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

Inner East Review

Inner East Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Cris Kennedy.

Prev Next
Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/5
Addition (2024) Cris Kennedy It is, I think, sensitively done, and the comedic writing, the 'com' of the rom-com, doesn't belittle Grace or her condition.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Cris Kennedy Safdie gives us pace, pace, pace, like we're just trying to keep up with Marty's always-be-grifting, and it is all carried along with an ever-changing anachronistic score from composer Daniel Lopatin.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Cris Kennedy There's a certain silliness to the film, plenty of stagey slapstick alongside the blood and killing, but there's also a sharp wit to the evisceration the film gives to the hollowness of corporate ambition.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Cris Kennedy Michod and his production team do solid work, but all of the attention is deservedly focused on these two performances, with few distractions.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Rental Family (2025) Cris Kennedy The screenplay, by Hikari and Stephen Blahut, isn't groundbreaking stuff and stops just short of being too treacly-sweet, but also manages to be quite profound.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Cris Kennedy James Cameron's latest opus is filled with such imagination and wonder, such passion for filmmaking and storytelling, that it is worth the three-plus hours of your time and the $20-plus of your money.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Family McMullen (2025) Cris Kennedy Just like the 1995 film it is sequel to, The Family McMullen is light-on but charming and harmless viewing.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Twiggy (2024) Cris Kennedy While there are no teeth to this lolly of a documentary, it is sweet nonetheless.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Dead of Winter (2025) Cris Kennedy Technically, the film is a peach, with crisp cinematography by Christopher Ross of the Finnish landscapes standing in for remote Minnesota.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Cris Kennedy It's impossible to watch this extended single-take and not feel the loss, and not feel immersed in the tragedy.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Cris Kennedy The laughs, and I did laugh a bunch, are the hysterical laughs that come with complete exhaustion and desperation.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Cris Kennedy Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi might be aided heavily by GCI and makeup as the Yautja creature, but those artists need something to build on and his performance is a very strong scaffolding.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Happyend (2024) Cris Kennedy The performances are strong, or at least neutral, real teenagers, of course, don't want to show any emotion where they don't need to, lest they give away something about their internal monologue.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Frankenstein (2025) Cris Kennedy Del Toro's vision for the film, which comes with Netflix money to bring it all together, is exquisite and feels informed solely by Mary Shelley's descriptions and not by the century of previous interpretations.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Cris Kennedy Performances were as fine as the writing might allow, with Jared Leto doing his best to flutter his long eyelashes to emote through his CGI costume.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
HIM (2025) Cris Kennedy Tipping co-wrote the screenplay with Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie, and they construct quite a well-thought-out imagining of the football world, which we all know to be cultish, but the screenwriters push further into occultish.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Cris Kennedy The film does look beautiful, as do its stars, but there's not enough going on inside.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Long Walk (2025) Cris Kennedy Filmmaker Francis Lawrence keeps to that pace, or at least allows the pace the film's characters are forced to march at set an editing tempo, and the film maintains its momentum consistently.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) Cris Kennedy Director Michael Chaves has been hiding his craft as scare-meister and I found his work very effective, which is to say my skin turned to gooseflesh a dozen times through the film and picked my feet up onto my cinema seat twice.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Toxic Avenger (2023) Cris Kennedy The screenplay is pure nonsense, but its non-sequiturs, puns and Troma film in-jokes are fun because Blair embraces the bad of it all.
Posted Sep 02, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Eddington (2025) Cris Kennedy Cinematically, it's beautiful, muted in its New Mexico landscapes and with a dust-covered lustre to its art design that doesn't go full-on Wes Anderson, but isn't quite authentic either.
Posted Aug 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nobody 2 (2025) Cris Kennedy The filmmakers take everything that was fun about the first film and get just give us a bunch more of that.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Bride Hard (2025) Cris Kennedy The film's writing lets it down, with first time at the plate Shaina Steinberg's script just not being consistent with its characters or letting them exist for single jokes.
Posted Aug 01, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Bambi: The Reckoning (2025) Cris Kennedy The film's technical team is a small crew, the end credits were mercifully short, but they achieve good believable work with their CGI, keeping their scenes dark, only revealing the horror creatures when they need to.
