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The Hollywood Handle

The Hollywood Handle is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Prabhjot Bains.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
4.5/5	The Iron Claw (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	It’s the year’s most honest film, deeply sincere in its characters, melancholy, and, above all, humanity, as it navigates both the burden and beauty of familial expectations...An essential entry in the canon of American tragedies. Posted Dec 12, 2023 Edit critic review
3.5/5	Priscilla (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	Coppola’s screenplay lags in its last act...Nonetheless, Priscilla is a ravishing tale of a doomed romance, and though it will divide fans of the King, it’s an important look at a figure who’s long been denied a voice of her own. Posted Nov 04, 2023 Edit critic review
5/5	Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	Martin Scorsese crafts a powerful reckoning with the greed, entitlement, and duplicity through which the West was won. It’s a rare epic that sets the record straight, deconstructing the mythos on which the United States was erected. Posted Oct 18, 2023 Edit critic review
3.5/5	The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	Though hampered by some uninspired choices, 'The Last Voyage of Demeter' is a sturdy exercise in atmospheric thrills and a lived-in setting, one that puts a fresh, imposing spin on an age-old figure. Posted Aug 10, 2023 Edit critic review
2.5/5	Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	The frustrating aspect of Dial of Destiny lies in how it scratches at the surface of its predecessors’ magic but never breaks through to the core. Posted Jul 23, 2023 Edit critic review
2/5	Asteroid City (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	It feels like two different movies forcefully amalgamated into one incongruous whole, rendering its existential meditation on grief emotionally inert and hollow... It’s very much Anderson’s weakest entry to date. Posted Jul 23, 2023 Edit critic review
5/5	Past Lives (2023)	Prabhjot Bains	Past Lives is a sonic-visual feast in the service of a deeply moving, revelatory treatise on subtle human truths...it’s easily one of the best films of the year, if not, the best. Posted Jul 23, 2023 Edit critic review