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Unseen Films is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Nathanael Hood.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
9/10
The Life of Chuck (2024) Nathanael Hood Here is a film that rewards repeat viewings and active imagination to understand.
Posted Jun 21, 2025  Edit critic review
8/10
Conclave (2024) Nathanael Hood "A tense thriller with a heart, a brain, and a soul."
Posted Feb 26, 2025  Edit critic review
6/10
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024) Nathanael Hood "The operative word to describe Bonhoeffer[is] sincere. It sincerely believes in Bonhoeffer’s life and faith as extraordinary."
Posted Dec 01, 2024  Edit critic review
5/10
Elemental (2023) Nathanael Hood Watching it, I couldn’t escape the impression that I was seeing something Frankensteined together from other, better Pixar movies.
Posted Jun 24, 2023  Edit critic review
8/10
A Still Small Voice (2023) Nathanael Hood [Arguably] the most honest depiction of what hospital chaplaincy work feels like.
Posted Apr 25, 2023  Edit critic review
9/10
Women Talking (2022) Nathanael Hood Not only is it one of the best films of 2022, but I’d also argue it’s destined to take its place as one of the most theologically nuanced and morally courageous films ever made about Christianity.
Posted Feb 23, 2023  Edit critic review
10/10
RRR (2022) Nathanael Hood After years of Hollywood franchise glut...watching S. S. Rajamouli’s Telugu-language epic RRR is like taking that first breath of outside air after being cooped up all day in an office building with no air conditioning.
Posted Jun 18, 2022  Edit critic review
8/10
The Batman (2022) Nathanael Hood "... a veritable breath of fresh air in an industry glutted with visually banal superhero films with plots that feel written by committee."
Posted Mar 16, 2022  Edit critic review
8/10
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) Nathanael Hood Lin-Manuel Miranda could not have found better material for his directorial debut.
Posted Jan 14, 2022  Edit critic review
10/10
Procession (2021) Nathanael Hood What kind of saintly compassion does a child abuse survivor need to willingly play the role of someone else's rapist? I'm not sure, but these six survivors have it. Their strength and bravery are nothing short of literal miraculousness. So is this film.
Posted Jan 03, 2022  Edit critic review
8/10
Blue Bayou (2021) Nathanael Hood Blue Bayou is above all a damning indictment of a broken immigration system that's been hijacked by bureaucrats who see the enforcement of the letter of the law as more important than actually helping people.
Posted Oct 27, 2021  Edit critic review
The Lost Leonardo (2021) Nathanael Hood Properly captures the sense of dread, corruption, and duplicity that lurks at the heart of the art world.
Posted Oct 27, 2021  Edit critic review
8/10
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) Nathanael Hood The film's no trite memorial, it's an autopsy. It gets as messy and uncomfortable as the man himself.
Posted Jul 12, 2021  Edit critic review
7/10
Star Trek Beyond (2016) Nathanael Hood The breeziest and most enjoyable film of the [Kelvin] Timeline [and] the one most reminiscent of the beloved 1960s television show.
Posted Jun 14, 2021  Edit critic review
9/10
Bo Burnham: Inside (2021) Nathanael Hood An astonishing exorcism of the trauma, rage, fear, and helplessness felt by a world told to shelter in place.
Posted Jun 03, 2021  Edit critic review
7/10
The Fate of Lee Khan (1974) Nathanael Hood Angela Mao almost steals the show as reformed pickpocket Hai Mu-tan with a delightful sequence where she secretly robs a rich gambler and is forced to return his things without his noticing.
Posted Jun 01, 2021  Edit critic review
10/10
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself (2020) Nathanael Hood A once-in-a-lifetime movie of a once-in-a-lifetime performance pleading for inter/intra-personal compassion and empathy.
Posted Feb 03, 2021  Edit critic review
9/10
His House (2020) Nathanael Hood This is horror filmmaking at its most intelligent and fearless.
Posted Jan 19, 2021  Edit critic review
10/10
Residue (2020) Nathanael Hood As Gerima peels back the layers of history and memory, past melds with present as does the imagined with the real.
Posted Nov 29, 2020  Edit critic review
4/10
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021) Nathanael Hood The film's main issue is that there's no cohesive throughline.
Posted Oct 08, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) Nathanael Hood Proves that David Byrne is perhaps the only man on earth who could make audiences teary-eyed with a song about the corpus callosum.
Posted Oct 07, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
Xiao Wu (1998) Nathanael Hood As would become common in work, Jia's protagonist is an embodiment of a distinctly Chinese everyman, one overlooked and abandoned for the sake of progress.
Posted Sep 29, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
Bacurau (2019) Nathanael Hood There are entire books to be written about how Bacurau uses its narrative to confront capitalist exploitation of Brazil, as well as violent native resistance against internal corruption and international colonialism.
