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Once again, James Cameron has delivered a visually stunning Avatar movie in Avatar: Fire and Ash. And once, he has delivered a very mediocre story to go along with those visuals. Check out my full review for more... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/avat...
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” - I thought they already saved the whales.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is going to make a ton of money. Not because it’s a great movie (spoiler: it isn’t), but because it’s a spectacle that...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Once again, James Cameron has delivered a visually stunning Avatar movie in Avatar: Fire and Ash. And once, he has delivered a very mediocre story to go along with those visuals. Check out my full review for more... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/avat...
The Housemaid is a psychological thriller featuring the same girl twice, I think. I’m not convinced the housemaid and the wife aren’t the same person. Read my full review for more... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
“The Housemaid” - At least one of them had a pla.
I’m guessing The Housemaid is a case of the book being better than the movie. I’m guessing because I haven’t read the book. And I’m guessin...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Housemaid is a psychological thriller featuring the same girl twice, I think. I’m not convinced the housemaid and the wife aren’t the same person. Read my full review for more... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
It’s always fun for me when I know I’ve just seen one of the worst movies of the year. Yes, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is that bad. Read my full review for just how bad... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/five...
“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” - A real groaner.
What’s the over/under on how much more money Blumhouse Productions can squeeze out of the FNaF film turd? $200 million? $300 million? For t...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It’s always fun for me when I know I’ve just seen one of the worst movies of the year. Yes, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is that bad. Read my full review for just how bad... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/12/five...
I liked Zootopia 2. What can I say, I’m a sucker for sarcastic talking animals. For more, check out my full review... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/zoot...
“Zootopia 2” - I’m a s-s-s-snake.
Here’s my biggest issue with the world in Zootopia . If all of the animals have evolved higher intelligence and become anthropomorphized, wh...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I liked Zootopia 2. What can I say, I’m a sucker for sarcastic talking animals. For more, check out my full review... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/zoot...
I told you, if you only saw one movie this weekend, it should have been The Running Man. It’s fun, it’s dark, it’s funny, it’s everything you want in a movie. Check out my full review for why I think this is a must watch... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
“The Running Man (2025)” - That’s THIS year!
The Running Man is one of the most appropriately timed movies I’ve ever seen. My son is currently studying dystopian novels in his language...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
I told you, if you only saw one movie this weekend, it should have been The Running Man. It’s fun, it’s dark, it’s funny, it’s everything you want in a movie. Check out my full review for why I think this is a must watch... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
If you only see one movie this weekend, it should be The Running Man. If you see a second movie, it shouldn’t be Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Seriously, go see Predator: Badlands again. Or stay home. For more, check out my full review... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/now-...
“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” - Pick a card. No, not that card.
Prior to the screening of Now You See Me: Now You Don’t , we were treated to an in-person magic act in our theater. And by treated, I mean i...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
If you only see one movie this weekend, it should be The Running Man. If you see a second movie, it shouldn’t be Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Seriously, go see Predator: Badlands again. Or stay home. For more, check out my full review... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/now-...
Predator: Badlands is the second-best Predator movie. Yes, that is a really low bar to clear. Yes, I’m damning it with faint praise. Read my full review for why... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/pred...
“Predator: Badlands” - Kissyface.
There are a few words we would never associate with the Predator franchise. Buddy comedy. Heartfelt. Family-friendly. But that’s exactly wh...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Predator: Badlands is the second-best Predator movie. Yes, that is a really low bar to clear. Yes, I’m damning it with faint praise. Read my full review for why... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/11/pred...
No need for any puns with a title like Regretting You. It’s warning you in clear terms. Read my full review for my full thoughts and to learn about my cynicism meter... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/regr...
“Regretting You” - Took the words right out of my mouth.
Regretting You is now the second Colleen Hoover novel adaptation I’ve seen, after last year’s It Ends With Us . I hope there isn’t a third ...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
No need for any puns with a title like Regretting You. It’s warning you in clear terms. Read my full review for my full thoughts and to learn about my cynicism meter... number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/regr...
Good Fortune was not even close to being as funny as I was hoping for. It’s better than nothing, I suppose. Read my full review for my full thoughts… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/good...
