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Paul Risker

Paul Risker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Die My Love is about destruction and the tearing down of things including, sadly, the film itself. ” – PopMatters Nov 12, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Combs delivers another fine performance, evolving from submissive assistant to courageous and authoritative scientist. ” – Flickering Myth Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Keep Quiet (2025) 8/10 EDIT “Crime drama Keep Quiet may seem abrupt and pared-back, but there’s confidence and depth in its study of inner peace amidst social turmoil.” – PopMatters Sep 30, 2025 Full Review The Courageous (2024) 100% 7/10 EDIT “Similar to British and European social realist cinema Swiss film The Courageous explores the predatory forces of bureaucratic indifference, societal prejudice, and general small-mindedness.” – PopMatters Sep 10, 2025 Full Review The Birthday Party (2025) EDIT “Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s The Birthday Party is a captivating and beautiful exploration of the ugly side of human beings.” – PopMatters Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) 79% EDIT “Falconer perfectly threads together these stories and bookends them with characters coming and going.” – PopMatters Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Bookworm (2024) 91% EDIT “Ant Timpson and Toby Harvard’s Bookworm effuses charm and humour, and reveals the Jekyll and Hyde-like sides of their creative personas.” – PopMatters Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Cuckoo (2024) 79% 6/10 EDIT “Until its final 30–40 minutes, Cuckoo is a deliriously enjoyable experience. Even when Singer loses control, there's a madness to it that still holds a certain appeal. ” – PopMatters Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Don't Call It Mystery (2023) EDIT “A playful whodunit...” – PopMatters Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Bad Shabbos (2024) 84% EDIT “Until the end, Robbins and Weiner thread together the hope of this reading with the cynicism of how people manipulate the levers of control and power, however humorously, to their advantage.” – PopMatters Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) 82% EDIT “Lambert is a trickster with narrative conventions, appropriating the love story for her own means but not indebted to its tradition.” – PopMatters Apr 29, 2024 Full Review We Were Dangerous (2024) 97% EDIT “Sharing its rebellious dream, maybe the characters in their reality are abandoned to a future that will swallow hope. However, they communicate the message of those survivors that found light in the darkness, who refuse to be defined by the shadows...” – PopMatters Apr 20, 2024 Full Review Desert Road (2024) 88% 7/10 EDIT “The same lack of control and uncertainty that hounds Kafka’s Josef. K haunts the lost protagonist in Shannon Triplett’s sci-fi horror Desert Road.” – PopMatters Apr 8, 2024 Full Review Robot Dreams (2023) 98% EDIT “Pablo Berger's animated Robot Dreams is a near-perfect marvel of silent cinema nearly a century after talkies ended the silent era.” – PopMatters Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Never Look Away (2024) 93% EDIT “Amanpour’s words are a timely reminder of how the courage of combat journalists is devalued if their images and stories are not acted on. Never Look Away challenges the media to adhere to its principles... ” – PopMatters Feb 17, 2024 Full Review Skywalkers: A Love Story (2024) 75% EDIT “Skywalkers: A Love Story will endure because it’s not trapped in the moment of a daring acrobatic stunt; it’s rooted in the timeless human experience. ” – PopMatters Feb 3, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% EDIT “The Zone of Interest boldly redirects its gaze to try to access the German or Nazi psyche, which makes for uncomfortable, even disturbing, but essential viewing.” – PopMatters Dec 29, 2023 Full Review Tatami (2023) 94% EDIT “At its heart, Tatami is about the willingness to stand up to coercion no matter the cost, to break cyclical patterns of control in which dreams have been and continue to be savagely broken.” – PopMatters Dec 29, 2023 Full Review The King Tide (2023) 95% EDIT “Throughout The King Tide, the story explores the playfulness of genre cinema to conceal themes and ideas. Gradually, the film's allegorical intentions emerge.” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Faceless After Dark (2023) 77% EDIT “It’s easy to read Faceless After Dark as being about the toxicity of social media, but this misses the point. The film is about emotionally being pushed to breaking point and the consequences. ” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% EDIT “Eileen is a deeply cynical film, almost nihilistic in its point-of-view of gender.” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review The Delinquents (2023) 86% EDIT “Undermining expectations, The Delinquents takes surprising twists via its journey and romance story arcs. One could be forgiven for forgetting that at its heart, it is a heist film, and perhaps that’s its charm. ” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% EDIT “It’s a deeply humanist film that quietly earns your affection. ” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% EDIT “Anatomy of a Fall thematically addresses the ambiguity between fiction and reality in an author’s work that’s mimicked in the trial.” – PopMatters Dec 28, 2023 Full Review The Hypnosis (2023) 95% EDIT “The story is a coming-of-age for the adult Vera, who learns to be comfortable standing out and with her own identity, or so it would appear.” – PopMatters Nov 3, 2023 Full Review
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