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Strange Harbors

Strange Harbors is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): DarkSkyLady, Jeffrey Zhang.

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The Shrouds (2024) Jeffrey Zhang Way ahead of its time, strangely comforting, and wildly funny, The Shrouds extends the legendary filmmaker’s polarizing late oeuvre into deeply personal territory.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Hard Truths (2024) Jeffrey Zhang A work of pure alchemy transforming misanthropic comedy into a brutal downer.
Posted Jan 03, 2026  Edit critic review
A
The Substance (2024) Jeffrey Zhang Many will bristle against The Substance and its explicit, repetitive assault on good taste, but it’s precisely the juxtaposition of its bluntness and wanton escalation of sickly textures that makes it so effective.
Posted Sep 24, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
The Shadow Strays (2024) Jeffrey Zhang 2024 finds action fans eating good, and The Shadow Strays is another full-on meal from a genre legend.
Posted Sep 20, 2024  Edit critic review
C+
Conclave (2024) Jeffrey Zhang An overwrought score, a goofily thin election year allegory, and an outrageous final twist are only a few moving parts of its manufactured gravitas — Conclave leaves just enough wiggle room to suggest it knows how silly it all is.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
B
Anora (2024) Jeffrey Zhang Sean Baker reaches back in time to rediscover a romantic charm that has all but evaporated from modern filmmaking, but he also widely miscalculates one thing: those movies used to be a tight 90.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
C-
Nightbitch (2024) Jeffrey Zhang The struggle of motherhood told exclusively through Facebook mom group memes dug from their 2008 graves, read aloud...
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
A
Cloud (2024) Jeffrey Zhang An escalation of anonymous petty crimes that bridges the gap between doing damage with a keyboard and the violence of bloody, in-person retribution.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Presence (2024) Jeffrey Zhang A horror gimmick elevated by brazen formal discipline, drawing a straight line from its poltergeist to filmmakers as puppetmasters and voyeurs.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
Trap (2024) Jeffrey Zhang A deliriously entertaining facade masks perhaps Shyamalan’s most intimate film yet: a dizzying portrayal of shifting spaces that strikes at a universal fear -- being a bad dad.
Posted Sep 03, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Longlegs (2024) Jeffrey Zhang The most terrifying aspects of Longlegs aren’t in its spooky ciphers, sharp jolts, or even Nicolas Cage’s full freak-flag performance, it’s in the stink of apathy.
Posted Sep 03, 2024  Edit critic review
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Jeffrey Zhang With Furiosa, George Miller forges his protagonist’s sizzling, magma rage into a new blade that is remarkably unlike Fury Road…
Posted Jul 25, 2024  Edit critic review
A
Challengers (2024) Jeffrey Zhang The rare blockbuster-level crowdpleaser that’s still full of blood, vitality, and texture.
Posted May 02, 2024  Edit critic review
B+
Monkey Man (2024) Jeffrey Zhang Monkey Man is one ferocious inaugural beat ‘em up.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
A-
Dune: Part Two (2024) Jeffrey Zhang Collides dense sci-fi imagemaking with Herbert’s heady and prescient themes: the gravity of manufactured destiny, the untamable tendrils of belief, and a harrowing subversion of the hero’s journey.
Posted Mar 14, 2024  Edit critic review
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Ferrari (2023) Jeffrey Zhang Ferrari’s “failure” as biography is its rousing success as poetry: the rhythm of irreconcilable dichotomies, the prison of masculinity, the fiery synthesis of metal and religion.
Posted Mar 14, 2024  Edit critic review
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The Killer (2023) Jeffrey Zhang The Killer’s disguise as a trash genre exercise has elicited plenty of shrugs, but make no mistake, it’s every bit as potent and layered as Fincher’s masterworks of The Social Network and Fight Club.
Posted Nov 28, 2023  Edit critic review
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Hit Man (2023) Jeffrey Zhang In a landscape where movies try too hard to be funny and are too afraid to be sexy, Hit Man is refreshingly -- and effortlessly -- both.
Posted Oct 06, 2023  Edit critic review
A
The Zone of Interest (2023) Jeffrey Zhang “[Jonathan] Glazer conjures a prison of illusory obliviousness and never once is tempted to peek over its squat walls. The effect is immense.”
Posted Sep 16, 2023  Edit critic review
B+
Barbie (2023) Jeffrey Zhang ...[Greta] Gerwig’s pink, plastic epic is infused with its director’s indie spirit and far more cognizant of the toy’s complicated legacy than you might expect.
Posted Sep 11, 2023  Edit critic review
A
Oppenheimer (2023) Jeffrey Zhang A devastating examination of the vast gulf between science and empathy…
Posted Jul 22, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Jeffrey Zhang Tom Cruise’s crusade for analog supremacy finally becomes text and the results are unbelievable.
Posted Jul 13, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Jeffrey Zhang A multiverse story...fully in service of its characters rather than the other way around.
Posted Jun 07, 2023  Edit critic review
B+
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Jeffrey Zhang A colorful reminder that the best of these aren’t made by committee, but by the sincere weirdos who love the craft and love these heroes.
