With the bared truth of those factors in play, Josh Loeb’s film shines by watching two scared people use their own measures of goodness to find commitment against their challenges and those of their p...

DIGGER posits a satire within a satire that makes its own conclusions, taking that power away from its audience.

Even with the presence of a bona fide Hollywood icon, the lasting enthrallment of Heart of the Beast belongs to that goddamn incredible dog. Where he grabs your gaze and devours your soul is in mome...

THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, the latest romantic comedy from director Claire Scanlon makes you wonder if vocabulary and science are sexy.

SUNNY DANCER embraces its summer camp setting, but with an endearing population of ruffian teen cancer survivors.

THE WEIGHT, pulled to every which way by a commanding performance from Ethan Hawke, loses its ending after solid suspense.

While his plots have been quite varied over Swanberg’s 20-year-plus career, some tale of love is almost always percolating in the background, often dwelling for long stretches at the pining level. The...

MAYDAY, from the directing team of Game Night and Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, should be better than overplayed tropes.

It begs the question of what it would actually take to win the attention and approval of the device-centered youths of today. Would it be what’s in the film, as in a set of parents instituting a cold ...

Sure enough, they have a doozy of a story for us in Coyote vs. Acme that simultaneously slaps our knees with humor and our faces with a silly and sobering dose of topical social commentary. The resu...

This kind of movie, like the characters in peril, live and die by the balance—or imbalance—of poor choices versus good decisions made by the central on-screen characters. Veer too much in the poor dir...

In Tony, directed by incisive rising filmmaker Matt Johnson of Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie and BlackBerry , we’re not watching the complicated rise of the next J. D. Salinger. We’re witne...

OLMO, from talented Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke, gives a new name and face to late-1970s coming-of-age misadventure.

ONE NIGHT ONLY takes a silly concept, full of farce, and crafts a sexy and adult-minded romantic comedy with two new stars.

In many ways, there is no amount of “What the fuck is wrong with you?” questions, bellowed from both sides of this dichotomy, that will ever get to the bottom of the dirty depth being scooped in I Wa...

MIDDLE LIFE shows the positive benefits of having an exciting friend and positive adventurer in your life.

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY proves that time away to reflect, mature, and advance emotions was the best thing for this franchise.

Critic Don Shanahan joins the Little Miss Sunshine podcast to debate the Hoovers, that wild ending, and the Movie of the Year 2006 bracket.

Though packaged with plenty of crassness and off-color humor, we’re here for the sideline sweetness and the infectious nature of the approachable sport. If pickleball seems preposterous for those unsu...

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Whether it is the unending expanse of sky, the unseen abyss of the ocean churning below it, or the bottomless moral pits of its key characters, there are layers upon layers of depth farther than any s...

Compare your kinks and compare your calamity to theirs as the cross-examinations skirt the existential as well as the suggestive. This all feels like a brisk game and a bold test, and there is unmista...

LUCKY STRIKE makes two large miscalculations in its first two scenes from which, no matter the action, it can't recover from.

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Simone Ashley’s shifting allure of evocativeness and conviction deflects predictability and shields the suspense very well, even if the rest of the cast cannot shake their tropes and witnesses and pup...

TOY STORY 5 finds the right lesson for the right time as the second sequel attempting to continue after a perfect ending.

Here’s our annual World of Reel mid-year poll. The broader consensus among the 100+ critics who did participate was generally mixed. Many felt that the first half of 2026 was disappointing for movies.

KRAKEN sticks to the tried-and-true checklist of creature features to show that other countries can make monster movies too.

Gene Shalit, the ‘Today’ show’s iconic film critics, has died at the age of 100. Shalit was best known for his punny reviews from ‘Critics Corner.’

For the Carolina Caroline screenplay to even entertain these more mature themes is a testament to its quality and uniqueness amid the sea of film noir and neo-noir mirrors and imitators. Anyone can ...

STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU promotes the television show from the small screen to the big one with shortened excitement.

MICHAEL makes its formulaic biopic and preferential sunny choices to avoid the problematic clouds and stick to entertainment.

Once again, Michael makes its artistic (and commercial) decision to remember the time the world fell in love with a child star elevating to become a one-of-a-kind legend. This film should be allowed...

Unshy with its sorrow, the film finds lift in showing one person helping another see why they survived when others they care for did not. There’s an aim to making choices for how one can and should en...

PROJECT HAIL MARY is the kind of entertaining lightning rod catalyst that will make someone fall in love with science fiction.

Hailing from Croatia and Serbia, STORM RIDER: LEGEND OF HAMMERHEAD invents its own genre of "calamari sci-fi."

The Film Obsessive staff gets out their crystal balls, Ouija boards, and tin-foil hats to predict the winners of the 98th Oscars.

Sometimes, the low point of a screw-up is the necessary springboard and not the “I told you so” gotcha moment. When that clarity is found in For Worse , it’s treated more as confirmation than a delay...

It is the kind of dangerous amusement that advances the entire “eat the rich” schtick, even if there’s not a heap of thicker or more brazen commentary with it. Skipping the larger lectures, How to Ma...

In the end, what is more interesting? Is it the past that made these loose characters, or the future that was foretold to open the movie? One could beg it’s the latter and not the former. The messy ho...