The Beloved (2026) Review | Sorogoyen's Heartwrenching Latest Delivers Two Masterful Performances

Rodrigo Sorogoyen's heartwrenching latest delivers two masterful performances. Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo are extraordinary in a father-daughter drama that refuses the comfort of reconciliation...

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The End of Oak Street (2026) Review | David Robert Mitchell Returns With a Vapid Creature Feature

David Robert Mitchell returns with a vapid creature feature. An original concept and a strong cast can't rescue The End of Oak Street from lazy writing and a finale that undercuts everything before it...

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One Night Only (2026) Review | A Tepid Rom-Com With an Intriguing Premise

One viewing only: a tepid rom-com with an intriguing premise. Monica Barbaro carries what she can, but Will Gluck's rom-com squanders a genuinely clever setup on generic dialogue and muddled stakes.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Review | A Solid Spidey Entry, Buried Under Continuity

A solid Spidey entry, buried under continuity. Tom Holland remains the definitive screen Spider-Man, but thirty-eight films deep, the MCU's obligations increasingly crowd out the story actually being ...

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The Odyssey

A Nearly Great Adaptation, Missing Its Final GearChristopher Nolan reached what looked like the apogee of his career with Oppenheimer (2023), a film that seemed to fuse every skill and instinct he'd s...

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Moana (2026) Review | Disney Reheats Another Classic, and It Shows

Disney reheats another classic, and it shows. This live-action Moana is a nearly shot-for-shot recreation that dilutes everything that made the 2016 original special, with only Catherine Laga'aia's ch...

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Minions & Monsters

A Hollywood Love Letter That Actually Earns Its BananasDespite kickstarting and financially sustaining an entire new animation studio, the Despicable Me and Minions films devolved from Oscar-nominated...

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Obsession

Curry Barker's Debut Lingers Long After the Credits RollIt has been more than a year since yours truly, Young Critic, moved from the US to Spain. While this has allowed me to flourish in certain ways,...

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Supergirl

Kara Zor-El Arrives, the Film Around Her Does NotThe DC superhero universe has been immersed in bad timing throughout the last three decades. After jumpstarting the superhero genre with Superman (1978...

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Toy Story 5

A Worthy Toy, Buried Under Too Many BoxesThe original Toy Story trilogy holds a special place in my heart, with the first film being that one movie I would endlessly rewatch on VHS with no sense of fa...

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Disclosure Day

A Familiar Light in the Sky, Dimmer Than BeforeDespite a varied career making iconic films across genres and mediums, Steven Spielberg appears most comfortable and at ease within science fiction, and ...

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Scary Movie (2026)

The Wayans Return, But the Jokes Don'tWhile satirical movies have shown promise under the Lonely Island troupe of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer, with the likes of Popstar: Never Stop...

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Backrooms

A Prodigious Debut That Trusts Its Mystery More Than Its MessageAs filmmaking equipment and software have become more accessible, and platforms for content distribution such as YouTube cheap and easy ...

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Michael

A Brazen Act of Revisionism Dressed Up as a BiopicMusic biopics have been revived and proved largely winning for studios, especially when delivering soft, fan-service narratives that function more lik...

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The Sheep Detectives

A heartwarming film that has no right being as good as it isEven the best film purists find it hard not to judge a movie by its cover and form an opinion about it beforehand. Yet every so often a film...

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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) Review | A Film That Plays Like a Very Expensive TV Episode

A film that plays like a very expensive TV episode. The Mandalorian and Grogu has technical craft to spare, but Favreau and Filoni deliver a timid, inconsequential story that mistakes motion for cinem...

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The Devil Wears Prada 2

A nostalgic return that fits less snugly than twenty years ago Nostalgia is the main selling point in Hollywood nowadays, whether because executives are yearning for a golden age of cinema gone by, or...

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Review | Game Over, Illumination

Too many power-ups, not enough story. Illumination's latest is more merchandise than movie: a forgettable corporate exercise that squanders its characters, its budget, and any semblance of creative vi...

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Project Hail Mary (2026) Review | A Crowd-Pleaser to Be Hailed

A crowd-pleaser to be hailedDespite the success of Andy Weir's novel “The Martian” on the big screen with the Ridley Scott and Matt Damon film of the same name, it has taken more than a decade for ano...

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Bitter Christmas

Almodovar Turns the Camera on Himself yet AgainPedro Almodovar has an incredibly distinct style, in both his narrative tone, which plays with the melodramatic, as well as with his visuals and sets, wh...

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Hoppers

Nature, Robots, and a Pixar Firing on All CylindersLike much of the other Disney brands, Pixar's reputation was severely hurt by the insatiable quotas for "content" in the Streaming Wars, to populate ...

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2026 Oscar Predictions

Young Critic's Predictions for the Academy AwardsBest Picture:Will Win: One Battle After AnotherShould Win: One Battle After AnotherCould Win: SinnersBest Director:Will Win: Paul Thomas Anderson (One ...

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Scream 7

More Snooze Than ScreamNo franchise is safe from Hollywood milking it for all that its worth. The Scream movies had remained a solid franchise that, despite entries of diminishing returns, had always ...

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Wuthering Heights

A provocation that mistakes erotic excess for emotional depthDespite being one of the most iconic love stories ever written, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has never had a definitive screen adaptati...

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Send Help

A campy survival comedy undone by its own third actWhile bursting onto the scene with the inventive comedy-horror The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi also helped pioneer the superhero craze of the 2010s b...

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Marty Supreme

A breathless con-man epic dismantling the myth of the American DreamThe unmasking of “the American Dream” as one in which people have to con their way to the top is a thesis American cinema has explor...

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Hamnet

A Transcendental Take on ShakespeareShakespeare has been a well of material for artists and filmmakers, not just through adapting his works, but his life as well. Shakespeare in Love (1998) was fun th...

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

A Bleak but Compelling Portrait of MotherhoodMotherhood has been the surprising common theme for many 2025 releases, from Die My Love (2025) to Hamnet (2025), Bring Her Back (2025), The Perfect Neighb...

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Father, Mother, Sister, Brother

Jim Jarmusch turns the remake into a quiet family ritualJim Jarmusch is as unhurried an artist as can be, both in his method of filmmaking as in his style. This has made him stand out as the rest of t...

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The Housemaid

Paul Feig’s thriller goes wildly, watchably off the railsDespite having cut his teeth making some of the best comedy of the last few decades with The Office (2005-2013), Parks and Recreation (2009-201...

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