Posted Apr 28, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Jeffrey Zhang The type of exhilarating, metal-as-hell ballet of bullets that blows the doors off action filmmaking.
Posted Mar 25, 2023  Edit critic review
B+
Evil Dead Rise (2023) Jeffrey Zhang Evil Dead Rise will have you hooting and hollering through a tidal wave of blood and guts, beckoning you with the immortal words of Ashley J. Williams: “Come get some.”
Posted Mar 19, 2023  Edit critic review
C
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) Jeffrey Zhang It certainly feels like replacing the low-stakes caper energy of the Ant-Man movies with tedious, wheel-spinning teases of what comes next is a grave miscalculation.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Knock at the Cabin (2023) Jeffrey Zhang Crackling with confident, formal prowess and visual electricity, M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is the director’s best film since 2004’s The Village.
Posted Feb 02, 2023  Edit critic review
B+
Infinity Pool (2023) Jeffrey Zhang It’s easy to take umbrage at more “rich people behaving badly” narratives, but Cronenberg is so blisteringly capable of constructing his own grotesque, hedonistic netherworlds that it’s hard to care too much.
Posted Jan 30, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Skinamarink (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Skinamarink is horror as a time machine: a laser-guided missile aimed to unearth a narrow sliver of nighttime willies from days long past...
Posted Jan 16, 2023  Edit critic review
A-
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Its wild spectacle, unbelievable detail, and technical wizardry will blast the eyeballs out of your sockets, but its honest and sincere undercurrents just might be its secret weapon.
Posted Dec 13, 2022  Edit critic review
A
The Fabelmans (2022) Jeffrey Zhang The Fabelmans is therapy via soundstage: an artist’s heart, soul, hopes, and regrets laid bare for the entire world to see.
Posted Nov 17, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Jeffrey Zhang [Ryan] Coogler strikes an affecting balance between spectacle and elegy.
Posted Nov 09, 2022  Edit critic review
B
Black Adam (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Goofy, unpretentious crowd-pleaser mode isn’t exactly a bad look for Black Adam.
Posted Oct 27, 2022  Edit critic review
A
Decision to Leave (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Decision to Leave is a sensual puzzle box — and one of the year’s best films. Tang Wei is sensational.
Posted Oct 14, 2022  Edit critic review
A
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Jeffrey Zhang The Banshees of Inisherin is tragicomedy at its finest, a specific slice of a combusting amity that just so happens to capture a wide swath of the human condition.
Posted Oct 13, 2022  Edit critic review
C+
Don't Worry Darling (2022) Jeffrey Zhang There’s just no hiding the massive chasm between how smart Don’t Worry Darling thinks it is and how smart it actually is.
Posted Sep 30, 2022  Edit critic review
A-
Sanctuary (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Explores the whirlwind disintegration of a relationship that slowly chips away at the barriers between fantasy and reality, class and control.
Posted Sep 30, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Pearl (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Pearl is the perfect companion piece to X, scratching an entirely different itch than its grimy predecessor.
Posted Sep 24, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Glass Onion is a layered machine hiding a trove of interlocking rewards, immensely satisfying when the pieces reveal themselves, but even more so when it’s all blown to bits.
Posted Sep 15, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
Barbarian (2022) Jeffrey Zhang There’s something sinister - and savage - broiling underground, and it can’t wait to reveal itself to you.
Posted Sep 11, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Prey (2022) Jeffrey Zhang The latest installment in a flagging franchise, Prey weaponizes its simple formula into a sleek, sci-fi action missile.
Posted Aug 03, 2022  Edit critic review
C
Bullet Train (2022) Jeffrey Zhang From its Tarantino pastiche that’s much less clever than it thinks it is -- and much more convoluted than it has any right to be -- to its interminably droning attempts at comedy, Bullet Train feels more like a chore with every stop it makes.
Posted Aug 03, 2022  Edit critic review
A
Nope (2022) Jeffrey Zhang A movie about making movies, the pieces of ourselves we feed into the Hollywood meat grinder, and our indomitable obsession with spectacle and its capture.
Posted Jul 20, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Elvis (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Austin Butler, almost feral with his presence, is a perfect fit for this bombastic odyssey. He kills it.
Posted Jul 18, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Its fleet adventure feels like a tonic, free from multiverses, cameos, and the seemingly requisite MCU buildup to the next “thing.”
Posted Jul 05, 2022  Edit critic review
C-
The Black Phone (2021) Jeffrey Zhang A horror movie as rote, low-impact vapor...
Posted Jun 30, 2022  Edit critic review
A-
Crimes of the Future (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Sure, there’s sex, there’s surgery, and there’s Carol Spier’s signature fleshy apparati, but the true pleasures of the film lie elsewhere.
Posted Jun 18, 2022  Edit critic review
B+
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Like its eponymous ace, it’s a dying breed, but there’s no way it’s going out in gasps or sputters. Not while Tom Cruise still draws breath.
Posted May 12, 2022  Edit critic review
B-
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Jeffrey Zhang Multiverse of Madness feels uncharacteristically accommodating of the whims of one Sam Raimi, complete with genuinely gleeful horror, shockingly brutal violence, and a terrifying surprise villain.
Posted May 04, 2022  Edit critic review
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