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The Cinephile Fix is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Wael Khairy.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Wings of Hope (1999) Wael Khairy Herzog’s almost lyrical narration turns an otherwise harrowing tale into a story of hope and beauty.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Taxi Driver (1976) Wael Khairy The viewer has no choice, we are forced to breathe the air, gaze through the pupils, and experience the city by slipping into the shoes of a twisted protagonist, the shoe laces tightly tied by none other than a master of his craft, Scorsese.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Mean Streets (1973) Wael Khairy Mean Streets opens a window to the indoor activities of gangsters. Scorsese uses pool halls, restaurants, bars, and clubs as the backdrop and as with most of his films, the external environment has an internal effect on our protagonist.
Posted Mar 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Collateral (2004) Wael Khairy While Heat is Mann’s quintessential Los Angeles film, Collateral is his exploration of the city’s darker side.
Posted Mar 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Atlantics (2019) Wael Khairy Like ghosts, her films are traces, fragments of lives, histories, and emotions that refuse to fade into oblivion....operating between the realms of the living and the dead, the past and the present, the material world and the spiritual...
Posted Feb 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Dahomey (2024) Wael Khairy Diop amplifies cries from the past, compelling us to confront their implications for the present and future. In doing so, she creates a cinema through which the silenced voices of history are finally given the space to speak...
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Conversation (1974) Wael Khairy editing and sound mixing used to perfection
Posted Jan 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Midsommar (2019) Wael Khairy Part fairytale, part break-up movie, Ari Aster’s twisted cult horror will surely stand the test of time.
Posted Jan 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Marriage Story (2019) Wael Khairy “Marriage Story” could’ve easily been called “Divorce Story”, but the contradicting title suggests that marriage is a failed institution.
Posted Jan 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Wael Khairy ...at the film’s most climatic scene, you’ll forget you’re even watching a movie.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Looper (2012) Wael Khairy I was always a sucker for time-travel movies and the mind-bending paradoxes that materialise from baffling scenarios of crafty science fiction.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Ondine (2009) Wael Khairy Films like “Ondine” don’t come that often...watch it on a cold and windy night.
Posted Nov 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Monsters (2010) Wael Khairy “Monsters” has one of the most unexpected endings...Pay close attention to the opening and closing shots, there’s a link between them. When you discover what it is, you’ll be thinking of this unsettling ending for days.
Posted Nov 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Three Promises (2023) Wael Khairy “Three Promises” is not simply a highly recommended viewing, it’s an urgent one; especially when it’s not just the mortality of thousands of children that is on line, but the morality of humanity as a whole.
Posted Oct 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Angle (2023) Wael Khairy By exposing untold stories of what was happening behind the scenes of Kurt Angle’s most iconic moments, Perry adds a layer of depth to Angle’s remarkable achievements.
Posted Apr 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) Wael Khairy ...a film that is just as much about the film industry itself, as it is about the pursuit of happiness, and our ridiculously desperate need to be admired, recognized, and respected by people that shouldn’t really matter to us.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Winter Sleep (2014) Wael Khairy ...one of the greatest films ever made.
Posted Apr 15, 2024  Edit critic review
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Wael Khairy “Werckmeister Harmonies” presents itself as a cosmic vision of creaturely vulnerability to the inescapable atrocities that come with time.
Posted Mar 31, 2024  Edit critic review
Dark Water (2002) Wael Khairy ...the real horror in Dark Water has nothing to do with the ghost, and everything to do with losing one’s own parent or child.
Posted Mar 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Saint Maud (2019) Wael Khairy In Saint Maud, post-traumatic stress disorder is not told, it is felt.
Posted Mar 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Listen to Me Marlon (2015) Wael Khairy ...the best-documented film on not only the greatest and most influential actor to walk this planet, but on acting itself as an art form. Riley paints Brando’s words with corresponding visuals that perfectly encapsulate the meaning behind the spoken word.
Posted Jan 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Lilya 4-Ever (2002) Wael Khairy The film left me completely devastated and Oksana Akinshina’s performance is absolutely heartbreaking....“Lilya 4-ever” was so powerful it helped reshape laws within society. This is as important and urgent as cinema gets.
Posted Nov 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Whiplash (2014) Wael Khairy Here the classroom is the battlefield and dropping a drumstick feels just as devastating and crucial a moment as a grenade falling between your feet.
Posted Nov 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) Wael Khairy The photographic images in this film are on par with the greatest paintings ever made. The warm lighting and earthy texture within each perfectly composed shot are so vivid, rich and layered, you could almost smell the scent of soil as it rains...
Posted Oct 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Macario (1960) Wael Khairy I was immersed in the beauty of Mexican tradition and culture. It also happens to have one of the greatest “last shot” twist endings ever committed to film.
