Steph Green
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Steph is freelance film critic and writer from London, England. She loves film festivals, spicy noodles and erotic thrillers.
The Piano Lesson (2024)
88%
3/5
“This drama works best when it’s not taking its cues directly from its source material. It may not be always totally compelling, but Deadwyler elevates every scene she’s in.” –
Empire Magazine
Nov 22, 2024
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The Beast (2023)
86%
5/5
“Bonello has created a wholly original work that pulses with prescience.” –
Empire Magazine
May 29, 2024
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Memory (2023)
85%
4/5
“Chastain and Sarsgaard are a class act — their touching, tactile chemistry is the film’s triumph.” –
Empire Magazine
Mar 18, 2024
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
95%
4/5
“A metafictional work elevated into something new: deeply felt and true as a story about parental enigma, spectral remembrance and ingrained British repression.” –
Empire Magazine
Mar 18, 2024
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May December (2023)
91%
4/5
“May December is not just a skilful satire of suburban propriety; it’s a unique and uncanny affair about the nature of performance itself.” –
Empire Magazine
Mar 18, 2024
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The Killer (2023)
85%
3/5
“Fincher’s movie struggles to find its modus operandi.” –
Inverse
Oct 4, 2023
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Origin (2023)
81%
4/5
“It is in the comparisons between quotidian grief and systemic bigotry, weaving Isabel's personal experience with the politics of her job and the history she must reckon with, in which Origin is the most impressive.” –
BBC.com
Sep 8, 2023
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Finally Dawn (2023)
42%
C-
“Saverio Costanzo seems to throw more and more ideas at the page with the growing desperation of adding new toppings to mask a bad pizza.” –
IndieWire
Sep 3, 2023
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Poor Things (2023)
93%
“Flamboyant, florid, fantastic, and freakish, this might well be one of the most unique movies you’ll ever see.” –
Inverse
Sep 2, 2023
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The Damned Don't Cry (2022)
90%
3/5
“Boulifa has constructed a film that knows its subjects, but isn’t sure what it wants us, the audience, to take away.” –
WeLoveCinema
Jul 6, 2023
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How to Have Sex (2023)
97%
3/5
“It may well struggle to say anything we’ve not already seen discussed elsewhere when it comes to sexual assault, but is a fully realised world that stings with recognition. ” –
WeLoveCinema
May 26, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
96%
4/5
“Will be catnip to those deeply invested in the intricacies of legal trials, the off-kilter humour of intellectual French comedy, and the magnetic command of Sandra Hüller.” –
WeLoveCinema
May 26, 2023
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Marguerite's Theorem (2023)
60%
C+
“French-Swedish director Anna Novion crafts a film that plots its coordinates in a familiar territory yet ultimately struggles to do what the best movies of this type do, which is manage to make the audience care about whatever their character cares about.” –
IndieWire
May 25, 2023
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Four Daughters (2023)
96%
B
“Far from a gamble made in the service of naturalism, this heightened and strange piece of fiction re-enactment exposes itself for critique in a way that you almost have to respect. For its sins, it seems to -- just about -- succeed. ” –
IndieWire
May 25, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
91%
4/5
“This is exactly the kind of escapist, ephemeral stuff we need after the exhaustion of awards season.” –
WeLoveCinema
Mar 27, 2023
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Disco Boy (2023)
88%
4/5
“A Conradian odyssey in painterly miniature.
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WeLoveCinema
Mar 3, 2023
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Suzume (2022)
96%
A-
“To be lost in the painterly visuals, to traverse through the sheer scale of Shinkai’s real and imagined worlds, is an experience deserving of the biggest screen you can find. ” –
IndieWire
Feb 23, 2023
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Reality (2023)
94%
A-
“Not only is “Reality” inventively mounted and extraordinarily tense, but it proves something we already knew deep down: that Sydney Sweeney is the real deal.” –
IndieWire
Feb 22, 2023
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3/5
“But for all its beauty and sexual slipperiness, the film trips itself up with juvenile plot developments ripped from a romance paperback.” –
BFI
Feb 22, 2023
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Manodrome (2023)
49%
3/5
“A bleak and accurate depiction of the ouroboros of toxic masculinity that is only growing more fork-tongued.” –
WeLoveCinema
Feb 20, 2023
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The Adults (2023)
72%
B
“A raw, sensitive, and true look at a family in flux with too much love to give and no tools to whittle it into something useful.” –
IndieWire
Feb 19, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023)
97%
B+
““BlackBerry” is the kind of mid-budget marvel that doesn’t seem to come around often anymore.” –
IndieWire
Feb 18, 2023
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Roman Holiday (1953)
96%
4/5
“It is purely a rom-com, filmed with warmth and style – as sweet and inconsequential as a scoop of gelato on a summer’s day.” –
WeLoveCinema
Feb 13, 2023
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M3GAN (2022)
93%
3/5
“Pleasingly stupid.” –
WeLoveCinema
Jan 16, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022)
74%
4/5
“As a microbudget feat built on a simple concept – the blinding incomprehension of being young and scared – Skinamarink tiptoes masterfully around that fine line where nostalgia caves into nightmare.” –
WeLoveCinema
Jan 10, 2023
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