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Region Free is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Joonatan Itkonen.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
$POSITIONS (2025) Joonatan Itkonen If $Positions were an after-school special, it could be called, "You're a dumbass, Charlie Brown."
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Kraken (2025) Joonatan Itkonen If you immerse yourself in the seemingly mundane routines and down-to-earth storytelling that unravel in the face of nature, Kraken reveals itself as a slow-burning marvel, one that feels like old folk tales come to life.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dog 51 (2025) Joonatan Itkonen The result is a frustrating mix of disparate styles and tones that never connect in a meaningful way. There's a lot to admire in Dog 51, but not as much to like.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
OBEX (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Like other great coming-of-age stories, Obex is as scary as it is comforting. It treats its audience with great care, even when it refuses easy answers.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Fucktoys (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I love how candid it is. I love that it doesn't apologize or explain itself, and that, even at its most delirious, it feels honest on an emotional level. Sriram handles even the most complex mix of titillation and comedy like a seasoned veteran.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Fans will say that all this is for kids, and as such, it's exempt from expectations like plot or coherence. But surely even kids deserve better than something this cynical and thoughtless?
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
They Will Kill You (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Beetz is a force of nature. A magnetic embodiment of cool, power, and sexiness that singlehandedly carries the film through even the silliest moments. It's the kind of performance people build fandoms around.
Posted Mar 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Pretty Lethal (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Few movies know so precisely what they are, and even fewer deliver on their high-concept promise with such accuracy. Pretty Lethal is everything it says on the cover, and what a joy that is.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Grind (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Grind is often disturbing, occasionally gross, and always funny.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Forbidden City (2025) Joonatan Itkonen In the end, The Forbidden Kingdom accomplishes the most difficult magic trick of them all by crafting an action film that is as romantic as it is thrilling. That alone is worth celebrating.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Ascent (2026) Joonatan Itkonen By refusing easy categorization, The Ascent defies every expectation of traditional sports biopics or inspirational platitudes. In the end, it earns every moment because it never takes the easy way there.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Project Hail Mary (2026) Joonatan Itkonen It's the kind of film you want to see over and over again, from one year to the next, and then generationally into the far future.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Your Attention Please (2026) Joonatan Itkonen ... An instrument of change that encapsulates a moment in time so astutely that it captures the urgency and anger needed to turn the tide. Your Attention Please is one of the most vitally important films of the decade.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Haunters of the Silence (2025) Joonatan Itkonen It's not a film for everyone... But those invested in alternative cinema will find a lot to love, especially in its poignant observations of our collective dreams.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
War Machine (2026) Joonatan Itkonen War Machine is the worst kind of bad movie: It's too dour to have any fun, and just on the wrong side of competent to elicit any laughs, intentional or otherwise.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
THE BRIDE! (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Showy and all over the place, The Bride! isn't a good movie, but it's certainly the most movie you'll see this year.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
The Bluff (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Usually these kinds of films have at least one or two great one-liners. Something that makes the journey worth the effort. Not here. This is a by-the-numbers script written with such disinterest it doesn't even register as cynical.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Blades of the Guardians (2026) Joonatan Itkonen A triumph of wuxia cinema, Blades of the Guardians is gorgeous filmmaking on an epic scale that makes the heart soar.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Crime 101 (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Crime 101 is just fine, which is as much of a compliment as it isn't. It has the basics down to science, everything else is a little loose. Yet there are worse Heat imitations to watch, and that's not nothing.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Wuthering Heights (2026) Joonatan Itkonen It is possible to make a bad adaptation that is still interesting and rewarding in its own way. By contrast, it is something else entirely to make a bad adaptation that is also dull as dishwater.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Seeds (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Filmed in gorgeous black and white, Shyne evokes grand imagery of the south that is loving but pointedly not romanticized. Seeds is a thoughtful, beautiful, and immensely timely film that everyone should see.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Ghost Elephants (2025) Joonatan Itkonen For those who love his narrative style, Ghost Elephants delivers plenty to admire.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Blame (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Frei's empathetic and smartly constructed documentary should be mandatory viewing not just to understand the origins of the pandemic, but for everyone to gain perspective on the nature of lies and fear, and how easily they can devour us all.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Agatha's Almanac (2025) Joonatan Itkonen This lovingly constructed portrait of director Amalie Atkins' 90-year-old aunt, Agatha Bock, is tender and melancholy but so full of life it never feels anything less than joyous.