Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Jason Shawhan

Jason Shawhan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Serpent's Skin (2025) 100% EDIT “Australian treasure Alice Maio Mackay is back with The Serpent’s Skin, a film that takes time-tested horror methodologies (cursed art) and you-are-there moments of queer youth color and lets them loose in a concept no one ever thought of before.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% EDIT “Sirāt is not for everyone, but absolutely worth seeing in the biggest, loudest theater possible without reading anything else about it.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review I Only Rest in the Storm (2025) 79% EDIT “I Only Rest in the Storm is a perceptive docufiction that balances its discourse and its densely erotic vibe in a way that feels both alluring and brutal.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sholay (1975) 95% EDIT “Sholay covers every base, works all the emotions, and even today, when Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra show up, thunderous ovations result. ” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Tinsman Road (2025) EDIT “Banfitch’s Tinsman Road is about the journey that grief can drive us down, especially when Not Knowing can be just as horrifying as the secrets being kept.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Mother of Flies (2025) 94% EDIT “Mother of Flies is a modern folk-horror masterpiece about a family pushed to the brink by the one-two punch of cancer and the domestic health care system and driven to explore more witch-based treatment possibilities.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason is not afraid to let things get weirder as they go along (much like life), and Saga Garðarsdóttir grounds literal kitchen-sink realism and fanciful freakouts alike in a great performance.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Drunken Noodles (2025) EDIT “Humorous and horny in equal measure, Drunken Noodles is the kind of queer art that (while it’s still legal) feels timeless and playful — a testament to the magical places the baser instincts can lead us.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Sentimental Value makes you want to do better in your own circumstances; and more than that, it makes you want to watch it again.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “A good monster can help smooth over all manner of cinematic oopsies, and Predator: Badlands is well aware that it needs to deliver action, thrills, sci-fi possibilities and a bunch of monsters at all times.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “This is another of those fearless films, echoed with a go-for-broke performance from Jennifer Lawrence that pulls no punches and doesn’t really care if you sympathize with her situation or responses to it.” – Nashville Scene Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Demons (1985) 75% EDIT “The fact that this is a delirious dive into the demonic that serves as a superb zombie movie just as easily? That’s like the finest sauce for an exceptional feast.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review O.C. and Stiggs (1987) 57% EDIT “The thing about O.C. and Stiggs that allows it a certain kind of infamy is that it wasn’t made out of humane care, or surgical diagnosis, or even a vacation-disguised-as-a-shoot kind of lark. This is a movie made out of finely tended spite.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% EDIT “Regardless of where the ride of The Shrouds takes you and lets you out, this film flips all manner of switches in the subconscious and does not immediately vacate the premises. ” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Play It as It Lays (1972) 64% EDIT “There’s a melancholy to this film that feels undiluted by the intervening five-plus decades.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “When Eddington starts relitigating the battles over masking, I could feel the bile rise. That’s because it’s not really about exploring ideas — it’s about how annoying masking is for otherwise decent folks.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Eli Roth Presents: Jimmy and Stiggs (2024) 63% EDIT “There are lots of films that address the messy tendencies of dude friendships and what happens when they meet unbreachable barriers, but none of them reach down into the bile and hurt and corrosive rage like Jimmy and Stiggs does.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Cregger has a maximalist streak that yields big dividends (see also 2011’s The Civil War on Drugs), one that uses the cinemascope frame in a way that keeps your gaze locked in on the refractions and revelations before us.” – Nashville Scene Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Hell of a Summer (2023) 49% EDIT “The feature debut from writing/directing/acting team Billy Bryk and Finn Wolfhard is neither rehash nor slash-by-numbers.” – Nashville Scene Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% EDIT “The plot is smart, expertly constructed and very effective. But once you know the points on the graph where all that unfolds, Guiraudie and his cast are able to do something nearly alchemical.” – Nashville Scene Apr 2, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “There’s something resigned about the universe Perkins gives us, with the comic tones finding a perfect balancing point between gleefully outrageous gorescapes and the kind of gallows humor you’d find in M*A*S*H or a particularly grisly Coen brothers film.” – Nashville Scene Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% EDIT “At this current historical moment, Queer is a work of radical theory and intent that, while it’s still legal, enriches the medium and cranks up all the conflicted emotional responses.” – Nashville Scene Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) 90% EDIT “Sasha getting her fangs is very relatable to anyone who spent years at the mercy of biochemistry and autonomic nervous responses.” – Nashville Scene Nov 8, 2024 Full Review The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) 92% EDIT “Family-friendly, rather charming and unafraid to point out that calcified church figureheads are often the stumbling blocks keeping people from the community and fellowship that faith should offer. ” – Nashville Scene Nov 8, 2024 Full Review MaXXXine (2024) 73% EDIT “There are some great images, and a couple of superb set pieces. But this is a film that absolutely could have used another rewrite and another 20 minutes of runtime.” – Nashville Scene Oct 30, 2024 Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More