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David Robb

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A Private Life (2025) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film’s brisk pace does partly compensate for the essential banality of the central investigation.” – Slant Magazine Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “Thompson’s presence is consistently captivating, as she relishes in exploring her character’s gleeful and occasionally anxious villainy.” – Slant Magazine Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2/4 EDIT “Though Hamnet is concerned with bottomless grief and the unique power of art to express the inexpressible, it can’t help but telegraph its themes loudly and incessantly, its emotional register off-puttingly monotonous.” – Slant Magazine Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film surveys an era’s unprecedented upheavals with an ambivalent eye.” – Slant Magazine Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “As Dracula wears on, its lack of focus starts to grate, while Radu Jude’s deployment of profane, disreputable dialogue and imagery starts to resemble a stylistic tic more than a genuine affront to his audience’s sensibilities.” – Slant Magazine Aug 17, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “The film’s multi-layered structure supports a familiar but often profoundly affecting tale of intergenerational family conflict.” – Slant Magazine Aug 12, 2025 Full Review Shoshana (2023) 73% 2/4 EDIT “It’s possible that a kind of objective moral ambiguity was the goal here, but given the sensitive nature of the material, it’s difficult to shake the feeling that the film’s vagueness is the calculated strategy of those unwilling to take a side.” – Slant Magazine Jul 23, 2025 Full Review No Sleep Till (2024) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “Uncertainty extends to the film’s mood, which fluctuates between dreamy ennui and slowly escalating dread.” – Slant Magazine Jul 13, 2025 Full Review Henry Johnson (2025) 62% 1.5/4 EDIT “Ultimately, Henry Johnson’s cynical assertions about society and human nature are the only aspects that end up resonating, for better or worse.” – Slant Magazine May 6, 2025 Full Review Inheritance (2025) 55% 1.5/4 EDIT “Its bizarre mismatch of form and content mostly saps it of life, tamping down the tension and frequently suggesting an accidentally distributed proof of concept for a project that never managed to secure funding.” – Slant Magazine Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% 2/4 EDIT “The immaculate framing and lighting can’t help but enhance the film’s burned-in nostalgic glaze and exacerbate the two-dimensionality of the characters, which dulls the emotional impact of the traumas to which they’re subjected.” – Slant Magazine Oct 11, 2024 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “Often blunt and unwieldy, Mohamed Rasolouf's film is nevertheless impactful.” – Slant Magazine Sep 8, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Though juxtaposing Canada’s drabness and relative lack of heritage with Iran’s millennia of unbroken tradition brings out the former aspects particularly clearly, Universal Language is aiming beyond mere satire or culture-clash playfulness.” – Slant Magazine Sep 8, 2024 Full Review Transamazonia (2024) 50% 2/4 EDIT “Plunging headlong into the murk of exploitative missionary work and environmentally destructive capitalism, Transamazonia is a film with undeniable import and sociopolitical urgency, which its muddled narrative can’t completely dampen.” – Slant Magazine Aug 17, 2024 Full Review Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023) 83% 2/4 EDIT “With none of the satisfying aesthetic appeal or narrative potency of the original, Dawn of the Nugget is happy to plod along as a functional joke vehicle fueled mostly by fond memories of its acclaimed predecessor.” – Slant Magazine Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Critical Zone (2023) EDIT “Ahmadzadeh’s impressive feat of creative rebellion is also a timely reminder that such a miracle should never be taken for granted.” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Lousy Carter (2023) 71% EDIT “This low-stakes effort nevertheless proves capable of offering some smart insights into love and death, and a couple of genuinely affecting moments towards the end...” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2023 Full Review Antarctica Calling (2023) EDIT “This film did serve as a vivid document of what is being lost to time and apathy...” – Slant Magazine Nov 20, 2023 Full Review The Bikeriders (2023) 79% 2.5/4 EDIT “The sheer exuberance of the story and the stylistic brio of Jeff Nichols’s direction often compensate for the film’s lack of authenticity.” – Slant Magazine Oct 25, 2023 Full Review Nyad (2023) 86% EDIT “As the film wears on, Diana’s personal motivations are increasingly blurred, and to the point that she comes to be defined almost exclusively by the adversity over which she triumphs.” – Slant Magazine Oct 18, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% 3/4 EDIT “David Fincher dabbles in the pleasures of genre without ever allowing the tlandish scenario to be treated with more respect than it deserves.” – Slant Magazine Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Priscilla’s delicate mystique struggles to free itself from an oppressive mood board imposed from without by six decades of history.” – Slant Magazine Oct 4, 2023 Full Review The Human Surge 3 (2023) 94% 3/4 EDIT “Its simultaneous sense of boundless possibility and stagnant futility recalls nothing so much as the chaotic, alienating realm of cyberspace that both birthed and shaped it.” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022) 76% 2/4 EDIT “Some pleasingly odd visuals and a sustained off-kilter mood will likely please many animation fans who haven’t had any exposure to the source material, but Pierre Foldes’s film ultimately fails to create any clear identity of its own.” – Slant Magazine Apr 9, 2023 Full Review On the Adamant (2023) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “The task of representing mental illness and those afflicted by it can be a precarious tightrope walk for a documentarian, and it’s to Nicolas Philibert's credit that he mostly avoids tumbling into sensationalism or mawkish sentimentality.” – Slant Magazine Mar 1, 2023 Full Review
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