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Rebecca Ferguson is one of those rare actors who immediately commands the screen the moment she appears, and once you notice her, you really can’t stop noticing her. She’s got that elusive combination of intelligence, danger, humor, vulnerability, strength, sexuality, and mystery that you just don’t see very often anymore. With the release of the new science-fiction thriller Mercy , which co-stars Chris Pratt and features Ferguson front and center, it felt like the perfect

It’s my favorite time of year. It really is. It’s time to talk about the best and worst movies of 2025, and every year (for as long as I’ve been doing this, which is now 40 years) film critics like myself have to dig into our hearts and our guts and our brains and figure out which movies we loved the most. Forty years. I can’t believe it. March of 2025 marked my official 40th anniversary as a professional film critic. And yes (shameless plug here) to honor that milestone, I p

Kathryn Bigelow is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. Period. I think her work is stunning. She’s an artist, a technician, a visual stylist, and a total badass who has worked in the kinetic, muscular, testosterone-heavy world of action and thriller cinema for most of her career, a genre long dominated by male directors, and she didn’t just step into it, she detonated it. This is not the kind of career you’d normally associate with a female filmmaker, which is of cour

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 10th, 2025. 1) TRON: ARES I'm going to start by saying something that might get me kicked out of a certain nostalgic corner of sci-fi fandom: I am not a Tron fan. When the original came out in 1982, I was a junior in high school heading into my senior year. It was the summer of Road Warrior , Blade Runn