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Rob Thomas

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Biography:

Film Critic, Capital Times, Madison, WI

Location:

Madison, WI

Official Website:

http://www.madison.com

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Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “"Steal This Story, Please!" shows how the current media crisis is decades in the making, and how we need more independent media outlets to challenge the official narratives and chase down the real stories. Sometimes literally.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) May 6, 2026 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “"Erupcja" is about the feeling you get when you revisit a city or a person who you once fell in love with, and how it can be great, but it’s never quite the same. Because you’re never quite the same.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) May 1, 2026 Full Review RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) 38% 1/4 EDIT “While RZA’s furious heart is in the right place, "One Spoon of Chocolate" is fatally clunky and overlong, its righteous energy dissipating quickly in an unfocused miasma of stock characters, pointless subplots, and sluggish pacing.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Fuze (2025) 73% 3/4 EDIT “This is not a jaunty caper movie like "Ocean’s 11," but more of a cool-headed heist movie like "Le Cercle Rouge" or "The Asphalt Jungle," especially after the meticulous planning starts to go awry.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 76% 3/4 EDIT “At a taut and lively 90 minutes, it’s a lot of fun for action fans, you betcha.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 15, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Like an artist scraping away layers of paint, McKellen peels back Sklar’s rascally charm to reveal the rage, shame and disappointment within the old lion. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 14, 2026 Full Review 25 Cats from Qatar (2025) 3/4 EDIT “Beyond the cats, "25 Cats From Qatar" is a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people in the Middle East, kind people with the same hopes and dreams as everybody else, that feels timely and necessary right now. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Heads or Tails? (2025) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Gorgeous and weird, it’s like a dream somebody had after watching an all-day Sergio Leone film festival.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 10, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s the social horror that’s the most intriguing part of "Faces." But the movie only makes occasional feints into deeper insights or black comedy before retreating into being a merely competent slasher movie.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 9, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 81% 3/4 EDIT “"Fantasy Life" doesn’t outstay its welcome, but it’s enough to make an impression both for Shear as a new filmmaker to watch and for Peet as a familiar face to see a new light.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Apr 4, 2026 Full Review Mr. Burton (2025) 93% 3/4 EDIT “I was still touched by this quiet, empathetic movie about a quiet, empathetic man. Without his eye for talent and heart for a lonely boy, 20th-century culture would have never been the same.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 4/4 EDIT “I haven’t felt this good walking out of a movie theater in a while.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 25, 2026 Full Review A Magnificent Life (2025) 60% 2.5/4 EDIT “The animation makes it a pleasant enough watch, but at heart it’s an Oscar tribute montage stretched out to feature length.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Islands (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “More "L’Avventura" than "Evil Under the Sun," "Islands" is an existential mystery that shows even the brightest, sunniest places can hide the darkest secrets.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Slanted (2025) 68% 2/4 EDIT “I found myself nodding in agreement rather than laughing or cringing, which is not where you want to be in a movie that tries to combine "Mean Girls" with "The Substance."” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The cinematography, worth experiencing on the big screen, is so enveloping that you’d swear you leave the theater with dirt under your fingernails.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2025) 52% 3/4 EDIT “Fittingly for a film with so much ballet in it, the person and political move together in "Dreams" in an uneasy but gripping dance, buoyed by the strong, layered performances of its two leads.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 27, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% 3/4 EDIT “Shot in Baghdad, the film has the textures of a documentary, and while Nayyef's remarkable performance keeps us engaged in her quest, it’s really Baghdad itself that feels like the main character” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Fiume o morte! (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “One thing an authoritarian can’t stand is to be laughed at, so Bezinovic gets his revenge by cleverly highlighting the absurdity of this strange historical chapter without minimizing its horrific consequences.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 25, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “We end up feeling for this strange, off-putting man, even if we wouldn’t want to be sitting on the barstool next to him.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 20, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2/4 EDIT “"How to Make a Killing" is surprisingly genial and tidy, so confident that we hate the ultra-rich so much that it never needs to shock or challenge us. Come on, give us rabble a little credit.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 3/4 EDIT “"Crime 101" is a crime thriller that gives fans a lot of what they want, with a stacked cast, well-orchestrated heist sequences, and a sprawling Los Angeles as its canvas. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Even if you don’t know your Ottawa Rough Riders from your Saskatchewan Roughriders, I can’t imagine there will be a funnier comedy released in 2026.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 81% 2/4 EDIT “Like a high school student who uses Grok to fact-check his essay, "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die" isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Night Nurse (2026) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Georgia Bernstein keeps the film’s sexual tension on a low simmer, aiming for less of a feverish nightmare and more like a hazy afternoon daydream. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review
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