Category: Family
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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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In Your Dreams: A Netflix Nightmare
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. In Your Dreams (2025) Alex Woo I like to get ahead of the game when it comes to Oscar-nominated movies, so I’ve been checking Variety’s list of predictions and gave In Your Dreams, one of their Best Animated Feature predictions, a go. I shouldn’t have. Netflix has always been hit-or-miss on their original films, and while they usually fare well with acquiring and then distributing animated films—think KPop Demon…
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Light of the World: Redeeming the Age-Old Narrative
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Light of the World (2025) Tom Bancroft and John J. Schafer I remember hearing about both The King of Kings and Light of the World around the same time this year, and I initially believed Angel Studios would come out on top. Angel Studios left the door open for Light of the World to take the top spot on my 2025 Animated Jesus Movie List, and boy, did it ever do just…
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Sketch: Horror for Kids…and It Works!
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Sketch (2024) Seth Worley Sketch was the first film of my whiplash-inducing double feature today, paired quite impeccably with Weapons. I’m sitting in the theater prior to Weapons right now writing this review, actually! My primary motivation to see Sketch was to hear Cody Fry’s first theatrical score, and while it was certainly one of the good qualities of this film, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t the only good one.…
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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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Elio: One of the Pixar Movies of All Time
Elio (2025) Domee Shi and Madeline Sharafian With each subsequent Pixar movie, I have become more and more nervous for the studio’s future. Between their newfound focus on sequels and a few lackluster original films, I’m starting to lose hope. Elio wasn’t a total failure or anything—I still enjoyed it decently—but it was a far cry from the classics I had come to expect from Pixar as a kid. What I can…
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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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The King of Kings: Has the Power of God, But Not Anime, On Its Side
The King of Kings (2025) Jang Seong-ho As my closest followers know, my newly-crowned favorite movie of all time is The Prince of Egypt, which has sat in the top 4 since I got Letterboxd. It is a biblical adaptation done right—grand, heroic, and complex—so when Angel Studios started throwing around this “The King of Kings is the first major animated Biblical epic since The Prince of Egypt” rhetoric, I had to see…
