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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 22h
Jafar Panahi returns with It Was Just an Accident (2025), a taut moral puzzle about vengeance, doubt, and empathy in modern Iran.
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It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi's latest grapples with the morality of vengeanceIran is producing some of the best modern filmmakers working today, yet sadly, it is not reaping its artistic rewards. Many of these direct...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 7d
Tron: Ares dazzles with neon spectacle and a thunderous Nine Inch Nails score, but underneath the glow there’s little narrative circuitry left. Gorgeous hardware, sloppy software.
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Tron: Ares
The third entry in the franchise is more style than substanceDespite amassing a devoted cult following, the Tron films have never been box office hits. The first one, Tron (1982) was admired more for ...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 10d
Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine trades chaos for compassion. His love for UFC clouds the critique, but Dwayne Johnson’s transformation and Emily Blunt’s layered turn keep it gripping.
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The Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie's first solo directorial effort delivers Dwayne Johnson's best performanceDespite bursting onto the cinematic scene with their film Good Time (2017) and gripping follow-up Uncut Gems (201...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 12d
PTA's One Battle After Another reclaims the American epic — chaotic, politically fierce, disheveled, and deeply human. Full review → youngcriticmovies.com/post/one-battle-after-another
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One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers yet another American epicTo call something an “American epic” should be reserved to a text that captures the complexity, contradictions, promise, and betrayal that the id...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 14d
Carla Simón returns with Romeria, a haunting meditation on memory and identity set in Vigo, 2004. Llucía García gives a profound debut performance as Martina, piecing together the fractured past of her parents.
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Romeria
Carla Simon's third feature continues her exploration of memoryWhat is history if not memories compiled, and what is memory, if not multiple individual narratives of singular pasts, and yet what is th...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 19d
Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey dazzles with color and charm, but its romance feels hollow. Farrell and Robbie shine, yet the film never dares to be bold.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Kogonada’s romance fantasy has charm and color, but no heart beneath the sheenLove is the most covered subject in the arts—be it in songs, books, painting, or dance. This most intense of human emotion...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 22d
🎸 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues tries to turn the amps up to 11 again — but the joke doesn’t hit as hard decades later. Nostalgia riffs louder than the satire.
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
The decades-later sequel coasts on cheap nostalgia and celebrity cameosComedy sequels are notorious for the fall in quality, this is magnified especially with decades-later sequels, which seem more in...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 26d
🏰 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale delivers charm and closure, but feels more like fan service than a true farewell. A warm cup of tea — steeped one too many times.
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
The finale that proves sometimes it’s best to let goDownton Abbey (2010–2015) was a comfort watch for many during its run, providing the subtle dramas of the English nobility in the 1910s and ’20s. Es...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · 27d
Gripping in flashes, predictable in stretches, but saved by the rising charisma of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson. www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/the-lon...
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The Long Walk
Francis Lawrence pares down King’s dystopia but leaves little beneath the surfaceThe dystopian young adult genre dominated the 2010s, but like most trends, it quickly burned out. Oversaturation left a...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Sep 17
Just reviewed Alejandro Amenábar’s The Captive (2025).
A visually strong but thematically scattered take on Cervantes’ imprisonment in Algiers.
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The Captive
Alejandro Amenabar's latest is confused in its structure“Don Quijote de la Mancha” is considered the most-read novel in the history of mankind, surpassed only in readership and circulation by religiou...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Sep 15
Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t is stylish and technically slick — but when it comes to mystery, narrative momentum, or emotional weight, it leaves you wanting.
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Honey Don't
Ethan Coen's latest solo effort is another half-baked noirAfter taking Hollywood by storm for decades as a filmmaking duo, the Coen brothers have been striking out solo in recent years. Joel directed ...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Sep 15
Spike Lee reimagines Kurosawa’s High and Low with Highest 2 Lowest. Denzel Washington anchors the remake with a powerhouse performance, but Hollywood gloss sometimes mutes the bite.
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Highest 2 Lowest
Spike Lee's adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's classic is serviceable if dilutedDespite being one of the foremost auteurs in American cinema, Spike Lee is no stranger to remakes. He remade the Korean acti...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Sep 10
New review up: *The Conjuring: Last Rites* (2025). A fitting send-off for the franchise or just another sequel?

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The Conjuring: Last Rites
The fourth and supposed final entry is a stuporous disappointment James Wan sparked a horror renaissance in the early 2010s when he delivered the one-two punch of Insidious (2010) and The Conjuring (2...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Sep 1
New review up: *The Roses* (2025). Stunning leads and sharp ideas, but the slapstick finale turns a clever setup into a missed opportunity.

