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Justin Chang

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The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “The result feels like a cavalier stunt-- an audio-documentary shrine erected on a wobbly visual-narrative foundation... “The Voice of Hind Rajab” ultimately overpowers the voice of Hind Rajab.” – The New Yorker Jan 20, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “What makes your own skin crawl isn’t just the hideousness of the violence but the unblinking matter-of-factness with which DaCosta films it. She serves it straight up, without gusto -- and does not leave you hungry for more.” – The New Yorker Jan 20, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “Salim and Hanan are tasked with some agonizingly significant decisions on their son’s behalf, and “All That’s Left of You” probes those decisions with understated gravity and nuance. ” – The New Yorker Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “The movies can be a wonderfully amoral medium, and I found myself liking Marty Mauser -- and not just liking him, but actually rooting for him to succeed. It takes more than a good actor to pull that off. It takes one of the greats.” – NPR Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% EDIT “ I confess that I was held so spellbound by Fastvold’s musical flights of fancy-- and by the attendant sweep and muscularity of her filmmaking -- that I felt let down by the more prosaic moments, when everyone doesn’t erupt into song and dance. ” – The New Yorker Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Magellan (2025) 85% EDIT “Magellan isn’t an action movie; it’s a consequence movie. But Diaz, within all this meticulous subtraction, adds dramatic heft and political meaning. In draining any visceral excitement from violence, he subtly decolonizes the camera’s gaze.” – The New Yorker Jan 9, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Lee throws himself into all of it with a sad-sack slapstick energy that never undercuts -- and, remarkably, even enhances -- the psychological acuity of his acting. ” – The New Yorker Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “Presumably, Cameron has a long-term destination in mind, but here, falling back on the habitual flatness of his characterizations and the self-admiring wretchedness of his dialogue, he almost seems to be stalling for time. ” – The New Yorker Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “A modestly scaled but enormously affecting new picture directed by Bradley Cooper.” – The New Yorker Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Johnson is saved, so to speak, by his refusal of condescension; he’s fastidiously committed to taking seriously the things that many others don’t, whether they be mysteries as a genre or mysteries of faith.” – The New Yorker Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Onstage, all this narrative retconning has a breezy behind-the-scenes cleverness, as if the story were being slyly fleshed out in the margins. Onscreen, and on full display, it’s close to an abomination.” – The New Yorker Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “The movie whispers poetic sublimities in your ear one minute and tosses its prestige ambitions in your face the next. The whiplash is disorienting, but, somewhat paradoxically, the characters’ romantic upheaval provides its own center of gravity.” – The New Yorker Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Baumbach’s sensibility cuts both ways. You can knock him for going soft or praise him for finding the sharp edges in soft material. The argument is settled in his favor by Sandler.” – The New Yorker Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Just as Victor’s Harlander-funded experiment goes logistically awry, so del Toro’s Netflix-backed dream project feels, for all its beauties and intricacies, like a technologically compromised creature.” – The New Yorker Oct 30, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT ““Bugonia” is an altogether more intoxicating specimen. Lanthimos's gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.” – The New Yorker Oct 26, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “When the experience was over, my cuticles were entirely intact, and, throughout, the only alarm I could muster was for Bigelow -- a creeping fear that she had gone to battle with mediocre material and lost.” – The New Yorker Oct 15, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “From scene to scene, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” can feel so formally aggressive, verging on assaultive, that it takes a moment to appreciate that it’s also a movie of strategic elisions and structured absences.” – The New Yorker Oct 9, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT ““After the Hunt” will be derided as little more than an intellectual parlor trick, a flimsy house of cards. I wouldn’t disagree, but few directors build more luxurious houses than Guadagnino does, whatever the materials. ” – The New Yorker Oct 3, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another, as great an American movie as I’ve seen this year, doesn’t simply meet the moment; with extraordinary tenderness, fury, and imagination, it forges a moment all its own, and insists that better ones could still lie ahead.” – The New Yorker Sep 26, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “It's a drama about love, loss and the fear of commitment, with a let's-go-on-an-adventure twist, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by way of The Phantom Tollbooth. I wish it were remotely as good as that sounds.” – NPR Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% EDIT “Fellowes wisely course-corrects, cutting back on the convoluted plotting and zeroing in on the emotional dynamics. ” – NPR Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Eden (2024) 58% EDIT “Its title notwithstanding, “Eden” is a drama of paradise despoiled. The movie, to my eyes, badly miscalculates the ratio of paradise to despoilment, indulging the latter at the expense of the former. ” – The New Yorker Aug 26, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Zach Cregger's ingenious and exultant new horror film is like a Stephen King riff on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and it has a wonderful campfire-tale spookiness.” – NPR Aug 22, 2025 Full Review A Little Prayer (2023) 93% EDIT ““A Little Prayer” is spare yet brisk, and it unfolds with a graceful, almost musical sense of modulation: Camp and Weston, both veterans of MacLachlan’s work, strike bracing high notes of acerbic wit.” – The New Yorker Aug 22, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT ““Splitsville,” I think, wants both to satirize the anything-goes absurdity of modern romance and to show us how little we know what we really want from life and love. But it adds up to not much more than a four-way shrug of indifference.” – The New Yorker Aug 22, 2025 Full Review
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