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Reeling Reviews is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Laura Clifford, Robin Clifford.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B+
L’attachement (2024) Robin Clifford In our brave new world, that family can now include once-were-strangers and it is about love ties more than blood ties.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Deep Water (2026) Robin Clifford I guess the filmmakers think that if one shark worked so well in 1976, then hundreds would be even better now. Not so.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Blue Heron (2025) Robin Clifford The change of direction the film takes makes an important point about mental illness in a family.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Omaha (2025) Robin Clifford I will make this brief. If you see a review for "Omaha," do not read it! If it says "contains spoilers," run do not walk away from it. (But, read this one.)
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Hokum (2026) Laura Clifford Mc Carthy and his cinematographer Colm Hogan use the hotel’s spaces for maximum effect...[and] gives his film such a satisfying wrap, he leaves you wondering if Bauman was right in the first place.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
B
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Laura Clifford the original film’s main cast return twenty-two years later with a sequel that largely works once one gets past a fairly defanged Miranda Priestly...Of course, in many ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Deep Water (2026) Laura Clifford if Harlin's intent was to evoke gales of laughter over various shark deaths, mission accomplished. All that and Sir Ben Kingsley sings karaoke!
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Blue Heron (2025) Laura Clifford Writer/director Sophy Romvari's feature debut is based on her own experience and she's created a uniquely effective device to construct her film...a wistful reflection on a painful family event.
Posted Apr 25, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Mother Mary (2026) Laura Clifford It would appear that writer/director David Lowery has watched Peter Strickland's "In Fabric," a fellow A24 release, one time too many.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
Omaha (2025) Laura Clifford Cole Webley makes his feature debut and all the right moves with things both said and unsaid in Robert Machoian's screenplay, using the wide open landscape of the American West to present the death of the American Dream in the most heartbreaking terms.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
C
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Laura Clifford director Jorma Taccone evidently thinks that seeing someone's head get blown in half is a punchline and it could be if violent escalation wasn't all this movie has going for it.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
L’attachement (2024) Laura Clifford The 2026 César winner for Best Film...is a moving, deeply human example of the old adage 'it takes a village to raise a child.'
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Normal (2025) Laura Clifford "Nobody" and "John Wick" screenwriter Derek Kolstad serves up a modern Western that plays like the last act of the John Wick "Ballerina" spinoff crossed with "Fargo," but while its action tropes are familiar, director Ben Wheatley stages them with flair
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Hamlet (2025) Robin Clifford Riz Ahmed is wrong for the role of the melancholy prince.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Wasteman (2025) Robin Clifford Director McMau does not embellish as he puts us among the prison population.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
The Stranger (2025) Robin Clifford Ozone captures the mood and subdued intensity with his lead character and Benjamin Voisin takes that character and runs with it.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
B
I Swear (2025) Robin Clifford Jones and his two stars – young and grown up John – do a fine job in showing how the syndrome can isolate and destroy the life of the victim.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
B
I Swear (2025) Laura Clifford it's not just Aramayo who impresses here...The movie, itself, though, falters, David Davidson's abandonment of his family coming out of nowhere and writer/director Kirk Jones embracing movie-of-the-week cliche in his final act.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
A
The Stranger (2025) Laura Clifford Composer Fatima Al Qadiri combines Middle Eastern instruments and synthesizer to eerie, haunting effect, a call to something other than prayer. With his adaptation, Ozon has created the definitive cinematic version of the existentialist classic.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Wasteman (2025) Laura Clifford Jonsson and Blyth make for a dynamic pairing, a lamb and a lion. Jonsson wears a perpetual frown, his forehead creased with worry, while Blyth's very expression is a challenge, his posture domineering.
Posted Apr 12, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
The Christophers (2025) Laura Clifford Soderbergh delivers his best film since "Traffic." Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together.
