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Zach Lewis

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Barrio Triste (2025) EDIT “Here’s a neorealist portrait of troubled Colombian youth that’s nevertheless routinely punctured by Korinian antics and the supernatural. It’s a mess, sure... but it’s so self-assured in its motley attitudes that it can’t help but impress.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Magellan (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “The film bluntly puts its historical horrors on display, but it’s careful not to explicitly posit their causes.” – Slant Magazine Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Emmanuelle (2024) 18% EDIT “Mumbles rather than purrs as it seeks to be such an inoffensive update to Arsan’s novel that it rids itself entirely of all evidence of seduction.” – In Review Online Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Henry Johnson (2025) 62% EDIT “For Mamet, hard-headed masculinity, a well poisoned long ago, contains another contradiction: it is inescapable, yet the attempt to escape is always worthy.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% EDIT “Cronenberg’s genius here lies in focusing in on those moments that would normally evoke a simple sadness and twisting them ever so slightly in the wrong direction, like he’s done to many a body throughout his work.” – In Review Online Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Fishing Place (2024) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film’s particular genius lies in a very consistent use of off-screen space.” – Slant Magazine Feb 5, 2025 Full Review Young Werther (2024) 71% EDIT “Its faults are mostly misjudgments... Even this stripped-down, sorrowless Werther can recall the radical origins — and radical potential — of the coming-of-age story, and that’s a good first step.” – In Review Online Dec 12, 2024 Full Review Afternoons of Solitude (2024) 88% EDIT “In Afternoons of Solitude, there are no singular grand moments... Any competition among matadors is akin to that of directors at a film festival where skill may matter, but beauty matters more.” – In Review Online Oct 12, 2024 Full Review Pepe (2024) 65% EDIT “Though the film’s visual formats don’t always coalesce into great moments or meaningful observations, Pepe demands that we, like the river-horse of its title, merely follow along with its currents.” – In Review Online Sep 17, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% EDIT “It’s as frustrating as it is interesting, as fun as it is trite, and it’s ultimately not that gross.” – In Review Online Sep 10, 2024 Full Review The Damned (2024) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “Recalling Roberto Minervini’s past docufiction work, the film is a show of impressionistic portraiture.” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2024 Full Review The Practice (2023) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Martín Rejtman’s serio-comic fifth feature reminds us of how absurd and beautiful a mortal life can be.” – Slant Magazine Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Oh Canada (2024) 66% EDIT “While Schrader tinkers well with his inverted Liberty Valance story, the lengths he goes to formally display this complicated narration border on the absurd. ” – In Review Online May 27, 2024 Full Review The Human Surge 3 (2023) 94% EDIT “There’s something more mysterious at work here [than in the first Human Surge], as none of the sequences relate to each other in any literal sense. But Williams is comfortable with that degree of mystery. He, like Georges Méliès, delivers a magic show. ” – In Review Online Apr 14, 2024 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% EDIT “With Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese has taken his journey’s final step by circling back, telling the story of the snakes and coyotes and wolves that stole a nation and its spirit.” – In Review Online Oct 20, 2023 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% 3/4 EDIT “With Richard Linklater’s Hitman, the charismatic Glen Powell has been offered a plum opportunity to shape his image into something more complicated and often poignant.” – Slant Magazine Oct 4, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “The soundtrack of the Hösses’ daily lives is a reminder of the nightmare taking place just beyond the wall outside their home, and this relentless evocativeness gives an extra layer of the uncanny to Rudolf Höss’s already unsettling character.” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2023 Full Review The Palace (2023) 10% EDIT “The worst film of [Polanski's] career... Each scene is an enclosed vignette, where every character proffers proof of their cretinous nature, only to jolt over to the next room before, God forbid, anything interesting happens.” – In Review Online Sep 10, 2023 Full Review The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (2022) 100% EDIT “Though Stockfleth’s documentary acts mostly as a primer for the Elephant 6 collective, it separates itself from the legions of other musical history docs by staking out new territory and demanding Elephant 6’s rightful place in the mix.” – In Review Online Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) 65% EDIT “It’s inoffensive, charming in its ability to set the stakes low while keeping tension high, and serviceable in the only scenes that really matter in a racing movie.” – In Review Online Aug 21, 2023 Full Review Circus Maximus (2023) EDIT “It’s a hastily put-together jumble of music videos, tethered by a vague overarching narrative, and a concert film; not a woven patchwork of disparate elements, but rather a product of indecision and shoddy curation.” – In Review Online Aug 3, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% EDIT “Opts for a cartoonish gravitas... [the film is] supposed to spell out the tragedy of Oppenheimer’s career, but it does so loudly and literally... Any potential cleverness in Oppenheimer is ruined by the sophomoric instinct to announce and explain itself.” – In Review Online Jul 19, 2023 Full Review Umberto Eco: A Library of the World (2022) 100% EDIT “Although the documentary shies away from a paint-by-numbers talking head format, the filmmaking instincts here are still all-too-familiar. That said, Eco’s words are indeed easy to follow, and his various lectures... are entrancing.” – In Review Online Jul 3, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% EDIT “Dial of Destiny subsequently hits all the notes — it’s an Indy film through and through. It’s enjoyable in that way. But this self-seriousness casts a gloomy veil over the project, as a purposeless Indiana Jones waddles from adventure to adventure.” – In Review Online Jun 23, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% EDIT “Anderson’s Asteroid City beautifully plays with these modernist concerns while yanking away our maps to the stars.” – In Review Online Jun 17, 2023 Full Review
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