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Igor Fishman

Igor Fishman's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Spaceman (2024) 50% EDIT “Its ambitions are anchored by Johan Renck’s measured direction, but then it also goes racing toward a destination far too trite to justify the eccentric journey.” – In Review Online Mar 4, 2024 Full Review The Five Devils (2022) 85% EDIT “From the over-ambitious script, to the odd genre-bending, to the unapologetic dedication to its conceit, it’s hard to anticipate all of this working. But once again, under Mysius’ careful watch, everything just clicks.” – In Review Online Mar 24, 2023 Full Review Geographies of Solitude (2022) 100% EDIT “Geographies of Solitude is an organic balancing act between the more conventional documentary forms... and something weirder and wilder... altogether.” – In Review Online Jan 28, 2023 Full Review The Super 8 Years (2022) 92% EDIT “Sadly, this footage, pleasantly captured snippets of vacations in gorgeously soft Super 8, subdues the raw literary horsepower of Ernaux’s compositions, imprinting ease, both placid and banal, onto an author whose writing is anything but. ” – In Review Online Dec 15, 2022 Full Review Soft & Quiet (2022) 84% EDIT “[Soft & Quiet is] a misguided film that traps its audience inside of a hate crime, uncertain how to tie up the difficult array of themes it broaches, as it barrels on its repulsive trajectory; a caustic sadism on autopilot.” – In Review Online Nov 4, 2022 Full Review The Eternal Daughter (2022) 95% EDIT “Hogg continues where she left off, pressing forward into a new liminal space ... each step into the darkness here and now finds her as confident and precise as ever, again in full command of the painful familial bedrock that informs her oeuvre.” – In Review Online Oct 14, 2022 Full Review Showing Up (2022) 89% EDIT “Reichardt depicts ... art as an articulation of breakdown, an art of pain, of loneliness, and anger; it’s an art that calls out to the world with a yelping cry demanding to be heard ... [and] what counts the most is who shows up to hear it.” – In Review Online Oct 6, 2022 Full Review Saint Omer (2022) 95% EDIT “Diop, who has already proven herself an expert documentarian, shifts modes here with remarkable ease and commands a confident narrative debut positively vibrating with ideas; a mythic maelstrom compacted into the suffocating environs of a small courtroom.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2022 Full Review Don't Worry Darling (2022) 38% EDIT “Wilde ... has taken this D-level material, slapped on a coat of paint and star power, and bumped it up two whole letter grades, delivering a picture best classed as a B24 film.” – In Review Online Sep 23, 2022 Full Review Aftersun (2022) 96% EDIT “For the most part, it’s a quiet film touched with melancholy and calm even for its category of nostalgic reverie, a quality which makes the occasional intrusions of the present, tinged with frustration and loss, cut all the deeper. ” – In Review Online Sep 13, 2022 Full Review A Man of Integrity (2017) 100% EDIT “Ostensibly simple foundations ... are molded into something much more profound in Rasolouf’s hands; a latticework of sadness and anger, swaying in the breeze with wistful futility.” – In Review Online Jun 22, 2022 Full Review Return to Seoul (2022) 97% EDIT “Return to Seoul is unpredictable and flighty, charismatic and cutting, a film that flows from days to weeks to years with such bravado that you start to wonder why more won’t do the same.” – In Review Online May 25, 2022 Full Review Hatching (2022) 93% EDIT “Hatching is a coming-of-age nightmare that compensates for its ramshackle build with an exuberant, go-for-broke gutsiness.” – In Review Online Apr 27, 2022 Full Review The Whaler Boy (2020) 93% EDIT “Yuryev's approach smothers the naturalism of the on-location shoot and presence of nonprofessional actors with an overproduced slickness that hangs over the film like a cheap suit.” – In Review Online Jan 12, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% EDIT “Much like the carnival acts it depicts, this bombastic rendition of Nightmare Alley is all about how much you're willing to buy in” – In Review Online Dec 13, 2021 Full Review Belfast (2021) 86% EDIT “The prospect of a deeply personal film from Branagh is at least ostensibly intriguing, a tease which makes the resulting disappointment of Belfast hurt all the more.” – In Review Online Nov 10, 2021 Full Review Parallel Mothers (2021) 96% EDIT “Impressive about Parallel Mothers...is [Almodovar's] capacity to wrangle the controlled chaos of his narratives into coherent wholes, even as they bristle against conventional structures.” – In Review Online Oct 14, 2021 Full Review The French Dispatch (2021) 75% EDIT “The multitude of distinct authorial styles, themes, subjects, and settings at [the film's] source yield and flatten under the weight of Anderson's propeller-beanie twee.” – In Review Online Oct 14, 2021 Full Review The Souvenir Part II (2021) 90% EDIT “The decision to double down on [Part II,/i>'s] too-clever-by-half meta deconstruction plays like a tactical retreat, an act of emotional disengagement from the heart of the material.” – In Review Online Sep 29, 2021 Full Review Snowball (2020) EDIT “Snowball captures the intense growing pains of the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.” – In Review Online Aug 26, 2021 Full Review Shadows (2020) EDIT “From its cold-open introductory murder to the perfunctory psychiatrist on a lecture circuit scene... even tried and true staples of unreliable narrators and twist reveals.” – In Review Online Aug 23, 2021 Full Review Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) 99% EDIT “The greatest strength of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, however, is its sweetness, a quality that never gets lost amidst the intricate brain-melting substructure.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2021 Full Review White as Snow (2019) 35% EDIT “It's a shame that the film's execution is so lacking, as its wry revisionism of the source material is fairly irresistible and forms a transgressively feminist counterpoint.” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2021 Full Review The Braves (2021) 100% EDIT “If The Braves' weakness comes from its somewhat predictable structure, its strength remains in the affectionate friendship of the leads and the textured editing.” – In Review Online Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Clara Sola (2021) 91% EDIT “Álvarez Mesén, whose previous shorts touched on uncomfortable taboos within family dynamics ... has elevated her craft to something bolder and more confrontational.” – In Review Online Jul 14, 2021 Full Review
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