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Kayleigh Donaldson

Kayleigh Donaldson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Abyss (1989) 76% EDIT “When The Abyss goes full sci-fi, it oddly makes the movie much less interesting. The thrills lessen almost immediately and the sentimental approach doesn’t pay off. ” – Syfy Wire Dec 5, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% EDIT “It’s just another legacy remake that only exists because some executive was handed a folder full of the IPs their studio owned and went, ‘eh, why not this one?’ ” – Pajiba Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 68% EDIT “Idealism and earnestness are at the heart of this tale, which may not be wholly faithful to the source material but it certainly feels vital. ” – Pajiba Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “His is an unremarkable life for his time, one of millions of men who strived for something beyond the stifling confines of a working-class existence on the margins. But there’s no reason a story so ordinary cannot be told in an extraordinary manner.” – Pajiba Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Landmarks (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s the personal made political and vice versa, and it’s depicted with the sharpness and careful anger that has long defined Martel’s impeccable filmography.” – Pajiba Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Good News (2025) 91% EDIT “If one joke doesn’t work, you don’t have to wait long for the next one. It’s both tense and hilarious, a hard combination to pull off, even when your plot isn’t focused on a terrorist attack.” – Pajiba Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “This is a highly endearing film that has hints of [Hirokazu] Kore-eda, although it lacks the Japanese icon’s layered darkness. ” – Pajiba Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “The more it tries to run away from the cliches of the biopic, the more it finds itself restricted by their necessity. It’s a shame because it feels like there’s a lot of unmined territory in this story.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Historical accuracy be damned: this is the memory that the Shakespeares deserve.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Three films in and this franchise only gets more interesting. One cannot help but hope that he and Craig decide to be as prolific with this series as Agatha Christie was with Poirot.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “Skarsgård is dialed up to 11 for the entire thing. He’s hard to like, but he makes for good TV.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Franz (2025) 71% EDIT “Holland has created a painting of Kafka that is lacking in key connective tissue. She aims for Kafkaesque but that’s not a philosophy that gels with something as conventional as a life story. The spirit is there but the heft is lacking.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “The Testament of Ann Lee is often brilliant but you reach your hands out and hope for more, only to be disappointed. There’s a genuinely phenomenal film somewhere in this ambitious and proudly uncommercial work.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% EDIT “This is an oddly dutiful film. If one wishes to be daring about this subject matter, one should be deeper in its interrogation of power. Alas, it feels like Assayas and company are just obeying orders.” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s a gorgeous-looking movie full of impeccable Brazilian jazz that captures the period with such verve. It should feel incongruous for this movie to swing from funny to sad to erotic to polemic, but it’s a thrilling balance beam of directorial control. ” – Pajiba Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “The Naked Gun should have been a cheap nostalgic cash-in, but it’s a more effortful slice of smart stupidity that is offering audiences something we just don’t have enough of in pop culture right now: consistent laughs with a budget.” – Pajiba Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Ne Zha II (2025) 91% EDIT “It should feel rushed or bogged down but it doesn’t, mostly because there’s a full-throated earnestness to the film and its themes. Well, that and it’s also just a blast to watch. ” – Pajiba Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% EDIT “Mad About the Boy works because of its bittersweet acknowledgement that life and its many curveballs are rubbish but inevitable, and just getting on with things is often all that we can do.” – Pajiba Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025) 75% EDIT “Don’t Die is fascinating as a piece of failed propaganda. No matter what Johnson does or how hard he works to sell what he’s doing as some act of biological disruption, he can’t conceal the sheer sadness... over what his life was and has become.” – Pajiba Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% EDIT “Would the film have been more effective as a short? Maybe, but how can you turn down the chance to spend more time with these characters and this beautifully rendered world?” – Pajiba Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 60% EDIT “If Moana were to get a real sequel, one with a story developed for cinema from the ground up, things would feel different. As it is, what we have is so derivative and transparently corporate that it bums me out. ” – Pajiba Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% EDIT “In many ways, Joker: Folie a Deux is a better film than its predecessor. It’s at least more willing to subvert expectations. Yet the weaknesses are unignorable and Phillips cannot help but shoot himself in the foot. ” – Pajiba Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “This film needed the Coppola of The Godfather and Bram Stoker’s Dracula or even the Coppola of One From the Heart, the man who was known for bringing clarity to chaos. In Megalopolis, he seems lost but refuses to ask for directions.” – Pajiba Sep 30, 2024 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “Reijn acutely captures the dizzying, oft-regrettable but frequently rewarding experience of falling in lust. What is love? Not this!” – Pajiba Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Really Happy Someday (2024) EDIT “Really Happy Someday is aptly titled. It’s a gently told but candid tale about the non-linear path towards happiness.” – Pajiba Sep 16, 2024 Full Review
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