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'Passenger' Review Thread

'Passenger' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh

Critics Consensus: N/A

Critics Score Number of Reviews Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics 67% 12 5.80/10
Top Critics % 0

Metacritic: N/A (0 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Alison Foreman, IndieWire B- - “Passenger” may lack the interpersonal and mythological complexities required of a proper, obsession-worthy classic. But Øvredal is nevertheless skilled at trapping his audience inside a disorienting, semi-liminal space where anything can happen.

Linda Marric, HeyUGuys 4/5 - While not entirely perfect, Passenger still manages to deliver enough tension, atmosphere, and genuinely unnerving moments to make for a highly effective horror experience.

SYNOPSIS:

After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger that won't stop until it claims them both turns their van life adventure into a nightmare.

CAST:

  • Jacob Scipio as Tyler
  • Lou Llobell as Maddie
  • Melissa Leo as Diana

DIRECTED BY: André Øvredal

SCREENPLAY BY: Zachary Donohue, T.W. Burgess

PRODUCED BY: Walter Hamada, Gary Dauberman

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jenny Hinkey, Nathan Samdahl, Pete Chiappetta, Anthony Tittanegro, Andrew Lary

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Federico Verardi

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Guy Hendrix Dyas

EDITED BY: Martin Bernfeld

COSTUME DESIGNER: Kimberly Adams-Galligan

MUSIC BY: Christopher Young

CASTING BY: Jennifer L. Smith, Tricia Wood

RUNTIME: 94 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2026

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Box Office Weekend Forecast: STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU Targets $85.1M 3-Day/$103.8M 4-Day ($86-109M 4-Day Range) Holiday Start, Banking on Families and “Baby Yoda” as Summer Vacations Begin

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Moonwalking to Box Office Glory: How Lionsgate’s Nostalgic, Fan-Centric Marketing Campaign Turned ‘Michael’ Into a Blockbuster

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'Tuner' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Certified Fresh

Critics Consensus: Announcing Leo Woodall as a compelling star talent, Tuner enhances its nifty caper setup with a smart sense of humor and vivid characterizations.

Critics Score Number of Reviews Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics 94% 52 7.20/10
Top Critics 100% 6

Metacritic: 68 (7 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Helen O'Hara, Time Out 3/5 - It’s a light diversion rather than a symphonic masterpiece, but it’s still pleasantly in-tune entertainment.

Jason Gorber, RogerEbert.com B+ - Anchored by a quiet yet compelling performance by Leo Woodall, the film gives a lovely late-career showcase to Dustin Hoffman. The mix of genre elements is a delight, and the jazzy score, fast pace, and strong performances make much of the film sing.

Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal - Writer-director Daniel Roher’s “Tuner” confirms that Leo Woodall is one of our most charismatic young stars.

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com - It helps to have ace editing from Greg O’Bryant, work that gives “Tuner” its metronomic pace, keeping us connected to the rhythm of the piece enough to ignore its familiarity in the name of well-done entertainment.

Caleb Hammond, IndieWire B- - It’s a playful movie in form and content, one that rarely takes itself too seriously, and as such, it can’t help but skate by as a pleasurable ride.

Peter Debruge, Variety - Roher’s winsome debut feels more like a throwback to well-written character-driven ’90s dramas like “Good Will Hunting” and “Shine,” or last year’s “Thelma” (which proves the endangered category ain’t dead yet).

SYNOPSIS:

A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

CAST:

  • Leo Woodall as Niki White
  • Havana Rose Liu as Ruthie
  • Dustin Hoffman as Harry Horowitz

DIRECTED BY: Daniel Roher

SCREENPLAY BY: Daniel Roher, Robert Ramsey

PRODUCED BY: JoAnne Sellar, Lila Yacoub, Teddy Schwarzman, Michael Heimler

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Courtney Cunniff, John Friedberg, Andrew Golov, Christina Piovesan, Robert Ramsey, Noah Segal, Mary Anne Waterhouse

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lowell A. Meyer

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Peter Cosco

EDITED BY: Greg O'Bryant

COSTUME DESIGNER: Sarah Millman

MUSIC BY: Will Bates

CASTING BY: John Buchan, Dylan Jury, Jason Knight, Debra Zane

RUNTIME: 109 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2026 (Limited) / May 29, 2026 (Wide)

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‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ ($80-100M 4-Day) Brings ‘Star Wars’ Back to the Movies After 7 Years. Will the Force Resonate With Younger Audiences?

