Henry Johnson (2025)
57%
2/4
“The problem with “Henry Johnson” is that we’ve heard it all by now — in fact, we’re living it — and what once felt like a cruel breath of fresh air has acquired the stifling nature of a pose.” –
Washington Post
May 9, 2025
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Juliet & Romeo (2025)
24%
1/4
“This isn’t a movie, it’s a prom theme.” –
Washington Post
May 9, 2025
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Fight or Flight (2024)
77%
3/4
““Fight or Flight” gives Hartnett ample room to play. An unrepentant B-movie with a Grade A concept.” –
Washington Post
May 9, 2025
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Words of War (2025)
68%
3/4
“The film’s a necessary downer that nonetheless inspires in a viewer an echo of its heroine’s compassion and resolve.” –
Washington Post
May 2, 2025
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The Surfer (2024)
86%
2.5/4
““The Surfer” feels overthought and underwritten, a cacophony that builds to an undeserved power chord of acceptance, transcendence and retribution.” –
Washington Post
May 1, 2025
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Another Simple Favor (2025)
62%
1/4
“To paraphrase the T-shirt, everyone here went to the Isle of Capri, and all we got was this lousy movie.” –
Washington Post
May 1, 2025
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On Swift Horses (2024)
51%
2.5/4
“As a director, Minahan knows his way around a track, but on the evidence of this film, he’s not yet ready to run wild.” –
Washington Post
Apr 24, 2025
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The Legend of Ochi (2025)
77%
3.5/4
“A film that tells its own tale, rather than the one it thinks you want to hear, this one has a touch of madness to it, and it seems fashioned from love and old parts for people who genuinely don’t want to know what’s going to happen next. ” –
Washington Post
Apr 24, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
88%
3/4
“So whenever “The Wedding Banquet” threatens to trip over the shoelaces of its plotting or its occasionally overearnest dialogue, the warmth of the characterizations saves it from falling.” –
Washington Post
Apr 17, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (1993)
92%
C+
“The amateurish performances hobble the film.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Apr 14, 2025
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Sacramento (2024)
84%
2.5/4
““Sacramento” is crisply filmed (by Ben Mullen), and it idles engagingly before shifting into gear, but it’s a half-hour short marooned in a feature-length film. ” –
Washington Post
Apr 10, 2025
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One to One: John & Yoko (2024)
90%
3.5/4
“By March 1973, Lennon and Ono would move uptown to the Dakota, and the next chapter would begin, but “One to One” retrieves this chapter from the cultural memory hole and restores it to its proper complicated place.” –
Washington Post
Apr 10, 2025
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Drop (2025)
84%
3/4
““Drop” is the sort of unpretentious suspense exercise that takes a single absurd premise and works every variation it can within a streamlined 100 minutes.” –
Washington Post
Apr 10, 2025
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Freaky Tales (2024)
74%
2.5/4
“It’s a midnight movie with clean fingernails — a nostalgia tour where, for all the on-screen blood, no one actually gets hurt, least of all the audience.” –
Washington Post
Apr 3, 2025
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The Friend (2024)
84%
3/4
““The Friend” is a better dog movie than it is a people movie, but it’s such a wonderful dog movie that you may not mind that the people are merely fine.” –
Washington Post
Apr 3, 2025
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Thank You Very Much (2023)
90%
3/4
“Braverman has a number of aces up his sleeve, including a wealth of interviews filmed in the 1990s.” –
Washington Post
Mar 31, 2025
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The Penguin Lessons (2024)
78%
2.5/4
“When all is said and done, “The Penguin Lessons” is about finding the courage to stand up to injustice at one’s own peril” –
Washington Post
Mar 31, 2025
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Misericordia (2024)
96%
3.5/4
“A simmering stewpot of rural melodrama and murder that called to my mind both Patricia Highsmith and the late, great Claude Chabrol, only with a playfully mean queer subtext. ” –
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Mar 31, 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
98%
2.5/4
“The movie's a low-key charmer that promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is nice enough.” –
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Mar 31, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn (2025)
54%
2/4
“Sadly, this one gets chalked up as a near myth.” –
Washington Post
Mar 27, 2025
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Disney's Snow White (2025)
39%
3/4
“In its own way, this one’s just as groundbreaking — the rare Disney princess movie where the princess gets to graduate to queen.” –
Washington Post
Mar 20, 2025
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
100%
3.5/4
“Nyoni lets the visual and thematic pieces of her film’s dramatic puzzle fall into place gradually.” –
Washington Post
Mar 14, 2025
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Opus (2025)
41%
1.5/4
“Like everything else about this smug, annoying movie, the wait is in vain.” –
Washington Post
Mar 14, 2025
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Eephus (2024)
100%
4/4
““Eephus” belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game has meant and still means in small towns, among average people and weekend players.” –
Washington Post
Mar 13, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
3/4
“ I like it, while also recognizing that this is the latest effortless Soderbergh miniature, acted by a game and glittering cast while never breaking a sweat.” –
Washington Post
Mar 12, 2025
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