Mark Hanson
Mark Hanson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Gunslingers (2025)
5%
1/4
“In the end, Nicolas Cage can only do so much to bring this hastily assembled oater to life.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 7, 2025
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Black Bag (2025)
96%
2/4
“By the time the film comes to the end of its brisk runtime, it feels like nothing much has actually happened, despite all the narrative convolutions.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 7, 2025
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The Visitor (2024)
94%
3.5/4
“The Visitor ultimately posits a vision of transcendence through anarchy, seeing repression as the enemy of social progress.” –
Slant Magazine
Mar 2, 2025
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Flight Risk (2025)
30%
1/4
“Given that Mel Gibson makes little attempt to instill any sense of physicality to this dispiritingly paint-by-numbers affair, it becomes easy to understand the marketing of the film’s 4DX theatrical option as an act of overcompensation.” –
Slant Magazine
Jan 23, 2025
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Heretic (2024)
91%
3/4
“Heretic intriguingly plays with our expectations of who the heroes and villains are in this scenario.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 13, 2024
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Nightbitch (2024)
59%
2/4
“It’s disappointing to see a film with such a weird premise as Nightbitch ease into an orthodox storytelling mode.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 11, 2024
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Presence (2024)
88%
2/4
“The unoriginality of Presence’s story eventually calls out the POV conceit as a one-note gimmick, especially when the tension is dialed up in the film’s second half.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 9, 2024
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Rumours (2024)
75%
3/4
“The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 6, 2024
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The End (2024)
56%
2.5/4
“Perhaps the script is deliberately harking back to a storytelling mode that was characteristic of Hollywood cinema for dramatic effect, but the musical aspect, while a neat gimmick, isn’t memorable or cohesive enough to make the homage, well, sing.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 1, 2024
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Anora (2024)
93%
3/4
“The film’s initial pull lies in the way that Sean Baker intoxicatingly keys his aesthetic to the fervor of a budding romance that we clearly know won’t end well.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 31, 2024
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City of Dreams (2024)
52%
.5/4
“The film resembles less a realistic peek into the modern slavery of immigrants in America as it does grist for the torture porn mill.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 26, 2024
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The Deliverance (2024)
34%
2.5/4
“Lee Daniels does such a good job investing us in the human drama of The Deliverance that it almost feels unnecessary when the supernatural elements inevitably take over in the final act.” –
Slant Magazine
Aug 16, 2024
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Twisters (2024)
75%
1.5/4
“The film proceeds as a jumble of poorly sketched backstories and subplots, half-hearted topical references, and tepid fan service.” –
Slant Magazine
Jul 16, 2024
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The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
21%
1.5/4
“This film’s approach to slasher film mayhem is liable to induce some serious déjà vu.” –
Slant Magazine
May 16, 2024
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Infested (2023)
95%
2/4
“If Infested had given us a little more reason to invest in its human specimens than in the blunt mechanics of its genre trappings, then maybe some of the commentary would have clung to us like the webs do to the spiders’ victims.” –
Slant Magazine
Apr 21, 2024
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Concrete Valley (2022)
3.5/4
“The characters’ struggles are filtered through Antoine Bourges’s signature aesthetic of exactingly sparse visual compositions that imbue a subtle poeticism into the day-to-day reality of people simply trying to make ends meet.” –
Slant Magazine
Feb 16, 2024
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Memory (2023)
85%
2.5/4
“The film reveals itself as a prototypical yet surprisingly tender love story between two damaged people re-learning how to move through a world that’s unable to adequately support them.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 12, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023)
97%
2.5/4
“The Holdovers is ultimately a story about the absence of family, and as it watches three individuals come together and apart, it’s subtly attuned to the way that class constricts people’s lives. ” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 16, 2023
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Aggro Dr1ft (2023)
41%
3/4
“It may indeed be the perfect cinematic representation of our current media landscape, adapting to our collective brain rot from being terminally online instead of fighting against it.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 14, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023)
91%
3/4
“Dream Scenario presents a perfectly absurdist setup that allows Nicolas Cage to flex his singular acting muscles in increasingly hilarious directions.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 12, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023)
84%
1.5/4
“The film only pretends to rail against the scourge of unchecked capitalism.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 9, 2023
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
86%
2.5/4
“The film embodies the alienating angst of millennial life in all its nakedly neurotic glory.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 7, 2023
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Love Again (2023)
30%
.5/4
“The film is nothing but a chintzy promotional tool for Celine Dion.” –
Slant Magazine
May 5, 2023
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Hellraiser (2022)
67%
.5/4
“David Bruckner’s Hellraiser reboot is a toothlessly retrograde enterprise.
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Slant Magazine
Oct 5, 2022
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Sick (2022)
85%
2.5/4
“Throughout, the film’s characters impressively hold their own when forced to defend their lives, with director John Hyams catching every incident of bone-crunching mayhem as if he were shooting a martial arts film.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 18, 2022
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