American Psycho (2000)
68%
“As Bateman, Bale exudes just the right kind of anti-charisma.” –
Guardian
Apr 2, 2025
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There Was, There Was Not (2024)
100%
4/5
“There Was, There Was Not becomes a wrenching memorial for a country that no longer exists, a fairy tale without a happily ever after. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Nov 1, 2024
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Sasquatch Sunset (2024)
72%
3.5/5
“There’s a slightness to the conceit of Sasquatch Sunset that the Zellners cannot quite overcome, but there’s a generosity to the comedy and to its appreciation of the natural world that’s hard to resist. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Apr 17, 2024
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R.M.N. (2022)
97%
3.5/5
“Though Mungiu takes a heavy hand with the symbolism, particularly in a head-scratcher of a final moment, his main characters remain irreducible in the face of a conflict that’s seemingly cut-and-dried. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 6, 2023
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
92%
“Alice's story of female independence and self-realization inspired an awful sitcom, but Scorsese and star Ellen Burstyn give the film an edgy, foul-mouthed toughness that's resolutely unfit for television. ” –
AV Club
Oct 11, 2023
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Y tu mamá también (2001)
90%
“There are plenty of boys-to-men films about the raunchy adventures of pleasure-seeking teenagers, but Alfonso Cuarón's inspired and exhilarating road movie... taps so directly into their teeming energy that it all but levitates off the screen.” –
AV Club
Sep 9, 2023
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Traffic (2000)
93%
“Traffic could have been a bland, documentary-like procedural, but he gives it the distinctive two-tone look he brought to Out Of Sight, an eerily effective ambient soundtrack, and frequently radical editing rhythms.” –
AV Club
Aug 9, 2023
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Mulholland Dr. (2001)
84%
“Mulholland Drive gives way to an internal dream logic that can only be described as Lynchian. ” –
AV Club
Jul 10, 2023
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Fast X (2023)
57%
3/5
“Fast X has enough joyful self-awareness that resistance becomes futile. At a certain point, it feels better to give in and smile.” –
Guardian
May 17, 2023
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Heavenly Creatures (1994)
95%
“Heavenly Creatures careens toward tragedy in a breathtaking rush, with every swoop of the camera whooshing the audience closer to the inevitable. ” –
AV Club
May 15, 2023
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Come and See (1985)
89%
“A product of the glasnost era, Come And See is far from a patriotic memorial of Russia's hard-won victory. Instead, it's a chilling reminder of that victory's terrible costs.” –
AV Club
Mar 14, 2023
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Down in the Delta (1998)
76%
“Though well-intentioned and occasionally affecting, Down In The Delta is more successful as a social tool than a work of art. ” –
AV Club
Jan 4, 2023
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Smile (2022)
79%
3.5/5
“Finn uses the strength of his conceit to turn the screws, raising tension through the Ring-like timeline Rose faces and the sheer relentlessness of her supernatural tormentor.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
72%
4/5
“Triangle of Sadness doesn’t leave audiences with much to unpack thematically, but it’s clear-eyed and hilarious about the systems that enforce societal inequities and what might happen if they were ever to unravel.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Decision to Leave (2022)
94%
4/5
“It’s not as immediately gripping as his previous work, but it lingers like perfume.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Tár (2022)
91%
4.5/5
“Burrows itself so deeply into a single character’s perspective that it defies all generalization or facile politicking. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022)
57%
2.5/5
“The gnawing arbitrariness of Ticket to Paradise cuts to the heart of why the Hollywood rom-com has been so deficient for so long, often turning to outrageously silly premises just to throw some obstacles in the way.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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The Good Nurse (2022)
74%
3.5/5
“A sobering thriller that’s ostensibly about a serial killer, but more concerned about the healthcare system that allowed him to operate for 15 years before he was finally brought to justice.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Descendant (2022)
100%
4/5
“Has the self-awareness not merely to put Black voices at the center, where they belong, but to underline those moments when white people step up and intervene in the situation—sometimes as allies and advocates, sometimes to stake their own claim.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
84%
2.5/5
“A goofy made-up plot about Al’s relationship with Madonna (Evan Rachel Wood) sends the film off on an unfunny tangent from which it never returns. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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Armageddon Time (2022)
76%
4/5
“Armageddon Time is the rare case where the bitterness overwhelms sweetness, and true enlightenment comes from rejecting nostalgia at every turn.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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The Menu (2022)
88%
3.5/5
“The film fares better as a tightly constructed exercise in horror, like a cross between the mechanized death of a Saw movie and the eat-the-rich grotesquerie of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022)
92%
4/5
“Writing with Tony Kushner, who brought so much dimension to the familiar stories of Lincoln and West Side Story, Spielberg turns The Fabelmans into an act of self-mythology that nonetheless picks at old scabs. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
95%
4.5/5
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed encapsulates the love and tragedy that has affected Goldin’s life without coarsening it.” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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The Whale (2022)
64%
2.5/5
“Most of the conflicts in The Whale are overcooked nonsense, contrived for dramatic impact but divorced from any recognizable reality. ” –
The Reveal (Substack)
Dec 19, 2022
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