Stephen Saito
Tomatometer-approved critic
The Legend of Ochi (2025)
80%
“As the film becomes more and more about families reconnecting despite the odds against it, Saxon pulls off a similar feat in making something that reaches across all ages to delight.” –
Moveable Fest
Apr 18, 2025
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WTO/99 (2025)
““WTO ‘99” becomes undeniable in how it illuminates the prescience of what was once dismissed in the mainstream as a radical fringe and the perils of disengaging from political discourse.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 25, 2025
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The Rivals of Amziah King (2025)
97%
““The Rivals of Amziah King” dazzles in its originality and would seem to prove Patterson right tenfold in taking the time to do something entirely on his own terms, refusing to imitate anyone else including repeating himself. ” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 24, 2025
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Snow Leopard Sisters (2025)
“The panoramic scenes of Tshiring and Tenzin stomping around the Himalayas are naturally beautiful, but the effect that the two have on one another becomes equally so.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 24, 2025
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Glorious Summer (2025)
““Glorious Summer” ably demonstrates the power of illusions, and its filmmakers impress not only in conjuring them strongly, but in sharply piercing them as well.” –
Variety
Mar 22, 2025
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We Bury the Dead (2024)
88%
“Resourceful zombie thriller that plays big with a relatively slender and shrewdly conceived central narrative.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 22, 2025
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The Python Hunt (2025)
“Projects an an effortless cool, largely disengaged from the tournament aspect that most filmmakers would fixate on to get a greater lay of the land.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 22, 2025
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Trash Baby (2025)
“While the film captures a restless moment, it isn’t one an audience will want to leave.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 21, 2025
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Idiotka (2025)
82%
“Popov delivers a boisterous tale of a woman coming into her own, told with real humor and heart. ” –
Variety
Mar 20, 2025
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Redux Redux (2025)
96%
“In dipping their toes into the multiverse, the McManus Brothers largely manage to get the best of two worlds, delivering a strong genre entry with the bones of a tender indie about trauma.” –
Variety
Mar 20, 2025
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Magic Hour (2025)
“For a film about letting go, much of “Magic Hour” is bound to stick.” –
Variety
Mar 20, 2025
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Uvalde Mom (2025)
““Uvalde Mom” may inspire when chronicling a true act of heroism, but Prado offers a far more sophisticated and complex portrait exposing the underlying factors...that make it feel as if it should've been unnecessary.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 20, 2025
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For Worse (2025)
80%
“In a film about weddings gone horribly - and hilariously - awry, having [Landecker] become a multi-hyphenate is one of the few things to have a nice ring to it.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 20, 2025
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Creede U.S.A. (2025)
“Compulsory viewing when it captures something unique to America where the economic and cultural needs of any given region can lead to strange bedfellows.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 20, 2025
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Invention (2024)
94%
““Invention” reaches beyond facts to offer something more emotionally nourishing when it takes some fiction to coax out a story that makes sense for both those behind the camera and in front.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 18, 2025
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Cotton Candy Bubble Gum (2025)
“Manages to give audiences something to chew on without the film ever losing its flavor.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 17, 2025
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Baby Doe (2025)
“Although Ritchey can’t articulate her own experience, Earnshaw is nonetheless able to illustrate what could have led her to such an unthinkable decision. ” –
Variety
Mar 17, 2025
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The Baltimorons (2025)
“Duplass is careful to make a film where it’s up to the people involved to make Christmas a special occasion, rather than any relying on the genre’s traditional trappings. In that regard, “The Baltimorons” has something to celebrate.” –
Variety
Mar 13, 2025
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Fantasy Life (2025)
“It isn’t hyperbole to say that Amanda Peet gives the performance of a lifetime in “Fantasy Life.”” –
Variety
Mar 12, 2025
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Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
93%
“A counterintuitive treat where the familiar is mainly around as a place of no return and the fun is finding out where to go next.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 11, 2025
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The Heirloom (2024)
“Inspired.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 11, 2025
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Take No Prisoners (2025)
““Take No Prisoners” is impressively even-handed with regard to the various parties involved and strikes a strong balance as well in terms of offering a healthy historical context and what cameras can capture in the moment.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 10, 2025
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Fucktoys (2025)
92%
“The idea that getting down and dirty might be the best way to look at the culture right now is what makes Sriram’s cross-country adventure quite worthwhile.” –
Moveable Fest
Mar 10, 2025
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The Threesome (2025)
84%
“The results are mixed in ways the filmmakers probably didn’t intend, but they’re at once genuinely intriguing and enormously charming given the talent involved.” –
Variety
Mar 9, 2025
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O'Dessa (2025)
38%
“Too often it seems as if “O’Dessa” the film is striking the same note.” –
Variety
Mar 9, 2025
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