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Ross McIndoe

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Biography:

Ross McIndoe is a freelance film and TV critic for Slant Magazine and The Skinny. He also writes video essays for Wisecrack and has contributed features to a range of publications including Film School Rejects, The Quietus and Bright Wall / Dark Room. He lives in Glasgow with three small turtles and one small lady.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Natchez (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT “With so many engaging voices on offer, Suzannah Herbert wisely chooses to let the locals tell the story rather than providing any explicit narration of her own. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 25, 2026 Full Review The Oldest Person in the World (2026) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Sam Green’s documentary has a knack for finding moments where we can feel the broad sweep of a supercentenarian lifespan, condensed down into a single, everyday occurrence.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Long Day's Journey Into Night (2025) 3/4 EDIT “In a work as emotionally devastating as this, the performances are everything.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 86% 2/4 EDIT “There’s a thoughtful zombie tale with its own distinctive personality lurking somewhere within We Bury the Dead, but it’s overridden by the film’s more generic elements, and that identity ultimately gets lost among the horde.” – Slant Magazine Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film’s writing is the sort that begs you to find it cute and quirky, which makes it quite grating if you don’t.” – Slant Magazine Dec 7, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 66% 1.5/4 EDIT “This is an overtly political film that’s hesitant to express its own political views.” – Slant Magazine Oct 27, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is sensitively attuned to how people’s feelings are shaped by cultural norms.” – Slant Magazine Oct 18, 2025 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 1.5/4 EDIT “This is a historical drama with a handsome enough period setting and a couple of pleasant musical moments but whose roteness keeps it from resonating.” – Slant Magazine Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film pokes fun at the conventions of detective stories but never becomes so self-aware that you stop taking it seriously.” – Slant Magazine Oct 9, 2025 Full Review V/H/S Halloween (2025) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Every segment passes the basic scary-movie smell test of showing you something that you haven’t seen before, and that includes a truly depraved death involving a large quantity of gumballs.” – Slant Magazine Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% 2/4 EDIT “horror tale told from the perspective of a dog, Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy is the sort of film that was always destined to live and die by the strength of its central gimmick.” – Slant Magazine Sep 28, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “It never even tries to escape the shadow of The Social Network, content as it is to trace the general outline of David Fincher’s film while capturing none of its depth or nuance.” – Slant Magazine Sep 14, 2025 Full Review The Threesome (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “The film effortlessly melds its sadcom properties with more predictable rom-com traditions.” – Slant Magazine Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Toxic Avenger (2023) 87% 2/5 EDIT “There’s nothing particularly daring or dangerous about the film, and while the largely practical effects are enjoyably old-school, the action sequences they’re deployed in service of aren’t all that inspired.” – The Skinny Aug 20, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It's not just crime doc conventions that Zodiac Killer Project dissects, but the economic factors driving the industry and the ethical questions that plague it.” – The Skinny Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The world [Christy] brings us is grey, run-down and uninspiring, an easy place for a person to stagnate. But it’s also full of vibrant personalities, and people who dearly love being wrapped up in each other’s lives.” – The Skinny Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% EDIT “Islands smoothly makes the transition from a romantic drama to an understated thriller, and it’s utterly intoxicating. ” – Vague Visages Aug 18, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% 2/4 EDIT “This is a film where you never quite know if the next scene is going to bring you a knife fight, a literary debate, or a childbirth inside a cave surrounded by wild dogs. ” – Slant Magazine Aug 17, 2025 Full Review A Samurai in Time (2024) 100% 3/4 EDIT “A Samurai in Time isn’t just having fun with fake swords and chonmage wigs, as it also provides a lot of gentle reflections about history, modernity, and our place in it all.” – Slant Magazine Aug 2, 2025 Full Review She Rides Shotgun (2025) 88% 2/4 EDIT “Nick Rowland’s film doesn’t seem to have faith in the story the novel tells. ” – Slant Magazine Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Other Way Around (2024) 91% 2/5 EDIT “But even once you’ve understood the point of it all, watching the same thing repeatedly recurring simply isn’t that interesting – no matter what Kierkegaard said. ” – The Skinny Jul 7, 2025 Full Review 40 Acres (2024) 89% 3/4 EDIT “40 Acres continually finds clever ways to either subvert familiar story beats or to make them land with extra impact.” – Slant Magazine Jun 28, 2025 Full Review Inside (2024) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Charles Williams’s feature-length directorial debut, Inside, centers on a trio of dangerous men who are forced into each other’s orbit, leading to an outcome that’s both violently chaotic and tragically predictable. ” – Slant Magazine Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The film ultimately arrives at a bloody, blackly comic climax that’s well worth the somewhat doddering path it takes to get there.” – Slant Magazine May 11, 2025 Full Review Clown in a Cornfield (2025) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Eli Craig’s film works precisely because it plays things straight.” – Slant Magazine May 7, 2025 Full Review
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