Jason Anderson
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Io Capitano (2023)
96%
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“The film is also rescued from its more precious and sentimental excesses by the power and complexity of Sarr’s central performance. ” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 31, 2025
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Gasoline Rainbow (2023)
93%
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“There’s something magical about the warmth, love and generosity the five express to one another, and radiate outward toward the others they encounter – and the film’s audience.” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 31, 2025
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Allen Sunshine (2024)
EDIT
“Then again, the fact that the rambunctious youngsters seem to have wandered in from a summer-camp movie evidently shooting nearby only serves to accentuate the fundamental Canadian-ness of Chamandy’s largely endearing debut. ” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 11, 2025
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The Contestant (2023)
92%
EDIT
“A largely sober tone allows The Contestant to avoid the kitsch that the subject of Japan’s extreme brand of TV competitions typically attracts. ” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 11, 2025
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Matt and Mara (2024)
87%
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“Even at a briskly paced 80 minutes, Matt and Mara manages to be remarkably astute about its central relationship’s cocktail of suppressed desire and professional envy. ” –
Sight & Sound
Nov 6, 2025
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Dog Man (2025)
82%
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“Peter Hastings’s movie incarnation of the popular graphic novel series presents a cheerful whirlwind of goofball gags, silly puns and moments of real poignancy in an endearing, unpolished package.
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Sight & Sound
Nov 6, 2025
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The Naked Gun (2025)
87%
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“Akiva Schaffer’s police-procedural reboot is refreshingly silly and expertly paced, with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson fully committing to the bit.
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Sight & Sound
Nov 4, 2025
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Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
93%
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“Despite its commercial success, it was perhaps the last grand artistic folly that Hollywood would tolerate, and a golden age of American filmmaking soon stumbled to a close.” –
eye WEEKLY
Sep 22, 2024
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Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill (2022)
92%
4/5
EDIT
“Directors Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom... create something that attains the same grace and beauty heard in Sill’s music.” –
Uncut Magazine [UK]
Oct 26, 2023
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Sisu (2022)
94%
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“For all the pleasure viewers may take in the sight of nameless Nazis being dispatched and dismembered, they may be surprised by the film’s solemnity, too.” –
Sight & Sound
Jun 8, 2023
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Aftersun (2022)
96%
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“The Situationists and the Sex Pistols may have had nothing good to say about cheap holidays in other people’s misery, but Wells finds a wealth of beauty and heartache in this one.” –
Cinema Scope
Feb 16, 2023
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The Decalogue (1989)
100%
5/5
EDIT
“The original series of 10 hour-long films has all of the qualities that mark Kieslowski's better-known work.” –
eye WEEKLY
May 1, 2021
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The Hitcher (2007)
19%
2/4
EDIT
“Viewers looking for more than a few secondhand thrills should drive right past The Hitcher.” –
Globe and Mail
Apr 27, 2020
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The Man From Mo'Wax (2016)
77%
EDIT
“While The Man from Mo' Wax follows a conventional doc structure as it charts its subject's rise, fall and last-act resurgence, Jones finds more inventive ways of framing Lavelle's saga.” –
Sight & Sound
Dec 28, 2018
Full Review
Her Smell (2018)
83%
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“Moss ultimately has the chance to dial it down and reveal unexpected layers to Becky, a woman who lives too fast because living any slower means feeling paralyzed by fear and need.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 10, 2018
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Sweet Country (2017)
96%
EDIT
“Sweet Country's complexity and sophistication mark it as a landmark work of Indigenous cinema.” –
Sight & Sound
Mar 13, 2018
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Chop Shop (2007)
97%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2011)
61%
EDIT
“For devotees of science-fiction cinema at its most synapse-frying and voluptuously horrifying, the mother lode is exactly what [writer/director Panos] Cosmatos delivers.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
The End of Time (2012)
78%
EDIT
“At the end of these many and varied travels, we arrive at a film that is Mettler's most readily engaging since Picture of Light...” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
The Oxbow Cure (2013)
EDIT
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Asphalt Watches (2013)
EDIT
“Of course, it all goes on way, way too long, but no story that involves a cross-Canada trek could ever feel authentic without stretches of ass-numbing tedium.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
Full Review
October November (2013)
EDIT
“Alas, a similarly high calibre of acting skill proves to be the only real virtue of October November, a disappointingly drab and shapeless drama that has little of its predecessors' power.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Waste Land (2014)
EDIT
“... Waste Land's ambitions far exceed what it can competently handle.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Fires on the Plain (2014)
88%
EDIT
“... it dives into the abyss at the earliest opportunity and just keeps falling and falling.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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Ned Rifle (2015)
78%
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Cinema Scope
Jan 30, 2018
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