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Screen-Space (Substack) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Simon Foster.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/5
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Simon Foster Gans and his co-writers layer their narrative (tragic love story; really haunted memories; witch-cult abuse) like game designers Konami layered their game play, but only one nails the experience.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Signing Tony Raymond (2025) Simon Foster Owen exhibits a depth of understanding for his working class characters (notably a terrific Mira Sorvino as the damaged but determined mom) and sharp wit in his takedown of principle-free college ‘ball big business.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mercy (2026) Simon Foster The energy it spends entirely ignoring that it presents a near future American society diametrically inverted to the existing Constitutional democracy (at least, at time of writing) is quite remarkable and hugely disappointing.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Glendora (2026) Simon Foster Armand’s work offers a Wiseman-like tour-de-force of observational cinematic storytelling; one never senses her camera is intrusive, but the images it captures are indelibly insightful.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Marty Supreme (2025) Simon Foster Grotesquely ambitious ping-ponger ‘Marty Mauser’ is exactly the fidgety, shouty, sexy, toxic character that is an actor’s dream, and Chalamet goes all in on the acne-scarred young man’s anxiety-inducing geographical and emotional odyssey.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Raja Saab (2025) Simon Foster Telugu superstar Prabhas shoehorns his appeal into this ill-fitting vehicle, a low-brow pitch to his legion of fans that hurls broad comedy, half-baked horror tropes and laptop special effects with little concern for coherence or character.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Song Sung Blue (2025) Simon Foster If cinema is the only real artform for the masses, then surely SONG SUNG BLUE is the artform at its purest. Isn’t that what Oscar recognises?
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Urchin (2025) Simon Foster Dickinson indulges in some showy movie moments in the final few minutes, unnecessarily at odds with the gritty street-level realism of all that goes before.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Christy (2025) Simon Foster Michôd doesn’t rebuild the sports drama genre with his often conventional handling of the material, but nor does he miss the heart and soul of Martin’s story.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
Flat Girls (2025) Simon Foster Few films this year will capture the tenderness of friendship and complexity of coming-of-age like FLAT GIRLS.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Simon Foster Cameron’s third space opera/neo-western saga reps the longest running time, thinnest plotting and most risible dialogue of the franchise, while managing to reduce his once cutting-edge visual flair to its most generic baseline functionality.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Simon Foster [A] remarkably joyous film, a love letter that captures not just the energy of the day-to-day production of BREATHLESS but also the foundations of the legacy it has forged.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
David (2025) Simon Foster DAVID is an admirably ambitious production, but its overstuffed narrative robs it of any sense of wonder.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Addition (2024) Simon Foster It’s all negligible melodrama, until Grace decides to cure her mental illness with a good apartment clean-out, and things turn offensively simple-minded.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Simon Foster Call it a Christmas miracle, but Mike P. Nelson’s reboot of this all-but-forgotten slasher franchise is just what the PG-diluted horror genre needs right now.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Ella McCay (2025) Simon Foster Brooks was one of the driving intellectual and creative forces behind ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, arguably the greatest career woman character arc of all time; where’s that guy?
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Simon Foster It is never quite the sum of its parts, but THE CARPENTER’S SON is an earnest, occasionally brilliant, often brutal depiction of faith and family.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Twiggy (2024) Simon Foster Sadie Frost’s celebration of the ‘60s pop culture icon is a sweet, slight profile that, much like Lesley ‘Twiggy’ Lawson herself, peaks very early on.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Nuremberg (2025) Simon Foster Most importantly, writer-director Vanderbilt’s epic yet intimate dramatic thriller ultimately affords each historic figure the filmic legacy their actions deserve.
Posted Dec 06, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
This Ordinary Thing (2025) Simon Foster Davis has an artist’s touch, finding humanity in horror and deep empathy in the grainy grading of his frames. A profoundly potent use of words and images.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Kokuho (2025) Simon Foster Lee’s staging of classic Kabuki productions, the passionate commitment of the entire cast...and the glorious designs of costumers Kumiko Ogawa and Kazuo Matsuda are never not breathtaking.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Zootopia 2 (2025) Simon Foster Disney’s smartest, cutest, aesthetically-richest animated world gets it wonderfully right, 2 for 2.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Age of Disclosure (2025) Simon Foster It’s a polished production, several tiers above the usual Tubi trashpile where a lot of these docos dwell, but it’s now more likely that the inevitable THE AGE OF DISCLOSURE 2 will prove the truth is out there.
