Chloe Lizotte
Chloe Lizotte's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
The Plains (2022)
100%
“The Plains’ visual and narrative defiance in refusing to give the viewer a complete picture of Andrew helps it to subvert the clichés of setting a film in a car...” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 24, 2023
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The Girl and the Spider (2021)
93%
“Scenes accrue off-kilter visual details as though they are half-remembered dreams. The atmosphere is destabilizing, like teetering on the edge of a cliff.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 10, 2021
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Slow Machine (2020)
83%
“I found Slow Machine's energy totally infectious, more actorly than incident-based; its succession of bizarre interpersonal dynamics makes you wonder what uncanny forces draw people together and apart.” –
Screen Slate
May 4, 2021
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Freedom (2019)
71%
“Albert Serra steeps his captive audience in a trance-like night.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 3, 2019
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First Cow (2019)
96%
“Reichardt frames westward expansion as a story of capital, which helps her drain excessive sentimentality from the film's tenderness: decency seems a poignant triumph over greed.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 3, 2019
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Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
97%
7/10
“Unsentimental resilience makes storytelling both a weapon and a shield for the orphaned children in Issa López's blend of horror and magical realism” –
Film Comment Magazine
Aug 29, 2019
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The Art of Self-Defense (2019)
83%
“Writer/director Riley Stearns strives for dark comedy intoned in Yorgos Lanthimos deadpan, but instead of pushing the absurdity of his uncanny valley universe, he succumbs to its lack of specificity.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Jul 15, 2019
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Suburban Birds (2018)
84%
“Qiu's directorial touch is remarkably gentle-while rhyming images and stories across plotlines, he avoids schematic logic in favor of a light mystery of unity, seeking a quiet depth beyond sensory perception.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Jun 17, 2019
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Knife + Heart (2018)
81%
“If the first ten minutes of a movie build to a slasher-sex death by convertible Swiss Army dildo, the rest of it has to deliver. Yann Gonzalez's Knife + Heart does so, even poignantly.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 14, 2019
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On the Seventh Day (2017)
100%
“Writer/director Jim McKay's fifth feature... is his most tightly plotted film yet, propelled by a momentum that's often exhilaratingly fleet.” –
Reverse Shot
Jun 18, 2018
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Beast (2017)
92%
“So restrained that it often comes off as coldly technical, Beast is most engaging when it lets loose and embraces Moll's feverishness.” –
Film Comment Magazine
May 3, 2018
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Lean on Pete (2017)
90%
“Plummer's performance is remarkably interior, bottled up behind his brimming wide eyes, and Haigh leaves enough space for the emotional weight of all that Charley is forced to process.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Mar 8, 2018
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A Gentle Creature (2017)
74%
“[Sergei] Loznitsa gives even the punctuating beats of his film a precarious energy, creating the potential for it to devolve into a nightmare at any instant.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 19, 2017
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Strange Weather (2016)
58%
“The film leans on contrived setups, further weakened by the literal-minded deployment of Sharon Van Etten's score at key turning points, but Holly Hunter and Carrie Coon enliven the film with psychological nuance.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Jul 11, 2017
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