Tag: in theaters
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Eternity: The Good Place Plays This Movie
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Eternity (2025) David Freyne My Thanksgiving Break has become surprisingly full with travel and weddings and dinners, so I’m having to puzzle together all of these movies I want to see as well. Eternity was one that I was plenty interested but Morgan wasn’t, so today—when Morgan’s out shopping in Fredericksburg—was the perfect day to go see it. Predictably, it crushed. What interested me most about Eternity when I first heard…
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Wicked: For Good: Changes and Being Changed
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Wicked: For Good (2025) Jon M. Chu After the longest year of my musical theater-loving life, it was finally time to settle in for Wicked: For Good and have my mind blown (hopefully). Knowing the musical very well already, I knew to expect a darker narrative, less humor, and fewer iconic songs, and while all of those things were present, the finale to one of the most anticipated…
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The Running Man: Quick Out the Blocks, Stumbled to the Finish
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Running Man (2025) Edgar Wright I’ve been hyping up The Running Man since I added it to my watchlist at the beginning of the year and decided to read it for my Adaptation Appreciation adventure. I was even more excited once I finished the book, which was fantastically and horrifyingly written. I figured that Edgar Wright would do the story justice, and he was doing just that…for…
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t: When We Needed Them Most, They Vanished
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) Ruben Fleischer In a year where I’ve poured hours into a ton of franchises with varying returns, I’m not sure why I saw the Now You See Me franchise through. I didn’t love either of the first two movies, even though the premises had a lot of potential, but I figured that I should go see the third film since…
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Die My Love: The Dog Told Me Everything I Needed to Know
Die My Love (2025) Lynne Ramsay I’m sorry, I raced to the theater from school this afternoon for this? With Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson at the helm, I figured that Die My Love would be an easy win, but this film instead became one of the few examples of a bad movie with multiple outstanding performances. Simply put, the story and subtext of the movie just never came together for me. I’m…
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Bugonia: Are WE the Bees?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Bugonia (2025) Yorgos Lanthimos November has suddenly become jam-packed, not only with films that I want to see, but some real heavyweights, both in my personal rankings and probably at the Oscars, too. Bugonia fell squarely into both categories, and I’m glad to say that the Yorgos-Emma Stone experiment is now 2-for-3 (maybe 2.5-for-3, if I’m feeling generous towards Kinds of Kindness) in my book. Morgan and I had a…
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Blue Moon: Appreciating Beauty Wherever You Find It
Blue Moon (2025) Richard Linklater I knew that I was going to love Blue Moon when I first put it on my watchlist at the beginning of the year. A Richard Linklater film about Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein with Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley? It was settled then and there, and predictably, I was bewitched by this movie. I’m not the most versed in Linklater—though I’ve loved Hit Man, School of Rock, and Dazed and…
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Shelby Oaks: Found Footage and Talent
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Shelby Oaks (2024) Chris Stuckmann I’ve been a big Chris Stuckmann fan for the last few years, so when he announced he was working on a movie—and when that movie eventually got picked up by Neon—I was stoked. Fortunately, I’ve broken my personal horror movie seal since then, so I headed to the theater excitedly today instead of begrudgingly. For a debut, Shelby Oaks was a valiant effort,…
