Tag: in theaters
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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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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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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…
