Joshua Bogatin
Joshua Bogatin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete (2024)
“Mother and Daughter weaves together a story of how politics, history, motherhood, and filmmaking intersected across their various lives.” –
In Review Online
Dec 5, 2024
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A Different Man (2024)
93%
“Luckily, any quibbles with the film are minor... because what’s at the heart of the film isn’t really its identity politics, but a Kafkaesque sense of paranoia.” –
In Review Online
Sep 19, 2024
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Problemista (2023)
86%
“If only Torres, a natural fabulist with a keen sense of deadpan absurdity, realized how stultifying, patronizing, and boring moralizing can be.” –
In Review Online
Mar 25, 2024
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Hesitation Wound (2023)
82%
“Nacar builds a remarkable amount of tension in a very simple dramatic framework. What’s most effective about Hesitation Wound is also Nacar’s refusal to ever let this tension uncoil and the pressure subside.” –
In Review Online
Dec 15, 2023
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Hajjan (2023)
“At the end of the day, something as superficially routine and familiar as Hajjan succeeds almost entirely through this craftsmanship.” –
In Review Online
Dec 12, 2023
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Strange Way of Life (2023)
78%
“[Strange Way of Life] feels so listless and underdeveloped that it makes you question why it was ever made in the first place. ” –
In Review Online
Oct 5, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
94%
“It might be something of a criticism to note that this critic never cared a lick about... plot, but it’s also a compliment to note that it doesn’t much matter... the film actually thoroughly works on a scene by scene level.” –
In Review Online
Mar 24, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
72%
“The sum total of the film’s chapters equals a general portrait of petty human cruelty more than any distinct class analysis.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 16, 2022
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White Noise (2022)
64%
“White Noise is populated with hammy, over-the-top performances, turning many of DeLillo’s bizarre, thought-provoking characters ... into two-dimensional cartoons.” –
In Review Online
Oct 6, 2022
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The Story of Film: A New Generation (2022)
93%
“[Cousins] aesthetic commentary and analysis, delivered through voiceover in the same monotone as the first film, is consistently clunky and half-cooked.” –
In Review Online
Sep 9, 2022
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Full Contact (1992)
89%
“Lam deploys ... well-worn plot machinations as if he was reciting a mantra, letting the repetition of already familiar tropes guide the film toward an almost spiritual ideal of pure sensation and style.” –
In Review Online
Jul 29, 2022
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Project Space 13 (2021)
89%
“In a cinema-landscape where even American indies about regional working-class issues are star-studded, multi-million dollar exercises in faux-realism, this is nothing short of refreshing.” –
Screen Slate
Jan 10, 2022
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