“Good Fortune” - How do angels get their wings?
Good Fortune , a movie featuring Aziz Ansari and Seth Rogen - and Keanu Reeves as an inept angel - seemed like exactly the kind of movie I w...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Good Fortune was not even close to being as funny as I was hoping for. It’s better than nothing, I suppose. Read my full review for my full thoughts… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/good...
Third Tron’s a charm. No, really. Tron: Ares is finally the Tron we thought was possible. Check out my full review for all my thoughts on it… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/tron...
“Tron: Ares” - We used smaller words this time.
It's been fifteen years since Tron: Legacy came out and about a hundred years since the original Tron released, based on how much Jeff Bri...
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October 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Third Tron’s a charm. No, really. Tron: Ares is finally the Tron we thought was possible. Check out my full review for all my thoughts on it… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/tron...
The first question about The Smashing Machine is if Dwayne Johnson can pull off a serious role after a career of very unserious roles and movies. The second question is if the movie as a whole is worth watching. Both are answered in my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
"The Smashing Machine" - Who dis?
I noted in my review of One Battle After Another that I had seen exactly none of director Paul Thomas Anderson's previous films. That is ne...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The first question about The Smashing Machine is if Dwayne Johnson can pull off a serious role after a career of very unserious roles and movies. The second question is if the movie as a whole is worth watching. Both are answered in my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
If you like Paul Thomas Anderson films, you’re going to really like One Battle After Another. It was fine, but definitely not the best movie I’ve seen this year. Check out my full review for why I wasn’t blown away by this film… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/one-...
“One Battle After Another” - Let me tell you how it’s not.
Early critical remarks on One Battle After Another are predictably calling it a “modern masterpiece.” Predictable because it’s the tenth ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
If you like Paul Thomas Anderson films, you’re going to really like One Battle After Another. It was fine, but definitely not the best movie I’ve seen this year. Check out my full review for why I wasn’t blown away by this film… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/one-...
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is emotional, thoughtful, a little funny, and a little weird. In other words, a great choice for a date movie, as confirmed by my lovely wife. Check out my full review for both of our thoughts… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” - The magic of time and place.
I like weird. Weird music, weird books, and definitely weird movies. The Lobster , The Fountain , Labyrinth . The weirder, the better. Wel...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is emotional, thoughtful, a little funny, and a little weird. In other words, a great choice for a date movie, as confirmed by my lovely wife. Check out my full review for both of our thoughts… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
I’ve been waiting thirty years for someone to adapt Stephen King’s The Long Walk into a movie. Now that it’s finally happened, I’m both happy and slightly disappointed. Check out my full review for an explanation… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
“The Long Walk” - Walk it off.
By sheer coincidence, I attended a screening of The Long Walk just two days after walking around Disney World for three days. If you have...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’ve been waiting thirty years for someone to adapt Stephen King’s The Long Walk into a movie. Now that it’s finally happened, I’m both happy and slightly disappointed. Check out my full review for an explanation… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are perfect together in The Roses. Maybe not their characters in the movie, but then again, maybe they are. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
“The Roses” - They love me, they love me not, but in British.
I won’t bury the lede - yes, The Roses is a remake of the 1989 film War of the Roses . No, it’s not a shot for shot remake, but a retelli...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are perfect together in The Roses. Maybe not their characters in the movie, but then again, maybe they are. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Nobody 2 has a lot of action, but way too much unwanted family drama. Then again, it has a lot of action. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/nobo...
“Nobody 2” - For better or for worse.
Prior to attending the screening for Nobody 2 , I figured I should watch Nobody . Literally the night before the screening is when I watch...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Nobody 2 has a lot of action, but way too much unwanted family drama. Then again, it has a lot of action. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/nobo...
I went into the movie Weapons expecting a typical August horror flick. I left the movie realizing Weapons is the best movie I’ve seen all year. For more on why it’s the best movie all year, check out my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/weap...
“Weapons” - Lessons learned.
How did you feel about the 2022 movie Barbarian ? You can read what I thought of Barbarian in detail, but, to summarize, I was not amused...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I went into the movie Weapons expecting a typical August horror flick. I left the movie realizing Weapons is the best movie I’ve seen all year. For more on why it’s the best movie all year, check out my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/weap...
