I very much enjoyed Canadian director Avalon Fast's second feature CAMP, which premiered in Seattle at @siffnews.bsky.social. Now playing @ifccenter.bsky.social, Laemmle Glendale, and Alamo Drafthouse locations. Opens at the Beacon and @nwfilmforum.bsky.social in July. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

A lot of eyes are on SUPERGIRL this weekend. While I enjoyed a fair amount of this, I also wrote that, “For a film about discovering one’s inner strength and agency, Supergirl never quite seems comfortable trusting its own.” @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Time marches on and, thus, here are the best new movies I've seen this year thus far. Yes, I'm aware some of these can't be seen yet, but I hope this can be considered a recommendation piece of what you should keep an eye out for in the months ahead 📽️ seattlemoviesdaily.beehiiv.com/p/best-movie...

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IN THE HAND OF DANTE (2026) is a mess. Tonally unbalanced, thematically bland, and with bizarre casting choices, the film was a chore to get through. It tries a lot of things, but does none of them well. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

ROSE OF NEVADA: Starring George MacKay and Callum Turner, this excellent new film from Mark Jenkin is a time travel story as only he could tell (namely, with immaculate sound design and visuals). These are my THE BOYS IN THE BOAT. Seattle folks, see it @siffnews.bsky.social📽️ My review: rb.gy/ou8r1y

Get ready folks as Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s mesmerizing new film THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER absolutely rips. As you can now behold in the trailer that dropped today, his latest is bursting with well-crafted tableaus that become stunning paintings in motion in his hands 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY5k...

Finally! My exclusive interview with Olivia Wilde for her razor-sharp swinger comedy 'The Invite' - one of the best films of the year so far - is now live (including the uncut full video on YouTube). silverscreenriot.com/olivia-wilde...

Sophy Romvari’s devastating drama BLUE HERON, 2026’s best debut, is now available on VOD. However, I recommend catching it when it opens @thegrandcinema.bsky.social Friday and returns to @siffnews.bsky.social via @grandillusioncinema.org on Saturday 📽️ My review: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

The Grand Cinema in Tacoma is cancelling all showings after they recieved a verbal threat over the phone Saturday evening. Director of Operations, Pat.C Noriega, posted an update on Instagram, saying refunds will be offered for all screenings and, if you don't get one by EOD, to shoot them an email📽️

NEVER CHANGE! (2026) will either be someone’s worst film of the year or their favorite. This is the kind of flick the term “Guilty Pleasure” was created for. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

Despite a sleepy sense of pace, Hugh Jackman does wonders deconstructing a legend into an exhausted mongerer in #TheDeathofRobinHood. Think of it like a medieval western, the leading man’s just as bruised yet confident. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 | @seattlecritics.bsky.social warm1069.com/review-the-d...

Building from where the fourth one transitioned between generations, #ToyStory5 notches its place in the newest while staying faithful to what came before. Pixar continues to set the pace for what a great sequel can do. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 | @seattlecritics.bsky.social warm1069.com/review-toy-s...

Five star reviews don't come often at Should I See It, but I am thrilled to extend every star to COLOR BOOK, David Fortune's stunning and extraordinary debut which opens in select theaters and premieres on Netflix today. This is truly something special. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

TOY STORY 5 (2026) brings the same fun, adventure, and heart that is common with the franchise. But after five films and thirty years, this does feel like a case of diminishing returns. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

Now on Netflix: David Fortune's fantastic Color Book. Review: tinyurl.com/yuyy77jz

LEVITICUS, the breakout horror hit from Sundance this year, is now playing at both @siffnews.bsky.social & @thegrandcinema.bsky.social! It's a really striking horror debut that's also a moving romance about how love may be the thing that can save us. Need more convincing? Read my rave review below 📽️

Yeah, it got me. More than once. TOY STORY 5 defies the odds. It's pretty great and now playing around the clock at every theater near you. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Now releasing via Sony Pictures Classics on October 16! 📽️ www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

This week's film recommendation--just in time for Pride--Silas Howard and Harry Dodge's delightful, pioneering By Hook or by Crook. Presented by Unstreamable, their sole feature, in a new 4K restoration, plays @nwfilmforum.bsky.social through Sun, June 21. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

TOY STORY 5: For a film about the importance of imagination in modern life that does contain some frequently beautiful animated sequences which capture this, still found this sequel to be painfully unimaginative. Conan O'Brien and Joan Cusack innocent 📽️ My review: www.inlander.com/screen/revie...

'The Death of Robin Hood' is not the movie you think it is. But it might just be all the better for it. A grisly reckoning with the way that violence etches itself on your soul and how the myth of violent men is just that: myth. silverscreenriot.com/the-death-of...

#ICYMI or you also just like reading things in print, my piece on Sky Hopkina’s stellar POWWOW PEOPLE where I spoke with him, organizer extraordinaire Gina Bluebird-Stacona and the emcee with a voice of gold Ruben Little Head is in the Summer Seattle Met Magazine 📽️ www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...

NEW: The clock is once more about to strike midnight at Harbor Island Studios, Washington’s only county-owned sound stage, but local film production workers and advocates say a solution is close. What then comes next for the industry? 📽️ My story @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/harbor-...

