The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Marvel needed a win, and they mostly got one....
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 68%
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Tom Cruise's final turn as Ethan Hunt is, by any reasonable measure, a triumph of old-school filmmaking values.…...
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 84%
How to Train Your Dragon
Dean DeBlois made all three animated How to Train Your Dragon films, crafting one of the most consistently excellent animated trilogies in cinema history.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 71%
Lilo & Stitch
Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch is a frustrating film. Not because it's unwatchable, but because it's 75% of the way to being genuinely good before it decides to lecture you about female empowerment instead of finishing the story it started tellin…...
WOKE: 17
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 48%
Sinners
Ryan Coogler made a vampire movie set in Jim Crow Mississippi and somehow turned it into one of the best films of 2025. That sentence should not work. It does....
WOKE: 15
TRAD: 19
AUTH: 72%
Jurassic World Rebirth
Jurassic World Rebirth is a $200 million movie that feels like it was written on a napkin during a studio lunch meeting.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 42%
The Wild Robot (2024)
The Wild Robot might be the most subversive film of 2024, and not in the way Hollywood usually means that word.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 28
AUTH: 78%
A Complete Unknown (2024)
James Mangold made a Bob Dylan biopic that is secretly a film about the dangers of ideological conformity. That might sound like a stretch for a movie about a folk singer in Greenwich Village, but hear it out.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 53%
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Tim Burton made a sequel to Beetlejuice 36 years after the original, and the result is exactly what you'd expect from a director who has been coasting on his own aesthetic for at least a decade: a film that looks like a Tim Burton movie, sounds like …...
WOKE: 16
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 43%
Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good picks up where Part One left off, and the question facing conservative viewers is essentially the same: are you willing to sit through two and a half hours of progressive allegory in exchange for genuinely spectacular filmmaking? Bec…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 62%
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson makes movies for people who love movies. That has always been true. And One Battle After Another might be his most entertaining work, period.…...
WOKE: 10
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 55%
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The Conjuring: Last Rites is not the best film in the franchise. That distinction still belongs to James Wan's 2013 original.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 80%
The Running Man
This review discusses the full plot including the ending....
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 51%
Warfare
Spoiler context: Warfare is a real-time depiction of real events. The real Elliott Miller, to whom the film is dedicated, lost his leg and his ability to speak as a result of the events depicted. This is not entertainment in the conventional sense.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 84%
Paddington in Peru
Spoiler note: the film's villain twist is better experienced unspoiled. The review discusses it briefly but the mechanics are not a significant part of what makes the film work....
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 82%
Novocaine
Spoiler warning: the twist at the end of the second act is worth preserving. If you plan to see Novocaine unspoiled, read only the first three paragraphs....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 70%
Iron Lung
This review contains spoilers. Iron Lung earns its ending and the ending requires discussion....
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 71%
Melania
A spoiler: Melania is not a documentary in any traditional journalistic sense. Melania Trump said this herself during the film's promotion, describing it as 'a created experience' and 'purposeful storytelling' rather than a documentary.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 82%
Marty Supreme
A spoiler warning is necessary here: Marty Supreme is not the movie its marketing suggests it is. If you are expecting a conventional sports underdog triumph, a Rocky for ping pong, you will be blindsided by what Josh Safdie has actually made.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 63%
Companion
Companion is a sharper movie than you expect and a more ideologically loaded one than the marketing lets on.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 48%
The Housemaid
Let's be honest about what The Housemaid is before we decide whether it's any good.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 42%
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Let's get something out of the way. Hurry Up Tomorrow is a vanity project. It may be the most unambiguous vanity project to receive a wide theatrical release in recent memory.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 52%
Dracula: A Love Tale
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a strange, kitschy, deeply sincere movie. And that sincerity is precisely what saves it....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 78%
Avatar: Fire and Ash
James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash is a three-hour-and-seventeen-minute spectacle that will make your eyeballs very happy while occasionally making your brain very tired.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 55%
Crime 101
Bart Layton's Crime 101 is the kind of movie Hollywood used to make all the time and rarely bothers with anymore.…...
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 62%
Predator: Badlands
Dan Trachtenberg clearly loves the Predator franchise. That much is obvious from three films in three years.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 35%
Mercy (2026)
Timur Bekmambetov's Mercy arrives with a killer premise and proceeds to do almost nothing interesting with it.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Zootopia 2 (2025)
Zootopia 2 is exactly what it looks like. It is a Disney animated buddy cop sequel with gorgeous animation, sharp voice performances, a cracking mystery plot, and a progressive allegory that does not hide behind the fur.…...