Posted Aug 30, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
High Hopes (1988) Nathanael Hood Though frequently funny, the film's overall mood is one of resigned melancholy that never tips into the outright anger that characterizes Leigh's most incendiary work.
Posted Jun 29, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
The Lineup (1958) Nathanael Hood Cinematographer Hal Mohr made the best of his locations, more than once pausing the story so the film can drink in its characters being dwarfed by their surroundings...
Posted Jun 28, 2020  Edit critic review
3/10
Doctor Dolittle (1967) Nathanael Hood The only redeeming moments come from spasms of unintended campiness like a scene where Harrison sings a love ballad to a seal dressed as an old woman.
Posted Jun 27, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
The Watermelon Woman (1996) Nathanael Hood [Shatters] the boundaries between the act of creation and the finished creation itself, pulling the audience into the disorienting dialectic of artistic production.
Posted Jun 27, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) Nathanael Hood An achingly poignant portrait of contemporary reservation life.
Posted Jun 25, 2020  Edit critic review
4/10
Cat Ballou (1965) Nathanael Hood Marvin gave many Oscar-worthy performances in his career. This wasn't one of them.
Posted Jun 23, 2020  Edit critic review
9/10
The Pawnbroker (1964) Nathanael Hood The rare film that's Important with a capital "I" as well as Great with a capital "G."
Posted Jun 23, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Medium Cool (1969) Nathanael Hood As a document of 1968 America's psyche it's irreplaceable.
Posted Jun 22, 2020  Edit critic review
5/10
Black Peter (1964) Nathanael Hood Though rough and amateurish, Black Peter is a fascinating starting point for the defining figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Posted Jun 20, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Blood of Jesus (1941) Nathanael Hood ...a bona fide piece of religious folk art.
Posted Jun 20, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Diamond Hunters (1956) Nathanael Hood Though belonging to the oft-overlooked Mexican phase of Buñuel's career, Death in the Garden is nonetheless as caustic and vicious as anything he ever made.
Posted Jun 18, 2020  Edit critic review
6/10
Death in Venice (1971) Nathanael Hood It elects to dwell on absence and emptiness, sucking the sweet wound of upper class inertia like one would a cut on the lip or a sore on the tongue.
Posted Jun 17, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
The Hanging Tree (1959) Nathanael Hood The microcosm Delmer Daves creates here would make Billy Wilder pause, and the final five minutes are a masterstroke of nihilism.
Posted Jun 16, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Daddy Longlegs (2010) Nathanael Hood It has the jagged rawness of early Cassavetes mixed with the Safdie's trademark emotional volatility.
Posted Jun 15, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Da 5 Bloods (2020) Nathanael Hood The scenes [where Delroy Lindo] addresses the camera like a maddened Shakespearean villain giving asides to the audience is the stuff of nightmares and Oscar clips.
Posted Jun 13, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
Parade (1974) Nathanael Hood Tati's message is clear: a show is never just the show itself-it's the people in the stands and their reactions that brings things to life.
Posted Jun 12, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
My Brother's Wedding (1983) Nathanael Hood Reaffirms Burnett as one of black cinema's greatest poets.
Posted Jun 11, 2020  Edit critic review
3/10
Husbands (1970) Nathanael Hood The film is too overlong, too dreary, too unfocused for anything to have any real impact.
Posted Jun 10, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
The Flying Ace (1926) Nathanael Hood Advertised as "the greatest airplane thriller ever filmed," it also liberally borrows from detective thrillers, slapstick comedy, and romantic melodrama.
Posted Jun 09, 2020  Edit critic review
9/10
Grand Prix (1966) Nathanael Hood It's a rowdy, roaring, ecstatic hallelujah of movement and speed.
Posted Jun 08, 2020  Edit critic review
8/10
Never Let Me Go (2010) Nathanael Hood Garland brilliantly maintains the book's tone and the elusiveness of its setting.
Posted Jun 07, 2020  Edit critic review
10/10
Columbus (2017) Nathanael Hood One of the most auspicious directorial debuts of the last decade.
Posted Jun 06, 2020  Edit critic review
6/10
The Zombies of Sugar Hill (1974) Nathanael Hood Ninety-one minutes of blaxploitation catharsis.
Posted Jun 05, 2020  Edit critic review
2/10
Fearless Hyena II (1983) Nathanael Hood Barely a movie-it's only a finished film by runtime technicality.
Posted Jun 04, 2020  Edit critic review
6/10
Olivia (1951) Nathanael Hood Audry's approach [in this film] was primarily mannered-nearly suffocatingly so-occasionally bordering on the naturalistic.
Posted Jun 03, 2020  Edit critic review
5/10
Blood Quantum (2019) Nathanael Hood The story is so tired and perfunctory in its beats that we can follow it with our eyes closed.
Posted Jun 01, 2020  Edit critic review
7/10
The Party and the Guests (1966) Nathanael Hood An important piece of Communist-era Czechoslovak filmmaking.
Posted May 30, 2020  Edit critic review
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