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Griffin Schiller

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Griffin Schiller is a Los Angeles based critic and the founder and host of FilmSpeak, a YouTube channel dedicated to providing more thoughtful insight and analysis behind the entertainment you love. He is also a regular contributor and podcast host at The Playlist.

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Anora (2024) 93% 4.5/5 “Anora may be the clearest example of class solidarity put to film in recent years. A f----d up Cinderella story about the ways in which our capitalistic society regularly makes financial security and uninhibited self-expression mutually exclusive... ” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 47% 1.5/5 “A plot without something to say is directionless, and characters without a point of view are doomed to remain one-dimensional. The simple fact is, you can’t make a political thriller devoid of political commentary... ” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Mar 9, 2025 Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 96% 5/5 “The Wild Robot is a symphony of soul crescendoing into the most poignant portrait of parenthood. Its breathtaking animation and score are equaled only by how heartwrenching and touching it is. It’s an epic tale of love and acceptance.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 20, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% 4/5 “A $200M anti-joke with one grand statement: some films shouldn't have sequels. Ironic? Sure. But what could be more Joker than taking a feature-length piss? The joke is on us.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% 4/5 “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a ghoulish good time at the movies! A heartfelt yet zany sequel that reconnects Burton with his one true love, the macabre, through an introspective unpacking of grief, trauma, and purpose. A welcome return to form!” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% 3/5 “You have to wonder if simply going back to formula is enough. Being derivative isn't the problem - all art, all creation is derivative of something - the problem is when being derivative is your primary directive.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Sep 1, 2024 Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 78% 3.5/5 “For as much as Deadpool & Wolverine is a showcase for all Marvel’s new toys, it’s more than JUST that. It’s...a tribute to the franchise that launched the era of superhero films we’re still living through. And it’s that sincerity that saves the film.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% 4/5 “Twisters isn't just a fun time at the movies, it's the perfect summer movie!” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% 4.5/5 “George Miller has woven a modern-day epic and turned Furiosa into a folk hero to rival the legend that put him on the map as a filmmaker in the first place.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Inside Out 2 (2024) 91% 2.5/5 “[Anxiety] has its uses and, when channeled properly, can be a motivating factor, but it can't be the sole thing dictating your personhood. It's, therefore, ironic that Pixar's approach to Inside Out 2 should be so antithetical to the thesis of their film.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Jun 28, 2024 Full Review The Imaginary (2023) 91% 4/5 “While Studio Ponoc gets spirited away with its unrefined Ghibli-esque musings, The Imaginary manages to do so with sincerity making for a much-needed reminder of the necessity of creativity during a time when things seem especially bleak.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Jun 14, 2024 Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% 4.5/5 “Apes have never been stronger in Wes Bell's magnificent Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes! The complexities of Caesar's legacy loom large but twisted in this coming-of-age odyssey of truth and lies, knowledge and power. A breathtaking visual feast!” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) May 28, 2024 Full Review Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) 54% 3.5/5 “This is the kind of Godzilla movie I dreamed of as a 10-year-old boy, brimming with imaginative set-pieces, vibrant sets, and bizarre creations… the kind of s--t that would inspire a kid to go home and play with their toys.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) May 13, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 5/5 “Dune: Part Two is a generational film; the rare release that reaffirms why I believe in cinema.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) May 13, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% 4.5/5 “Rather than the toothless mess of banal political equivocation that people suggested it would be based on little more than a trailer and some promotional material, Civil War is as incisive and biting as any political thriller released this century.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) May 13, 2024 Full Review Madame Web (2024) 11% 2/5 “There’s something almost cosmically funny about the fact that every ill-conceived boardroom mandate and desperate spider-milking mistake backfires in the most spectacular way imaginable. ” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Mar 18, 2024 Full Review The Creator (2023) 68% 4.5/5 “Edwards excels at peeling black the layers of a cynical world, in order to reveal the little slices of humanity existing beneath the surface. Maybe, in coming to appreciate and understand what really matters, we'll be able to grow.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Jan 18, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 3.5/5 “You’re not going to have a complete picture of the events that comprised Napoleon’s life, but you might just have a better understanding of who the man was and why we’re still so fascinated by him over two centuries after his death.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Dec 11, 2023 Full Review The Marvels (2023) 62% 1.5/5 “[The Marvels] feels like the finale to a season of television we never got, and perhaps a series would have given each of these characters the time they needed to fully explore each of their individual issues.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 24, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% 4/5 “[Barbie] takes our complicated real-world relationship to Barbie and uses it as a metaphor to interrogate the impossibly high, often contradictory standards women are held to in our male-dominated culture.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) 32% 2/5 “One of the most forgettable, half-a---d horror movies of the past few years. Five Nights at Freddy's isn't just an ambitious failure; it's a film that treads the water of familiar cliches for an hour and a half and then fizzles out.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 15, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist: Believer (2023) 22% 3/5 “The Exorcist: Believer asks us not to put our faith in any specific dogma but rather in people, in love, and in the fact that your neighbor is experiencing pain, and no matter what you believe, THAT is real. ” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 15, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 5/5 “We need films like this that move us to action, that cause us to contemplate our own role in the chain of things, our complacency which could be the evilest actions of all, and what we can do better.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Nov 15, 2023 Full Review The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 87% 5/5 “The Dark Knight Rises presents itself as a deeply fascinating examination of Batman because it’s an examination and deconstruction of the previous two entries. A lot of the ideas present in The Dark Knight are deliberately flipped on their head here.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Sep 21, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 5/5 “[Christopher Nolan's] most stirring plea to humanity yet. A three-hour drama that plays like a terse thriller, weaving Nolan’s deep-seated fears for the survival of our species through a biography of one of its most significant and controversial figures.” – FilmSpeak (Youtube) Sep 14, 2023 Full Review
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