WOKE: 91
TRAD: 53
AUTH: 70%
Crime 101 (2026)
Old-school doesn't have to mean simple. Crime 101 is the kind of crime picture Hollywood used to make before every heist had to double as a statement about something. There's a jewel thief with a code.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 19
AUTH: 65%
Send Help (2026)
Sam Raimi has been making gloriously unhinged movies for over 40 years. From the cabin in the Tennessee woods to the streets of Manhattan to the multiverse itself, the guy runs on one fuel: controlled chaos delivered with a grin.…...
WOKE: 15
TRAD: 22
AUTH: 72%
Wuthering Heights (2026)
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights survived 179 years, multiple adaptations, and the entire twentieth century with its reputation intact.…...
WOKE: 36
TRAD: 26
AUTH: 48%
GOAT (2026)
GOAT lands exactly where Sony Pictures Animation has been living lately: colorful, kinetic, and willing to layer messaging underneath the entertainment without letting the messaging kill the fun.…...
WOKE: 37
TRAD: 41
AUTH: 58%
Gladiator II (2024)
Ridley Scott made Gladiator II because he wanted to make another Gladiator. That's essentially the whole story behind the sequel, and it explains both its strengths and its limits.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 24
AUTH: 68%
Moana 2 (2024)
The short version: Moana 2 is fine. Better than fine for fans of the original. Not as good as the original.…...
WOKE: 13
TRAD: 17
AUTH: 56%
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Inside Out 2 is the highest-grossing animated film Pixar has ever made. It earned 1.7 billion dollars worldwide.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 19
AUTH: 57%
Twisters (2024)
Twisters is the summer blockbuster that 2024 needed most: a disaster movie that trusts its audience to enjoy tornadoes without being lectured about the policies that supposedly created them.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 26
AUTH: 73%
Nosferatu
Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is one of the most uncompromisingly traditional horror films made by a major director in the past decade.…...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 72%
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a serious, demanding, three-and-a-half-hour epic that positions itself as a meditation on the American Dream, artistic integrity, and the immigrant experience.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 58%
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain is a small, honest, and unexpectedly moving film about two cousins who travel to Poland to honor their recently deceased grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. It is 90 minutes long. It does not waste a minute.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 62%
Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is the best Alien film since James Cameron's Aliens (1986). That is not faint praise.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 65%
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is a cinematic achievement of genuine rarity — a sequel that expands the scale, deepens the craft, and somehow improves on its predecessor at nearly every technical level.…...
WOKE: 13
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 72%
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a franchise revival that earns its existence — a rarer achievement than it sounds in an era of constant reboots.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 13
AUTH: 68%
Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine is exactly what it advertises itself as: an audacious, frequently profane, nostalgically loaded buddy film that smashes two beloved superhero personas together and dares the audience not to have fun.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 64%
Longlegs
Longlegs is the most unnerving American horror film of 2024 and one of the few in recent memory that takes Satanism seriously as a moral force rather than as ironic aesthetic.…...
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 71%
Challengers
Challengers is a technically brilliant film and a moral void. Luca Guadagnino is one of the most gifted visual stylists working today, and he brings his full arsenal to this story of a love triangle set across thirteen years of competitive tennis.…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 32%
Hit Man
Hit Man is the most pleasant surprise of 2024's theatrical calendar. Richard Linklater and Glen Powell teamed up to make a romantic crime comedy that is so relentlessly charming, so well-paced, and so smartly cast that it's easy to overlook the fact …...
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 50%
Kinds of Kindness
Kinds of Kindness is a nearly three-hour endurance test from Yorgos Lanthimos that systematically dismantles any structure that might give human life meaning.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 2
AUTH: 22%
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is one of the most genuinely enjoyable action movies in recent memory, and it achieves that by doing something remarkably simple: it actually likes its protagonist....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Despicable Me 4
Despicable Me 4 is the franchise at its most comfortable and its most predictable. That is not entirely a bad thing....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 10
AUTH: 80%
IF (Imaginary Friends)
IF is John Krasinski's most emotionally ambitious film and his most uneven one. But when it works, which is more often than its mixed reviews suggest, it works because Krasinski trusts the audience to feel something genuine....
