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David Fear

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Film Critic, Rolling Stone

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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “The few full-blown examples of 18th century everyday people losing themselves to the holy-roller beat carries this film even more than the meticulous historical recreations. It’s a period film with 6/8 pulse.” – Rolling Stone Dec 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s the sort of parting joke that makes the chuckles catch in your throat. Yet it’s also the kind of grace note of a kicker that reminds you how slyly Director Park and his lead actor have been letting this story unfold.” – Rolling Stone Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The piles of ash here looks and sounds phenomenal. What you would not give to feel some actual fire burning behind all of this.” – Rolling Stone Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “You have to be a hustler to make movies like this in the age of AI and IP, even ones with genuine movie stars in them. It’s in Safdie’s DNA as much as Marty’s. Both end up champions in their own way, and we’re the ones who end up winning.” – Rolling Stone Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Marcelo’s story keeps everything connected and the humanity in the forefront, but the overall effect is still akin to surfing channels late at night, slipping from one delirious after-hours offering to the next.” – Rolling Stone Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “It helps immensely that Teller and Olsen pair well with each other -- she brings out the best in a scene partner who can sometimes seem remote onscreen -- and that Turner knows exactly how to make this “perfect” guy feel flawed yet still likable. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Yet the sensation of a work that, in translation from one medium to another, no longer defies gravity but sort of roughly plummets back down to terra firma can’t easily be shaken off. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “Sirāt is not for everyone. But it is the sort of overwhelming cinematic experience and undeniable work of sound and vision that could be life-changing for those ready to receive it. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 53% EDIT “You spend a good deal of Keeper forming theories about what’s going on... Once everything is revealed, however, you wish you’d gone back that previous ignorance that now seems like a state of bliss.” – Rolling Stone Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “You’ll find yourself wishing this was the superior movie you think it could be. As it is, Baumbach’s addition to the movies-about-movies canon still makes the most of the star power at the center of it. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here.” – Rolling Stone Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Most filmmakers would have diluted the grit and genuine sense of moral free-fall. Wright doubles the dosage. Every adrenaline rush comes with a chaser of low rage and simmering despair.” – Rolling Stone Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Sentimental Value is essentially a double act between Skarsgård and Reinsve, and these two performers play off each other in a way that’s recognizable to anyone who’s struggled with paternal baggage, by which we mean everybody.” – Rolling Stone Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Even those who think Die My Love courts indulgence and incoherence to its own detriment will gape in awe at how Lawrence makes them feel this person coming apart at the seams.” – Rolling Stone Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “It’s really a comedic road movie at heart, with as much yuks over a mismatched pair trying to get along as yucks involving the goopy innards of cosmic mastodons.” – Rolling Stone Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “[Nouvelle Vague] apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz. It’s the most blissful time spent in the dark you can imagine.” – Rolling Stone Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “The question posed by this impressive, if somewhat overheated take on a theater-canon staple is not, in the end, “What curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?” It’s more like: Why kill when you can overkill?” – Rolling Stone Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) 93% EDIT “What starts off as a tribute turns into an autopsy of a long marriage as seen by the kids who witnessed the best and worst of it, done with humor, anger, hindsight, and empathy.” – Rolling Stone Oct 27, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “For something so blessed with timeliness and talent, it leaves you feeling like you’re buried in a hovel of disappointment.” – Rolling Stone Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “...it’s fair to say that the story Lanthimos and his cast are working with here is designed to inflame and delight, along with confusing those who don’t recognize that bizarre is the new normal.” – Rolling Stone Oct 25, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “Despite the movie’s flaws, what Cooper has given audiences here is way more compelling than a live-action greatest-hits compilation.” – Rolling Stone Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Good Fortune (2025) 78% EDIT “Reeves is so funny, so sublime, and so f---ing spot-on in his portrayal of a do-gooder whose genius plan goes off the rails that he ends up slipping the movie into his Constantine-style overcoat pocket and walking away with it. ” – Rolling Stone Oct 17, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “This story isn’t about the filmmaker getting revenge, so much of an example of how Panahi “gets” revenge -- in terms of understanding how it operates, how it satisfies or doesn’t.” – Rolling Stone Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “Portraits of great men given the movie-star treatment usually accentuate the positive. Linklater finds it more interesting to look at a self-sabotaging artist’s greatest misses. It’s a tribute that’s really a cautionary tale.” – Rolling Stone Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “It’s in this last act that Ballad of a Small Player truly puts all of it chips on its lead, and while that faith doesn’t make up for a lot of the ridiculous twists and overplayed hands leading up to a climactic streak, it’s still a smart bet.” – Rolling Stone Oct 15, 2025 Full Review
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