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
The Severed Sun (2024)
2.5/4
“It's a shame the whole thing doesn't add up to much on a narrative or thematic level.” –
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May 16, 2025
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The Ruse (2024)
10%
1.5/4
“It's not a great sign when a movie needs to devote about ten minutes to a character bluntly explaining everything that has happened ... in its story.” –
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May 16, 2025
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Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025)
13%
1/4
“Hurry Up Tomorrow is such an empty examination of fame and the fanatical side of fandom that even the movie doesn't seem convinced of itself.” –
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May 16, 2025
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Desert Dawn (2025)
1/4
“[T]his is a barely competent and, at times, outright inept bit of storytelling and filmmaking.” –
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May 16, 2025
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A Breed Apart (2025)
1/4
“This is an ugly-looking, repetitive, and dull dead end of whatever it is the movie is trying to be.” –
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May 16, 2025
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Sister Midnight (2024)
96%
2.5/4
“[T]he material is far more engaging, understandable, and relatable in its human story than in what it eventually becomes.” –
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May 15, 2025
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The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)
94%
3/4
“The Old Woman with the Knife is as much a study of sad, isolated characters being forced to confront their emotional shortcomings as it is a violent thriller.” –
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May 15, 2025
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Hung up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary (2023)
90%
3/4
“[It] is genuinely inspiring in a way that one doesn't expect of a biography about musicians whose time has seemingly come and gone.” –
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May 15, 2025
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Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
93%
3/4
“Death here, once again coming up with elaborate schemes to pick off victims, is terrifying and darkly funny—sometimes at the same time.” –
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May 15, 2025
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Shadow Force (2025)
29%
2/4
“Shadow Force is too messy and formulaic to succeed as even competent actioner...” –
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May 9, 2025
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Nonnas (2025)
80%
3/4
“[I]t's ... a warm-hearted film with characters who are charming enough that we want their dream to be fulfilled.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Unit 234 (2024)
67%
2/4
“A lot of this does eventually feel as if the screenplay is figuratively running in circles, while the characters might literally be doing that on several occasions.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Summer of 69 (2025)
94%
2.5/4
“[T]he unfortunate rise in the story's formulaic tendencies overshadow its potential, its characters, and its humor.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Sharp Corner (2024)
92%
3/4
“[W]riter/director Jason Buxton makes an increasingly unsettling character study out of ... [these] circumstances.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Lilly (2024)
2/4
“The story of Lilly Ledbetter ... never feels like her own in Lilly.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Juliet & Romeo (2025)
24%
0.5/4
“[T]he entire production is a grandly misguided failure.” –
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May 9, 2025
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Watch the Skies (2022)
82%
2.5/4
“[I]t's disappointing that the script has chosen the character with the most questionable degree of sympathy as its protagonist.” –
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May 8, 2025
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Marcella (2024)
2/4
“It's a by-the-numbers sort of biography.” –
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May 8, 2025
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Henry Johnson (2025)
57%
3/4
“Henry Johnson is a showcase for these actors and Mamet's singular ability to make an entire story solely out of the way people talk.” –
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May 8, 2025
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Fight or Flight (2024)
77%
2.5/4
“[O]nce we realize the movie has one note to play over and over again, the repetition becomes a burden.” –
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May 8, 2025
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Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
73%
1.5/4
“Clown in a Cornfield does little with the murderous clown(s) apart from the obvious.” –
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May 8, 2025
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Words of War (2025)
68%
2/4
“[T]he movie isn't as urgent as the situation then and now should merit.” –
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May 2, 2025
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Rust (2024)
54%
2.5/4
“The movie arrives ... as a tonally absorbing but intrinsically flawed and overly familiar piece of storytelling...” –
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May 2, 2025
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Vulcanizadora (2024)
98%
3/4
“The first half of Vulcanizadora is a unique kind of comedy ... What can be said of the second half is that somehow finds humor under even more unlikely circumstances...” –
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May 2, 2025
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Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (2024)
100%
3/4
“This isn't so much about the man's life and career as it is about his personality.” –
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May 2, 2025
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