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Mattie Lucas

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Biography:

Mattie Lucas (she/her) is a North Carolina-based film critic whose work has appeared in print and online since 2004. She is the chief film critic at From the Front Row and a contributor at In Review Online.

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Magellan (2025) 85% 3.5/4 EDIT “Diaz seeks to reframe the ancient myths by reminding us of the soul-crushing power of buying into one's own vanity, and takes us all to hell along the way.” – From the Front Row Jan 25, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT “While (it) doesn't quite have the same emotional gravity that made 28 Years Later such an unexpected powerhouse, its willingness to sit in the quietness is often quite remarkable.” – From the Front Row Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Afternoons of Solitude (2024) 88% EDIT “At once beautiful and repulsive, a haunting danse macabre of the eternal struggle against a patriarchal system that praises conquerers and punishes anyone who does not bend the knee to their self-styled superiority. ” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 99% EDIT “Jia reflects on both his own work and the shifting landscapes of modern China as he charts a bold course into the future. ” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “Maddening, tedious, and heartbreaking in equal measure, laying bare the stark realities of Israel’s brutal occupation of Gaza and its oppression of the Palestinian people. It's the year’s most vital, most unshakable film.” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% EDIT “A big, unwieldy, breathtaking celebration of the power of collective dreaming through cinema. May we ever wake up.” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “Each new Jafar Panahi film feels like a miracle. ” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, Boyle creates a thrilling and often jolting vision of the apocalypse, showcasing a kind of formal experimentalism that films of this scale rarely attempt these days. ” – From the Front Row Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “Aggressively...fine.” – From the Front Row Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “A disarmingly rich text, rivetingly directed by Safdie, who turns ping pong into a kind of brutal kinetic spectacle that makes for some of the year's most thrilling cinema.” – From the Front Row Dec 27, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 4/4 EDIT “If the cinema is a church, then The Testament of Ann Lee has revealed Mona Fastvold to be one of its most fervent new prophets.” – From the Front Row Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 3.5/4 EDIT “Rarely do we see such unabashedly heart-on-the-sleeve filmmaking at this level, but Cameron continues to up his own game. ” – From the Front Row Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% 3/4 EDIT “A film that does not seem connected to any conceivable plane of reality, as if space aliens who've never met an actual human wrote a movie about the American political system. Naturally, I loved every minute of it.” – From the Front Row Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% 2/4 EDIT “Feels strangely empty, its dramatic inertia creeping it toward an overwrought, weepy conclusion that feels unearned. ” – From the Front Row Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Oh. What. Fun. (2025) 35% 2/4 EDIT “What should have been a sweet "little something" for Christmas, ends up being a holiday turkey.” – From the Front Row Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% 3.5/4 EDIT “(Cooper) takes what could have easily been a minor romantic comedy and turns it into some of the most compelling and emotionally astute of his young filmmaking career. ” – From the Front Row Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “A warts-and-all requiem for the emotional wreckage left in the wake of the Hollywood dream factory.” – From the Front Row Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's every bit as witty and fun as its predecessors, but Wake Up Dead Man takes things one step further to become a surprisingly potent rumination on the nature of faith.” – From the Front Row Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “A quietly beautiful film, as haunting as the lonely whistle of a steam engine echoing through mountain passes and rural hamlets.” – From the Front Row Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “Chu's attempts attain a darker, more naturalistic feel to the proceedings creates a kind of tension with the material that it's never really able to overcome.” – From the Front Row Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% 2/4 EDIT “It's great seeing Lohan back on screen, and she's clearly having a blast with Curtis, but this is so clearly the reheated leftovers of something much better. ” – From the Front Row Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/4 EDIT “A nervy, restless film from a director working at the peak of her craft.” – From the Front Row Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “A portrait of blinding, beautiful, reckless queer love; of time passing and slipping away, captured in small moments to be held and cherished like wildflowers plucked from the earth.” – From the Front Row Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Hell's Angels (1930) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Despite the rather banal soap opera at its core, however, it's hard to deny what a stunning technical achievement this is. ” – From the Front Row Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “I found something incredibly resonant in...Elordi's haunting performance. I only wish that the parts of the story surrounding the Creature's Tale felt less leaden, less suffocated by its own grandiosity.” – From the Front Row Nov 8, 2025 Full Review
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