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Carmen Paddock

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Biography:

Carmen writes about film and television for sites such as One Room With a View, Girls on Tops, The Skinny, Little White Lies, Crooked Marquee, and Screen Queens. She has covered international film festivals in Locarno, Rotterdam, Berlin, Edinburgh, and London. Her criticism specializes in changing distribution methods and cross-media adaptations.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% EDIT “By using and manipulating two growing star images, with their striking beauties, A Place in the Sun balances its candor around American social mythology with a sunswept, glittery romance.” – Crooked Marquee Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% EDIT “This proshot, despite its over-fondness for close-ups, is a tremendous document to a monumental production of a tricky masterpiece that shows Groff, Radcliffe, Mendez, Sondheim, Furth, and company in the best possible light.” – Movies We Texted About Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “While not a complete portrait of a man or the recent epochs of US history, Cover-Up gets to the rotten heart of US journalism, where ‘self-censorship of the press’ hollows out the country’s illusion of transparency, freedom and fairness.” – The Skinny Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Stationed at Home (2025) EDIT “STATIONED AT HOME is a resoundingly successful experiment in non-professional casting that uses a shared ethos to create something special.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Nov 17, 2025 Full Review One of Those Days When Hemme Dies (2024) EDIT “One of Those Days When Hemme Dies is a modern parable of class and power, simply told and shot through with moments of cinematic beauty and human connection.” – MovieJawn Nov 16, 2025 Full Review Unpacking (2022) EDIT “Unpacking is a breezy dramedy fitting perfectly into the entertainment zeitgeist and showcasing an ultra-microbudget way of filmmaking. Those looking for a fix before The White Lotus returns will not find better entertainment.” – Movies We Texted About Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% EDIT “Lighton’s work knows that life-changing romances and new experiences are as fraught with mistakes and discomfort as they are opportunities for the sublime.” – Movies We Texted About Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “While not all of DaCosta’s narrative divergences pay off, she and Thompson make a strong case for the continual reinvention of the theatre’s most fascinating antiheroine. ” – Movies We Texted About Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Viva Verdi! (2024) EDIT “Viva Verdi! treats its subjects, its historic patron, and the art of music – from its classical and operatic forms to improvisational electric guitar crossovers – with an openhearted respect. ” – Movies We Texted About Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3/5 EDIT “A mediocre Rian Johnson mystery is still a great time. Josh O’Connor’s Father Jud affirms the actor’s leading man credentials, and his ease with physical comedy is the film’s highlight.” – The Skinny Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% EDIT “Astutely observed, stylishly told, and impeccably acted, it is one of the year’s best independent British films. ” – Movies We Texted About Sep 23, 2025 Full Review All the Devils Are Here (2025) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Barnaby Roper's entry into the British crime drama canon is less concerned with the actual act of crime and more with its fallout – and it's all the better for it.” – The Skinny Sep 23, 2025 Full Review London Calling (2025) 48% EDIT “While London Calling trades on hackneyed tropes aplenty, its buoyant mood and relatively fast pace make the film’s familiar events and tropes supremely enjoyable. ” – MovieJawn Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Men of War (2024) 82% EDIT “A blistering indictment of playing the action hero and a nail-biting true thriller, Men Of War is a remarkable, unmissable documentary.” – MovieJawn Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Juror #2 (2024) 93% EDIT “...dismissing Juror #2 for its simplicities and “boomer” readings disregards the film’s complexities and nuances, and Eastwood’s flawed exploration of a man hoist by a heady mix of his own hubris and cowardice.” – Movies We Texted About Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Order (2024) 93% EDIT “The Order is a fearless look at the evil men have done and continue to do to prove themselves time and again. This is one of the decade’s great films made about the state of the nation, featuring powerhouse performances from Law and Hoult.” – Movies We Texted About Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Match in a Haystack (2025) EDIT “...these acts of independence, creativity, and community bolster a national culture and a collective sense of purpose, release, and support—something proved time and again throughout Ukrainian history. ” – MovieJawn Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Blue Film (2025) 90% EDIT “By treating his two (to put it mildly) complicated characters and their dilemmas with full honesty and respect for personhood (not to be confused with condoning actions), Blue Film becomes a complex nuanced picture destined to spark debate.” – Movies We Texted About Aug 27, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The juxtaposition of form and content, presentation and possibility, reality and dream is an unmistakable directorial stamp on King’s worlds and characters. It will not work for all viewers, but the retelling is richer for it.” – The Skinny Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK is not a neutral film by any stretch of the imagination, but it should not be. Farsi’s documentary is urgent, heart-wrenching, and deeply personal, profiling a single life among the tens of thousands lost too soon.” – TAKE ONE Magazine Aug 19, 2025 Full Review In Transit (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Alex Sarrigeorgiou’s script and the film's well-matched performances are wholly cognisant of the wreckage of selfishness, and In Transit does not sugarcoat the fallout and interpersonal collateral damage.” – The Skinny Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Unfortunately, the central mystery of Islands does not pay off, and the film is far better as a study of trapped characters within the liminal space of Canary Island holidays than it is a psychological thriller.” – The Skinny Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Concessions (2025) EDIT “Humorous and full of heart, Concessions is a love letter to cinema and cinemas that argues for their vital importance in our lives and our communities” – Movies We Texted About Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 4/5 EDIT “A poignant exploration of far-too-common traumas, acted in surprising and beautiful ways by a cast who clearly trust the material and each other.” – The Skinny Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Love (2024) 96% 3/5 EDIT “There is a gentleness to the presentation of events and characters in Love that celebrates the quotidian.” – Loud and Clear Reviews Aug 11, 2025 Full Review
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