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Noah Berlatsky

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Biography:

Noah Berlatsky is a film and television critic. He writes for NBC Think Online, the Verge, the Escapist, Chicago Reader, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics from Rutgers University Press.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Schizopolis (1996) 70% EDIT “Why say anything, Schizopolis asks, when saying nothing is a lot more fun?” – Splice Today Jan 26, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 77% EDIT “Some viewers may be put off by the fact that H Is for Hawk has no neat moral and no cathartic end to grief. But it wouldn’t be true to either the impossible bird or the impossible person if it did.” – Chicago Reader Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 96% EDIT “Sex, Lies and Videotape remains a gloriously odd, perfect little film.” – Splice Today Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “Beetlejuice famously presents itself as a joyride of mystical weirdness. But when you actually rewatch it, it comes across as an oddly sincere embrace of drab suburban conventionality.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% EDIT “If you mainly sat down to see some gory special effects and a completely over-the-top Ralph Fiennes, the movie delivers.” – Splice Today Jan 14, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “I can’t begrudge it the many accolades it’s received. But while I think it’s worth seeing, I was also in the end somewhat disappointed.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Self-aware misogynist scapegoating doesn’t stop being that because the person deploying it thinks it’s fun or entertaining or a cool jump scare delivery system. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 92% EDIT “The disjunction between message and follow through in Kpop Demon Hunters makes it hard for me to want to sing along.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “It takes part in the long Hollywood tradition of films that are entertaining if you don’t think about them that hard—a tradition that is, unfortunately, especially ill-suited for our current christofascist moment.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “The biggest failure of the film is that, for all her impassioned scene-chewing, Jennifer Lawrence never stops being Jennifer Lawrence, super star, emoting for the awards committee.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “For all its snark and absurdity and despair, Lanthimos’ message, like those of misanthropes before him, is uncomfortable not because it’s callous, but because it’s uncomfortably sincere. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “The movie asks you to care about them for real failures and real flaws, which makes Song’s belief in love more, rather than less, sweeping.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “If you love Neil and can stand Oscar-bait, Song Sung Blue will make you a (qualified) believer.” – Splice Today Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “DaCosta uses her command of filmic resources to create a claustrophobic story of thwarted ambition and stifled love which is relevant in the current era of dwindling possibilities and escalating bigotry.” – Splice Today Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “A stylish, ambivalently ironic commentary on America’s obsession with anti-establishmentarian violent spectacle as a substitute for actual change.” – Splice Today Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “Polinger’s careful not to provide any catharsis or relief.” – Splice Today Nov 28, 2025 Full Review The Annihilation of Fish (1999) 76% EDIT “A broad, schmaltzy, and overly cutesy parable about the redemptive power of film, quirkiness, and love, not necessarily in that order.” – Splice Today Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “Good Boy isn’t a great horror movie. It’s got a core of sadness, though, that is hard to leave behind.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Nov 16, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “The very fact that the movie has no actual moral commitment beyond the next punchline allows it to at least at times come closer to an actual critique of police and policing than virtually any other American film or television narrative.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Nov 12, 2025 Full Review Belén (2025) 95% EDIT “As the rollback of abortion rights here demonstrates, sometimes you go backwards, and sometimes you lose. But Belén is a timely reminder that sometimes you don’t.” – Splice Today Nov 11, 2025 Full Review My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) 94% EDIT “Asensitive and affecting entry in the genre of films about war’s aftermath and the lingering effects of PTSD.” – Splice Today Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% EDIT “A horror movie in which you don’t really fear the monster and don’t feel invested in the fate of the victim isn’t much of a horror movie, and a werewolf film without teeth is pointless.” – Splice Today Oct 29, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% EDIT “Without that adolescent sense of fear and failure in the face of growing up, and without the generational tensions, the film has nothing to say.” – Splice Today Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Best Wishes to All (2024) 77% EDIT “It’s in the tradition of Kafka or David Lynch, where the failure to cohere is part of the logic of nightmare.” – Splice Today Oct 13, 2025 Full Review Shell (2024) 63% EDIT “Shell’s a decent movie. It’s just unfortunate that in release date, plot, and theme, it so closely parallels a better one.” – Chicago Reader Oct 1, 2025 Full Review
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