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'Star Wars: The Mandalorian And Grogu' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh

Critics Consensus: N/A

Critics Score Number of Reviews Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics 60% 119 5.90/10
Top Critics 71% 28

Metacritic: 54 (38 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com 1.5/4 - There’s no reason for anything in this movie except the wish to make even more money.

Wenlei Ma, The Nightly (AU) 3.5/5 - The great thing about this little corner of the Star Wars universe is that while there are bigger stakes in terms of the New Republic versus the Empire, the most important one is personal.

John Wenzel, Denver Post 3/4 - It’s glorious high adventure that, like the original Star Wars trilogy, is both accessible and visually daring.

Justin Clark, Slant Magazine 2.5/4 - Mandalorian and Grogu is, basically, four Mandalorian episodes wearing an IMAX trench coat.

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times - One of the movie’s strong points, absent its story deficiencies, is that, across its many wordless scenes, it’s at heart a solidly rousing, delightfully icky creature feature, in the vein of a supercharged Ray Harryhausen-meets-Guillermo del Toro joint.

Hanna Flint, Time Out - It's not a great look when CG-enhanced puppets are outperforming everyone in the line-up, delivering their lines like they turned up to set with a hangover every day.

Alonso Duralde, The Film Verdict - There’s no shortage of Star Wars–level wow factor, from the slimy beasts to the outer-space dogfights to Ludwig Göransson’s score.

Kristen Lopez, The Film Maven C - The plot is non-existent and it really does feel like a fully CGI movie. But when it's just Mando and Grogu going from A to B it's such a sweet story.

Jesse Hassenger, AV Club B - When Favreau banishes traditional actors in order to send little puppet creatures scuttling through the verdant landscape, suddenly his human-light blockbuster looks, if not quite visionary, at least novel.

Linda Marric, HeyUGuys 4/5 - It's a scrappy, creature-filled adventure movie about a weary warrior and his tiny adopted son stumbling into danger after danger. It may not reinvent the franchise, but it reminds you why you fell in love with that world in the first place.

John Nugent, Empire Magazine 3/5 - The first Star Wars film in nearly a decade doesn’t shake up the formula: instead, it’s a lively if inessential extended episode of the series. But Mando remains cool, and Grogu remains cute.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety - By nudging “The Mandalorian” onto the big screen, Disney, the purveyor of the “Star Wars” multiverse, is offering nothing more (or less) than a couple of likable, diverting, semi-forgettable episodes jammed together.

Mark Kennedy, Associated Press 2/4 - The runtime saps energy and when it’s all done, the scrolling credits for all those special effects goes on a full five minutes. You used to leave a new “Star Wars” movie on a cloud. Here, that galaxy is far, far away.

Brian Truitt, USA Today 3/4 - It’s an enjoyable throwback romp with plenty of action and weird creatures to overcome its weaknesses.

Kevin Maher, The Times (UK) 1/5 - Would someone please put Star Wars out of its misery? It’s an ailing pop cultural mutant, unrecognisable from the chirpy fable that George Lucas revealed to the world in 1977.

Danny Leigh, Financial Times 3/5 - In wrangling his own inheritance from Lucas and Abrams, Favreau has at least given Generation Alpha back the small joys of a Star Wars movie -- in a world getting no less hard for little things.

Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 3/4 - I don’t see “The Mandalorian and Grogu” as a starting point for a series of films so much as a likable enough one-off with plenty of exciting action set pieces.

Kambole Campbell, Little White Lies 2/5 - As the story returns things to status quo, it’s hard to think of what has even changed between the two, what they might have learned about each other, and if the filmmakers will ever be an interest in finding out.

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture - Drab and stone-faced to a fault, The Mandalorian and Grogu struggles to capture the inventive vitality of the better Star Wars movies with action scenes that feel frustratingly pro forma and lifeless performances that seem determined to lull us to sleep.

