One Guy's Opinion

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 22, 2026 D Literally sinks into the Gotham City sewer before adding an astonishingly misguided coda that throws any notion of morality into the trash heap. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 75% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 22, 2026 B- Though one’s left with the suspicion that 'Wicker' could have been a more engaging fable... there’s enough that’s good about it to make for an enjoyable trip to a place less distant from ours in social norms than one might at first think. Go to Full Review Wicker (2026) 94% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 22, 2026 D Is just aching to come across as a touching, meaningful fable about the fragility of the human condition, but Waititi’s comic sensibility is at odds with the material, and the combination is ultimately both overly broad and cloying. Go to Full Review Klara and the Sun (2026) 25% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 22, 2026 B Exhaustive, and to some extent exhausting,..'Musk' doesn’t offer startling new revelations, but its comprehensiveness and almost obsessive detail are justification enough for its existence. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 15, 2026 D+ One of the silliest survival tales ever told on screen. And what makes 'Whalefall' even worse is its super-serious approach. Go to Full Review Whalefall (2026) 73% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 8, 2026 C+ It’s peppered with Sorkin’s customary snappy, often overlapping dialogue.... Unfortunately, [it] also shows Sorkin’s habit of heavy-handed moralizing, and his rudimentary directorial technique hammers the points home without much subtlety. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 1, 2026 D Verily, 'Verity' is very bad...about as dumb a movie as one can imagine, as well as an excruciatingly boring one. Go to Full Review Verity (2026) 31% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Oct 1, 2026 D A cinematic catastrophe warning of the danger of climate catastrophe...despite its grandiose ambitions, it’s just a jaw-dropping dud of an overproduced farce. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 28, 2026 C Isn’t a good movie—indeed, it’s kind of a mess—but it’s also rather fun, in a guilty-pleasure sort of way...a slow-moving, convoluted crime yarn streaked with dark humor that holds one’s attention even as it lumbers to a sadly predictable conclusion. Go to Full Review The Deputy (2026) 57% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 26, 2026 C If you approach 'Last Train to Fortune' as a one-man show for Malcolm McDowell, its ninety minutes will pass fairly agreeably. But overall, it’s a pretty thin fable about an unlikely friendship in the Old West. Go to Full Review Last Train to Fortune (2025) 86% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 24, 2026 C+ Nice messages about the importance of friendships and memories are undermined by hyperkinetically spectacular animation and a strident soundtrack. Go to Full Review Forgotten Island (2026) 95% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 24, 2026 B- Not so much a docudrama as a creepy exposé...turning Hansen’s story into a squirm-inducing psychodrama of envy, hubris, self-deception and hypocrisy.... But...the performances... elevate [it] above the level of mere sensationalism. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 24, 2026 C+ If you’re a dog lover or Brad Pitt fan, [it] should be on your must-see list. If you’re both, you’re twice blessed. If you’re neither, however, you might find the survival story a bit too manipulative to savor, let alone swallow. Go to Full Review Heart of the Beast (2026) 85% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 24, 2026 B A fascinating account of how a filmmaker’s ambition to do something great came crashing down in the face of practical realities. Go to Full Review Boorman and the Devil (2025) 98% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 17, 2026 C+ An efficient cinematic roller-coaster ride [but] there’s no surprise about where it will end up... after the cleverness of 'Barbarian' and 'Weapons,' it leaves one asking, "Is that all there is?" Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 17, 2026 B One could say it fits the description of the kind of movie they don’t make anymore. It’s satisfying enough to make you wish they did more often. Go to Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 15, 2026 B- 'Colony,' while overstuffed with incident and at two full hours overlong, is a mostly inventive and enjoyable horror thriller. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 13, 2026 C- This is one party you should definitely RSVP to—in the negative, though it’s aways perversely amusing to watch Dafoe overindulge, and in this case to hear him 'sing.' Go to Full Review The Birthday Party (2025) 30% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 11, 2026 D One of the more preposterous action movies in recent memory,...'The Fix' is a movie in need of substantial repairs. But to make them, one would have to go back to the script-writing and casting stages. Go to Full Review The Fix (2026) 16% - -

Frank Swietek One Guy's Opinion Sep 10, 2026 C- Another example of nostalgic sequelitis...it’s even more diffuse and unsatisfying than its maladroit predecessor. Go to Full Review Practical Magic 2 (2026) 36% - -