Brad Hanford
Brad Hanford's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Henry Fonda for President (2024)
3.5/4
“If Fonda was an avatar of American liberalism’s tolerance and self-scrutiny, the film suggests, so, too, does he represent its complicity in the nation’s sins and its failure to change its course in the direction of justice.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 30, 2025
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Suburban Fury (2024)
100%
2.5/4
“Robinson Devor is less interested in reconciling Sara Jane Moore’s contradictory allegiances than in exposing how they were formed.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 11, 2024
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Pavements (2024)
100%
2.5/4
“Alex Ross Perry’s Cubist portrait finds a fitting balance between reverence and mischievousness.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 2, 2024
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Grand Tour (2024)
91%
3.5/4
“If Tabu locates the colonial mindset in madness and obsession, Grand Tour does so in cowardice and obliviousness. ” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 1, 2024
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Misericordia (2024)
95%
3/4
“Misericordia finds Alain Guiraudie revisiting old standbys under a relatively conventional set of aesthetic strategies. Fortunately, the ideas roiling under the former wildman’s newly placid surfaces are as potent as ever.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 10, 2024
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)
90%
3/4
“Soi Cheang richly draws the city as both prison and refuge, where brutal exploitation sits alongside the residents’ deep sense of solidarity and cooperation.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 31, 2024
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July Rhapsody (2002)
93%
3.5/4
“Ann Hui’s investment in her characters and their passions bleeds through every frame.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 14, 2024
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The People's Joker (2022)
96%
3/4
“Throughout The People’s Joker, Drew lampoons comedy institutions as freely as she does superhero hegemony, in effect mounting an impassioned argument for the vitality of art made at the margins regardless of classification.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 1, 2024
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The Temple Woods Gang (2022)
“What could be a conventional genre script adorned with easy ironies and class condescension finds a genuinely political formal approach.” –
In Review Online
Mar 6, 2024
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Ferrari (2023)
72%
“While the director’s admiration for his subject is clear, the shocking end... makes the price that can come with such single-minded determination brutally evident.” –
In Review Online
Oct 19, 2023
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Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
100%
3/4
“As always with Kleber Mendonça Filho, to reflect reality isn’t enough, as cinema has to find its own truth, even if it takes some imagination to get there.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 8, 2023
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
90%
2/4
“Comparisons to the work of Terrence Malick and Julie Dash are inevitable, but Raven Jackson’s search for the sublime lacks both the rich philosophical inquiries of the former and the dense, lived-in specificity of the latter.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 6, 2023
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May December (2023)
91%
3.5/4
“The film examines real-world events through the lens of mass media with a wry humor that masks profoundly complex and painful undercurrents of emotion.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 1, 2023
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Winter Kills (1979)
92%
“The history of Winter Kills is nearly as lurid and tangled as the conspiracy it depicts.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 8, 2023
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Neige (1981)
3/4
“The film’s hard-won humanism belongs only to itself.” –
Slant Magazine
Jun 22, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)
48%
“The film... is rife with anxieties about the pressures of pleasing both crowds and producers, and the result is a work whose eccentricities are both frustrating and fascinating.” –
In Review Online
Feb 10, 2023
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