Flick Filosopher

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Aug 22, 2026 4/5 A smart, funny switched-up Cinderella for the social-media era with lots to say about modern dating and gender relations that is caustic, optimistic, and exasperated all at once. Instant comfort movie. Go to Full Review Finding Emily (2026) 90% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Aug 20, 2026 5/5 A blood-gushing, cheerfully horny phantasmagorical black comedy fueled by writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s unique understanding fandom and the intense relationships we can have with pop culture. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Nov 26, 2025 4/5 Rian Johnson’s third outing with droll detective Benoit Blanc, perhaps the most memorable original new movie character in decades, is a grimly funny gothic romp through modern hot-button Americana. Go to Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Oct 24, 2025 4.5/5 Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale... and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet. Go to Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Sep 30, 2025 4.5/5 A haunted house movie from the dog’s perspective. No cheap gimmick but an absolute marvel, strikingly original and deeply affecting. An interspecies love story without a lick of phony sentimentality. Go to Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Sep 26, 2025 4/5 A real aspect of boxing — dangerously fast weight loss — sports films have ignored becomes body horror we have not seen before. The genre’s motivational clichés get twisted, nastily and poignantly. Go to Full Review The Cut (2024) 67% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Sep 25, 2025 5/5 Brash, chaotic, full of bleak humor and bitter irony. With blockbuster vibes over an anarchic indie heart, it’s both earnest and winking. Outstanding in-flight entertainment for our societal freefall. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Jun 20, 2025 3/5 The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes. Go to Full Review Sew Torn (2024) 95% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Jun 11, 2025 5/5 Smart, sophisticated spy-versus-spy nonsense makes for a perfect little cinematic contraption. Tense and tricksy, but much more deliciously, these are espionage mind games with a sexy screwball vibe. Go to Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Jun 6, 2025 2/5 Hollywood has lost the ability to buckle swash. Guy Ritchie, shamelessly stealing from Indiana Jones, gives us a charmless treasure hunt that feels honed by corporate focus groups and cinematic SEO. Go to Full Review Fountain of Youth (2025) 36% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher May 20, 2025 2.5/5 The dorm-room philosophy of the 25-year-old series is still pondering how wild it is that we all die, how fragile our meatbag bodies are. Now with gory dismemberments and squishy impalements in IMAX! Go to Full Review Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) 92% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher May 20, 2025 5/5 Wildly primal, big and bold, fueled by pain and rage, by community and family, throbbing with love and sex and joy, infused with magic. A sumptuously textured, unmissable howl of a passion project. Go to Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Mar 7, 2025 3.5/5 Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious. Go to Full Review Superboys of Malegaon (2024) 87% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Feb 27, 2025 2.5/5 Pretty young people are sad about the end of everything, but there’s no urgency and little emotional authenticity to any of it. We’ve seen this before, pulled off with far more affecting feeling. Go to Full Review When I'm Ready (2025) - - - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Feb 13, 2025 5/5 A portrait of a weak man, humorless and friendless, desperate to be liked, desperate to be seen as someone who *matters*. Sebastian Stan’s brilliantly disgusting Trump is horrifically riveting. Go to Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Feb 13, 2025 2.5/5 Colorful but flattened and flimsy, which really grates next to how abundantly, uniquely original the first two movies are. Suffers greatly from the lack of their deft whimsy. It’s, well, bearly there. Go to Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Jan 15, 2025 5/5 Stark and unsentimental, as stubborn and as challenging as its protagonist, and as monumental as his works. Adrien Brody’s performance is extraordinary, full of flinty anger and palpable melancholy. Go to Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Dec 4, 2024 3/5 Replaces the novel’s rage with gentle comedy, biting its tongue and undercutting its protagonist. Still, mundane truths about women’s realities that rarely get public airings are on welcome display. Go to Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 59% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Nov 10, 2024 1/5 Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is ‘bested’ only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids! Go to Full Review Red One (2024) 29% - -

MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Nov 3, 2024 Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent. Go to Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% - -