Posted Jul 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) Cris Kennedy The best parts of this film, in fact, are the moments of fandom to the original, especially Freddie Prinze Jr coming out of retirement to bring back his original character Ray Bronson.
Posted Jul 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
A Nice Indian Boy (2024) Cris Kennedy The writing is expertly delivered by some great performances, particularly from mum and dad, Garr and Patel, a terrific understated comedy duo.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Cris Kennedy Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
F1 The Movie (2025) Cris Kennedy Despite the lack of depth to many of the characters, Kosinski still draws you in enough to care and to feel.
Posted Jun 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
28 Years Later (2025) Cris Kennedy The performances are very strong and sometimes against type, like Jodie Comer's non-action film tragic figure, or Aaron Taylor-Johnson's very action-film approach.
Posted Jun 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Dangerous Animals (2025) Cris Kennedy Nick Lepard's screenplay isn't the most original genre mash-up, and yet it all just comes together as an original and enjoyable scare-fest.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Fountain of Youth (2025) Cris Kennedy Guy Ritchie's film is certainly fun, there is certainly big big money being spent on filming in exotic locations and some of the action set-pieces are very well executed.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Ballerina (2025) Cris Kennedy It's a real joy to watch Eve work a room grabbing pots, pans, kitchen knives, and her ballet training to despatch dozens of men, and it is just really lovely team work from the film production crew, such professionalism.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Lilo & Stitch (2025) Cris Kennedy This might be a live-action remake, but there's plenty of beautiful CGI animation with the lead character Stitch, who translates well from cartoon to believable-looking CGI.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Surfer (2024) Cris Kennedy Lorcan Finnegan directs with a frenzy at times, plenty of movement to his camera, plenty of lens flare reinforcing the acid trip impression, probably just trying to keep up with Cage and hoping it all works.
Posted May 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Cris Kennedy There are strong emotionally-driven performances, particularly for Florence Pugh and Wyatt Russell.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Wedding Banquet (2025) Cris Kennedy This film's focus on its female characters is its strength.
Posted May 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
G20 (2025) Cris Kennedy The set-ups are wooden and the action is completely expected though that is part of the fun with films like this, but the set design and staging is lush, which might be that Bezos money.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A Minecraft Movie (2025) Cris Kennedy It is perfectly fun, graphically bright, and interesting to explore the very full screen of colour and movement.
Posted Apr 07, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Flow (2024) Cris Kennedy Its simple storytelling will charm you and its warm heart will make you glad of having had the experience.
Posted Mar 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Black Bag (2025) Cris Kennedy This is a banger of a film, just dripping in elegance, sultry and sassy in its dialogue and in the performances.
Posted Mar 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Mickey 17 (2025) Cris Kennedy Mickey 17 is a fun but sadly familiar experience, asking your inner activist to rise up.
Posted Mar 08, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Inside (2024) Cris Kennedy Each of these men is genuinely surprising in the way they inhabit these characterisations.
Posted Feb 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Queer (2024) Cris Kennedy The novella might have been slim, and the dialogue in this film sparse, but there's an encyclopaedia of meaning to every shot that will be written and debated over by film aficionados for years to come.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Last Showgirl (2024) Cris Kennedy There's not much to this screenplay by Kate Gersten, but the weight of the words became infused with the personal backstories of the people delivering them.
Posted Feb 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Cris Kennedy This 35th Marvel Studios film is blessedly short, brings some long threads of storyline to a close and hints at a few new ones, and is mildly enjoyable.
Posted Feb 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
You're Cordially Invited (2025) Cris Kennedy Witherspoon and Ferrell have a wonderful chemistry when bouncing barbs off each other, but absolutely no believable romantic spark.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Cris Kennedy Corbet's screenplay is so rich with philosophical concepts and social and architectural history that you wonder if this is perhaps the disguised biopic of some 20th-century architectural figure.
Posted Jan 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Emilia Pérez (2024) Cris Kennedy French auteur filmmaker Jacques Audiard is doing so many things and isn't afraid to try out ideas, or to put together a scene that serves a bigger ideal even if rough around the edges.
Posted Jan 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
How to Make Gravy (2024) Cris Kennedy Waterman and his cinematographer Edward Goldner lift the cinematic experience through inventive lighting and camerawork.
Posted Jan 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025) Cris Kennedy Gudegast's screenplay is for the most part quite strong, and apart from taking far too long to awkwardly find a reason for Butler's American cop to suddenly be a criminal in the South of France, it is economical with its dialogue.
Posted Jan 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Prev Next