Mark Dujsik
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Mark is the sole writer/editor/webmaster of Mark Reviews Movies(www.markreviewsmovies.com) and co-film critic at UR Chicago Magazine (www.urchicago.com). He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2002 and the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2006.
Favorites:
The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Third Man, Vertigo, Grave of the Fireflies, The Seventh Seal, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, On the Waterfront, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Schindler's List, Mon Oncle, Die Nibelungen, Fantasia, Raging Bull, The Thin Red Line
Official Website:
http://www.markreviewsmovies.com
Neighborhood Watch (2025)
61%
2.5/4
“The movie ... has an unfortunate habit of playing Simon and his symptoms as both a gimmick and a bit of a joke.” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Havoc (2025)
66%
3/4
“When the action comes in Havoc, writer/director Gareth Evans' film certainly lives up to its title.” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Until Dawn (2025)
53%
3/4
“The movie may be little more than a cheap machine for creating scares and jokes, but the filmmakers know that's the point and embrace it fully.” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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The Trouble with Jessica (2023)
57%
1.5/4
“[I]t doesn't lack the heart to be as cruel as finding any real humor in this situation requires.” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Mob Cops (2025)
1/4
“It's all flat, by-the-numbers, and repetitive exposition...” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Magic Farm (2025)
42%
1.5/4
“Ulman's screenplay for Magic Farm raises a lot of ideas and subsequently drops the more promising ones...” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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The Killgrin (2024)
2/4
“[An] uncertainty of purpose eventually becomes more widespread here, as the monster takes over the narrative and shows more of itself...” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Fréwaka (2024)
94%
2.5/4
“This is definitely a case of a movie counting on its style to overcome the shortcomings of its substance...” –
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Apr 25, 2025
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Yadang: The Snitch (2025)
2/4
“Yadang: The Snitch lets its elaborate narrative overshadow whatever message it wants us to take from that story.” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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On Swift Horses (2024)
52%
2/4
“On Swift Horses is ... too confused about its characters and its bigger intentions to succeed...” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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The Legend of Ochi (2025)
80%
2.5/4
“[The ochi are] the obvious stars of this tale, and if Saxon trusted that more, the movie might have been on to something.” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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Cheech & Chong's Last Movie (2024)
83%
3/4
“[I]t's a fitting final cinematic ride...” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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April (2024)
94%
2.5/4
“[T]he movie [is] more confounding than revelatory.” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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The Accountant 2 (2025)
78%
2/4
“Unsurprisingly, The Accountant 2 falls into the same traps as its predecessor.” –
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Apr 24, 2025
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Sneaks (2025)
33%
1/4
“Sneaks looks as shoddy as its story plays.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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Sinners (2025)
98%
3/4
“[E]ven when Sinners turns into a horror tale with plenty of action, it is still doing something different, audacious, and compelling.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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It Feeds (2025)
85%
1.5/4
“It Feeds has one decent idea, but after its first scene, the movie never takes advantage of that conceit's potential.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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MuMu (2025)
2.5/4
“[W]hen everything surrounding these characters and this relationship ... takes over ... the movie loses its way.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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Dead Mail (2024)
93%
2.5/4
“[O]nce the filmmakers dismiss the most persuasive part of their story, the movie becomes an uphill battle to try to be anywhere near as effective.” –
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Apr 18, 2025
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The Wedding Banquet (2025)
88%
2/4
“[T]he movie is so busy trying to raise the stakes of this tale that it loses sight of anything other than how broadly funny and complicated it can be.” –
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Apr 17, 2025
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The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
96%
3/4
“The Ugly Stepsister is a clever re-imagining of a fairy tale that stays true to the source material's oft-forgotten grisliness.” –
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Apr 17, 2025
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The Shrouds (2024)
75%
2/4
“Nothing about that plot ... is as compelling as the core idea of The Shrouds or its observations about the all-encompassing nature of grief.” –
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Apr 17, 2025
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The President's Wife (2023)
87%
2/4
“The President's Wife ... falls well short of communicating the ... real-world politics ... and portraying Bernadette as much more than a vessel for the movie's central lesson.” –
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Apr 17, 2025
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Zero (2024)
50%
2/4
“[The] movie begins as a race-against-the-clock thriller ... and gradually becomes a strange, confounding, and ultimately nihilistic political treatise.” –
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Apr 11, 2025
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The Amateur (2025)
61%
2/4
“Neither Malek nor the character is the real problem here. It's that execution of The Amateur ... is as mundane as the movie's hero.” –
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Apr 11, 2025
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