Jason Bailey

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic Crooked Marquee Oct 23, 2025 Rebel Without a Cause is, for much of its running time, of its moment, but it captures that moment with a grace and vulnerability that must’ve been astonishing for its original audiences. Go to Full Review Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% 88%

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 ‘The Last Viking' sports a cockeyed streak a mile wild, trafficking in the best kind of straight-faced absurdism—wry, but simultaneously genuine and sincere. Go to Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 90% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 It’s somewhat jarring that Brian Cox, an actor who is seemingly incapable of a false note, has directed a film that consists of one false note after another. Go to Full Review Glenrothan (2025) 19% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 It’s the kind of lickety-split, old-school programmer Steven Soderbergh and very few others are bothering to make anymore, and if it were content to simply be that, it would land cleanly. Go to Full Review Fuze (2025) 72% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Sep 8, 2025 2.5/4 This documentary—with all its resources and access—rarely goes much deeper than that. Go to Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic Crooked Marquee Jun 4, 2025 I'm not sure Rollerball entirely works – it's such a strange hybrid of mismatched genres, you're never quite sure what movie Jewison is making, or if it's the one he intended. But I’ll add this much: my attention never wandered. Go to Full Review Rollerball (1975) 55% 62%

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Apr 25, 2025 2.5/4 It’s a fine film, albeit one that nearly loses its credibility due to an unfortunate instance of undisclosed bias. Go to Full Review Drop Dead City (2024) 92% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Dec 20, 2024 3.5/4 Patellière and Delaporte foreground the moral complexity in a way that the Count’s copious heirs often do not. Go to Full Review The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024) 97% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic RogerEbert.com Nov 21, 2024 3/4 Less like a documentary than a "Frontline" episode, albeit a well-made and deeply frightening one, whose conclusions are inescapably grim. Go to Full Review Surveilled (2024) - - - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic Crooked Marquee Mar 11, 2024 C- "It isn’t as much of a bad movie as it is a baffling one, an inexplicable instance of an existing property revised past the point of recognition. Why would you want to remake and modernize a film so embedded in its specific time and aesthetic?" Go to Full Review Road House (2024) 59% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Sep 14, 2023 B Johnson and Penn’s connection is genuine, and there’s an awful lot to like here. Go to Full Review Daddio (2023) 76% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Sep 13, 2023 C- The images are immaculate, unsurprisingly, with Kuras and her gifted cinematographer Pawel Edelman making a striking aesthetic Go to Full Review Lee (2023) 67% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Sep 11, 2023 B+ The debut feature of an intelligent, intuitive, film-literate actor-turned-director who has clearly spent their career working, watching, and taking notes. Go to Full Review Woman of the Hour (2023) 91% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Sep 11, 2023 B A picture rendered with grace, patience, and artistry. Go to Full Review The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) 86% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Sep 3, 2023 A- "The Pigeon Tunnel” feels like his [Errol Morris] most personal picture to date. Go to Full Review The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) 96% 72%

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Jun 17, 2023 D+ "First Time Female Director” is a tremendous disappointment because Peretti is such a gifted performer. Go to Full Review First Time Female Director (2023) 33% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Jun 17, 2023 B “The Lesson” plays and gives one of our most entertaining actors an especially meaty role to devour. Go to Full Review The Lesson (2023) 77% 70%

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Jun 12, 2023 B- The structure is fairly clever, starting towards the beginning but not quite at it, jumping forward and back, hopping around enough to keep the viewer on their toes and avoid the typical traps of the cradle-to-almost-grave profile. Go to Full Review Rather (2023) 94% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Jun 12, 2023 A- Rock Hudson led a fascinating, complicated, often contradictory life, and “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” does it justice. Go to Full Review Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023) 92% - -

Jason Bailey @jason_bailey_critic The Playlist Mar 19, 2023 D+ A viewer’s experience depends disproportionately on their personal expectation of what an “Evil Dead” movie should be. Go to Full Review Evil Dead Rise (2023) 85% 76%