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The Reveal is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Keith Phipps, Scott Tobias.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/5
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Scott Tobias The satirical promise of Ready or Not 2 leads to few comic payoffs—or even much resembling a joke, despite the film’s irreverent tone.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Scott Tobias The emotional turbulence of his best films has been replaced here (and in Afire and Undine) by a glancing inquiry into human nature, pleasingly subtle yet nothing that sticks to the ribs.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Keith Phipps At once zippy and emotionally wrenching, the film performs a similar balancing act as its leading man.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
undertone (2025) Keith Phipps To put it bluntly, it’s spooky as hell.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Crime 101 (2026) Scott Tobias It’s so rare to see studios bother with a well-plotted, crisply orchestrated crime picture that the film feels like a gift.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Pillion (2025) Scott Tobias Pillion does succeed as a first-time love story for Colin, who needs to figure out how submissives, too, can negotiate their own terms.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Scott Tobias Shambling and sweet, loaded with hilarious standalone bits that are held together by the duo’s warm camaraderie and intimate connection to the city of Toronto.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dreams (2025) Scott Tobias Dreams is written in anger, which however righteous it may be, pushes the film down the narrowest lane of inevitability.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Hoppers (2026) Scott Tobias Not as flat and uninspired as Elemental or Elio, but somehow more disappointing, because the potential for something much better is plain.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Keith Phipps Drunk on its own ambitions and the permission to go as big as possible, The Bride! is seldom cohesive (and occasionally incoherent) but it’s also rarely boring, the sort of noble failure that’s more compelling to watch and discuss than a lesser success.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Scream 7 (2026) Keith Phipps There just isn’t that much meta commentary you can supply for horror franchises this deep into their existence, except that they mostly suck.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Filipiñana (2026) Keith Phipps Manuel’s unhurried pace and commitment to long takes feels more effective as the film progresses, the images grow stranger, and the rot beneath the gleaming surface becomes harder to hide.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
How to Make a Killing (2026) Keith Phipps [A[ baffling dullness pervades the film from beginning to end, which is no mean feat for a story built around a string of colorful murders.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Keith Phipps [A]part from the increasingly perverse spite relationship formed between Heathcliff and Isabel [...] a mopey predictability overtakes the film as Cathy and Heathcliff’s love enters its inevitable, and protracted, death spiral.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Keith Phipps [The film] feels raggedly put together at times, however precise Verbinski’s filmmaking might be within each scene, but as the story unfolds and the full scope of the threat emerges, a winning sincerity overtakes the film.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5 / 5
The Moment (2026) Keith Phipps The Moment is, in conception, an ideal project for Charli xcx, whose resistance to taking pop stardom seriously has helped shape her image. If only the reality of The Moment was as strong as the idea.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Send Help (2026) Keith Phipps Their power struggle sometimes plays like a popcorn variation on Lena Wertmüller’s Swept Away [and] at other moments like an emotionally fraught, sexually charged variation on a Bugs Bunny vs. Elmer Fudd tussle.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5 / 5
Mercy (2026) Keith Phipps That set-up might make Mercy sound like it’s attempting a classic act of sci-fi irony [...] but hold up! Mercy’s attitudes toward artificial intelligence, due process, and the surveillance state are a lot more nuanced. Way too nuanced, really.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
A Private Life (2025) Keith Phipps Zlotowski understands that the real appeal of most mystery movies comes from the characters and the setting more than the plot, but A Private Life’s not-quite-fatal flaw is how little effort it puts into its plot’s central element,
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Keith Phipps [I]t just keeps going, offering a weird, bleak, viscerally uncomfortable, and sometimes bitingly funny exploration of the persistence of evil even among those severed from the past. Yes, there are zombies. But the real monstrousness lies elsewhere.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Keith Phipps A lot of zombie movies get so caught up in the business of survival—fast or slow, the undead can be formidable foes—they seem to forget that all those shambling corpses used to be somebody’s loved ones.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Anaconda (2025) Keith Phipps There’s nothing awful about it, but there’s little to recommend it, either. In a year in which comedy has struggled to regain its place in movie theaters, Anaconda doesn’t make a strong case for making the trip to the multiplex in search of laughs.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Keith Phipps [I[t’s a bittersweetness that really unites each story.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Keith Phipps It evens out to an engaging-enough biopic, but if Song Sung Blue had found a way to interpret their bittersweet love story with a Lightning & Thunder-like intensity, it could have been even more.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Keith Phipps It’s a film that could have been tailor-made for 2025 and, even more chillingly, for seemingly every year in the foreseeable future.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Keith Phipps What worked in The Way of Water works here, just not quite as well.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Is This Thing On? (2025) Keith Phipps For long stretches, Is This Thing On? works better on a scene-by-scene basis than as a cohesive film.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Ella McCay (2025) Keith Phipps The iffy de-aging effects are less of a problem than a ramshackle construction that makes it feel like the film will never get started. An even bigger problem: it never really does.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Keith Phipps As the record of a landmark staging of a great play [the film] feels like a gift to all those who wish they could have been there, or want to return.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Keith Phipps Even while laying bare the mechanics he would use to tell a story likely to trip viewers’ b******* meters and calling out one genre cliche after another, Zodiac Killer Project almost works as a compelling true crime doc anyway...