Have you been wondering if they were ever going to make another Naked Gun movie? Me either. But they did. And it’s every bit as stupid as the previous three and I don’t mean that in a mean way. For more, check out my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
“The Naked Gun” - Put your zeitgeist where your mouth is.
The main attraction to spoofs and parodies is that they make fun of something popular or familiar. Think about all of the most famous spoo...
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August 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Have you been wondering if they were ever going to make another Naked Gun movie? Me either. But they did. And it’s every bit as stupid as the previous three and I don’t mean that in a mean way. For more, check out my full review… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Finally, a good Fantastic Four movie that gets to use its own name instead of Pixar’s The Incredibles. So glad to see this family finally done right. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/fant...
“Fantastic Four: First Steps” - Third time’s a charm.
I know you’re worried about Fantastic Four: First Steps . You remember the aggressively mediocre first two Fantastic Four movies featurin...
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July 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Finally, a good Fantastic Four movie that gets to use its own name instead of Pixar’s The Incredibles. So glad to see this family finally done right. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/fant...
Hopefully we’re done rebooting old horror franchises because I Know What You Did Last Summer shows they’ve hit the bottom of the barrel. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-kn...
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” - Still?
With the success (I use this term loosely) of the Scream franchise’s reboot, and the profitability of scary movies in general, it was ine...
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July 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hopefully we’re done rebooting old horror franchises because I Know What You Did Last Summer shows they’ve hit the bottom of the barrel. Check out my full review for more… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-kn...
Jurassic World: Rebirth is exactly what you expect it to be. Depending on how you feel about children, that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Check out my full review to understand what I mean by that… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/jura...
“Jurassic World: Rebirth” - More like afterbirth.
Does anyone get excited for the birth of their fourth child? Or seventh? Or is it more like that feeling you get when you fit piece number t...
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July 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Jurassic World: Rebirth is exactly what you expect it to be. Depending on how you feel about children, that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Check out my full review to understand what I mean by that… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/07/jura...
Ballerina is fine until it becomes John Wick 3.5. It’s also just like all the other John Wick movies, so take that for what it’s worth. Then, read my full review what I thought it was truly worth… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/from...
“From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” - Killing Eve (or John Wick: Chapter 3.5).
Yes, that’s the actual title of the movie. Not just Ballerina , but From the World of John Wick: Ballerina . I triple-checked it. Lionsgat...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ballerina is fine until it becomes John Wick 3.5. It’s also just like all the other John Wick movies, so take that for what it’s worth. Then, read my full review what I thought it was truly worth… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/from...
I supposed I need to watch Cobra Kai, now that I’ve seen Karate Kid: Legends. Cobra Kai has to be better than Legends, a near carbon copy of the original film. Check out my review, written as if it is introducing an MMA/boxing match… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/kara...
“Karate Kid: Legends” - Deja Fu.
Welcome back to the film world of Karate Kid , the land where all bullies are vanquished and girls are wooed simply by competing in a city...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I supposed I need to watch Cobra Kai, now that I’ve seen Karate Kid: Legends. Cobra Kai has to be better than Legends, a near carbon copy of the original film. Check out my review, written as if it is introducing an MMA/boxing match… number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/kara...
Saw Thunderbolts* and...read my review for my thoughts. number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/05/thun...
“Thunderbolts*” - Is that an asterisk in your title or are you just happy to see us?
Before I get into why Thunderbolts* is a movie you absolutely should see in theaters, the answer to your immediate question is I’m no...
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May 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Saw Thunderbolts* and...read my review for my thoughts. number9moviereviews.blogspot.com/2025/05/thun...
I have a bunch of new movie reviews for you all over the past couple weeks. The Amateur, Sinners, A Minecraft Movie, and The Legend of Ochi. Please enjoy. number9moviereviews.blogspot.com
Number9 Movie Reviews
Kevin loves movies and has an opinion about them (without any film schooling).
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April 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have a bunch of new movie reviews for you all over the past couple weeks. The Amateur, Sinners, A Minecraft Movie, and The Legend of Ochi. Please enjoy. number9moviereviews.blogspot.com