Kenji Fujishima
Kenji Fujishima's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
The Shrouds (2024)
74%
3/4
“The film shares with Crimes of the Future an alternately intrigued and critical fascination with the ways technology encroaches on humanity, and a paranoid interest in rooting out underlying conspiracies.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 5, 2024
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Union (2024)
89%
3/4
“The level of detail with which the filmmakers depict the unionization process is eye-opening.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 30, 2024
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
3.5/4
“RaMell Ross’s remarkable film finds an expressive power in formally adventurous technique that fashions mesmerizing, cumulatively affecting poetry out of Colson Whitehead’s prose.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 28, 2024
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023)
100%
3/4
“Under Sora Neo’s direction, each number becomes a mini-study of Sakamoto and the grand piano he plays on.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 11, 2023
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Janet Planet (2023)
85%
3/4
“Annie Baker’s spare dialogue style remains intact, with each line revealing of character and mood.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 8, 2023
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Maestro (2023)
78%
2/4
“With Maestro, Bradley Cooper has essentially reduced Leonard Bernstein’s boundary-pushing life and legacy to the sum total of its most accessible (read: audience-friendly) elements: his interpersonal relationships.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 5, 2023
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Living (2022)
96%
2.5/4
“Living has the feel of a film afraid to fully step out of its predecessor’s giant shadow.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 18, 2022
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
95%
“As portraiture, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed accomplishes the goal of any documentary worthy of its genre by shining an insightful light onto what informs an artist’s vision.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 18, 2022
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The Woman King (2022)
94%
2.5/4
“The film is a historical action epic that, for all the novelty of its setting and subservience to contemporary attitudes, traffics in a lot of cliché narrative beats and ideologies.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 16, 2022
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The Son (2022)
29%
2.5/4
“All by himself, Hugh Jackman imbues The Son with a tragic power that makes even Florian Zeller’s most manipulative excesses easier to tolerate.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 15, 2022
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Empire of Light (2022)
45%
2/4
“In Sam Mendes’s film, the power of the movies comes off feeling disappointingly like an afterthought to the script’s more romantic and socially oriented concerns.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 14, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
91%
2.5/4
“The climax has a certain primally cathartic power, but it doesn’t quite dispel the air of self-satisfaction that envelops the script.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 14, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022)
92%
3/4
“The Fabelmans is a provocative investigation of the cinematic medium from one of its great masters.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 12, 2022
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Broker (2022)
94%
2.5/4
“Even when it edges toward sentimentality, Broker is redeemed by Kore-eda Hirokazu’s customarily bracing humanism.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 12, 2022
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Bros (2022)
89%
2.5/4
“The film is ultimately let down by its pat perspectives on modern romance and social justice.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2022
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Women Talking (2022)
90%
“For better and worse, writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking is most noteworthy for its imagery.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 10, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022)
92%
3/4
“Brett Morgen is less interested in factual biography than in eliciting a sense of the man as an artist and personality.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 9, 2022
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El mar la mar (2017)
100%
3.5/4
“The film's approach to exploring the Sonoran Desert and topic of immigration often veers toward the avant-garde.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 19, 2018
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Loving Vincent (2017)
84%
5.8/10
“One would quite possibly glean more about the artist from simply looking at his canvases than by seeing them in this obsessively reproduced form.” –
Paste Magazine
Sep 28, 2017
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Victoria & Abdul (2017)
65%
1.5/4
“By privileging the white characters in its narrative, Victoria & Abdul exposes itself as insidiously hypocritical.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 17, 2017
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Brad's Status (2017)
79%
3/4
“The film is less contemptuous of Brad than compassionate: brutally honest about his faults, yet ultimately understanding of them.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2017
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The Challenge (2016)
79%
“The Challenge lives up to its title in more ways than one.” –
Paste Magazine
Sep 5, 2017
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Beach Rats (2017)
84%
6.1/10
“Perhaps Hittman relies too much on that aura to give her sophomore film a coherence it doesn't quite earn.” –
Paste Magazine
Aug 25, 2017
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Planetarium (2016)
15%
3.5/10
“Watching Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium is akin to seeing a filmmaker lost in the thickets of her own vision.” –
Paste Magazine
Aug 14, 2017
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Crown Heights (2017)
78%
2/4
“The film plays like a human-interest story in which all of the humanity has been gutted in favor of deadening narrative efficiency.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 13, 2017
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