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John Bleasdale

John Bleasdale's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Yannick (2023) 95% EDIT “Quentin Dupieux’s latest film is a touch more conventional than his usual absurdist offerings, but maintains a sharp, funny meta-commentary on the divisions between audience and artist. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) 86% EDIT “Bellocchio’s talent is to be able to combine the incisive recreation of a historical moment with an operatic style, as cameras swoop and plunge through corridors and palazzi. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% EDIT “Almost every cliché of the genre is lovingly excavated for the first chapter in Kevin Costner’s epic four-part western, but its traditional approach is part of its charm. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “Twisters isn’t so much about confronting climate change as enjoying it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Bogancloch (2025) 100% EDIT “The pleasure of the film is that, if you are willing to spend some time with Jake on his own terms, there is an ease that comes with it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% EDIT “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn’t boring. It’s undeniably entertaining – at times witty, at times dumb fun.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “In The Brutalist, the artist suffers, but not for art: he suffers simply what history inflicts. Corbet’s film is a grandiose edifice, but he is as interested in the crumbling foundations as the soaring heights. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 50% EDIT “Although Kevin Costner no doubt wishes to be Hayes Ellison, he actually more resembles Mr Pickering – he’s got us all to go to Horizon based on false advertising with the hope that our enthusiasm will build the film we ultimately want to see. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 95% EDIT “There’s something of the dread of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dostoyevskian slow burn Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) here, but Khatami keeps things as tightly wound as barbed wire in his intimate and intense study in disintegration. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “I’s hard to resist its irreverence and the onslaught of ideas and quips, factoids and routines.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% EDIT “Despite the saltiness of its subject matter, Harry Lighton’s film – which is adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill – exists within the recognisable tradition of the feel-good English comedy.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Performances are excellent, with little emoting beyond an occasional glassy stare, so that watching Rebecca Ferguson refusing to cry, or a character apologising to another for getting angry about potato chips at a workstation, becomes oddly moving. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT “Ultimately, it is about the radical possibility of solutions, acceptance and going gentle into that good night. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Del Toro throws everything he can at the screen. Frankenstein is loud, bombastic, sublime and silly. This is a universe in which towers totter above precipices, cellars drip hollowly and women wear impossible dresses in the snow. ” – Time Out Aug 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot.” – Time Out Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% 4/5 EDIT “With a fantastic stunt team, a gamely macho star and some wonderful editing, Rollerball is so convincing, urban legend had it there were fatalities during the shoot. ” – CineVue Jun 2, 2025 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Gaza (2025) 92% 7/10 EDIT “This is a well-made and thoroughly entertaining thriller/dramedy that evokes a lost Palestinian city that has been destroyed before our eyes.” – Next Best Picture May 24, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Lee has made stunningly good crime thrillers – Clockers and 25th Hour – but like his protagonist, here he appears to be struggling to stay relevant and still use his own unique voice. ” – Time Out May 23, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% 5/5 EDIT “If you’re down for a trip, Sirat is The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing.” – Time Out May 16, 2025 Full Review Holy Cow (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “A moving and humorous coming-of-age story which is told with brio, avoiding the usual divots of social realism misery.” – Time Out Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Eephus (2024) 100% 8/10 EDIT “There are no backstories, no dramatic confrontations, no escalation. There's just a game heading into the gathering twilight.” – Next Best Picture Sep 25, 2024 Full Review Love (2024) 96% 7/10 EDIT “Haugerud is fascinated by his characters and lets his actors carry the weight of the film, allowing them time to explore, express themselves, and challenge each other in ways that don’t lead to conflict. ” – Next Best Picture Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Broken Rage (2024) 86% 9/10 EDIT “With so many older directors presenting their late works at buttock-punishing lengths, Beat Takeshi (77 years old) has decided enough is as good as a feast. And what a wise idea that is.” – Next Best Picture Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Russians at War (2024) 6/10 EDIT “Atrocities aren’t just accusations; they are well-documented events. And giving herself the apolitical task of humanizing the ordinary soldier, Trofimova seems unaware that being apolitical isn’t an option in a time of war. ” – Next Best Picture Sep 10, 2024 Full Review
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