Category: 2025
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: A Perfect Ending to a Surprising Franchise
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025) Christopher McQuarrie When I started my Mission: Impossible journey about four months ago, I had no idea that I would become as huge a fan of the franchise as I’ve become. Tom Cruise’s formula for an action spy movie has worked on me time and time again, and The Final Reckoning was the perfect finale for an amazing franchise, aided immensely by my…
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Deaf President Now!: A Movement Worth Hearing
Deaf President Now! (2025) Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim Deaf President Now! was another Sundance film that I had wished Morgan and I picked over Bubble & Squeak, and now that I’ve seen both films, I can say I was totally right in wishing we had picked it. I’m not sure why we didn’t—sign language and the Deaf community have always been a big interest of mine (I’ve taken numerous sign language…
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Hurry Up Tomorrow: Spiraling Into Stunning Misunderstanding
Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) Trey Edward Shults Knowing what I know now about this movie, I may not be the best person to review Hurry Up Tomorrow, given how little I knew about Abel Tesfaye’s personal life (in reading Reddit threads afterwards, knowing his life story seemed to be insanely important) and the corresponding album of the same name. Hurry Up Tomorrow was more confusing than it should’ve been if I had done…
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The Legend of Ochi: Pretty Pictures, Empty Pages
The Legend of Ochi (2025) Isaiah Saxon The Legend of Ochi was one of the films I was hoping to see with our Sundance Online pass this year, and while it wasn’t available in that format, I did still wish I could have seen that over Bubble & Squeak. Now, having seen both, I don’t feel that way. Both films were equally half-baked and uninteresting, which was especially disappointing for The Legend of…
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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…
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Sinners: A Gospel of Blood and Blues
This review contains spoilers. Sinners (2025) Ryan Coogler It seems fitting that I spent my Good Friday seeing a film called “Sinners”, and though Ryan Coogler’s original story rarely dealt directly with religion as the movie’s title would have one assume, Sinners was a thrill and a huge surprise regardless. I initially wrote Sinners off as more horror fluff, but once the Letterboxd rating started going up after its debut, I got…
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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…
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Warfare: A War Movie With a Fear All Its Own
Warfare (2025) Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza After surprisingly loving Alex Garland’s Civil War last year, I knew that I had to check out his next movie, especially after hearing that Warfare’s depiction of the Iraq War was alarmingly immersive. That much was true and more, and I came out of Warfare pretty shell-shocked—suffice it to say it was a “no-music” car ride home. From the opening beats, Garland sets the camera alongside this platoon…
