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One Guy's Opinion is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Frank Swietek.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
C
Shelter (2026) Frank Swietek A step up from Statham’s recent solo vehicles, but it’s still just a routine actioner whose predictable beats aren’t sufficiently offset by the interesting locations.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Send Help (2026) Frank Swietek Sam Raimi returns to his gonzo, blood-drenched roots with this horror comedy...which twists a premise that might have served for a bland romantic comedy into something ghoulishly funny.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Frank Swietek An engaging recreation of a truly strange episode in American criminal and broadcast history...though it’s a bit anonymous from the perspective of [Van Sant's] best work, it’s still mightily enjoyable.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Frank Swietek A harrowing recreation of an episode that encapsulates the horror that the Israeli reaction to Hamas’ brutal attacks of October 7 unleashed on the population of Gaza...the visceral power... is undeniable.
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Frank Swietek Stunning, but one can be stunned into either admiration or stupefaction.... But love it or hate it, you’ll probably be fascinated by its self-indulgent eccentricity.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Magellan (2025) Frank Swietek The sort of film that’s easier to respect as an expression of a directorial point of view than respond to as a satisfying historical drama...the static mise-en-scène and turgid pacing can be positively suffocating.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Frank Swietek Raw and passionate filmmaking, accomplished under conditions those of us in what purports still to be a democracy can barely understand.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
D
Mercy (2026) Frank Swietek The pacing...is relentless—understandable given the need to obscure the utter implausibility of the plot...By riding roughshod over the logical absurdities Bekmambetov and his troika of editors aim to divert viewers from realizing how ridiculous [it] is.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
C
No Other Choice (2025) Frank Swietek A handsome but misguided misfire, a comic thriller that works as neither....It’s debatable whether [it] will make you laugh or simply squirm in discomfort.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
C-
The Rip (2026) Frank Swietek Except for a stellar but indifferently used cast, Joe Carnahan’s movie is a totally undistinguished specimen of a tired genre.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Frank Swietek A franchise that, in this reboot phase, has actually improved substantially over the original two installments. 'The Bone Temple' is so satisfying that it makes one look forward to another helping in the series.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Choral (2025) Frank Swietek An elegiac tribute to the transcendent power of music in the most terrible of times...Bennett’s facility in amusing dialogue and Hytner’s skill with his cast make the film both charming and poignant.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Rosemead (2025) Frank Swietek [An] unfussy but affecting drama...bolstered by strong performances from newcomer Shou and particularly Liu.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Plague (2025) Frank Swietek There have been many films about bullying, but few have gotten quite so far under the skin as this dark fantasy about the cruelty perpetrated by adolescent boys at a sports camp.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
We Bury the Dead (2024) Frank Swietek A contemplative reflection on the relationship between the "undead" and those who have survived the catastrophe that created them...a mournful take on troubled survival rather than a scare-fest.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Sentimental Value (2025) Frank Swietek Material that could be dismissed in other hands as soap operatic...because of Trier’s lucid writing and probing direction, and the collaboration of an exceptional cast,...becomes a remarkably moving experience.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Rental Family (2025) Frank Swietek Sweet but rather sappy... The initial chapters are amusing, if lightweight, and...rather touching. But in the last half hour the assault on the tear ducts grows overwrought, and the film becomes cloying and maudlin.
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
The Secret Agent (2025) Frank Swietek Always compelling, sometimes diverting and genuinely surprising,,..Mendonça’s film makes a striking, if very different, complement to Walter Salles’ 'I’m Still Here,' also set in the days of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Song Sung Blue (2025) Frank Swietek While the zest Jackman and Hudson bring to [Diamond's] songs is infectious...the beats and plot turns are so contrived and melodramatic that the picture strains credulity from start to finish.
Posted Dec 25, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Anaconda (2025) Frank Swietek This intended comedy has fewer laughs than the "serious" horror movie it’s supposedly spoofing...It’s obvious what Anaconda' was aiming for—a main dish of comic zaniness with a side order of scares. But it’s likely to produce only heartburn.
