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3/5
Marc by Sofia (2025) Thelma Adams Like with the beautiful fabrics painstakingly curated and draped by Jacobs, the audience's gaze stops at the beguiling surface.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Great Awakening (2026) Thelma Adams For fans of faith-based films, A Great Awakening provides an ideal way to celebrate a treasured holiday and the pending 250th anniversary of the United States with one theater ticket.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Blue Trail (2025) Thelma Adams Chilling. At the movie’s center is the stubborn septuagenarian Tereza (a compelling Denise Weinberg, 69), who, after a lifetime of toil and mothering, wants finally to retire and achieve her dream of flying in a plane.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Stranger (2025) Thelma Adams The French film is spare, elegant and perfectly cast, making for an incomparable literary adaptation that leaves nothing lost in translation.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Hamlet (2025) Thelma Adams hile Ahmed struggles (a bit too much) about whether to be or not to be, it may be worth a theater ticket to witness a tremendous character actor like Malik put his stamp on the coveted role of the murderous Claudius.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Christophers (2025) Thelma Adams Largely an entertainingly witty two-hander between McKellen and Coel, the film still delivers emotional payoff.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
She Dances (2025) Thelma Adams Eschewing wrapping anything in a tidy bow, the film is a rewarding look at the actual, often complex dance between fathers and daughters.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Holy Days (2026) Thelma Adams A recipe for miraculous mischief.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Fantasy Life (2025) Thelma Adams Sometimes a great cast overflowing with character actors can elevate an otherwise modest comedy. That’s true of this charmingly offbeat rom-com.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Tow (2025) Thelma Adams While there are plot holes and continuity blips, the strong ensemble cast and director Stephanie Laing’s avoidance of melodrama make Tow a satisfying David and Goliath tale with an underdog who’s a real superhero.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Late Shift (2025) Thelma Adams Benesch is deeply moving as an angel of mercy in a hellish, often thankless but absolutely necessary profession.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
undertone (2025) Thelma Adams Hurrah for genuinely scary movies without a scrap of gore.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
André Is an Idiot (2025) Thelma Adams As colorectal cancer strikes ever-younger adults, this is a movie that can save lives without sacrificing laughter and warmth.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Thelma Adams Ultimately, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man -- full of emotion, explosive action and propulsive rock ‘n’ roll -- is a succession story.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Thelma Adams Whether Heel advocates for or indicts troubled-teen reprogramming is never clarified, but its despair at the societal decline caused by teens’ pervasive drug and social media abuse resonates
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Thelma Adams An electric shock of a movie.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Undercard (2025) Thelma Adams As the sports drama builds to its inevitable final bout, which delivers the requisite nail-biter scene in the ring, Undercard lionizes the underdog finding her way with abundant heart and a fire in her belly.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Ghost Elephants (2025) Thelma Adams It’s a wise movie that combines spirit and science, championing the need for (and inherent beauty of) biodiversity while highlighting the genetic ties that bind the majestic elephants, the African men and the Western explorers.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Thelma Adams It’s crammed with Elvis in performance, an experience that could have you dancing in the aisles of the IMAX theater (if not throwing panties at the screen).
