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Carmen Paddock

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Carmen writes about film and television for sites such as One Room With a View, Girls on Tops, The Skinny, Little White Lies, Crooked Marquee, and Screen Queens. She has covered international film festivals in Locarno, Rotterdam, Berlin, Edinburgh, and London. Her criticism specializes in changing distribution methods and cross-media adaptations.

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Dusty & Stones (2022) “Dusty & Stones will make country music fans fall in love with the genre all over again, its beauty, diversity, power, and universal chords and truths laid bare with heart, soul, and beautiful song.” – MovieJawn Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Eephus (2024) 100% “Eephus fills its viewers with love and nostalgia for a time, place, and pastime many may never have experienced through the humour, humanity, and warmth with which it imbues this one last hurrah.” – Movies We Texted About Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 3/5 “Fiennes and Binoche’s performances are the reason to see The Return. Both carry the weight of years of unspoken, unspeakable trauma in their eyes.” – The Skinny Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 96% “Sister Midnight delivers tragicomedy through a maze of surreality, where the terrors begin with the mundane and progress rapidly through the wacky and supernatural.” – Movies We Texted About Mar 25, 2025 Full Review American Dreamer (2022) 46% “Like the American Dream itself, American Dreamer is a highly imperfect film that is hard to love, despite the good will engendered by its cast and relatable scenario.” – MovieJawn Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Brief History of a Family (2024) 92% 3/5 “Where the film shines most is in its exploration of parental expectation and disappointment and how – even unintentionally – small comments become festering slights.” – The Skinny Mar 17, 2025 Full Review The End (2024) 56% “The End is audacious in the extreme, a film certain to divide audiences but whose thematic depth is well worth the discomfiting journey. If musicals are indeed tales of delusion, this is delusion taken to its darkest, yet horribly believable, extreme.” – Movies We Texted About Mar 14, 2025 Full Review The Surfer (2024) 87% “fans of Cage, Australian dramas, and a B-movie’s relish for the extreme will find it lives up to the promise of its premise with aplomb.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Mar 14, 2025 Full Review The Luckiest Man in America (2024) 66% “A strange little tale of Americana and its delusions and dreamers, The Luckiest Man in America is equal parts cautionary tale and celebration of optimism.” – Movies We Texted About Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Went Up the Hill (2024) 88% 3/5 “Montgomery and Krieps, delivering a two-hander for most of the runtime, are excellently matched and find understated ways of conveying both their own characters’ disquiet and the other personality that invades.” – The Skinny Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Kill the Jockey (2024) 96% 5/5 “A surreal, sexy, beautifully shot and acted film, Kill the Jockey is an exquisite, aching tale of bodily autonomy, longing, and transformation.” – The Skinny Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Young Werther (2024) 71% “Turning The Sorrows of Young Werther into a rom-com of sorts requires some shifting of expectations from those who know the original... While softening the ending... the bildungsroman spirit of self-discovery via romantic disappointment is intact. ” – Movies We Texted About Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% 5/5 “Vera Drew uses comic book tropes and characters in a joyous allegory for LGBTQ+ disruption of heteronormative, corporatised societal structures.” – The Skinny Feb 17, 2025 Full Review GEN_ (2025) 100% “While it cannot take down an entire political system or dismantle the commodification of bodies under modern capitalism, there is hope for a kinder future here.” – Loud and Clear Reviews Feb 14, 2025 Full Review No Other Land (2024) 100% “Rarely has a documentary felt as timely as No Other Land, though the issues explored in documenting a Palestinian community’s resistance have been tragically omnipresent over generations.” – MovieJawn Feb 9, 2025 Full Review Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974) 62% “Even as an ironic read, it is hard to stomach the film’s misogyny (notably in the portrayal of the wife to whom Gennarino returns), and its class and political critiques are muddled in favour of a survival-of-the-fittest mentality. ” – MovieJawn Feb 9, 2025 Full Review Vermiglio (2024) 93% “VERMIGLIO is a beautiful neorealist throwback that shows the power of detailed, naturalistic characterisation.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% “BABYGIRL is festive family fun in the least traditional sense. Finding levity and grace... the film gives generational acting talents a phenomenal showcase that will ignite conversation, not offer the final word.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Sugarcane (2024) 100% 4.5/5 “Often difficult, always respectful, and reflecting personal histories through their communal connection, Sugarcane is a masterful documentary that comes upon the heels of a major period of reflection in Canadian society.” – Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2023) 65% “CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT revels in the moral rot and innate violence of unchecked power. If Brass and Vidal were unhappy with the first version for taming their extreme impulses, this should rectify their concerns.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Jan 6, 2025 Full Review Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) 93% “As it turns out, Hamlet and GTA are supremely well-matched, especially not amidst the emotional crises and sense of lost time engendered by the pandemic.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% 5/5 “The film boldly cuts between the boys’ past, present, and future; quasi-dream sequences; and the world beyond Nickel... the result is a haunting tribute to the not-so-distant past and lives crushed by US institutionalised racism.” – The Skinny Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Much Ado About Dying (2022) 93% “While a clearly personal story for Chambers, the director and narrator is an unobtrusive presence, preferring to let David sing his songs, recite his verse, and share his story and feelings without commentary or filter. ” – MovieJawn Dec 5, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 96% “The resulting film blurs relationships to time, place, and each other just as the snow and nondescript concrete architecture washes Winnipeg out. This is not a failure of the design team... its tiny beauties become apparent.” – Movies We Texted About Dec 5, 2024 Full Review Armand (2024) 75% “Reinsve... continues to prove herself one of this generation’s singular talents and humanise characters caught in seemingly impossible conundrums. Likewise, Ullmann Tøndel demonstrates a remarkable confidence in framing and atmosphere” – Movies We Texted About Dec 5, 2024 Full Review
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