https://weekendcritic.com Movie reviews by Gabriel Machado, set as a magazine you can page through. en https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/caddo-lake https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/caddo-lake Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The kind of movie that’s best appreciated by going in blind and theorizing along the way. https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-invite https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-invite Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Invite is a film set inside an apartment, involving two couples, similar to a play, what supports it and make it work really well is the way the plot… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-sheep-detectives https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-sheep-detectives Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Not sure if it's the fact I'm not that familiar with sheeps or the skills of vfx artists being that good, but those sheeps sure looked real most of the… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-devil-wears-prada-2 https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-devil-wears-prada-2 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lots of familiar faces and references from the first movie, but doesn’t manage to build upon it and fails to be at least as good as it was. https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-odyssey https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-odyssey Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A great epic being retold by a director with great vision. The Odyssey has many strengths: a well written story (thanks Homer), a good cast of actors… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/obsession https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/obsession Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Obsession's plot, just like the One Wish WIllow, is simple to follow, nothing really innovative, but it sets it's limits and rules well and play around… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/mr-nobody-against-putin https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/mr-nobody-against-putin Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT This is a documentary that is well-paced, doesn't stay for more than necessary and tells the truth that governments (Russia, in this case) tries to… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-watchers https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-watchers Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Like father, like daughter. Similar to movies directed by M. Night Shyamalan, this one, directed by his daughter Ishana, starts with an interesting idea… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/trap https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/trap Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The concept of the movie, a serial killer trying to escape a pop concert that is set as a trap, and so is full of cops, is an interesting one, but it… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/companion https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/companion Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Group of friends that go for a weekend on an isolated house in the woods and things go sideways. From that description you can picture many movies, but… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Not an avid fan of SpongeBob, but to me it felt like what an extended episode of the show would be, but this one with a different art style (I guess to… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/they-will-kill-you https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/they-will-kill-you Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A combo of distinct cinematography, over the top fight scene and Kill Bill influences that works most of the times, but not always. https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/holland https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/holland Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The elements of a good thriller are here: small town with distinctive features and costumes (well, holland inside the USA is distinctive enough, right?)… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/clue https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/clue Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT This movie takes the hard job of getting a board game that is open by nature and adapt to a movie that has a beginning, middle and ending, and it does… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/toy-story-5 https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/toy-story-5 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every time I hear they’re making a new Toy Story movie I think to myself “another one? Don’t they know when to stop?”, but still I watch them and have a… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/michael https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/michael Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I’m not the biggest or most knowledgeable Michael Jackson fan, so I don’t think I can really say how faithful the script was, though, from what I know, I… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A well-directed feel-good movie. We follow Ben Stiller’s character, Walter Mitty, as he goes on an ordinary and full of daydreams life at first, to a more… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/ready-or-not-2-here-i-come https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/ready-or-not-2-here-i-come Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A direct continuation of the previous one, which expands the weird rules of the game, repeats some of the formula and still manages to be a fun watch if… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/wake-up-dead-man https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/wake-up-dead-man Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Better than the second one, though I don't remember the first well enough to say if it's on par with or superior to that one. https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-drama https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-drama Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I just think that a little more communication and understanding could have prevented much of the drama here. Anyway, the film revolves around a revelation… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/nirvana-band-show-movie https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/nirvana-band-show-movie Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT I watched it without really knowing what it was about, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It features a good dose of humor, a touch of nostalgia, and plenty of… https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-celebration https://weekendcritic.com/reviews/the-celebration Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A good film driven primarily by its story. In my opinion, the camera work gets a bit too shaky at times, something that bothered me more than it engaged…