Liam Lacey
Tomatometer-approved critic
On Swift Horses (2024)
51%
B+
“An exploration of the bond between a queer man and his sister-in-law in the 1950s, the film evokes classic fifties melodramas with an attractive cast and visuals, though falters on the story line.” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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Secret Mall Apartment (2024)
100%
A-minus
“Both fun and serious, Secret Mall Apartment chronicles an art prank that questions how we surrendered public space to private profit.
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Apr 17, 2025
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Bob Trevino Likes It (2024)
95%
C
“A forced dramedy about a young woman who finds a substitute father on Facebook, the film nonetheless finds moments of genuine feeling in Barbara Ferreira’s warm. energetic lead performance.
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Original Cin
Mar 25, 2025
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Superboys of Malegaon (2024)
88%
B-plus
“A rambunctious film based on the true story of how an Indian town created its own film movement, Superboys of Malegaon, pays tribute to the camaraderie of cinema.
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Original Cin
Feb 27, 2025
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Eat the Night (2024)
67%
B
“An uneven but original French modern Hansel and Gretel story balances a conventional crime drama with a compelling story of a teenage girl finding sanctuary in a video game.” –
Original Cin
Feb 19, 2025
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Bring Them Down (2024)
90%
C
“An Irish Western and an old-fashioned family curse drama serves as a calling card for director Christopher Andrews, but the violent denouement feels contrived and absurd.” –
Original Cin
Feb 6, 2025
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Universal Language (2024)
96%
A
“Matthew Rankin’s film is a wildly creative exercise in prairie surrealism that offers a hopeful alternative vision to the anxious political moment.
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Feb 6, 2025
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I'm Still Here (2024)
97%
A
“I’m Still Here is a scintillating collaboration between director and star, exploring the potency of emotional restraint. ” –
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Jan 30, 2025
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024)
95%
A-
“Sincerity and artifice go together like sweat and sequins in this jaunty documentary portrait of Liza Minnelli, which focuses on the key mentors who shaped her career.” –
Original Cin
Jan 29, 2025
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
B-
“Director Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel with Amy Adams as a harried mother who transforms into a dog has its satiric moments, but fails to commit to its provocative premise.” –
Original Cin
Jan 22, 2025
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Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
A-minus
“Innovative, sometimes mannered, RaMell Ross’s employs a distinctive visual style to Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel about an infamous Florida reform school. ” –
Original Cin
Jan 11, 2025
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Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (2023)
B-plus
“An inside story about the musical duo behind the progressive post-punk bands, At The Drive In and The Mars Volta, Omar and Cedric is exhausting and original.” –
Original Cin
Jan 9, 2025
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
B+
“After a bumpy introductory act, The Room Next Door progresses to a cathartic meditation on friendship and death.” –
Original Cin
Jan 9, 2025
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Oh Canada (2024)
64%
B+
“Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Russell Banks’ metafictional novel impresses but refuses to console.” –
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Dec 12, 2024
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La Cocina (2024)
75%
A-minus
“Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios updates Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play, The Kitchen to a contemporary New York restaurant in a drama that’s as thematically blunt as it is exhilaratingly theatrical in its critique of contemporary America.
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Dec 4, 2024
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B
“The lively comic interplay between Alan Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles as brothers forced together on a road trip is good fun though the script’s darker flashbacks feel shoehorned in.” –
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Dec 3, 2024
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)
97%
A-
“Raoul Peck’s hybrid narrative-documentary on the life of South African photographer Ernest Cole honours the memory of a groundbreaking artist and activist. ” –
Original Cin
Dec 2, 2024
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Nutcrackers (2024)
47%
C
“Surprising only in its conventionality (considering who made it), Nutcrackers is holiday mush with a light sprinkling of quirk.
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Original Cin
Nov 27, 2024
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Memoir of a Snail (2024)
95%
A
“Pathos and wit combine in Australian director Adam Elliot’s unique stop-motion parable about trauma and mollusks.
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Original Cin
Nov 13, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
B-plus
“Andrea Arnold’s first dramatic feature in eight years mixes coming-of-age gritty drama with a flourish of magic realism, in a exploration of the knot of poverty, family, and the need for creative escape.” –
Original Cin
Nov 6, 2024
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Dahomey (2024)
99%
A-
“Partly the imagined dream life of ghostly statues, partly a student forum the meanings of post-colonial restitution, Dahomey is less an argument than a creative conversation between the past and present.” –
Original Cin
Oct 30, 2024
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Emilia Pérez (2024)
72%
A
“Emilia Pérez has a sensational pulp fiction quality, elevated to absurdly entertaining heights by the confidently fluid direction and the assertive performances of its cast, led by Zoë Saldaña and Karla Sofia Gascón.” –
Original Cin
Oct 28, 2024
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Monkey on a Stick (2024)
C
“A tabloid-style account of the Hare Krishna movement, from its humble New York start, rapid growth and period of schisms, squandering and debauchery.” –
Original Cin
Oct 17, 2024
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
B-plus
“The Apprentice does not really explain Donald Trump as a psychiatric or political phenomenon. But it justifies its existence as a pitch dark comedy with some terrific performances and a reminder that even the Orange Menace was once someone’s darling boy.
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Original Cin
Oct 9, 2024
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Lee (2023)
67%
B+
“A labour of love from Kate Winslet and director Ellen Kuras, Lee is a moving portrait of war photographer Lee Miller that is hampered but not hobbled by an uneven script.” –
Original Cin
Sep 26, 2024
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