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Barbara Shulgasser

Barbara Shulgasser's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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It Takes a Village (2026) 2/5 EDIT “This is of those movies in which everyone involved seems to think that actors pretending to be idiots is somehow going to be charming. This assumption is incorrect. ” – Common Sense Media Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story (2024) 2/5 EDIT “Lifetime dramas are usually simplistic and melodramatic, yet watchable, but this one is an outlier, mixing stiff acting, dreadful dialogue, and confusing direction. ” – Common Sense Media Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Oddball (2015) 88% 4/5 EDIT “This is a great family-friendly movie that will also charm watch-along parents.” – Common Sense Media Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Giving Hope: The Ni'Cola Mitchell Story (2023) 2/5 EDIT “The achievements of the real person it profiles—a seemingly generous, talented, civic-minded, philanthropic writer—merits a good movie. But this is not that.” – Common Sense Media Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Eat Pray Bark (2026) 2/5 EDIT “This film is a curiosity and might disappoint kids assuming the movie is about cute furry friends. Most dog-related movies at least have adorable dogs to focus on. Here, the animals are secondary to a bunch of mostly unpleasant and neurotic humans.” – Common Sense Media Apr 7, 2026 Full Review If I Can't Have You (2023) 1/5 EDIT “The plot clearly has not been worked out. A murder is committed with no plausible explanation for why. A man stalks a woman with no plausible explanation for why. The characters generally behave like unsupervised 11-year-olds.” – Common Sense Media Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Made in Korea (2026) 31% 2/5 EDIT “This movie is actually a bunch of different movies—some good, some not so good—an amalgam of precariously glued-together variations on familiar cliches.” – Common Sense Media Mar 25, 2026 Full Review The Bad Guardian (2024) 3/5 EDIT “If you like your anxiety served up as an 87-minute public service announcement, complete with a condescending villain and a system rigged to exploit the innocent, The Bad Guardian is for you.” – Common Sense Media Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Accused (2026) 29% 3/5 EDIT “Accused is often gripping even if it fails to execute on tying together a raggedy array of loose threads and vague premises.” – Common Sense Media Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story (2024) 2/5 EDIT “The buildup feels manufactured and confusing because at times Morgan seems to be as unbalanced as Rodney.” – Common Sense Media Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Yoh! Bestie (2026) 2/5 EDIT “Yoh! Bestie ends on a sweet note, but there's a lot of fluff on the way to that heartfelt moment.” – Common Sense Media Mar 3, 2026 Full Review The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) 51% 3/5 EDIT “Despite some dated ideas and flaws, The Mirror has Two Faces is still a fun watch, with a great cast and a silly premise.” – Common Sense Media Mar 3, 2026 Full Review This is I (2026) 3/5 EDIT “This is I is a sweet film about a seemingly sweet person whose strength of character sees her through a challenging situation.” – Common Sense Media Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Orphans (2025) 2/5 EDIT “For those who love nonstop, choreographed violence, The Orphans is a skillful display. Still, at a certain point, the ongoing punching and hitting of characters who keep falling down and miraculously getting up again for more becomes dull.” – Common Sense Media Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Postman (1994) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “[An] imperfect but well-directed film. ” – San Francisco Examiner Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love (2024) 3/5 EDIT “It's always a beautiful thing to watch two intelligent, thoughtful people negotiate the challenges of life, and that's what's on the menu in Tempted by Love.” – Common Sense Media Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Terry McMillan Presents: Forever (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Diggs and Good portray two smart, kind, capable, reasonable people who are both wildly attracted to each other and grounded in the reality of what it takes to make a marriage work.” – Common Sense Media Feb 10, 2026 Full Review The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) 60% 2/5 EDIT “Given the use of AI to "create" characters making assertions about Lucy and the case, this feels like an exercise in hoodwinking.” – Common Sense Media Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Easterland 2 (2020) 1/5 EDIT “This is a stinker and a sequel nobody asked for.” – Common Sense Media Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Sisterhood, Inc (2025) 2/5 EDIT “The writers just didn't think this one through as the messages are muddled. Sisterhood, Inc. can't decide if it disapproves of an irresponsible 29-year-old, or if it celebrates her quirkiness and individuality.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Royal We (2025) 3/5 EDIT “As escapist fare that fictionally counterbalances all the worldwide unresolved conflicts showcased in the news every day, this can't be beat.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% 3/5 EDIT “For the first 90 minutes, this film is a well-acted drama, though hard to watch for its grim cruelty, violence, racism, and monstrous treatment of not just women and Black people, but of everyone. Then, unfortunately, it goes on another 46 minutes.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story (2022) 2/5 EDIT “This drama takes a definite position on the defendant's guilt—the movie suggests she's guilty—but doesn't show us the evidence that persuades us beyond a reasonable doubt that she did the deed.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review An Unexpected Valentine (2025) 2/5 EDIT “This is a lightweight look at love that offers insights about as deep as a puddle.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Easterland (2019) 1/5 EDIT “Easter Land is by any standards really bad. This is just a repetitive, visually dull, poorly executed dud.” – Common Sense Media Jan 27, 2026 Full Review
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