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Robert Martin

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Dracula (2025) 71% 3/5 EDIT “It looks absolutely gorgeous – the sets, cinematography and costumes are stunning. There’s a fine Danny Elfman score to boot.” – Starburst Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Astronaut (2025) 42% 3/5 EDIT “There’s enough here to make The Astronaut a decent enough watch and it promises much from first-time feature writer-director Jess Varley.” – Starburst Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Song Remains the Same (1976) 40% EDIT “Mediocre music; dull fantasies.” – Globe and Mail Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Uniformally superb across all performances, Strange Darling belongs to its two leads, The Smile’s Kyle Gallner as the Demon and Willa Fitzgerald as the Lady.” – Starburst Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Santa Sangre (1989) 88% 4/5 EDIT “You don’t often come away from a film thinking that there’s not much else that’s quite like, but you just might come away from Santa Sangre with that feeling...” – Starburst Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Thine Ears Shall Bleed (2023) 80% 3/5 EDIT “The effort required to make this film must have been huge, and what has been achieved is admirable. Certainly, Thine Ears Shall Bleed is a solid experience, which bodes well for what lies in store for the Bigelow boys.” – Starburst Jul 18, 2024 Full Review All of Us Strangers (2023) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Andrew Haigh has crafted something special, brought achingly to life via four brilliant performances. ” – Starburst Feb 6, 2024 Full Review Crimes of the Future (2022) 80% 4/5 EDIT “It doesn’t quite make it as classic Cronenberg, but there’s enough sly humour, icy cold dialogue, and literally stomach-turning gore erotica to make it well worth a watch.” – Starburst Aug 1, 2023 Full Review Swallowed (2022) 82% 3/5 EDIT “Swallowed will make you squirm, not because of what’s been swallowed – but because what goes in must come out. ” – Starburst Mar 28, 2023 Full Review The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The film, made entirely within a studio, has such striking sets that they linger in the mind more than almost anything else, with jagged angles, harsh shadows and intense lines representing the way the characters, and the filmmakers, see the world. ” – Starburst Nov 15, 2022 Full Review Pennywise: The Story of IT (2021) 100% 4/5 EDIT “... There’s nothing exciting or unusual about the telling of the story - it’s a very standard documentary indeed. It’s the subject matter only which keeps the interest and that’ in itself is fascinating. ” – Starburst Sep 29, 2022 Full Review Goodnight Mommy (2022) 37% 3/5 EDIT “If you’ve seen the original and know what’s coming, this version is a fine if toned-down experience, but if you don’t know, it’s probably still going to offer you something shockingly unexpected.” – Starburst Sep 26, 2022 Full Review Vampyr (1932) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Dreyer's Vampyr is a strange, unsettling nightmare of a film.” – Starburst Jun 3, 2022 Full Review Army Of The Dead (2021) 68% 3/5 EDIT “Something really interesting could have been made out of the relationship between the humans and the evolved zombies but, in the end, there's nothing that those zombie's heightened awareness brings to the film.” – Starburst May 20, 2021 Full Review Beginning (2020) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Beginning is told with great skill and considered economy by first-time feature director Déa Kulumbegashvili.” – Starburst May 20, 2021 Full Review Crash (1996) 65% 5/5 EDIT “Cronenberg's direction is immaculate. Everything, every shot, scene, situation, contributes to sex, cars, and crashing; there is nothing more.” – Starburst Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Little Joe (2019) 67% 7/10 EDIT “You long for something explosive to happen and it doesn't, which is surely part of the point that Hausner is making, but Little Joe is at times the cinematic equivalent of taking some heavy mood stabilisers.” – Starburst Feb 11, 2020 Full Review Chained for Life (2018) 100% 8/10 EDIT “As the male and female leads, Adam Pearson, so good in Under the Skin, and Weixler are fearless, particularly in an intimate love scene between them, their previous conversation about it saying much about what we as viewers are feeling.” – Starburst Oct 25, 2019 Full Review In Fabric (2018) 92% 8/10 EDIT “What does come across brilliantly at all times is how well he understands cinema and what he's doing. The film is in turns creepy, sensual, gory, and laugh out loud funny.” – Starburst Jun 7, 2019 Full Review Parents (1989) 63% 6/10 EDIT “The central idea of alienation may be ever present but Balaban doesn't get the tone quite right with direction that's fine scene to scene but cumulatively doesn't generate the necessary thrills to make Parents one to rush out and adopt.” – Starburst Feb 19, 2019 Full Review Painkillers (2018) 7/10 EDIT “Before getting carried away, if it sounds like this is a great film, it's no Near Dark but it's much better than expected.” – Starburst Feb 11, 2019 Full Review Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 75% 8/10 EDIT “One of the many pleasures in checking into the El Royale is how perfectly the rugs beneath your feet get pulled, and how often.” – Starburst Feb 11, 2019 Full Review Mandy (2018) 91% 9/10 EDIT “Phrases spring to mind like 'fever-dream' or 'hallucinatory trip' but they're not enough to convey the absolute single-minded, relentless perfection of the vision and craft that this film presents.” – Starburst Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Elves (2018) 0% 1/10 EDIT “Only the music is worthy of any compliments, cleverly riffing on Christmas carols and yuletide jolliness.” – Starburst Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Lake Placid: Legacy (2018) 4/10 EDIT “In fairness, there are some well mounted scenes and the odd delightfully gory moment, but the whole thing is let down by a, for the most part, massively unconvincing CGI creature.” – Starburst Oct 22, 2018 Full Review
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