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The Movie Cricket

The Movie Cricket is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sean P. Means.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3/4
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Sean P. Means "Greenland 2: Migration" is gritty, sometimes cliched and often in love with its reliance on SteadiCam shots. But it’s a get-the-job-done thriller that delivers the action without pretense.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Primate (2025) Sean P. Means When Katsur’s not in the picture, ... "Primate" plays like another dumb psycho killer movie, with the attractive young cast making inexplicably stupid decisions and getting ripped to shreds one by one.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Sean P. Means Some elements in "Is This Thing On?" fail spectacularly, and none harder than Cooper’s own performance as Balls. ... But it’s hard to stay angry when Dern and Arnett are on their game.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Sean P. Means One of the most immediate and necessary dramas about the war in Gaza to arrive in theaters.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Sean P. Means DaCosta keeps us off-guard, trying to guess what will happen next and rewarding us for answers more rich and powerful than what we in the audience would have conjured.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Sean P. Means Fastvold and composer Daniel Blumberg draw from Shaker hymns to create a series of songs that produce the droning, rhythmic sensation you’d expect from cloistered monks. It’s jarring at first, but as the movie goes, these songs convey a hypnotic grace.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Arco (2025) Sean P. Means "Arco" presents a world that is in the middle of the planet’s disaster and shows a glimpse of what happens after — a hopeful time where people become rainbows.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Lake (2026) Sean P. Means It’s a rare documentary about the environment that doesn’t cast anyone as the bad guy, and doesn’t leave the audience without hope.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Hot Water (2026) Sean P. Means The best thing about "Hot Water" is Azabal’s performance, as she finds the fragments of humor and heartbreak in her understandably wound-up character.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
American Doctor (2026) Sean P. Means Poh Si Teng, who’s also one of the movie’s five cinematographers, captures the daily grind and panic of the doctors and nurses trying to keep people alive. The film also labors to keep the doctors’ political leanings at arm’s length
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Bedford Park (2026) Sean P. Means Ahh lets the audience get to know Eli and Audrey just as they’re getting to know each other — a little bit at a time, with revelations that show the complexities of their childhoods and current situations, like any couple must navigate.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Josephine (2026) Sean P. Means "Josephine" is a dark journey through some difficult subject material, but de Araújo handles it with intelligence and sensitivity, treating Jo’s emotional state as valid as that of any of the adults.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Sean P. Means The imagery of these bears, encroaching on human habitation, forms the backbone of "Nuisance Bear," and is enough to make me recommend the film.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Friend's House Is Here (2026) Sean P. Means Bahram and Mana deliver a twinned pair of strong performances, as the oh-so-serious Pari and the vivacious Hanna work to keep their artistic voices and their cluster of collaborative friends intact.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Union County (2026) Sean P. Means Most movies about recovery from addiction fall into familiar plot patterns of struggle, relapse and redemption — but what makes "Union County" one of the better examples of this genre is how [the film] digs into the true-life details of such battles.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Seized (2026) Sean P. Means Liese’s documentary raises some serious questions about the actions of the Marion police, the county sheriff, the county prosecutor and the judge who approved the search warrant.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Moment (2026) Sean P. Means Not since The Beatles in "A Hard Day’s Night" has a real pop star satirized themselves as thoroughly and as smartly as Charli XCX does in "The Moment."
