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Adam Nayman

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

A 21 year old film critic at Eye Magazine in Toronto, Adam has been writing about movies for as long as he can remember, and just can't believe they're paying him for it.

Favorites:

2001: A Space OdysseyGrand IllusionManos: Hands of Fate400 Blows

Location:

Toronto, Ontario

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Enforcement (2020) 82% EDIT “It might seem unfair for a movie as skilful and effective as Shorta to be designated – or reduced to – a calling card, but if Ølholm and Hviid do manage to hop on the studio gravy train, it’s a designation that in hindsight will fit like a glove.” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review The Boogeyman (2023) 60% EDIT “Budget horror director Rob Savage’s mix of old school craft and trend-surfing savvy keep this familiar genre material from falling flat. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) 94% EDIT “Kudos to Dupieux for making movies mostly to amuse himself and the loyal, curious viewership that’s on his wavelength. For everybody else out there, no harm done. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% EDIT “It’s hard to truly buy into the idea that The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a genuinely bleak or melancholic vision of the end of an era when it (lip)glosses over every narrative or philosophical crisis as decorously as possible. ” – The Ringer May 13, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “Michael’s disingenuously airbrushed style is directly related to the material its makers can’t and likely never will put on-screen; they’ve found their voice and have the resources to amplify it in Dolby Atmos. ” – The Ringer Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Lowery simply fails to stick the landing. He gets full points for degree of difficulty, though, and while “Mother Mary” is indeed exhausting, there’s something strangely endearing about a movie that goes for broke and gets there.” – Toronto Star Apr 23, 2026 Full Review Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) 46% EDIT “It doesn’t matter too much that The Mummy is derivative. The issue is that it’s also draggy and, notwithstanding a few bits of mean-spiritedly visceral slapstick, pretty dour.” – The Ringer Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% EDIT “The space between Maurice Ravel and Frankie Valli may seem vast, but Petzold, who’s not just a model cinephile but also exceedingly popwise, locates and crosses the bridge.” – Sight & Sound Apr 17, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “What Wheatley brings to the party is twofold: a sturdy technician’s sense of space and pace and a ruthless, mean-spirited sense of humour. ” – Toronto Star Apr 16, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 76% EDIT “No less than marriage, dark comedy requires commitment, but Borgli traffics in opportunism.” – The New Republic Apr 7, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s funny and absorbing and familiar without being derivative; it gets the job done. But there’s nevertheless something grinding and mechanical about a film that means to be a tribute to the supple, subtle qualities of the human spirit.” – Toronto Star Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “Call it “The Rules of the Most Dangerous Game,” and give the film’s creative brain trust credit for wringing a few witty, grisly variations on the same old, same old. They’re aided hugely by Weaving, a legitimate scream queen.” – Toronto Star Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “Its frightening, hilarious final image suggests a state of anxious suspension commensurate with Pálmason’s own marvellous directorial balancing act.” – Sight & Sound Mar 13, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Gyllenhaal, at least, seems to be having a good time... It’s nice to see a filmmaker trying to surprise her audience as well as herself. ” – The Ringer Mar 12, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 74% EDIT “Undertone plugs into our doomscrolling zeitgeist with aplomb; it’s a skillful exercise in ambient room-tone dread. But it’s not much more than that, which is to say it’ll do until the next supposedly scariest movie ever comes along.” – The Ringer Mar 12, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s got the courage of its convictions, cynical though they may be.” – Toronto Star Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “Robbie and Elordi are beautiful camera subjects and capable movie stars but may as well be Masterpiece Theatre action figures (or Barbie dolls) given how clumsily they’re wielded here. ” – The Ringer Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 64% EDIT “This generic supernatural slasher is perhaps too reflexive for its own good, but Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse's tentative queer romance adds some freshness. ” – Sight & Sound Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT ““Send Help” isn’t realistic, but its pleasures as a B movie made by an A-plus entertainer are authentic nevertheless.” – Toronto Star Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% EDIT “A high concept brought low by middling execution; an allegory about our tendency to rush to judgment made without conviction. But not without its pleasures, guilty or otherwise. ” – The Ringer Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 84% EDIT “Father Mother Sister Brother is a throwaway that’s also a keepsake.” – The New Republic Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “It might seem silly to invoke The Lord of the Rings as a point of comparison, but Garland and Boyle -- and now DaCosta -- are working in a similarly mythic, epic register.” – The Ringer Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “If “Dead Man’s Wire” feels more like a modest triumph of engineering than a major artistic statement, there’s still plenty of virtue in seeing a job well done.” – Toronto Star Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “It’s hard to say if it’d be a better movie with a more evolved approach. Metaphors for grief and trauma are all well and good, but sometimes, a rabid chimpanzee is just a rabid chimpanzee: the fundamental things apply.” – Toronto Star Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The fact Stewart doesn’t quite stick the landing scarcely matters when her debut represents such a real and agile leap of faith in the first place.” – Toronto Star Jan 8, 2026 Full Review
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