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Jason Bailey

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Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 91% EDIT “Rebel Without a Cause is, for much of its running time, of its moment, but it captures that moment with a grace and vulnerability that must’ve been astonishing for its original audiences.” – Crooked Marquee Oct 23, 2025 Full Review The Last Viking (2025) 94% EDIT “‘The Last Viking' sports a cockeyed streak a mile wild, trafficking in the best kind of straight-faced absurdism—wry, but simultaneously genuine and sincere.” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Glenrothan (2025) EDIT “It’s somewhat jarring that Brian Cox, an actor who is seemingly incapable of a false note, has directed a film that consists of one false note after another” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Fuze (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s the kind of lickety-split, old-school programmer Steven Soderbergh and very few others are bothering to make anymore, and if it were content to simply be that, it would land cleanly. ” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “This documentary—with all its resources and access—rarely goes much deeper than that.” – RogerEbert.com Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% EDIT “I'm not sure Rollerball entirely works – it's such a strange hybrid of mismatched genres, you're never quite sure what movie Jewison is making, or if it's the one he intended. But I’ll add this much: my attention never wandered.” – Crooked Marquee Jun 4, 2025 Full Review Drop Dead City (2024) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s a fine film, albeit one that nearly loses its credibility due to an unfortunate instance of undisclosed bias.” – RogerEbert.com Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “Patellière and Delaporte foreground the moral complexity in a way that the Count’s copious heirs often do not.” – RogerEbert.com Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Surveilled (2024) 3/4 EDIT “Less like a documentary than a "Frontline" episode, albeit a well-made and deeply frightening one, whose conclusions are inescapably grim. ” – RogerEbert.com Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Road House (2024) 59% C- EDIT “"It isn’t as much of a bad movie as it is a baffling one, an inexplicable instance of an existing property revised past the point of recognition. Why would you want to remake and modernize a film so embedded in its specific time and aesthetic?" ” – Crooked Marquee Mar 11, 2024 Full Review Daddio (2023) 75% B EDIT “Johnson and Penn’s connection is genuine, and there’s an awful lot to like here.” – The Playlist Sep 14, 2023 Full Review Lee (2023) 68% C- EDIT “The images are immaculate, unsurprisingly, with Kuras and her gifted cinematographer Pawel Edelman making a striking aesthetic” – The Playlist Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Woman of the Hour (2023) 91% B+ EDIT “The debut feature of an intelligent, intuitive, film-literate actor-turned-director who has clearly spent their career working, watching, and taking notes.” – The Playlist Sep 11, 2023 Full Review The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) 86% B EDIT “A picture rendered with grace, patience, and artistry.” – The Playlist Sep 11, 2023 Full Review The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) 96% A- EDIT “"The Pigeon Tunnel” feels like his [Errol Morris] most personal picture to date.” – The Playlist Sep 3, 2023 Full Review First Time Female Director (2023) 36% D+ EDIT “"First Time Female Director” is a tremendous disappointment because Peretti is such a gifted performer.” – The Playlist Jun 17, 2023 Full Review The Lesson (2023) 77% B EDIT ““The Lesson” plays and gives one of our most entertaining actors an especially meaty role to devour. ” – The Playlist Jun 17, 2023 Full Review Rather (2023) 94% B- EDIT “The structure is fairly clever, starting towards the beginning but not quite at it, jumping forward and back, hopping around enough to keep the viewer on their toes and avoid the typical traps of the cradle-to-almost-grave profile.” – The Playlist Jun 12, 2023 Full Review Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023) 92% A- EDIT “Rock Hudson led a fascinating, complicated, often contradictory life, and “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” does it justice. ” – The Playlist Jun 12, 2023 Full Review Evil Dead Rise (2023) 85% D+ EDIT “A viewer’s experience depends disproportionately on their personal expectation of what an “Evil Dead” movie should be. ” – The Playlist Mar 19, 2023 Full Review Hypnotic (2023) 32% C EDIT “If this all sounds like mumbo-jumbo, it is.” – The Playlist Mar 19, 2023 Full Review Self Reliance (2023) 73% B EDIT “Johnson and Kendrick are just terrific together.” – The Playlist Mar 12, 2023 Full Review Parachute (2023) 83% B+ EDIT “A purposefully de-glammed examination of body image and self-loathing from a woman whose age and line of work would suggest that she’s had plenty of unfortunate opportunities to indulge in both.” – The Playlist Mar 12, 2023 Full Review Bottoms (2023) 91% B EDIT “Emma Seligman is an accomplished filmmaker, and if this underdog comedy doesn’t quite fulfill the promise of their debut, it also seems to suggest they can make just about any damn wild-ass movie they want.” – The Playlist Mar 12, 2023 Full Review Late Bloomers (2023) 82% B EDIT “It’s about as well-acted and enjoyable a version of this particular thing as you’re likely to find.” – The Playlist Mar 12, 2023 Full Review
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