Posted Dec 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Marty Supreme (2025) Frank Swietek At two-and-a-half hours, 'Marty Supreme' can feel overstuffed, too much of a good thing; but even a compromised ending can’t diminish Chalamet’s ever-compelling star turn.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
C
David (2025) Frank Swietek Goes overboard in trying to make the Biblical story of David and Saul exciting and fun for youngsters...with its generalized boys’ adventure plotting and merely serviceable production quality...seems more suited to Sunday school classes than theatres.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Is This Thing On? (2025) Frank Swietek Credit Cooper with straining to dramatize how difficult it is to keep a marriage together over time, but his effort, while clearly dedicated, doesn’t quite come off.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
The Housemaid (2025) Frank Swietek You have to be in the mood for some really over-the-top empowerment trash to enjoy this gonzo piece, but if you are, it should be your cup of sour tea.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Frank Swietek If they ever were, the visual attractions of the 'Avatar' series are no longer sufficient to justify a narrative so simple-minded, derivative and repetitive.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Frank Swietek A cut above its predecessors in the franchise, but hatchet-swinging Santas are not the rarity they once were, and despite some new wrinkles Nelson’s version is barely passable.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
D+
Ella McCay (2025) Frank Swietek Lumpen, disjointed and clumsily paced...a stale bucket of CapraCorn that despite a strenuous effort to make us feel good, leaves a bad taste.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Frank Swietek Makes as strong a case for the tweaked musical as one could hope...remains an imperfect show, but this revival proves...that it’s one that can satisfy audiences, even if it’s hardly your ordinary rah-rah crowd-pleaser.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C
100 Nights of Hero (2025) Frank Swietek A heavy-handed fable of female empowerment that moves very slowly but boasts an attractive cast and striking visuals...if the narrative is a muddle even Sheherazade couldn’t sell, the visual splendor is undeniable.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Fackham Hall (2025) Frank Swietek It’s a hit-and-miss comic contraption with, unhappily, too many of the latter and too few of the former...mildly amusing and totally disposable, like a mediocre British sitcom.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Nuremberg (2025) Frank Swietek But a workmanlike dramatization of an event that deserves to be remembered as a noble attempt to devise a mechanism to deal with those responsible for morally unconscionable political and military acts.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
D
Inertia (2025) Frank Swietek The script for 'Inertia' is built around Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion, but it’s his law of gravity that’s really determinative here: the movie crashes to earth with a resounding thud.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C
The Thing with Feathers (2025) Frank Swietek Porter’s verbal somersaults and Walsh’s theatricality have given way to a literalism that renders what was powerful on the page and, from the critical reaction, the boards faintly ridiculous.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Hamnet (2025) Frank Swietek A sixteenth-century soap opera with pretensions...heavy-handed, dirge-like and manipulative...a film that it’s easy to dismiss as little more than a mawkish period melodrama.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Zootopia 2 (2025) Frank Swietek An antic, joke-filled, hugely enjoyable sequel...packed with the same recipe of colorful action, upbeat messages and witty throwaway humor—including lots of movie allusions—that marked the first installment.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Eternity (2025) Frank Swietek A fairly anemic otherworldly rom-com about an afterlife that’s barely worth visiting, let alone spending an eternity in.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Frank Swietek While admittedly incredible, the circuitous journey to the solution proves an engaging journey...a likably wacky mystery that leaves you smiling in the wake of its cartoonishly murderous mayhem.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Jay Kelly (2025) Frank Swietek A sentimental Hollywood-based dramedy...an agreeable but lightweight picture that promises more insight than it delivers, easy to watch but leaving very little impact.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Frank Swietek A genuine love-letter not to Godard’s early style but to the liberation it proclaimed from stylistic expectations that were thought of as stale and confining...[done] in a fashion that’s stylistically quite conventional.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Wicked: For Good (2025) Frank Swietek The first half of 'Wicked' on screen was mediocre; the second is equally bad, just in different ways.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Frank Swietek Peck may not bring startling revelations to the conversation about the meaning of Orwell’s two best-known works, but he offers a crisp, convincing portrait of the intellectual journey that led to his writing them.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
The Wilderness (2025) Frank Swietek There’s obviously an agenda behind 'The Wilderness'.... But especially because of the commitment behind Doohan’s performance, this relatively simple tale of a teen’s painful coming of age proves surprisingly powerful.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
B
Urchin (2025) Frank Swietek Dickinson has made a confident if somewhat derivative directorial debut, securing consistently fine work from his technical collaborators...and his cast, especially the scruffily charismatic Dillane.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Frank Swietek Has plenty of action but precious little magic...a fast-moving but brainless caper movie driven by supposed magic tricks that are just special-effects contraptions.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
The Running Man (2025) Frank Swietek Despite all the money and talent thrown into the mix, Wright’s 'Running Man' turns out to be a pretty flatfooted affair [with] a pandering close that King, though listed as an executive producer, could hardly have warmly embraced.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Christy (2025) Frank Swietek A rather pedestrian treatment of the life of a pretty remarkable person...almost feels like a mini-series shorn of commercials.
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
C-
Long Shadows (2025) Frank Swietek An oddball addition to a hoary sagebrush genre.... Even fanciers of that dying breed, the Western, will have a hard time finding much to like in 'Long Shadows.'
Posted Nov 10, 2025  Edit critic review
C
Die My Love (2025) Frank Swietek It’s white-hot—the narrative in this case appropriately bookended by scenes set in a forest fire—but the flames it generates are cold and distant, aiming for the head rather than the heart, and in the end leaving one unsettled but unmoved.
Posted Nov 09, 2025  Edit critic review
C+
Predator: Badlands (2025) Frank Swietek The film charts a new direction for the franchise with the efficiency Wey-Yu might bring to rebranding an outmoded product without abandoning what its fans love about it...but a predator that’s not the supreme bad-guy...is a very different kind of beast.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
B-
Hedda (2025) Frank Swietek Though it has problems, DaCosta’s film certainly has flash and sizzle to spare...on its own terms 'Hedda' is a gripping reimagining of Ibsen’s naturalistic classic.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
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