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Kristy Puchko
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Saltburn (2023) |
Saltburn is dynamite, bursting with lust, lies, and laughs — the kind edged with a dark snarl. If loving a movie this willfully seedy, boldly savage, smoking hot, and unnervingly sensational is wrong, then being right is boring. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Woman of the Hour (2023) |
"What are girls for?" Cheryl playfully asks her bachelors, who mostly flub their replies. Kendrick's film fares no better answering that query. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Poolman (2023) |
Poolman plays an inside joke that never let its audience inside. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Quiz Lady (2023) |
While the film wobbles along the way, when they get to the third act, it's game on for good times. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Close to You (2023) |
Close to You keeps us at arm's length. Its experiment with improvisation might have had great intentions in terms of seeking authenticity. However, this method ultimately fails in constructing a successfully engaging narrative or fleshed-out characters - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Pain Hustlers (2023) |
To Yates's credit, Pain Hustlers moves nicely, paced like Scorsese's relentless The Wolf of Wall Street, but nearly an hour shorter. It doesn't outstay its welcome, but neither does it challenge its audience. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023) |
The Holdovers is a terrific Payne film, bursting with sharp laughs and searing sweetness. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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National Anthem (2023) |
A glorious portrait of rural queer Americana. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Knox Goes Away (2023) |
Keaton perfectly casts himself in his second directorial effort, the neo-noir thriller Knox Goes Away. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 22, 2023
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Next Goal Wins (2023) |
Though Next Goal Wins aims for silly and feel-good, it wildly misses the mark. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Flora and Son (2023) |
This supposedly aspirational tale feels deeply cynical, promising love and happiness can be attained by anyone — if they are beautiful and can afford a MacBook, that is. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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The Teachers’ Lounge (2023) |
It just might be the most nerve-shredding thriller of the year. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023) |
Nicolas Cage deserves better. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) |
Ariane Louis-Seize makes her feature-length directorial debut with this daring and daffy horror-comedy that plays like Romeo and Juliet meets Beetlejuice and Amelie. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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Flipside (2023) |
It's beautiful and inspiring, and it might just spur you into some mind-f*cking self-reflection. Good luck. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 13, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
A Haunting in Venice is a solidly engaging and occasionally surprising whodunnit. However, as a fan of Branagh's sweatier, more sensual, and outright riskier horror, I couldn't help but wish for more. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
With his latest, The Boy and The Heron, Miyazaki once more collides the known and the impossible to spin a yarn of fantasy and tragedy that leaves audiences dropped-jawed in awe, a bit heartbroken, yet bolstered by beauty and radiant empathy. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
His Three Daughters is a simple but elegant drama that grapples with the ugliness of grief and comes out with as happy an ending as a shattering death might bring. It's chaotic, charismatic, and ultimately cathartic. Don't miss it. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 09, 2023
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Dicks: The Musical (2023) |
I love, love, love this movie that dares to be this willfully stupid, gross, and gleefully outrageous. - Mashable
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| Posted Sep 08, 2023
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Blue Beetle (2023) |
While this hero might sound like a mash-up, Blue Beetle breaks the mold by celebrating Jaime's greatest strength, his family, rather than defaulting to a story about yet another brooding solo knight. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 16, 2023
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Medusa Deluxe (2022) |
Medusa Deluxe is an extravagant, relentlessly propulsive, and wildly entertaining film, rich with provocative performances, jaw-dropping ambition, astounding visuals — both squalid and sublime — and a dizzying blend of dark humor and persistent empathy. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Pod Generation (2023) |
In Sophie Barthes' hands, a story of a couple having a pod baby becomes a clever and poignant comedy about the quirks of technology, privilege, and the inhumanity of having it all. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) |
I admire the ambition...yet, I was unable to enjoy the ride for what it was, too caught up in where it might have gone - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 10, 2023
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The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023) |
As funny and action-packed as this finale is, there's a bittersweet undercurrent as viewers grapple with what not even death or messy mergers could do: end the Venture Bros. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Haunted Mansion (2023) |
For a family seeking exciting entertainment, this Disney romp is a terrific choice. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Meg 2: The Trench (2023) |
Wheatley's wit seems pointed at the gauche desires of an audience who just want some big, mindless entertainment without being judged for it. - Mashable
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) |
An action-packed, utterly goofy nostalgia trip - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
