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Chris Barsanti

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A freelance writer for over two decades, Chris Barsanti has covered movies for websites and magazines the world over. He's even written a few books, like 'Filmology,' 'The Sci-Fi Movie Guide,' and the 'Eyes Wide Open' annual film guide series.

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Drop Dead City (2024) “Yet Drop Dead City succeeds superbly by embracing the abstruse density of its economic subject, yoking those numbers to real-world impacts, and using that connection to present a sincere paean to the ideal of what a modern progressive city can be. ” – PopMatters Apr 29, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 8/10 “Tells a brutally universal story through a narrow lens.” – PopMatters Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 5/10 “One thing this fitfully fun but often pandering splatter of a film keeps its focus tightly pinned on is the importance of comeuppance for the baddies.” – PopMatters Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Gazer (2024) 78% 2.5/4 “The main character’s condition feels like a dramatically dubious attempt to shroud the somewhat spindly nature of the film’s plot.” – Slant Magazine Mar 30, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% “Mangold threads the needle by delivering a compact and finely etched origin story rather than a broadly sketched greatest hits biopic. ” – PopMatters Feb 5, 2025 Full Review SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) 93% 3/4 “Sly Lives! doesn’t judge Stone, but it also gives him the credit of not making excuses.” – Slant Magazine Feb 2, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 96% 3/4 “The film attests not only to the breadth of Sachs’s artistry but also to Hujar’s devotion to exploring the relationship between high and low culture.” – Slant Magazine Feb 1, 2025 Full Review Last Days (2025) 28% 1.5/4 “Instead of delving into what lay behind John Allen Chau’s recklessness, the film scatters itself across multiple plot angles that confuse more than clarify.” – Slant Magazine Feb 1, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 82% 2/4 “The musical is lesser Kander and Ebb, to be sure, but it still contains a critique—of the use of art as a form of escapism—that’s barely visible in this adaptation.” – Slant Magazine Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Bubble & Squeak (2025) 35% 2.5/4 “Evan Twohy’s attempt to smuggle some sincerity into this largely absurdist tale shows that he isn’t especially committed to coherence.” – Slant Magazine Jan 30, 2025 Full Review The Birds (1963) 94% “A frustratingly slow build that could provide grist for a 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' episode. However, once Hitchcock shows his hand, 'The Birds' turns into maybe the most terrifying entry in his filmography.” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review North by Northwest (1959) 97% “The last time Alfred Hitchcock delivered a big success of a film with stars on the marquee and an A-lister behind the typewriter.” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Psycho (1960) 97% “Murder might have been rife in Hitchcock's earlier work, but the gutting sense of random mortality in 'Psycho' is as far as one can get from the semi-jocular bloodless deaths of 'Strangers on a Train' and 'The Trouble with Harry.'” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Vertigo (1958) 93% “Viewed by many at the time as a departure for Alfred Hitchcock, 'Vertigo' can be seen as a return to form ... redolent of spookier works like 'Rebecca' or 'Spellbound,' with a psychoanalytic frame instead of gothic romanticism.” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Rear Window (1954) 98% “Tightly scripted with clockwork precision and garlanded with bon mots: “She’s too perfect, she’s too talented, she’s too beautiful, she’s too sophisticated, she’s too everything but what I want.”” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review To Catch a Thief (1955) 93% “While the plotting is a bit stodgy, the slyly flirtatious Kelly-Grant patter and gorgeous VistaVision travelogue scenery go a long way.” – PopMatters Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Dahomey (2024) 99% 7/10 “Lovely yet fractious.” – PopMatters Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Look Into My Eyes (2024) 91% 6/10 “Lana Wilson’s soulful, patient, appropriately skeptical documentary takes psychics at their word but also peers behind the curtain in revealing ways.” – PopMatters Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 45% 3/10 “Francis Ford Coppola’s bonkers “fable” about the clash of dreams and cynicism has a potent but unfounded belief in its importance.” – PopMatters Sep 26, 2024 Full Review Elton John: Never Too Late (2024) 77% C+ “Wraps searing 1970s concert footage In ho-hum valedictory package.” – The Playlist Sep 6, 2024 Full Review Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) A- “Narrating with a tone of quiet gravity, Costa infuses her film with a bookish spirit that leavens its more pulse-pounding elements. ” – The Playlist Aug 31, 2024 Full Review Between the Temples (2024) 85% “Parts ways with more conventional misfit tales by not condescending to its characters with the belief that their oddities can be easily packaged and explained.” – PopMatters Aug 19, 2024 Full Review War Game (2024) 80% 2/4 “By setting up such a potentially cataclysmic scenario and not convincingly illustrating how it could be resolved or stopped from occurring in the first place, War Game undercuts the very reason it was made.” – Slant Magazine Jul 27, 2024 Full Review Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) 99% 2.5/4 “The film lays out an impassioned case for the nearly unique greatness of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s body of work.” – Slant Magazine Jul 6, 2024 Full Review Wildcat (2023) 59% 2.5/4 “By shooting the fiction sequences with the same dreamy fish-eye unreality as the scenes showing O’Connor’s real life, the film blurs the line between the two until it’s almost nonexistent.” – Slant Magazine Apr 28, 2024 Full Review
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