Posted Apr 12, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Exit 8 (2025) Laura Clifford Genki Kawamura's addition of a psychological basis for the lost man's plunge into an endless loop of an underground subway corridor isn't integrated into his adaptation of the video game well enough to make its rules representative of the man's conundrum
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Faces of Death (2026) Laura Clifford could and should have been so much better. Dacre Montgomery's Arthur, the killer in the white stocking mask, is chilling...Barbie Ferreira keeps us on her side even as the script betrays her
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Hamlet (2025) Laura Clifford flawed, especially in its muted first half, but builds into a fiery finish ignited by the contemporary Kathak dance which indicts Claudius at his wedding reception.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Robin Clifford It is a story of feelings and emotions and the two ladies own the film. The men have their place, too, but the ladies prevail.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) Robin Clifford It is fun to see the transformation of the four friends as they lose their citified self confidence and, actually, grow up a bit.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
A-
My Father's Shadow (2025) Robin Clifford Davies puts us into the political turmoil gripping Nigeria as a backdrop to Fola’s personal story.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The Drama (2026) Robin Clifford Writer-director Kristoffer Borgli lays out the dilemma quickly and milks it longer than it should, though Pattinson does the slow burn to manic comic purpose.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
A
My Father's Shadow (2025) Laura Clifford an emotional knockout....Sopé Dìrísù rises to the immense challenge of portraying this man determined to right his own father's wrongs
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Laura Clifford Borgli has specialized in a type of dark comedy where people's worst impulses spiral out of control. But while that is also true of his latest, what he's pinned on Emma is a really questionable choice to mine for comedy.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Fantasy Life (2025) Laura Clifford an off-kilter romcom set within a sprawling Jewish family that errs on the side of restraint despite its combustible climax.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) Laura Clifford shows us a playful Satyajit Ray working on a global stage while still exposing the class injustices of his home country. Janus's 4K restoration release of this 1970 film deserves celebration.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Marc by Sofia (2025) Laura Clifford ...this one is coming from shared experience and has the aesthetic of a scrapbook, memories and cultural signifiers laid out like fabric swatches on a designer's work table.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Laura Clifford won't tell anyone who's read anything at all about the subject anything new, instead appearing to be a documentary essay to ease the filmmaker's own anxieties...and it sure didn't make me an apocaloptimist.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Laura Clifford a most peculiar ghost story, a case of post-trauma shifting identities told with humor, heart and a dash of mystery...may have a light touch, but its psychology digs deep.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
A Magnificent Life (2025) Laura Clifford Sylvain Chomet employs his distinct animation style of hand drawn, exaggerated characterizations cast in autumnal nostalgia to bring decades of one of France's most prolific literary figures to life.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Serpent's Skin (2025) Laura Clifford Mackay displays a similar sensibility to "I Saw the TV Glow's" Jane Schoenbrun with themes of finding one's identity, a nostalgia for 90's television and love of shocking pink.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
A
Sound of Falling (2025) Laura Clifford Mascha Schilinski's generational family trauma reverberates through one German farmhouse, cinematographer Fabian Gamper's camera the ghostly presence that glides around it as editor Evelyn Rack seamlessly weaves back and forth among different eras...
Posted Mar 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A
A Magnificent Life (2025) Robin Clifford "A Magnificent Life" is, indeed, about a magnificent life and I feel that I really got to know the man and his art in a way I did not expect
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Tow (2025) Robin Clifford an honest look at what can happen to person struggling to make a life and a living in the wealthiest, most powerful country the world has ever know – for those at the top.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Slanted (2025) Robin Clifford Writer-director Amy Wang is none too subtle with her treatise on the pervasiveness of "white privilege" in its domination of America.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
C
The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) Robin Clifford The kids may like it, though the environmental message will go over the heads of most. I suppose that is to give the parents a reason to watch.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
Tow (2025) Laura Clifford ...appears to be a labor of love, but Jonathan Keasey & Brant Boivin's ripped-from-the-headlines screenplay bogs down its pacing with too many details which don't matter much in the overall scheme of things.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Nadja (1994) Laura Clifford Michael Almereyda's 1994 take on "Dracula's Daughter" has received a stunning 4K director's cut restoration, the better to admire the visages of Romanian actress Elina Löwensohn and 'whatever-happened-to' Galaxy Craze, this film's love interest Lucy...
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
Project Hail Mary (2026) Laura Clifford "The Lego Movie" directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller seem unsure if they're making a cutesy derivative space adventure or a serious scientific exploration, tonal schizophrenia exacerbated by an excessive run time.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
B-
The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) Laura Clifford Ricard Cussó and Rio Harrington keep the brightly animated action swimming in directions that should delight the kids while writers...adapt Deborah Diesen's children's book with some clever and subversive humor for adults.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Slanted (2025) Laura Clifford crosses the generational conflicts facing immigrant families found in such films as Neon's 2023 horror outing "It Lives Inside" with The Twilight Zone's 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You' and a dash of "Mean Girls" to explore racial inequality in America.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
B
Waiting for Guffman (1996) Robin Clifford I felt good after watching "Waiting For Guffman," and that ain't a bad way to feel about a movie.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
C+
undertone (2025) Laura Clifford Feature debuting writer/director Ian Tuason exhibits artful visual and aural technique in a film that builds suspense without offering much in the way of payoff.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
B+
André Is an Idiot (2025) Laura Clifford Benna's documentary begins with zaniness, incorporating everything from game shows to toilet POV shots, gradually leaning into harsh reality...André lived life well, serving up his death as a helpful and humorous warning to the rest of the human race.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
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