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Jon Negroni

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Biography:

Jon Negroni is an author and film critic based out of the San Francisco Bay Area. He's also the Film Editor for The Young Folks and hosts a weekly movie review podcast called Cinemaholics.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Muppet Show (2026) 100% 7.5/10 EDIT “As a piece of entertainment, a statement of intent, and even a proof of concept, the 2026 Muppet Show special is the first Disney-era Muppet project that actually feels like it understands what the Muppets are.” – InBetweenDrafts Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 8/10 EDIT “This is weirdly Avatar at its most emotionally legible, as it’s a blockbuster willing to sit with the psychic toll of endless war, even as it engineers ever-larger battlefields on which to stage it.” – InBetweenDrafts Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 7/10 EDIT “Zhao has made a mournful, meticulously assembled film, full of tactile detail and anchored by at least one outstanding performance. I admired it more often than I felt it, though.” – InBetweenDrafts Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% 8/10 EDIT “Eternity doesn’t reinvent metaphysical romance, but it does something a little rarer. It treats love with sincerity in a genre that often hides behind cynicism.” – InBetweenDrafts Nov 27, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 8.5/10 EDIT “The film has asked whether art can function as a form of reconciliation, and its answer, if it has one, is resistant. A movie can help you see your life differently. It cannot live it for you.” – InBetweenDrafts Nov 22, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 8/10 EDIT “HIKARI continues to cement herself as one of the most empathetic filmmakers working today. The film may not change the world, but it might nudge you to text your mom and at least look twice at the stranger sitting across from you on the train.” – InBetweenDrafts Nov 17, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 63% 6/10 EDIT “By the time The Running Man stumbles into its finale, it’s hard not to wish someone had hit pause around the halfway mark.” – InBetweenDrafts Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Paper (1994) 86% 6/10 EDIT “If you go in expecting the second coming of Michael Scott, you might end up asking for a retraction.” – InBetweenDrafts Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% A- EDIT “If Barbarian was about what we bury in basements, Weapons is about what we bury in ourselves. Grief, blame, a national appetite for scapegoats over solutions.” – Cinemaholics Aug 1, 2025 Full Review The Bad Guys 2 (2025) 87% B EDIT “What elevates The Bad Guys 2 above standard animated fare is not just the action or the comedy (though both are abundant), but the emotional integrity of its characters. ” – Cinemaholics Jul 31, 2025 Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% 5.5/10 EDIT “It wants to be a turning point, maybe even a rebirth. Instead, it’s another cog in the Marvel machine, albeit a handsome one, running on nostalgia fumes and the hope that “better than Fan4stic” is still enough.” – InBetweenDrafts Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% B+ EDIT “Bring on the age of superhero movies with an actual point of view, a personality even, a polarizing premise. In that respect, Superman (2025) could even save the genre while it’s at it.” – Cinemaholics Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Elio (2025) 83% 7.5/10 EDIT “After Lightyear‘s identity crisis and Elemental‘s well-meaning but clunky metaphors, Elio shows that the studio still has plenty to offer the next generation of film lovers, young and old.” – InBetweenDrafts Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% 7/10 EDIT “The live-action version shifts its emotional center way more toward Nani this time around, transforming her from overworked side character to co-lead in what often feels like a Hawaiian-flavored Lady Bird. ” – InBetweenDrafts May 20, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 7.5/10 EDIT “It’s a biting, bleeding, weeping follow-up to Talk to Me that will stare you down with blind eyes and ask you to lose yourself in a cannonball, plunging deep into a pool overflowing with trauma and sad-boy-horror in its final form.” – InBetweenDrafts May 16, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 8/10 EDIT “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, if you choose to accept it, burns away your cynicism with every shot of Cruise grinning into death’s abyss and saying, “It’s just pain.”” – Cinemaholics May 14, 2025 Full Review The Sound of Music (1965) 83% EDIT “The movie hurts. It stings. Too many simply remember it as some happy-go-lucky singalong, but absolutely not. The Sound of Music breaks your heart.” – InBetweenDrafts Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% 8/10 EDIT “His use of first-person POV places us inside Elwood’s mind at key moments, not as a gimmick, but as a demand: feel this.” – Cinemaholics Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Captain America: Brave New World (2025) 46% EDIT “We get a movie that, much like the MCU itself these days, is merely running on autopilot. Captain America may still stand for something, but Brave New World sure doesn’t.” – Cinemaholics Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 8/10 EDIT “This is not a film wallowing in misery, nor does it posture toward profundity. Rather, Sorry, Baby is that rare work of quiet alchemy, its emotional weight carried by Victor’s distinctive comedic voice.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% 8.5/10 EDIT “Sweeney’s script knows exactly when to subvert expectations, dodging clichés in favor of characters so deeply flawed and bizarrely endearing that you want to wrap them in a weighted blanket and tell them everything’s going to be okay.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 9/10 EDIT “Train Dreams isn’t about grand historical figures or defining moments. It’s about the people who toiled in the background, the ones who built the roads and bridges but never got their names etched into them.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Life After (2025) 100% 8.5/10 EDIT “It refuses to be a passive history lesson. Instead, it unspools like a thriller, each new revelation exposing deeper, more insidious layers of ableism embedded in our institutions.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 29, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 8/10 EDIT “But for all its meditative despair, Rebuilding doesn’t lose sight of the decency fueling its redemption story.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 29, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% 7/10 EDIT “The Wedding Banquet promises deception at the reception, but the real surprise is how Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 rom-com gem leans into melodrama more than comedy.” – InBetweenDrafts Jan 29, 2025 Full Review
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