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Rob Thomas

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Biography:

Film Critic, Capital Times, Madison, WI

Location:

Madison, WI

Official Website:

http://www.madison.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Night Nurse (2026) 77% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Georgia Bernstein keeps the film’s sexual tension on a low simmer, aiming for less of a feverish nightmare and more like a hazy afternoon daydream. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Incomer (2026) 91% 3.5/4 EDIT “With laugh-out-loud gags, lovely moments of sweetness and an empathetic spirit, it feels like a balm in troubled times.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Ghost in the Machine (2026) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a funny, angry, and thoughtful puncturing of the AI boom, painstakingly showing how today’s hype about "superintelligence" is just a modern, dressed-up version of old-fashioned eugenics. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 31, 2026 Full Review The Musical (2026) 57% 3/4 EDIT “There are plenty of movies where an inspirational teacher aspires their young pupils to achieve greatness. And then there’s "The Musical."” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 29, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% 3/4 EDIT “It could have been something of a stunt to see one of America’s great actors do an entire film in another language (aside from the swears), but Foster seems right at home in France.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 29, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “After the relative restraint of his last film, the Hitchcockian "Decision to Leave," Park lets loose in "No Other Choice," a funny, violent and, above all, angry satire about the dehumanizing effect of the modern workplace.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 14, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT “You don’t so much watch "The Chronology of Water" as drown in it.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 2/4 EDIT “"Is This Thing On?" isn’t really a comedy. But, fatally, it’s not enough of a drama either, skimming over the surface of these roiling emotions and grasping for easy answers rather than hard truths. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Marty Supreme" is exhilarating entertainment, keeping us off-balance and riveted as we want to see if Marty will make it or not. And, to our complete amazement, finding ourselves on his side throughout.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Craig Brewer’s "Song Sung Blue" is a hammy and heartfelt ode to the everyman musicians that are the lifeblood of any good local music scene, the mechanics, hairdressers and dentists who dream of their moment in the limelight.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Casanova (2015) EDIT “I think I get what showrunner Stuart Zicherman is going for, showing the ugliness underneath the elegant surfaces of the era. But it's handled so ham-handedly in execution that it's almost laughable.” – Capital Times (Madison, WI) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 3/4 EDIT “"Rebuilding" is a little gem that deserves to be seen, an ode to resilience and empathy, that lingers in the mind like a fond memory. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/4 EDIT “The film grooves to its own beat over its 158-minute running time, moving from suspenseful sequences to surreal comedy, and Filho finds humanity in each of his characters, good or bad.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Reinsve and Skarsgard are both brilliant actors who can convey so much without saying a word, and von Trier knows how to give each actor time and space to do their work.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s as achingly sincere as a Glinda ballad and as crazy as an army of flying monkeys. It may not be my thing, but I have to tip my crooked black hat to the effort.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Trifole (2024) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “I get the impulse to make a film that’s more forthright and melancholy than expected, but the second half of "Trifole" really breaks the spell cast by the first half. ” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% 3/4 EDIT “This is a harrowing and effective film that, if you can stay standing in the ring with it, is worth seeing.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3.5/4 EDIT ““Die My Love” is never one thing, and it revels in its contradictions. Ramsay can suffuse a day at the beach with horror and dread, or making a raging forest fire seem beautiful and cleansing. It’s a challenging, confounding, exposed nerve of a movie.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 3/4 EDIT “Vanderbilt tries to make “Nuremberg” as entertaining a film as he can, a gripping courtroom drama in the mold of the Aaron Sorkin-penned “A Few Good Men” with a big all-star cast, snappy dialogue, and even a few laughs here and there” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) 79% 3.5/4 EDIT “Watching “Sunfish” does feel like a weekend up at the lake, enchanting and rejuvenating.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “With a painter’s eye and a fan’s reverence for the source material, del Toro has put all his gifts as a filmmaker onto the screen, creating a “Frankenstein” that’s as romantic as it is gory, as empathetic as it is scary.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “This is one of those imitative performances that Hawke rarely does, where he tries to completely disappear into a real-life figure.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Who Killed the Montreal Expos? (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT ““Who Killed the Montreal Expos?” is briskly paced and does a good job keeping track of all the different players, both on and off the field, as it delivers a teary-eyed post mortem for the team.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 3.5/4 EDIT ““Mastermind” is partly a suspenseful heist thriller, complete with a jazzy score by Rob Mazurek as the thieves plan and execute their scheme. But it’s also just as curious about the inner lives of its characters as Reichardt’s other films.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Oct 20, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% 3/4 EDIT ““I Like Me” is a moving tribute to a brilliant performer, and also a poignant reminder that you never know what other people are going through.” – Not That Rob Thomas (Substack) Oct 17, 2025 Full Review
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