Category: Comedy
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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…
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The Phoenician Scheme: Where Has Michael Cera Been All Wes’s Life?
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Wes Anderson I’m so hyped for my movie-watching June (I’ve got tickets to six different movies already), and it all begins with The Phoenician Scheme. Though I have yet to see every Wes Anderson movie, I’m quite an admirer of his meticulous precision and details-focused style, and The Phoenician Scheme seemed to continue his descent into this stylistic rabbit hole. I had postulated before that Asteroid City was the most Wes…
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Lilo & Stitch (2025): Shades of the Original, But Ohana Left Behind
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Lilo & Stitch (2025) Dean Fleischer Camp I don’t remember the last time there was this much hype for a Disney live-action remake (the box office numbers so far have certainly backed it up), and I gotta be honest. I was sold on Lilo & Stitch thanks to that amazing trailer. As the reviews (and spoiler-full Reels) came in, I grew more and more nervous about the film,…
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Friendship: Robinson and Rudd Go Off the Rails
Friendship (2024) Andrew DeYoung I’ve been waiting to see Friendship for a few weeks now—these dang limited releases keep getting my hopes up too early—and it delighted, being just as crazy as I expected it would be based on the trailers. This was a script and role made for Tim Robinson, and his offbeat, awkward humor worked so well in so many scenes. There were a ton of big laughs from our…
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The Wedding Banquet (2025): Something Borrowed, But Something New
This review contains spoilers. The Wedding Banquet (2025) Andrew Ahn All of a sudden, there is a surplus of films in theaters that I’m interested in, so I was initially nervous that I would get to the theater to see The Wedding Banquet in time. Leave it to me to go see it after school on a Monday so I didn’t miss it. The trailer seemed to convey that this remake (not…
