Michael J. Cinema

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Sep 8, 2026 4/5 To see "American Doctor" is to bear witness. To acknowledge that these horrors have happened, are happening. And to collapse the comfortable distance between them and us, Palestine and the U.S. Go to Full Review American Doctor (2026) 100% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Aug 21, 2026 4.5/5 You can’t accuse "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" of doing too little. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jul 17, 2026 4/5 Regardless of its faults, The Odyssey is a tremendous movie. I don’t love it, but I am impressed. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema May 29, 2026 3/5 What the backrooms mean depends on what you want them to mean. I don’t think there’s a more concrete answer beyond that. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 86% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema May 23, 2026 4/5 An engrossing doc covering Goodman’s many decades in journalism. Go to Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 97% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Apr 24, 2026 2.5/5 If ever there is a modern-day figure bestowed with messianic properties, pop star is it. That gives writer-director David Lowery’s ghost-slash-love story an interesting slant, though not a convincing one. Go to Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 69% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Feb 20, 2026 3.5/5 Sweet in spots and sports an impressive dual performance from Melling and Skarsgård. Both are committed to their roles in a way that would make Ray proud. Go to Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 24, 2026 3.5/5 Lowthorpe opts for a movie where the audience is allowed to sit within Helen’s sorrow with no clear-cut answers and marvel at the bird that provides none, yet seems to provoke the questions often unasked. Go to Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 82% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 17, 2026 2.5/5 I suspect Garland and Boyle are most interested in Dr. Kelson. He’s the steadfast pole around which all of Garland’s disparate ideas spin, and Fiennes gives a beautiful and still performance that grounds Boyle’s frenetic tone. Go to Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 16, 2026 2.5/5 Despite all the physical and ideological provocation, I find these movies to be simplistic and a little silly. Go to Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 91% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 15, 2026 3.5/5 An impressive piece of drama and a paradoxical portrait. Go to Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 14, 2026 2/5 "The Choral" is a movie without secrets. Go to Full Review The Choral (2025) 66% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 14, 2026 5/5 A magnificent movie, filled with poetry and conflicting ideals about the need for law and order, and the ease with which it corrupts. Go to Full Review My Darling Clementine (1946) 100% 86%

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Jan 2, 2026 3/5 "No Other Choice" is the kind of flick I can get behind ... but why can’t Park get this engine to turn over? Go to Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Dec 25, 2025 4.5/5 The story of a New York City con man barely skirting the gutter, streaked with cinematographer Darius Khondji’s images that attach themself so close to Marty you can almost smell his desperation. Go to Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Dec 19, 2025 2.5/5 Three installments and more than nine hours in, Earth’s colonizers war against Pandora’s natives have become so repetitive it’s baffling to think writer-director James Cameron has two more installments up his sleeve. Go to Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Dec 6, 2025 4/5 Sam Levy’s cinematography is impressive in its immersion, considering the self-imposed limitation of staying behind the proscenium arch without feeling like a member of the audience. Go to Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Nov 26, 2025 3/5 Strains against the story it wants to tell and the entertainment it needs to deliver. Go to Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 92% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Nov 20, 2025 2/5 "Rental Family" is a sweet movie full of saccharine bromides with little interest in uncovering the causes or conditions of loneliness. Go to Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% - -

Michael J. Casey Michael J. Cinema Nov 3, 2025 4.5 "Liberty Valance" illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since. Go to Full Review The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 95% 92%