This week on the roundup, the ScreenRant Film Overview Staff has acquired all the things from revisited Christmas classics to not too long ago shortlisted Oscar contenders to a cuckoo bananas literary adaptation. Beneath you may discover excerpts from every assessment, the movie’s trailer, and a hyperlink to learn the entire piece.
We have got critiques for James Cameron’s third Avatar entry, multi-Oscar winner Laura Poitras’ new documentary on investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, reappraisals of The Grinch, Warmth and Sense & Sensibility and extra, PLUS some re-published critiques of Marty Supreme, Is This Factor On? and The Voice of Hind Rajab. Make sure you comply with us as we spherical out this 12 months, and be looking out for our record of the Prime 10 Movies of 2025.
Avatar: Hearth & Ash
“Once more, nevertheless, Cameron conceives sequences with such creativeness and confidence that you could’t assist however be gobsmacked as they unfold, even after they don’t push the story into fascinating sufficient instructions afterward.”
Learn Todd Gilchrist’s full assessment of Avatar: Hearth & Ash.
Cowl-Up
“Watching this Netflix movie within the wake of its imminent buyout of Warner Bros., it turns into clearer than ever earlier than: Hersh was a uncommon breed in his youthful days, and he actually is now. And we’d like extra like him.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full assessment of Cowl-Up.
The Housemaid
“But, The Housemaid‘s transgressions are of little or no concern right here. Breakneck pacing and a tightly plotted (if a bit convoluted) story make up for any kind of flaws that might be discovered within the movie. It is best not to consider these anyway whereas watching The Housemaid exactly as a result of its flaws are what make it so enjoyable.”
Learn Graeme Guttmann’s full assessment of The Housemaid.
The Plague
“Certainly, Breckon’s work behind the digital camera gives as a lot, if no more, palpable prepubescent rigidity. A lot of the movie appears like if Ari Aster directed Diary of a Wimpy Child. That is not essentially an endorsement.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full assessment of The Plague.
twenty fifth Anniversary of How The Grinch Stole Christmas
“25 years later, some should still not like Ron Howard’s noisy, outsized tackle Seuss’ supply materials. However like a lovable inexperienced oaf as soon as stated, ‘one man’s poisonous sludge is one other man’s potpourri… I believe it is a soup?’ For higher or worse, How The Grinch Stole Christmas has change into a multi-generational touchstone.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full anniversary assessment of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
thirtieth Anniversary of Sense & Sensibility
“Thompson’s script imbued its characters with a way of realism that made them nonetheless really feel extremely relatable. Exploring common themes of motive, emotion, and monetary woes, it was straightforward to attach with the plight of the Dashwood sisters.”
Learn Stephen Holland’s full anniversary assessment of Sense & Sensibility.
thirtieth Anniversary of Warmth
“They are saying that all the things significant in nature is available in pairs. That could be up for some debate universally, however in Warmth, it’s an unassailable reality. On the heart of this near-three-hour crime epic are Neil McCauley and Vincent Hanna, each locked in good opposition.”
Learn Emedo Ashibeze’s full anniversary assessment of Warmth.
The President’s Cake
“Regardless of a few of the darker set items with heavy implications – like a butcher who appears pleasant, at first, however seems to be a pedophile – The President’s Cake has an virtually comedian contact. That is admirable, if for no different motive than Hadi does work onerous to steer away from the pitfalls of award-baiting neoliberal claptrap that this very simply may have change into.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full assessment of The President’s Cake.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
“Like Agnieszka Holland’s Inexperienced Border, which was made within the midst of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Voice of Hind Rajab advantages from its immediacy. The movie is a continuing anxiousness assault, and it’s the trick of the cinema that, regardless of figuring out the tragic finish to the story forward of time, we sit in anguish and in determined, useless hope that Rajab’s life could be saved.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full assessment of The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Is This Factor On?
“The result’s a narrative that’s as humorous as it’s heartfelt. Led by a incredible solid and writing that takes its time whereas feeling grounded, the movie sidesteps what may need been a simple inclination in direction of going excessive.”
Learn Mae Abdulbaki’s full assessment of Is This Factor On?.
tenth Anniversary of Star Wars: The Drive Awakens
“Regardless of that, The Drive Awakens, as a standalone, largely works. It is a enjoyable, high-energy, George Lucas-style manufacturing that introduces a bunch of dynamic new characters and brings a few of the greatest elements of Star Wars again to the large display.”
Learn Liz Declan’s full anniversary assessment of Star Wars: The Drive Awakens.
Marty Supreme
Learn Todd Gilchrist’s full assessment of Marty Supreme.
The SpongeBob Film: The Seek for SquarePants
“The Seek for SquarePants is only a raucously good time punctuated by a bevy of butt jokes. In a movie that will get mileage merely out of the escalating desperation with which SpongeBob blinks his eye, how sophisticated does its messaging have to be? All of us want a extremely good chuckle, and Drymon and firm ship.”
Learn Gregory Nussen’s full assessment of The SpongeBob Film: The Seek for SquarePants.
