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So it’s that time of year again. Time to sharpen the knives, crack the knuckles, and put together the lists: the best movies of the year and, of course, the worst movies of the year. I know people love to get mad about these lists. They love to argue, they love to scream, they love to send me emails that start with “How could you possibly...?” But listen: I’ve been a professional film critic for 40 years. March 5th, 2025 was my actual 40-year anniversary of doing this job for

One of the most beloved and popular subgenres in the sports movie world is, of course, the boxing movie. Boxing movies have been incredibly popular since the early days of cinema. We love boxing movies, especially the underdog stories. It’s a perfect genre for that. It’s a great way to tell a story, to get the audience involved, to make them cheer, to make it personal and relatable. Everybody can identify with the struggle, the fight, the comeback, the one last shot. We all l

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, November 7th, 2025. 1) PREDATOR: BADLANDS So here we go again. Another Predator  movie. The sixth live-action one, if you're keeping score, though, at this point it feels like the fourteenth because they've been trying to keep this thing alive for decades. Dan Trachtenberg , who made the actually-pretty-good Pre