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Weekend Film Reviews: 'The Social Reckoning,' 'Musk'

Billionaire tech CEOs are villainized in two big releases this week: The Social Reckoning, a dramatization of Mark Zuckerberg’s showdown with a Facebook whistleblower, an

Oct 8
18 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Digger,' 'Verity'

It took world-class makeup and prosthetics to turn Tom Cruise into Digger Rockwell, the titular star of Alejandro Iñáritu’s climate apocalypse satire Digger – even though

Oct 1
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Primetime,' 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother'

NBC’s hidden camera series, To Catch a Predator, transfixed audiences in the early 2000s. Host Chris Hansen baited suspected child predators with actors playing minors, t

Sep 24
16 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'The History of Concrete,' 'Resident Evil'

What do you know about concrete? Not much, reckons John Wilson, the deliciously awkward filmmaker behind the HBO series How To with John Wilson. That show is an exercise

Sep 17
18 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘Hope,’ ‘Practical Magic 2’

There’s no outrunning it. Anyone writing a monster movie must eventually decide whether or not they’re going to show their monster. As Steven Spielberg demonstrated in Ja

Sep 10
16 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘Teenage Wasteland,’ ‘The Sun Never Sets’

Forget “6-7.” In 1990s Middletown, New York, a high school class figured out how to really drive the adults crazy: exposing a toxic waste scandal in their backyard. A new

Sep 3
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ ‘Idiots,’ ‘Buddy’

After decades of unsuccessful attempts to catch Roadrunner using anvils, jet packs, and rockets strapped to roller skates, Wile E. Coyote (caninus litigious) has a new we

Aug 27
19 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘Insidious: Out of The Further,’ ‘It Ends’

It’s rarely a good sign if you’ve devoted hours to a horror franchise and you still aren’t sure what it’s about. But film critic Alonso Duralde gave it a try with Insidio

Aug 20
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'The Wrong Girls,' 'The End of Oak Street'

There are a few indispensable ingredients in any stoner flick worth its weight in weed. After drug-addled antics, the most important ingredient could be the friends we ma

Aug 13
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Tony,' 'One Night Only'

Anthony Bourdain swears that he used to be unlikeable. That’s hard to believe for many fans of the late celebrity chef, but he wrote frankly about that period of his life

Aug 6
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'I Want Your Sex,' 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'

Gregg Araki is one of the most important directors in the New Queer Cinema, the 1990s film movement that put daring and dark LGBTQ stories onscreen and produced household

Jul 30
16 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,' 'Motor City'

Luis Valdez is widely known as the Godfather of Chicano theater. He directed the 1987 movie 'La Bamba' and the 1981 film 'Zoot Suit.' But Valdez also founded El Teatro Ca

Jul 24
18 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘The Odyssey,’ ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’

'The Odyssey' discourse has been hard to escape ever since the cast was first announced early 2025. The film finally hits theaters this weekend, but does it live up to Ho

Jul 17
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Moana,' 'Night Nurse,' 'Evil Dead Burn'

'Moana' is the latest Disney movie to get the live-action treatment. Unfortunately, everything about the remake “feels artificial” for our film critics Witney Seibold and

Jul 10
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: ‘Minions and Monsters,’ ‘Enola Holmes 3’

The Minions franchise keeps growing with its latest installment Minions and Monsters. The film follows the yellow friends as they try to make a monster movie with real mo

Jul 2
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Jackass: Best and Last,' 'The Invite,' 'Supergirl'

Johnny Knoxville and his band of misfits return to the big screen for one more round of gross and outrageous stunts in 'Jackass: Best and Last.' Film critics Alissa Wilki

Jun 26
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Toy Story 5,' 'Leviticus'

Move over, Evil Emperor Zurg, Sworn Enemy of The Galactic Alliance. The latest Toy Story villain is an electronic tablet stealing a child's attention from her toys.

Jun 18
17 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Disclosure Day,' 'Find Your Friends'

In Disclosure Day, a government whistleblower and a local journalist race to expose the existence of aliens and the conspiracy to cover it up. Shawn Edwards, film critic

Jun 11
16 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Masters of the Universe,' 'Scary Movie'

'Masters of the Universe' is Mattel’s latest adaptation. The company is banking on the film to be a big hit like 'Barbie,' but critics Alison Willmore and Tim Grierson sa

Jun 5
19 min

Weekend Film Reviews: 'Pressure,' 'Backrooms,' 'Power Ballad'

The new World War II movie 'Pressure' tells the true, but not well known story of a British meteorologist who tries to predict the weather ahead of D-Day and warns Eisenh

May 29
17 min

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I like this podcast and like that there is a movie review podcast that’s quick and to the point. But why don’t the titles of the episodes or the descriptions at the very least just list the names of the films that are reviewed on that episode? It’s very difficult if I’m trying to find a review of a specific film, especially a film that that was released and reviewed months ago. Or if they get to the 3rd movie review in the episode and I miss the name of the film, but is a review that intrigues me but is a smaller film. Not all the films reviewed in the episode are written in the title or description and it’s hard to go back and find the name of the film. Just list the names of all the films reviewed in that episode in the episode title or the top of the description, please and thank you.

Lianne Love · Sep 2026

I don’t have any clever rants, trolls, snarcky witticisms to add to these comments. I just like Joe’s reviews and have read them for a long time. His reviews are thoughtful, often funny, insightful and, above all, humane. They shy away from the usual cinemato-speak of auteurs and genres. They remind me that humans watch movies to be entertained, not exploited, and that they can really add emotional dimensions to our lives. Even some schlock ones. But, whew! if your movie tries to exploit the good will of the audience, his wit can be a runaway slicer and dicer. If you read his review of, “The Sound of Music” (last century, guys) you’ll know what I mean. .

Mr. Poultry · Sep 2023

I wish Mr. Morgenstern got over some of his genre biases, but otherwise this podcast is a great resource for anyone who wants concise, witty (if dry), smart movie reviews.

Griddy Films · Sep 2018

I enjoy the host's voice, but the reviews don't often tell enough about the film, and sometimes I can't even tell by the end if the critic is recommending the movie or not.

TonyCalatan · May 2016

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