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Mattie Lucas

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Mattie Lucas (she/they) is a freelance film critic from North Carolina whose work has appeared in print and online since 2004. She attended Appalachian State University where she studied Theatre and Film Studies.

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Sleepaway Camp (1983) 81% “Its over-the-top grotesqueries are pure camp, serving as a constant performance of gender and gender stereotypes in which Angela is hopelessly trapped so that the final moment of catharsis feels both heartbreaking and completely earned.” – trans|cendental cinema May 13, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% 3/4 “First-time feature filmmaker Drew Hancock has assembled a terrific cast, providing an engaging science fiction backdrop that tackles real-world issues with a devious twist. ” – trans|cendental cinema May 1, 2025 Full Review Havoc (2025) 67% 1.5/4 “It's just such an impenetrable wall of kineticism and noise that the actual symphonic choreography of the whole thing disappears into the din. ” – trans|cendental cinema May 1, 2025 Full Review Grand Tour (2024) 92% 3.5/4 “Grand Tour is a slow burn that pays off beautifully as it lulls us into its particular rhythm and gorgeously textured images.” – trans|cendental cinema Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% 4/4 “Endlessly thrilling, keeping the audience on its toes by constantly changing the game in bold new ways. ” – trans|cendental cinema Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Chungking Express (1994) 89% 4/4 “A haunting portrait of timely and timeless longing.” – trans|cendental cinema Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% 2.5/4 “Dog people - bring your tissues. ” – trans|cendental cinema Apr 11, 2025 Full Review One of Them Days (2025) 94% 3/4 “By giving us engaging characters with strong motivations and increasingly dire stakes, One of Them Days draws the audience in and keeps us invested in their story. ” – trans|cendental cinema Apr 8, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% 0.5/4 “Watching The Electric State is akin to sifting through a dumpster filled with discarded, decaying scraps of better films. ” – trans|cendental cinema Mar 17, 2025 Full Review Castration Movie Pt. I (2024) 3.5/4 “A major work, an impassioned and sprawling epic of uncommon emotional acuity. ” – trans|cendental cinema Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Last Breath (2025) 80% 3/4 “A straight-down-the-middle, meat-and-potatoes true-life rescue thriller the likes of which we rarely see anymore. ” – trans|cendental cinema Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Paddington in Peru (2024) 93% 3/4 “Fans will no doubt enjoy spending another two hours in the company of this lovable bear and his family...even if his latest adventure doesn't quite reach the heights we've come to expect. ” – In Review Online Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 3/4 “A surprisingly moving send-off for this beloved character, a character-driven romantic comedy that makes space for life's imperfections and bittersweet realities that certainly deserved better than "now streaming on Peacock."” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 18, 2025 Full Review King Lear (1987) 64% 4/4 “A Shakespearean remix in the key of Godard; a towering, confounding work of self-reinvention and metatextual self-reflection.” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 80% 3/4 “Scream meets 10 Things I Hate About You. A charming romantic comedy and a terrific horror film that successfully parodies elements of both” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 10, 2025 Full Review You're Cordially Invited (2025) 47% 3/4 “It's a sassy and warm-hearted throwback to another era of mid-budget comedies (there's even an extended end-credit musical number - with bloopers!) whose solid writing and eager cast make it an unexpected winner. ” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Carnage for Christmas (2024) 90% “Maintains the inherent queerness of Mackay's perspective, looking to 80s slashers to give us a unique twist on a familiar genre with a developing maturity that is fascinating to witness.” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 4, 2025 Full Review T-Blockers (2023) 100% “That the protagonist is herself a transgender filmmaker reveals how personal this film is for Mackay, essentially a self-insert in which she and her friends use their queerness and their art to combat ignorance and hate.” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Bad Girl Boogey (2022) 73% “A uniquely queer reclamation of slasher horror.” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 4, 2025 Full Review So Vam (2021) “So Vam, despite its budget constraints, is a rousing artistic statement in the guise of a campy B-movie. ” – trans|cendental cinema Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% 3/4 “A bracing formal experiment whose conceit enhances rather than impedes its emotional core. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Back in Action (2025) 29% 2/4 “A limp comeback vehicle that coasts on tired clichés cribbed from better films.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 30% 2/4 “Flight Risk's biggest throwback is its forgettability, never establishing a unique personality or particularly compelling characters to justify its low-rent aesthetic. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Femme (2023) 93% 3/4 “A sexy and stylishly directed thriller with a genuine heat in its depiction of sexuality, thanks to some fantastic performances by both Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 23, 2025 Full Review From Ground Zero (2024) 98% 3/4 “A harrowing portrait of human resilience from a painfully unrepresented perspective, allowing Palestinian artists to tell their stories and shine a light on the conflict's human toll. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 22, 2025 Full Review
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