Kate Erbland, IndieWire C+ - Inessential and inoffensive, frequently adorable and fun for the whole family, Jon Favreau’s film feels like three good-enough TV episodes smushed together.

Matt Singer, ScreenCrush 6/10 - This is the way to turn a season of TV into a solid but unremarkable feature.

Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK) 2/5 - With The Mandalorian and Grogu, Star Wars has lost all sense of wonder.

Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK) 2/5 - Everything Disney needed to revive the franchise after its seven-year absence from cinemas is in here. The problem is there is only around 20 minutes of it, and much of the rest is hopeless.

William Bibbiani, TheWrap - It’s a deft and enjoyable blockbuster, easily the most purely entertaining 'Star Wars' movie since the 1980s, even though it’s hardly the most meaningful or ambitious.

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 3/5 - The film is watchable and barrels along capably enough, but perhaps there isn’t enough of the humanity, humour and extravagant space melodrama which has made and continues to make Star Wars lovable.

Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter - It’s hard to imagine anyone experiencing this as their first Star Wars film and getting hooked for life as those who saw the original trilogy in theaters did. Still, it’s an entertaining, fast-spaced space adventure.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast - A swashbuckling space Western that deftly marries combative spectacle and kid-friendly cuteness.

Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence B - There have been some exciting new stories told in this universe since The Rise of Skywalker, but watching this latest installment of Lone Wolf and Cub in space just confirms the degree to which Star Wars feels like it’s spinning its wheels.

SYNOPSIS:

The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything the Rebellion fought for, they have enlisted the help of legendary Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his young apprentice Grogu.

CAST:

  • Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin / The Mandalorian
  • Grogu as Himself
  • Jeremy Allen White as Rotta the Hutt
  • Steve Blum as Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios
  • Martin Scorsese as Hugo Durant
  • Sigourney Weaver as Colonel Ward

DIRECTED BY: Jon Favreau

SCREENPLAY BY: Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Noah Kloor

BASED ON CHARACTERS CREATED BY: George Lucas

PRODUCED BY: Kathleen Kennedy, Ian Bryce, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Karen Gilchrist, John Bartnicki, Carrie Beck

CO-PRODUCERS: Noah Kloor, R.J. Mino, John Hampian

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: David Klein

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Andrew L. Jones, Doug Chiang

EDITED BY: Rachel Goodlett Katz, Dylan Firshein

COSTUME DESIGNER: Mary Zophres

VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: John Knoll

VISUAL EFFECTS ANIMATION BY: Industrial Light & Magic

MUSIC BY: Ludwig Göransson

CASTING BY: Sarah Halley Finn

RUNTIME: 132 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2026

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Focus' Obsession debuted with $17.197M domestically this weekend (from 2,615 locations). Daily Grosses: FRI - $6.977M; SAT - $5.417M; SUN - $4.803M.

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'I Love Boosters' Review Thread

I will continue to update this post as reviews come in.

Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh

Critics Consensus: A raucous capitalist critique, I Love Boosters careens through the carefully-controlled chaos of writer-director Boots Riley's imagination to deliver a comedy that's as funny as it is thought-provoking.

Critics Score Number of Reviews Average of Rated Reviews
All Critics 93% 41 7.40/10
Top Critics 85% 13

Metacritic: 72 (14 Reviews)

Sample Reviews:

Jacob Oller, AV Club B - I Love Boosters paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics.

Eli Friedberg, Slant Magazine 2/4 - Arrhythmic, unfocused, and forgetting to breathe, this overstuffed film feels like a circus act, a well-dressed elephant on a unicycle juggling a dozen balls. It’s an impressive feat of dexterity, if not grace.

Siddhant Adlakha, Observer 1.5/4 - The anti-nuance of [Riley's] perspective is commendably audacious, at least in theory. In practice, it’s visually and emotionally incoherent, and seldom entertaining, squandering potent ideas by making them thuddingly obvious and unpleasant.

Joe Gross, Austin Chronicle - What’s most striking is Riley’s optimism; for a guy whose work can feel apocalyptic, he maintains an inspired belief in the power of community and the contradictory realities of life under extreme capitalism.

