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Decided to bust out my old-school, classic Film Critics pants to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, January 24, 2025. 1) PRESENCE Steven Soderbergh  is an Academy Award-winning director who has been making films for over 35 years, and most of them are actually quite good. Watching his labyrinthian career unfold has been a fun, fascinating, and undeniably entertaining ride. Over the years, he has been known to switch back and forth

Below is my list of the 20 Best Movies of 2024 in my order of preference, with the first being the Best Film of the Year 2024 was a solid year for movies—not great, but solid. You will notice that there are many films on my list that aren't on many other critics' lists, as there are many films that are NOT on my list that are included on my colleagues' lists. That's not on purpose; it's just how it worked out. A huge number of extraordinarily overrated movies were released th

This week, Robert Zemeckis 's new film, " Here ," was released. It stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Paul Bettany and is directed by Zemeckis. Whenever a new movie from Robert Zemeckis is released, it is a cause for celebration, and "Here" is no exception. In my opinion, Robert Zemeckis is the best commercial American filmmaker alive. His movies are consistently entertaining, incredibly well-made, cutting-edge, surprising, and deeply subversive. Many of his movies have been

My Film Critic pants are getting quite the workout these days! It's time for some capsule (short) reviews of four New Releases for the week of Friday, November 1, 2024 1) HERE Robert Zemeckis  is one of cinema's most significant, innovative, and influential filmmakers. He is more than just some hugely successful Oscar-winning creator of simple, crowd-pleasing box-office hits—leave that to Spielberg . Zemeckis is a true cinematic artist, the best commercial American filmmaker