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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

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review seven new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, November 14th, 2025. 1) THE RUNNING MAN Edgar Wright's   The Running Man  is the second adaptation of Stephen King's  1982 novel (originally written under his Richard Bachman  pseudonym) and a remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger  cult favorite. Set in a dystopian future ruled by media manipulation and gov