Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Sep 8, 2026 4/5 To see "American Doctor" is to bear witness. To acknowledge that these horrors have happened, are happening. And to collapse the comfortable distance between them and us, Palestine and the U.S. Go to Full Review American Doctor (2026) 100% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Aug 28, 2026 4/5 While the road—what it is or what it’s meant to symbolize—is the talking point of "It Ends," it’s the characters that make the movie work. Go to Full Review It Ends (2025) 93% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Aug 22, 2026 4/5 A delight. Go to Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 78% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Aug 21, 2026 4.5/5 You can’t accuse "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" of doing too little. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Jul 25, 2026 3/5 A feel-good story that opens up the history of the West. Go to Full Review Jews of the Wild West (2022) - - 100%

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jul 17, 2026 4/5 Regardless of its faults, The Odyssey is a tremendous movie. I don’t love it, but I am impressed. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Jul 3, 2026 4/5 It's mind-boggling, the life Asher has lived. Good thing he's just the raconteur to bring it to life. Go to Full Review Peter Asher: Everywhere Man (2025) 96% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Jun 5, 2026 4/5 A delight. Go to Full Review Tuner (2025) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema May 29, 2026 3/5 What the backrooms mean depends on what you want them to mean. I don’t think there’s a more concrete answer beyond that. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 86% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts May 23, 2026 4/5 A delight. Go to Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 95% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema May 23, 2026 4/5 An engrossing doc covering Goodman’s many decades in journalism. Go to Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 97% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts May 16, 2026 4/5 Sweet, crushing, beautiful. Go to Full Review Late Spring (1949) 100% 92%

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts May 16, 2026 4.5/5 "Blue Heron" bears the mark of memoir, but without the self-centered fixation and oh, woe is me mindset. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts May 4, 2026 4/5 So ridiculous, so over the top, and so, so much fun. Go to Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 95% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Apr 24, 2026 3.5/5 The scouts’ sales goals and tactics vary, and each underlines the personal connection of running a small business and the impersonal threat posed by boosting numbers. Go to Full Review Cookie Queens (2026) 89% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Apr 24, 2026 2.5/5 If ever there is a modern-day figure bestowed with messianic properties, pop star is it. That gives writer-director David Lowery’s ghost-slash-love story an interesting slant, though not a convincing one. Go to Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 69% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Apr 17, 2026 2.5/5 Far too flippant for its own good. Go to Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Apr 17, 2026 4/5 A delight. Julian and Lori are perfect vessels for Solomon and Soderbergh to underline their point: Get distracted by the eye-catching what on the surface, and you’ll miss the genius of the who beneath. Go to Full Review The Christophers (2025) 95% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Apr 9, 2026 3.5/5 So fun, I wish it were 12 minutes longer. Go to Full Review On a String (2025) 91% - -

Michael J. Casey Metro Arts Mar 28, 2026 .5 / 5 A pedestrian overview of a complex issue with little clarity. Go to Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 86% - -