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Rubin Safaya

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Executive Editor of Cinemalogue

Publications:
Location:

Dallas-Ft. Worth

Official Website:

http://www.cinemalogue.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “Indy’s quizzical expressions, abrupt over-the-shoulder glances and moments of sheer terror in his eyes... transport us into a dog’s state of mind better than any number of banal CG manifestations with voice-overs.” – Cinemalogue Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The Matrix Resurrections (2021) 63% EDIT “RESURRECTIONS meets audiences of the original where we are now-less cocky, more introspective -delving further into the inner lives of characters who have grown just as we have. It's not the story I anticipated, but it works.” – Cinemalogue Dec 23, 2021 Full Review The Middle Man (2021) 74% EDIT “All of this builds up to an answer that's passable, but only half as weird as the actual things I've seen happen in Bumblef**k, USA.” – Cinemalogue Sep 15, 2021 Full Review The Guilty (2021) 73% EDIT “When life, or a movie, rewards the limits of your patience by not enraging you further, are you supposed to feel relieved?” – Cinemalogue Sep 14, 2021 Full Review Encounter (2021) 54% EDIT “Ahmed and his child costars deliver a nuanced story about a family riven by their father's struggles with PTSD.” – Cinemalogue Sep 11, 2021 Full Review The Green Knight (2021) 89% EDIT “Like Peter Brook's stage and film adaptations of the [Mahabharata], the multi-cultural casting works hand in hand with this story's universal themes.” – Cinemalogue Jul 31, 2021 Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% EDIT “So focused on using disability and trauma as plot devices, the filmmakers never plumb the depths of what it is to lack agency.” – Cinemalogue Jun 29, 2021 Full Review Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) 71% EDIT “At just over four hours, ZACK SNYDER'S JUSTICE LEAGUE is an unwieldy collection of poorly reassembled subplots, rather than the sweeping epic it portends, and portends, and portends.” – Cinemalogue Mar 19, 2021 Full Review Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 96% EDIT “As Hampton, Kaluuya captures the inflection and intensity of a born orator.” – Cinemalogue Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It (2021) 96% EDIT “A picture emerges of a woman who fought every inch for freedom, achieving it once she wrested her career from the grip of toxic men.” – Cinemalogue Feb 1, 2021 Full Review Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) 95% EDIT “What's truly fascinating is how Sesame Street co-opted a commercial medium for progressive ends through simple gestures... keeping alive the subversive spirit of Henson's dark comedy on Sam & Friends.” – Cinemalogue Jan 31, 2021 Full Review President (2021) 91% EDIT “Nielsson presents a chronicle of events rather than a thesis... the filmmakers add no compelling information to strengthen the argument...” – Cinemalogue Jan 30, 2021 Full Review In the Same Breath (2021) 96% EDIT “Both China and the United States have so maligned the free press as "enemies of the people" that we're paradoxically conditioned to yearn for the simplicity of spoon-fed positivity over the difficult work of watching the watchmen.” – Cinemalogue Jan 30, 2021 Full Review The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) 89% B- EDIT “As the didactic prankster [Abbie Hoffman], Sacha Baron Cohen is a revelation.” – Cinemalogue Sep 25, 2020 Full Review Another Round (2020) 93% EDIT “Mikkelsen's performance radiates, vacillating to the extremes of depression and mania with believable restraint. A trained gymnast and dancer, he contrasts Martin's lows with gyrating and leaping highs.” – Cinemalogue Sep 18, 2020 Full Review I Am Greta (2020) 77% B- EDIT “As a profile in courage, I AM GRETA succeeds. But is the young activist... content with a finished product that furthers her brand more than it educates, instructs, and moves us to effect actual policy change?” – Cinemalogue Sep 16, 2020 Full Review Joe Bell (2020) 39% EDIT “In contrast to what [original screenwriters] Ossana and McMurtry intended GOOD JOE BELL to be, the end result from which they were completely divorced epitomizes Hollywood's risk-averse, design-by-committee approach to filmmaking...” – Cinemalogue Sep 15, 2020 Full Review No Ordinary Man (2020) 94% EDIT “The diverse, harmonious co-existence and collaboration within the jazz community-a space where Billy Tipton could thrive, undisturbed, for decades-becomes the template for trans people just beginning to learn how to improvise their own stories.” – Cinemalogue Sep 14, 2020 Full Review Wolfwalkers (2020) 99% EDIT “WOLFWALKERS teaches strong lessons about the irrationality of fear, the virtue of cooperation, and the value of coexistence.” – Cinemalogue Sep 14, 2020 Full Review The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) 77% EDIT “THE (NEW) CORPORATION has all the dominoes, but fails to line them up and knock them over in one push.” – Cinemalogue Sep 13, 2020 Full Review Pieces of a Woman (2020) 76% EDIT “Vanessa Kirby deserves a star vehicle, just not this one.” – Cinemalogue Sep 12, 2020 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% EDIT “An Elegy for American Exceptionalism: The nation built by frontiersmen always looked down on them. Rich White America lied to Poor White America all the while sneering at them. We of Brown and Black America never assumed differently.” – Cinemalogue Sep 12, 2020 Full Review Penguin Bloom (2020) 66% EDIT “The Blooms feel like every other in the Family Adversity sub-genre-cardboard cutouts of whom we knew little before the accident except, you know, that they might have come straight from the set of a salad ad.” – Cinemalogue Sep 11, 2020 Full Review Simple Passion (2020) 59% EDIT “It's like Mike Leigh's ANOTHER YEAR without the year.” – Cinemalogue Sep 11, 2020 Full Review David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) 97% EDIT “The connection between people on and off stage is the performance-the more human, the better.” – AwardsWatch Sep 11, 2020 Full Review
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