David Bax
David Bax's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Close Your Eyes (2023)
93%
“The presentation of Close Your Eyes is gargantuanly filmic.” –
Battleship Pretension
May 16, 2025
Full Review
The Bikeriders (2023)
80%
“In terms of narrative structure, The Bikeriders can essentially be summed up as “Goodfellas if it were from Karen’s point of view.”” –
Battleship Pretension
May 15, 2025
Full Review
Terrestrial Verses (2023)
96%
“Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami‘s Terrestrial Verses is high in the running for the title of angriest comedy film ever made” –
Battleship Pretension
May 14, 2025
Full Review
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
96%
“Unfortunately, as it often the case with documentaries that fail, Hints appears to have entered the sauna with her camera already knowing what she hoped to capture.” –
Battleship Pretension
May 13, 2025
Full Review
Stamped From the Beginning (2023)
100%
“Stamped from the Beginning may be chock full of examples and evidence of racism and stereotypes from history but this is not a film about the past.” –
Battleship Pretension
May 13, 2025
Full Review
Sing Sing (2023)
97%
“It’s an argument for art as a vital part of any society’s bloodstream.” –
Battleship Pretension
May 1, 2025
Full Review
The Zone of Interest (2023)
93%
“What shocks in all of this is Rudolf and Hedwig’s dedication to their way of life and their seeming surety that this is simply the way it’s going to be.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 30, 2025
Full Review
Seven Veils (2023)
77%
“Seven Veils might be one of the definitive statements on the how and, more intriguingly, the why of directing.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 12, 2025
Full Review
Mami Wata (2023)
97%
“Obasi and cinematographer Lílis Soares make use of the ocean to as a terrifyingly endless canvas against which to silhouette and anonymize human beings.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 11, 2025
Full Review
Fallen Leaves (2023)
97%
“It’s a comedy and one of the romantic variety without any irony or cynicism.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 10, 2025
Full Review
Deliver Us (2023)
68%
“Deliver Us is awesome.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 8, 2025
Full Review
Mambar Pierrette (2023)
100%
“What makes all of this work is that it’s not a work of patronizing miserablism, despite the many travails that make up Pierrette’s life both before and during the film’s time frame.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 3, 2025
Full Review
Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
100%
“One gets the impression Filho could not have turned out anything but a filmmaker, given the endless amounts of footage he has shot over the course of his life, whether he was officially in production on a feature or not.” –
Battleship Pretension
Apr 1, 2025
Full Review
Arthur & Diana (2023)
“Despite the home movie visual quality of the footage, Summa’s eye for fun new camera set-ups never tires.” –
Battleship Pretension
Mar 7, 2025
Full Review
His Three Daughters (2023)
98%
“...in many ways, Lyonne owns the movie.” –
Battleship Pretension
Mar 6, 2025
Full Review
Shoshana (2023)
71%
“Shoshana wisely doesn’t attempt to resolve anything that hasn’t been resolved in the actual world.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 13, 2025
Full Review
Roots of Fire (2022)
“While too many such films interrupt the tunes with endless talking heads, telling you about the music instead of letting you listen to it, you are guaranteed to leave the Lavois’ movie familiar with–and, if you have taste, appreciating–Cajun music.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 8, 2025
Full Review
Perfect Days (2023)
96%
“There’s a suggestion here that this simple life is not the result of some enlightened pursuit of modest happiness but rather that this man may be running away from something, closing himself off to large parts of the world.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 7, 2025
Full Review
It Lives Inside (2023)
64%
“It Lives Inside doesn’t have enough to distinguish it as a horror flick, despite Dutta’s clear efforts.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 6, 2025
Full Review
The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)
86%
“It’s a pretty movie starring two endlessly magnetic actors but it also feels like a self-conscious attempt to make a feminist Western by clumsily inserting characters with present-day values.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 5, 2025
Full Review
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
97%
“Whether you’re Romanian, American or anything else, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is the most recognizably of-the-moment film you’re likely to see all year.” –
Battleship Pretension
Feb 1, 2025
Full Review
The Delinquents (2023)
86%
“The Delinquents takes the liberal view that most people have more in common than not and mixes it with the more conservative view that we all control our own fate and that it’s our choices that separate us.” –
Battleship Pretension
Jan 8, 2025
Full Review
Invisible Beauty (2023)
100%
“Hardison’s tenacity instructs us in the need to continue the fight, the ultimate goal of which is to make a better world for everyone.” –
Battleship Pretension
Jan 4, 2025
Full Review
How to Have Sex (2023)
97%
“Walker reminds that, though we all reach adulthood at the same time in terms of pure numbers, our internal paces and definitions vary infinitely. ” –
Battleship Pretension
Jan 3, 2025
Full Review
Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
91%
“Hamaguchi has provided us with two competing philosophies of what it means to live off the land, one symbiotic and one parasitic.” –
Battleship Pretension
Dec 11, 2024
Full Review
No Reviews Yet
Load More
Something went wrong.. try again