matt has written 33 reviews for films during 2025.

Mountainhead

2025

★½ Watched

Not remotely surprised that Jesse Armstrong decided to turn what was probably a Succession finale idea that got immediately shouted down in the writers' room into a movie Adam McKay would blame you for not liking. I'm as pissed as anyone that society somehow continues to reward these venal accelerationist tech pigs for deliberately dismantling civilization but it's somehow even worse to me that TV showrunners are endlessly allowed to get away with toothlessly "satirizing" the softest targets imaginable.

Captain America: Brave New World

2025

★½ Watched

Yeah no this just really sucks.

The Monkey

2025

★★ Watched

Corny.

Opus

2025

★★ Watched

I perhaps foolishly assumed that this had something to do with Billy and the Boingers.

Mickey 17

2025

★★ Watched

I was hoping to never have to sit through some corny Terry Gilliam-ass alleged satire like this ever again so I'm extra disappointed to see Bong picking up that particular football. Profoundly irritating.

The End

2024

★★ Watched

It's not that the conceptual swing itself isn't interesting it's that that's all there is. The songs are mediocre at best and monotonously repetitive at worst. The entire exercise is about these people scrambling for some meaning in their endless guilt and relative privilege, which, a) who cares? and b) you get within about 8 minutes, and so you wind up with is a big fat So What.

A Working Man

2025

★★½ 1

Mostly an agonizingly dull TAKEN knockoff, but some of you might think that's worth it for the very amusingly bonkers last 20 minutes.

Flight Risk

2025

★★½ Watched

Needed this to be about 25% more rancid and at least 75% more exciting. It's mostly just sorta flat.

Ballerina

2025

★★★ Liked Watched

Like 65% pretty good action, whomever is responsible for it. The rest is more snoozer Wick worldbuilding I no longer have any patience for.

The Life of Chuck

2024

★★★ Watched

Mostly harmless.