Alexander Mooney
Alexander Mooney's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Tornado (2025)
78%
2/4
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“Tornado’s winking theatricality, thematic fixations with myth and avarice, and pared-down plotting add up to a heady concoction, but it’s more conducive to reflection than engagement.” –
Slant Magazine
May 26, 2025
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Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025)
15%
0.5/4
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“Hurry Up Tomorrow is remarkable in its ceaseless and shameless capacity for failure, constantly finding new and innovative ways to fall flat on its face.” –
Toronto Star
May 15, 2025
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Bonjour Tristesse (2024)
66%
3/4
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“The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 28, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
87%
EDIT
“This narrative ingenuity works better on paper than it does on screen, but The Wedding Banquet’s endearing qualities largely outweigh its deficiencies.” –
Globe and Mail
Apr 15, 2025
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Redux Redux (2025)
96%
EDIT
“Its scrappy combination of the burnt-out multiverse trend and the time-loop structure... is emblematic of its generic and dramatic shortcomings.” –
In Review Online
Apr 9, 2025
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Novocaine (2025)
81%
4/10
EDIT
“An idea masquerading as a movie.” –
Exclaim!
Apr 4, 2025
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The Woman in the Yard (2025)
41%
EDIT
“The film is unafraid to capture the confusion, anguish, and frustration of parenthood, and its equal commitment to being confusing, anguished, and occasionally frustrating in its own right ... is both refreshing and ravishing.” –
In Review Online
Apr 3, 2025
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Mickey 17 (2025)
77%
EDIT
“[Mickey 17] doesn’t always clear the high bar [Bong has] set for himself... but mixed bags are simply part and parcel of a director whose adventurous spirit sends him chasing giddy thrills and nasty punchlines right off the face of the earth.” –
In Review Online
Mar 6, 2025
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Armand (2024)
74%
EDIT
“Armand depicts a sensational scenario but buries those sensations in italics and quotation marks; what little it has to say in the first place is muted to a teasing whisper. ” –
In Review Online
Feb 28, 2025
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Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)
93%
EDIT
“The overall effect is not one of generosity and collaboration... but rather of two artists exploiting and mythologizing their underdog story in real-time. ” –
In Review Online
Feb 4, 2025
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
82%
EDIT
“So unabashedly and unshakably plain that even its posturing throughline of “rejecting tradition” feels like a kowtow to the mainstream... a legend printed in Comic Sans.” –
In Review Online
Dec 24, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
7/10
EDIT
“Queer's contradictions are inseparable from its achievements. ” –
Exclaim!
Dec 16, 2024
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Juror #2 (2024)
93%
8/10
EDIT
“An absolute knockout from one of our oldest and most prolific chroniclers of American folly.” –
Exclaim!
Nov 21, 2024
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A Different Man (2024)
93%
7/10
EDIT
“A wryly conceptual and cheekily confrontational portrait of punishment and failure.” –
Exclaim!
Nov 21, 2024
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The Substance (2024)
89%
6/10
EDIT
“An undeniable feat of audacity and showmanship, the film's clumsiness is at once a fatal flaw and a saving grace.” –
Exclaim!
Nov 21, 2024
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Here (2024)
36%
EDIT
“As a movie considered in totality, it's still tough to shake the feeling that Here is still somehow something less than the sum of its playful, provocative parts. ” –
In Review Online
Nov 1, 2024
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La Cocina (2024)
72%
EDIT
“A powerful, bewildering work of despair and dejection... La Cocina stands apart from the recent glut of restaurants staged as battlegrounds through its aesthetic command of the workplace” –
In Review Online
Oct 25, 2024
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Smile 2 (2024)
86%
EDIT
“As morbidly watchable as it is totally interminable, self-defeating and self-congratulating in equal measure.” –
In Review Online
Oct 17, 2024
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Nocturnes (2024)
93%
EDIT
“[Nocturnes documents] hundreds of moths bearing manifold colors, shapes, patterns, sizes... yet it never ceases to transfix. The surrounding sequences, on the other hand... are where this stripped-down nature doc begins to show signs of strain.” –
In Review Online
Oct 16, 2024
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A Traveler's Needs (2024)
81%
EDIT
“A return to some of the...wonder and estrangement that made [Hong] a critical darling...but it’s also the work of an artist emphatically concerned with finding ways for visual, aural, and linguistic modes of expression to be developed and pushed forward. ” –
In Review Online
Oct 12, 2024
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Emilia Pérez (2024)
71%
EDIT
“An opera with no sense of musicality, a melodrama with no investment in human emotion, a thriller with no pulse, and a redemption story with no redeeming qualities.” –
In Review Online
Sep 16, 2024
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