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Jen Yamato

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Film reporter and critic for the Los Angeles Times.

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Cloud (2024) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “A sneaky tale of savagery in the dehumanizing digital age, writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Cloud” is as bleak a warning as you’ll find in theaters this year.” – Washington Post Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Animals (2025) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “In a sharksploitation subgenre teeming with ridiculous premises and plenty of atrocious CGI, this vicious little Australian import is a breath of fresh oxygen.” – Washington Post Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Lilo & Stitch (2025) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's the expressive Maia Kealoha, with her ear-piercing shrieks of delight, and Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, excellent as her older sister Nani, who make an argument for this watered-down movie to exist.” – Washington Post May 23, 2025 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% 3/4 EDIT “At its best, [The Shrouds] throbs with raw, human, horrific honesty.” – Washington Post Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT ““The Amateur” falls victim to its own leaky plotting, which suggests more complex twists than it actually has up its sleeves.” – Washington Post Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% 1.5/4 EDIT “Novocaine lives up to its name, all right — a tedious action-comedy so numbingly bland, you feel the pain of its 110-minute run time even as its protagonist can’t feel a thing.” – Washington Post Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “An age-gap romance is the least ridiculous situation [Bridget Jones] has found herself in, and [Renee] Zellweger and [Leo] Woodall create natural, sweet sparks.” – Washington Post Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Directing this lively date night slash-’em-up... [Josh] Ruben wields the conventions of rom-coms and retro slashers like weapons, spilling blood and guts galore while also setting the mood for love.” – Washington Post Feb 5, 2025 Full Review The Last Showgirl (2024) 83% 3/4 EDIT “Although the slightness of the film’s vignette-heavy narrative is frustrating, its ambiguous ending and lack of easy resolutions, at least, feel honest.” – Washington Post Jan 13, 2025 Full Review The Order (2024) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Director Justin Kurzel delivers another warning in the form of a timely American crime story.” – Washington Post Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 60% 2/4 EDIT “If anyone can hold the center of a messy, imperfect character study, it’s Amy Adams.” – Washington Post Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Alarm bells start going off almost immediately as “Heretic” shrewdly introduces doubt about what should be believed. At times, it hints at the supernatural: Are the sisters face to face with a potential convert, a religious hobbyist or the devil himself?” – Washington Post Nov 7, 2024 Full Review Lonely Planet (2024) 39% 2/4 EDIT “This lethargic romantic drama forces chemistry where there is none and, worse, sells out its aspirationally cool, intelligent female protagonist with an endgame that she — and the luminous Laura Dern — hardly deserves.” – Washington Post Oct 18, 2024 Full Review Will & Harper (2024) 99% 3/4 EDIT “Tender and heartfelt, “Will & Harper” rings most true when it ditches the gimmicks and sticks to the comedians in (and out of) cars, getting real.” – Washington Post Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) 76% 3/4 EDIT “In this twisty, provocative hybrid documentary, filmmakers Jazmin Renée Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross set out to answer one set of burning questions and instead find themselves navigating a much thornier journey of artistic discovery and reclamation.” – Washington Post Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% 3/4 EDIT “Tracking the threats in plain sight is half the fun of “Cuckoo,” an eccentric blend of sci-fi, body horror and cozy Alps noir.” – Washington Post Aug 8, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Nerve-jangling and devilishly bleak, “Longlegs” is easily the front-runner for scariest movie of 2024.” – Washington Post Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT ““Furiosa” paces out filmmaker George Miller’s signature explosive action amid a mournful cloud, deepening the adult Furiosa’s aching need to find a way home.” – Washington Post May 21, 2024 Full Review I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Director Jane Schoenbrun blurs the lines between reality and fantasy with an intoxicating, Lynchian flair.” – Washington Post May 18, 2024 Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “It would be easy to mire this Joker in the darkness of her predecessors, but Drew finds a radically affirming way through. ” – Washington Post Apr 19, 2024 Full Review The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) 68% 2/4 EDIT “The plot breezes on with flimsy banter and bloodshed to go along with scant character development.” – Washington Post Apr 18, 2024 Full Review DogMan (2023) 59% 2/4 EDIT “It’s the right kind of bonkers for the right kind of audience, a gaga genre hodgepodge” – Washington Post Mar 27, 2024 Full Review Immaculate (2024) 72% 2.5/5 EDIT “Anchored by an impressive performance by Sydney Sweeney, the bloodshed isn’t just welcome but cathartic, a gonzo takedown of religious patriarchy with one hell of a memorable finale that reconfirms the good news: Nunsploitation is back, baby.” – Washington Post Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Ordinary Angels (2024) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ritchson is the biggest surprise of the movie. Sun-baked into worn denim and work boots, sporting a mustache and a lived-in twang, he’s the anti-Reacher. A tender girl-dad to the ailing Michelle and her observant older sister Ashley.” – Washington Post Feb 20, 2024 Full Review It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) 55% EDIT “Knife speeds through its horror setups without taking time to build actual dread or emotion, leaving behind a trail of cheap, meaningless deaths that hardly seem to impact its heroine, least of all anyone in the audience.” – Los Angeles Times Nov 11, 2023 Full Review
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