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Chris Cassingham

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Chris Cassingham is a freelance writer and critic based in Brooklyn.

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The Love That Remains (2025) 96% EDIT “In The Love That Remains, Pálmason weaves together a series of scenes that illustrate the passage of time, but splinter off and jump around according to a unique internal rhythm. But if these vignettes form a tapestry, then its threads are frayed. ” – In Review Online Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “That Ella McCay not only exists in 2025, but succeeds in spite of its unfashionable elements, is its own kind of miracle.” – In Review Online Dec 20, 2025 Full Review River of Grass (2025) 100% EDIT “"The result is a document of sense as much as history, in which the viewer explores the breadth of environmental resilience across the Everglades today, as well as Wortzel’s own memories of a childhood spent amongst its splendor."” – In Review Online Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% EDIT “Sora’s strength is in making [Happyend], with its ominous blinking lights... and culture of citizen-indexing, feel more similar to our own than we might want to admit.” – In Review Online Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 97% EDIT “There’s a weighty satisfaction to the film’s fractured narrative structure... and this is an incredibly funny film, quick-witted and just ironic enough to support a core of sincerity.” – In Review Online Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% EDIT “For his debut narrative feature, Preparation for the Next Life, Liu has adopted a similar philosophy, combining a cinematic eye with a ruthless approach to character building that is unafraid to force the audience to wade in their ugliness...” – In Review Online Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Mare's Nest (2025) EDIT “For all the attention and surrender it sometimes demands of the viewer, there is pleasure in simply being offered the challenge.” – In Review Online Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “As Matthew runs headlong into the reality of saving face and maintaining his enviable position in the life of this pop star, we realize, long before he does, that the ultimate prize is inferior to its price.” – In Review Online Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Dry Leaf (2025) 91% EDIT “Koberidze asks the viewer to surrender to the fantastical logic of his off-kilter worlds (for example, like many people in this film, Levani is completely invisible), in the same way he asks us to surrender to his images.” – In Review Online Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 100% EDIT “"...after nearly a decade of short films under her belt, Romvari finally debuts a feature, Blue Heron, that advances her approach to reconstructing, confronting, and reconciling the gaps in her, and her family’s, story."” – In Review Online Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Diciannove (2024) 74% EDIT “One gets the sense that Leonardo’s life has no capacity to handle the youthful verve of Tortorici’s filmmaking impulses, which flit about one moment and melt between frames the next.” – In Review Online Aug 3, 2025 Full Review Little, Big, and Far (2024) 80% EDIT “"questions...about cosmic expanse emerge in sharp relief to ones about terrestrial minutiae, all asked by deeply curious people with an implicit but shared melancholy for a world precariously balanced on the edge of catastrophe and loss.” – In Review Online Aug 3, 2025 Full Review Songs of Slow Burning Earth (2024) EDIT “The result is less a collective narrative of the ongoing war than a collage of impressions and feelings that guide the viewer across geographical terrain and reveal a country’s citizens processing their trauma in wildly different ways.” – Reverse Shot Jul 12, 2025 Full Review Echo Valley (2025) 52% EDIT “Echo Valley is successful so long as the viewer remains on the pulpy surface of its premise.” – In Review Online Jul 11, 2025 Full Review 7 Walks with Mark Brown (2024) EDIT “Getting caught up in Brown’s love of plants is one of 7 Walks’ great pleasures, and a key to its success.” – In Review Online Jul 11, 2025 Full Review Hot Milk (2025) 37% EDIT “Hot Milk is neither psychologically rich nor dramatically affecting. Its contemplative pace dresses the proceedings in superficial import, but there’s an unavoidable shallowness in its treatment of trauma, a reluctance to swim out to sea and risk drowning” – In Review Online Jul 11, 2025 Full Review The Travel Companion (2025) 92% EDIT “[Anchored by] Turner and Oberbeck’s razor-sharp chemistry, which consistently buoys a film whose comedy of cringey social ineptitude and straight-guy lovability eventually gives way to heavier conflict.” – In Review Online Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Tornado (2025) 66% EDIT “Tornado is... tinged with darkly absurdist comedy and violence a la Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawa, [but that doesn't] quite save a film propped up feebly by blunt dialogue and simple psychology.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% EDIT “Urchin is never fully committed to the grit, marginality, or momentous pulse, respectively, of its most obvious influences.” – In Review Online May 26, 2025 Full Review Sacramento (2024) 85% EDIT “The characters sketched out in Angarano and Christopher Nicholas Smith’s original screenplay are either too vague or schematic to feel real.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% EDIT “In a film as blatantly, and admirably, concerned with reflecting a cultural moment that isn’t rigidly conformed to traditional notions of sexuality and family structure, it’s a shame the story’s rough contours couldn’t speak to it.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% EDIT “...a clash of melodramatic expressiveness and measured realism in which both feel woefully compromised.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Kyuka: Before Summer's End (2024) EDIT “The middle class context of Kostis Charamountanis’ Kyuka: Before Summer’s End gives its story of a languid, European summer vacation a refreshingly dressed-down feel.” – In Review Online Apr 14, 2025 Full Review No Sleep Till (2024) 94% EDIT “As the independent film industry seems prepared for its own impending disaster, No Sleep Till is an instructive guide in how we might respond.” – In Review Online Apr 14, 2025 Full Review The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick (2025) 71% EDIT “The result is a finale of confused and competing tones that might spark some puzzled conversations, but which don’t provide firm enough ground on which the film itself can stand.” – In Review Online Apr 9, 2025 Full Review
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