Posted Oct 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Godzilla (2014) Wael Khairy Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla is a beast of a film, and while it does brush its thick tail close to greatness, it is not without its flaws.
Posted Oct 08, 2023  Edit critic review
The Look of Silence (2014) Wael Khairy ...at the end of each interview, Rukun reveals his identity to the former killers. The camera captures the most extraordinarily reaction shot, the look of silence.
Posted Jul 30, 2023  Edit critic review
The Act of Killing (2012) Wael Khairy "The Act of Killing” is unquestionably the most innovative piece of documentary filmmaking to come out this decade.
Posted Jul 30, 2023  Edit critic review
Enter the Void (2009) Wael Khairy ...unlike anything you have ever and most likely will ever see.
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Cairo Station (1958) Wael Khairy Chahine is judging an entire system by forcing us to see that city through the eyes of a psychopath. It is extremely difficult for a director to handle a picture from both a macro and micro perspective, but Chahine manages to pull it off beautifully.
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Moon (2009) Wael Khairy the film is rich with philosophical ideas grandeur in scope...it presents them in a tightly focused and efficiently structured psychological thriller
Posted Jul 05, 2023  Edit critic review
The Young and the Damned (1950) Wael Khairy ...this film was the main inspiration behind “City of God”, and I can see how. It is just as brutal, if not more so.
Posted Jun 20, 2023  Edit critic review
The Lighthouse (2019) Wael Khairy ...you can almost taste the sea-salt and smell the stench of booze in the air. Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” is a sea yarn full of sailor superstitions; it could be the most haunting film about sea-lore ever made. Save it for a cold stormy night.
Posted Jun 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Shutter Island (2010) Wael Khairy Teddy Daniels walks the dark empty hallway of a mental institution. The tiny flame of his match goes off. He lights another one. A couple of minutes later a man behind bars tells him “Don’t you get it? You’re a rat in a maze.” So is the viewer.
Posted Jun 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Death in Venice (1971) Wael Khairy “Death in Venice” is a film about humanity’s slow transcendence into nothingness and everything. It exists in the space between life and death, between youth and old age, between ignorance and wisdom.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) Wael Khairy This brutal film is a complex psychological study of group hysteria, mob mentality, and religious fanaticism.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Yi Yi (2000) Wael Khairy Yang has graced us with a thought-provoking film about the uncertainties awaiting us in the span of a lifetime.
Posted Apr 20, 2023  Edit critic review
Shame (2011) Wael Khairy Steve McQueen’s painful cinematic display of loneliness in the city features acting of the highest caliber.
Posted Mar 31, 2023  Edit critic review
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Wael Khairy “Koyaanisqatsi” is one of the most eye-opening works of art created in the late 20th century.
Posted Mar 31, 2023  Edit critic review
Lessons of Darkness (1992) Wael Khairy The visuals here pack the grandiosity of anything we’ve seen in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”. The only difference is, this is real, and it’s not outer space, it’s the tip of the Persian Gulf.
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) Wael Khairy This study of what it means to be human is one of the most empathetic documentaries out there.
Posted Dec 30, 2022  Edit critic review
Amarcord (1973) Wael Khairy Like a record you listen to on a cold winter night, or a soup that reminds you of your grandma’s fireplace, “Amarcord” is a mood piece above anything else.
Posted Dec 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Three Colors: Blue (1993) Wael Khairy “Blue” is the rarest of all films, a film that reveals its knowledge on humanity through melodic rhythm and artistic imagery. It should be regarded as one of the most insightful and inventive films ever made.
Posted Dec 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Three Colors: Red (1994) Wael Khairy ...the film’s most impressive feat is its metaphysical connection with the medium itself, the cinema, which is also about coming together and sharing experiences.
Posted Nov 24, 2022  Edit critic review
The Irishman (2019) Wael Khairy In a lot of ways, this film is the antithesis to “Goodfellas”, a eulogy to the gangster genre the same way “Unforgiven” was a eulogy to the western genre.
Posted Nov 24, 2022  Edit critic review
And Life Goes On... (1992) Wael Khairy ...an absolutely beautiful film from a filmmaker who knows how to capture the human spirit.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Land Without Bread (1933) Wael Khairy ...the imagery captured in this anthropological expedition is quite unsettling, but nothing is more disturbing than the truth behind the making of this film.
Posted Nov 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Wael Khairy “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” is a gateway to another world; it exists in the space between life and death, between past and present, between reality and fantasy.
Posted Oct 27, 2022  Edit critic review
A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Wael Khairy “A Brighter Summer Day” swept me away into a world of juvenile delinquency and rock and roll. Politically charged and boasting with energy, Yang’s novelistic vision is something to behold.
Posted Oct 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) Wael Khairy Like the buried gold and the lost films, “Dawson City: Frozen Time” is a treasure waiting to be discovered.
Posted Oct 14, 2022  Edit critic review
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