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4/4
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Memories, family dynamics and the pursuit of art collide in Danish-Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s breathtaking drama about a filmmaker (Stellan Skarsgard) who re-enters the lives of his two adult daughters (Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas).
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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Left-Handed Girl
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Shih-Ching Tsou directed … this light drama about a 5-year-old girl (Nina Ye), her older sister (Shih-Yuan Ma) and her mother (Janel Tsai) who move to Taipei and open a noodle stand. … These three are survivors, and it’s a pleasure to get to know them.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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It’s a history of America, through one man’s existence, that captures the bigness of life in a profound and beautiful way.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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Dreams
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Johanne writes a novella which suggests a passionate romance. Is she merely projecting her desires or reflecting the truth? As we consider this, we also are challenged to consider the role of art, conflicting perceptions of reality, and much more.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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The Life of Chuck
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Based on a Stephen King novella … it movingly captures the enormity of life mostly through the experiences of one person. … Strange and poignant, the film is enhanced by the narration of Nick Offerman. Tom Hiddleston plays the adult Chuck.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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Eden
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Director Ron Howard presents a stranger-than-fiction true story about three groups of people, all with different motivations, who arrive on a previously uninhabited Galapados island in Ecuador around 1930. Power struggles and violence ensue.
Posted Jan 05, 2026
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4/4
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Godard’s stubborn resistance to doing the expected is funny, but, given the results, also inspiring. Linklater ... shows us that directors ... can be silly or pretentious or maybe even obnoxious, but that doesn’t mean they can’t create something great.
Posted Nov 08, 2025
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4/4
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Hawke makes us feel Hart’s overwhelming sense of jealousy, resignation and despair as he finds himself gazing at youth, success and romance … at the parade of life that is passing him by.
Posted Nov 07, 2025
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3.5/4
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Together
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Together has its gross-out moments (the worst, involving swallowing hair, had me gagging … and I wasn’t the one swallowing!). That said, this new chiller ... is scary and smart.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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2/4
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The Naked Gun
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Frank Jr. gets involved in a murder case involving a stolen P.L.O.T. device (ouch). ... When Beth walks into his office, Frank says, “Take a chair,” and she replies that she already has one (double ouch). It’s that kind of comedy.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Finally, director Matt Shakman (the miniseries WandaVision), four screenwriters and a new cast deliver the right combination of sci-fi drama, action, humor and likable characters to create a worthy vehicle for the superhero quartet.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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Superman
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Brosnahan makes an especially good Lois Lane, a thoughtful reporter who challenges Superman in an interview with uncomfortable questions, and Nathan Fillion gives a terrific comic performance as an overbearing, egotistical Green Lantern.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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Bad Shabbos
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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The Trouble With Harry meets La Cage Aux Folles/The Birdcage in director Daniel Robbins’ lightweight sitcom of a movie. Comedian-actress Vayntrub is especially good as the somewhat sardonic sister. But Method Man walks away with the movie.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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3/4
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Director and co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson tosses in plenty of red herrings and suspects to keep us guessing, and enough horror action to keep us on edge. But the dialogue is what makes this film an unexpected surprise.
Posted Aug 13, 2025
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4/4
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Prime Minister
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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It’s moving to see someone in public office exhibit such common sense, character and heart; don’t be surprised if you get choked up long before New Zealand/Australian band Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over accompanies the end credits.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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4/4
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Viva Verdi!
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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The beauty and power of music, and the passion and vitality it continues to inspire in the home’s guests, is certainly one of the primary themes. ... But the film goes even deeper as it poignantly explores life and death through the eyes of the elderly.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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3.5/4
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The Summer Book
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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There’s no big payoff, emotional or otherwise; no great pronouncements. And that’s what makes this film so good. You’re left to make of it what you will, to experience it as you will. It feels like real life, bittersweet and sublime.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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3/4
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Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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In their film about Michael Dukakis, the three-term Democratic Massachusetts governor who ran against George H. W. Bush for president in 1988, Trahan and Schmidt cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time.
Posted Jul 31, 2025
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4/4
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28 Years Later
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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28 Years Later ... offers so much more than horror-movie mayhem. Yes, it’s scary as hell. ... But it’s also a brilliant coming-of-age drama ... a profound, heartbreaking meditation on death, and ... briefly, a rousing, somewhat comical ... action film.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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F1 The Movie
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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The characters – especially those played by star Brad Pitt and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) – are engaging, and director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick) knows how to shoot action scenes that leave your heart in your throat.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Jurassic World Rebirth
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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The characters may change, the dinosaurs may change, the specific story details may change. But there’s an irritating sameness to these films.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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M3GAN 2.0
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Director Gerard Johnstone ... embraces the camp possibilities here, making “M3GAN 2.0” more a comedy than a horror flick. Not that it’s particularly funny, or scary.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Materialists
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Song isn’t necessarily promoting ... shallow values, but suggesting that practical concerns are a ... part of healthy relationships while love still reigns supreme. If this is the idea, though, her movie doesn’t make a very convincing case for it.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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4/4
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My Mom Jayne
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Hargitay emerges as a genuine, grounded person who shows her vulnerability as she uncovers family secrets and what amounts to her mother’s Rosebud.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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4/4
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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Shoshannah Stern, in her directorial debut, focuses on the life and career of Matlin, who, at 21, became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, for Children of a Lesser God. It’s an inspiring story, told with an engaging honesty.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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4/4
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Director Amy Berg uses vintage footage of Buckley performing, recordings of his voice messages to loved ones, interviews ... and more to give a sense of his remarkable artistry, troubled background and complex personality. ... What a voice. What a loss.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Linus O’Brien ... interviews his father, “Rocky Horror” creator-actor Richard O’Brien ... and others to explore the 50-year history of “Rocky Horror,” its cult status as a camp classic ... and its message of “Don’t dream it, be it.”
