Henry Fonda for President (2024)
“At a time when people’s parasocial relationship with stars plays out to disturbing ends on social media every day, Horwath’s epic presents a thesis not so far drawn from our tendency for projection.” –
The Film Stage
Apr 1, 2025
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The Woman in the Yard (2025)
44%
“The director’s form is additionally assisted by his performers; Deadwyler’s large expressive eyes and Okpokwasili’s sharp cheekbones cast as much a spell as the occasional forays into computer-generated expressionism. ” –
The Film Stage
Mar 28, 2025
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Companion (2025)
93%
C
“It isn’t stupid, dull, or badly made per se, but it’s unlikeable, and awfully smug for something not that high on insight or genuine surprise. ” –
The Film Stage
Jan 22, 2025
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Every Little Thing (2024)
95%
B-
“Masear, as a subject, rubs off on the viewer in a positive fashion, the biography she’s willing to provide us making her instantly sympathetic” –
The Film Stage
Jan 10, 2025
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Den of Thieves: Pantera (2025)
62%
B
“ It’s a mix of maximalism and sparseness that would likely make Jean-Pierre Melville proud.” –
The Film Stage
Jan 10, 2025
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Saturday Night (2024)
78%
C-
“ While this may be a ’70s period piece (complete with era-replicating sheen) the climax where we’re supposed to cheer on a producer getting corporate acceptance points to a work as subtly evil as the ’80s ideology of his dad’s Reaganite comedies.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 11, 2024
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Flow (2024)
97%
B
“If able to recognize the canny bit of emotional manipulation, all the same I must appreciate it still getting me through every nerve-wracking setpiece with a deep level of investment. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 10, 2024
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The Return (2024)
78%
C-
“Not giving off the sense of a visual filmmaker, Pasolini isn’t quite able to tell his story through these bodies, though––a talky affair where dull power dynamics to take the crown hold precedence over everything else” –
The Film Stage
Sep 9, 2024
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Hard Truths (2024)
95%
B+
“Fanatics of “late style” will certainly admire the simplicity and patience.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 7, 2024
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Bonjour Tristesse (2024)
60%
B
“Chew-Bose’s project isn’t so much feminist as feminine––that a working-out of neurosis that doesn’t provide completely easy answers. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 7, 2024
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This Closeness (2023)
91%
B
“The film effectively communicates how we’re all fundamentally lonely and what comes from the process of talking to yourself over and over, an individual’s minor insecurities building into grand crevasses for a relationship. ” –
The Film Stage
Jun 6, 2024
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Slow (2023)
93%
C
“In shying away from more specific anxieties of modern love, one can’t help but think of all the things it’s avoiding in general by pushing the onscreen relationship to more interesting places.” –
The Film Stage
May 3, 2024
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Omen (2023)
86%
B
“The film gradually becomes more confident in its time- and space-traveling, encompassing something greater than its seeming initial intent.” –
The Film Stage
Apr 12, 2024
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Out of Darkness (2022)
85%
C-
“One can excuse the overwhelming greyness as just the atmosphere they’re working with, but the film having a self-seriousness that makes one yearn for the days of Neil Marshall is not a good sign.” –
The Film Stage
Feb 9, 2024
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Anyone But You (2023)
54%
C
“The film emphasizes the two hardbodies at its core, yet there’s something a little off about both of them.” –
The Film Stage
Dec 21, 2023
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La Syndicaliste (2022)
80%
B-
“Yes, its rather reserved form may draw some television-movie comparisons, but as a complicated story told succinctly and with nary a trace of sentimentality, it’s an admirable film.” –
The Film Stage
Dec 1, 2023
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Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
98%
C
“Ultimately, the film is kind of limp, as if these women’s bodies are, despite the sensitivity on-hand, conveyed too much like academic objects.” –
The Film Stage
Nov 24, 2023
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Four Daughters (2023)
96%
B-
“An admirable, if uneven experiment. ” –
The Film Stage
Oct 26, 2023
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
22%
F
“By the time Burstyn was monologuing about the power of church bringing people together to syrupy music, not only did I wonder if I was watching one of the worst movies ever made, but pondering what the hell happened to mainstream horror.” –
The Film Stage
Oct 6, 2023
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The Creator (2023)
68%
C+
“The sight of James Cameron/Mamoru Oshii-mechsuits stirred some warm feelings, yet the problem is the intrusion of sentimentality, something beyond Edwards’ talents to pull off.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 28, 2023
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Sleep (2024)
95%
C+
“If accomplished in pulling off the kind of tonal shifts and formal precision you’d expect from someone who trained under [Bong Joon Ho], there’s a bit of a lack of a true pulse to the proceedings.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 17, 2023
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The Breaking Ice (2023)
91%
C+
“Ultimately as cold to the touch as its frozen setting, the lack of emotional catharsis speaks to a work high on words and ideas but low on a cohesive vision. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 15, 2023
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Wildcat (2023)
59%
D-
“One hopes Wildcat can disappear into thin air so that it doesn’t have to weigh on Hawke’s legacy.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 15, 2023
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Youth (Spring) (2023)
86%
B+
“What’s eternally moving about the veteran documentarian is his deep earnestness.” –
The Film Stage
Sep 14, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023)
97%
B
“For how it captures the ambiance of walking out of a liquor store and down a wintry street a few days after Christmas, The Holdovers makes for the ideal annual holiday revisit. ” –
The Film Stage
Sep 11, 2023
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