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Clayton Dillard

Clayton Dillard's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Cat and the Canary (1927) 94% EDIT “Paul Leni translates expressionism into an American register with such verve that The Cat and the Canary still appears visually distinctive today.” – Slant Magazine Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Mike Figgis’s anthem of aspiration and struggle leaves no doubt about Francis Ford Coppola’s beliefs.” – Slant Magazine Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Went Up the Hill (2024) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Samuel Van Grinsven’s Went Up the Hill is characterized by a starkly precise aesthetic and withholding approach to the ghost story. ” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2025 Full Review The Knife (2024) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “The overriding suspense here is largely created by watching truth become negotiable, and through the small, plausible distortions of the truth that people come up with when survival instincts kick in. ” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2025 Full Review My Mother's Wedding (2023) 41% 1.5/4 EDIT “Where Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married completely immersed viewers in the sometimes messy intimacies of family, My Mother’s Wedding feels more like a stage production that forgot to include its first act.” – Slant Magazine Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The film avoids becoming a moral fable about good and bad characters and instead functions as a more nuanced and productive form of political commentary.” – Slant Magazine Jul 26, 2025 Full Review Little, Big, and Far (2024) 80% 2/4 EDIT “The film adopts a diaristic, epistolary form that flattens its emotional topography.” – Slant Magazine Jul 6, 2025 Full Review Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) 89% EDIT “Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser is essential for both its improvisatory look at Thelonious Monk and its implicit reflection on the ethics of portraiture.” – Slant Magazine Jun 30, 2025 Full Review Sex (2024) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film’s microcosm of dysfunction is convincing for how it depicts an ongoing, even never-ending, struggle to define oneself.” – Slant Magazine Jun 8, 2025 Full Review Kingpin (1996) 51% EDIT “The Farrellys’ style of comedy is at its best when it gives space to the comedic performers to meld their comedic sensibilities with the filmmakers’ own.” – Slant Magazine Jun 4, 2025 Full Review The Andromeda Strain (1971) 69% EDIT “Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain, a hard-sci-fi procedural slash disaster thriller, is a fascinating early example of large-scale blockbuster filmmaking with a brain.” – Slant Magazine May 10, 2025 Full Review Sheba, Baby (1975) 28% 3/5 EDIT “If Sheba, Baby’s dealings with ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are often crude and underdeveloped, it’s because of these very flaws, and constraints, that its intriguing elements are allowed to emerge.” – Slant Magazine Apr 8, 2025 Full Review Blood Rage (1987) 75% 4.5/5 EDIT “The era of the video store is gone, but Blood Rage should live on in themed cocktail parties and midnight screenings.” – Slant Magazine Oct 8, 2024 Full Review Antichrist (1974) 14% EDIT “The Antichrist certainly looks dynamic and foreboding as lensed by Joe D’Amato, but given how it veers from scene to scene between orgiastic absurdism, freakout ceremonies, and solemn religious speak, its wants for more seamlessness and coherence.” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2024 Full Review In & Out (1997) 74% EDIT “The film’s tameness isn’t necessarily to its detriment as farce.” – Slant Magazine Jul 31, 2024 Full Review Farewell My Concubine (1993) 90% EDIT “Chen Kaige offers a definitive vision of what it looks, sounds, and feels like to realize that the personal is always political.” – Slant Magazine Jul 28, 2024 Full Review No Fear, No Die (1990) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “As with Claire Denis’s previous Chocolat, emphasis is placed both on how the French legacy of colonialism persists into the present, as well as how Black men are often filtered through the white imagination to ruinous ends.” – Slant Magazine Jul 15, 2024 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% EDIT “Karyn Kusama’s film is a prescient and compelling consideration of gender identity and sports.” – Slant Magazine May 22, 2024 Full Review Bushman (1971) 100% EDIT “The dramatic stakes of cultural and ethnic stressors become especially relevant once Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam is arrested during the making of the film on a phony charge involving the possession of an explosive device. ” – Slant Magazine May 20, 2024 Full Review Lights Out in Europe (1940) EDIT “It and Crisis provide remarkable examples of how journalistic integrity combines with cinematic technique to produce works that can lay claim to conceptualizing both the state of being and state of mind in these cities during this time.” – Slant Magazine May 18, 2024 Full Review Crisis: A Film of the Nazi Way (1939) EDIT “It and Lights Out in Europe provide remarkable examples of how journalistic integrity combines with cinematic technique to produce works that can lay claim to conceptualizing both the state of being and state of mind in these cities during this time.” – Slant Magazine May 18, 2024 Full Review The Shootist (1976) 81% EDIT “Don Siegel’s 1976 western The Shootist stars John Wayne in his final film appearance, though it’s perhaps just as notable for the muted nature of its regard for the pathology of violence.” – Slant Magazine Apr 11, 2024 Full Review Paint Your Wagon (1969) 45% EDIT “Joshua Logan’s Paint Your Wagon can be viewed as one of the last gasps of a dwindling Hollywood studio system, as well as a precursor to the New Hollywood.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2024 Full Review West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) 3.5/4 EDIT “Med Hondo’s is a bravura spectacle of intellectual and cinematic daring.” – Slant Magazine Mar 17, 2024 Full Review Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) 87% EDIT “By initially focusing on Doc, who’s more receptive to Wyatt’s council here, the film winds up giving the men equal footing as protagonists, making this something closer to a buddy picture.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2024 Full Review
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