Alison Willmore
Tomatometer-approved critic
Sound of Falling (2025)
90%
“It’s an astonishing work, twining together the lives of four generations of families with an intricacy and intimacy that feels like an act of psychic transmission. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 14, 2025
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Friendship (2024)
89%
“Familiarity isn’t a bad thing when the talent involved is this good at it.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 12, 2025
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Thunderbolts* (2025)
88%
“Pugh, in particular, gives the movie an emotional tangibility that makes it feel realms more solid than the last few years of Marvel product. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 29, 2025
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Havoc (2025)
67%
“It’s too easy to drift away from Havoc, which is convoluted without being complex and busy without being interesting. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 25, 2025
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The Amateur (2025)
60%
“The movie dithers about the cost of killing and what it takes to shoot someone, a tedious question in this context to which it’s incapable of giving any emotional depth, despite Malek’s herculean efforts to approach it realistically.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 8, 2025
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Gazer (2024)
78%
“If Gazer doesn’t pick up the momentum needed to match Frankie’s increasingly dire situation, it’s nevertheless a pleasure to watch.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Apr 7, 2025
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Holland (2025)
21%
“No one involved with Holland seems to understand what they’re up to at all...” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 31, 2025
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
79%
“Magazine Dreams is a something’s-wrong-with-men movie that doesn’t actually want to delve deeply into the pain its protagonist is experiencing, because it finds the external manifestations of his alienation more compelling. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 24, 2025
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Disney's Snow White (2025)
39%
“The most pragmatic aspect of Snow White is that with its plasticky set design and gift shop tacky costuming, it already looks like it takes place in a theme park — no adaptations necessary.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 19, 2025
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The Rivals of Amziah King (2025)
97%
“The Rivals of Amziah King finds its way into some riotous diversions before taking a turn into what can only be described as an agricultural crime drama featuring Kurt Russell. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 13, 2025
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Drop (2025)
84%
“It’s a perfectly preposterous set-up for a thriller, but the core of Fahy’s agonizingly distracted performance is something real and recognizable. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 10, 2025
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Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025)
56%
“Chaos: The Manson Murders may only be 96 minutes long, but it feels padded, as though its existence is meant to serve as proof that even a documentary legend who helped establish the true-crime genre isn’t immune to the genre’s current streaming bloat. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 10, 2025
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The Accountant 2 (2025)
76%
“The new movie leans into comedy in ways that veer toward the cutesy, but the scenes of the brothers together are great, providing glimpses of the co-dependent boys they were before they grew into trauma-stunted men who regularly commit acts of bloodshed.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Mar 10, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
“By showing that even the most resigned of sci-fi doormats can decide to stand up for himself, Mickey 17 ends on a more hopeful note than the rest of Bong’s films. It’s more hopeful than we currently deserve.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 15, 2025
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Paddington in Peru (2024)
93%
“The innate sweetness of the series carries it past figurative and literal rapids and into shenanigans involving bear carvings, a bear temple in the mountains, and a secret bear community. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 14, 2025
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
88%
“Where the film really shines is in reuniting Bridget with her faithful friend group, her withering gynecologist (Emma Thompson), and, of course, with Daniel Cleaver.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 12, 2025
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Heart Eyes (2025)
80%
“The Heart Eyes Killer’s shtick isn’t always clear, but the inventiveness of its slaughter streak is. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Feb 7, 2025
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You're Cordially Invited (2025)
47%
“You’re Cordially Invited is just much better moment to moment than it is when it needs to move the plot along.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 31, 2025
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Flight Risk (2025)
30%
“Flight Risk is a dumb movie, which is not its primary sin. The problem is that it’s not the right kind of dumb -- the kind where everyone involved is committed to the innate silliness of what they’re doing. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 23, 2025
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Companion (2025)
93%
“It’s hard to bemoan a lack of depth when all the movie really wants to do is entertain. With its clever construction and comic timing, it’s a mean romp with an escalating death count and some nice quips. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 22, 2025
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
“Grand Theft Hamlet is not just a lark, but a savvy project from stalled-out creatives hoping to make something of all this spare time.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 17, 2025
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One of Them Days (2025)
94%
“Even when the writing and pacing falls slack in this one, as it definitely does on occasion, [Palmer] wrings laughs out of scenes with screwball physicality and surprising line readings. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jan 15, 2025
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Nosferatu (2024)
84%
“There’s not enough life in Nosferatu — or undead afterlife either.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 23, 2024
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
“The wonder of A Complete Unknown isn’t just that it manages to be good anyway but that it finds an angle on Dylan as unexpectedly electric as that amplified Newport set. ” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 20, 2024
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Kraven the Hunter (2024)
15%
““A movie no one asked for” isn’t criticism so much as it’s a clear-eyed assessment of Kraven the Hunter’s fundamental issue.” –
New York Magazine/Vulture
Dec 11, 2024
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