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48 Hills is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dennis Harvey.

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Dead Man's Wire (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an entertaining-enough watch, but given the talent involved, the results should have been more memorable.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Dennis Harvey Everyone involved does good work, Stewart most of all. Yet as obviously enamored as she is with the material, its careening nature still feels short on narrative shape, growing more exhausting than insightful over two full hours’ course.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Dennis Harvey Rosemead impresses with its understanding treatment of both schizophrenia and well-intentioned if not always astute family coping mechanisms. It’s not an exceptional movie, but one that realizes its modest ambitions with moving, detailed care.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Dennis Harvey Voice of Hind Rajab can hardly help making a powerful impact due to its wrenching content. But I’m not sure I wouldn’t have found a straight documentary at least as poignant, and less problematic.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Dennis Harvey While this 145-minute saga can be a bit uneven in pacing and impact, it offers compelling performances, some powerful sequences, and a lot of food for thought that amply reward the viewer’s investment.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Dennis Harvey A strong, confident, unnerving drama about bullying -- a subject that seems only to grow more relevant in our society -- as well as a stealth example of moviemaking that might be imperiled in the near future.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Texas (1941) Dennis Harvey Plotwise, Texas is unmemorable if twisty. But it’s well-produced -- landing somewhere between “A” and “B”-grade values -- with a real comedic esprit that’s almost screwball in tenor.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Dennis Harvey It is fun, and highly accomplished; it’s just simultaneously a more blunt hitting of a simpler target than we might expect from Park.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Dennis Harvey Hyperbolic, though controlled in its seeming recklessness, this movie careens from souped-up tenement drama to Tennessee Williams parody to crime-thriller violence. It’s perhaps the year’s wildest ride in US cinema, this side of One Battle After Another.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Suburban Fury (2024) Dennis Harvey It’s an absorbing if slow-moving inquiry [whose] ultimate fascination lies precisely in being about someone who gets less and less cooperative with the filmmaking process.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) Dennis Harvey "We Shall' rigorously eschews sentimentality. Nonetheless, it arrives at a closure that is bittersweet and validating.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Dennis Harvey I’m not sure it actually has anything to say. And this director has been gilding a sort of old windbag’s wistfulness for “the good old days” so long already, where can he go from here?
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Dennis Harvey Those who found "Long Day" somewhat impenetrable will be even more baffled by this exquisite-corpse structure of cryptic, successive narratives. Taken as pure phantasmagoria, however it achieves a level of aesthetic sumptuousness that’s its own reward.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Cactus Pears (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s a touching, poetically restrained romance that avoids the pull of both over-idealizing and melodramatic tragedy.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) Dennis Harvey A harrowingly up-close look at press freedoms under siege. Needless to say, it’s a cautionary tale we can’t afford to dismiss here in the U.S.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Dennis Harvey The performances are note-perfect, the script’s giant, serpentine puzzle as surprising and relevant as that of One Battle After Another.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Librarians (2025) Dennis Harvey The ideological/political purpose of these attacks, which increasingly involve arrest and death threats, is clear. Though as ever, the gullibility of activists who think they’re “saving the children” from largely imaginary perils amazes, and infuriates.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Dennis Harvey This isn’t the most ingenious visualization of a demanding work, but it’s functional. And needless to say, the score is a lot more than that.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Dennis Harvey At nearly 2.5 hours, "Wake Up" is overlong, over-contrived, at once snide and pretentious.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Dennis Harvey This becomes one of those enterprises that assumes the more crying, screaming, moaning et al. the performers do in closeup, the more intense the emotional experience will be for viewers.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an ultimately delightful and touching movie that at its abrasive outset looks hardly likely to be either.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Disinvited (2024) Dennis Harvey A smart, resourceful enterprise that introduces some talents definitely worth watching in the future.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Dennis Harvey This story really should sprawl over a miniseries’ length, allowing for larger physical scale as well as better development of characters who sometimes feel vague... Nonetheless, this provocative update of It Can’t Happen Here should be seen.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Dennis Harvey Its larger context filled in by occasional glimpses of global TV news reportage, "Soul" offers a look at civilian life during wartime that is as up-close and personal as it gets.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Dennis Harvey Numerous well-known names are dropped (Ginberg, Sontag, Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Hibiscus, Fran Leibowitz etc.), but few truly interesting things are said -- the level of verbal detail is more like a laundry list than a path towards insight.