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The Progressive is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Asher Luberto, Joe George, Kimberly Gadette, Michael Atkinson.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/4
One of Them Days (2025) Joe George One of Them Days, the film debut of director Lawrence Lamont and writer Syreeta Singleton, mines the maddening nature of struggling to make ends meet for comedic gold.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Warfare (2025) Joe George [Warfare's] emphasis on the subjectivity of war allows Mendoza and Garland to cut through the political and economic issues surrounding the Iraq War to instead focus on the experience of war in the moment, and the humanity within it.
Posted Apr 25, 2025  Edit critic review
B+
Lead and Copper (2023) Joe George Hart employs several on-screen graphics to help clarify the crisis, including a sleek line-art map of the United States and animation illustrating the passage of time ... [which] underscore the complicated nature of the problem.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
A
Nickel Boys (2024) Joe George Nickel Boys provides no comfort through witnessing. In doing so, it demands that our witnessing turn to action—a recognition that the problems of the past demand a just response today.
Posted Dec 16, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) Joe George [B]y asking the question posed in the title of their Academy Award-nominated film, directors Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña move beyond the actions and motivations of a few men and explore the conditions that led to Chin’s murder.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Nope (2022) Joe George With unflinching dexterity, Peele and cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema juxtapose the terror of encountering a being from beyond with one of the most claustrophobic scenes ever caught on film.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
2/5
Clerks III (2022) Joe George The economic anxiety that drove the first movie and remained present in the second is completely absent in the third, and not just because Dante and Randal have become their own bosses.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Decision to Leave (2022) Joe George While this mingling of crime and romance plots reveals the stern policeman to be a fundamentally fallible person, it also underscores the problems inherent in police work.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Joe George Rather than position Namor as a man who suffered an unfortunate, but centuries-old, part of nation-building, Wakanda Forever reminds us that imperial powers remain at work today.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Saint Omer (2022) Joe George Instead of forcing viewers’ responses, Diop puts faith in her performers, which pays off in dividends.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Joe George For all of its focus on the faces of people in our presence, Knock at the Cabin never forgets people all over the world, the people whom we will never see but will affect.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Joe George Part of the movie’s appeal can be traced to the class warfare on display. In Wick’s tired eyes and battered body, we see a symbol of the worker, whose labor is controlled by arbitrary rules and used to prop an indulgent and empty culture.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
BlackBerry (2023) Joe George Stories about American entrepreneurs are as old and fraudulent as our stories about discovery and the frontier—but BlackBerry has no such love for the corporate ethos.
Posted Jul 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Zone of Interest (2023) Joe George Rather than show fascination even as a criticism of the central characters, Glazer renders the fascists as flat, dull objects.
Posted Jul 19, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) Joe George With its well-meaning and even good teachers such as Nowak, The Teachers’ Lounge shows how even the most innocent decision reverberates with impressionable children.
Posted Jul 19, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Dune: Part Two (2024) Joe George For all its talk about centuries-old religious sects, intergalactic trading guilds, and foretold messiahs, Dune: Part Two is a movie about power and the material resources used to secure it.
Posted Jul 19, 2024  Edit critic review
A
Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Joe George An overheated neo-noir with two queer women at the center, Love Lies Bleeding blurs all barriers, resulting in an ecstatic—and sometimes nauseating—vision of liberation.
Posted Jul 19, 2024  Edit critic review
A
The People's Joker (2022) Joe George The People’s Joker is absolutely a superhero story ... But The People’s Joker is also a transgressive piece of outsider art and a personal human story, which uses the language of superhero movies to tell a tale of identity and becoming.
Posted Jul 19, 2024  Edit critic review
I'm Leaving Now (2018) Michael Atkinson ... the film does what films like this are supposed to do: bring us close, and open our eyes.
Posted Sep 17, 2019  Edit critic review
Skin (2018) Michael Atkinson Perhaps this is the most we can expect for now -- films about racism that tell us, over and over again, how very bad it is. We still wait for the film that cuts deeper.
Posted Aug 01, 2019  Edit critic review
On the Basis of Sex (2018) Michael Atkinson If only Leder's film didn't over-project every narrative stroke into a sugary, overscored splat of emphasis. The only starch in the mix, and what any conscious filmgoer will respond to, is RBG herself...
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Vice (2018) Michael Atkinson Vice establishes a boisterous vision for popular political cinema we can only hope McKay continues to pursue.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Burning (2018) Michael Atkinson Burning endlessly suggests questions without determining answers, and no film this year has so potently evoked the spirit of our slippery, maddening modern moment.
Posted Nov 30, 2018  Edit critic review
Zama (2017) Michael Atkinson It's already one of 2018's best and most haunting films, and a lashing indictment of colonialist hubris.
Posted Apr 27, 2018  Edit critic review
Foxtrot (2017) Michael Atkinson Samuel Maoz's moody movie, his third, leaves you guessing its intentions scene by scene, but by the end you're faced with a carefully etched portrayal of an absurd society eating itself alive.
Posted Feb 23, 2018  Edit critic review
Happy End (2017) Michael Atkinson You have to assemble this portrait on your own; Haneke's style is cool and elliptical, and he conscientiously leaves out a lot of connective narrative tissue and exposition, making you lean in, searching for secrets.
Posted Jan 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Marjorie Prime (2017) Michael Atkinson Instead, it is one of those prize indies that spools out and grows in your head for days afterwards.
Posted Jan 02, 2018  Edit critic review
Rat Film (2016) Michael Atkinson Anthony's film is another brand of thing altogether, a weird and idiosyncratic tour through neighborhoods, actual and metaphoric, we thought we knew well.
Posted Jan 02, 2018  Edit critic review
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