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Film Obsessive is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Diana Tuova, Don Shanahan, Tina Kakadelis, Tony Black.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Their Town (2026) Tina Kakadelis Their Town is an affirmation of existence for all of us, no matter what age.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Tina Kakadelis Forbidden Fruits has the pieces of a cult classic, they just belong to different puzzles.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
A Safe Distance (2026) Tina Kakadelis A Safe Distance is about what happens when we get too close, both physically and emotionally, and how liberation can confine those it seeks to free.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Monument (2026) Don Shanahan Monument finds itself in that very uncertain rut, both between the central architect and his important project and, externally, the storytelling yield of Bryan Singer.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Cornbread Mafia (2026) Tina Kakadelis Cornbread Mafia is one of those stories that would be too ridiculous to believe if it were written as fiction. How could a group of farmers in a town of 200 in Kentucky be responsible for tons of marijuana over the course of a decade?
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Adam's Apple (2026) Tina Kakadelis Adam’s Apple is an attempt to capture life’s beautiful, fleeting nature and the changes we all go through to find ourselves.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Black Zombie (2026) Tina Kakadelis "Haiti is not resilience. Haiti is resistance." It’s hard to disagree with that sentiment when the history of the nation is explained so eloquently in Black Zombie, a multigenerational, multilayered production that captures the richness
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story (2026) Tina Kakadelis Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story is for the rambunctious, fierce girls who saw the endlessness of adolescence as a chance to try a million different things. To act, to sing, to borrow a line from Hamlet, to dream.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Anima (2026) Tina Kakadelis Anima is about the ineffable nature of connection and its ability to be brief, disjointed, or lengthy. The beauty of it, the reason we crave it, is that we cannot know which version we’re going to get until it happens.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Drag (2026) Tina Kakadelis Drag is the type of movie that’s intoxicating to experience for the first time and every time after.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Sparks (2026) Tina Kakadelis Sparks is a lightning bolt of technicolor to the French New Wave by way of the dreamy, magical, sprawling American West.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Monitor (2026) Tina Kakadelis Monitor is a stressfully executed debut feature, Polly and Black are an excitingly confident new voice in the horror genre.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Big Girls Don't Cry (2026) Tina Kakadelis Big Girls Don’t Cry captures how humiliating it feels to be a teenager who just wants to be seen for themselves despite not knowing who they are.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Brian (2026) Tina Kakadelis Brian is an instant classic filled to the brim with comedy, heart, and love for this one life of ours.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Jamarcus Rose & Da 5 Bullet Holes (2025) Don Shanahan This wide-eyed and eager young man with his whole life in front of him is on the borderline of becoming a statistic. The question is whether he will be a positive one or a negative one in this bold short film.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Optimist: The Bravest Act Is Truth (2023) Don Shanahan Eschewing his hardass tendencies, Stephen Lang uses his square jaw, piercing blue eyes, pressed wrinkles, and silvered buzzcut to play a pillar of empathy, doing his best to wring himself of excruciating and unhealed fear.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Snake (2026) Tina Kakadelis The Snake may seem like a rambunctious odyssey across Prince Edward Island, but that skin is quickly shed to reveal something much more emotionally resonant.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Your Attention Please (2026) Tina Kakadelis Your Attention Please isn’t hiding the fact that it wants your focus, but in doing so, it wants to give you back your life.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Don Shanahan Glowing with a galaxy-sized heart and the highest praise possible, "Project Hail Mary" is the kind of instant classic offering an undeniable sense of spirit and satisfying entertainment that will make someone fall in love with science fiction.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead (2026) Don Shanahan Measured ambition is the key for "Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead" in creating mythology from scratch and within its own limits.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Last Ride (2026) Don Shanahan This is a keen balance in a film that is rightly not trying to create pitfalls to rattle cinematic seismometers for the action junkies because the wisening emotions displayed are more than enough.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Don Shanahan While it may be blackly moody and garish for pruder crowds, this "Wuthering Heights" is precisely the big-screen escapade ornately fashioned to fluster the hot-and-bothered in all the best ways.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dracula (2025) Don Shanahan Moving to the beat of that aforementioned tiny music box and not something deeper, Besson’s Dracula, and its selection of emphasized overtones and reduced undertones, are misaligned to become a lullaby from what could have been grander results.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Islands (2025) Don Shanahan At some point, the scenery cannot become more interesting than the characters, especially in a would-be thriller.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Atropia (2025) Don Shanahan In Atropia’s type of satire, where war—and all its ugly realities—is being practiced as a performance for misplaced dominance, more than one mouthpiece is needed. Shawkat’s oppositional firebrand is not enough.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Signing Tony Raymond (2025) Don Shanahan Clever comeuppance is not the same as legitimate consequences, and that’s where the stiff reality of real-life outside the dramedy movie crashes the party.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Don Shanahan Because "Dead Man’s Wire" is candidly presents the positive and negative facets of those caught up in this frenzy, the even-handed movie grants intelligence to rub your chin, perk your ears, and question whether judgment or justification can be granted.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Dutchman (2025) Don Shanahan The movie never had to leave the train or the topics unleashed there. The originally intended inescapable struggle is demystified the moment it treads away from it.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Housemaid (2025) Don Shanahan When things get harsh and dicey, and the roasting commentary on privilege becomes more apparent, Paul Feig still varnishes with a suave coolness that is undeniably appealing.