Posted Nov 28, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Heaven (1987) Simon Foster My takeaway (as a fellow agnostic) is that the cumulative effect of the intercutting film images suggests that God’s power is most evident in the creation of art, while personal beliefs are fine and all but…y’know, whatever gets you through the day.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Blue Eyed Girl (2025) Simon Foster The pic’s sweet and soulful centre is the lovely Marisa Coughlan, working from her own script; [she] finds a warm truth as ‘Jane’, the 40-ish L.A. mum suddenly faced with a lot of emotional Midwest baggage and bittersweet mature-age dramatics.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Simon Foster "I feel I can’t touch the rest of the world outside of Gaza," [Fatma Hassona] says, but this heartbreaking film ensures that she will, for generations.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Wicked: For Good (2025) Simon Foster In 2024, all the elements - music, drama, comedy and spectacle - gelled to perfection; in 2025, what amounts to an overstretched Act 3 is a bit of a chore.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Tabekko Dobutsu the Movie (2025) Simon Foster Believe me, no one is more surprised by how affecting I found this film than I am. Director Hitoshi Takekiyo and writer Tetsuhiro Ikeda world-build and character-craft with a warm sentimentality and genre dexterity that is a joy to behold.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Running Man (2025) Simon Foster Surely a sharp-minded filmmaker like Edgar Wright can wring some cutting topicality and blockbuster action out of this material? [But he] numbs the material’s inherent satirical value, his leading man’s charisma and any franchise-kicker potential.
Posted Nov 15, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
TRON: Ares (2025) Simon Foster Much has been made of Leto’s fading star, but he’s fine as the benevolent self-regenerative cyber soldier; too little has been made of the great Greta Lee’s action lead.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Deeper (2025) Simon Foster Peedom taps the essence of a man who defies our inherent fear of death to constantly redefine his sense of self; why he does it, how he does it, and who he does it with makes for a moving, exciting plunge into deep, dark water and a determined psychology.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Barrio Triste (2025) Simon Foster Working with producer Harmony Korinne, director Stillz has crafted a slice-of-hard-life chronicle that is both compellingly propulsive and heartbreakingly pointless.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
We Bury the Dead (2024) Simon Foster Hilditch is a major genre voice, perhaps still to deliver his masterwork; WE BURY THE DEAD is a teeth-gnashing shuffle in the right direction.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Erupcja (2025) Simon Foster Indie chill-out master Pete Ohs is a good fit for Charli XCX to pair with for her first foray into film acting...the Brat starlet works well with Ohs’ naturalistic, free-form narrative style.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Tree of Knowledge (2025) Simon Foster Part absurdist fairytale, part reconciliation between Portuguese society then and now, Eugène Green’s understated but outrageous socio-political rhetoric is quite a thing.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Beast of War (2025) Simon Foster Mark Coles Smith and Sam Delich are the standouts of a fine human cast, but it’s Roache-Turner’s great white monster that will linger long in your nightmares.
Posted Oct 05, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl (2025) Simon Foster Her latest phenomenal success is event marketed, not fan generated. Her star still shines bright, which keeps the movie experience afloat, but the integrity feels strained.
Posted Oct 05, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Coyotes (2025) Simon Foster Some effective frights, fun gore and a few giggles don’t quite compensate for a barely-there narrative, but it’s a serviceable men-with-guns vs nature-just-being-nature entry.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Good Boy (2025) Simon Foster Comprised of stunningly staged frights and brilliantly edited reaction shots, the structure and narrative is deceptively simple, but the overall impact makes for a gut-punch horror experience.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Simon Foster Johnson is a bewildering physical specimen, and undergoes a transformation on-screen that allows his audience to disconnect from his ‘The Rock’ persona and totally accept him in the role.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Counted Out (2024) Simon Foster I don’t think I fully realised my own level of ‘numerical anxiety’ until I saw Vicki Abeles’ Counted Out, a siren call against maths illiteracy and one of the most bewilderingly moving factual films in recent memory.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Forastera (2025) Simon Foster Lucía Aleñar Iglesias' debut feature is a delicately-poised, elegantly-poetic, deeply-felt psycho-drama.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Simon Foster One Battle After Another pulsates with [Anderson's] unique prowess as a visual storyteller, his intelligence as an observer of a bruised world and his empathy for angry crusaders.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Simon Foster Not much about Kogonada’s A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY makes sense, leaves an impression or endears the leads to whatever audience this is aimed at.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Looking Through Water (2025) Simon Foster “Think about what kind of men you really are,” urges salty bar owner Miss Reno (Tamara Tunie), her words speaking to the thematic strengths in the script by Zach Dean and Rowdy Herrington (yes, that Rowdy Herrington!)
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Kangaroo (2025) Simon Foster When the Looking for Alibrandi director, working from Harry Cripps’ script, leans on her character’s deeper selves, Kangaroo is truly lovely.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
731 (2025) Simon Foster Linshan Zhao’s 731 (or EVIL UNBOUND internationally) is a far too sanitised, conventionally plotted story that turns the legacy of the thousands of dead and dismembered into an overly sentimental prison-break narrative.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Chaperone (2024) Simon Foster Akaha’s warm, engaging performance is the perfect foil for Misha’s darker, damaged personality, and all the more tragic for the impact it has on the innocents around her.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) Simon Foster There’s some dark shading amongst the flouro sci-fi aesthetic, but only as it serves the film’s own quest - validation for self, with lots of giggles.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
The Long Walk (2025) Simon Foster In the pantheon of King adaptations, THE LONG WALK is on the short list of very good ones.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
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