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Barbara Forever (2026) Sean P. Means Barbara Hammer was a singular and usually confrontational figure in American cinema, so it’s appropriate that directory Brydie O’Connor’s documentary about her, "Barbara Forever," is so unique and in-your-face.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Run Amok (2026) Sean P. Means Mager sets up a tricky high-wire act with this premise, cleverly exposing the conflict when teens want to explore the history that their elders would rather forget. Alas, it’s not sustainable.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Who Killed Alex Odeh? (2026) Sean P. Means Order and Youmans carefully work through Sheen’s reporting, the steps he took to confirm the identities of the men believed to have been responsible for Odeh’s death.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Joybubbles (2026) Sean P. Means The sweetness and light of "Joybubbles" doesn’t keep viewers from encountering some dark passages.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Take Me Home (2026) Sean P. Means "Take Me Home" works with no emotional gimmicks, no false pity, no condescension. Just a real person showing us, through this artifice of a movie drama, how real their life can get.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Musical (2026) Sean P. Means Done right, we would leave the theater laughing … , like we’ve just seen the 21st century version of "Springtime for Hitler." Unfortunately, Bonilla and Heller don’t deliver, and the stick of dynamite they’ve lit turns out to be a damp squib.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
Carousel (2026) Sean P. Means On paper, the reunion of these two former lovers could be the basis for a Hallmark Channel movie. But Lambert ... imbues the characters and their journey with warmth and depth that take the emotional stakes to a much higher level.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Sean P. Means [Rinko Kikuchi] deploys a deadpan that makes Buster Keaton look expressive — but when she smiles, which she does often with [Alejandro] Eddo’s Luis, it melts your heart.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) Sean P. Means Director David Alvarado presents an exuberant biographical portrait of a truly original storyteller.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
1/4
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Sean P. Means If the point of the franchise is that observers are supposed to survive in this creepy scenario, the makers should really make sure those entering Freddy’s world don’t die from boredom first.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Sean P. Means All of it is delivered through some of Sondheim’s best compositions, with complex rhyme schemes and intelligent wordplay. … [And] all three leads are a joy to watch.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hamnet (2025) Sean P. Means This is a movie that gives its rewards to those willing to sit with it, to follow Agnes as she brings their children together with nature and grieves when tragedy strikes, and to listen to Will turn those emotions into poetry.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Ella McCay (2025) Sean P. Means If Brooks is familiar with the advice given to writers, to "kill your darlings," he didn’t heed it here.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Sean P. Means Mendonça Filho steeps "The Secret Agent" in the film language of the ’70s — "Jaws," obviously, but also early Brian de Palma movies and the paranoid thrillers of the era, like "Three Days of the Condor" and "The Parallax View."
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
David (2025) Sean P. Means A feast for the eyes, though likely only nourishing to those who already know their bible stories.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Sean P. Means Fagerbakke's deadpan readings of the dead-brained starfish can squeeze a laugh out of pretty much anything.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Sean P. Means The star here, though, is Hudson, who’s pressed into mounting some powerful physical acting, and bringing warmth and soul to Claire’s backup and duet singing.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Sean P. Means "Marty Supreme" hits its stride at the exact moment when Marty starts to realize that not everyone thinks what he’s doing is cute.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
No Other Choice (2025) Sean P. Means Anyone fearing for their job in today’s corporate world can imagine being in the same position as Man-su, and making the same desperate choices.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Plague (2025) Sean P. Means A 21st-century variation on "Lord of the Flies," a situation where boys are given free rein to be who they want to be — and who that is turns out to be horrible little pricks.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Housemaid (2025) Sean P. Means Sweeney and Seyfried have the most fun, as their roles and perspectives shift through the narrative, and Sklenar puts his smoking-hot good guy persona … through the ringer in some entertaining ways.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Sean P. Means [Varang is] a character unlike any of the elongated Smurfs we’ve seen before in this franchise, and demonstrates what Cameron might do in a future installment — if he ever gets around to making one.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Sean P. Means It’s one of the most earthy, gutsy and compelling performances Lawrence has ever given, and it nearly makes "Die My Love" a mad masterpiece.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Nuremberg (2025) Sean P. Means There are solid performances aplenty, particularly from Shannon, Slattery and Richard E. Grant. They are the ones most successful at escaping the clutches of Vanderbilt’s wooden direction and heavy-handed script.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
In Your Dreams (2025) Sean P. Means Serviceable. It’s an adequate animated entertainment that gets the job done. But it’s nothing you or your kids will remember once the credits roll.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Sean P. Means The script is credited to five different writers, so it’s a bit of a surprise how well the story all holds together in the watching.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Sean P. Means The problem with "Rental Family" is that there are so many vignettes, so many clients, that no one story ever gets enough traction.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Sean P. Means Have you ever wondered how much it would suck to be George Clooney? Me neither, but director Noah Baumbach devotes much time considering that question in a surprisingly moving comedy-drama.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Sean P. Means Skarsgard is perfectly matched in Lilleaas as the caregiver who chose family over art, and particularly Reinsve as the daughter who, in a sense, had her father’s choice thrust upon her.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Sean P. Means While Erivo is as strong here as before, the exuberant surprise is Grande’s turn in the tricky role of Glinda.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Eternity (2025) Sean P. Means The most engaging of the three is Olsen, who brings a post-death sense of liberation to Joan — someone who, finally, gets to do what she wants rather than what’s expected of her.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Zootopia 2 (2025) Sean P. Means Bush’s script includes plot twists that would be welcome in any action thriller, as well as jokes that work for both the younger audience and the adults bringing them to the theater.
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Sean P. Means Those [ecclesiastical] moments make "Wake Up Dead Man" more than just a fun murder romp, like "Knives Out" and its first sequel, "Glass Onion," but give the audience some deeper questions to ponder than just "whodunnit?"
Posted Nov 30, 2025  Edit critic review
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