Young CriticWildwood
Laika's latest is its most ambitious and best yet. Travis Knight's stop-motion epic follows a Portland girl into an enchanted forest of talking animals and warring kingdoms, and pays off its enormous gamble with breathta
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Young CriticWicker
This new fable is winning in its look at healthy relationships. Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård lead a funny, tactile and surprisingly wise tale about love as sharing rather than possessing, with a scene-stealing P
Young CriticNaza
The documentary filmmakers from “No Other Land” return with a harrowing follow-up. Anonymous Israeli soldiers, filmed on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, describe the systematic targeting of civilians in Gaza with a chilling ma
Young CriticThe Beloved
Rodrigo Sorogoyen's heartwrenching latest delivers two masterful performances. Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo are extraordinary in a father-daughter drama that refuses the comfort of reconciliation.
Young CriticThe Odyssey
A nearly great adaptation, missing its final gear. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is convincing, absorbing, and beautifully crafted, though it falls just short of standing alongside his very best work.
Young CriticThe Sheep Detectives
A heartwarming film that has no right being as good as it is. Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a flock of sheep solve a murder mystery in rural England — and somehow deliver one of the most genuinely
Young CriticProject Hail Mary
A crowd-pleaser to be hailed Despite the success of Andy Weir's novel “The Martian” on the big screen with the Ridley Scott and Matt Damon film of the same name, it has taken more than a decade for another of Weir's nove
Young CriticBitter Christmas
Almodovar Turns the Camera on Himself yet Again Pedro Almodovar has an incredibly distinct style, in both his narrative tone, which plays with the melodramatic, as well as with his visuals and sets, which are vibrant and
Young CriticHoppers
Nature, Robots, and a Pixar Firing on All Cylinders Like much of the other Disney brands, Pixar's reputation was severely hurt by the insatiable quotas for "content" in the Streaming Wars, to populate Disney+. The result
Young CriticHamnet
A Transcendental Take on Shakespeare Shakespeare has been a well of material for artists and filmmakers, not just through adapting his works, but his life as well. Shakespeare in Love (1998) was fun theatre-kid fanfict
Young CriticIf I Had Legs I'd Kick You
A Bleak but Compelling Portrait of Motherhood Motherhood has been the surprising common theme for many 2025 releases, from Die My Love (2025) to Hamnet (2025), Bring Her Back (2025), The Perfect Neighbor (2025),
Young CriticFather, Mother, Sister, Brother
Jim Jarmusch turns the remake into a quiet family ritual Jim Jarmusch is as unhurried an artist as can be, both in his method of filmmaking as in his style. This has made him stand out as the rest of the world accelerate
Young CriticSentimental Value
A haunting study of how homes remember—and how families try to forget The poetic question of whether spaces have memory is an intriguing one, and one that spiritually accrues many added layers regarding the trauma or uns
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 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 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 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 CriticThe Naked Gun
Another worthy and daring attempt at reviving the spoof Spoof movies and satires had an impressive run of both financial and cultural success from Airplane! (1980), to Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenste
Young CriticSorry, Baby
Eva Victor’s first feature listens where others sensationalize Despite being one of the most horrific yet ancient of crimes, rape and sexual assault did not receive serious exploration or attention in Western society unt
Young CriticSirat
Oliver Laxe’s trance-like odyssey blurs myth and rave The road movie—or road story—has been a device used by storytellers since the first fictional tale was inscribed onto a tablet with The Epic of Gilgamesh . There is
Young CriticThe Life of Chuck
A tender, time-twisting tribute to the beauty of an ordinary life When you think of the pairing of Stephen King and filmmaker Mike Flanagan, your immediate thought is likely horror. The American author is famous for nove
Young CriticThe Brutalist
A new American epic showcases the dark-side of the American dream There is a common refrain when people complain about long films: “ A movie is as long as it needs to be .” While many films are unnecessarily lengthy, som