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Arts Fuse is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Betsy Sherman, Cassidy Olsen, Erica Abeel, Gerald Peary, Isaac Feldberg, Peg Aloi, Peter Keough, Steve Erickson.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
The Chronology of Water (2025) Peg Aloi The Chronology of Water is a voyage into demanding psychological territory: Poots makes for a formidable sentinel and Stewart a masterful guide.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peg Aloi Fans of this ongoing horror narrative will find much to appreciate here. The performances are great across the board, including O’Connell, who makes Jimmy a terrifyingly malignant yet charismatic force.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Steve Erickson When the humor turns dark it is damned effective, particularly in the story’s bravura ending.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Steve Erickson It can’t be denied that Marty Supreme is effective as a wild trip. It’s an immersive experience — not an analysis of its self-adoring antihero.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) Steve Erickson It’s a hymn to the pathos of living as a popular fictional character.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
I'm Not Everything I Want to Be (2024) Peter Keough [The photos] that she has chosen presumably are those that compose the movie, artfully edited together into a narrative with voice-over, music, and sound effects not unlike Chris Marker’s masterful short La Jetée. The show is a triumph, as is her life.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Peter Keough I suspect Hamlet would not have approved of the acting in Hamnet.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Peg Aloi The film offers a puzzling fata morgana for viewers to closely observe, to attempt to parse what lies beneath the film’s attractive, calm surface.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
A Body to Live In (2025) Peter Keough These interviews are intermixed in a nonchronological, collage-like structure, with images backed by disembodied voices and an incantatory soundtrack evocative of a Kenneth Anger film.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Brigitte's Planet B (2025) Peter Keough Posada intercuts these candid observational sequences and archival footage with disorienting imagery of sprouting mushrooms, colorful animal mating behavior, and swarming sea and avian life. The imagery astonishes and delights.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) Peter Keough The narrative is marked by nuanced, heart-wrenching performances, notably by Joel Edgerton as Granier.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Peg Aloi Director Joachim Trier is a masterful arbiter of storytelling conceits and tones: by turns subtle, ironic, melodramatic, cold, and, often, heartbreaking.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Steve Erickson If ever there was a film bound to divide spectators, this is it. But its risk-taking exuberance is thrilling, though the results are uneven.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Under Age (1941) Betsy Sherman Under Age trumpets its benevolence in exposing a racket, but it’s too sketchy to have more than camp value.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Three Wise Girls (1932) Betsy Sherman Jean Harlow, on loan from M-G-M, doffs her usual bombshell persona and winningly plays a gal with scruples.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
None Shall Escape (1944) Betsy Sherman The chiaroscuro cinematography draws viewers in.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Address Unknown (1944) Betsy Sherman The uniformly good cast is led by Paul Lukas.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Let Us Live (1939) Betsy Sherman As it stands, the film seems rushed and without sufficient connective tissue.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) Betsy Sherman Despite Tracy’s vigorous performance, Washington Merry-Go-Round is fatally ham-fisted. Whatever potency it musters is dissipated by its tendency to stop dead in its tracks so Button can make a speech.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
The Stamp Thief (2025) Peter Keough At its best, the documentary shows how cinematic make-believe can be enlisted in the cause of righting the wrongs of history.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
All God's Children (2024) Peter Keough Timoner combines candid observations with dynamic montages and a compelling soundtrack to compress complex issues, decades of civil rights history, and the traumatic events of several years into a cogent appeal for understanding and action.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Lure of Ponies: A Spellbound Attic Mystery (2025) Peg Aloi The unbridled creativity and technical prowess on display here was nothing short of stunning
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Floating Carousel (2025) Peg Aloi The seemingly disjointed scenarios and characters overlap in fascinating ways.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Dust to Malibu (2025) Peg Aloi The strength of this film lies in the excellent performances by the two lead actors, who artfully navigate the intensity of Phil and Jessie’s history during the journey, to finally enter the tender territory of redemption.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Park Avenue (2025) Peg Aloi The film is a rich and satisfying viewing experience, thanks to its dynamic visuals (the sets and costumes are a joy) and powerful performances.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Ark (2025) Peg Aloi The Ark is a gripping yet heartwarming documentary.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Peg Aloi The dialogue is sharp, the visuals alluring, the tone and pacing are engaging.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Peg Aloi The entire production is seamlessly crafted, an outstanding achievement given its relatively small budget. The cast is outstanding, especially Seyfried, in a career-defining performance that is gutsy, intricate, and transcendent.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Peter Keough Wordy and well-acted, often entertaining and occasionally enlightening.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Peter Keough It is, like some other realizations of longtime cinema dreams, alternately magnificent, stunning, provocative, over-produced, exhausting, and fatuous.
Posted Oct 28, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Betsy Sherman The ungentle but fundamentally empathetic dark-comic drama looks at a woman flailing through a personal and family crisis. It features a brilliantly agile performance by Rose Byrne that’s also something of an endurance test.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Steve Erickson Reichardt avoids obvious fashion choices, and uses little rock music. Its meticulous care for detail comes through particularly strongly in the scenes set in bus stations and hotels.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Erica Abeel Linklater has cast unknowns who only somewhat resemble the original figures. The lack of exactitude adds an amateurish tone. I mean that as a compliment.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Peter Keough A House of Dynamite wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Erica Abeel This is bravura filmmaking that perversely explores how much can be left out.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Ombres de soie (1978) Steve Erickson Ombres de Soie is a film that asks to be swooned over.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Tiananmen Tonight (2025) Peter Keough Cram and Streissguth combine riveting archival footage and illuminating interviews with those involved, including Rather and other CBS personnel as well as student participants in the struggle.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Budapest Diaries (2024) Peter Keough This is essential viewing at a time when such a nightmare, supposedly relegated to the past, has become all too plausible.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
B.F. Skinner Plays Himself (2025) Peter Keough Drawing on archival footage and outtakes and clips from an unreleased 1975 documentary profile, Kennedy not only critiques Skinner’s ideas but also deconstructs the documentary genre itself and its capacity for presenting objective truth.
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987) Steve Erickson The first half of Brookner’s film offers a rather dry introduction to Wilson’s innovative theater work... The documentary’s second half takes its portrait of Wilson in a new, much more dramatic direction.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Angel's Egg (1985) Steve Erickson Without conventional characters or narrative – though there are a number of references to Christian mythology – this is a movie that should be absorbed and experienced first, and then picked apart for speculative answers.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Girl (1972) Steve Erickson The conflict within its extended family is sketched out with great care.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Arch (1968) Steve Erickson The Arch is too disconnected from its characters’ emotions to make much impact on the viewer.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Erica Abeel The overkill of Hunt betrays the director’s insecurity about his ability to comment cogently on today’s culture.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Democracy Noir (2024) Peter Keough Infuriating and inspiring.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Erica Abeel Filho excels, working the fine edge between humor and horror.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Plainclothes (2025) Steve Erickson Apart from its hyperkinetic style, Plainclothes is much like any other coming-out narrative.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Peter Keough Anderson seems to be taking on some of the most divisive issues of our time but only to exploit them.
Posted Sep 29, 2025  Edit critic review
I Am Night at Noonday (2025) Peter Keough Uneven but at times inspired.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Shifting Baselines (2025) Peter Keough Absurd and nightmarish.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
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