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Michael Wood

Michael Wood's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “One of the strong features of the plot of Marty Supreme is its proximity to parable and the absence of masses of money. ” – London Review of Books Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Victor and his father are portrayed by Oscar Isaac and Charles Dance. They play, perfectly, the classic Oedipal parts of brilliant bullied child and impatient, self-admiring father.” – London Review of Books Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% EDIT “Lojkine’s delicate play with our expectations is so finely handled that it’s best experienced directly rather than described.” – London Review of Books Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Lee has made a quite different movie, marked by elegant allusions rather than debt.” – London Review of Books Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “The film doesn’t have much of a plot because it’s too keen on its mishaps, many of them violent. But the bit of plot there is takes us, finally, to an interesting place.” – London Review of Books Sep 5, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Too academic as well as too sentimental perhaps, but Fiennes’s performance as the eerie doctor, creator of an intense, eccentric heart of resistance when resistance is always too late, helps to carry the day.” – London Review of Books Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “The second part of Veiel’s film is a well-made but very straight biography. ” – London Review of Books Jun 6, 2025 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% EDIT “Great movies can be too steady, too serene, and this film is headed in a different direction.” – London Review of Books May 6, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “In Mickey 17 the chance of living again is linked to a form of slavery. The film itself ends with marks on a board rather than a photographed human scene, letters and numbers offered as a visual tribute to mortal singularity. ” – London Review of Books Apr 9, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% EDIT “The carnival effect is definitely excessive, but Salles can hardly not know this or not want it... I'm also inclined to imagine that he is presenting, for all audiences, a symptom more than an escape. ” – London Review of Books Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “The general effect may create in us a nostalgia for the edgy coherence of the first part. There is, though, a refrain that echoes through the film. ” – London Review of Books Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “What’s romantic here is a shared feeling of attachment, whatever its basis, and what’s comic is the absence of any sense of what is to come.” – London Review of Books Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “Much of the acting in the film stands clearly apart from the dizziness, and we need to credit both the director and the players for this. ” – London Review of Books Nov 3, 2024 Full Review Only the River Flows (2023) 85% EDIT “Wei is not going to tell us, but he invites us to think that the answer to our question may lie neither in probable history nor in fantasy but in absurdist philosophy or certain modes of detective fiction.” – London Review of Books Oct 7, 2024 Full Review The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) 86% EDIT “[Mortensen] gives us lots more pictures, but he won’t tell us what time period we’re inhabiting, or even whether we’re looking at the contents of a mind or a notional real world. The method is awkward but has many interesting effects.” – London Review of Books Jun 25, 2024 Full Review La Chimera (2023) 95% EDIT “One more tomb awaits Arthur, and you need to see the movie to learn what happens there. Actually, even when you’ve seen it you won’t be quite sure, because several fascinating interpretations of the events are possible. Judge ye. ” – London Review of Books May 31, 2024 Full Review The Delinquents (2023) 86% EDIT “Curiously absorbing and bewildering.” – London Review of Books May 2, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% EDIT “The film keeps threatening to come apart, almost unable to juggle its sorrowful realism with its wild farce. It doesn’t come apart, though, and the survived threat is part of the unshakeable discomfort we feel, even when we are laughing.” – London Review of Books Mar 28, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% EDIT “Jonathan Glazer’s​ Zone of Interest seems stately at first, even stolid, and a bit too restrained to raise real questions. Once it’s over we realise that its discretion is part of a careful, risky plan.” – London Review of Books Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% EDIT “The ending has some fine surprises that twist the film’s earlier riddles into even stranger shapes.” – London Review of Books Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% EDIT “It’s clear, I think, that in spite of various attempts to make Napoleon work as a biopic, the film doesn’t have a bio. It has a general of genius, something like a sports figure who is alive only in games or tournaments.” – London Review of Books Dec 14, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% EDIT “DiCaprio and De Niro carry the film through their impersonations of what they are not, their acting of an act, so to speak: the nice, if rough-edged guy, and the genial businessman, the toast of the town.” – London Review of Books Nov 16, 2023 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% EDIT “This all sounds rather cryptic, and the film is mysterious. It is also lucid and precise, intimately devoted to its strange lyrical sorrow. It’s as if we are watching feelings in slow motion.” – London Review of Books Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Afire (2023) 91% EDIT “There are drawbacks to such a view. There are moments when we can’t take any more hovering, and Petzold’s timing and tone can be awkward. But he is faithful to his scheme, and his new film, Afire, has a much lighter touch than any of his previous works.” – London Review of Books Sep 15, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “The film gets a little lost at times, as if it had too many storylines to play with and won’t let any of them go... But there are many great jokes in the film.” – London Review of Books Sep 7, 2023 Full Review
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