Alex Hudson
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Alex is the Editor-in-Chief of Exclaim! Media, a Canada-wide arts and entertainment magazine.
Pavements (2024)
100%
9/10
“Pavements is perfectly Pavement-y.” –
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Dec 16, 2024
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A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (2024)
100%
6/10
“It hits the usual beats of a seasonal variety show, doing just barely enough to raise some fleeting festive cheer before instantly being forgotten.” –
Exclaim!
Dec 16, 2024
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
7/10
“It's inevitable, then, that a film about the first-ever episode of game-changing sketch show Saturday Night Live would have to contend with the fickleness of comedy as an art form.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 16, 2024
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
7/10
“Adams goes practically feral.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 11, 2024
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Piece By Piece (2024)
83%
8/10
“By telling the whole story using LEGO animation, director Morgan Neville turns this flattering and familiar story into something unique and befitting its subject.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 11, 2024
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Friendship (2024)
91%
6/10
“At the end of the screening, writer-director Andrew DeYoung walked out for a Q&A session, and someone near the front yelled "awful movie!" in a tone that was scathing rather than playful. They were wrong.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 11, 2024
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Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band (2024)
90%
5/10
“Zimny offers weirdly specific answers for questions I never had, like whether Springsteen is present for all of the band's rehearsals, or how many guitars they bring in their road cases.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 11, 2024
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Riff Raff (2024)
59%
8/10
“Riff Raff is a masterwork of typecasting.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 10, 2024
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Seeds (2024)
100%
7/10
“A cutting commentary and an inviting glimpse into life in a small Kanienʼkehá:ka community.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 7, 2024
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Paying for It (2024)
92%
8/10
“ It's frankly amazing that they were willing to tell this story at all.” –
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Sep 7, 2024
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K-Pops (2024)
87%
7/10
“I'm always skeptical of a pop star who uses their celebrity status to leverage themselves a film deal, but .Paak absolutely owns his Hollywood breakthrough moment” –
Exclaim!
Sep 7, 2024
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The Life of Chuck (2024)
86%
4/10
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with saccharine sentimentality and ponderous monologues about the meaning of life.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 7, 2024
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The Last Showgirl (2024)
83%
7/10
“The Pamaissance is here.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 6, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024)
80%
8/10
“Alien: Romulus succeeds on every level, latching onto viewers' faces and implanting us with a creepy good time.” –
Exclaim!
Aug 14, 2024
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Skywalkers: A Love Story (2024)
74%
5/10
“Angela and Ivan's stunts are better suited to Instagram than a feature-length film.” –
Exclaim!
Aug 8, 2024
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The Beach Boys (2024)
89%
4/10
“Frankly insulting to the band's key member.” –
Exclaim!
May 24, 2024
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
8/10
“While the concept of performing Shakespeare in a video game seems like a gimmick at first, it gradually becomes clear that GTA is the perfect world for an emotionally heightened larger-than-life performance of Hamlet.” –
Exclaim!
May 9, 2024
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Secret Mall Apartment (2024)
100%
7/10
“There's an outrageous audacity to the project that makes it admirable in an inane sort of way.” –
Exclaim!
Apr 25, 2024
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Upgraded (2024)
78%
6/10
“It's easily one of the best '00s rom-coms of the 2020s.” –
Exclaim!
Feb 26, 2024
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Role Play (2023)
24%
5/10
“Where it truly belongs is on airplane entertainment systems, where it can help bored travellers waste a couple hours while half nodding off after a mini-sized bottle of wine.” –
Exclaim!
Feb 22, 2024
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Nyad (2023)
85%
5/10
“Isn't Hollywood supposed make real people seem more interesting and outrageous, not less?” –
Exclaim!
Oct 18, 2023
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TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)
99%
7/10
“Good enough that I was very happy to pay under $20, but not quite good enough that I regret missing the chance to pay hundreds to see it in-person.” –
Exclaim!
Oct 16, 2023
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Totally Killer (2023)
86%
7/10
“For the horror curious, it's a nice way to dabble in the tradition of spooky season without giving anyone nightmares.” –
Exclaim!
Oct 12, 2023
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No One Will Save You (2023)
83%
7/10
“Dever commands the screen as the only character of note, doing a good job at wordlessly conveying awkwardness, guilt, melancholy and fear.” –
Exclaim!
Oct 6, 2023
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I Thought the World of You (2022)
7/10
“The truth is inevitably less compelling than the mystery, and I Thought the World of You serves its subject by offering no answers, only vibes.” –
Exclaim!
Sep 28, 2023
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