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Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Aug 28, 2026 You don’t have to have seen The Exorcist or The Heretic to enjoy this behind-the-scenes look. You do have to have a taste for gossip and a sense of humor Go to Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) 98% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Aug 28, 2026 A dedicated team of filmmakers and animators have rendered an ingenious and impressive feature. Will kids who are unfamiliar respond to all of this? I have no idea. I‘m just happy to see my favorite cartoon characters back on the big screen Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Aug 21, 2026 The people who appear on camera demonstrate a unique can-do spirit, swimming against the tide and somehow surviving. The Last Picture Shows is a moving and poetic slice of Americana Go to Full Review The Last Picture Shows (2026) 100% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Jun 23, 2026 Every now and then a show-business documentary comes along that catches my fancy and lingers in my mind for days. There are so many colorful stories revealed in this highly entertaining, unabashedly nostalgic film Go to Full Review Peter Asher: Everywhere Man (2025) 96% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com May 29, 2026 Grab your favorite moviegoing partner and watch Tuner surrounded bv an audience. This is how all films were meant to be seen, especially ones that tell a gripping story in a way that feels fresh and original. Go to Full Review Tuner (2025) 94% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Jan 12, 2026 Dead Man’s Wire is an unpretentious, engrossing movie that’s well worth seeing Go to Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Dec 26, 2025 You don’t have to be a Neil Diamond fan to like this movie--you don’t even have to respond to the callback in "Sweet Caroline." I loved it. Go to Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Dec 26, 2025 The Choral may not be exceptional but it is beautifully crafted and performed. The music is glorious. What more could one ask for. Go to Full Review The Choral (2025) 66% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Dec 21, 2025 Any filmmaker who asks a moviegoer to sit still for more than three hours had better have a really good reason. James Cameron does not. I lost an afternoon to the latest AVATAR movie and I can’t get it back. Go to Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Dec 12, 2025 Jay Kelly may be flawed but it is compelling, and there it’s always a pleasure to watch George Clooney, especially in a part that suits him so well Go to Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Dec 3, 2025 As a movie lover I was utterly enraptured by Nouvelle Vague. It makes you feel as if this is all unfolding right in front of your eyes. It has immediacy and complete credibility Go to Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Nov 21, 2025 If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it Go to Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 93% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Nov 8, 2025 This movie isn’t consumed with self-importance, despite some obvious parallels to current events. This is entertainment that happens to be rooted in reality about a day of reckoning the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in a long, long time Go to Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Nov 2, 2025 James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein remains the classic it has always been, but Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein deserves to be absorbed and celebrated right alongside it. This is the movie he was born to make Go to Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Oct 20, 2025  Bigelow has a firm grip on us from the very start, and if the ending isn’t entirely satisfying I don’t know what the alternative would be. I feel as helpless as the movers and shakers on screen who are faced with making nearly impossible choices Go to Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Sep 27, 2025 This is a difficult film to describe or synopsize. It’s easy to recommend, however, so long as you know you’re about to watch an appropriately R-rated movie where nothing is sacred. Kudos to Paul Thomas Anderson for crafting a truly great movie. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Sep 27, 2025 The Long Walk is a satisfying piece of entertainment that feels curiously relevant Go to Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Feb 21, 2025 The not-so-secret weapon this CAPTAIN AMERICA has going for it is Harrison Ford. Don’t believe the nay-sayers out there: Brave New World is a 21st century Tall Tale, and if it takes two viewings to take it all in, so be it Go to Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Jan 17, 2025 I fear this straightforward telling of Anthony Jerome’s life story will be too “ordinary” to make waves during awards season, but that’s OK: I’m pretty sure moviegoers will approve Go to Full Review Unstoppable (2024) 76% - -

Leonard Maltin leonardmaltin.com Jan 17, 2025 We have seen families depicted on screen countless times but the five youngsters who comprise the Paiva household inhabit their roles completely. Salles deliberately blurs the line between documentary and dramatization and creates an exceptional film Go to Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% - -