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebuilding (2025) Dennis Harvey This is a quiet drama with good performances and a fine feel for the stark rural landscapes of southern Colorado. But the air of hard-scrabble authenticity once again borders on overkill.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Dennis Harvey Baumbach can’t sell earnest emotions he clearly doesn’t believe in, and his large, starry cast seems wasted in roles that never develop relatable dimensionality. While I’ve seen worse movies this year, few have seemed quite so fundamentally fraudulent.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Dennis Harvey It reveals Wright doesn’t have a natural flair for staging action. And while the antifascist political jabs made are on-point, they’re also done in broad strokes that ultimately sink beneath the general mechanics of a generic mall flick.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Dennis Harvey "Value" astutely illustrates truths about depression, heredity’s role in mental health, different approaches to the artistic life, and filmmaking itself. It is the rare movie reflecting upon that latter subject which is not, well, sentimental.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Master of the House (1925) Dennis Harvey Before classics The Passion of Joan of Arc and Vampyr, Danish auteur Carl Dreyer made this startlingly forward-looking domestic drama, crafted in a mode less strikingly austere but just as impressive as his more famous later works.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Asphalt (1929) Dennis Harvey Like Murnau’s Sunrise, it’s an example of highly evolved pure cinematic style elevating a very simple, moralizing story to the level of art.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Dennis Harvey Sentimental in the wrong places, sometimes hokey and formulaic, Nuremberg also has a by-now-familiar central problem: Malek... The performance rings increasingly false, making even his real-life character feel like a contrived narrative device.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Dennis Harvey A soulful, lyrical dramatization of a tome that might easily have eluded screen depiction, inspired in look (Adolpho Veloso is the cinematographer), sound (Bryce Dessner contributes a chamber-stings score) and casting.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Mistress Dispeller (2024) Dennis Harvey Lo chronicles a tangled real-life drama whose mechanizations almost defy belief. Nonetheless, or perhaps as a result, it’s hard to look away—this is fascinating stuff.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
There Was, There Was Not (2024) Dennis Harvey The more intimate focus Mkrtichan chooses vividly conveys the haplessness felt by citizens robbed of not just of homes and loved ones, but their very national identity.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Hell House LLC: Lineage (2025) Dennis Harvey An overlong letdown, with effective stand-alone setpieces (involving the animate clown statues that wreaked havoc previously), but too much somber, plodding, and low-energy content between.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
V/H/S Halloween (2025) Dennis Harvey Other episodes also dole out violent abuse to the underaged, and if that’s going to be a new normal for horror movies… I’ll pass, thanks.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Among Neighbors (2024) Dennis Harvey t’s a strong piece with particular relevancy at a time when our own leaders appear very interested in burying any unflattering aspects of U.S. history.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Dennis Harvey No dryly rhetorical indictment, the film finds a potent narrative means by which to make the reality of a government’s human rights violations dramatically vivid without actually having to show them.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s a canny mix, always on the cusp of bad taste, whose dusting of ironical commentary is greatly enhanced by the galloping orchestral hysteria of Jerskin Fendrix’s score.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Dennis Harvey These two hours of frenetic idiosyncrasy feel untethered to any emotional terra firma… though if you had or gotten near a nervous breakdown of late, you may feel otherwise.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Urchin (2025) Dennis Harvey Some may find Urchin too much of a downer, or too lacking in conventional explication. It’s not a perfect movie, but it has a discipline and energy that announce a fully-formed talent.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Beast of War (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s all too much -- though still entertaining, at least to a point.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Deathstalker (2025) Dennis Harvey This episodic quest flick, produced by no less than Guns ’n’ Roses’ Slash, goes on too long to sustain such deliberate silliness. But it is lively, funny, and imaginative -- like all Kostanski’s movies, an elevated in-joke for fanboys.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
She Loved Blossoms More (2024) Dennis Harvey Druggy, icky, macabre, yet crafted with surprising elegance, "Blossoms" is a bizarre debut feature, but undeniably an original one.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ice Tower (2025) Dennis Harvey As ever, Hadzihalilovic conjures an unsettled, dreamlike mood with considerable style. But this time her script (co-written with Geoff Cox) is so vague that after a point we scarcely care where it goes, if anywhere.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) Dennis Harvey This is a brilliant assembly that might enlighten those still resistant to the notion that we’re careening towards an end to democracy.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Dennis Harvey Oppenheim has a firm, fascinating grip on how our government might operate in such worst-case-scenario circumstances.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Good Boy (2025) Dennis Harvey Just 73 minutes long, Good Boy nonetheless feels like a full meal, and certainly more than a clever gimmick. It is ominously atmospheric, surprisingly touching, and has a knockout star performance.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) Dennis Harvey For all its faults, it arrives at a conclusion that packs considerably more power than you were probably expecting, and is well worth the wait.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
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