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Solo Mio (2026) Thelma Adams Solo Mio travels a fair distance without covering new ground, but it’s amiable and good-hearted.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Thelma Adams Somewhere, beneath all the corpses, is a cunning killer comedy, but this film misses its target.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Kokuho (2025) Thelma Adams The average response to seeing a nearly three-hour Japanese movie about the art of Kabuki may be that it’s not your cup of (green) tea. But, you’d be sacrificing one of the awards season’s most gorgeous and stirring movies.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Thelma Adams Meet Emily Brontë’s Euphoria. That’s how director Emerald (Saltburn) Fennell’s swoony reimagining of the author's transgressive, thorny 1837 novel struck me.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Thelma Adams An eye-popping, nonstop Rube Goldberg motion picture, led by a zany, manic Rockwell. The film provokes and entertains, refusing to take itself (or the human race) too seriously.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Crime 101 (2026) Glenn Kenny The action is pleasingly sure-footed: A car-and-motorcycle chase in L.A. by night is a jump-inducing thrill ride.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Pillion (2025) Thelma Adams With screenwriter/director Harry Lighton’s keen awareness of power dynamics within a couple, the script’s choice to celebrate rather than judge, and Skarsgård’s magnetic performance and Melling’s sensitive one, Pillion is a racy but compassionate romance.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dracula (2025) Thelma Adams This Dracula doesn’t take itself deadly seriously. Instead, it mines the legend’s touchstones while giving the saga new life with a dash of humor, a sense of spectacle and a generous serving of horror.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Shelter (2026) Thelma Adams It’s a tale at least as old as Liam Neeson, and while this tidy version doesn’t break new ground, it succeeds because the tension never cracks from brawling beginning to bitter end.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Love That Remains (2025) Thelma Adams Well-acted with stunning cinematography, The Love That Remains is both emotionally astute and stubbornly mysterious, a complete original to be experienced rather than consumed.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Moses the Black (2026) Thelma Adams This gives Moses the Black a level of spirituality, this one rooted in biblical history, that's often missing in gangster sagas. It elevates the crime drama without blunting the inherent violence of Malik and his world.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Young Mothers (2025) Thelma Adams Another is the dignity that the filmmakers allow these young women, even when they make the bad choices one would expect from hormonally challenged teenage girls. Never judgmental and deeply moving, this lean Dardenne drama wields a big impact.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Sound of Falling (2025) Thelma Adams Haunting images layer the past and the present over the course of the film, making quiet connections that transport the audience to other worlds and times and, ultimately, to mortality.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Mercy (2026) Thelma Adams It’s sleuthing by scrolling, with a life hanging in the balance. Pratt handles the role well enough, and it’s a tense ride. You just hope it doesn’t come to this in real life.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Thelma Adams Suspenseful, entertaining and swift, the hostage caper revels in the 1970s Indianapolis setting, recalling the 1975 classic Dog Day Afternoon.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Thelma Adams Is part two of last year’s 28 Years Later -- where a rage virus infects and torments the world -- gross? You betcha. It’s also witty and propulsive.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
A Private Life (2025) Thelma Adams Auteuil and Foster have mad exes-turned-lovers chemistry as, together, they pursue the murderer while producing a delicious and cerebral mystery that doesn’t need big explosions to have a big emotional impact.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Thelma Adams Amanda Seyfried has the integrity, charisma and pipes to carry the central role of messiah... But for those who admire the sect’s spare, spiritual music, composer Daniel Blumberg’s score is way too busy.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Magellan (2025) Thelma Adams Gael García Bernal fully inhabits the titular conquistador in a performance both present and potent, on a quest that began with optimism but ended in dire straits.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Chronology of Water (2025) Thelma Adams Imogen Poots creates a stunning portrayal of the swimming prodigy who front-crawls her way out of the gutter... The film’s central flaw, not unlike that of some swimmers, is that it slows to a bit of a slog.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Plague (2025) Thelma Adams The Plague is well-acted, claustrophobic and such a very sad statement about how young boys on the cusp of puberty prey on the weak.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Thelma Adams Too many Americans can relate to the crippling gut-punch of a job loss, with the ripple effects that threaten the bonds of family and shatter their social position. No Other Choice pushes the trauma one step further.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Thelma Adams Wry, emotional and off-kilter, Father Mother Sister Brother is the antithesis of a Hallmark Christmas movie, and so much the better for it.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Thelma Adams The pair wallow in an overabundance of dramatic turns that pile up like a tonal train wreck. Still, for “Forever in Blue Jeans” lovers, this is the sing-along, cry-along movie for you.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Thelma Adams It's weighed down by a hefty 149-minute running time more suitable for Apocalypse Now.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Choral (2025) Thelma Adams The ageless music is sublime, beautifully sung by trained vocalists (not actors lip-synching), but the movie itself is musty, like a forgotten Christmas present stashed in a closet only to be unwrapped years later.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Thelma Adams There’s wisdom here, and laughs, and hope for redemption for an ordinary guy who blazes his own path out of midlife emotional quicksand.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
H Is for Hawk (2025) Thelma Adams Grief is an individual journey, but it's possible to see the universal agony of mourning a parent in this very specific, well-acted, intelligent tale of loss and recovery.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Thelma Adams With minimal emotional traction but amazing visuals, they all spin toward a final teeth-rattling battle where, yes, good prevails over evil.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Goodbye June (2025) Thelma Adams Goodbye June brought me to tears by releasing pent-up emotions on the screen and in my heart.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Ella McCay (2025) Thelma Adams There are bright moments and some laughs, and the ever-brilliant Albert Brooks shines despite a truncated role. But the whole effort, alas, is overstuffed and undercooked.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
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