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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Messy
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Alexi Wasser directed, wrote and stars. ... Its funny dialogue is reminiscent of a Woody Allen movie, but its underlying portrayal of compulsive self-destructive behavior calls to mind the not-so-cheery “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Honey Don't!
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Director Ethan Coen, working with a screenplay he wrote with wife Tricia Cooke, chooses style over substance with this half-baked neo-noir comedy.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Ballerina
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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De Armas certainly makes a worthy new action hero, while Reeves and McShane are in particularly fine form as their familiar characters.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Karate Kid: Legends
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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The cinematic comfort food known as Karate Kid: Legends ... is as predictable as Mom’s meatloaf.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Bring Her Back
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Bring Her Back left me feeling depressed. That it involves different forms of child abuse ... has something to do with it, but it also just seems so relentless bleak. And to what end, when this is essentially a popcorn movie (albeit, a well-made one)?
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Friendship
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Cringe comedy can be funny. .... “Friendship” ... the latest example of the genre, works for a while, but becomes tiresome.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Director Christopher McQuarrie ... goes all-out in this grandiose possible finale. ... The film should be subtitled The Deification of Ethan Hunt. McQuarrie reminds us, again and again (and again and again), that Cruise’s Hunt is quite a guy.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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Final Destination 5
(2011)
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Tim Miller
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The appeal isn’t watching someone in pain, it’s the suspense of knowing something very bad is going to happen but not knowing exactly how, and the humor in watching ridiculously unlucky victims fall prey to absurdly awful chains of events.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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When Fall Is Coming
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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The writer-director’s deliberate vagueness might frustrate some moviegoers, but it also might be the film’s greatest strength, as it requires our participation in putting the puzzle together and finding meaning in it all.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Thunderbolts*
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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When it comes to goofy Marvel anti-hero teams, I’ll take Guardians of the Galaxy any day. ... But this group should do OK moving forward, even if its first entry lacks a wow factor.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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The Accountant 2
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Though in many ways a typical action film, The Accountant 2 rises above the pack, including the original “Accountant,” thanks to the Affleck-Bernthal pairing and their comedic sibling banter.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Another Simple Favor
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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This go-round, the Italian scenery and the Kendrick-Lively repartee are pluses, but returning director Paul Feig places too much emphasis on silliness to go with the increasingly absurd plot.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Sinners
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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It blends Black Prohibition-era gangsters, the rural South, roadhouse blues as an expression of Black culture, sex, spiritualism, immigrants, the Klan, vampires and more in a way that makes it hard to slap any genre label on it.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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The Surfer
(2024)
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Tim Miller
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Director Lorcan Finnegan and a feverish Cage build tension to an almost unbearable degree. But the awfulness of it all goes on and on – I mean, how many times can you endure seeing a big, moist turd in a drinking fountain before you say, “No more!”?
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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Warfare
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Alex Garland (Civil War) and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza wrote and directed this no-frills snapshot of war, based on a harrowing real-life event experienced by Mendoza’s platoon in 2006 Iraq.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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It’s all very familiar, a combination of Liam Neeson actioner and Death Wish retread, with the usual cardboard villains (boy, those Russian gangsters are tacky dressers). But Statham’s appeal makes this a good bad movie, entertainingly ridiculous.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Rami Malek stars in this by-the-numbers spy thriller, a remake of a 1981 film starring John Savage. Malek plays a CIA cryptographer who seeks revenge after his wife is killed by terrorists. The usual hijinks ensue.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Drop
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Talk about bad first dates. ... Violet starts getting messages on her phone that, if she doesn’t kill her date, her daughter and sister will be executed. Though initially suspenseful, the thriller becomes increasingly, insultingly absurd.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3.5/4
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Black Bag ... proves that a conversation can be more gripping than a car chase.
Steven Soderbergh’s sexy, cerebral spy suspenser stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as ... married British intelligence operatives who get caught up in intrigue.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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3/4
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Robert Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, ... who performs lethal assignments for a space expedition. ... Pattinson’s high-pitched, Marty McFly delivery as the hard-luck Mickey is funny in itself, as are the horrific situations in which he finds himself.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Novocaine
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid), a meek assistant manager at a San Diego credit union, can’t feel physical pain. ... He is mutilated, tortured and otherwise horribly wounded – but doesn’t feel a thing. It’s not as much fun as it sounds.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2.5/4
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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It’s an inspiring true story about loyalty and heroism, and Woody Harrelson heads the cast, a big plus. You almost feel obligated to like it, and, yet, it’s more stressful than suspenseful, not particularly entertaining.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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2/4
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Tim Miller
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This minor Marvel movie starts out fine, with an exciting assassination attempt, but loses steam, leading to a lame showdown in which cherry blossoms (ah, the symbolism) appear to be the answer to the world’s problems.
Posted Jul 22, 2025
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