Category: Drama
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Hamnet: To Be Sad or To Be Very Sad
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Hamnet (2025) Chloé Zhao After a quick Chipotle break in the car and Morgan being added to the watch party, I ventured back into the same auditorium (not the same seat, though; I moved from E8 all the way to E7—Morgan sat in E8) for Hamnet, which I’ve been getting excited for for weeks. Fortunately, the film was just about as good and absolutely heartbreaking as I…
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Sentimental Value: There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Sentimental Value (2025) Joachim Trier Am I a little bit cuckoo for scheduling a 9:35am showing of Sentimental Value ahead of my 12:40pm showing of Hamnet at the same theater? Yes, but that’s not my fault; if Cinemark had offered reasonable times to see this film, I would’ve gone at a reasonable time, but alas. I’ve gotten behind on my international films this year, so I was glad to take…
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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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Train Dreams: Pictures and a Thousand Words
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Train Dreams (2025) Clint Bentley As the only truly film-obsessed member of my family, I’ve spent considerable time convincing my wife, parents, and siblings to watch movies with me that they’ve never heard of. Train Dreams was the movie today as we’re all together for Thanksgiving, and I know for a fact my family missed out on one hell of a film as I watched this one by myself.…
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Die My Love: The Dog Told Me Everything I Needed to Know
Die My Love (2025) Lynne Ramsay I’m sorry, I raced to the theater from school this afternoon for this? With Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at the helm, I figured that Die My Love would be an easy win, but this film instead became one of the few examples of a bad movie with multiple outstanding performances. Simply put, the story and subtext of the movie just never came together for me. I’m…
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Blue Moon: Appreciating Beauty Wherever You Find It
Blue Moon (2025) Richard Linklater I knew that I was going to love Blue Moon when I first put it on my watchlist at the beginning of the year. A Richard Linklater film about Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein with Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley? It was settled then and there, and predictably, I was bewitched by this movie. I’m not the most versed in Linklater—though I’ve loved Hit Man, School of Rock, and Dazed and…
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere: Stuck in the Biopic Blues
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) Scott Cooper Much like the superhero fatigue that has plagued society for the last few years (funny, though, considering that’s when I decided to start watching them), it feels like the music biopic’s time in the sun has come and gone, yet a new music biopic comes out every six months. Even with some fatigue in the genre, I wanted…
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After the Hunt: Call Me By Your Next Movie
After the Hunt (2025) Luca Guadagnino My first two Luca Guadagnino experiences—Call Me By Your Name and Challengers—were both knockouts, so I came to expect greatness from Guadagnino, only to be let down last year by Queer. Like Ariana Grande in the late 2010s, Guadagnino seems to be prioritizing quantity over quality recently, and that continued with After the Hunt. I was definitely drawn in by the director’s pedigree and the stacked primary cast…
