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Ethan J. Rosenberg

Ethan J. Rosenberg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “The Bone Temple starts 2026 off keeling over to the headwinds of mediocrity and appealing to the goodwill of an audience it evidently hates through snarky humor and winking condescension at the material.” – In Review Online Jan 19, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “Jarmusch... [refuses] o do anything but point down at the underground from high atop his throne in the balcony... He’s right that counterculture is thriving, but he just doesn’t realize he’s on the other side of it.” – In Review Online Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) 100% EDIT “[Makes] a handful of crucial tweaks that elevate the drama and set Kill Bill apart as a work worthy of its (many) forebears... It’s impossible to conceive of Kill Bill as two movies anymore.” – In Review Online Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Johnson’s Twitter-brained hot takes... disintegrate under today’s inferno-bright blaze, and he lacks the courage to put the phone down and actually observe how digital communication has infected discourse.” – In Review Online Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Leagues ahead of 2017’s godawful abomination The Shape of Water, but it’s still genetically engineered to move us with the pyrotechnics del Toro uses to conceal his fundamental incompetence.” – In Review Online Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Köln 75 (2025) 88% EDIT “Rubs the edges off of other hipster-adjacent pieces of media... in its amiable and largely successful attempt to dramatize the recording of Jarrett’s legendary live album for us. But hey, snobs need crowd-pleasers, too.” – In Review Online Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Baahubali: The Epic (2025) 100% EDIT “The Epic is unlikely to become the definitive version of the Baahubali story, but it is without a doubt the theatrical experience of the year.” – In Review Online Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman is a disarmingly earnest and kindhearted story about what it means to be good when flattened by economic fallout. It’s also a keen anthropological excavation.” – In Review Online Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “It’s not a persuasive Springsteen simulator, and it’s not in tune with the vicissitudes of American life. Instead, it’s generic, insincere, and in direct opposition to everything Nebraska represents.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2025 Full Review What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) 100% EDIT “What Does That Nature Say to You continues his fine tradition of spinning deceptively simple yarns set around characters (superficially) enjoying the company of one another, a setup that allows him to easily fold in his insatiable curiosity about life.” – In Review Online Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Clemente (2024) 84% EDIT “Clemente skips past pillow-soft hagiography and aims straight for claims of messianic martyrdom.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 53% EDIT “Equally crushing, then, is the realization that the director in question just doesn’t have it — no wit, no touch, no unique style. Such is the experience of suffering through Ronan Day-Lewis’ debut feature Anemone,” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “A movie willing to put its finger on the throbbing, bulging pulse of American culture and politics in a commercial and accessible way... It’s full and immediate and funny and irreverent, and it never for a moment loses sight of its humanity.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% EDIT “If there was ever any chance his point-A-to-point-B driving movie would match the white-knuckle intensity of antecedents like The Wages of Fear and Sorcerer, by the end of act two it’s entirely up in smoke.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “MegaDoc functions as a bit of a Rorschach test for cinephiles... {it] won’t be the final word on Megalopolis, but it will invite more conversation. If nothing else, that’s certainly in keeping with the Megalopolis ethos.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Orphan (2025) 63% EDIT “It’s reasonable for filmmakers to have fascism on their minds in 2025... but it’s so widely portrayed that they have to do something unique with it, and Nemes can’t muster much beyond platitudes.” – In Review Online Sep 24, 2025 Full Review The Baltimorons (2025) 95% EDIT “The Balitmorons wears its modesty well, and it’s an admirably big-hearted movie; Duplass simply would’ve been better off leaning away from the cuteness and toward the scintillating drama that shows its face all too briefly” – In Review Online Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Riefenstahl is insufficient as history, and it rarely develops a thesis outside... wagging its finger with the moral sophistication of a Social Studies student writing an overdue essay.” – In Review Online Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Ne Zha II (2025) 91% EDIT “Ne Zha 2 subsumes the Hollywood blockbuster in toto, including the things that don’t work about it, and regurgitates it with the competent crowd-pleasing thrills our studios now largely refuse to offer. It’s a phenomenon worth paying attention to.” – In Review Online Aug 22, 2025 Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% EDIT “The original French title, J’accuse, suggests something worth seeing... But maybe its perfunctory English title, An Officer and a Spy, is more apt — limp, generic, lacking in texture and flavor — because that’s the movie we got.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2025 Full Review Fixed (2025) 56% EDIT “The confused tug-of-war between squeaky clean sitcom-style storytelling and over-the-top sexual content never fully resolves in FIXED, which... reads like a flaccid homage to cartoons that work better when they use innuendo to get their points across.” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) 62% EDIT “Happy Gilmore 2 should stink to high heaven, but its convincing mocktail of raunch and pathos affirms the Sandman can still conjure some magic — if he wants to.” – In Review Online Aug 11, 2025 Full Review
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