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There Were No Gods Left

There Were No Gods Left is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Joshua Polanski.

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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Joshua Polanski The incredible capstone to one of the finest sagas in blockbuster history.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Joshua Polanski It’s not Park [Chan-wook's] best. But Park is one of our very best.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Infinite Summer (2024) Joshua Polanski [Infinite Summer] perfectly fits into the contemporary Estonian film landscape with its ironic genre play, strange sexual verve, and popping embrace of quirky digital visuals.
Posted Sep 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Sholay (1975) Joshua Polanski Experiences like Sholay are why we go to the movies.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Joshua Polanski It’s impossible to endure Magellan and walk away with any sympathy reserved for the old colonial myths we were told in schools.
Posted Sep 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979) Joshua Polanski Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel resists the ordinary in favor of the idiosyncratic and renegade.
Posted Aug 10, 2025  Edit critic review
The Penguin Lessons (2024) Joshua Polanski Tasteless and glib.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Joshua Polanski The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most Kirbyesque the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever felt.
Posted Jul 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Invisibles (2024) Joshua Polanski There is something a little charming about [Andrew] Currie’s direction in its ability to maintain optimism and hope in Charlie’s darkest moments. Hopefully, that quality is contagious.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Joshua Polanski [James Gunn is] the last director standing in the superhero factory with anything left in a vision of heroism to tap into.
Posted Jul 13, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Joshua Polanski The obvious Brexit analogue of an isolated Isles cannibalizing itself works only if you don’t think about it too hard.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Into the Labyrinth (2019) Joshua Polanski For what it’s worth, that is one freaky bunny costume.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Joshua Polanski Caveats aside, Rebirth is the best thing bearing the Jurassic Park logo in quite some time.
Posted Jul 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Shanghai Blues (1984) Joshua Polanski Shanghai Blues will always be a brilliant romantic comedy.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Vera and the Pleasure of Others (2023) Joshua Polanski As a directorial debut, it doesn’t get much better than Vera and the Pleasure of Others
Posted Jun 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Detective Kien: The Headless Horror (2025) Joshua Polanski Ugly people don’t exist in [Victor] Vu's worlds, for better and worse.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Joshua Polanski Mickey 17 is the ugliest Bong [Joon Ho] film, the least inspired image-making. It’s not his worst — it's good — but it is his most worrisome: has one of the “good ones” made the final turn to the machine of predictable studio slog?
Posted Jun 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Ash (2025) Joshua Polanski Ash is the vision of a filmmaker reared on the hectic images of music videos. The ambition gets swallowed by its derivativeness.
Posted Jun 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) Joshua Polanski Bloodlines is an ironic celebration of life and a sermon that we ought to enjoy it.
Posted Jun 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Host (2006) Joshua Polanski The Host, in addition to being a wonderful family drama and a fun creature flick, serves as a critique of American consumerism, and in particular, the way Americans treat the world itself as a commodity.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Zindaji Na Milegi Dobara (2011) Joshua Polanski If The Wolf on Wall Street can be labeled “indulgence cinema,” Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is the cinema of transcendence.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Happy Christmas (2014) Joshua Polanski The Christmas movie genre as a sum is entirely pointless to the effect it destroys joviality; “Happy Christmas” gives that pointlessness a style to partner with.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2021) Joshua Polanski Johnnie To is well known in the West for his action and crime films but, the populist that he is, he’s also a prolific director of romances and musicals.
Posted May 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Joshua Polanski This is Tom Cruise at his best, at his most vulnerable, and at his most ambitious.
Posted May 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Sinners (2025) Joshua Polanski [Ryan] Coogler gets dangerously close to the horrifying center of American culture over the course of the single night — close enough for Sinners to dance with America’s original sin.
Posted May 04, 2025  Edit critic review
In the Lost Lands (2025) Joshua Polanski The sort of world one wishes they could give Ted Cruz a one-way ticket to.
Posted Mar 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Nickel Boys (2024) Joshua Polanski Nickel Boys is simultaneously a machine for empathy — driven by the film’s use of first person POV and tight aspect ratio — and distanced with experimental and stylized pillow shots of the engine of history revving up in the background.
Posted Dec 11, 2024  Edit critic review
A Complete Unknown (2024) Joshua Polanski Popifies the only songwriter to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 
Posted Dec 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Rebel Moon - Part Two: Director's Cut (2024) Joshua Polanski Snyder challenges that binary in Rebel Moon and in doing so uncovers a truth about heroism that the superhero movies never arrived at: heroism is something you do; it’s not who you are.
Posted Sep 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Rebel Moon - Part One: Director's Cut (2024) Joshua Polanski One of the most quintessentially anthropocentric space fantasies on screen.
Posted Sep 08, 2024  Edit critic review
The Beast (2023) Joshua Polanski Part of the experience of watching Bonello’s masterpiece is the longing for something more.
Posted Aug 23, 2024  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Joshua Polanski Guardians of the Galaxy is the movie that made me realize there is something to these so-called “movies.”
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Drug King (2018) Joshua Polanski The choice of Song loads the film with a certain political agenda too. As one of the world’s great talents, he plays every role with tremendous grace and gentleness.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Boy From Nowhere (2023) Joshua Polanski It’s much easier, and expedient, to make the rebels imperceptibly personified monsters but that’s not what Finlay’s film does and that alone makes this a film worth seeing.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997) Joshua Polanski The essence of traditional romance is simple desire; the essence of Comrades is something more political, though it wields desire (denied) to get where it needs to be.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Joshua Polanski Just like in a classic sports film, “wins” and “losses” are traded to great emotional affect.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Excursion (2023) Joshua Polanski impressed with Gunjak’s careful maneuvering of the nuances of teenage sexuality and sociality.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Hoard  (2023) Joshua Polanski As a vehicle for grief, loss, and guilt, Hoard doesn’t fare quite as well. Unfortunately, these themes form the center of Carmoon’s strange project.
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
A Taxi Driver (2017) Joshua Polanski It still pulls more from its viewers: Do these images pain you? What choice will you make when our world asks for you to make a choice?
Posted Jul 05, 2024  Edit critic review
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