#ICYMI the wait is almost over for Kogonada’s wondrous new film ZI. According to Deadline, the sci-fi gem, which stars Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson & Jin Ha, has been acquired for distribution by Grasshopper Film with plans for a fall theatrical release. Read my rave review below to get ready 📽️

'Toy Story 5' is a funny, heartbreaking, and insightful meditation on childhood in the digital age, asking what gets lost when screens begin replacing imagination. The gang is all here but it's Jessie - helping Bonnie make a real friend - that this story belongs to. silverscreenriot.com/toy-story-5/

I wrote about Cindy Sherman's sole feature, Office Killer, which was both a throwback to B-movie horror and predictive of today's wired world, and proved to be an undesirable combination in 1997. (Before my review, it was 25/100 at Rotten Tomatoes and now it's 29/100.) @seattlecritics.bsky.social

I haven't seen The Furious, but I have seen a lot of other movies by the artists that made The Furious. Here's a quick guide that may also double as a history of 21st century East Asian action cinema. www.thechinesecinema.com/what-to-watc...

DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) shows Spielberg returning to his sci-fi obsessions, but not repeating himself. This is a captivating film. Yes, it’s a movie about aliens, but more importantly, it’s a movie about us. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

With his 37th feature film, DISCLOSURE DAY, Steven Spielberg returns to exploring the possibility that we are not alone in the universe. Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor are great, but I found myself curious about the Spielberg we once had and the Spielberg we have now. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

TIME AND WATER: Sara Dosa’s visually stunning, unshakably sad and transcendent new film confronts the most pressing existential questions of our time. It's the best new film to see this week so you should do so @siffnews.bsky.social📽️ My review @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

I've been a Hockney fan since my art student days, and he's appeared in several documentaries over the yrs, like Peter Rosen's Who gets to Call It Art? As I wrote, Henry Geldzahler "was particularly close to Andy Warhol and David Hockney, and both would create pieces that revolved around his image."

Now you all are seeing why I haven’t shut up about this movie since September. www.thelastthingisee.com/2025/09/the-...

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THE FURIOUS: Whatever your action movie can do, this one does infinitely better while wearing flip-flops🩴. Also, to nobody in particular, please don't insult this film and its talented creators by calling it a JOHN WICK clone. It's far better than that 📽️ My review: www.inlander.com/screen/revie...

Hey Seattle, got some great news: John Early is coming to town with his fantastic feature debut MADDIE’S SECRET for the opening night screening on July 10 @siffnews.bsky.social!!! It's really special and unlike anything you've ever seen. Will have more on it then, but for now, read my review below 📽️

Spielberg’s latest film is even more proof of his cinematic vision. But even that and a career best Emily Blunt can’t save the ridiculously corny writing plaguing some of the most intense moments of DISCLOSURE DAY. #SFCS Check out the full review: www.filmfroth.com/disclosure-d...

Disclosure Day again proves Steven Spielberg’s film mastery as a weather reporter and a programmer race from a shadow agency to deliver truths to the world. www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2026/06... #spielberg #disclosureday #filmreview #scifi

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day' is a surprisingly baffling sci-fi misfire that only occasionally recaptures the sense of awe that made him one of science fiction’s defining filmmakers. Disappointing. silverscreenriot.com/disclosure-d...

Despite running way too long, this newest version of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE eventually won me over with its humor and earnest attitude. My review. macguff.in/film-reviews... @seattlecritics.bsky.social @ofcs.bsky.social #Filmsky

So #DisclosureDay is not Steven Spielberg’s best in 20 years, but it is one of his most interesting. People have thrown out many reference points, but as a reflection of his mindset about the world, our place in it, & how fractured it's become, it's his THE PARALLAX VIEW 📽️ My review: bit.ly/4a9Gk6X

Went on @kuow.org’s SOUNDSIDE for their FRONT PAGE segment to talk fare gates as well as a whole bunch of movie news from SIFF bringing back 70mm screenings for Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY to Kane Parsons’ BACKROOMS blowing up at the box office 📽️ Give that a listen here: omny.fm/shows/sounds...

Look, I am as surprised as you are. Rebooting MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE never felt like a good idea and this overlong, messy, nostalgia-laden fantasy flick ... eventually wore me down and won me over. What can I say? Insert a shrug emoji here, I guess. I don't know. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

John Carney, writer/director of ONCE, returns with POWER BALLAD, starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. Jonas plays a fading pop star who, after an all-night songwriting session with a 50-ish wedding singer played by Rudd, takes a song that was never his to record. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Even at 80 minutes, one cannot help but wonder if Katie Aselton’s MAGIC HOUR, co-starring Aselton and Daveed Diggs, would not work better as a tight, efficient, powerful 30-minutes short. MAGIC HOUR continues to play theaters and may now be at a screen near you. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Former superhero, now private eye Ben Reilly, has to mask up to break a case in the spectacular tv series Spider-Noir, a gripping and clever twist of the Spider-Man mythos to hard-boiled detective stories. #spiderverse #SpiderNoir #spiderman #niccage www.cinema-crazed.com/blog/2026/06...

Have been thinking about BACKROOMS more and more (especially when reading the interesting analysis people have been making about the film’s potential reflections on AI/the internet) so went back to see it again. Not only did it grow on me even more, but the hangups I had almost entirely faded away 📽️

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Even all these years later, the ending remains transcendent. In Renton’s withering, subtly wearied and relatably uncertain reflections, we hear him speaking a final truth about how he’s “going to be just like you.” What he didn’t know is that he already always was 📽️ www.inlander.com/screen/train...