Sara Stewart
Tomatometer-approved critic
DIG! XX (2024)
100%
4/5
EDIT
“DIG XX is, more now than ever in its XXtreme form, one of the best music documentaries.” –
Book & Film Globe
Feb 2, 2024
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Anyone But You (2023)
53%
3/5
EDIT
“An air-light meringue of a romantic comedy or an eye-rolling miss, depending on your feelings about the genre.” –
Book & Film Globe
Jan 3, 2024
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
64%
4/5
EDIT
“I didn’t expect to walk out of a Hunger Games movie with a roots music buzz, but I’m not complaining!” –
Book & Film Globe
Nov 22, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023)
89%
4/5
EDIT
“This slip of a movie works best as a tone poem about the constant maneuvering young women do through the waters of toxic masculinity, a Superfund site that seems unlikely to ever be un-polluted.” –
Book & Film Globe
Oct 6, 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
95%
5/5
EDIT
“Masterful Gen-Z agitprop. No notes.” –
Book & Film Globe
Apr 14, 2023
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Magazine Dreams (2023)
80%
EDIT
“Jonathan Majors is spectacular as an aspiring bodybuilder in this uber-intense drama.” –
Book & Film Globe
Jan 31, 2023
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
76%
4/5
EDIT
“Delivers on its promise of expanding the scope of Pandora.” –
Book & Film Globe
Dec 19, 2022
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She Said (2022)
88%
4/5
EDIT
“No gratuitous reenactments of assault, no horrifying climactic events... It's riveting.” –
Book & Film Globe
Nov 29, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022)
56%
2/5
EDIT
“You could feed a bot a steady diet of ’90s entries in this genre and it would spit out something approximating Ticket to Paradise. ” –
Book & Film Globe
Oct 22, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022)
38%
3/5
EDIT
“Don’t Worry Darling would have crushed if it had come out in the 1970s.” –
Book & Film Globe
Sep 26, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022)
92%
4/5
EDIT
“Moonage Daydream is more a vibe than a narrative. ” –
Book & Film Globe
Sep 22, 2022
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Thirteen Lives (2022)
85%
3/5
EDIT
“For all its scuba-diving wizardry, the film’s title is the extent of the detail you’ll get about the kids at its center. ” –
Book & Film Globe
Aug 10, 2022
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Spencer (2021)
83%
4/5
EDIT
“You mostly can't look away from Stewart, or help yourself rooting for Di to live happily ever after. Personally, I hope Oscar takes the bait.” –
Book & Film Globe
Nov 11, 2021
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The French Dispatch (2021)
75%
3/5
EDIT
“If you come to The French Dispatch loving Anderson, there's much to continue loving here.” –
Book & Film Globe
Oct 28, 2021
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Halloween Kills (2021)
38%
2.5/4
EDIT
“"Halloween Kills" knows what you're here for.” –
New York Post
Oct 14, 2021
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
62%
2.5/4
EDIT
“If you're planning to enjoy this film, don't ask too many questions. Just embrace the spectacle, a mishmash of genres and a riot of color.” –
New York Post
Sep 17, 2021
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Cry Macho (2021)
57%
3/4
EDIT
“Living at 91 never looked so good.” –
New York Post
Sep 17, 2021
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Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
28%
2/5
EDIT
“If you like songs about feelings that really double down on their most supposedly resonant lines, then you'll love this. Or you already do. I'm sorry!” –
Book & Film Globe
Sep 16, 2021
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Swan Song (2021)
92%
3/5
EDIT
“It's lovely to see Kier, a workhouse German character actor, in his first leading role in, apparently, 50 years.” –
Book & Film Globe
Aug 11, 2021
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Val (2021)
93%
4/5
EDIT
“This documentary is both great fun and deeply sad.” –
Book & Film Globe
Aug 6, 2021
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Zola (2020)
88%
2/5
EDIT
“If only its subject matter was as daffy as it thinks it is.” –
Book & Film Globe
Jul 2, 2021
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
25%
1/5
EDIT
“Aren't you kind of curious to see how lousy it is?” –
Book & Film Globe
May 21, 2021
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The Columnist (2020)
79%
3/5
EDIT
“Instead of leaning into the campy pleasures to be had in an American Psycho or Serial Mom-style celebration of going bonkers, The Columnist juxtaposes the daughter's free speech crusade with her mom's blood-spattered campaign to silence her critics.” –
Book & Film Globe
May 7, 2021
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Coming 2 America (2021)
49%
1/5
EDIT
“As a relic of 1980s comedy, Coming to America holds up better than most... And so it's with a heavy heart that I report that the sequel, Coming 2 America, is deeply, embarrassingly bad.” –
Book & Film Globe
Mar 12, 2021
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
81%
4/5
EDIT
“Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is, like its name, highly silly. And silly is a mood that movies lately totally underuse.” –
Book & Film Globe
Feb 25, 2021
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