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Marshall Shaffer

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Marshall Shaffer is a New York-based freelance film journalist. His work has appeared on Slashfilm, Slant, Decider, Little White Lies, Vague Visages and many other outlets.

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The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (2025) 79% 3.5/4 “Laura Casabé abstracts the typical emotions of tortured teens, only to then amplify them.” – Slant Magazine Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Drowning Dry (2024) 94% 2.5/4 “Drowning Dry offers something akin to a cinematic concussion as it begins warping the experience of time. ” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 83% 2/4 “Hardly a false note is sounded throughout The Friend, but it operates within such a limited emotional range that it drifts into monotonic plainsong.” – Slant Magazine Mar 24, 2025 Full Review Holy Cow (2024) 97% 3/4 “The rhythms and structure of Holy Cow embody the swirling confusion and contradictions of adolescence itself.” – Slant Magazine Mar 22, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 100% B- ““Kontinental ‘25” does not feel quite as exportable as Jude’s recent work; at the very least, he refuses to cheat out for an international crowd.” – The Playlist Feb 22, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 79% D “For a film that meanders at such a glacial pace, it’s surprising in retrospect to consider all the things “The Ice Tower” tries and fails to be.” – The Playlist Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2025) 82% C “Once the basic parameters of Franco’s thought experiment in “Dreams” are grasped, what’s left is an obvious parable about immigration with little to offer beyond spitefulness and a smugly superior sense of self-loathing.” – The Playlist Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 70% 3.5/4 “Cattet and Forzani create a total cinema within Reflection of a Dead Diamond—not because they manage to replicate reality but because they manage to eradicate it.” – Slant Magazine Feb 21, 2025 Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 3/4 “An empowering narrative of one woman who refuses to see age as a ceiling, the film serves as a potent warning for viewers about the marginalization of the elderly.” – Slant Magazine Feb 21, 2025 Full Review BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) 100% 2.5/4 “This hybridized essay film embodies the complications and contradictions inherent within Black history—complete with all its erasures and variances.” – Slant Magazine Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “Even if the plot can’t contain all the bigness of this premise, the committed performers — Pattinson especially — prove they can.” – Inverse Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 96% 3/4 “Blue Moon, like Lorenz Hart in his day, trusts that audiences want to engage with subjects that matter through deliberate dialogue.” – Slant Magazine Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 96% 3/4 “The artist and audience member are coequal—and codependent—in this perceptive drama about a parasocial relationship that enters the realm of reality.” – Slant Magazine Feb 16, 2025 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% 3/4 “Emilie Blichfeldt knows the exact point of queasiness to which she can push an audience and gradually tests how much further she can move that mark with each successive scene.” – Slant Magazine Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Hot Milk (2025) 33% 1.5/4 “The film never gains momentum within its cascading rhythm of staccato sequences that establish just how out of sync its central mother-daughter pair is.” – Slant Magazine Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% B+ “[Gates'] perspective is clear, even if it’s difficult to reduce into a slogan: war is a business – show business, to be specific.” – The Playlist Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 100% B+ “The rare film that can hit a nerve as well as an artery.” – The Playlist Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 97% A- “A good film captures merely a life. A great film like Train Dreams encompasses an entire way of life. Bentley’s modest, moving epic of the common man is a thing of rare beauty.” – The Playlist Feb 3, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 97% B+ “Little about this dramedy feels inventive or novel, but it’s startling how little that matters given the way it inspires an ear-to-ear grin from its opening moments.” – The Playlist Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 82% B “Condon’s conducting of the whole affair is technically competent… dazzling, even, in sections. But all that flashiness is not blinding enough to conceal the gap between the tune it sings and the routine it dances. ” – The Playlist Feb 3, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 93% 3.5/4 “The film is a tonal rollercoaster navigating wild swings with pinpoint precision.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2025 Full Review The Alabama Solution (2025) A- ““The Alabama Solution” leverages the voice of the disempowered to tell their own story, a bottom-up approach that renders it all the more immediate and impactful.” – The Playlist Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Last Days (2025) 28% C “The film has no answers because Lin plays it more like a heist film—where the bounty is the purity of the unexposed North Sentinelese—than a sincere human drama about faith and identity. Lin entertains as a result but struggles to enlighten.” – The Playlist Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 72% B “Brooks’ script nails the witty repartee of two lovers in the early stages of their puppy love.” – The Playlist Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Magic Farm (2025) 42% B “...a hilarious adventure, but Ulman loses some of her magic within a more diffuse narrative framework.” – The Playlist Jan 30, 2025 Full Review
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