Kristy Puchko, Mashable - Riley delivers a sophomore effort that's outrageous, provocative, and really f*cking fun.

Monica Castillo, The Playlist A- - Riley, who wrote and directed “I Love Boosters,” has once again delivered a wildly original film that’s meant to provoke discussion and make the audience laugh.

David Fear, Rolling Stone - It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The Adult Swim energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is.

Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter - Watching it feels less like being transported into a different universe than putting on X-ray goggles to look at our own -- and finding, buried under all the frustration and despair, a joyful and unruly sense of hope.

Robert Daniels, Screen International - Not content with making a modest comedy about stylish shoplifters, Boots Riley’s imaginatively outlandish fast-fashion satire I Love Boosters continues the director’s penchant for maximalist social statements.

Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com 3/4 - It’s a wickedly clever skewering of the moral rot at the center of the fashion industry delivered with enough vision to make your eyes hurt.

Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap - Riley, proving himself to be a romantic just as he is a believer in revolution, clearly not only loves these boosters with hearts of gold, but anyone that is trying to make it all work for themselves and those around them.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety - The movie, a tall tale of clothes encounters, doesn’t always work. Yet there’s something disarming about how Riley’s sense of play holds this street-smart meta-rebellion fantasy together. He loves boosters, and everything else he shows you.

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire B - As far as genre movies that actually turn out to be political missives go, there are worse entertainments. And with Keke Palmer at the front, you’re always in sure hands. I don’t know if we love boosters, but we certainly like them.

SYNOPSIS:

A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.

CAST:

  • Keke Palmer as Corvette
  • Naomi Ackie as Sade
  • Taylour Paige as Mariah
  • LaKeith Stanfield as Pinky Ring Guy
  • Poppy Liu as Jianhu
  • Eiza González as Violeta
  • Will Poulter as Grayson
  • Don Cheadle as Dr. Jack
  • Demi Moore as Christie Smith

DIRECTED BY: Boots Riley

SCREENPLAY BY: Boots Riley

PRODUCED BY: Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swet, Allison Rose Carter, Jon Read

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Gus Deardoff, Jeff Deutchman, Megan Ellison, Ryan Friscia, Michael Jackman, Mike Jackman, Ken Kao, Matthew Medlin, Elizabeth Niles, Keke Palmer, Sharon Palmer, Josh Rosenbaum, Emily Thomas, Claire Timmons

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Natasha Braier

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Christopher Glass

EDITED BY: Matthew Hannam, Terel Gibson

COSTUME DESIGNER: Shirley Kurata

MUSIC BY: Tune-Yards

CASTING BY: Rebecca Dealy

RUNTIME: 115 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: May 22, 2026

u/chanma50 — 3 days ago

Lionsgate & Universal's Michael has grossed an estimated $60.4M from global IMAX screens through Sunday. IMAX Totals: Domestic - $30.1M, International - $30.3M.

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Focus' Obsession debuted with an estimated $7.0M internationally this weekend (from 34 international markets), including debuts of $1.6M in the U.K. & $1.4M in France. Estimated global total stands at $23.1M.

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u/chanma50 — 4 days ago

Paramount's re-issue of Top Gun / Top Gun: Maverick grossed an estimated $3.10M domestically this weekend (from 2,295 locations). Estimated 5-day total domestic re-issue gross stands at $4.79M.

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Warner Bros.'s Mortal Kombat II has passed the $100M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $10.0M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $39.0M, estimated global total stands at $101.2M.

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Per Deadline, 'Obsession' earned a 70% definite recommend on PostTrak. The audience was 39% 25-34, and 59% male vs 41% female. Diversity demos were 40% Caucasian, 32% Latino/Hispanic, 12% Black, 12% Asian American, and 5% Native American/Other.

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'Michael' ($25-28M) Takes Back No. 1 From 'Devil Wears Prada 2' ($20M) at Box Office, 'Obsession' Eyes Strong $14.5M Opening - The Lionsgate biopic keeps steaming towards $1 billion while “Mortal Kombat II” takes a sharp 67% second weekend drop to $12.7M.

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