“Ebulliently silly, awash in bright colors and sunny Los Angeles locations. Gen Z’s eye-rolling disdain for their embarrassing elders provides the comic motor of this often very funny film, and having grown accustomed to being on the receiving end of such withering glares, I think I might have enjoyed the movie even more than my niece did.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/07/2025

“Sandler doesn’t star in these movies anymore so much as he hosts them, graciously ceding the stage to his guests and trying to make sure everyone has a good time. Nearly half-an-hour longer than the original, Happy Gilmore 2 is an amiable, undisciplined shambles so good-natured it’s hard not to enjoy even when the jokes fall flat. Geniality goes a long way.” – North Shore Movies, 07/25/2025

“The screenplay for Oh, Hi! requires Iris and her kooky friends to do so many stupid, bizarre and illogical things, I started wondering exactly how old they were supposed to be. There’s a line between watching young people who are still figuring stuff out and characters who make you question how they are able to feed and bathe themselves.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/24/2025

“Copping some neat mid-century modern looks from Mad Men, but with contemporary hairstyles and idioms so as not to alienate youngsters, it’s the MCU’s usual M.O. of staying grounded in a deliberately drab, everyday reality. These muted Pop Art colors don’t even pop, because the last thing you’d want from a Fantastic Four movie is for things to get too fantastical.” – North Shore Movies, 07/22/2025

“More of a mood than a movie, conjuring the weirdly sluggish banality of life during an emergency – the way the whole world seems to be hurrying up to wait – as well as the odd resignation with which we humans are adapting to our ongoing climate catastrophe. It has a kind of hazy, languorous vibe that’s keyed into the Florida humidity and hot rain.” – North Shore Movies, 07/18/2025

“Eddington has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody. The movie skewers sacred cows and picks low-hanging fruit, offering bluntly amusing sights like a young white girl lecturing a Black cop about systemic oppression, or Phoenix with a campaign sign that reads: ‘Your being manipulated.’ Aster is trying to cram in all the absurdity of our recent history.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/17/2025

“Basically a Guardians Of The Galaxy movie in different costumes, with everyone being breezily nonchalant around garishly colored space creatures and indulging in occasional flights of po-faced sentimentality. But what works in the Marvel quip factory doesn’t mesh with the Man of Steel. There’s no awe in this Superman, no magnificence.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/10/2025

“The deathless dinosaur franchise is now on its seventh installment, a breezily uninspired piece of hackwork that passes past our eyes with a shrug. Director Gareth Edwards brings a rote semi-professionalism to the proceedings. ‘How many more times are we gonna do this?’ are the first words you hear in Jurassic World Rebirth. It’s a valid question.” – North Shore Movies, 07/03/2025

“An uncommonly astute and sometimes shockingly funny movie about the numbing aftereffects of trauma, that sticky sense of stasis while the rest of the world moves on without you. Situated in a perpetual present tense, Eva Victor’s hugely accomplished debut isn’t a film about The Bad Thing, but about how life goes on before, after and all around it.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 07/02/2025

“This is not a movie designed to surprise you. The pleasures lie in the confidence with which it hits the familiar beats, moving gracefully between set-pieces and montages while doodling character flourishes in the margins of tried and true formulas. There’s something comforting about how completely in command Kosinski and company are of their cliches.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/26/2025