Alex Lei
Alex Lei's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Gazer (2024)
78%
C+
“There is certainly talent in front of and behind the camera, although it works more like a demonstration rather than reaching for something more compelling. ” –
AV Club
Apr 1, 2025
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Grand Tour (2024)
91%
B+
“Gomes picks apart an imagined past by experiencing its present, at the same time sharply unpacking the screwball comedy by separating the running man and the pursuing woman.” –
AV Club
Mar 25, 2025
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My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024)
“There’s a classical dramatic tension to My Undesirable Friends — with us the viewers aware of the documentary subjects’ destinies before they are. It makes it all the more haunting how quiet the slow build over the near five-and-a-half-hour runtime is.” –
In Review Online
Oct 9, 2024
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No Other Land (2024)
100%
“No Other Land goes further than just presenting the issue at hand, instead trying to investigate the humanitarian conundrum of outsiders trying to journalistically document it.” –
In Review Online
Oct 9, 2024
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Underground Orange (2024)
“In exploring the fluidity of his own identity, Jackson finds fluidity in film form, creating a personal, exuberant, and radical first feature.” –
In Review Online
Oct 8, 2024
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Fire of Wind (2024)
“[Fire of Wind] feels indebted to the contemporary master of Portuguese cinema (and perhaps European cinema as a whole), Pedro Costa. Mateus is not merely a borrowing, however, but also delivering a bold iteration.” –
In Review Online
Oct 7, 2024
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Reagan (2024)
18%
F
“The greatest sin of Reagan, though, is not its warped worldview, which is to be expected, but that for a movie about a man who puts himself at the center of a world apparently on the brink of annihilation, Reagan lacks any drama at all. ” –
AV Club
Aug 30, 2024
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What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018)
88%
“There is no one out there quite like Minervini, who hopefully one day will be looked back on as one of, if not the most, important documentarians of the decade, and What You Gonna Do is a stunning example of this importance.” –
Film Inquiry
Dec 14, 2019
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Sátántangó (1994)
100%
“It's the kind of film that so few filmmakers have the opportunity to make, and even fewer are given the chance to have them shown and cared for so widely.” –
Film Inquiry
Oct 15, 2019
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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
90%
“It's a film that defies not just genre expectation, but even the expectations it sets up for itself, culminating in a devastating ending where the only comfort left is the possibility of some human connection.” –
Film Inquiry
Sep 24, 2019
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Reds (1981)
90%
“Reds seems like what we'd now call Oscar bait, with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that.” –
Film Inquiry
Sep 24, 2019
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Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
95%
“The only thing more surreal than the experience of going to see Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night is perhaps the movie itself.” –
Film Inquiry
Sep 24, 2019
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