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 72%
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
Bad Boys: Ride or Die is a franchise that knows exactly what it is and has stopped pretending otherwise.…...
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 62%
Thelma
Thelma is based on something that actually happened to director Josh Margolin's grandmother. A scammer called her, pretending to be Josh, and told her he had been arrested. She sent $10,000 to an address he gave her. She was 93.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 12
AUTH: 88%
Civil War
Alex Garland spent years watching political tribalism eat the American conversation, and his response was to make a movie that would give everyone something to hate and something to love.…...
WOKE: 22
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 60%
Monkey Man
Dev Patel spent seven years developing Monkey Man, got a broken nose, multiple injuries, and a Netflix deal that then collapsed. Then Jordan Peele watched the film and made sure it got into theaters.…...
WOKE: 28
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 65%
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass made Saint Maud on a very small budget, got it into A24's catalog, and watched it become a cult film about a woman whose religious intensity crosses into psychosis.…...
WOKE: 26
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 70%
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney spent years developing Immaculate as a vehicle that would let her operate in the horror genre while carrying a message she clearly believed in.…...
WOKE: 29
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 72%
Abigail
Abigail does exactly what it promises and does it with more craft than the premise deserves. That is meant as a compliment....
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 72%
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Guy Ritchie has spent thirty years making films about men who are very good at dangerous things, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is the logical culmination of that career.…...
WOKE: 2
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 85%
Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein is Diablo Cody's Jennifer's Body with worse reviews and a better aesthetic. That sentence is both a description and a verdict....
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 2
AUTH: 68%
How to Make a Killing (2026)
Glen Powell murdering his way through a family tree to reclaim stolen wealth sounds like the pitch for a crowd-pleasing dark comedy — and largely, How to Make a Killing delivers exactly that.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 50%
The Bride! (2026)
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 24
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 45%
Project Hail Mary (2026)
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 22
AUTH: 72%
Hoppers (2026)
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 58%
Ready or Not 2
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 6
TRAD: 3
AUTH: 48%
Reminders of Him
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 62%
They Will Kill You
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 4
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 55%
Youngblood (2026)
This preview is based on available trailers, creative team history, and pre-release information. Scores and verdict reflect our prediction only and will be updated upon release....
WOKE: 48
TRAD: 52
AUTH: 62%
Psycho Killer
Andrew Kevin Walker wrote Se7en — one of the most morally coherent crime films of the past thirty years, a movie that understood evil as evil and paid the price for staring too long. That screenplay took years to get made. So did this one.…...
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 29
AUTH: 78%
The Strangers: Chapter 3
The original The Strangers (2008) earned its place in horror history with a deceptively simple premise: three masked killers, a couple, an isolated house, no explanation offered and none needed.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 11
AUTH: 48%
Shelter
There is a line of conservative cinema that barely announces itself: the masculine protector story, dressed in action-genre clothes, that has always been one of Hollywood's most durable formulas.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 32
AUTH: 82%
The Moment
Let's be precise about what this film is: a $4 million mockumentary in which Charli XCX — pop music's reigning progressive icon — produces, co-wrote, and stars in a fictional version of her own real life, distributed by A24, the most ideologically co…...
WOKE: 32
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 88%
Barbie
Nobody took their kids to a $1.44 billion feminist manifesto. They bought the pink tickets, grabbed the popcorn, and settled in for what the trailers promised was a breezy, nostalgic romp through a world of plastic perfection.…...
WOKE: 48
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 50%
Superman
⚠️ SPOILER ALERT: This review contains detailed plot analysis and reveals key story elements....
WOKE: 19
TRAD: 21
AUTH: 53%
Heretic
Let's not dance around it. Heretic is not a horror film that happens to touch on religion.…...
WOKE: 41
TRAD: 14
AUTH: 15%
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Hollywood doesn't often make movies that tell you to put down your phone — and mean it.…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 21
AUTH: 81%
Emilia Pérez
A Mexican drug lord — responsible for murders, kidnappings, and years of cartel terror — pays a lawyer to arrange his gender-affirming surgery, fakes his death, and emerges as a wealthy woman determined to reconnect with her children and make amends.…...
WOKE: 31
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 35%
Conclave
Edward Berger's Conclave is the most dangerous kind of progressive film: one that is genuinely excellent....
