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Bill Newcott

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Biography:

Bill Newcott is the award-winning film critic for The Saturday Evening Post, SaturdayEveningPost.com and MoviesForTheRestOfUs.com and producer/host of the Saturday Evening Post's "Movies For The Rest Of Us" YouTube series. He is the creator of AARP's Movies For Grownups franchise, where he reviewed films for 16 years. His most memorable movie moment was co-hosting an evening of films with Robert Osborne on Turner Classic Movies.

Reviews

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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 86% 4/5 EDIT “The fact that Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is so charming, so life-affirming, so unreasonably fresh, is a tribute not only to the filmmakers, but also to the enduring appeal of an author who last laid down her pen more than 200 years ago.” – The Saturday Evening Post May 23, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 86% 3/5 EDIT “Whatever Cage does, he’s never, ever going to be boring.” – The Saturday Evening Post May 21, 2025 Full Review The Ruse (2024) 13% 2/5 EDIT “A handsome-looking effort with appealing performances by a cast that seems ready, at any moment, to break the fourth wall and apologize profusely.” – The Saturday Evening Post May 21, 2025 Full Review Pink Floyd at Pompeii (1972) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The playlist, mostly lengthy early catalog selections, unfolds in dreamlike arcs and vales that seem ready to conjure up the ghosts of Pompeii — represented here by frescoes and sculptures shown in cleverly edited snippets.” – The Saturday Evening Post May 5, 2025 Full Review Screamboat (2025) 53% 3/5 EDIT “"Screamboat" succeeds as the darkest of Disney dark rides.” – Movies For The Rest Of Us May 1, 2025 Full Review Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Marin pauses by a parked motorcycle. “Is this Dave’s bike?” he asks. If you need that joke explained to you, then you might not be the target audience for Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie.” – The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Mostly, The Shrouds stars its 81-year-old director, whose pain finds voice in a film that encapsulates, in the most personal way imaginable, his lifetime of marrying the humane and the horrific.” – The Saturday Evening Post Apr 23, 2025 Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 66% 3/5 EDIT “The real-life Larson was an incurable con man...but here he’s a straight-up folk hero, turning The Man’s system against him; a guy who wants, like everyone else, nothing more than to be seen.” – The Saturday Evening Post Apr 11, 2025 Full Review William Tell (2024) 54% 3/5 EDIT “A defiant throwback to a time when movie marquees boasted “a cast of thousands,” immersed audiences in chaotic, close-up widescreen Technicolor battle scenes and featured chiseled, virtuous heroes doing battle with smirking, thoroughly evil villains.” – The Saturday Evening Post Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 78% 3/5 EDIT “(The) narrative journey — involving frequent shifts between the twee and the tragic — sometimes makes for a bumpy ride. But The Penguin Lessons has the always-reliable Coogan at the wheel and an adorable penguin navigating, and that’s enough.” – The Saturday Evening Post Apr 2, 2025 Full Review The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The gags — visual, verbal, and sometimes subliminal — flow in a torrent that could only have been pumped out by a tag team of cartoon veterans whose careers have crossed paths not just at Warner’s, but also at Disney and DreamWorks. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Mar 17, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “A comedy at heart, My Dead Friend Zoe blesses its characters with a happy ending while acknowledging the traumatized lives — and tragic post-deployment deaths — of too many American veterans. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Pennies From Heaven (1981) 83% 5/5 EDIT “The characters start at rock bottom, grab pneumatic drills, and excavate themselves even deeper. For them, Hope is a thing teamed up with Bing Crosby. Yet there is always escape in the songs that sustained Depression America through the unsustainable. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Mar 7, 2025 Full Review A Night Full of Rain (1978) - - 3/5 EDIT “While holding an otherworldly essence, the people, places and events of the film seem genuine, at times painfully real, like a sculpture cut from a concrete cloud. ” – Movies For The Rest Of Us Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A universal ‘toon with enough broad action to entertain children of any age — and plenty of food for grownup thought.” – The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Blink (2024) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Steering clear of cheap sentimentality...a wide-eyed testament to the unique brand of bravery only families, standing astride misfortune with a defiant, come-and-get-us stance, can nurture.” – The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5, 2025 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Great performances can atone for a multitude of cinematic sins,...We buy into this pair’s instant attraction immediately — a miracle when you consider the uber-manipulative plot elements the filmmakers impose upon them.” – The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Superboys of Malegaon (2024) 88% 5/5 EDIT “I’m imploring you, find a way to spend some time with this touching tale...As is my custom writing a review, I’m sitting here watching the trailer, and even now I’m finding it hard to keep it together.” – The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 64% 3/5 EDIT “A fitting footnote to the lifework of Gere and Schrader, two men who have spent the decades since their former collaboration brashly setting their own agendas.” – The Saturday Evening Post Feb 13, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Testimony to the grim fact that evil and oppression don’t unfold in haunted houses or dark alleys: They come at you in an unmarked car, smiling tightly, saying they only want to ask a few questions.” – The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Upon this nerve-rattling account, director Tim Fehlbaum has layered not only a supremely human drama, but also... a meditation on where the responsibility to report the news begins and, more intriguingly, ends.” – The Saturday Evening Post Jan 17, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 2/5 EDIT “(A) by-the-numbers tale of a messy collision at the intersection of Lust and Love.” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21, 2024 Full Review Better Man (2024) 89% 3/5 EDIT “The dumb idea works surprisingly well. Even those unfamiliar with Williams’s music will have a good time swinging along with his simian self. ” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21, 2024 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Nick Park’s indelible appetite for analog fun is in full flower” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21, 2024 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 3/5 EDIT “Why does Dylan keep building up relationships...only to casually and cruelly dismantle them? A Complete Unknown seems to be telling us “Because he wanted to.” That’s a hollow rationalization; one that cannot be filled in even by...first-rate performances.” – The Saturday Evening Post Dec 21, 2024 Full Review
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