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Vikram Murthi

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Public Access (2026) C+ EDIT “Public Access frequently does a disservice to its actual material, which sits at the nexus of community service and avant-garde art, by having its sound and imagery constantly restate one another.” – IndieWire Jan 25, 2026 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% B EDIT “Watching “Ella McCay” can sometimes feel like time travel, particularly for those vested in bygone eras of American filmmaking, but if you’re capable of tuning into its wavelength, an old but worthwhile spirit can be found.” – IndieWire Dec 10, 2025 Full Review WTO/99 (2025) 83% B+ EDIT “The ominous tone “WTO/99” slowly adopts suggests a perennial truth, one that becomes more frustrating as time marches on: We will witness history repeat itself again and again until we choose to learn from it.” – IndieWire Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “[Chalamet] powers Marty Supreme with the sheer strength of swagger, maximally projecting cocksure arrogance and palpable desperation (two trademarks of A-list celebrity, for what it’s worth) until they become almost indistinguishable. ” – The Film Stage Dec 1, 2025 Full Review The Fence (2025) 70% B- EDIT “Brooding sensuality courses through the atmosphere in “The Fence,” which partially compensates for the film’s stilted staging and clumsy, thesis-underlining dialogue.” – IndieWire Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Carolina Caroline (2025) 100% B EDIT “Both Weaving and Gallner excel playing distressed criminals who feel the heat on their tail, but the way that distress curdles into shared heartbreak and grief as they slowly reach clarity draws serious blood.” – IndieWire Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Late Fame (2026) 85% B+ EDIT “What saves “Late Fame” at almost every turn is Jones’ direction, which infuses even simple dialogue scenes with breezy maturity and palpable longing.” – IndieWire Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Marc Maron: Panicked (2025) 100% EDIT “The pleasure of Maron’s stand-up is witnessing him use his voice to continually revise thoughts amidst shifting winds -- not a conventional sort of entertainment, but a style that still counts for something.” – The Atlantic Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Imago (2025) B- EDIT “The ambition of “Imago,” and its unique place in the contemporary film landscape, deserves recognition, but seamlessly weaving the personal and political together can be a complex, demanding task under the best of circumstances. ” – IndieWire May 21, 2025 Full Review The Parenting (2025) 49% C- EDIT “The ostensibly heartfelt scenes where characters apologize for their behavior or stand up for themselves never display an ounce of emotional potency because no one resembles a real person.” – IndieWire Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025) 56% B EDIT “Maybe it’s a filmmaker’s job to force some coherence onto the chaos. But when you’re dealing with evil that has no easily discernible justification, it’s probably best to accept that the mystery will never satisfy.” – IndieWire Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Botanist (2025) B- EDIT “Humanity’s tender, fraught relationship with the natural world has a storied history on film, but in “The Botanist,” it can sometimes feel like an unearned shortcut to grazing the sublime. ” – IndieWire Feb 18, 2025 Full Review SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025) 93% C+ EDIT “Sly is undoubtedly a Black genius, one who ensured that his artistic descendants could chart their own path, but “Sly Lives!” never really examines what that means in any meaningful sense. Maybe only the music itself can tell that story.” – IndieWire Jan 24, 2025 Full Review The Six Triple Eight (2024) 56% C- EDIT “An entire film that focuses on untangling this organizational mess clearly exists, but Perry would much rather lean on trite platitudes that state the obvious again and again, rather than trust the “boring” nuances of the historical record. ” – IndieWire Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Hello, Love, Again (2024) B- EDIT “The moments when “Hello, Love, Again” infuses social and political realism into its melodramatic romance are genuinely effective and anytime it falls back on hacky comedy or trite theatrics feels that much more dissatisfying.” – IndieWire Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% C EDIT “Unfortunately, the film’s action sequences, arguably the biggest audience draw, do little to distract from the lackluster narrative. ” – IndieWire Nov 11, 2024 Full Review Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 100% B EDIT “While “Vengeance Most Fowl” retains many of the quaint elements and tried-and-true methods that made Wallace and Gromit a global favorite, it’s also undoubtedly a slicker, glossier project than anything that’s come before. ” – IndieWire Oct 28, 2024 Full Review Without Blood (2024) 36% C EDIT “The sincerity of Without Blood can’t be denied, but alas, the road to mediocrity is paved with good intentions.” – IndieWire Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Unstoppable (2024) 77% C EDIT “Once you accept Anthony’s extraordinary nature, which is hardly a difficult proposition for any viewer with a beating heart, the film offers nothing more than a passive tour of his on-screen counterpart overcoming corporeal and domestic adversity.” – IndieWire Sep 7, 2024 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 90% B+ EDIT “Macdonald clearly understands the feeling of information overload... and whenever “One to One” embraces that idea, it becomes a fruitful view into Lennon and Ono’s place within the culture.” – IndieWire Aug 30, 2024 Full Review The Beast Within (2024) 40% C- EDIT “There’s no sense of life being lived within the world of the film, which is indicated by a general refusal to shade in any details about the environment or even the characters beyond their scene-by-scene purpose.” – IndieWire Jul 26, 2024 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% B- EDIT “In its strongest moments, Greg Kwedar’s film lives up to the real thing by capturing the power of acting for its own sake... In its weakest, it uses acting as a cover for an undercooked, sentimental script.” – IndieWire Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Hacking Hate (2024) 89% C+ EDIT “There’s nothing inaccurate about Klose’s thesis, which is fairly airtight and has been well reported on by many others, but his alarmist visual style quickly exhibits diminishing returns.” – IndieWire Jun 11, 2024 Full Review Tuesday (2023) 76% C+ EDIT “As much as “Tuesday” strives to be an adult fairy tale about accepting loss, it struggles to be truly effective because, by design, it traffics in an adolescent sandbox.” – IndieWire Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024) 97% C+ EDIT “These affecting anecdotes are only occasionally supported by Peck’s scattered direction, whose big-tent approach to personal and global history often feels slapdash. ” – IndieWire May 20, 2024 Full Review
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