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Sinners (2025) 98% “I kept waiting for there to be a payoff to the many disparate ingredients in this gumbo. Even the scene that shows up in the credits, which I really loved, is super compelling and also at the edge of What The F---? ” – Hot Button Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Disney's Snow White (2025) 40% “I don’t hate the movie. I was deeply frustrated with the movie… no where more than with the screenplay. It felt like 3 or 4 movies having what people saw as its best parts slammed together. The little kids won't mind.” – Hot Button Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 48% “How bad is Captain America: Brave New World? So bad that one really has to break it down to all of its missteps to really figure out how it all went so wrong.” – Hot Button Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% “Every great movie is a miracle. And Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man might make you think that God is dead. ” – Hot Button Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) 56% “There is a reason that Disney has been so overly fussy about this film even though it is easily the best made, most beautiful, most visually engaging CG-Live-Action film in the entirety of filmed entertainment history to date. It ain’t The Lion King.” – Hot Button Dec 17, 2024 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% “Mangold never makes the mistake in this film to try to explain more than Dylan. We see him writing... finding words.... working through things. But when he presents the music, we are powerless to do anything but follow the music. How does it feel?” – Hot Button Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 61% “Opening only in theaters, a very special episode of Moana & Friends, featuring Special Guest Star Maui! Now… whether you like this idea or hate this idea is really up to you and your tastes.” – Hot Button Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% “I feel a lot about Wicked like I feel about animated films that don’t reach me deeply, bit that are pleasant enough. The Super Mario Bros Movie. Beautiful to look at… fun at moments… clever, clever, clever. But I wanted to care more and I didn’t. ” – Hot Button Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% “I like Gladiator II for what it is. And I am sad about what it is not.” – Hot Button Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% “Everything that is “wrong” about Red One could have been fixed by 2 simple principles. Pace it up and tone it down for families. It should have been riding the edge of a G rating instead of pushing the edge of the R. They didn’t need it. ” – Hot Button Nov 13, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% “The only thing that would not have been completely at home in the 30s or 40s is the nudity and the sex. But Stanwyck might well be giving Fonda a 1st act lap dance as the meet cute if they were both alive and making movies today. ” – Hot Button Oct 19, 2024 Full Review September 5 (2024) 93% “As much as this movie has the background of a horrible real-life event, which brings all kinds of emotion and tension, it is a movie about the intensity of creation.” – Hot Button Oct 16, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% “When a movie from a skilled filmmaker misses as this film does, I perk up & start trying to figure out why. The film doesn’t do what audiences want it to do. Yes. But it can’t be that simple. There has to be a reason Todd Phillips went to work every day.” – Hot Button Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Transformers One (2024) 89% “If you have seen Ben Hur and The Treasure of Sierra Madre and The Departed and The 10 Commandments and Star Wars and Planet of the Apes and The Matrix, you have a lot of what Transformers One brings together in your brain. ” – Hot Button Sep 19, 2024 Full Review Speak No Evil (2024) 83% “Speak No Evil could have been great. I didn’t hate it at all. But I really wanted that next gear. Really, really wanted. We have seen “this movie” so many times, at so many levels of success… or failure.” – Hot Button Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% “I don’t think of Emilia Pérez and a “trans musical” or whatever tag we are putting on it this week. Those elements are there, of course. But it’s another powerful Audiard movie about people in extreme circumstances to me.” – Hot Button Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% “Is it fresh like a newborn baby? No. Is it a perfectly complex story that pays off in every way? No. However… it is as inventive and daring as movies made by most of the young filmmakers who get a chance.” – Hot Button Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% “I like the movie. Halfway through, I was ready to love the movie. But the frustration that set in was a variation on the old cliche… it left me wanting less. Sigh.” – Hot Button Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% “Trap is crap.” – Hot Button Aug 2, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% “I have changed the link to my spoiler review of Deadpool, which also has a link to the non-spoiler review. Both are positive. I added the spoiler review because so many critics seem to be having a hard time understanding the movie. Not that hard.” – Hot Button Jul 23, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% “The biggest problem is this mixture of close-ups and big effects shots, spiritually as much as literally. There are cases in which they have mixed. They don’t mix here. Both fail as a result.” – Hot Button Jul 17, 2024 Full Review Touch (2024) 93% “It’s not really a great film for most people in their 20s, as they have only experienced half of the story. But anyone over 40 has had enough life experience to see reflections of their lives in many, many ways. ” – Hot Button Jul 10, 2024 Full Review Fly Me to the Moon (2024) 65% “When you are trying to juggle 5 stories, you need to keep adjusting what your characters would obviously do (or push away from) so as not to step on the other plotlines that are going on. It’s too hard… even for the best screenwriters ever.” – Hot Button Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% “The movie is not bad. It just chooses not to fulfill the viewer… over 3 hours. It may become a great 12 hour saga. But the ends will never justify the means. This is not revolutionary material. It’s not an art film. It’s not The Zone of Silence Goes West.” – Hot Button Jun 30, 2024 Full Review A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) 86% “Samira is a great movie character, easily the most complex character that has been a part of this franchise. She is not just reacting to the threat of the death angels. She is processing her own issues through every moment of the film. ” – Hot Button Jun 27, 2024 Full Review
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