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Lindsey Romain

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Biography:

Lindsey Romain is a culture writer living in Austin, TX. Her work has been published in Vulture, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, and The Chicago Tribune. She is a regular contributor to Nerdist, Thrillist, and /Film.

Reviews

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Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “...ultimately the film is a tonal oddball that, while a noteworthy exercise in craft, belays a storyteller who can’t quite condemn the myopic, aromantic worldview he’s bubbled himself within. ” – MovieJawn Dec 21, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “It’s a marvel, one of the best films of the year, with a message that feels—in this time of great isolation, when so much feels wrong and when our relationships are suffering as a result of global exhaustion—absolutely vital. ” – MovieJawn Nov 9, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% EDIT “if a movie can make you look a little deeper at an addict on the street, see past the exterior and at someone who’s probably lost a great deal to land them where they are, then that movie has done something pretty beautiful if you ask me.” – MovieJawn Oct 14, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Unfortunately, A House of Dynamite is not that. What we’re left with is exactly what the characters prayed for: a threatening beckon that’s more or less a dud.” – MovieJawn Oct 14, 2025 Full Review A Little Prayer (2023) 93% EDIT “Patchy and threadbare in places, it still coddles a part of the soul that films rarely get to anymore. We need stories like this that we can wander into, live inside of, and come out feeling a little more attuned to love.” – MovieJawn Aug 29, 2025 Full Review The Vigil (2019) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “Writer and director Keith Thomas knows how to keep us invested, and cinematographer Zach Kuperstein makes excellent use of the dark setting.” – Nerdist Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “The young cast is excellent. The lore points and witchy nursery rhyme hint at more twisted fun to come. And Janiak’s eye for crisp horror keeps things refreshingly propulsive and infinitely surprising.” – Nerdist Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Annette (2021) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Ultimately, Annette feels a little too much like its eponymous character: occasionally melodic, full of potential, but rather wooden underneath. ” – Nerdist Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Black Widow proves that the MCU can scale down when it needs to, which is a card trick more valuable than one might think. Natasha may be dead, but Black Widow shows how powerfully her legacy lives on.” – Nerdist Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Mayday (2021) 54% 2.5/5 EDIT “Despite a clunky final act that over-explains in a way that ultimately just confuses its theme of female empowerment and revenge, Mayday really makes an impression.” – Nerdist Feb 14, 2024 Full Review The Wanting Mare (2020) 80% 4/5 EDIT “A dreamy, dazzling fantasy debut.” – Nerdist Apr 7, 2022 Full Review Saint Maud (2019) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Rose Glass proves her chops with this one. Saint Maud is dense and visceral; the desolate setting contrasted with the lushness of Amanda's home and interior world feels both unsettling and purposeful.” – Nerdist Jan 29, 2021 Full Review The Nest (2020) 90% 5/5 EDIT “If Durkin's imagination is the foundation, the performances are the glue; and what tremendous performances they are.” – Nerdist Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Ammonite (2020) 70% 4/5 EDIT “Ammonite is a lovely film that warms the bones and sinks into skin. It is a story for lonely people-one full of both hope and melancholy.” – Nerdist Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Freaky (2020) 84% 4.5/5 EDIT “Really, it's hard to find anything bad to say about Freaky. It's a confident, crushing, candy-colored dream of a movie, one that'll have you cheering and gasping in equal measure.” – Nerdist Nov 13, 2020 Full Review The Uninvited (1944) 95% EDIT “It's not just the story that makes The Uninvited so memorable. It's the look and feel, the perfect way it captures encroaching dread, and the ghostly apparitions that take the film to the next level.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Black Box (2020) 72% 3.5/5 EDIT “Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr.'s feature film debut is a strong effort. It's creepy as hell and it worms its way right into your psyche.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Girl (2020) 55% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's methodical and moody more than anything. But it's a movie that gets under your skin and stays with you. And it'll make you pretty terrified of Mickey Rourke.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review The Stylist (2020) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It's shocking, but the tension plays out slowly and knowingly; you cringe knowing what's about to happen so many times, but it's because Gevargizian did such a fine job tuning the instrument before that blast.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review The Lie (2018) 44% 3/5 EDIT “The Lie might work as an hour-long piece of television, but it doesn't quite cut it as a feature film. It mostly unravels with a final reveal that's more frustrating than it is harrowing.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Evil Eye (2020) 43% 3/5 EDIT “Their use of split screens is genius-level; it connects mother and daughter, despite their great distance. But like every entry in Welcome to the Blumhouse so far, Evil Eye struggles to make a strong impression” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review The Craft: Legacy (2020) 47% 2.5/5 EDIT “The film squanders its wonderful potential for a few cheap "aha" moments that never coalesce. In fact, they turn the whole film into one giant, incomprehensible mess.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Nocturne (2020) 62% 3.5/5 EDIT “Nocturne is perhaps the most stylist and radical of the Welcome to the Blumhouse films, and that's thanks to Zu Quirke's impressive eye.” – Nerdist Oct 29, 2020 Full Review Black Bear (2020) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Black Bear is an impressive, indelible look at the creative process and the cost of indulgence.” – Nerdist Oct 27, 2020 Full Review Honeydew (2020) 65% 3/5 EDIT “It's clear [Devereux Milburn] has a sharp, peculiar eye, and I can't wait to see what he does next. If Honeydew is just him revving up, then we're in for some future treats.” – Nerdist Oct 27, 2020 Full Review
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