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Mark Hanson

Mark Hanson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Anaconda (2025) 48% 2/4 EDIT “Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake.” – Slant Magazine Dec 23, 2025 Full Review The Carpenter's Son (2025) 31% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film takes the form of a simplistic coming-of-age story, with the young Jesus’s rebellion against Joseph’s strict mentorship positioned as a heightened show of typical teenage angst.” – Slant Magazine Nov 11, 2025 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025) 15% 1/4 EDIT “Mostly notable for its distracting resemblance to Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II, Chapter 2 suggests for a while a needlessly extended epilogue to the first film.” – Slant Magazine Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The film plunges us into a world that feels simultaneously naturalistic and otherworldly.” – Slant Magazine Sep 17, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% 2/4 EDIT “Despite the retro vérité aesthetic that Benny Safdie employs to give Mark Kerr’s story a stylish new coat of paint, all that his version ultimately does is whip up a feeling of déjà vu.” – Slant Magazine Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% 2/4 EDIT “The real Jeffrey Manchester may in fact have been polite, but Derek Cianfrance’s film doesn’t convince you that it needed to be as well.” – Slant Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% 2/4 EDIT “Paul Greengrass's The Lost Bus may reminded you of ’90s blockbusters like Dante’s Peak. But should it?” – Slant Magazine Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s tumultuous might, ending in a fog of ambiguity that mirrors that characters’ bewilderment.” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “More broadly appealing than Kleber Mendonça Filho’s past films, The Secret Agent is still unmistakeably the work of an artist who’s deeply fascinated with the ways in which cinema, politics, and personal history co-mingle.” – Slant Magazine Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film mines unnerving tension from the absurdity of its main character’s confinement.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The film is astutely aware of the physical and psychological scars that that result from living in a state of tyranny.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Witchboard (2024) 59% 2/4 EDIT “Chuck Russell is certainly committed to making an old-school, effects-laden genre thrill ride.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2025 Full Review The Ritual (2025) 9% .5/4 EDIT “Like any number of Exorcist wannabes, David Midell’s film is a special kind of hell.” – Slant Magazine Jun 3, 2025 Full Review Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) 14% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film is less a work of clear-eyed introspection than a calculated image rebrand.” – Slant Magazine May 15, 2025 Full Review Gunslingers (2025) 5% 1/4 EDIT “In the end, Nicolas Cage can only do so much to bring this hastily assembled oater to life.” – Slant Magazine Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% 2/4 EDIT “By the time the film comes to the end of its brisk runtime, it feels like nothing much has actually happened, despite all the narrative convolutions.” – Slant Magazine Mar 7, 2025 Full Review The Visitor (2024) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “The Visitor ultimately posits a vision of transcendence through anarchy, seeing repression as the enemy of social progress.” – Slant Magazine Mar 2, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 29% 1/4 EDIT “Given that Mel Gibson makes little attempt to instill any sense of physicality to this dispiritingly paint-by-numbers affair, it becomes easy to understand the marketing of the film’s 4DX theatrical option as an act of overcompensation.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Heretic intriguingly plays with our expectations of who the heroes and villains are in this scenario.” – Slant Magazine Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 60% 2/4 EDIT “It’s disappointing to see a film with such a weird premise as Nightbitch ease into an orthodox storytelling mode.” – Slant Magazine Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% 2/4 EDIT “The unoriginality of Presence’s story eventually calls out the POV conceit as a one-note gimmick, especially when the tension is dialed up in the film’s second half.” – Slant Magazine Sep 9, 2024 Full Review Rumours (2024) 76% 3/4 EDIT “The film is winningly defined by its peculiar admixture of national pride and self-deprecation.” – Slant Magazine Sep 6, 2024 Full Review The End (2024) 56% 2.5/4 EDIT “Perhaps the script is deliberately harking back to a storytelling mode that was characteristic of Hollywood cinema for dramatic effect, but the musical aspect, while a neat gimmick, isn’t memorable or cohesive enough to make the homage, well, sing.” – Slant Magazine Sep 1, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The film’s initial pull lies in the way that Sean Baker intoxicatingly keys his aesthetic to the fervor of a budding romance that we clearly know won’t end well.” – Slant Magazine Aug 31, 2024 Full Review City of Dreams (2024) 52% .5/4 EDIT “The film resembles less a realistic peek into the modern slavery of immigrants in America as it does grist for the torture porn mill.” – Slant Magazine Aug 26, 2024 Full Review
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