Exquisitely elusive, a love dream that slips through your fingers as you reach for it, made with ingenuity and stunning clarity of vision.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 6, 2022

It fails to grasp that, even in a world empty of hope, the interior life of its characters is still more interesting than visually impressive rubble and ruins.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2022

Bateman's worldbuilding introduces stranger elements that are always counterbalanced by more grounded emotional developments, keeping the audience engaged as hard as the esoteric mythology pushes them away.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 18, 2021

This kind of hushed, low-key story certainly wouldn't be the most obvious place to start an epic, but it's a captivating chunk of mood and personality begging for future chapters. Here's hoping Bateman finds a way to tell them.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 10, 2021

In this garish and corporatized age of IP, it seems the auteur is alive and, even if he's occasionally dragged down by the weight of his own ambitions, doing pretty well.

| Feb 6, 2021

There's something haunting and poetic too about the simplicity of this story, which is primarily about how people find reasons to persevere once they find a companion.

| Feb 6, 2021

The Wanting Mare is so enamored with its own mythos that it prioritizes ambitious iconography over immersive narrative.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 5, 2021

It's as if Nicholas Ashe Bateman is commenting on a distinctly American suburban malaise, using a fictional place, digitally made, to get at a real, painful truth about being stuck in a place you didn't choose, amid circumstances you didn't create.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2021