Thank God for Movies

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Sep 22, 2026 Oppenheim and cinematographer David Bolen crowd Pattinson’s face into the frame, studying his skin, eyes, mouth, and increasingly bizarre expressions with the same intensity To Catch a Predator directs toward its subjects. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jul 15, 2026 The Odyssey is a fascinating, unwieldy film, capable of producing a breathtaking image and then sending three characters to stand beneath it and explain what it represents. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jun 24, 2026 Supergirl never reaches the clarity, precision, or narrative confidence that made Superman such a pleasant surprise. It floats. It glides. And it cruises through its runtime on Alcock’s considerable charisma like a star cruiser running on fumes. Go to Full Review Supergirl (2026) 52% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jun 10, 2026 The Furious is a reminder that martial arts cinema needs recommitment even more than reinvention. It needs performers who can move, directors who know where to put the camera, choreographers who build fights with dramatic logic. Go to Full Review The Furious (2025) 97% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jun 9, 2026 It's about aliens, sure, but that is almost the least interesting thing about it. It's about the terror of being believed after years of being trained to feel foolish for what you believe. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jun 7, 2026 It really is odd to see a blockbuster in 2026 failing to learn from the myriad of mistakes made by so many similar big-budget blunders throughout the 20teens. Go to Full Review Masters of the Universe (2026) 67% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jun 5, 2026 The Wayanses won their franchise back, which I celebrate, and then handed us the precise self-satisfied meta-comedy that sank the franchise the first time, which I mourn. Go to Full Review Scary Movie (2026) 23% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies May 31, 2026 The staginess remains visible throughout, and the film embraces it rather than disguising it. In fact, this plays like filmed theater of a high order, one that rewards close attention to faces and words over spectacle. Go to Full Review Pressure (2026) 89% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies May 30, 2026 Backrooms, likes Obsession just weeks before it, proves that a kid from YouTube can walk into the multiplex and out-think nearly everyone there about the exact anxiety eating their generation alive. Go to Full Review Backrooms (2026) 85% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies May 26, 2026 Its first half belongs in a time capsule. Its second half sometimes confuses the map for the territory. Go to Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 97% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies May 15, 2026 8/10 Curry Barker’s 'Obsession' earns its hype with a star-making Inde Navarrette performance and a vicious sense of where to point the camera. Go to Full Review Obsession (2025) 93% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Mar 9, 2026 10/10 30 years after the Cutlass emerged from the blizzard, Fargo is still the most honest American movie I know about the relationship between small human failure and catastrophic harm. Go to Full Review Fargo (1996) 95% 92%

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Mar 8, 2026 4/10 This is such a rich idea. The film introduces it, announces it several times, and then largely abandons any rigorous engagement with it in favor of the Bride shooting people and growling about female rage. Go to Full Review The Bride! (2026) 57% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Aug 1, 2025 A- If Barbarian was about what we bury in basements, Weapons is about what we bury in ourselves. Grief, blame, a national appetite for scapegoats over solutions. Go to Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jul 31, 2025 B What elevates The Bad Guys 2 above standard animated fare is not just the action or the comedy (though both are abundant), but the emotional integrity of its characters. Go to Full Review The Bad Guys 2 (2025) 88% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Jul 9, 2025 B+ Bring on the age of superhero movies with an actual point of view, a personality even, a polarizing premise. In that respect, Superman (2025) could even save the genre while it’s at it. Go to Full Review Superman (2025) 83% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies May 14, 2025 8/10 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, if you choose to accept it, burns away your cynicism with every shot of Cruise grinning into death’s abyss and saying, “It’s just pain.” Go to Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Feb 24, 2025 8/10 His use of first-person POV places us inside Elwood’s mind at key moments, not as a gimmick, but as a demand: feel this. Go to Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Feb 12, 2025 We get a movie that, much like the MCU itself these days, is merely running on autopilot. Captain America may still stand for something, but Brave New World sure doesn’t. Go to Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% - -

Jon Negroni Thank God for Movies Dec 10, 2024 I appreciated that the film didn’t take an Argo-like approach, turning it into a heist narrative about getting the reels to the right place. Instead, it treated the events with the gravity they deserve. Go to Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% - -