8.9
HorrorGothic
Review
Nosferatu (2024) Review
Robert Eggers's most commercially accessible film is also his most rigorously gothic — a Nosferatu that trusts atmosphere and period texture more than jump scares.
89%
Film Criticism
Movie Reviews
29 reviewsIn-depth reviews with detailed scores, performance breakdowns, and everything you need before you read.
9.3
DramaHistory
Review
The Brutalist Review
A 215-minute VistaVision epic shot for under $10 million, and one of the most formally ambitious American dramas in a generation.
93%
9.5
ComedyDrama
Review
Anora Review
Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner collapses a screwball comedy, a home-invasion farce, and a quiet character study into one of the most propulsive films of the decade.
95%
9.0
Body HorrorSatire
Review
The Substance Review
A merciless body-horror satire of Hollywood's age economy, carried by Demi Moore's most physically and emotionally exposed performance.
90%
9.1
DramaRomance
Review
Challengers Review
A sports-romance triangle that plays like an Aaron Sorkin script directed by a club DJ — and almost every bet pays off.
91%
8.4
DramaWar
Review
Civil War Review
Alex Garland bets the entire film on photojournalism as an ethical practice, and the wager mostly pays off in sustained, uncomfortable tension.
84%
9.3
DramaDark Comedy
Review
Baby Reindeer Review
Richard Gadd adapts his own life into a seven-hour stalking autopsy that is as uncomfortable as it is morally complicated.
93%
9.6
Science FictionEpic
Review
Dune: Part Two Review
Villeneuve delivers the rare sequel that improves on its predecessor, weaponizing scale and sincerity into the most confident blockbuster in years.
96%
9.6
DramaHistory
Review
Shōgun (2024) Review
FX's Shōgun is the first prestige adaptation to treat the Japanese characters as protagonists rather than scenery — and the storytelling improves in exact proportion.
96%
9.3
DramaSlice of Life
Review
Perfect Days Review
Wim Wenders returns to his Tokyo beat for a quiet, observational masterpiece anchored by one of the most generous lead performances of the decade.
93%
9.4
DramaHistory
Review
The Zone of Interest Review
Glazer's formally radical Holocaust film stages atrocity through sound and adjacency, and the result is unforgettable without being illustrative.
94%
9.0
ComedyDrama
Review
American Fiction Review
Cord Jefferson's debut splits a sharp publishing satire and a tender family drama in half, and makes both better by refusing to choose between them.
90%
9.2
ComedyDrama
Review
Poor Things Review
Lanthimos weaponizes Victorian pastiche into the year's most confrontational comedy, and Emma Stone turns Bella Baxter into an instant canon performance.
92%
9.5
KaijuDrama
Review
Godzilla Minus One Review
A $15 million Japanese production outclasses half of Hollywood's $200 million tentpoles by remembering that kaiju movies are about people, not monsters.
95%
9.1
ComedyDrama
Review
The Holdovers Review
A 1970s boarding-school chamber piece that turns three strangers and a Christmas break into the warmest film Payne has ever made.
91%
9.0
CrimeDrama
Review
Killers of the Flower Moon Review
Scorsese reframes a canonical true-crime story as a sustained indictment of complicity, and the patience pays off in devastating ways.
90%
9.3
DramaLegal Thriller
Review
Anatomy of a Fall Review
A courtroom film that is really a marriage autopsy, built on a Sandra Hüller performance precise enough to cut glass.
93%
8.7
ComedyFantasy
Review
Barbie Review
Greta Gerwig smuggles a thesis on patriarchy past the world's biggest toy-marketing campaign, and somehow makes it the year's most confident studio comedy.
87%
9.7
BiographyDrama
Review
Oppenheimer Review
Nolan's three-hour biography argues that the 20th century's defining scientist was also its most famous unreliable narrator — and the film is the better for refusing to sanitize him.
97%
9.1
AnimationFantasy
Review
The Boy and the Heron Review
Miyazaki returns with his most autobiographical film — a grief dream that trusts its audience to sit with unresolved symbols.
91%
8.8
ActionSpy
Review
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One Review
The Mission: Impossible franchise keeps raising the practical-stunt bar, and the Fiat chase through Rome alone justifies the price of a premium-format ticket.
88%
9.7
DramaComedy
Review
The Bear: Season 2 Review
The second season swaps adrenaline for architecture, and the result is the best single stretch of American TV in the modern TV era.
97%
9.4
AnimationAction
Review
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review
A sequel that treats animation as a medium rather than a format, and somehow sustains its invention across 140 minutes without losing its emotional core.
94%
9.3
DramaRomance
Review
Past Lives Review
Celine Song's debut turns a quiet reunion across three timelines into the most emotionally exact romance of the decade.
93%
9.8
DramaSatire
Review
Succession: Season 4 Review
Jesse Armstrong lands the final season on his own terms, and episode three alone reorders what prestige TV can do with a single phone call.
98%
9.0
ActionThriller
Review
John Wick: Chapter 4 Review
Stahelski pushes the franchise into near-opera, and the Paris stairs sequence is the most purely designed action set piece of the year.
90%
9.5
DramaPost-Apocalyptic
Review
The Last of Us: Season 1 Review
HBO's adaptation understands that the game's genius was never the zombies — and the result is the first prestige video-game series to actually deserve the label.
95%
9.5
Drama
Review
Aftersun Review
A debut of almost unreasonable control. Charlotte Wells turns a dad-and-daughter holiday into one of the decade's most specific films about memory.
95%
9.4
Sci-FiAction
Review
Everything Everywhere All at Once Review
The Daniels' multiverse epic is an absurdist action comedy, a mother-daughter drama, and a tax-audit story — and every register makes the other ones sharper.
94%