Jesse Hassenger

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Oct 10, 2026 C+ Misty is nearly compelling enough on her own to justify the time spent with far more sketchily defined characters. Go to Full Review Misty Green (2026) 61% - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Oct 10, 2026 B- There’s another side to Cruise’s work in Digger, one involving less showboating, that manages to increase his performance’s scope while arguably decreasing its depth. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Oct 10, 2026 B+ Without overreaching, Oppenheim manages to evoke the entirety of the 2000s depicted through just one show over the course of just a few months. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Oct 10, 2026 B Onslaught technically expands the world of The Guest, yet it also cuts its human interest down to a couple acres of dusty trailer park Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Oct 10, 2026 C+ Verity lopes around unevenly instead of building to a fever pitch. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Oct 10, 2026 B+ Johansson and Driver doing another movie together may be the marquee event, but Paper Tiger may ultimately be remembered as the first movie in whatever Teller’s next phase turns out to be. Go to Full Review Paper Tiger (2026) 86% - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Oct 10, 2026 B+ Ray Gunn isn’t nearly as set-piece-heavy as an Incredibles installment; instead, shorter skirmishes or slapstick mishaps or brief pursuits feel like set pieces based on how Bird carries visual momentum from one motion to the next. Go to Full Review Ray Gunn (2026) 94% - -

Jesse Hassenger Guardian Oct 8, 2026 2/5 This is a movie that just wants to get the job done with frictionless likability, with seemingly no one inquiring about why. Go to Full Review Animals (2026) 30% - -

Jesse Hassenger Guardian Sep 27, 2026 4/5 Godzilla Minus Zero cross-breeds its fight-to-the-death grappling with disaster-movie scope and horror-movie teeth. Yet it also doesn’t go in for the overkill; like its predecessor, the movie favors quality of visual effects over quantity. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) 92% - -

Jesse Hassenger Guardian Sep 16, 2026 4/5 Resident Evil has a streamlined single-mindedness, and as it barrels through its gamified plot, the tension and entertainment value never flag. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Sep 16, 2026 B Hope is the kind of movie that encourages talking around, in part that’s because it’s surprising, strange, and entertaining enough to make spoiler avoidance unusually worthwhile. That’s also not the whole story. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Aug 31, 2026 This is dire, amateurish stuff that will make you long for the days of Black Sheep, let alone something as genuinely funny as Tommy Boy. Go to Full Review Busboys (2026) - - - -

Jesse Hassenger Decider Aug 14, 2026 A- The movie’s fusion of tracking-shot velocity and bucolic-grain splendor mirrors the way it absorbs a number of different genres into a single narrative; alongside the comedy and drama, there are elements of Western, musical, and crime thriller. Go to Full Review The Rivals of Amziah King (2025) 87% - -

Jesse Hassenger SportsAlcohol Aug 14, 2026 A- The emphases of various comic and harrowing notes are a little different in Mitchell’s version of the haunted suburbs, but there’s a similarly productive tension between adventure and horror. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Aug 7, 2026 B- As with its predecessors, ramshackle high spirits carry Super Troopers 3 through its less inspired patches, and toward the group’s more charming comic tastes. Go to Full Review Super Troopers 3 (2026) 50% - -

Jesse Hassenger SportsAlcohol Aug 7, 2026 B- The movie’s ambitions and old-fashioned small-c conservatism never feel fully resolved, and that’s what gives the movie some unexpected friction. Go to Full Review One Night Only (2026) 44% - -

Jesse Hassenger Guardian Aug 6, 2026 1/5 The Horror Section is supposed to offer edgier fare to the ravenous, enthusiastic genre fans. With this soft serve, it feels like it's feeding them mainly contempt. Go to Full Review Ice Cream Man (2026) 25% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Jul 28, 2026 C For movie-watchers who have wished that modern cinema was less reliant on boilerplate dialogue and tell-don’t-show exposition dumps, Motor City plays like a monkey’s paw curling in slow motion. Go to Full Review Motor City (2025) 63% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Jul 28, 2026 C- Even when making Hart the butt of chopped-unc jokes, though, there’s plenty of ego preservation for the unabashed star-producer Go to Full Review 72 Hours (2026) 17% - -

Jesse Hassenger AV Club Jul 28, 2026 B+ If it’s not especially close to the majesty of Spider-Man 2 (and lacks the delirious highs of Spider-Man 3), it’s also pretty handily the best MCU Spider-Man movie since Homecoming. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -