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Charles Lyons-Burt

Charles Lyons-Burt's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Cactus Pears (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The film is at its best when it fashions itself as a kind of ouroboros where the future and the past, death and new love, circle back on one another.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2025 Full Review My Sunshine (2024) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Okuyama Hiroshi spins poetry from seemingly inconsequential moments.” – Slant Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Grand Tour (2024) 91% EDIT “It’s rare that you get a film that is both eloquently literary and fluidly musical; credit goes to Gomes for holding those two things at once. ” – Spectrum Culture Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “One can’t complain too much about a loving genre craftsman making another wacky sci-fi action caper, but it’s still a pity when it comes out this incoherent. ” – Spectrum Culture Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “A quarter century after Eyes Wide Shut, Nicole Kidman has gifted us the woman-centric spiritual sequel we deserve with Halina Reijn’s Babygirl. ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 9, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “Nosferatu isn’t bloodless but it is without soul or, crucially, a reason to exist. ” – Spectrum Culture Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) 80% EDIT “The problem with Tyler Taormina’s mostly lovely Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is that it straddles the line a bit awkwardly between multiple Noel movie modes. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Goodrich (2024) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “Goodrich is a moving and warmly humanist story of a vaguely unseemly, mostly harmless guy trying to be a better person.” – Slant Magazine Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “The world Coppola conjures, messily ridden with more ideas that he and his collaborators can quite keep a lid on, is rich and inspired nonetheless. ” – Spectrum Culture Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Close Your Eyes (2023) 93% EDIT “It’s an immensely pleasurable and rich ode to film culture, getting older and the inextricable ideas therein. ” – Spectrum Culture Aug 27, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “Lean into the inanity and you’ll have fun, even if the film would’ve been better off doing that more itself. ” – Spectrum Culture Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% EDIT “Janet Planet's restraint is meant to signal some sense of mystery and hidden depths, but it’s actually a lot emptier than it thinks it is. ” – Spectrum Culture Jun 28, 2024 Full Review The Watchers (2024) 33% EDIT “The Watchers doesn’t push anything into truly absurd or terrifying extremes. ” – Spectrum Culture Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Ezra (2023) 70% 2/4 EDIT “The film gets within striking distance of new territory for its subject matter but stalls out due to its pat storytelling.” – Slant Magazine May 26, 2024 Full Review Terrestrial Verses (2023) 96% EDIT “Set in modern-day Tehran, Asgari and Khatami work to expose with prickly realism and dashes of absurdity, the stringent rules and customs that still apparently govern much of societal behavior in Iran. ” – Spectrum Culture May 2, 2024 Full Review The Shadowless Tower (2023) 88% EDIT “Character motivations and plot threads are left semi-unresolved and nebulously defined, but enough crystallizes that the film amounts to a moving story of a man slowly reengaging. ” – Spectrum Culture Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 94% EDIT “More than just frankly sexual, Love Lies Bleeding is actually concerned with the particulars of how we pleasure ourselves and learn to satisfy others. ” – Spectrum Culture Mar 15, 2024 Full Review The Invisible Fight (2023) 58% 2.5/4 EDIT “Writer-director Rainer Sarnet’s deliriously weird The Invisible Fight would be irksome if it weren’t crafted so lovingly and with a charming earnestness.” – Slant Magazine Feb 17, 2024 Full Review The Sweet East (2023) 82% EDIT “Rather than represent or interrogate the rootless anonymity of Gen Z or the crackpot insanity of aging ideologues, The Sweet East listlessly mocks these generations while never exposing what makes people like this tick. ” – Spectrum Culture Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% EDIT “A capable biography of a queer artist, the woman who loved him and the music that moved them both, Maestro avoids many standard biopic tropes, but can’t quite escape the trappings of the genre. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 27, 2023 Full Review A Still Small Voice (2023) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The film does a fine job of holding a mirror to the experience of therapeutic practice. ” – Slant Magazine Nov 8, 2023 Full Review The Delinquents (2023) 86% EDIT “In a way that’s never showboating or flamboyant, The Delinquents is a technically stunning story of romance and liberation with several other layers and dimensions beneath that, processed with a considerable amount of self-awareness and finesse. ” – Spectrum Culture Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Strange Way of Life (2023) 78% EDIT “Strange Way of Life is an amusing meditation on the cosplay of masculinity and the Old West. ” – Spectrum Culture Oct 9, 2023 Full Review Talk to Me (2023) 94% EDIT “Talk to Me holds one’s attention while you’re in it but looks immediately more threadbare and lacking in the rearview. ” – Spectrum Culture Jul 28, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “One has to hand it to Gerwig for offering up the most counterintuitive ouroboros of an IP franchise-starter imaginable. ” – Spectrum Culture Jul 22, 2023 Full Review
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