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Payton McCarty-Simas

Payton McCarty-Simas's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) 95% EDIT “There are no purely happy endings here — the story hinges on mass queer tragedy, after all — but this melding of trans self-fabulation makes for a surprisingly optimistic watch.” – Autostraddle Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025) 97% EDIT “Strange Journey wears its heart on its sleeve as it relates earnest messages of love and acceptance, community and found family, all of which are more than earned and incredibly well taken in this context.” – Film Inquiry Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% EDIT “It’s a true testament to Elizabeth Lo’s direction that her latest documentary, Mistress Dispeller, doesn’t feel like a work of exploitation or exoticism.” – Film Inquiry Nov 12, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “Each new twist, turn, shootout, and political thorn is nestled in humanistic, consistently hilarious storytelling that's paired with satisfying directorial ease, visual economy, and a thrumming, infectious Johnny Greenwood score.” – Film Inquiry Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “Scrappy and befuddled though Megadoc may be, Figgis has captured something inexplicable, compelling, and beautiful seemingly despite himself, a feeling that encapsulates the experience of watching Megalopolis.” – Film Inquiry Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Linda Linda Linda (2005) 88% EDIT “The film is down to earth and tender with a hint of melancholy, sweetly celebrating the triumphs of teenage girldom.” – Film Inquiry Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Dildo Heaven (2002) EDIT “Dildo Heaven may take place in 2002, but its heart remains firmly in 1965, and that contrast is one of the more delightful elements of this charming oddball work of exploitation cinema.” – Film Inquiry Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Rosa la rose, fille publique (1985) EDIT “Rosa la rose, fille publique is a sweet, sad melodrama draped in nostalgia and lit in shades of red and blue, the kind of movie to take in on a rainy afternoon or with a date. ” – MovieJawn Aug 19, 2025 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% EDIT “Heretic is a box with nothing hidden inside; as Mr. Reed’s captives tell him over and over, religion, like the movies, is first and foremost about how you feel – and in this case, that’s not a whole lot. ” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “It may not be as substantial a story as it aims to be, but it’s a confident, lively vehicle for its star and, like a really good paperback, thoroughly engrossing. ” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% EDIT “Wolf Man’s lackadaisical cul-de-sac of promising ideas, wildly disparate tones, and dead air begs the question of "why did they make this?"” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 83% EDIT “Dead Lover is a cartoon lightning bolt of vivacious, zany good fun and open experimentalism held together by the obvious talent and affection of its cast and crew.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Invention (2024) 95% EDIT “Invention is an airily shaggy, collaborative piece of improvised, genre-fluid auto-fiction.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Going Down (1982) EDIT “The film pulses with life, humor, and barely-sublimated melancholy, driven along by a sweet eye for whimsy, a bleak, razor-sharp wit, and a thrashing soundtrack.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Dog of God (2025) 87% EDIT “Dog of God’s is a delight to behold in this psychedelic, rotoscope-animated folk horror freakout.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Videoheaven (2025) 87% EDIT “Even the clear passion becomes a thorn in its side, turning what presents itself as a mellow elegy for cinephiles and physical media heads into something far less friendly.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Queens of the Dead (2025) 83% EDIT “Tina Romero's debut feature, Queens of the Dead, is the newest, and most fabulous, entry into the zombie canon.” – Film Inquiry Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Eat the Night (2024) 67% EDIT “While the film certainly falls short of generating the deep wells of feeling to which it aspires, primarily through its most genre-standard plot points, its voice is still striking, its characterizations memorable.” – Autostraddle Feb 19, 2025 Full Review Red Rooms (2023) 96% EDIT “Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms is an exercise in epistemological uncertainty, as impersonal as the glazed surfaces of an ultra-modern courthouse, cold as stale air conditioning implacably blasted long after the chill of fall has set in.” – Film Inquiry Sep 18, 2024 Full Review The Becomers (2023) 94% EDIT “The film is a light riff on the science fiction B-films of the ‘50s, striking a difficult tonal balance–– it’s pointed without being didactic, idiosyncratic without being too cute–– and, at times, attains some genuine sweetness as a result.” – Film Inquiry Sep 18, 2024 Full Review My Sextortion Diary (2024) 100% EDIT “My Sextortion Diary, the hour-long documentary that arose from Franquesa‘s harrowing experience with digital blackmail, is a queasily absorbing look at the uncanny and mundane ways technology shapes our daily lives. ” – Film Inquiry Mar 20, 2024 Full Review Things Will Be Different (2024) 81% EDIT “In addition to competent, charming performances from the two leads, the film is stylishly rendered. Fans of the genre should find lots to enjoy in this farmhouse puzzlebox.” – Film Inquiry Mar 19, 2024 Full Review Secret Mall Apartment (2024) 98% EDIT “In Workman‘s low-key treatment of this tale of creative misadventure, the story is warmhearted and meditative.” – Film Inquiry Mar 19, 2024 Full Review Dream Scenario (2023) 91% EDIT “Thematically, Dream Scenario perhaps poses more questions than it is able to effectively answer.” – Film Inquiry Dec 9, 2023 Full Review Saw X (2023) 81% EDIT “Once the blood begins to flow, Saw X tears ahead with brutal, surgical precision and typically excellent practical effects. ” – Film Inquiry Nov 8, 2023 Full Review
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