Movies For The Rest Of Us

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Oct 1, 2026 4/5 A lot to say about unwarranted male dominance, toxic relationships, and the power of pure intellect. Go to Full Review The Julia Set (2026) 70% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Jun 14, 2026 4/5 Will future film schools dissect the simple pleasures of Paddington 2? I’m guessing not, but then again, a lot of filmmakers could use a lesson or two in making a movie that is both perfectly executed and perfectly fun. Go to Full Review Paddington 2 (2017) 99% 88%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Dec 18, 2025 4/5 Of course, we’re left wondering who the true monsters are, but happily there’s a lot of wild, senseless violence before we’re subjected to any sort of moral. Go to Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 3/5 Jude Law steals the show as Vladimir Putin: Laser-eyed, stridently mannered, head slightly bowed in the manner of a lifelong spy accustomed to keeping a low profile. Go to Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 44% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 4/5 A darkly comic primal scream. Go to Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 16, 2025 3/5 So intimate is the filming style, and so lifelike are the performances, you’ll keep forgetting this is, as they say, only a movie. Director Tim Mielants has assembled a young cast who seem to forget there’s a camera running. Go to Full Review Steve (2025) 77% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us May 1, 2025 3/5 "Screamboat" succeeds as the darkest of Disney dark rides. Go to Full Review Screamboat (2025) 54% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Mar 7, 2025 5/5 The characters start at rock bottom, grab pneumatic drills, and excavate themselves even deeper. For them, Hope is a thing teamed up with Bing Crosby. Yet there is always escape in the songs that sustained Depression America through the unsustainable. Go to Full Review Pennies From Heaven (1981) 81% 64%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Mar 5, 2025 3/5 While holding an otherworldly essence, the people, places and events of the film seem genuine, at times painfully real, like a sculpture cut from a concrete cloud. Go to Full Review A Night Full of Rain (1978) - - 33%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 12, 2024 3/5 Goldstein is a revelation to the universe that knows him primarily as the poker-faced, potty-mouthed footballer on Ted Lasso; Potts is pretty much perfect as the woman Simon can never forget: funny, whip smart and subversively sexy. Go to Full Review All of You (2024) 73% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us May 6, 2024 4/5 By the time the assembled breakfast cereal mascots enacted the traditional “Full Cereal Honors” salute, your humble, stupid reviewer came as close as he ever has to rolling around on the stupid floor. Go to Full Review Unfrosted (2024) 39% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Apr 15, 2024 4/5 A reminder that the distance between domestic tranquility and Hell on Earth can be narrow as a line on a map—or the floorboards beneath a pair of spit-polished boots. Go to Full Review Irena's Vow (2023) 86% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Dec 21, 2023 3/5 Stallone offers generous clips and candid conversation, but there’s always the sense that the star, while pretending to lift the curtain on his eventful life, is illuminating his story with a mighty narrow spotlight. Go to Full Review Sly (2023) 81% 89%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Oct 16, 2023 3/4 Delivers precisely what it promises: which is to say the cinematic equivalent of a rocket fuel-laden tanker truck plowing into the mixing room of a nitroglycerine factory. Go to Full Review The Expendables (2010) 41% 64%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Oct 16, 2023 3/5 There’s some love along the way, and a little bit of praying, but it’s the “Eat” in the title that gets the most attention, like a neon sign in the window of an all-night diner. Go to Full Review Eat Pray Love (2010) 35% 42%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us May 19, 2023 3/5 It’s all exhausting fun, tapping into the cerebral circuits of brain teasers like Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth and David Slade’s Hard Candy. Go to Full Review Sanctuary (2022) 88% - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Apr 1, 2023 4/5 If Sam Peckinpah had made Close Encounters of the Third Kind...(or)...if Steven Spielberg ...had directed The Wild Bunch, I could imagine it turning out a lot like this. Go to Full Review Cowboys & Aliens (2011) 44% 43%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 10, 2022 3/5 Years from now, film historians will...identify the Cinema of COVID: Stories that involve forced isolation, or helplessness in the face of an invisible foe, or solemn re-assessment of life’s priorities...elements (that) vex the characters in this film Go to Full Review The Hotel (2022) - - - -

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Sep 10, 2022 4/5 Delicate as the head of a good stout, sentimental as an old Scottish love song...the film at the very least stands as the crowning performance in Bill NIghy’s long and illustrious career. Go to Full Review Living (2022) 96% 91%

Bill Newcott Movies For The Rest Of Us Jan 10, 2022 3/5 You can't completely ruin a great concept, and McKay has hit on one...This is the way the world ends; not with a bang, but a bluster. Go to Full Review Don't Look Up (2021) 56% 78%