD BOY – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• BONE LAKE – 10/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• PTA’s phenomenal ‘One Battle After Another’ is a revolutionary revelation – 10/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ is dull, baffling malarkey – 9/21/25 – 828newsNOW
• Stephen King adaptation ‘The Long Walk’ trips over itself – 9/15/25 – 828newsNOW
• Hauntingly familiar ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ conjures up nothing new – 9/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• CAUGHT STEALING – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE ROSES – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE TOXIC AVENGER – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• EDEN – 9/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• NOBODY 2 – 8/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• FREAKIER FRIDAY – 8/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Weapons’ is a very smart, very scary horror epic – 8/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• SKETCH – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE UGLY STEPSISTER – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• CLOUD – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE NAKED GUN – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• SORRY, BABY – 8/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Together’ pokes fun at codependence but can’t stick the landing – 8/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• Fantastic… fine: ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ review – 7/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Eddington’ is a satirical return to 2020 and a frightening vision of now – 7/20/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ remembers the 90s better than you – 7/19/25 – 828newsNOW
• 40 ACRES – 7/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY – 7/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• ECHO VALLEY – 7/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• MISERICORDIA – 7/14/25 – 828newsNOW
• KPOP DEMON HUNTERS – 828newsNOW
• REVIEW: The new ‘Superman’ soars – 7/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• Top 10 movies of 2025… so far – 7/6/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘F1’ is fast, formulaic, exhilarating race car stuntwork – 7/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ is a mutant misfire – 7/4/25 – 828newsNOW
• Terminat-her: ‘M3GAN 2.0’ – 6/27/25 – 828newsNOW
• ELIO – 6/26/25 – 828newsNOW
• HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – 6/26/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Materialists’ is a match made in heaven for Celine Song fans – 6/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• Espionage, Wes Anderson-style: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – 6/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Ballerina’ is in step with the best of John Wick – 6/7/25 – 828newsNOW
• FRIENDSHIP – 6/1/25 – 828newsNOW
• KARATE KID: LEGENDS – 6/1/25 – 828newsNOW
• BRING HER BACK – 6/1/25 – 828newsNOW
• The last and too serious: ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ – 5/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Lilo & Stitch’ is a harmless return to Hawaii – 5/23/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is fun for the whole family – 5/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• The Week-ugh: Jenna Ortega outshines The Weeknd in ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ – 5/16/25 – 828newsNOW
• THUNDERBOLTS* – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE SURFER – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• UNTIL DAWN – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR – 5/8/25 – 828newsNOW
• VIDEO: ‘The Shrouds’ review, plus all 23 Cronenberg movies ranked – 5/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• The bloody, bluesy ‘Sinners’ is the best movie of the year – 4/24/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• DEATH OF A UNICORN – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• MAGAZINE DREAMS – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• NOVOCAINE – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• DROP – 4/13/25 – 828newsNOW
• ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ as reviewed by a film critic and a nine-year-old – 4/9/25 – 828newsNOW
• Mirror, mirror, on the green screen: The ‘Snow White’ live-action remake – 3/27/25 – 828newsNOW
• Marriage advice from a spy movie: The romance of ‘Black Bag’ – 3/18/25 – 828newsNOW
• Robert Pattinson stars with Robert Pattinson in ‘Mickey 17’ – 3/15/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE MONKEY – 2/22/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE GORGE – 2/22/25 – 828newsNOW
• PADDINGTON IN PERU – 2/17/25 – 828newsNOW
• CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD – 2/17/25 – 828newsNOW
• HEART EYES – 2/9/25 – 828newsNOW
• LOVE HURTS – 2/9/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE BRUTALIST – 2/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• COMPANION – 2/2/25 – 828newsNOW
• NICKEL BOYS – 1/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• PRESENCE – 1/25/25 – 828newsNOW
• THE LAST SHOWGIRL – 1/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• BETTER MAN – 1/10/25 – 828newsNOW
• JUROR #2 – 1/5/25 – 828newsNOW
• A COMPLETE UNKNOWN – 1/5/25 – 828newsNOW

2024: 828newsNOW

• BABYGIRL – 12/27/24 – 828newsNOW
• NOSFERATU – 12/27/24 – 828newsNOW
• NIGHTBITCH – 12/21/24 – 828newsNOW
• MUFASA: THE LION KING – 12/21/24 – 828newsNOW
• QUEER – 12/13/24 – 828newsNOW
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM – 12/13/24 – 828newsNOW
• WEREWOLVES – 12/6/24 – 828newsNOW
• FLOW – 12/6/24 – 828newsNOW
• Y2K – 12/6/24 – 828newsNOW
• RED ONE – 11/29/24 – 828newsNOW
• MOANA 2 – 11/29/24 – 828newsNOW
• WICKED – 11/22/24 – 828newsNOW
• GLADIATOR II – 11/22/24 – 828newsNOW
• ANORA – 11/16/24 – 828newsNOW
• A REAL PAIN – 11/16/24 – 828newsNOW
• HERE – 11/11/24 – 828newsNOW
• HERETIC – 11/11/24 – 828newsNOW

2024: The Appalachian

• ABIGAIL – 4/29/24 – The Appalachian
• CIVIL WAR – 4/23/24 – The Appalachian
• MONKEY MAN – 4/10/24 – The Appalachian
• IMMACULATE – 3/26/24 – The Appalachian
• DUNE: PART TWO – 3/6/24 – The Appalachian
• I.S.S. – 2/2/24 – The Appalachian

2023

• MAY DECEMBER – 12/18/23 – The Appalachian
• THE KILLER – 11/29/23 – The Appalachian
• NAPOLEON – 11/28/23 – The Appalachian
• KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – 11/8/23 – The Appalachian
• FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S – 10/30/23 – The Appalachian
• THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER – 10/29/23 – The Appalachian
• SAW X – 10/13/23 – The Appalachian
• A HAUNTING IN VENICE – 9/20/23 – The Appalachian
• COCAINE BEAR – 3/22/23 – The Appalachian
• ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA – 3/2/23 – The Appalachian
• THE MENU – 1/20/23 – The Appalachian
• DON’T WORRY DARLING – 10/25/22 – The Appalachian
• BODIES BODIES BODIES – 9/13/22 – The Appalachian
• TOP GUN: MAVERICK – 8/29/22 – The Appalachian

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