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Rocco T. Thompson

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Biography:

Rocco is an Austin-based film journalist, critic, podcaster, former Online Managing Editor for Rue Morgue, and shorts programmer at Fantastic Fest. His work can be found at Rue Morgue, Daily Dead, Fangoria, and Slant Magazine. He has an affinity for Claire Denis, millennial horror, and the James Bond franchise.

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 2/4 EDIT “The film shrinks the scope of the earlier film down to a pinhole in what feels more like an incidental episode than a full-throated cinematic event in its own right.” – Slant Magazine Jan 13, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The Plague is vividly, terrifyingly attuned to the way children create a social order that resists sensible adult intrusion and influence.” – Slant Magazine Dec 14, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 68% 2/4 EDIT “The film’s brand of feminism is as skin-deep as the narrative.” – Slant Magazine Nov 29, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “As is the case with most period dramas, Nuremberg is in direct conversation with the moment it was made.” – Slant Magazine Nov 1, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% 2/4 EDIT “Though the film is billed as a found-footage freak-out, the bulk of Chris Stuckmann’s investment in that cinematic form is up top.” – Slant Magazine Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The film unearths new depths of existential anxiety engendered by the increasingly tumultuous 2020s.” – Slant Magazine Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Much of Road to Revenge plays like a spectacularly gory silent film, with Aatami taking out scores of Red Army soldiers in action scenes that are as inventive as they are incredibly funny.” – Slant Magazine Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 2.5/4 EDIT “Throughout, Scott Derrickson collapses dreams, reality, past, and present sidelong into a singular cinematic haunted space.” – Slant Magazine Sep 22, 2025 Full Review Primate (2025) 79% 2/4 EDIT “Primate is high-strung in its eagerness to get down to the carnage, so much so that the human story feels almost totally inconsequential.” – Slant Magazine Sep 21, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “The story’s boilerplate setup gets a noticeable lift thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s style and focus.” – Slant Magazine Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “That Together treats its body horror as just another wrinkle in the complexities of what it means to love someone else is writer-director Michael Shanks’s smartest move.” – Slant Magazine Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% 2/4 EDIT “After its opening act, the film gets silly fast, with a frankly stupid witchcraft subplot and narrative turns that are telegraphed with audience-insulting obviousness.” – Slant Magazine Jul 20, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% 1/4 EDIT “How do you make a legacy sequel when you’re unsure what your legacy even is?” – Slant Magazine Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 3/4 EDIT “Eddington is especially pointed in the way that it views our online connectedness as a social cancer rather than an engine for progress.” – Slant Magazine Jul 10, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The film’s conception of the future, perceptively, looks back to humankind’s primeval past.” – Slant Magazine Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Sovereign (2025) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Christian Swegal’s feature-length directorial debut is like staring into a national wound.” – Slant Magazine Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Dog of God (2025) 87% 3/4 EDIT “The film is uncannily expressive, intensely violent, and perversely funny.” – Slant Magazine Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Sham (2025) 81% 2.5/4 EDIT “Sham is primarily concerned with individual experience at odds with dominant narratives, and whether knowing one’s own reality can ever be solace enough if everyone else considers it fiction.” – Slant Magazine Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% 2.5/4 EDIT “ Set to the rhythms of a pulsing, ultramodern New York milieu, the film, at its best, wrings real tension and excitement out of the simple exchanging of clandestine messages and sensitive information.” – Slant Magazine Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% 3/4 EDIT “The film has a white-hot nerve of pain running inside it that burns right through the screen.” – Slant Magazine May 16, 2025 Full Review On Swift Horses (2024) 53% 2/4 EDIT “It’s difficult to shake that there’s something tragic blaring from the sidelines that the film’s wistful, pitch-perfect Hollywood ending can’t acknowledge.” – Slant Magazine Apr 18, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “This is a formidable technical showcase and obsessive forensic recreation whose imposed formal limitations become meaning-making ends in and of themselves.” – Slant Magazine Mar 28, 2025 Full Review Holland (2025) 21% 1.5/4 EDIT “The discomfort in watching Holland is not knowing if something is intended or, like the main character, you’re looking for things that aren’t there.” – Slant Magazine Mar 12, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 83% 3/4 EDIT “The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded.” – Slant Magazine Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 52% 3/4 EDIT “Death of a Unicorn taps into the anti-capitalist strain in late-20th-century monster movies from Alien to Jurassic Park by tracing a clever through line from the unicorns of antiquity to the present.” – Slant Magazine Mar 9, 2025 Full Review
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