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Keith Phipps [A] charming and ultimately moving comedy
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Keith Phipps Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer 'Jay Kelly' offers two complementary depictions of men forced to reckon with where life has taken them as they approach the back half of middle age.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Christy (2025) Keith Phipps It’s Sweeney that sets it apart.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Keith Phipps Whishaw and Hall deliver lovely, tender performances that capture the friendship between the writer and her subject
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Train Dreams (2025) Keith Phipps Bentley transforms Johnson’s story into a Terrence Malick-inspired reverie of images and overlapping emotions, accompanied by large chunks of Johnson’s prose via Will Patton’s narration.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Keith Phipps Linklater’s not particularly interested in exploring anyone’s inner lives [...] but his ability to reshape the story into a lighthearted hangout movie, in which characters put aside their differences to get a job done, makes it brisk and entertaining.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Frankenstein (2025) Keith Phipps Once the film finds its true hero, it becomes exactly as good as the idea of a del Toro adaptation promised: the defining 21st century cinematic Frankenstein.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Keith Phipps The first film Panahi made after his 2022 arrest, the most recent of his many conflicts with the Iranian government, It Was Just an Accident is both typically uncompromising and, for long stretches, disarmingly funny.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Keith Phipps Hawke’s ability to convey flashes of self-awareness elevates his performance from a brilliant impression to a fully realized tragic portrait.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Good Fortune (2025) Keith Phipps Ultimately the film mostly serves as a reminder that being poor sucks. It’s the work of someone who didn’t take the time to realize he had nothing to say, then decided to say something anyway.
Posted Oct 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5
Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Keith Phipps Though thoughtfully mounted, Condon’s film never comes fully to life, even in the “movie” scenes that do their studied best to capture the look and feel of classic MGM musicals without really capturing their heart.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Keith Phipps That [Bigelow] and Oppenheim have clearly done their homework about how such a scenario would play out and the many possible catastrophes it might create makes A House of Dynamite both terrifying in the moment and haunting after the fact.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Keith Phipps Anyone looking for a smart science fiction movie exploring the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence and other concerns should look elsewhere. Anyone in search of a new alternative to Laser Floyd at the planetarium: this one’s for you.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
All of You (2024) Keith Phipps 'All of You'’s science fiction concept more or less fades away and the film becomes a familiar drama of yearning and forbidden love, albeit one played with enough sincerity and easy chemistry to stay reasonably compelling for a while.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Keith Phipps There’s not a trace of the bravado Johnson usually brings to a performance, either on film or as a professional wrestler. This would be a transformative performance even without the hair topping his head.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Predators (2025) Scott Tobias Apart from anything else, Predators is a clinic in documentary ethics, but Osit’s intellect doesn’t mute his pain, sensitivity and outrage. It’s a film for the heart and the head.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5 / 5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Keith Phipps As a love story, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey doesn’t really work. And given that much of the movie is concerned with telling a love story, that's a pretty big problem.
Posted Sep 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Scott Tobias Reiner and company indulge in a victory lap that feels weirdly like an extended promotion for Tap-related merchandise, with McCartney and John doing their part to bolster the sales pitch.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Long Walk (2025) Scott Tobias There’s integrity to the no-frills human horror of The Long Walk and Lawrence, working from a script by JT Mollner, follows through on its uncompromising bleakness.
Posted Sep 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Honey Don't! (2025) Scott Tobias The Coens never made a film anywhere near as bad as Honey Don’t!
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
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