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Martin Tsai

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See You When I See You (2026) C+ EDIT “See You When I See You is not without feeling, but it is reluctant to linger in messiness, to let scenes run long enough to discover something unplanned.” – AwardsWatch Jan 27, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) A EDIT “On paper, In the Blink of an Eye reads as forbiddingly ambitious, a piece of high-concept science fiction that risks crumbling under the weight of its own ideas. Stanton, however, has a long history of coaxing intimacy out of enormity.” – AwardsWatch Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Chasing Summer (2026) EDIT “"Chasing Summer" is frequently hilarious, but it is also attuned to the emotional logic beneath self-sabotage.” – Critic's Notebook Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 73% EDIT “A sitcom-bright spoof of Americana that filters "The Wizard of Oz" through celebrity culture, the film is at once junk-drawer eclectic and curiously sincere about the small, stubborn dreams of its heroine.” – Critic's Notebook Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 57% B EDIT “In an era when music documentaries increasingly function as deluxe extensions of public relations campaigns, The Moment is notable for its refusal to mythologize its subject. It plays less like a victory lap than a confession...” – AwardsWatch Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% EDIT “Visconti's and Ozon's treatments are nearly verbatim. What truly separates them is the mood.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “In short, he's now getting his flowers for rehashing narrative devices that critic Jonathan Rosenbaum already deemed repetitive and risk-averse some three decades ago.” – ScreenAnarchy Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Scarlet (2025) 71% EDIT “Hosoda employs traditional hand-drawn style for the characters but places them against immersive photo-realistic C.G.I. backdrops. While this is nothing new, his particular art style creates interesting contrast and juxtaposition.” – Critic's Notebook Sep 4, 2025 Full Review In the Hand of Dante (2025) 43% EDIT “Roman Vasyanov’s cinematography feels too precious, unable to convey the grittiness and dark humor in Tosches’s work.” – Critic's Notebook Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “Indeed, he nails precisely what makes the film so resonant with those who have been wronged by powerful entities and the sense of helplessness carved deep into their psyches. ” – Critic's Notebook Sep 2, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT ““A House of Dynamite,” is, for the most part, one of those end-of-days Armageddon movies, except it never actually culminates in special effects-laden spectacles of total obliteration.” – Critic's Notebook Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “There’s an existing, well-worn trope of underdog stories in sports. Mr. Safdie resists a lot of that low-hanging fruit.” – Critic's Notebook Sep 1, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “The script’s ambiguities regarding the perpetrator and the victim are very nuanced, and Mr. Guadagnino seemingly backs away, possibly due to the optics of victim blaming.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “There’s no horror or suspense whatsoever, just magical dismemberments under golden hues and glittering harps on the soundtrack. It’s all kind of perverse, and I’m not sure if Mr. del Toro really meant it that way.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “Unlike Costa-Gavras, Mr. Park frames the protagonist as more blue-collar. He also cast Mr. Lee, excellent as a villain in “Squid Game,” over someone amiable like José Garcia of “Le couperet.”” – Critic's Notebook Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “The perennially debonair leading man brings with him substantial baggage from his own time in the limelight, which immediately resonates with those who’ve borne witness to his career. ” – Critic's Notebook Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “The film challenges the superhero genre narrative that is so deeply ingrained in us and the latent sexist feelings toward successful woman go-getters, all while reenforcing and reaffirming these tropes.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 28, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 81% EDIT ““La grazia” is the antithesis of “Il divo” and “Loro,” his previous features centering on political leaders.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 27, 2025 Full Review A Little Prayer (2023) 93% EDIT “With the abortion ban now a done deal, this now feels like a relic inside a time capsule even though that’s no fault of Mr. MacLachlan’s.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 27, 2025 Full Review Honey Don't! (2025) 45% EDIT “Juvenile is the best way to characterize them, that they tee-hee over dykes the way Beavis and Butt-Head might.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 21, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s evident that “Highest 2 Lowest” is more concerned with fan service than basic storytelling.” – Critic's Notebook Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Nobu (2024) 55% EDIT “The use of A.I. for dialogue enhancement, as indicated by end credits, does not help blunt the corporate video charges.” – Critic's Notebook Jun 16, 2025 Full Review How to Train Your Dragon (2025) 77% EDIT “Overlooking the mismatching accents and dialects, the art direction and production designs seem thoughtful. But the most impressive parts of the film have to be the action sequences of Toothless performing various air-show aerobatics.” – Critic's Notebook Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “Spoiler alert: Celine Song always chooses the white dude.” – Critic's Notebook Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Though “Sentimental Value” doesn’t center on a romantic relationship as its predecessor did, it nevertheless rehashes some of the same dynamics and feelings of guilt and regret.” – Critic's Notebook Jun 3, 2025 Full Review
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