Tag: in theaters
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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…
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Freaky Tales: Hard to Describe, But I Love Oakland Now
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Freaky Tales (2024) Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Now that I’ve seen A Minecraft Movie, I’m gonna be really annoyed by all of the Minecraft-related lines at the theater whenever I go to see something else, starting with the 10 minute wait for my Peace Tea before Freaky Tales today. It was nice, though, to subsequently head into a way calmer theater for, yes, a better movie, too.…
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A Minecraft Movie: A Case for Memes as Marketing
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Jared Hess I have recently become re-obsessed with Minecraft in the lead up to this film, downloading the game to my phone again and watching a dang Minecraft documentary earlier this week. I quickly remembered how much I adored this game, and it made me really excited to see the film, even if the trailers and production didn’t promise much. When I got to the usually…
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Death of a Unicorn: Ortega, Poulter, and the Unicorn Kill Shot You’ll See Again and Again
Death of a Unicorn (2025) Alex Scharfman I first caught wind of Death of a Unicorn at the beginning of the year as I was bolstering my 2025 watchlist, and as more information and trailers became available, I became more interested. It was difficult to picture a world where I didn’t enjoy a Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega-led unicorn movie, and luckily I didn’t have to find out the hard way. Death of a…
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Novocaine: A Walmart Deadpool in Everything But Charm
Novocaine (2025) Dan Berk and Robert Olsen Thanks to a perfectly timed showing at my Regal theater, I bought my ticket to Novocaine on my way home and was fully expecting to be in the theater by myself on a Monday afternoon. There was a grand total of two people (myself included) in the theater today, and though Novocaine has actually been doing okay financially, the product matched the crowd. I wasn’t ever…
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Snow White (2025): A Remake That Compares to the Original…and Wins!
Snow White (2025) Marc Webb This Review Contains Spoilers. From when I watched the original Snow White for the first time at the beginning of the year until now, my stance on the remake was both clear and hopeful: the original is so paper-thin that whatever the remake could add would be an improvement, especially as it concerned the depth of both Snow White and her Prince, who’s alarmingly absent from the…
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Opus: I Think I’ve Seen This Film Before
Opus (2025) Mark Anthony Green I first heard about Opus as I was perusing the selection of Sundance movies that Morgan and I could watch from the comfort of our couch, and though it wasn’t available to us at that time, it’s available now and we even caught it in a theater! I had middling expectations coming in, but I was there for Ayo and an interesting concept, and that’s what I…
