Joshua Peinado
Joshua Peinado's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Striking Rescue (2024)
“It may be a new release, but there is nothing new under the sun in director Cheng Siyi’s tirade against drugs and poorly digitized action.” –
In Review Online
May 3, 2025
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Direct action (2024)
“The audience must consider what they wanted or expected to see in this documentary. In the film’s only real show of force against the government, it breaks the fourth wall to tell on itself: this isn’t what it should be filming. ” –
In Review Online
May 3, 2025
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Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued (2025)
“Castronovo does enough to separate his work from the genre that it manages to feel like something resembling a breath of fresh air, and a pleasant surprise in a subgenre increasingly saturating the young filmmaker landscape. ” –
In Review Online
Mar 8, 2025
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From Ground Zero (2024)
98%
“The quality of each short varies, though every film contributes to illuminating another in some way.” –
In Review Online
Jan 14, 2025
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
97%
“[The film] does have the occasional tonal misstep, and the inconsistent and sporadic placements of modern commercials feels particularly gauche, but it’s all easily forgivable when considering the enormity of the task at hand.” –
In Review Online
Nov 15, 2024
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My First Film (2024)
89%
“My First Film [isn't] bad, and viewers unfamiliar with Anger’s previous work will likely find something wholly unique — an experience as frustrating as it is cathartic, and as selfish as it is selfless.” –
In Review Online
Sep 5, 2024
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Reagan (2024)
18%
“It’s one thing to go the route of hagiography and never mention the notable failures of Reagan and his presidenc...but Reagan makes the stranger choice to give voice to the issues of his conservatism and then, promptly, forget all about them.” –
In Review Online
Aug 30, 2024
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
21%
“If the rest of this new Strangers trilogy lives up to its inaugural entry, it’s hard to imagine the sum product failing to generate its own cult following.” –
In Review Online
May 20, 2024
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Slow (2023)
93%
“The film works on some fundamental levels in spite of the rather amateurish camerawork and narrative pitfalls.” –
In Review Online
May 1, 2024
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This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024)
75%
“Lopez’s confidence seems to have clouded her better judgment.” –
In Review Online
Feb 15, 2024
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Disco Boy (2023)
88%
“The project does see the seeds of a director who could truly be great. But as a psychedelic trip onto either side of an imperialist conflict, Disco Boy simply feels out of place in its own skin.” –
In Review Online
Feb 1, 2024
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Apolonia, Apolonia (2022)
88%
“Glob, at Apolonia's end, finds herself in a similar position to an earlier Sokol, having delivered a product brimming with promise that winds up lacking in its final strokes.” –
In Review Online
Jan 16, 2024
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
90%
“While All Dirt Roads fails to offer up an absorbing portrait of a single person, it's nonetheless a wonderful experience for the senses and perhaps a promise of cinema’s next great poet.” –
In Review Online
Jan 11, 2024
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Self Reliance (2023)
73%
“"Auteurship" is not to be found here for Johnson, who can’t seem to define his voice while juggling his roles as star and writer.” –
In Review Online
Jan 9, 2024
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