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Dennis Harvey

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Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety

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Clika (2026) EDIT “What’s curious is that “Clika” spends so much time on things it doesn’t know how to do well, and so little on the most enjoyable element here: any scene where JayDee is singing. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s an entertaining-enough watch, but given the talent involved, the results should have been more memorable.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “Everyone involved does good work, Stewart most of all. Yet as obviously enamored as she is with the material, its careening nature still feels short on narrative shape, growing more exhausting than insightful over two full hours’ course. ” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% EDIT “Rosemead impresses with its understanding treatment of both schizophrenia and well-intentioned if not always astute family coping mechanisms. It’s not an exceptional movie, but one that realizes its modest ambitions with moving, detailed care.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “Voice of Hind Rajab can hardly help making a powerful impact due to its wrenching content. But I’m not sure I wouldn’t have found a straight documentary at least as poignant, and less problematic.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “While this 145-minute saga can be a bit uneven in pacing and impact, it offers compelling performances, some powerful sequences, and a lot of food for thought that amply reward the viewer’s investment.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “A strong, confident, unnerving drama about bullying -- a subject that seems only to grow more relevant in our society -- as well as a stealth example of moviemaking that might be imperiled in the near future. ” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Texas (1941) EDIT “Plotwise, Texas is unmemorable if twisty. But it’s well-produced -- landing somewhere between “A” and “B”-grade values -- with a real comedic esprit that’s almost screwball in tenor.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It is fun, and highly accomplished; it’s just simultaneously a more blunt hitting of a simpler target than we might expect from Park.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Hyperbolic, though controlled in its seeming recklessness, this movie careens from souped-up tenement drama to Tennessee Williams parody to crime-thriller violence. It’s perhaps the year’s wildest ride in US cinema, this side of One Battle After Another.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Great Flood (2025) 56% EDIT “It’s an ambitious shotgun marriage of too many ideas that end up seeming underdeveloped and rushed within a conventional feature runtime.” – Variety Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Suburban Fury (2024) 100% EDIT “It’s an absorbing if slow-moving inquiry [whose] ultimate fascination lies precisely in being about someone who gets less and less cooperative with the filmmaking process.” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) EDIT “"We Shall' rigorously eschews sentimentality. Nonetheless, it arrives at a closure that is bittersweet and validating. ” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT “I’m not sure it actually has anything to say. And this director has been gilding a sort of old windbag’s wistfulness for “the good old days” so long already, where can he go from here?” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “Those who found "Long Day" somewhat impenetrable will be even more baffled by this exquisite-corpse structure of cryptic, successive narratives. Taken as pure phantasmagoria, however it achieves a level of aesthetic sumptuousness that’s its own reward.” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review Troll 2 (2025) 58% EDIT “Uthaug is a confident entertainer-craftsman who sells the script’s occasionally groan-worthy clichés with humor and smart pacing. There’s plenty of visual stimulus, both scenic and fantastical.” – Variety Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) 77% EDIT “It’s all pacey and colorful enough, with sufficient gore to please genre fans after a couple of relatively restrained early deaths.” – Variety Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Cactus Pears (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s a touching, poetically restrained romance that avoids the pull of both over-idealizing and melodramatic tragedy. ” – 48 Hills Dec 12, 2025 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% EDIT “A harrowingly up-close look at press freedoms under siege. Needless to say, it’s a cautionary tale we can’t afford to dismiss here in the U.S. ” – 48 Hills Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “The performances are note-perfect, the script’s giant, serpentine puzzle as surprising and relevant as that of One Battle After Another.” – 48 Hills Dec 12, 2025 Full Review The Librarians (2025) 94% EDIT “The ideological/political purpose of these attacks, which increasingly involve arrest and death threats, is clear. Though as ever, the gullibility of activists who think they’re “saving the children” from largely imaginary perils amazes, and infuriates. ” – 48 Hills Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Merrily We Roll Along (2025) 95% EDIT “This isn’t the most ingenious visualization of a demanding work, but it’s functional. And needless to say, the score is a lot more than that.” – 48 Hills Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 82% EDIT “Hall and Gandersman compel enough interest to pull viewers through, even if they may find the fadeout less than satisfying. ” – Variety Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “At nearly 2.5 hours, "Wake Up" is overlong, over-contrived, at once snide and pretentious.” – 48 Hills Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “This becomes one of those enterprises that assumes the more crying, screaming, moaning et al. the performers do in closeup, the more intense the emotional experience will be for viewers.” – 48 Hills Dec 3, 2025 Full Review
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