Category: Musical
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Camp Rock 3: She’s Really (Not) Good!
Camp Rock 3 (2026) Veronica Rodriguez I had a long day at school today—not bad, just long. I got there at 6:45am and didn’t leave until 5:00pm, after my students’ first choir rehearsal of the year. I got home and was absolutely spent. All I wanted to do was sit, eat, and turn my brain off, and Camp Rock 3—which I had been meaning to watch—appeared as if it would fit…
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Hadestown: The Musical: To Love is To Turn Around and Go Watch This Again
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Hadestown: The Musical (2026) Brett Sullivan What a month to be Greek at the movie theater! Morgan and I have seen ProShots of popular musicals in theaters a few times—Hamilton and Merrily We Roll Along, at least—and it has become one of my favorite things to do. I love seeing new (or new to me) musicals, and it’s reassuring that the ones getting theatrically released ProShots are going…
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Moana (2026): A Good Time, But How Far Will This Go?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Moana (2026) Thomas Kail At this point, it seems like Disney is going to release a live-action remake every year until I die, so I’ve done my best to accept that and develop what I think is a nuanced view of Disney’s business model. We’re definitely trapped in a vicious cycle here, where the live-action remakes fund the original movies—precisely why we need the remakes—and though…
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Power Ballad: John Carney Strikes Another Chord
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Power Ballad (2026) John Carney If you follow the Nate at the Movies website closely, you’d know that I actually intended to watch Power Ballad on Tuesday, but my stomach decided that wasn’t going to happen. Luckily, I’m on summer break, so pivoting to a new day and showtime was easy-peasy. I was excited for Power Ballad because of how much I adore Sing Street, and I figured that with Paul…
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I Am Frankelda: A Storybook Stop-Motion Roller Coaster
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. I Am Frankelda (2025) Arturo Ambriz, Roy Ambriz As I’ve become more of a cinephile, I’ve wandered deeper into the movie world and watched some pretty obscure stuff. That has sometimes led to great success—like with Hundreds of Beavers, which is admittedly not that niche anymore—and sometimes it’s been terrible, like with Boys Go to Jupiter. Fortunately, today’s find was a good one, though I Am Frankelda—Mexico’s first independent…
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Mother Mary: An Exorcise in Patience
Mother Mary (2026) David Lowery For the four years that I’ve had Letterboxd, Mother Mary has sat on my watchlist for three of them. From when the movie was announced, I was excited for Jack Antonoff to write songs for an Anne Hathaway-led music movie, and I had relatively high hopes for this one, too. I really enjoyed my first David Lowery movie, A Ghost Story, last month, so imagine my disappointment when…
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Michael: Have Some Fun or Beat It
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Michael (2026) Antoine Fuqua Up until a few days ago, I thought I knew what to expect going into the Michael Jackson biopic. I was expecting, as Jonathan Fujii very eloquently put it, “the most generic music biopic formula that continues to plague the 21st century and the best songs you’ve ever heard in your life”, but then the embarrassingly low Rotten Tomatoes score came out, and I…
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Diane Warren: Relentless: Chasing the Oscar At All Costs
Diane Warren: Relentless (2024) Bess Kargman After a weekend of new releases, I got back on the Oscars Death Race grind, and I’m actually pretty close to the end already. Before tonight, I only had five feature films left, and now that number is just four! I wasn’t exactly looking forward to Diane Warren: Relentless, but of the three films that I could watch from home, it was the shortest, so…
