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Noah Berlatsky

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Noah Berlatsky is a film and television critic. He writes for NBC Think Online, the Verge, the Escapist, Chicago Reader, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics from Rutgers University Press.

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Raising Cain (1992) 63% “The incoherence of the script is a liberation, as the characters wander around like lightly-stunned mannequins in some dream ballet.” – Splice Today Apr 22, 2025 Full Review Casualties of War (1989) 82% “De Palma is a clever filmmaker. But as Casualties of War shows, cleverness filtered through Hollywood self-righteousness and the wrong script can turn into the worst kind of glib horseshit.” – Splice Today Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% “The way the film just insists first, last, and in the middle that Iris is a person, not a robot, no matter the ostensible high concept, feels like a necessary intervention.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% “Death of a Unicorn is too much of a mish-mash to recommend. In theory a horse with a horn might be awe inspiring and beautiful; in practice, in this case, though, it just looks silly.” – Splice Today Mar 24, 2025 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% “A searing, bleak exploration of sexual assault, sexism, misogyny, and enforced family silence.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Mar 16, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% “If you like sneaky spy dramas performed with enthusiasm and panache by everyone involved, you can’t do better than Black Bag.” – Splice Today Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Scarface (1983) 79% “Unfortunately, the blockbuster trappings which have made it one of the director’s better-known movies are the same blockbuster trappings which make it one of his least characteristic—and one of his least interesting.” – Splice Today Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “Bong does an excellent job of taking this bleak premise and exploring its most painful implications. ” – Splice Today Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Blow Out (1981) 88% “In Blow Out, the beauty of the movie, as perhaps the beauty of life, is in its failures.” – Splice Today Feb 27, 2025 Full Review The Fury (1978) 77% “De Palma was neither invested nor inspired.” – Splice Today Feb 13, 2025 Full Review Obsession (1976) 77% “The truth that’s revealed by De Palma is a core of wrongness that can neither be undone, assimilated, nor confronted.” – Splice Today Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Dog Man (2025) 80% “It’s hard to imagine another 2025 mechanism for delivering giggles to children and adults alike that works half as well as Dog Man.” – Chicago Reader Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Sisters (1973) 85% “Hitchcock lies by telling you that you’re able, once the film is over, to see the truth. De Palma, in contrast, insists that the more you see, the less you know.” – Splice Today Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 65% “Though it was pilloried in the past as incomprehensible, it’s past time to see Fire Walk With Me for what it is: Lynch’s most straightforward film, his saddest, and his best.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Blue Velvet (1986) 91% “Lynch’s first noir is also, inevitably, his first meta-noir.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Wild at Heart (1990) 66% “Unless your heart is a big old lump of rock, you’ve got to swoon at least a little when Sailor serenades Lula with “Love Me Tender” at the close.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% “The movie is about Hollywood and the process of assembling movies out of money, more or less fortunate actors, dreams, and the spackle of happenstance.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% “David Lynch’s stunning debut remains a weird touchstone for art cinema snobs and lovers of the surreal everywhere.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review The Straight Story (1999) 95% “If you're a sucker for sentimental Americana, this is of significantly higher quality than the genre usually manages.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Inland Empire (2006) 72% “The movie's studied, deliberate refusal to develop interesting characters, provide a plot, or to say anything gets old after three hours.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Lost Highway (1997) 69% “Lynch refuses to commit to any clear theme beyond the standard misogynist noir trope that women who have sexual autonomy are evil and maybe deserve to be murdered.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review The Elephant Man (1980) 91% “The lethargic plot wanders between voyeuristic disgust and smug satisfaction at the film’s broad-mindedness. Lynch never made another film as tedious and tone-deaf.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Cash for Gold (2024) 100% “Cash for Gold, in its modest way, asks us to exchange our worst America for a better one.” – Chicago Reader Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% “Strange Darling isn’t a bad movie. It features some excellent performances and delivers the expected genre pleasures in a novel and unexpected way.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Daughters (2024) 100% “The film, and documentaries like it, are a bleak reminder of just how powerful prison is, as an institution and an ideology. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 15, 2025 Full Review
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