ScreenAnarchy's Top 25 Films Of The 21st Century
We're almost at the end of the year 2025, and that means that the first quarter of the century is already gone. How did that happen so fast? Do quarter centuries currently go by as fast as decades did when...
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 Review: Redundant Sequel Struggles To Justify Its Existence
Between a fervent fanbase numbering in the millions, multi-generational, cross-over appeal, and box-office returns almost 30x the original investment, a sequel to 2023’s gateway horror hit, Five Nights at Freddy’s, the cinematic adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s uber-popular indie video game series,...
ZOOTOPIA 2 Review: Sequel Ups the Laughs, Set Pieces, and Positive Messaging
While it’s far from a shock that Zootopia, Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning, billion-dollar-earning, box-office hit, spawned a not-unexpected sequel, taking the better part of a decade to reach IP-ready audiences certainly qualifies as one (a shock, that is). ...
HAMNET Review: Far More Than the Sum of Its Considerable Parts
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in Chloe Zhao's new film.
WICKED: FOR GOOD Review: Follow-Up To Last Year's Smash Hit Fails To Justify Its Running Time
When studio executives, driven by commercial and not artistic concerns, decide to expand an adaptation of a beloved, long-running Broadway musical, the results will inevitably look and, more importantly, sound like Jon M. Chu’s (Crazy Rich Asians, Now You See...
RENTAL FAMILY Review: Brendan Fraser Delivers Another Unimpeachably Winning Performance
Sometime in the 1990s, rental agencies in Japan spontaneously formed around the singular idea of renting people — or to be more exact, renting their time — to act as stand-ins, role-players, and/or performers in everyday events, from marriages to funerals...
THE THINGS YOU KILL Review: Bending Perception and Consciousness
Directed by Alireza Khatami, the film is Canada's official entry for an International Academy Award.
STONE COLD FOX Review: Kiernan Shipka Stars in Retro '80s-Style Thriller
Moments into writer-director Sophie Tabet’s feature-length debut, Stone Cold Fox, the singularly named “Fox” (Kiernan Shipka, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mad Men) of the title, stops time in mid-air kick and addresses the camera with a playful, tongue-in-cheek response, suggesting...
ANNIVERSARY Review: Fascism Comes to America, One Family at a Time
Diane Lane, Dylan O'Brien, Jan Komasa, Kyle Chandler, Lori Rosene-Gambino, Madeline Brewer, Mckenna Grace, Phoebe Dynevor, and Zoey Deutch star in Jan Komasa's film.
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN Review: Told With Far Greater Subtlety, Wit, and Empathy Than Ever Before
As illiberalism, authoritarianism, and full-scale fascism take hold on both sides of the Atlantic, art becomes essential as a form of resistance, opposition, and defiance against the powers-that be. Art gains increasing importance and relevance as autocrats and their supporters...
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Review: Rose Byrne Heads to a Point of No Return
In writer-director Mary Bronstein’s (Yeast) first film in almost two decades, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a panic attack-inducing, motherhood-centered comedy-drama, the partial collapse of a ceiling and the tidal floodwater it releases into the apartment below leaves Linda...
Mill Valley 2025 Review: HAMNET, Oscar Winner Chloé Zhao Directs Heart-Shredding Domestic Drama
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star.
THE SMASHING MACHINE Review: Benny Safdie and Company Deliver An Unsparing, Unconventional Sports Biopic
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in Benny Safdie's indie-feeling drama.
ANEMONE Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Returns in a Middling, Muddled Domestic Drama
If an actor’s much-anticipated return after a nearly a decade in self-imposed retirement counts as a “cinematic event,” then three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis’ (Lincoln, There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) above-the-title role in his director son Ronan’s...
DEAD OF WINTER Review: Emma Thompson Turns Action Hero in Gritty, Wintry Action-Thriller
A surprisingly perfect role for two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (Sense & Sensibility, Howards End), the Brian Kirk-directed Dead of Winter centers on Thompson’s grounded, realistic portrayal of a working class, Minnesota woman, Barb (accent and all), understandably mourning...
SUPERMAN Review: Here We Fly Again
David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in James Gunn's new version of the classic comic book character.
A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY Review: Kogonada Directs a Delightful, Whimsical Romantic Fantasy
Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star.
THE LONG WALK Review: Near Flawless, Top-Tier Adaptation of Stephen King's Dystopian Novel
Stephen King began writing his first novel, The Long Walk, a bleak, nightmarish dystopian thriller set in an alternate, totalitarian America, as a college freshman in 1966 at the University of Maine. The manuscript for King's novel sat in a...
THE CONJURING: LAST RITES Review: Series and Franchise Send-Off Delivers Familiar Frights and Fears
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as demon fighters Ed and Lorraine Warren; Michael Chaves directed.
TWINLESS Review: The Big Lie Subverts Expectations
James Sweeney, Dylan O'Brien, Lauren Graham, Aisling Franciosi, Chris Perfetti, and Tasha Smith star.
