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      Always Good Movies is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Filipe Freitas.

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      Rating Title | Year Author Quote
      4/5
      		Living (2022) Filipe Freitas Living is a tastefully poignant story of deep human emotion wrapped up in a retro British wall covering. It’s sad, but in its awakening consciousness, it reminds us all that it’s never too late to embrace life.
      Posted Mar 23, 2023
      3.5/5
      		Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2021) Filipe Freitas Sometimes off-beat, this slice of crafty sleuthing shelters more surprises in the form of twists, which transpire from hazy flashbacks or sharp realities.
      Posted Mar 23, 2023
      1.5/5
      		The Son (2022) Filipe Freitas If The Father (2020) was a powerful drama that left me disarmed with astonishment, then The Son made me eye-rolling several times.
      Posted Mar 23, 2023
      3.5/5
      		Saint Omer (2022) Filipe Freitas Even not as touching as it could be, this exquisitely acted film provides a guilty pleasure for those who like to dive into skepticism.
      Posted Mar 23, 2023
      4/5
      		All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Filipe Freitas Goldin proves to be a true experimenter and survivor of our world.
      Posted Mar 14, 2023
      4/5
      		La Civil (2021) Filipe Freitas [Mihai] narrative mechanics never weigh down the power of the story, which works as a social chronicle of a country ravaged by violence and corruption.
      Posted Mar 14, 2023
      3/5
      		Infinity Pool (2023) Filipe Freitas Sensorially stirring, the film succeeds mostly in the visual department by combining saturated colors, image overlapping and alluring tonalities to depict inexplicable oddities, both physical and mental.
      Posted Mar 12, 2023
      2.5/5
      		Women Talking (2022) Filipe Freitas It’s encouraging that these desperate women abused by vicious men had found a way but there’s still something missing in the unfolding of a story in which the dramatics feel plastically inert.
      Posted Mar 12, 2023
      2.5/5
      		The Whale (2022) Filipe Freitas Even his [Brendan Fraser] unblemished commitment to the role can't redeem this intimate behind-doors drama from excessive pathos and an inordinately staged posture that makes it less genuine than it was supposed to.
      Posted Mar 12, 2023
      4/5
      		The Menu (2022) Filipe Freitas Never the thought and vision of a cheeseburger made such an impression on me. And by this time your appetite should be big for both the food and the movie.
      Posted Mar 03, 2023
      2/5
      		Sharper (2023) Filipe Freitas Its machinations, despite passing a sense of fun, are based on copy-paste rudiments that wear out our patience.
      Posted Mar 03, 2023
      3/5
      		Empire of Light (2022) Filipe Freitas There are a few lovely things in this film that make it easier for us to forgive its shortcomings. But so you know, Empire of Light is no magic movie.
      Posted Mar 03, 2023
      2/5
      		M3GAN (2022) Filipe Freitas Cinematically, M3gan remains soft at the core, contaminated by harmful robotization while following the codes of Hollywood’s easy scares.
      Posted Feb 24, 2023
      4/5
      		Dry Ground Burning (2022) Filipe Freitas This persuasive piece of filmmaking fuses crime and drama, showing not only the cost of lawlessness but also the power of these women.
      Posted Feb 24, 2023
      2/5
      		Knock at the Cabin (2023) Filipe Freitas An artless film without the guts to bring the apocalyptic threat to life onscreen.
      Posted Feb 24, 2023
      3/5
      		Mars One (2022) Filipe Freitas It’s the sincerity of the approach that keeps the film afloat at an early stage, but Mars One becomes more artificial, even melodramatic towards the end.
      Posted Feb 16, 2023
      4/5
      		Pacifiction (2022) Filipe Freitas This is a different kind of thriller that, capturing the sad constancy of political restlessness in a particular circuited context, feels like a delirious mania, sometimes annoying in its compulsory idée fixe.
      Posted Feb 16, 2023
      2.5/5
      		Causeway (2022) Filipe Freitas The problem with Causeway: it advances casually and lightly for the sake of entertainment, and you kind of know what is coming at every single turn.
      Posted Feb 16, 2023
      3.5/5
      		Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021) Filipe Freitas Humble, didactic and humane, this German documentary about a veteran teacher and his ‘foreign’ students was able to captivate, even if it draws out with more than three and a half hours of footage.
      Posted Feb 16, 2023
      4.5/5
      		EO (2022) Filipe Freitas The humor, dark enough to merit special attention, arrives unexpectedly in batches, making this moving ballad of fate and suffering even more irresistible.
      Posted Feb 02, 2023
      2.5/5
      		Babylon (2022) Filipe Freitas There’s nothing personal or profound in this messy imagination of the early movies; it’s just a spectacle reduced to tics and gimmicks.
      Posted Feb 02, 2023
      2/5
      		The Woman King (2022) Filipe Freitas Between the historical African ballad and the feminist epic, The Woman King advances unspectacularly academic, annoyingly predictable, and blatantly contrived.
      Posted Feb 02, 2023
      3/5
      		The Pale Blue Eye (2022) Filipe Freitas It’s a visually wow-inducing whodunit that feels dour and slow at times.
      Posted Jan 24, 2023
      2/5
      		White Noise (2022) Filipe Freitas With its derivative style and witless plot-twists, the film aspires to be grandiose, comprehensive, and clever but falls flat.
