Raphael Abraham
Raphael Abraham's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
48%
2/5
“As for Feige, whose name means cowardly in German, he will need to screw his courage and return with something bolder if the coming Phase Six of Marvel is truly going to offer a Brave New World. ” –
Financial Times
Feb 14, 2025
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
31%
3/5
“Joker still has a trick up its sleeve — even a serious subtext. The best moment comes late on in an incendiary scene...” –
Financial Times
Sep 4, 2024
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The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
3/5
“The film gets better as it goes along. Moore in particular brings a welcome warmth to the screen as the empathetic Ingrid, bolstered by the gentle presence of John Turturro...” –
Financial Times
Sep 3, 2024
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The Brutalist (2024)
93%
5/5
“It is the boldest and best film so far at this year’s Venice Film Festival: a life writ large on the screen that deserves such maximalist treatment.” –
Financial Times
Sep 3, 2024
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Babygirl (2024)
76%
4/5
“Many of us wondered whether the erotic thriller was even still viable in the moral minefield of 2024. Babygirl proves that the form may have matured, but it still has some moves.” –
Financial Times
Sep 3, 2024
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Queer (2024)
77%
4/5
“This complex churn of emotions demands much from Craig, and he proves equal to the task. It is a pleasure to see him so loosey-goosey after his tightly controlled 15-year turn as 007 and he gives possibly his finest performance to date. ” –
Financial Times
Sep 3, 2024
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Maria (2024)
75%
3/5
“Overall, there is too much tell, not enough show in this picture of a caged songbird.” –
Financial Times
Aug 30, 2024
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Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024)
58%
2/5
“Twelve Final Days is big on PR but low on actual tennis. Talking heads hymn the beauty of Federer’s silky, seemingly effortless technique but analysis of what made it so is fleeting. ” –
Financial Times
Jun 20, 2024
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Emilia Pérez (2024)
72%
4/5
“Yes, this is a hard-boiled and bloody cartel thriller with a transgender twist. Oh, and it’s a musical.” –
Financial Times
May 21, 2024
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The Apprentice (2024)
83%
4/5
“The Apprentice gives us a relatively safe portrait of a deeply contentious figure, one that is unsettling mostly for how little it unsettles. ” –
Financial Times
May 21, 2024
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Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024)
65%
4/5
“It is hard to warm to this wildly contradictory anti-hero, who rails against both liberalism and authoritarianism -more so when you find out where his political allegiances lay in later life- but that is also what keeps the film so uncomfortably engaging.” –
Financial Times
May 20, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
71%
3/5
“For a film called Kinds of Kindness, benevolence is thin on the ground, Lanthimos and Filippou toying with their protagonists like fickle gods manipulating the fates of unsuspecting humans.” –
Financial Times
May 17, 2024
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Bird (2024)
86%
4/5
“For all of Bird’s youthful spirit and surprising swerves, Arnold eventually alights on a sweetly sincere ending — the movie equivalent of dad music.” –
Financial Times
May 17, 2024
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Megalopolis (2024)
45%
1/5
“Perhaps the kindest thing one can say about Megalopolis is that it will probably remain largely unwatched and be quickly forgotten.” –
Financial Times
May 17, 2024
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The Girl With the Needle (2024)
92%
3/5
“At times the film could do with a lighter touch... But with fine acting all round, this is a grimly compelling piece of Danish gothic whose seams are largely kept hidden under the cover of darkness.” –
Financial Times
May 16, 2024
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The Second Act (2024)
74%
3/5
“The Second Act, a soufflé-light meta-comedy that rises delightfully before collapsing somewhat without being fully cooked. ” –
Financial Times
May 15, 2024
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023)
91%
“... The teasing title gradually insinuates itself, the film evolving in its final shots into something unexpected, fraught and troubling.” –
Financial Times
Oct 4, 2023
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How to Have Sex (2023)
97%
“It’s all guided with a sure hand by first-time director Molly Manning Walker and anchored by a performance by Mia McKenna-Bruce that is as eye-catching as the film’s title.” –
Financial Times
Oct 4, 2023
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All of Us Strangers (2023)
96%
“Two of Ireland’s brightest screen stars are paired to fine effect in the achingly melancholic All of Us Strangers. ” –
Financial Times
Oct 4, 2023
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Four Daughters (2023)
96%
“... A haunting documentary with the uncomfortable intimacy of group therapy.” –
Financial Times
Oct 4, 2023
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Poor Things (2023)
93%
5/5
“No other mainstream director today is making movies this visually bold and brilliantly realised.” –
Financial Times
Sep 4, 2023
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El Conde (2023)
83%
3/5
“Larraín's satire isn't always subtle and it becomes scattershot as the film wears on; for the skewering of a monstrous figure, it's not quite a stake through the heart.” –
Financial Times
Sep 4, 2023
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Maestro (2023)
78%
5/5
“A Star Is Born was wildly overpraised, but Maestro is the real deal: the rousing, complex and heartbreaking rhapsody its subject deserves. ” –
Financial Times
Sep 2, 2023
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DogMan (2023)
59%
4/5
“Besson stretches credulity in places with a narrative that combines Taxi Driver with lashings of Lassie but gives his film the grimy sheen of a graphic novel.” –
Financial Times
Sep 1, 2023
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Ferrari (2023)
72%
3/5
“Ferrari is another movie about a brilliant creative figure who was scrupulous in the professional realm but sloppy in his personal life. Yet the script... shies away from fully exploring the dark side of Enzo. ” –
Financial Times
Sep 1, 2023
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