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Josh Slater-Williams

Josh Slater-Williams's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) 100% B+ EDIT “Despite the seriousness of the situation, “Everybody to Kenmure Street” is not a film without humor, much of it sardonic wit characteristic of the general Glaswegian disposition. ” – IndieWire Jan 23, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “F is for Face is the most important part of the acting, and luckily, Foy excels at the assignment, conveying so much of the physical toll in her eyes and the tiniest facial flickers alone.” – Little White Lies Jan 22, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 3/5 EDIT “The History of Sound feels too muted in its direction and pacing for many stretches of its runtime, but [its] epilogue with Cooper proves very effective in bringing palpable passion and crucial context.” – The Skinny Jan 19, 2026 Full Review The Fin (2025) B- EDIT “Patient in its pacing, “The Fin” is an engrossing mood piece rather than a dystopian tale based around constant clashes, even though the threat of violence is always looming.” – IndieWire Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Shadow of Fire (2023) 89% EDIT “With his searing ‘period’ parable, Tsukamoto viscerally reckons with how the flames of any war corrode everything and everyone their burning light touches, long after they’ve been extinguished. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Sora takes the conventions of coming-of-age stories, especially Japanese school dramas, and infuses them with an air of dread that nonetheless doesn't sour the regular moments of joy, comedy and escapism.” – The Skinny Sep 15, 2025 Full Review I Live Here Now (2025) 86% 2/5 EDIT “Less a demonstration of just how interconnected disparate forms of pain and trauma can be, and more that a promising young director could stand to leave some eggs out of an overflowing basket of ideas.” – The Skinny Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) B+ EDIT “The build-up to the film’s low-key, poetic resolution is made all the more moving by Shim’s intelligent performance.” – IndieWire Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Dry Leaf (2025) 91% C+ EDIT “Like a road trip where you get held up in the same stretch of land for a long time, even the most mesmerizing, strange sights lose their intrigue if little to no variation in the scenery is reaching your eyes.” – IndieWire Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 100% A- EDIT ““Blue Heron” may be the most emotionally devastating film of the year -- and also perhaps the most comforting.” – IndieWire Aug 15, 2025 Full Review The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) 87% 4/5 EDIT “Hosoda's thoroughly charming, beautifully bittersweet coming-of-age time-travel tale masterfully taps into fears that plague most of us well beyond the age of its teenage protagonist.” – The Skinny Jul 2, 2025 Full Review The Encampments (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The Encampments proves essential as an exposé on wild distortion of messaging and the betrayal of institutions’ promoted values.” – Little White Lies Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Love on Trial (2025) C+ EDIT “Sometimes the lack of detail in portraying the fictional pop group comes across as though budgetary constraints are responsible; other times, it feels like storytelling steps were fudged in favor of shortcuts.” – IndieWire May 22, 2025 Full Review Magellan (2025) 85% B EDIT “Diaz’s confrontational film proves one of his most fascinating achievements: a hypnotizing historical and spiritual epic that’s immersive in a way that few decades-spanning stories successfully pull off.” – IndieWire May 19, 2025 Full Review Brand New Landscape (2025) A- EDIT “If an only twenty-something director can so deftly pull off some of the swings that Danzuka does with aplomb in his debut feature, the cinematic landscape of Japan has a very promising future.” – IndieWire May 15, 2025 Full Review Enzo (2025) 86% B EDIT “Pohu anchors the film’s emotional power even as some of the writing for his character and his family can verge on vexing vagueness rather than appealing ambiguity.” – IndieWire May 14, 2025 Full Review Cloud (2024) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Playing like a slicker, more vicious riff on Ben Wheatley’s Mexican stand-off film, Free Fire, the climactic gunplay chaos is all the more chilling for the impotence ultimately behind so much of the rage being vented.” – Little White Lies Apr 25, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 2/5 EDIT “When Fiennes and Binoche are centred, both solo and eventually reunited, the emotional charge is electric. It’s when anyone else is the focus that the slow-burn approach to the material proves inert.” – SciFiNow Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Four Mothers (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “As Edward, a gay Irish novelist afraid to take crucial steps to open up his life beyond looking after his mischievous mum, reliable supporting actor James McArdle proves a winning leading man.” – The Skinny Mar 31, 2025 Full Review Invention (2024) 95% B+ EDIT “This is an open-hearted, playful and perceptive film that does achieve its own sort of magic in seeing just how far you can test the boundaries between metafiction and explicit documentary.” – IndieWire Mar 18, 2025 Full Review Super Happy Forever (2024) 5/5 EDIT “Super Happy Forever is gentle in pace but a knockout in terms of cumulative impact. It's a major work in a deceptively minor key.” – The Skinny Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Baby Assassins: Nice Days (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “[It] resembles a great anime comedy show leaping to live-action with all its infectious silliness successfully translated – but crucially, with its heart still intact.” – The Skinny Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Tornado (2025) 66% B- EDIT “Despite considerable thrills throughout, Maclean’s writing makes it seem as though his characters never actually existed in their world before the film started.” – IndieWire Feb 28, 2025 Full Review The Colors Within (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “The film’s finale absolutely hits with the power of a dodgeball to the face that still makes you beam uncontrollably.” – Little White Lies Feb 24, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Following a playful opening stretch before [its] inciting incident, Salles' film unfolds in a relatively unostentatious style and at an unhurried pace, which is of great benefit to Torres's intricate central performance.” – The Skinny Feb 17, 2025 Full Review
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