Category: Comedy
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Rental Family: Fake Families, Real Feels
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Rental Family (2025) Hikari What a finish to Thanksgiving break! I have never watched so many consecutive new releases as I did over the last week, but it’s been so fun. Rental Family was a film that caught my attention from its first trailer—I have a thing for films that highlight people’s goodness and humanity—and the product absolutely delivered. I have yet to see Brendan Fraser’s Oscar-winning turn in The…
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A Very Jonas Christmas Movie: An Inauspicious Start to the Season
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) Jessica Yu When I first saw the announcement for this movie, I told myself I wouldn’t watch it, but here we are. Not only did I watch A Very Jonas Christmas Movie—Morgan, Abby, and I made it our first Christmas movie of the season. Unsurprisingly, this movie was underwhelming given its Disney Channel-level budget and writing. Even though I love the Jonas Brothers, their acting skills…
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Eternity: The Good Place Plays This Movie
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eternity (2025) David Freyne My Thanksgiving Break has become surprisingly full with travel and weddings and dinners, so I’m having to puzzle together all of these movies I want to see as well. Eternity was one that I was plenty interested but Morgan wasn’t, so today—when Morgan’s out shopping in Fredericksburg—was the perfect day to go see it. Predictably, it crushed. What interested me most about Eternity when I first heard…
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t: When We Needed Them Most, They Vanished
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Ruben Fleischer In a year where I’ve poured hours into a ton of franchises with varying returns, I’m not sure why I saw the Now You See Me franchise through. I didn’t love either of the first two movies, even though the premises had a lot of potential, but I figured that I should go see the third film since…
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Roofman: The Man Who Stole My Heart, Among Other Things
Roofman (2025) Derek Cianfrance Heading into Roofman tonight, I had been led to believe by its marketing that this was going to be a straight studio comedy, and that couldn’t have been much further from the truth. While there were certainly plenty of laughs to go around—and I mean plenty—Roofman really surprised in its emotional storytelling and family dynamics, which had me not only cheesing for most of the movie, but on the…
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The Roses: Now I Know What Not to Do!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Roses (2025) Jay Roach I’m back on the proverbial movie horse after a week away from film, and while I excited to see The Roses today (the trailers made it look very promising), I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this movie. The main source of this surprise was in its exceptional balance between comedy—which is possesses in spades—and realistic and tragic relationships. Many of the…
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The Bad Guys 2: A Little Bit Bad, A Lotta Bit Good
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Pierre Perifel My last two visits to the theater for a DreamWorks movie have been pretty fantastic, to say the least. How to Train Your Dragon (2025) was surprisingly awesome and well-realized, and The Wild Robot currently sits in my Top 25 movies of all time. This studio had a lot to live up to going into The Bad Guys 2—the sequel to a messy first…
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Eddington: Mask Mandate Time Machine
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eddington (2025) Ari Aster With a cast as stacked and enjoyable as Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler, it wouldn’t have mattered what the plot of Eddington was; I would be seated. I had only seen one Ari Aster film—Midsommar—prior to tonight, so I truly didn’t know what to expect out of Eddington, and what I got was quite the mixed bag. In theory, I would’ve…