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Greenland 2: Migration is a lousy sequel to an equally lousy film that didn't need one. It's a soporific way to spend two hours, and lord knows there are far better and cheaper ways to sneak in a nap these days.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Joonatan Itkonen You know that whatever you're seeing is the work of a singular vision. There's no committee in sight. For better and for worse, this is unfiltered insanity right from the source.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Joonatan Itkonen As The Bone Temple barrels towards the inevitable climax, DaCosta builds up one of the most fascinating and intellectually satisfying finales in horror history.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Send Help (2026) Joonatan Itkonen There is an inkling of a great film buried within Send Help... Sadly, the timid script is hellbent on taking every lazy and unimaginative way out of the tantalizing setup, which leads to an unsatisfying ride held together by the luminous Rachel McAdams.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Mercy (2026) Joonatan Itkonen It must be Thanksgiving in January, there's no other way to explain a turkey of this magnitude.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Joonatan Itkonen As a visual feast, All You Need Is Kill is a satisfying thrill that should satisfy sci-fi fans everywhere.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Rip (2026) Joonatan Itkonen Two things can be true at once: The Rip is a great film and it is released at the absolute wrong time.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Primate (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Primate is a short and brutal experiment in stuffing as many kills into a single location as possible. But in its haste to get to the gore, it overlooks any semblance of character or setup necessary to make us care about the slaughter.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Joonatan Itkonen There's nothing to chew on here, no lines that stick with the viewer once the film ends. It's like being stuck in an elevator with a loudmouth braggart who believes shouting others into silence is the same as winning an argument.
Posted Dec 26, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Anaconda (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Anaconda isn't just a bad film; it's the kind of disaster that in the past would have rightfully ended careers.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Dead of Winter (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Like an airport novel, it has passages that surprise with occasional eloquence that are lost in a sea of tired tropes and aimless twists.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Bloated beyond belief, the third Avatar is an exercise in tedious plotting, ugly stereotypes, and dull action.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Wicked: For Good is a lifeless chore that feels like an extended second act of a film without structure. By the end, it exhausted me so thoroughly I was done. For good.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Running Man (2025) Joonatan Itkonen By the time the film reaches the final stretch... Wright pulls his punches even further. His third act plays everything so safe that we get the rare case where the adaptation has a worse ending than King's original book.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Now You See Me, Now You Don't is like watching a magic act where the magician is talentless and clumsy, but also so arrogant and smug there's almost a perverse pleasure in their ineptitude.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bulk (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Ben Wheatley's impish in-joke is almost too quirky for its own good, but it's also so outlandish and inventive that it's hard not to be swept away by the wild swings.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Flush (2025) Joonatan Itkonen At a lean and mean 70 minutes, it's packed with enough pitch-black humor and the finest of bad taste to remain hysterically funny and gross for its entire runtime. It's definitely not for everyone, but a select few will love it. Myself included.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Keep Quiet (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Like the masters of hardboiled noir classics, [Grashaw] subverts the genre to say something meaningful and it leaves the audience ragged and breathless. The result is one of the finest thrillers of the year.
Posted Nov 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Predator: Badlands (2025) Joonatan Itkonen If you want something that provides ample entertainment for the buck, Trachtenberg's latest is a breezy and fun way to spend a few hours. It won't challenge you, but it does deliver where it matters.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Bugonia (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I don't think Lanthimos likes any of his characters. They exist for his torment, which makes for some dull viewing.
Posted Oct 31, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Bruce's music is so universal at this point that it means different things to everyone who hears it. By trying to explain him in such reductive terms only harms that connection. Especially when it hinges on made up events.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Call of the Wild (2020) Joonatan Itkonen If I had seen this film when I was a kid, it would have left an everlasting mark on my soul. As an adult, it reminded me how that age felt, and to hug my dog when I got home.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Are We Good? (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Perhaps accidentally, Feinartz captures an elusive moment where Maron's armor cracks, and even if it feels sappy and hackneyed, it earns an answer to the grumpy sign-off that serves as the documentary's name.
Posted Oct 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) Joonatan Itkonen I love the beginning and ending of Sisu, and I hate to be a downer about the rest. It's just that the rest of the film is built around the concept that Aatami can't die, which makes everything else feel pointless.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Joonatan Itkonen Rian Johnson is one of the best American filmmakers working today... Wake Up Dead Man is not just overflowing both stylistically and thematically, it's also one of his finest films in a career that continues to surprise and delight.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Retreat (2025) Joonatan Itkonen The results are a very mixed bag, but it's such a big swing that Retreat is worth watching just for the vision alone.
Posted Oct 02, 2025  Edit critic review
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