Ray Greene

Ray Greene CineGods.com Aug 13, 2026 2.5/5 It's possible to dislike the solipsistic frame, but the gallery of portraits within it exhale life, forty years on. Go to Full Review Sherman's March (1986) 100% 85%

Ray Greene CineGods.com Aug 13, 2026 Answers the question, "What would happen if five art directors and eight costume designers were forced to collaborate in a 'Hunger Games' death match where survival was based on how many incompatible visual ideas made it to the screen?" Go to Full Review Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026) - - - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Jan 30, 2026 2/4 There’s a level of glib to this film approaching fraudulence, playing out in an intriguing setting that doesn’t seem to interest the filmmakers very much at all. If you’re interested in Japan, you’ll almost want the people to get out of the way. Go to Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Jan 29, 2026 3.5/4 A luminous and solitary candle of truth, sputtering brightly in a tempestuous moment of American darkness. Go to Full Review Natchez (2025) 97% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Nov 21, 2025 3.5/4 This almost all-female intergalactic "Candide" deserves high praise for its sex-positive and LGBTQA+-affirming attitude, wrapped around a sincere, ardent and generous heart. Go to Full Review Lesbian Space Princess (2025) 96% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 27, 2025 2/4 A too-carefully curated biopic, about a carefully curated life. Go to Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 21, 2025 2/4 Often brilliantly acted, and framed by supple cinematography and a stunning score from Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross to seem pregnant with meaning. What emerges is the basic structure and essential weightlessness of a “duel of wits” soufflé like “Sleuth.” Go to Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 36% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 2.5/4 A congenial movie that ought to be an incendiary one. Go to Full Review The Two Popes (2019) 89% 88%

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 2/4 Anarchy and chaos are alien concepts to a movie which mostly views Laurel and Hardy as a failing business partnership. The few attempts to reference their comedy fall so entirely flat you’re not even sure if they’re being played for laughs. Go to Full Review Stan & Ollie (2018) 92% 83%

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 3/4 Grace’s heroism isn’t about saving Christmas or rescuing Coraline’s parents. It comes from having an unendurable life, that, against all odds, she somehow endures. Go to Full Review Memoir of a Snail (2024) 95% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 3/4 A creation myth for Spielberg the filmmaker, whose creative vocation is plausibly depicted as a kind of therapy for all the things in life the child of a broken home can’t control. Go to Full Review The Fabelmans (2022) 92% 83%

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 3/4 Some are calling the usage of Willis exploitative, but working to the end is heroic. Willis played his tough guys like they were the kind of people who snuck homemade popcorn into the movies by shoving it into their socks. Reduced circumstances suit him. Go to Full Review Corrective Measures (2022) 80% 32%

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 4/4 Nickel Boys is remarkable, rule-breaking and ravishing cinema, and its advent announces the full arrival of a major cinematic talent of the first rank. Go to Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 14, 2025 2/4 Watching Stallone go through the motions one more time is like finding a melted toy you lost in 1987 among the dust-bunnies under the piano at your mom’s house right after she dies. You don’t know whether to smile or cry but you definitely feel something. Go to Full Review Samaritan (2022) 37% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Oct 11, 2025 4/4 Paul Thomas Anderson’s chaos opera is the only movie you’ll see this year that feels like America. One can almost imagine Donald Trump accidentally seeing the film, and then launching the National Guard against Warner Bros. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Sep 16, 2025 4/4 A remarkable job of balancing gallows humor against medical drama. There are a lot of laughs in Code 3, but it’s always laughter in the shadows, just a few heartbeats away from a radio call and a mad dash to some other guy’s tragedy. Go to Full Review Code 3 (2025) 79% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Nov 6, 2024 4/4 A remarkable reimagining of the very grammar of the documentary film. Go to Full Review The Mother of All Lies (2023) 100% - -

Ray Greene CineGods.com Nov 6, 2024 3/4 A gentle movie that in some ways may be the most daring debut feature of the year. Go to Full Review Tokyo Cowboy (2023) 92% - -

Ray Greene AV Club Nov 22, 2023 C- Wish is a Disney fairytale set in a world that isn’t derived from a fairy tale source. The lore here is adapted from old Disney product, and the fairy tale references are to movies based on folk tales, not to the folk tales themselves. Go to Full Review Wish (2023) 48% 81%

Ray Greene AV Club May 17, 2023 B- Diesel believes in Dom so hard that for two hours and 10 minutes, he makes you believe in him too. Go to Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% 84%