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Isaac Feldberg

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Isaac Feldberg is a journalist and film critic currently based in the Boston area, writing most regularly for Fortune Magazine and The Boston Globe. Across seven years in the field, he's also contributed reviews and/or news coverage to Entertainment Weekly, Boston.com, and The Arts Fuse, among other outlets. He is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Reviews

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H Is for Hawk (2025) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film’s strengths lie squarely with Foy, whose performance is restrained where it should be and revelatory at some moments you don’t expect.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% 2/4 EDIT “'Resurrection’ is ravishing in its command of shadow and light, but it studiously hollows out any sense of soul beneath the surface. ” – RogerEbert.com Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% 3/4 EDIT “This is a hypnotic, invigorating film, and a step up for the duo—much like the diamonds that shimmer so seductively through their frames, it has a cold, bright, gem-like brilliance. ” – RogerEbert.com Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Arco (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “ "What if rainbows were people from the future traveling in time?" I want to live in a world willing to entertain the wondrous implications of such a colorful sentiment. With its emanant sense of imaginative potential, Arco encourages you to believe.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 14, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% 4/4 EDIT “This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering. ” – RogerEbert.com Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Beautifully tough and unflinching... As sensitive to painful, implacable realities as it is alive to the possibilities that nevertheless emerge, in small moments of tenderness and connection, between its characters. ” – RogerEbert.com Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Better Go Mad in the Wild (2025) EDIT “A pungent and poignant type of regional folktale.” – RogerEbert.com Jul 15, 2025 Full Review The Visitor (2025) EDIT ““The Visitor” alights on tranquil moments of these characters sojourning in nature, falling asleep at the beach, carrying on conversations at a vacant karaoke bar as night falls around them. ” – RogerEbert.com Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Sand City (2025) EDIT “Shrouded in shadows and blanketed by smog, “Sand City” finds moments of shimmering beauty in Dhaka’s crepuscular melancholy.” – RogerEbert.com Jul 15, 2025 Full Review Out of Love (2025) EDIT “With a rapt attention to both adult’s- and child’s-eye perspectives, Ambrosioni lets his scenario’s cross-currents of emotion carry the film forward without too bluntly overwhelming his audience.” – RogerEbert.com Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Broken Voices (2025) 80% EDIT “Provazník has crafted a riveting exploration of how intertwined social and artistic hierarchies, with their unwritten rules and power dynamics, can turn any such cultural microcosm into a system of complicity. ” – RogerEbert.com Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Peak Everything (2025) 75% EDIT “A sprightly ode to the emotionally clarifying power of love in times of existential crisis, this is one of the most effusive, lighthearted romantic comedies to screen at Cannes in recent memory. ” – RogerEbert.com Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Imago (2025) EDIT “Across two soothing, if perhaps excessively sedate, hours, the documentary ruminates on that central question of homecoming.” – RogerEbert.com May 26, 2025 Full Review Militantropos (2025) 80% EDIT “This mesmerizing film evokes the strange, liminal existence of a society at war, questioning what it would mean to truly live, rather than just survive, amid its ravages. ” – RogerEbert.com May 26, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “The movie’s unconventional visual approach, which finds the director holding up one smartphone to record another, makes it impossible to forget the barriers separating this filmmaker from her subject.” – RogerEbert.com May 26, 2025 Full Review Death Does Not Exist (2025) 79% EDIT “With his minimalist, hand-drawn animation, Dufour-Laperrière blurs boundaries between individuals and backgrounds to produce haunting, porous tableaux in which only movement and action expose character. ” – RogerEbert.com May 26, 2025 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 100% EDIT “This detail-rich and tremendously moving moral fable uncovers harsh realities in Iraqi society without departing from the earnest perspective of its knee-high protagonist, and without diminishing the dignity or value of her hopes and dreams.” – RogerEbert.com May 26, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% EDIT “While staying close to this uneasy and vulnerable character, Dickinson follows him down the drain with ample sympathy but also a cold, invigorating clarity.” – RogerEbert.com May 19, 2025 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “What makes “Chronology” such a masterful debut is Stewart’s innate understanding of how to translate this idea—of the visceral, invisible ways that our bodies keep the score—to the screen. ” – RogerEbert.com May 19, 2025 Full Review The Legend of Ochi (2025) 75% EDIT “The film’s at its most breathtaking when simply luxuriating in the lush, dreamy ambience of its remote landscape, where alpine lakes abound and there’s always a light haze of rain to the mountain air.” – Little White Lies Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Gazer (2024) 81% 3.5/4 EDIT “A fractured, sensory puzzle of memory and fear.” – RogerEbert.com Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Parthenope (2024) 47% EDIT “A modern myth of beauty incarnate—striking, seductive, and forever out of reach.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% 3/5 EDIT “It’s too early to declare Horizon a success, a disaster, or even a noble failure, though this first instalment makes it clear audiences traveling west with Costner should prepare for a lengthy trek.” – Little White Lies Jan 28, 2025 Full Review From Ground Zero (2024) 98% EDIT “ Living in spite of all they have endured, the filmmakers of 'From Ground Zero' are united most by their collective desire to create amid the destruction — to not simply survive but keep hope alive.” – Paste Magazine Jan 6, 2025 Full Review Little, Big, and Far (2024) 80% EDIT “Reflects the constant presence of the unknown in our lives as a reminder to seize solitude amid the bustle of everyday existence, to be quiet and still, to look up and consider the universe.” – RogerEbert.com Oct 21, 2024 Full Review
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