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Alissa Wilkinson

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Biography:

Alissa Wilkinson is Vox.com's film critic. Formerly, she was chief film critic at Christianity Today. Her writing has appeared at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Paste, and others. She lives and works in New York City, and you can find her @alissamarie.

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H Is for Hawk (2025) 77% EDIT “What does work about “H Is for Hawk” (aside from Mabel, whose presence is enough to recommend the film) is its refusal to make grief facile or tidy, or to proclaim that healing must look the same for everyone. ” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Seeds (2025) 97% EDIT “The impersonal problems of financing and statistics become personal, and the history of discrimination feels much closer, more concrete. And if we’re looking closely, we can see, in the younger generations of farmers, the seeds of the future. ” – New York Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “DaCosta’s talents as a director are a terrific, confident match for this material. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “That slower pace allows a tenderness to develop, and the tension between the girls’ youth and newfound maternal instincts to emerge.” – New York Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “Watching it with your whole being, it becomes real to you too.” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “Yet it’s also exhilarating, because “The Plague” commits to its narrative arc and then sees it through right to the wild, whirligig end. ” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% EDIT “the best thing that “Breakdown: 1975” can do is help viewers discover films from the past that might have something to say to the present, too.” – New York Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “It’s a fantasy of terrible behavior getting its due. That’s what makes it satisfying, even fun, despite its deadly serious premise.” – New York Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “Ella McCay is a bizarre movie that would have worked better if it went all-in as an homage to another era. Since we won’t get to see that version, you’ll just have to buckle up and enjoy the very strange ride.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review WTO/99 (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s clear that the movie has a point of view; what’s most interesting, though, is the raw materials it employs.” – New York Times Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “It feels personal not just to Clooney but to Baumbach.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% EDIT “The legend woven throughout heightens the film’s feeling of truth: The effects of young people leaving and returning on a small, close-knit community have been felt for many generations. ” – New York Times Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “What really makes “Wake Up Dead Man” work is that Father Jud and Benoit Blanc are two peas in a pod, when it comes right down to brass tacks.” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “Sometimes you have to approach sorrow sideways to understand it; sometimes a play like “Hamlet,” or a movie like “Hamnet,” can show you how to move through those dark woods.” – New York Times Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% EDIT “The truth is that Shackleton isn’t settling for one mode; he’s working in a bunch of them at once, mixing affection and critique. Just like any true fan would.” – New York Times Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “The grand sweep of our lives, “Train Dreams” suggests, is the sort of thing we can only begin to understand when we’re reaching life’s end, and even then we may only grasp it dimly. ” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) 100% EDIT “Few documentaries are quite as emotionally complex as Come See Me in the Good Light, Ryan White’s portrait of the Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson and their partner, the poet Megan Falley.” – New York Times Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 60% EDIT “A little corny? Yeah, maybe. But hey, look: That’s movie magic.” – New York Times Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s a film about crossing borders; we get to see just a little of what she saw. ” – New York Times Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “The result, in the end, is the kind of movie that polarizes. ” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review The White House Effect (2024) 94% EDIT “It’s not easy to make an archival documentary... But “The White House Effect” is a good example of why it’s worth it, and why it’s worth preserving our archives, too. ” – New York Times Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “Ballad of a Small Player contains a great story, but it’s bogged down by its trappings. Perhaps it just got a little too greedy.” – New York Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “It’s ideal casting for Stone, with her anime-huge eyes and slightly otherwordly-wide grin, and her ability to flip between deadpan and vivacity on a dime.” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT ““The Perfect Neighbor” deserves to be broadly seen, discussed and heeded. ” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% EDIT “Rather than leaning on caricatures or stereotypes, the film gives each person’s perspective a respectful hearing. The added element of Wang’s subterfuge is what keeps it all fresh.” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review
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