8.8 BEST NEW MOVIE Wake Up Dead Man is worth resurrecting for By: Tim Stevens Rian Johnson’s new murder-mystery breaks with the Knives Out formula while remaining excellent.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE No Other Choice but to love this darkly comic tale By: Sarah Gorr Park Chan-wook reteams with Lee Byung-hun to skewer corporate layoff culture and the realities of 2025 capitalism with a grim and impish smirk.
7.0 Reviews Wicked: For Good is too slow, somber for own good By: Lisa Laman Despite its plentiful musical charms, Wicked's second part fails to improve or even match its predecessor.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW A Man on the Inside Season 2 empathetically embeds in academia By: Tim Stevens The cozy mystery American-style series returns as funny and heartfelt as it left.
9.7 BEST NEW MOVIE Nothing accidental about the masterful It Was Just an Accident By: Lisa Laman This 2025 masterwork may be Jafar Panahi's crowning achievement.
6.6 Reviews The Running Man has rebellious dreams, no drive By: Lisa Laman Edgar Wright's new adaptation, boasting some inventive action sequences and righteous anger, is still undone by its big budget trappings.
7.1 Reviews Bat-Fam is for the kiddos By: Tim Stevens Prime Video’s latest Batman-themed cartoon isn’t for you and that’s ok. Sort of.
7.5 Reviews Now You See Me Now You Don’t isn’t quite magical By: Tim Stevens The soft reboot is silly fun, but when it comes to depth or nuance, there’s no rabbit in the hat.
9.2 BEST NEW SHOW Many reasons to watch Pluribus By: Tim Stevens Vince Gilligan succeeds again, this time by returning to his sideways sci-fi roots.
7.5 Reviews Predator: Badlands is a straightforward but fun hunt By: Lisa Laman Though not as good as Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg delivers another fun time in the Predator universe with Predator: Badlands.
9.2 BEST NEW MOVIE Hamnet is another emotionally aching achievement from writer/director Chloé Zhao By: Lisa Laman Hamnet, Chloe Zhao's latest meditation on adrift people and internal pain, is a remarkable achievement rife with great performances and striking visuals.
9.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Revel in the bleakly funny social commentary of No Other Choice By: Lisa Laman Once more, writer/director Park Chan-wook has delivered a freaky dark comedy pinpointing absurd corners of reality we all just take for granted as "normal."
7.8 Reviews Down Cemetery Road, not a bad thing to watch By: Tim Stevens New AppleTV thrilled thrives on Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson’s lead performances.
8.5 BEST NEW MOVIE Jennifer Lawrence is edgy, raw in Die My Love By: Sarah Gorr Jennifer Lawrence and director Lynne Ramsay prove an incredible duo in this brutal film about a woman’s search for sense of self.
6.0 Reviews Fold on Ballad of a Small Player By: Tim Stevens Edward Berger’s return to Netflix squanders a big, bold Colin Farrell performance.
6.4 Reviews Good Fortune has fleeting charms, pressing problems By: Lisa Laman Too laid back for its own, Good Fortune still manages its fair share of laugh.
6.4 Reviews A House of Dynamite fizzles when it most needs to explode By: Tim Stevens Kathryn Bigelow’s newest in eight years struggles to maintain the tension it initially skillfully builds.
6.3 Reviews Frankenstein is a frighteningly familiar beast By: Lisa Laman Jacob Elordi and opulence brilliantly shine in Guillermo del Toro's otherwise overly familiar adaptation of the gothic horror classic.
8.5 BEST NEW SHOW Nobody Wants This Season 2 once again proves its title ironic By: Tim Stevens The rom-com series prolongs the magic into a second go-round.
5.8 Reviews Lazarus isn’t dead, not quiet lively By: Tim Stevens Harlan Coben offers his first original for television series with mixed results, a total misfire ending.
6.2 Reviews The Woman in Cabin 10 needs a life preserver By: Tim Stevens The slick Netflix adaptation is too quick to toss its premise overboard.