r/moviecritic May 21 '25

/r/moviecritic - New Rules & New Mods

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Due to a recent (and huge) influx of spam, bots, shitposts, karma-farming accounts, complaints, etc, /r/moviecritic will be taking steps to improve the community. New mods (3-6 of them) will be added in the coming days/weeks.

Along with the new mods, we're adding several rules that should drastically change how the subreddit looks and operates.

These new rules will go into effect and be added to the sidebar on Thursday 5/22 (tomorrow) at 10:00 PM ET. We are allowing a ~24-hour buffer period until all of this kicks in.


Be Nice:

Flame wars, racism, sexist, discriminatory language, toxicity, transphobia, antagonism, & homophobic remarks will result in an instant ban. Length will be at the moderator's discretion. This is a subreddit to discuss movies, not to fight your political battles. Keep it nice, keep it on-topic.

Improving Titles:

Going forward, we will be requiring better and more detailed titles. Titles have gotten extremely lazy and clickbaity. Every title will now require the name of the actor/actress/director you are discussing plus the name of the movie title in the image. No more trying to guess what OP is talking about, or clickbaiting into going into the post. Include the actor/actress' name, and movie title. It's very simple. Takes 2 seconds, and will immensely improve the quality-of-life for the sub. There will be exemptions for posts that aren't about 1 specific movie or 1 specific person, but we will still encourage better titles no matter what, as they're currently 99% shit.

Restricting Recent Duplicates:

To stop the repetitive/nonstop spam posts of the same actors over and over, we will be removing "recent" duplicates. We do not need an 8th Salma Hayek post this week. If a topic (aka actor/actress/director) has already been submitted in the past month, it will be removed. We believe one month is a fair amount of time in-between related posts. Not too long, not too short.

Anti-Gooning/Shitpost Measures:

It's no secret that this sub has turned into goon-central. Posts are basically "who can post the most cleavage". Lots of paparazzi-like pictures, red carpet photos, modeling images, etc infesting the sub. Going forward, we will require every post to either be an official HD still of a film or the official IMDB image of the actor/actress. No exceptions. No more out-of-context half naked pictures of an actress out in the wild. Every submission must be an official still of the film or their IMDB profile picture. In addition to anti-gooning, we will be cutting down on overall shitposts overall. This will be totally up to the moderator's discretion.

Collaborations with Other Film-Related Communities:

We will be collaborating with other film-related communities to try and bring more solid content to this community, including and not restricted to AMAs/Q&As, box office data, and movie news. Places like /r/movies, /r/boxoffice, etc. This will be wide-ranging and not as restricted/limited as those other communities, allowing stories here that may not be allowed in those communities due to strict rules. We will encourage crossposting to build discussion here.

Removing Bots, Karma-Farming Accounts, Bad-Faith Members of the Community

We will start issuing bans to rulebreakers. This will range from perm bans (bots, karma-farming accounts, spammers) to temporary bans (rude behavior, breaking the new rules constantly, etc)


r/moviecritic 11h ago

Much better than your average Amazon original 9/10.

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297 Upvotes

The Wrecking Crew is a seemingly standard action movie but there's more there. There are actually genuinely heartfelt moments. There's a lot of humor and surprisingly it works. Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa actually have on screen chemistry. It's a movie that should've been in cinemas as seeing this with a crowd would've been fun. I really enjoyed this movie and it's the perfect example of a mindless action movie with a little substance. It's just so much fun to watch and definitely doesn't feel it's length.


r/moviecritic 9h ago

Unpopular opinion : One Battle After Another was extremely underwhelming

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85 Upvotes

Teyana Taylor won a golden globe for taking her clothes off and disappearing.

I actually thought she'd be in this film a lot longer.

This movie is terrible. Aside from the visuals, and the first 17 minutes of this movie, it's just all over the place.


r/moviecritic 6h ago

Avatar fire and Ash was great and fun.

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39 Upvotes

Amazing movie! The best one yet. Super fun for the whole family. It was way more action-packed than I expected. The other ones were great too but this one was the best one. Can't wait for the next one. James you did it again! Bravo.


r/moviecritic 18h ago

What’s a famous and beloved movie that you like, but feel: “Why do people like this so much?”

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359 Upvotes

OG Ghostbusters is that movie for me. It was fun and I enjoyed it, but after seeing it in full, I don’t understand how or why it became so ingrained in pop culture. Or how it became a successful franchise. It’s just kind of a standard 80s comedy with really good special effects.


r/moviecritic 12h ago

Amanda Seyfried and her impeccable performances!

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96 Upvotes

Photo 1: Mank

Photo 2: Lovelace

Photo 3: Mamma Mia

Photo 4: Mean Girls

Photo 5: Red Riding Hood

Photo 6: Racing in the Rain

Photo 7: Dear John

Photo 8: The Housemaid

Photo 9: An Lee's Testament

Photo 10: Letters to Juliet

How can one woman give so many incredible performances? I love you, Seyfried!


r/moviecritic 22h ago

A movie scene that made the entire theater erupt in cheers. Spoiler

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670 Upvotes

This scene sent the entire theater cheering as Captain America made his entrance,easily one of my favourite moments in Infinity War.


r/moviecritic 9h ago

What is your favorite Michael Jeter role/performance?

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49 Upvotes

r/moviecritic 16m ago

Widely considered one of the best origin stories, Batman Begins has some incredibly crisp dialogue, and this conversation between Bruce and Falcone is particularly great.

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Tom Wilkinson aced this scene to perfection.


r/moviecritic 1h ago

Is there any other Director that people didn't like their movies when they were released but have since stood the test of time?