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The Roses
This divorce remake is sadly hampered by misplaced slapstickFilms about divorces aren’t as populous as their ubiquity in modern western society would demand. There have been scant good dramas that hav...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Aug 29
New review up: The Naked Gun (2025). Spoof comedies have stumbled for years, but this reboot finds the right balance of silly and sharp.
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The Naked Gun
Another worthy and daring attempt at reviving the spoofSpoof movies and satires had an impressive run of both financial and cultural success from Airplane! (1980), to Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles (1974...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Aug 24
Sorry, Baby (2025), a poignant festival favorite at Sundance and Cannes, breaks through the noise of sensationalism to deliver a quiet, empathetic meditation on trauma and resilience. www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/sorry-b...
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Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor’s first feature listens where others sensationalizeDespite being one of the most horrific yet ancient of crimes, rape and sexual assault were not given sustained exploration or attention wi...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Aug 18
Zach Cregger might just be horror’s new prince 👑🩸
My review of Weapons (2025) — his eerie follow-up to Barbarian — on mystery, schoolyard nightmares, and why the ending can’t quite keep up with the build-up.
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Weapons
A Chilling Mystery and Shaky Reveal Signal a Director on the RiseZach Cregger has burst onto the horror scene in a way that few filmmakers do – once a decade at most. He’s echoing the career impact th...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jul 30
🌀 Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) delivers great vibes and a charming cast, but plays it way too safe. Retro-futurist style shines, but the story’s more tease than substance.

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
A stylish reboot with charm, but little riskSince Disney bought Fox Studios from the Murdoch family in 2019, many film fans have eagerly awaited the company’s use of its newly acquired properties—espe...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jul 18
New Review: Superman - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/superman
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Superman
DC’s reboot buckles under bloated world-building and thin storytellingThe DC comic book adaptations have been a mixed bag at best for Warner Bros. studios. They began with a significant advantage over...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jul 17
New Review: Jurassic World: Rebirth - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/jurassi... - #JurassicWorldRebirth #JurassicPark #ScarlettJohansson #MahershalaAli #GarethEdwards #DinosaurMovies #SummerBlockbuster #FilmReview #JonathanBailey #RupertFriend #JurassicFranchise #MovieCriticism #YoungCriticMovies
Jurassic World: Rebirth
A formulaic but welcome return to Jurassic basics.Despite some fun sequences in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and some nostalgic bait in Jurassic World (2015), every Jurassic sequel has been a ...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jul 16
New Review: 28 Years Later - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/28-year... #28YearsLater #DannyBoyle #AlexGarland #ZombieMovie #HorrorSequel #FilmReview #IndieFilm #Cinematography #iPhoneShot #RalphFiennes #JodieComer #AaronTaylorJohnson #AlfieWilliams #PostApocalyptic #HorrorCinema #MovieReview
28 Years Later
A thoughtful sequel with heart, hindered by frantic editingEvery franchise with even the faintest hint of sequel potential is being squeezed for every last cent. This has needlessly revived properties...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jul 1
New Review: Sirat - Oliver Laxe’s trance-like odyssey blurs myth and rave - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/sirat #Sirat #OliverLaxe #Cannes2025 #IndieFilm #WorldCinema #TechnoCinema #ArtHouseFilm #DesertNoir #FilmCriticism #NowWatching #MovieReview #BlueskyFilmChat
Sirat
Oliver Laxe’s trance-like odyssey blurs myth and raveThe 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 Gil...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jun 30
New Review: F1: The Movie - Apple’s F1 spectacle features real racers, but the plot is stuck in neutral - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/f1-the-... #F1Movie #Formula1 #MovieReview #FilmReview #BradPitt #JosephKosinski #Motorsport #F1Fans #RacingFilm #HollywoodMeetsF1 #SpectacleOverStory
F1: The Movie
Apple’s F1 spectacle features real racers, but the plot is stuck in neutralDespite being one of the most popular sports in the world—and featuring many dramatic real-life stories—Formula 1 has rarely ...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jun 17
New Review: How to Train Your Dragon - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/how-to-... #HowToTrainYourDragon #HTTYD #HTTYD2025 #DeanDeBlois #LiveActionRemake #FilmReview #YoungCritic #MovieCritic #CinematicReboot #AnimationToLiveAction #MasonThames #NicoParker #GerardButler
How to Train Your Dragon
A dazzling but overly faithful remake that mirrors the original more than it reimagines itRemakes present tough choices for filmmakers: do you remain faithful to the original to please fans, or dare t...
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Young Critic Movies @youngcritic.bsky.social · Jun 13
New Review: Materialists - www.youngcriticmovies.com/post/materia... #Materialists #CelineSong #DakotaJohnson #PedroPascal #ChrisEvans #RomCom #IndieFilm #ModernLove #DatingEconomy #FilmReview #MovieCritic #LoveTriangle #PlaywrightToFilmmaker #PastLives #CinematicLove #BlueSkyMovies #FilmDiscussion
Materialists
A sharp, stylish rom-com that dissects modern love—though its heroine falls flatIt can be hard for a playwright to transition into filmmaking. Plays are famously staid, physical affairs, relying more ...
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