Posted Dec 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Don Shanahan Diamond’s catalog gets shown off by big-time voices, and viewers get to engross themselves in a story detached from familiar and indulgent fame.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Don Shanahan Shockingly, a copy machine was used in place of a springboard, and the disappointing storytelling results show—no matter how pretty it all looks. 
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Don Shanahan Dilute the very intelligence of the character to possess little to no wherewithal and continuously pile on the exhausted disinterest from everyone else. By orchestrating this massively dismissive environment, the momentum does not support the underdog.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Don Shanahan We have to find a way to root for an asshole. Worse, depending on your own contempt or adoration for the debate of formality of table tennis versus ping pong, we have to root for an asshole playing that predominantly inconsequential sport.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Rebuilding (2025) Don Shanahan You are not looking down on any perceived lack of ceremony or decorum, because what’s there and the people putting together this personal tribute are beautiful and caring in their own right. Rebuilding crafts this level of care into its entire narrative.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Don Shanahan Is This Thing On? asks incredible and intelligent questions that actually get chewed on with civility and dignity, ignoring the urge to shout hot drops of dialogue to the rhetorical rafters solely meant to let an actor show off.
Posted Nov 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Don Shanahan This is the somber half of the musical, and the central acting matches that accordingly, with both female leads rising to even higher, compelling levels of challenged bonding than the first film.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Don Shanahan There’s an uncanny and inebriating magic here that is heartfelt, reverent, and surprisingly approachable amid the A-list souls involved and revealed.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Nuremberg (2025) Don Shanahan James Vanderbilt had a choice, and he, as an experienced and successful screenwriter known best for his gaudy action flicks, perked up Nuremberg with a little pump and pomp. The result makes what would normally be wearisome moderately engrossing.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Outerlands (2025) Tina Kakadelis Outerlands is a truly special piece of filmmaking— immersive, intuitive, and illuminating, a reminder of the empathy that should be at the forefront of all storytelling.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Tina Kakadelis Anniversary feels frighteningly relevant. The film, and our society, would benefit most from the conversations we avoid.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Don Shanahan For "Blue Moon," taking place as so many of the Texan-based director’s best yarns do over the course of a single night, there’s an ambition for this film to meld both versions of Richard Linklater.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Truth & Treason (2025) Don Shanahan If it takes internal pleas like Truth and Treason to shake folks out of the usual escapist mood and towards shifted mindsets and higher calls to action, then the cinematic experiences to tell those cautionary tales were all the more worth it.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Looking Through Water (2025) Don Shanahan There’s something special about placing Michael Douglas's mystique in such a soft, simple position.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Don Shanahan True to its lasting cult success, no imaginative action idea was squelched or expense was spared in the set construction, prop creation, costume design, second unit, and stunt departments.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Affection (2025) Tina Kakadelis Rothe is a force in Affection, both in the physical nature of the role and as the emotional heart of Ellie.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Death of a Ladies' Man (2020) Don Shanahan What could have been a morose, listless slog about a bitter whiner is energized into something of a soul-stirring seance in many layers and moments.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Don Shanahan "The Smashing Machine" focuses on a story that breaks away from most of those stigmas to explore the very significant veins, sweat glands, and, most importantly, tear ducts that saturate the warrior souls of combat sports.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Doin' It (2024) Don Shanahan What’s refreshingly different about "Doin’ It" from the raunchy sex farces of a generation ago is that the unabashed gross-out humor done here comes from a chief pair of female gazes.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Baltimorons (2025) Don Shanahan For the audience who has missed the casualness of this style, "The Baltimorons" is comfort food not unlike the hearty plates both these characters wouldn’t mind partaking in with loved ones before the day is out.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Twinless (2025) Tina Kakadelis Twinless is as dryly humorous as it is quietly devastating, and emotionally thought-provoking in the best way.
Posted Sep 16, 2025  Edit critic review
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