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Jessica Winter

Jessica Winter's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT “I haven’t felt such visceral and intensely gendered loathing for a documentary termagant since “Dear Zachary.”” – The New Yorker Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% EDIT “Especially coming from a studio that used to be so terrifyingly fastidious about its world-building, the internal logic of Element City is wobbly at best.” – The New Yorker Jun 27, 2023 Full Review Deuces Wild (2002) 3% EDIT “A flashback to a heroin casualty on a rain-soaked playground is a crucial visual aid, but any punch-drunk victim of Deuces Wild might prefer the needle to the damage done.” – Village Voice Jun 3, 2013 Full Review Drive (2011) 93% EDIT “To invest oneself emotionally in the central relationship, or the movie itself, would be akin to investing oneself emotionally in one's car. But when the car looks this good and drives this fast, why not?” – TIME Magazine Sep 15, 2011 Full Review Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) 73% EDIT “The multilayered picture tends to have a gently immersive effect, akin to a stroll through the world's most expensive diorama.” – Slate Mar 26, 2009 Full Review Gone Baby Gone (2007) 94% 3/6 EDIT “Flawed but impressive.” – Time Out Jun 5, 2008 Full Review Stop-Loss (2008) 64% 3/6 EDIT “It's the film equivalent of a weary shrug - capturing the national mood at a moment when we'd all prefer some mood enhancers.” – Time Out Apr 25, 2008 Full Review Drunken Master II (1994) 85% EDIT “Chan has always seemed like a silent-screen virtuoso self-catapulted into modern times.” – Village Voice Apr 15, 2008 Full Review The Puffy Chair (2005) 78% EDIT “When everyone finally shuts up, the silence is startling.” – Time Out Apr 27, 2007 Full Review Old Joy (2006) 85% 4/6 EDIT “Such watchful reticence takes a bold, confident filmmaker.” – Time Out Jan 26, 2007 Full Review Notes on a Scandal (2006) 87% EDIT “Bill Nighy is stunning in the small but pivotal role of Sheba's devastated husband, and Dench locates the desperate pathos in Barbara's malevolence.” – Time Out Jan 25, 2007 Full Review Tideland (2005) 31% EDIT “Gilliam's brash disregard for conventional narrative rhythms and structures is one of the many thrills of his best work, but here his freewheeling navigations veer so far off-road that the passenger is left exhausted and bewildered.” – Time Out Sep 23, 2006 Full Review Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 86% EDIT “Its clichés seem bigger and its characterisations broader than they would on the more forgiving telly.” – Time Out Aug 17, 2006 Full Review Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) 89% EDIT “Paine is preaching to the choir, but the sermon should be heard nonetheless.” – Time Out Aug 3, 2006 Full Review Fan-Fan the Tulip (1951) 70% EDIT “Cahiers-savvy cinephiles will recognize Fanfan as the type of handsome prestige production that the French New Wave overthrew in the early '60s, but this example of the 'cinma de qualit' is hardly a musty artifact.” – Village Voice Jul 18, 2006 Full Review Metropolitan (1990) 94% EDIT “None of Stillman's endearing characters quite fits their prescribed social context, and in its exhilarated final movement, Metropolitan finds an exit out of the stifling UHB salon.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) 87% EDIT “The film holds few surprises, though it builds a remarkable level of suspense during the fait-accompli interrogation scenes, and is a well-intended commemoration of a courageous young woman.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Alien vs. Predator (2004) 21% EDIT “The title alone betrays an entire Hollywood mindset of rehash, reheat, recombine. Re-please.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review War of the Worlds (2005) 76% EDIT “The film succeeds as pure sensation, an exacting distillation of fear.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 100% EDIT “Coolly absorbing, nonchalantly cynical.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) 57% EDIT “The director magically conjures emotional dividends in the film's invigorating last moments, which wordlessly celebrate an underrated and truly Andersonian virtue: solidarity.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Thank You for Smoking (2005) 86% EDIT “Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Troy (2004) 53% EDIT “A numbingly reliable tick-tock of expository set pieces alternating with vast CGI-aided battle scenes.” – Time Out Jun 24, 2006 Full Review Animals and More Animals (1996) EDIT “Philibert is most enamored of the museum's vast collection of unheimlich mammalian heads and grants them many a haunting close-up.” – Village Voice Jun 6, 2006 Full Review Friends With Money (2006) 72% EDIT “As a creator of characters, Holofcener has strong instincts for emblematic situations and telling habits, yet she takes a reticent approach to development -- she observes her subjects closely, but doesn't necessarily interpret.” – Time Out May 25, 2006 Full Review
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