Jason Anderson
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
93%
“Despite its commercial success, it was perhaps the last grand artistic folly that Hollywood would tolerate, and a golden age of American filmmaking soon stumbled to a close.” –
eye WEEKLY
Sep 22, 2024
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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022)
92%
4/5
“Directors Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom... create something that attains the same grace and beauty heard in Sill’s music.” –
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Oct 26, 2023
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Sisu (2022)
94%
“For all the pleasure viewers may take in the sight of nameless Nazis being dispatched and dismembered, they may be surprised by the film’s solemnity, too.” –
Sight & Sound
Jun 8, 2023
Full Review
Aftersun (2022)
95%
“The Situationists and the Sex Pistols may have had nothing good to say about cheap holidays in other people’s misery, but Wells finds a wealth of beauty and heartache in this one.” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 16, 2023
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The Decalogue (1989)
100%
5/5
“The original series of 10 hour-long films has all of the qualities that mark Kieslowski's better-known work.” –
eye WEEKLY
May 1, 2021
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The Hitcher (2007)
19%
2/4
“Viewers looking for more than a few secondhand thrills should drive right past The Hitcher.” –
Globe and Mail
Apr 27, 2020
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The Man From Mo'Wax (2016)
77%
“While The Man from Mo' Wax follows a conventional doc structure as it charts its subject's rise, fall and last-act resurgence, Jones finds more inventive ways of framing Lavelle's saga.” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 28, 2018
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Her Smell (2018)
83%
“Moss ultimately has the chance to dial it down and reveal unexpected layers to Becky, a woman who lives too fast because living any slower means feeling paralyzed by fear and need.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 10, 2018
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Sweet Country (2017)
96%
“Sweet Country's complexity and sophistication mark it as a landmark work of Indigenous cinema.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 13, 2018
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Chop Shop (2007)
97%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)
61%
“For devotees of science-fiction cinema at its most synapse-frying and voluptuously horrifying, the mother lode is exactly what [writer/director Panos] Cosmatos delivers.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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The End of Time (2012)
78%
“At the end of these many and varied travels, we arrive at a film that is Mettler's most readily engaging since Picture of Light...” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
85%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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The Oxbow Cure (2013)
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Asphalt Watches (2013)
“Of course, it all goes on way, way too long, but no story that involves a cross-Canada trek could ever feel authentic without stretches of ass-numbing tedium.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
October November (2013)
“Alas, a similarly high calibre of acting skill proves to be the only real virtue of October November, a disappointingly drab and shapeless drama that has little of its predecessors' power.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
Waste Land (2014)
“... Waste Land's ambitions far exceed what it can competently handle.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Fires on the Plain (2014)
88%
“... it dives into the abyss at the earliest opportunity and just keeps falling and falling.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Ned Rifle (2015)
78%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Cut Snake (2014)
69%
“Nevertheless, lumpy, repetitive plotting keeps matters at a low simmer.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
85%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
The Creation of Meaning (2014)
100%
“Under the rustic relics of the past and the calamities of the present, [writer/director Simone] Rapisarda Casanova uncovers a few traces of the infinite, as well as some fresh iterations of a decidedly cosmic sort of joke.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
Sleeping Giant (2015)
87%
“Sleeping Giant comes far closer than most teen-centric dramas to conveying the damage that young people can inflict on each other as they constantly jockey for power...” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
Hugo (2011)
93%
“Beyond its value as a technical marvel, Hugo's most rewarding aspect may be the spirit of kindness and community that fills the final act.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 9, 2018
Full Review
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016)
98%
“Viewers who come under the apprehension that this is any kind of sports film are bound to be thrown by the wryly funny, mild-mannered yet deeply felt movie they find here.” –
Cinema Scope
Dec 29, 2017
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