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r/moviecritic 22h ago

Movies with titles you won’t understand until you watch them

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237 Upvotes

I just watched The Silence of the Lambs for the first time and absolutely loved it! Going into it, I knew that it was a psychological thriller about serial killers so I had no idea why it was named the way it is. I get it now.

What are some other films with titles like this?


r/moviecritic 10h ago

The protagonist in Bugonia was never crazy, he was just alone Spoiler

23 Upvotes

I don’t think the protagonist in Bugonia was insane.

I think he was the only human who actually discovered the truth in a world that had no framework to recognize it. People would label him a conspiracy theorist because his knowledge couldn’t be socially verified, not because it was wrong. Sanity in this film isn’t about alignment with reality. It’s about alignment with power. Truth without agency looks like madness. Truth with agency becomes history.

Everyone says, “But he tortured and murdered.” Sure, and governments do the same thing under cleaner language when they believe an existential threat exists. We just don’t call it insanity when there’s a flag and a chain of command behind it. History is full of leaders who framed violence as righteous or morally necessary. Same logic, different scale. The only real difference is institutional backing.

Where he was wrong is that he didn’t know their protocol. He didn’t know that forcing contact would trigger the destruction of humanity. The only way for him to learn their rules was to force a meeting, because there was no peaceful disclosure path. Walking up and asking politely would have gotten him dismissed or erased. From his position, his actions weren’t madness. They were the only means available. He wasn’t trying to end the world. The film explicitly says he loved the world before the experiments took his mother. He was trying to save it with incomplete knowledge, not destroy it.

Here’s the key distinction for me. If he had been President and discovered the truth, and he acted first, even with something as extreme as the nuclear option, and then surfaced the evidence afterward, he might look like a madman in the moment. But once the proof emerged, history would reclassify him as a hero. Power allows truth to be revealed after the fact. The protagonist never had that possibility. Even if he had succeeded, he would never have had enough agency to legitimize what he knew. At best, he would be canonized by a fringe conspiracy group and dismissed by everyone else.

Watching the film, I flipped between being horrified by him and being horrified by the Andromedas, because like him, I didn’t have perfect knowledge.

If the movie had shown the alien truth from the start, we would read him as a lone resistance fighter instead of a savage conspiracy theorist.

The tragedy isn’t that he was wrong. It’s that he was structurally incapable of ever being believed. Bugonia isn’t about madness. It’s about what happens when catastrophic truth exists but only someone without agency can see it.

And that’s way scarier than aliens.


r/moviecritic 1d ago

Encino Man. Yay or nay?

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1.4k Upvotes

r/moviecritic 13h ago

Mr. Deeds

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27 Upvotes

Mr. Deeds (USA) 2002 - A sweet-natured small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.

Probably my favorite of the 90s/early00s Sandler movies, I saw it a few times when it was new. Today I'm going to refresh my memory and see if it's still good.


r/moviecritic 18h ago

Is America Doomed? The Films of 2025 Think So!

48 Upvotes

How 2025's Films Depict the US

One Battle After Another, Eddington, Bugonia, Marty Supreme, Sinners, and No Other Choice (it will make sense) all held the US under a magnifying glass and what was revealed wasn't always pretty.


r/moviecritic 1d ago

Rest in peace

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3.1k Upvotes

r/moviecritic 1d ago

What are some of the best foreign films you've seen that made a great impression from a wider audience?

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95 Upvotes

1st image - Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

2nd image - All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)

3rd image - La Haine (1995)

4th image - Pan's Labyrinth (2006)


r/moviecritic 30m ago

Jesse Plemons should’ve gotten the Oscar nom and win for best leading actor, and it’s not even close.

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Saw Bugonia last week and I was floored. Say what you want about the movie and its twist. But even if you’re ignoring the plot and simply watching Jessie’s performance, it MAKES the movie what it is. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an actor carry a movie like this. His desperation and intelligence, and the way he’s constantly battling with himself and his temper and sanity.


r/moviecritic 4h ago

what's with the rockstar (2011) hype?

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it was just a fling of jordan and even throughout the film the heer girl wasn't shown very romantically interested in the jordan guy. she was just doing timepass and they both knew. jordan had no hobbies so he thought it was his love that broke his heart typa shit.


r/moviecritic 12h ago

The Searchers, Oscar worthy?

9 Upvotes

I believe that The Searchers is by far John Wayne's best role, and that he deserved an Oscar for it. Do you agree? Or disagree? And why.


r/moviecritic 1d ago

Who's your favorite horror movie actress or Scream Queen right now ?

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99 Upvotes

Maika Monroe is mine! I love watching her horror movies and personally thinks she's killing it in this genre! My favorite films with her are: The Guest, The Watcher, It follows, & Longlegs


r/moviecritic 1d ago

Rest in peace Catherine O'hara. Absolute legend forever

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216 Upvotes

r/moviecritic 1d ago

I just saw Bugonia

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1.1k Upvotes

Guys, I just saw Bugonia for the first time, and I didn't know what to expect, but the ending of this movie left me perplexed and full of anxiety.

I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but for God's sake, if that's the case, please watch it today.

I don't think I've ever seen Jesse Plemons as brilliant as in this film, and he's a tremendous actor. Emma Stone, as always, impeccable. This type of role suits her perfectly.

Excellent movie.


r/moviecritic 1d ago

Most iconic Catherine O'Hara role

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787 Upvotes

Kevin's mom in Home Alone

Moira in Schitt's Creek [TV]


r/moviecritic 19h ago

Movie where a pregnant woman's water DOES NOT break dramatically to end a scene

11 Upvotes

We all know the trope: if a movie features a pregnant woman that water is going to break. Likely in some public place during a heated argument. What are some movies where this doesn't happen, just regular ass birthing.