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The Curzon Journal

The Curzon Journal is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Yasmin Omar.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Yasmin Omar Bobbing and zipping, slashing and thrashing, Marty Supreme is a frenzied portrait of the athlete as a young, selfish man that leaves you, agape, questioning the true meaning of victory.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bugonia (2025) Yasmin Omar Bugonia is still a deliciously nasty little genre movie that criticises late-stage capitalism with Yorgos Lanthimos’ dry humour, toe-curling brutality and cheeky absurdism.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Yasmin Omar The isolation of fame and the mutability of identity are core tenets of Noah Baumbach’s ruminative, pleasingly melancholy character study.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Mastermind (2025) Yasmin Omar Make no mistake: competency porn this is not. The film frustrates our desire to see each stage in a grand plan fall into place – and it’s all the better for it.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Yasmin Omar One Battle After Another is a full meal of a film, a character piece smuggled into a roof-jumping, grenade-tossing, car-flipping action movie that smartly comments on third-rail political issues.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sorry, Baby (2025) Yasmin Omar A dramedy in the truest sense of the word, it pulls off the delicate tightrope act of moving between harrowing intensity and Sahara-dry gallows humour.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Yasmin Omar In many ways, The Final Reckoning is less an action movie, more a disaster movie. Where worst-case scenarios used to be implied, here they’re visualised with apocalyptic projections.
Posted May 15, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
The Brutalist (2024) Yasmin Omar Without being too grandiose, The Brutalist is what cinema is all about.
Posted Jan 10, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Babygirl (2024) Yasmin Omar Much of the film’s drama derives from its morally porous central relationship, its skirting around the question of who exactly has the power.
Posted Jan 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Better Man (2024) Yasmin Omar Better Man doesn’t feel as guarded, as micromanaged, as other films of its ilk.
Posted Dec 17, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Apprentice (2024) Yasmin Omar It’s bracing to watch The Apprentice. This is an uncompromising movie defiantly working outside the system and answering to no one.
Posted Oct 10, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Blink Twice (2024) Yasmin Omar The film is much like the social-media platforms whose parlance it has swallowed: a lacquered, curated irreality that’s fun to spend time with – but might just end up being very bad for you.
Posted Aug 20, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Twisters (2024) Yasmin Omar It’s necessarily silly – the kind of dumb fun that has you rolling your eyes, but simultaneously outstretching your hand for more.
Posted Jul 16, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Nature of Love (2023) Yasmin Omar The Nature of Love offers a well rounded, even-handed view of an amorous dalliance – from the fizzing endorphin rush to the inevitable comedown – that’s sympathetic to both parties.
Posted Jul 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Yasmin Omar Emma Stone has two Oscars and the world at her feet, but prefers to collaborate with Lanthimos on freaky curios that require her to fellate nightsticks as opposed to following a more conventional, A-list path. More power to her.
Posted Jun 25, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Beast (2023) Yasmin Omar What keeps all of the film’s sky-high concepts not only legible, but engrossing, is Seydoux; she is its grounding force, guiding us through the Dantean maze of mahogany-panelled ballrooms and neon-streaked dancefloors.
Posted May 29, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Challengers (2024) Yasmin Omar Challengers is full of games. Tennis games, naturally, but also mind games, power games, sex games.
Posted Apr 16, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Anyone But You (2023) Yasmin Omar I don’t need much more from these sorts of films than vague narrative coherence, chemistry between the leads and memorable set pieces, all of which Anyone But You has.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Fingernails (2023) Yasmin Omar A searching, gently melancholy romantic drama that recognises, when it comes to love, we are often left with more questions than answers.
Posted Nov 02, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Yasmin Omar A sprawling, kaleidoscopic portrait of greed, violence and moral depravity.
Posted Oct 10, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Fair Play (2023) Yasmin Omar It’s an incisive study of workplace power dynamics. It’s a critique of the testosterone palaces that uphold the banking industry. It’s an investigation into a corrosive, self-worth-burning romance.
Posted Sep 26, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Barbie (2023) Yasmin Omar Barbie is a dazzling, frothy meta-comedy that’s very much in on the joke. Its varnished artificiality is a powder-pink Trojan Horse with which the film smuggles its very real commentary on gender politics.
Posted Jul 19, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) Yasmin Omar So masterfully constructed, so legibly established is the film that you never feel the sheer effort required to make it.
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Full Time (2021) Yasmin Omar That’s the stress-inducing nightmare of Full Time, a nail-biting domestic thriller that dramatises the mundane horrors of commuting as a means of exposing the precarity of the lower-middle class.
Posted May 23, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Return to Seoul (2022) Yasmin Omar This insightful, resonant film concerns itself with the awkward braiding together of opposing cultures, and the loneliness inherent in being caught between two worlds.
Posted May 10, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) Yasmin Omar How to Blow Up a Pipeline speaks truth to power, imploring audiences do something, anything to staunch the alarming rate of environmental degradation.
Posted Apr 18, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
The Night of the 12th (2022) Yasmin Omar The film offers plenty of insight into masculinity: the anger, the posturing, the coarseness.
Posted Mar 28, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Rye Lane (2023) Yasmin Omar Charming, funny and inventive, Rye Lane is exactly the film we need right now.
Posted Mar 15, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
The Fabelmans (2022) Yasmin Omar The Fabelmans is an illuminating portrait of the artist as a young man but also, crucially, of the watershed moment that destabilised his childhood: his parents’ divorce.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Babylon (2022) Yasmin Omar Babylon is a synapse-frazzling extravaganza, a libidinous bacchanal of writhing bodies, coke-dusted noses and lurid sex acts.
Posted Jan 16, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Jean (2022) Yasmin Omar There’s stressful cinema, and then there’s Blue Jean.
Posted Jan 03, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Yasmin Omar Enlivened by its adorable repurposing of household objects – sliced bread is a mattress, stray lint is a pet dog, tennis balls are cars – the film is cute without ever being cutesy.
Posted Jan 03, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Sick of Myself (2022) Yasmin Omar A biting indictment of contemporary absorption, and the sacrifices we make in the name of self-interest, Sick of Myself is bitterly hilarious.
Posted Jan 03, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
Saint Omer (2022) Yasmin Omar Delicate and reserved, Saint Omer provides insightful commentary on themes of motherhood, guilt, race and education.
Posted Jan 03, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Yasmin Omar The Way of Water is still that rarest of things: a transportive blockbuster that voyages across new frontiers, all of which are fully realised in resplendent detail.
Posted Dec 13, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Anaïs in Love (2021) Yasmin Omar Much like its vibrant protagonist (played with naive sincerity by Anaïs Demoustier), the romantic comedy Anaïs in Love fizzes with irrepressible energy.
Posted Aug 15, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Pleasure (2021) Yasmin Omar Pleasure pulls back the curtain on a manipulative industry and reveals that joyous uploads may actually cover up dark secrets.
Posted Jun 14, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Yasmin Omar Watching Tom Cruise pick up his aviators and slip his patch-emblazoned jacket back on as Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is as close as you can get to a transcendental experience at the cinema.
Posted May 24, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Vortex (2021) Yasmin Omar As a social-realist drama, Vortex is arguably more devastating than Noé’s former provocations because it is firmly grounded in the world as we know it.
Posted May 11, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
The Novice (2021) Yasmin Omar The Novice is a precise character study buoyed by a committed central performance.
Posted Apr 29, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Happening (2021) Yasmin Omar With its unflinching presentation of the very real consequences of denying women reproductive freedom, Happening is more terrifying than any horror film
Posted Mar 02, 2022  Edit critic review
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