WOKE: 42.6
TRAD: 3.85
AUTH: 10%
Sound of Freedom
Here is what you need to know about Sound of Freedom before anything else: studios sat on this film for five years. Fox (which became Disney after the acquisition) shelved it. Not because it was bad — test screenings were strong.…...
WOKE: 4.2
TRAD: 30.8
AUTH: 88%
Oppenheimer
There's a moment roughly two-thirds through Oppenheimer when J. Robert Oppenheimer — fresh from watching the bomb he built vaporize 80,000 people — stands before a cheering crowd in Los Alamos and tries to look triumphant.…...
WOKE: 30
TRAD: 26
AUTH: 46%
Wicked
Somewhere between the 400 brand partnerships, the Limited Edition pink-and-green Stanley cups, and the church-group holiday matinees, something got lost in translation.…...
WOKE: 31
TRAD: 16
AUTH: 50%
Killers of the Flower Moon
The most disorienting thing about Killers of the Flower Moon is not its three-and-a-half-hour runtime. It is not the murders — dozens of them, deliberate and methodical.…...
WOKE: 19
TRAD: 15
AUTH: 75%
Tár
Here is a film that has been celebrated by progressive film critics as a sober reckoning with #MeToo, praised by conservative commentators as the most explicitly anti-woke monologue delivered in a mainstream movie since anyone can remember, dismissed…...
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 28
AUTH: 50%
Snow White
Disney's live-action Snow White arrives carrying more baggage than a royal carriage.…...
WOKE: 9
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 58%
Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World is a Frankenstein's monster of a movie, stitched together from at least three different scripts, multiple rounds of reshoots, and the remnants of a 2008 plotline nobody was asking to resolve.…...
WOKE: 8
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 65%
A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie is not a good film. It is not a particularly bad one either. It is a loud, colorful, expensive screensaver with Jack Black yelling his way through two hours and Jason Momoa trying his hardest to make man-child former arcade champion…...
WOKE: 5
TRAD: 4
AUTH: 68%
Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts asks you to care about six characters you either forgot existed or could not name at gunpoint. The question is whether it delivers a story worth telling. The answer, with significant reservations, is: sort of....
WOKE: 7
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 66%
Blue Moon
Richard Linklater's Blue Moon is a 100-minute hangout movie set in one restaurant on one night, and it works because Ethan Hawke refuses to let you look away....
WOKE: 13.25
TRAD: 18
AUTH: 90%
Eternity
A24 and Apple Original Films team up for Eternity, a high-concept romantic comedy set in the afterlife where newly deceased souls have one week to decide which themed paradise they'll inhabit forever.…...
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 75%
Solo Mio
There's a moment early in Solo Mio where Kevin James, freshly abandoned at the altar in Rome, sits alone at a restaurant table set for two. He stares at Heather's empty chair, then quietly asks the waiter to take it away.…...
WOKE: 1
TRAD: 9
AUTH: 95%
I Can Only Imagine 2
The original "I Can Only Imagine" was a genuine phenomenon in faith-based cinema, pulling in $83 million on a shoestring budget and proving that audiences hungry for sincere Christian storytelling would show up in droves.…...
WOKE: 0
TRAD: 8
AUTH: 95%
Scream 7
Kevin Williamson returns to direct the franchise he created, with Neve Campbell back as Sidney Prescott after sitting out the sixth installment.…...
WOKE: 3
TRAD: 5
AUTH: 75%
Blitz
Steve McQueen's "Blitz" arrives dressed in the clothing of a wartime survival story, the kind of tale that should celebrate British resilience, familial devotion, and the quiet heroism of ordinary people under extraordinary duress.…...
WOKE: 11
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 65%
Now You See Me: Now You Don't
This transcript is a glossy, crowd-pleasing heist fantasy that repeatedly moralizes theft as “justice” and uses modern political talking points as applause lines.…...
WOKE: 18
TRAD: 7
AUTH: 50%
Independence day
Independence Day is built on a traditional moral structure centered on individual courage, earned leadership, and collective survival through merit and sacrifice.…...
WOKE: 1
TRAD: 6
AUTH: 88%
Nightbitch
Nightbitch opens as a character study of maternal exhaustion — a woman losing her identity in the repetitive isolation of full-time parenthood. The performances are grounded. The frustration feels earned.…...
WOKE: 14
TRAD: 0
AUTH: 28%