Elissa Suh
Tomatometer-approved critic
The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
78%
“An unexpected love story between two self-professed “kooky old people” that balances humor and depth without reducing the them to pitiable caricatures of age.” –
Moviepudding
Feb 16, 2025
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
“A tale of middle-aged self-discovery and a middling marriage drama parading as an erotic thriller.” –
Moviepudding
Jan 9, 2025
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Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)
79%
“ The memory piece is nostalgic but not sentimental, undercut with a specter of settled regret.” –
Moviepudding
Dec 23, 2024
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The Girl With the Needle (2024)
92%
“Despite this sweeping portentousness, Von Horn forces us to look at what happens when women's bodies are patrolled.” –
Moviepudding
Dec 9, 2024
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Oh Canada (2024)
64%
“What was poised to be a takedown of the documentary is deflated a bit by sentimentality.” –
Moviepudding
Dec 9, 2024
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The End (2024)
56%
“The End falls short of the achieving the grandiosity of the themes it admirably takes on” –
Moviepudding
Dec 9, 2024
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A Real Pain (2024)
96%
“The film feels narratively affixed to traditional beats, but more intriguing in its smaller moments.” –
Moviepudding
Nov 26, 2024
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Flow (2024)
97%
“an exquisitely and universally captivating film regardless of how old you are” –
Moviepudding
Nov 26, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
“ Sean Baker’s movies are all about money and his latest, Anora emerges as a neo-screwball comedy fueled by a breathless energy and bravado performances.” –
Moviepudding
Oct 29, 2024
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024)
“a formally and politically radical inquiry” –
Moviepudding
Oct 6, 2024
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The Substance (2024)
89%
“goes to comically grotesque lengths to accommodate its critique of our looks-obsessed society” –
Moviepudding
Oct 6, 2024
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Dead Mail (2024)
93%
“Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy's tactile, lo-fi thriller weaves disarming melancholy into this Misery-framework, infusing unwarranted empathy.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 25, 2024
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Ick (2024)
71%
“The hysterical melding of political and pop sensibility charges the movie with breathtaking originality.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 25, 2024
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Between the Temples (2024)
85%
“Silver, who has a knack for acerbic wit and tortured metafictions, retains a sense of his idiosyncratic chaos and an aesthetic scuzziness.” –
Moviepudding
Sep 24, 2024
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Near Orouët (1971)
“A disarmingly capricious summer film.” –
Moviepudding
Aug 17, 2024
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Good One (2024)
98%
“Donaldson’s deeply personal story bears the mark of hindsight, anchored by patient observation and precise attention to the unique rhythms of dad-speak.” –
Moviepudding
Aug 12, 2024
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Cuckoo (2024)
79%
“If you’re looking for the answers, you may have missed the point: visceral impact over explanatory depth.” –
Moviepudding
Aug 6, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
71%
“This nasty little (actually very bloated) anthology film doesn’t so much highlight the Greek director’s idiosyncratic flair for cruelty as it does provide a hackneyed low-rent version of it” –
Moviepudding
Aug 6, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024)
72%
“MaXXXine is so possessed of its B horror trappings that it becomes a victim of its own mimicry, predictable, forgettable, and as empty as the schlock it emulates.” –
Moviepudding
Aug 6, 2024
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This Closeness (2023)
91%
“ Zauhar is a filmmaker distinctly her own, and This Closeness is a small-budget-indie miracle.” –
Moviepudding
Jul 3, 2024
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Free Time (2023)
91%
“A satirical portrait of disaffected youth, Ryan Martin Brown’s concise almost unbearably hilarious film is small in scale but suggestive of something larger in spirit as it dramatizes the Millennial Resignation and elevates it into fable.” –
Moviepudding
Apr 11, 2024
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Tendaberry (2024)
92%
“An assured debut and quiet marvel” –
Moviepudding
Apr 5, 2024
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The Featherweight (2023)
81%
“A small but impactful film of fleet ingenuity, not unlike its title.” –
Moviepudding
Apr 5, 2024
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Dad & Step-Dad (2023)
100%
“An endlessly quotable and unexpectedly poignant film that marries tranquil momentum with argumentative drollery.” –
Screen Slate
Mar 21, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023)
97%
“The Taste of Things is constructed on ordinary foundations and story mechanics, but where it stands out is as a fierce champion of the gourmet and the artistry of taste.” –
Moviepudding
Feb 9, 2024
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