Young CriticWicked: For Good
A return to Oz that exposes fascism with clarity but stumbles in storytelling The phenomenon of Wicked (2024) seemed to work on multiple fronts, launching Jon M. Chu’s musical career as it deserved (after the box office
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A heist without sparkle, the Horsemen return for a trick no one asked to see It would be hard to imagine, of all the franchises that studios have sought to prop up, that the one about magicians who pull off heists would
Young CriticDie My Love
Lynne Ramsay turns post-partum despair into a brutal, intimate portrait of a mind unraveling Lynne Ramsay is not a director to shy away from taboo subjects, especially regarding parenting. Her indie hit, We Need to Talk
Young CriticBlack Phone 2
Scott Derrickson's follow-up is a convincing evolution from the first film Horror appears to be the last remaining genre where filmmakers deliver surprising new ideas. This is due to the small budgets, which allow more c
Young CriticPredator: Badlands
Dan Trachtenberg's latest Predator entry is another solidly entertaining character piece It’s a curious yet unsurprising trend, when a franchise has burnt out, studios are willing to give the material to filmmakers with
Young CriticBugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest is a deconstruction of conspiracy theorists Yorgos Lanthimos has developed an idiosyncratic style, in the same way that Wes Anderson or Kelly Reichardt has. You can identify a Lanthimos film with
Young CriticThe Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt's latest demystifies the criminal caper In a time when movies are increasingly loud and boisterous, struggling to capture our ever-shortening attention spans, it’s both refreshing and startling to find qu
Young CriticLos Tigres
Alberto Rodriguez's latest thriller is his best in years The film noir had its height in the mid-century, and shortly revived in the 1970s anti-system surge of independent young filmmakers, where they delivered perhaps t
Young CriticFrankenstein (2025)
Guillemo Del Toro delivers a colorful and defining adaptation of the Mary Shelly novel As much as Netflix is getting blamed for the death of the theatrical experience, the streaming company is giving filmmakers the resou
Young CriticSundays
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s follow-up to Lullaby explores faith and female agency but loses its balance in the debate The struggle with one’s spirituality is a journey that all of us undergo at some point. Most of our questio
Young CriticSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Scott Cooper's take on the Boss is hopelessly shallow and dull The music biopic has such a staid and worn formula that it’s defining parody came out all the way back in the early 2000s with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Young CriticAfter the Hunt
Luca Guadagnino's latest complicates a rather simple topic Sexual assault on American college campuses is a true epidemic. According to RAINN, 1 in 4 women university students are sexually assaulted in the US. It is a st
Young CriticIt Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi's latest grapples with the morality of vengeance Iran is producing some of the best modern filmmakers working today, yet sadly, it is not reaping its artistic rewards. Many of these directors are choosing to
Young CriticTron: Ares
The third entry in the franchise is more style than substance Despite amassing a devoted cult following, the Tron films have never been box office hits. The first one, Tron (1982) was admired more for its daring use of c
Young CriticThe Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie's first solo directorial effort delivers Dwayne Johnson's best performance Despite bursting onto the cinematic scene with their film Good Time (2017) and gripping follow-up Uncut Gems (2019) the Safdie broth
Young CriticOne Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers yet another American epic To call something an “American epic” should be reserved to a text that captures the complexity, contradictions, promise, and betrayal that the idea of America entai
Young CriticRomeria
Carla Simon's third feature continues her exploration of memory What is history if not memories compiled, and what is memory, if not multiple individual narratives of singular pasts, and yet what is that individual memor
Young CriticA Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Kogonada’s romance fantasy has charm and color, but no heart beneath the sheen Love is the most covered subject in the arts—be it in songs, books, painting, or dance. This most intense of human emotions is one that artis
Young CriticSpinal Tap II: The End Continues
The decades-later sequel coasts on cheap nostalgia and celebrity cameos Comedy sequels are notorious for the fall in quality, this is magnified especially with decades-later sequels, which seem more intent on cashing in
Young CriticDownton Abbey: The Grand Finale
The finale that proves sometimes it’s best to let go Downton Abbey (2010–2015) was a comfort watch for many during its run, providing the subtle dramas of the English nobility in the 1910s and ’20s. Essentially a remake
Young CriticThe Long Walk
Francis Lawrence pares down King’s dystopia but leaves little beneath the surface The dystopian young adult genre dominated the 2010s, but like most trends, it quickly burned out. Oversaturation left audiences weary afte
Young CriticThe Captive
Alejandro Amenabar's latest is confused in its structure “Don Quijote de la Mancha” is considered the most-read novel in the history of mankind, surpassed only in readership and circulation by religious texts like “the B
Young CriticHoney Don't
Ethan Coen's latest solo effort is another half-baked noir After taking Hollywood by storm for decades as a filmmaking duo, the Coen brothers have been striking out solo in recent years. Joel directed his Shakespearean a
Young CriticHighest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee's adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic is serviceable if muted Despite being one of the foremost auteurs in American cinema, Spike Lee is no stranger to remakes. He remade the Korean action classic Oldboy (20