Young CriticDigger
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's ambitious film is a tangled mess. Cruise delivers his best performance in two decades and Lubezki's practical craft is a joy, but the film refuses to commit to a single idea, tone or style.
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Young CriticCoyote vs. ACME
The "lost film" is a winning comedy with meta commentary to boot. Shelved by Warner Bros. as a tax write-off and rescued by an independent buyer, Coyote vs. Acme turns out to be sharp, funny and unexpectedly profound.
Young CriticMinions & Monsters
A Hollywood love letter that actually earns its bananas. Pierre Coffin sends the Minions to 1920s Hollywood and delivers the best entry in the franchise since the first Despicable Me.
Young CriticScary Movie (2026)
The Wayans return, but the jokes don't. Scary Movie (2026) starts promisingly then loses focus entirely in a second act of disconnected parody skits that can't replicate the sharp wit of the original.
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 CriticThe Devil Wears Prada 2
All dressed up, nowhere to go. Meryl Streep slips back into Miranda Priestly with effortless magnetism, but The Devil Wears Prada 2 squanders a genuinely intriguing journalism premise on a melodramatic third act that fee
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 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 CriticSend Help
A campy survival comedy undone by its own third act While bursting onto the scene with the inventive comedy-horror The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi also helped pioneer the superhero craze of the 2010s by directing the T
Young CriticWake Up Dead Man
A somber Knives Out trades clever twists for faith and fatigue After creating a new charismatic detective to join the ranks of Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes with the Southern-drawling Benoit Blanc, the unlikely fran
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
Young CriticNow You See Me: Now You Don't
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 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 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 CriticThe Roses
This divorce remake is sadly hampered by misplaced slapstick Films about divorces aren’t as populous as their ubiquity in modern western society would demand. There have been scant good dramas that have delved into the f
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 CriticMaterialists
A sharp, stylish rom-com that dissects modern love—though its heroine falls flat It can be hard for a playwright to transition into filmmaking. Plays are famously staid, physical affairs, relying more on dialogue than vi
Young CriticThe Phoenician Scheme
Anderson Finds His Plot Again—But Forgets the Heart Many world-renowned auteurs with distinct styles take years between projects—filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, or Steve McQueen. Wes Anderson is inarg
Young CriticLilo & Stitch
Another sweet if slightly diluted remake Disney’s live-action remakes of animated classics follow a clear pattern when it comes to financial success. Remakes of films from the studio’s first Golden Era in the 1930s and ’
Young CriticFriendship
A Cringe Comedy That Skims the Surface of Modern Masculinity Examining male loneliness is becoming an increasingly important objective for psychologists, sociologists, and artists alike. Feelings of isolation, emasculati
Young CriticThe Accountant 2
A surprise sequel weighed down by second-act stumbles It’s rare for a mid-budget film that barely broke even to get a sequel nearly a decade later. There didn’t seem to be strong indicators of demand for the story or ch
Young CriticDeath of a Unicorn
A24’s Latest Misfire Tramples Its Own Potential A24 cultivated a distinct brand of quirky and bold fare from the mid-2010s to the early 2020s. This curation arguably peaked with the Best Picture Oscar win for Everything
Young CriticNovocaine
Jack Quaid Charms in a Clever but Overextended Action Comedy Jack Quaid is slyly becoming a movie star—at least, as much as movie stars can emerge nowadays. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, the American actor has un
Young CriticMickey 17
A Sci-Fi Spectacle Derailed by Chaos and Indecision Following up a cultural hit is always daunting—expectations are raised to the max and often prove unrealistic or impossible to meet. Parasite (2019) struck the perfec