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Matt Pais MattPais.com Oct 26, 2026 C- Like its subject, is pretty well made and clearly not a good idea. Go to Full Review Soulm8te (2026) 38% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Oct 16, 2026 B- Exciting and cute enough to hold kids’ attention while mercifully maintaining its avoidance of annoying pop culture references that would make it more frustrating to adults, not less. Go to Full Review PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026) 83% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Oct 5, 2026 B Judge the taste, not the recipe. Go to Full Review The Love Hypothesis (2026) 73% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Sep 27, 2026 D- Perhaps we need more movies about skipping. Go to Full Review The Runner (2026) 11% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Sep 16, 2026 D+ Not the worst movie ever made, but bad and upsetting enough that I’d be pretty concerned if someone I knew really liked it. Go to Full Review The Whisper Man (2026) 45% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Sep 7, 2026 D+ Stupid, annoying and hard to see might be the holy trinity of crap. Go to Full Review The Devil's Mouth (2026) 41% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Aug 28, 2026 B A paperback you’d share with a friend after finding it at a used book store. Go to Full Review The Kid Detective (2020) 85% 76%

Matt Pais MattPais.com Aug 17, 2026 D Not since Nia Vardalos has the star of a movie given off such a clear odor of unqualified. Go to Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 95% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Aug 7, 2026 C Points at something without trying to understand it. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jul 29, 2026 C A rom-com without jokes or wisdom or the guts to lean into the thing it claims to value above all. Go to Full Review Mile End Kicks (2025) 84% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jul 19, 2026 B- These movies are nothing if not a portrait in courage and cowardice, free will determination vs. cruel and mindless obligation. And hell if it won’t always feel good to see the former win. Go to Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 75% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jul 10, 2026 B Sometimes a movie is too funny for you to care if it’s also kinda working against its own premise. Go to Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 78% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jun 29, 2026 C+ Needs to be about twice as deep and three times as surprising for its trajectory to work. Go to Full Review Together (2025) 89% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jun 19, 2026 C- If the 2025 "I Know What You Did Last Summer" proves anything, it’s that you can be totally emotionally disengaged with a movie and also want to boo at the end. Go to Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Jun 8, 2026 B- Good animation, reasonably uplifting story, absence of obnoxious and desperate lunges at humor — a mid-range jumper counts for the same points as a 360 dunk. Go to Full Review GOAT (2026) 83% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com May 29, 2026 D The most controversial movie of 1981. Go to Full Review Ladies First (2026) 26% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com May 23, 2026 A- Both bonkers and unexpectedly wise about college-age mistakes. Go to Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) 79% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com May 12, 2026 C- Makes people who haven’t read the book presume things worked way better on the page and those who have be like, yup. Go to Full Review Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) 86% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com May 4, 2026 C Never overcomes an opening act that’s one obvious move after another. Go to Full Review Apex (2026) 68% - -

Matt Pais MattPais.com Apr 25, 2026 B Might sound stupid if not for the filmmaking skill that helps this B-movie earn its rating. Go to Full Review Primate (2025) 77% - -