My patience wore thin as the director gave into one of his favorite indulgences: a bleeding soundscape. - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 19, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
"a summer movie that has more depth than you might expect, and demands to be seen on the big screen to take in every ounce of all the incredible craftsmanship in front of and behind the camera. " - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 19, 2023
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Biosphere (2022) |
The best 2023 movie you just might overlook. - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 07, 2023
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Joy Ride (2023) |
Ferociously funny from the jump — check out the trailer for its opening takedown of a racist white playground bully — Joy Ride is a trip worth taking this summer. - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 05, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) |
If you're a fan of this franchise, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One will pull you to the edge of your seat and thrill you down to your bones. That's just science. - Mashable
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| Posted Jul 05, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
One of life's simplest pleasures is watching Harrison Ford punch out Nazis. It was true in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it's just as true now with the series' fifth installment, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. - Mashable
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| Posted Jun 28, 2023
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Asteroid City (2023) |
Asteroid City is not about its clever devices or even its characters, but about the connections made every day in ways large and small, remarkable and lasting. - Mashable
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| Posted Jun 17, 2023
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The Flash (2023) |
The Flash strives to appease apparent studio demands, the fickle love of fans, the gnawing yearning for nostalgia, and the increasingly impossible task of finding something new to say while repeating the same stories, and succeeds at none of it. - Mashable
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| Posted Jun 15, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
In an electrifyingly alive debut feature, writer/director Celine Song delivers the kind of movie you don't just nestle into but long to revisit. And yes, it's likely one of the very best films of 2023. - Mashable
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse has swung into the scene to remind us of the wonders animation can bring — even to the overexposed superhero genre. Why make worlds realistic when they can look like these? - Mashable
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
The haunted house subgenre gets a fresh coat of blood and horror with this spine-tingling thrill ride driven by grief, rage, and fear. - Mashable
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
As The Little Mermaid crawls by at a snail's pace, the wondrous moments are weighed down by wasted opportunities for spectacle, emotion, and unapologetic bombast. - Mashable
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
This is what summer movies should be! It's spectacular! It's thrilling! And it's the kind of movie you can't wait to yammer about to your friends. Truly, I walked out of Fast X with a big Momoa smile on my face, so wide it hurt. - Mashable
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) |
When detractors decry Disney for cannibalizing IP for profit, they could point to Peter Pan & Wendy, a live-action recreation of a classic movie that mercilessly bleeds life out of its iconic characters and passion out of its heralded helmer. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 29, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
I regret to inform you that the Guardians of the Galaxy as you know them are dead. What remains in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 are flickering remnants of fun times, but mostly maudlin bullshit. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 29, 2023
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022) |
In Personality Crisis: One Night Only, Johansen's identities collide, offering a fascinating blend of concert doc and hangout movie. And who wouldn't want to spend some time kicking back with one of the coolest men in rock history? - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Renfield (2023) |
While some stellar performers bring sparkle to the shabby script, not even Nic Cage can rescue Renfield from its uninspired excesses. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Air (2023) |
While much of Affleck's casting choices in Air err on the side of superb, one pivotal choice is repeatedly jarring: He doesn't cast Michael Jordan. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 11, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
I can't promise you'll enjoy Beau is Afraid. I can promise it'll f*ck you up. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 11, 2023
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |
In the end, it feels like one long commercial. Sure, I walked away wanting to revisit my old Mario games. But I also walked away with no wish to ever again hit play on The Super Mario Bros. Movie. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 04, 2023
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Citizen Sleuth (2023) |
Riveting and unnerving as it is uncompromising, Citizen Sleuth is a must-see for true crime fans. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 01, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
Hitting hard with a potent combination of humor, angst, and raunchiness, Bottoms is not only riotously entertaining but also sure to establish itself as a queer, chaotic landmark among its iconic predecessors. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 01, 2023
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Flamin' Hot (2023) |
Flamin' Hot is fleeting fun that may well leave you hungry for something more substantial. - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 01, 2023
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