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Rocco T. Thompson

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Rocco is an Austin-based film journalist, critic, podcaster, former Online Managing Editor for Rue Morgue, and shorts programmer at Fantastic Fest. His work can be found at Rue Morgue, Daily Dead, Fangoria, and Slant Magazine. He has an affinity for Claire Denis, millennial horror, and the James Bond franchise.

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On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 2/4 “It’s difficult to shake that there’s something tragic blaring from the sidelines that the film’s wistful, pitch-perfect Hollywood ending can’t acknowledge.” – Slant Magazine Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 3/4 “This is a formidable technical showcase and obsessive forensic recreation whose imposed formal limitations become meaning-making ends in and of themselves.” – Slant Magazine Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Holland (2025) 21% 1.5/4 “The discomfort in watching Holland is not knowing if something is intended or, like the main character, you’re looking for things that aren’t there.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 84% 3/4 “The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.” – Slant Magazine Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 3/4 “Death of a Unicorn taps into the anti-capitalist strain in late-20th-century monster movies from Alien to Jurassic Park by tracing a clever through line from the unicorns of antiquity to the present.” – Slant Magazine Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% 2.5/4 “The film takes action-movie invulnerability to brutal comic extremes.” – Slant Magazine Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 3/4 “Though it’s as grim and urgent as Parasite and Okja, there’s a winsome, crowd-pleasing optimism here that eases Mickey 17’s more disturbing implications for humankind. It understands that laughing in the face of authoritarian populism is hopeful.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 79% 3/4 “The film is less a Rube Goldberg contraption of overdesigned chaos than it is a Looney Tunes-esque spectacle of quick and dirty violence that hits like a punchline.” – Slant Magazine Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Atropia (2025) 41% 2.5/4 “In its messy unreality, in the way its characters remain as ignorant in the end as they were at the start of the film, in its looking back at 2006 from our post-fact era, it finds something profoundly simple in the trivial.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 95% 3/4 “The film is a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had.” – Slant Magazine Feb 1, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 79% 2.5/4 “Sexy, scary, and occasionally clumsy, Carmen Emmi’s feature-length directorial debut is an anxious and unabashed gay drama about social repression and its impacts.” – Slant Magazine Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% 2.5/4 “The film is less a character study than a numbly tragic workaday fantasia held aloft by Pamela Anderson in a performance that seems to grasp beyond the bleary-eyed edges of Gia Coppola’s screen for larger truths about the choices women make to feel seen.” – Slant Magazine Dec 8, 2024 Full Review Smile 2 (2024) 86% 3/4 “Parker Finn, like his entity, is interested in getting his bony fingers into those sticky tender parts we’d rather hide away, slurping our pain like ambrosia and confronting us with the fact that more often than not, the enemy staring back is you.” – Slant Magazine Oct 16, 2024 Full Review Better Man (2024) 88% 2.5/4 “Walking a dizzying line between the stupid and the profound, this exuberant, positively unique biopic is as hard to resist as it is to believe that it got made in the first place.” – Slant Magazine Sep 28, 2024 Full Review Bookworm (2024) 91% 3/4 “Ant Timpson’s heartwarming Bookworm is an effulgent love letter to ’80s kid cinema laced with a distinctly quirky, Kiwi dryness. ” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Maldoror (2024) 75% 4.5/5 “Though the film is long, there’s clammy pleasure and howling pathos in picking at its knotted narrative while watching Bajon’s anti-hero slide measure-by-measure into a hell borne of his own obsession. ” – Daily Dead Sep 25, 2024 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 71% 3/5 “The rare horror thriller that treats aging with all the dignity it deserves without ignoring the abject, all too relatable terror of losing yourself to the relentless march of time. ” – Daily Dead Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire (2024) 94% 4/5 “Ortiz’s bone-chilling effort is easily the found footage horror standout of 2024.” – Daily Dead Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Terrifier 3 (2024) 78% 3/4 “Terrifier 3 continues the series’s trend of dotting a sparse and sinuous thread of plot with mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence.” – Slant Magazine Sep 21, 2024 Full Review Speak No Evil (2024) 83% 1/4 “This hollow attempt to turn a provocative showpiece into a crowd-pleaser makes you wonder if the filmmakers are actively disdainful of the original.” – Slant Magazine Sep 10, 2024 Full Review The Front Room (2024) 41% 2/4 “It mixes light surrealism and gross-out humor for a blackly comic, ill-mannered romp whose parts are ultimately more compelling than the arthritic whole.” – Slant Magazine Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Black Eyed Susan (2024) 100% 3.5/5 “Coming as it does from McCrae’s own personal artistic vision, Black Eyed Susan has a straight-from-the-horse’s-mouth quality that makes it disarmingly confessional, if not exactly for him personally, then for the broader sex.” – Daily Dead Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Hell Hole (2024) 84% 2/4 “The most consistent recurring theme across the work of the Adams family—parenthood as a siphoning off of the life giver’s vitality in a protracted, eternal cycle of decay and renewal—finds its most literal, alien expression here.” – Slant Magazine Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Starve Acre (2023) 83% 3/5 “Though if feels as if Kokotajlo loses control of his material in the last act, the film’s overwhelming atmosphere of unknowable, ancient dread is hard to resist” – Daily Dead Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Dark Match (2024) 68% 2.5/5 “If there’s one thing Dark Match gets right about showmanship, it’s to always leave ‘em wanting more, and the film ends on a thrilling though frustratingly tardy supernatural note that fully delivers on the premise way too late.” – Daily Dead Jul 23, 2024 Full Review
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