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Kathy Fennessy

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7 Keys (2024) 3.5/4 EDIT “For a $300K debut, 7 Keys is stylish, but not slick, with each section represented by a different color scheme and a score that ranges from suspenseful to ominous as Lena and Daniel reveal more of themselves.” – Seattle Film Blog Jan 18, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% 4/4 EDIT “From her 2018 debut Little Woods through Hedda, Nia DaCosta has a solid track record, but there was no guarantee she was going to pull off this high-stakes sequel in such fine style, but I'll be damned: she does. And then some.” – Seattle Film Blog Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 3.5 EDIT “All told, it's one of his most understated films, even as it asks some of the biggest questions, like, "Can we ever really know our parents?" And, "Can we ever really know our kids?" ” – Seattle Film Blog Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Radio On (1980) 4/4 EDIT “Radio On would make for the ideal double bill with Border Radio, the restless black and white debut from fellow [Wim] Wenders acolyte Alison Anders. ” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Fame Whore (1997) 2/4 EDIT “Their desperate need to succeed has all the narrative drive and technical expertise of a glorified home movie--one featuring a soundtrack by Dub Narcotic Soundsystem, Emily's Sassy Lime, and Barbara Manning--but a home movie, nonetheless.” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Aura (2005) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “El Aura starts out as a two-hander, like Nine Queens, but soon segues into something darker and altogether stranger. On the one hand, it's more ambitious. On the other, it's more difficult.” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 24, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Park [Chan-wook] is such a strong visual stylist that it comes as little surprise that he ditches the first-person narration of Westlake's novel such that Lee does more showing than telling, so it's fortunate that he's such a magnetic performer.” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 21, 2025 Full Review Mala Noche (1986) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Sensitive, but never sentimental, it's the work of a born filmmaker.” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 14, 2025 Full Review Drink and Be Merry (2025) 4/4 EDIT “I was particularly struck by the way the film doubles as a character actor showcase, and every performer, in all their idiosyncrasies, gets the chance to shine. These mostly post-middle-aged actors deserve bigger parts than what they usually get.” – Seattle Film Blog Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is an enlightening, overwhelming document--if taken in all at one sitting--of a turbulent, complicated relationship that doubles as a tribute to the journalistic field, which has faced challenges of its own. ” – Video Librarian Magazine Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Hooligan Sparrow (2016) 97% 3/4 EDIT “If [Nanfu] Wang never gets to the bottom of the reasons why Sparrow has decided to risk her life for a cause--other than the fact that Chinese women can only benefit from her advocacy--it doesn't weaken her film in any way.” – Seattle Film Blog Nov 30, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “If they [the actors] never wink at the audience, the filmmakers and steadfast editor Bernard Beets do just that with their clever juxtapositions, ensuring that things never get too heavy no matter how close they dance to the edge. ” – Video Librarian Magazine Nov 17, 2025 Full Review Witness (1985) 94% 4/5 EDIT “In 2023, the year he announced his retirement, Peter Weir received an Honorary Oscar in recognition of his four nominations for Best Director... Witness was the film where he proved he could infuse Hollywood filmmaking with restraint and romanticism.” – Video Librarian Magazine Nov 13, 2025 Full Review His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) 3.5/4 EDIT “Biker movies tend to exclude women, to make them bystanders, or to push them to the front as in 1970's Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss with the immortal Meiko Kaji, but Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's unique take splits the difference.” – Seattle Film Blog Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 3.5/4 EDIT “We know how this story ends, but [Scott] Cooper's trick is to make the film feel suspenseful while retracing the steps it takes to get there, including incidents from Springsteen's childhood which play into the album.” – Seattle Film Blog Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Out (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “Jefferson Yaw Frempong-Manson and the rest of the cast are very good, but Bas Keizer is a real standout. He does a lot of acting using his eyes and body language, and it's always clear what he's feeling.” – Video Librarian Magazine Oct 21, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You begins as a dark comedy before edging into horror, punctuated by bursts of sparking, surrealistic imagery.” – Seattle Film Blog Oct 16, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “[Kathryn] Bigelow has filled out the cast with a wide-ranging group of talents, and they give it their all, but I miss the greater care she once took with character, even in stylized genre exercises like The Loveless, Near Dark, and Strange Days.” – Seattle Film Blog Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The 76-minute film is as much a profile of the photographer, at a particular moment in his life, as a showcase for the actor, who first won my heart in Todd Haynes' multi-persona Dylan depiction I'm Not There.” – Seattle Film Blog Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Jimmy in Saigon (2022) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Peter ends by saying that he feels he has helped his family to heal... We can't know for certain that this is true, but it does seem to have brought him closer to his mother, and to a sense of peace, knowing that Jimmy might have been a kindred spirit.” – Video Librarian Magazine Oct 4, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “These aren't horror movies; they're coming-of-age pictures made with great empathy and imagination, and this is surely one of the most beautiful she has made.” – Seattle Film Blog Oct 4, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/4 EDIT “One Battle After Another, [PT Anderson's] 10th feature, doesn't recreate Reagan's America, but rather Trump's America, and everything about it feels up to the minute, because one directly leads to the other.” – Seattle Film Blog Sep 25, 2025 Full Review The Warriors (1979) 88% 4/5 EDIT “If Walter Hill's 1979 comic book-style turfwar thriller The Warriors received mixed reviews upon its initial release--Pauline Kael praised it and Roger Ebert panned it--time has made it iconic. ” – Video Librarian Magazine Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Compensation (1999) 93% 4/4 EDIT “From today's perspective, [Zeinabu irene] Davis's concerns don't seem radical necessarily, but though rooted in the realities of the past, her film really was ahead of its time. ” – Seattle Film Blog Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Lake Tahoe (2008) 85% 3/4 EDIT “If Lake Tahoe isn't as funny as Duck Season, a low-income twist on Risky Business, i.e. bored teenager makes the most of an unsupervised Sunday, it's a richer work. ” – Seattle Film Blog Sep 7, 2025 Full Review
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