      Posted Jan 24, 2023
      3/5
      		The Swimmers (2022) Filipe Freitas The Swimmers could have been a sentimental film, but it's not, because El-Hosaini bothered to assemble a canny combination of elements that resulted more fruitful than was expected.
      Posted Jan 21, 2023
      2/5
      		Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Filipe Freitas Linearly plotted, Glass Onion is stunningly unfunny and desperately wacky; a barely coherent mess moved by a silly game with no thrills and no real mystery.
      Posted Jan 21, 2023
      3/5
      		Alcarràs (2022) Filipe Freitas The actors end up being the true catalyzers of the story.
      Posted Jan 21, 2023
      4.5/5
      		Aftersun (2022) Filipe Freitas Aftersun is a ripe, sensitive and slightly mysterious drama film served by great actors and crystallized by a rigorous staging and a deeper sense of observation.
      Posted Jan 13, 2023
      2.5/5
      		Holy Spider (2022) Filipe Freitas Holy Spider doesn’t add up to a fully realized thriller.
      Posted Jan 13, 2023
      4/5
      		The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Filipe Freitas Insensitively dark, peculiarly humorous and wildly depressing, The Banshees of Inisherin touches the puerile, the hilarious and the creepy.
      Posted Jan 13, 2023
      3/5
      		Moonage Daydream (2022) Filipe Freitas It was, at least, inspiring to see the alien rockstar romping majestically across the stage and flirting with many types of art.
      Posted Dec 30, 2022
      3.5/5
      		Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Filipe Freitas The musical aspect didn’t match the technically stunning visuals, but this fable comes with enough humor, poetry, and grimness to justify the director’s childhood obsession.
      Posted Dec 26, 2022
      2.5/5
      		She Said (2022) Filipe Freitas She Said declines to aim for anything other than the factual narrative, doing it with a mix of courage and relative panache.
      Posted Dec 26, 2022
      3/5
      		Bones and All (2022) Filipe Freitas In my eyes, the ultimate success of this experience comes from Rylance’s creepy performance, and not so much from the cannibal teens.
      Posted Dec 26, 2022
      3/5
      		The Eternal Daughter (2022) Filipe Freitas A purge of guilt and memories that, without taking the form of a labyrinth of artsy manipulations, never hits too hard. I wish I would have been more spooked here.
      Posted Dec 14, 2022
      3/5
      		Corsage (2022) Filipe Freitas It deserves some attention for its tenacity and provocation.
      Posted Dec 14, 2022
      2.5/5
      		The Wonder (2022) Filipe Freitas ... an exercise in mood with no visible threats. It will leave you with less than what you demand for a story of this nature.
      Posted Dec 12, 2022
      2/5
      		Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) Filipe Freitas The non-existent chemistry between the lovers reinforce the idea that this film is on automatic pilot.
      Posted Dec 12, 2022
      3/5
      		Till (2022) Filipe Freitas The Nigerian-born director is totally committed to her subject, but I’m convinced that the power of the film doesn’t totally match the power of the message.
      Posted Dec 07, 2022
      4/5
      		The Fabelmans (2022) Filipe Freitas Spielberg hasn’t lost sight of the engaging, practical nature of his style, and benefits from the excellent performances of LaBelle, Paul Dano and Michelle Williams.
      Posted Dec 07, 2022
      3/5
      		The Novelist's Film (2022) Filipe Freitas It’s a movie in love with words and human connection, pulling subtle punches with a cerebral pragmatism and purity of tone.
      Posted Dec 01, 2022
      3/5
      		Armageddon Time (2022) Filipe Freitas Gray put his passion into staging his painfully vivid memoirs, creating a nuanced, delicate film with a strong anti-racist message.
      Posted Dec 01, 2022
      4.5/5
      		Tár (2022) Filipe Freitas The overall story arc is realistically complemented with surgical dialogues and striking visual compositions in a timeless contemporary drama to be remembered for its immense qualities.
      Posted Dec 01, 2022
      2.5/5
      		The Good Nurse (2022) Filipe Freitas Quite simply: this is something you could read about in a few paragraphs, and the film fails to present any type of dilemma during its passionless narrative.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      3.5/5
      		Anatolian Leopard (2022) Filipe Freitas Even not taking huge directing risks, Kayis does not hesitate to use a suitable composure in the shots to create a genuinely entrancing tale of disappointment with a sense of tragic inevitability.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      3/5
      		Our Father, The Devil (2022) Filipe Freitas Although a little cold sometimes, Our Father, the Devil imposes itself as an esteemed first work where the thought of forgiveness made me feel good.
      Posted Nov 23, 2022
      4/5
      		Return to Dust (2022) Filipe Freitas Return to Dust is a sober, subtle, and moving experience that finds its aesthetic identity.
      Posted Nov 14, 2022
      3.5/5
      		Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021) Filipe Freitas To flee or to resist? That’s the dilemma faced by self-imposed ‘prisoners’ in another tough wrestle with a corrupt political system.
      Posted Nov 14, 2022
      3.5/5
      		Werewolf by Night (2022) Filipe Freitas If you dig offbeat werewolf stories and arthouse films, then you’ll be begging for more.
      Posted Nov 08, 2022
      2.5/5
      		Triangle of Sadness (2022) Filipe Freitas Östlund wasn’t smart enough to take some possible good ideas to better conclusions, preferring a cinema that is coarse, drastic and with no consequence. It can be funny at times, though.
      Posted Nov 08, 2022
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