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Always Good Movies is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Filipe Freitas.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2.5/5
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) Filipe Freitas An anemic blend of turbulent coming-of-age drama, social critique, and revenge tale.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4.5/5
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Filipe Freitas Viewers drawn to pungent, psychologically offbeat dramas will find much to savor in this fluid, slightly bruised, irresistibly skewed, and deliciously nightmarish experience.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Nuremberg (2025) Filipe Freitas At times artificial, at others overtly sentimental, this historical-by-numbers drama never quite finds the path to grandeur or resonance.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
The Mastermind (2025) Filipe Freitas Simmering without boiling, The Mastermind peels off the surfaces of old-school heist genre, smartly avoiding commonplace, complacency, and demagogy to achieve something truly moody and dusky.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
4/5
Sentimental Value (2025) Filipe Freitas This is family drama at its most quietly devastating, sustaining a strong dramatic integrity as its characters grapple with unresolved pain and buried resentment.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Jay Kelly (2025) Filipe Freitas Jay Kelly is built around a series of glittering but hollow exchanges between characters who always look and act like characters.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Filipe Freitas Despite the suitably retro-flavored cinematography by Cooper’s regular collaborator Masanobu Takayanagi, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere remains dramatically inert.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Running Man (2025) Filipe Freitas The film struggles to find a stable rhythm, repeatedly tripping over its own noisy boom-crash-bang theatrics and a shaky script.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Filipe Freitas Wake Up Dead Man ultimately takes the shape of a hollow parody—a loud, overcooked puzzle that favors spectacle over substance.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Things You Kill (2025) Filipe Freitas Spiraling and twisting without arriving at anything truly revelatory, The Things You Kill won’t make you sweat—its surreal dimension adding too little substance to justify its ambitions.
Posted Dec 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Hamnet (2025) Filipe Freitas A thin narrative spine and awkwardly staged theatrics prevent Hamnet from forging a meaningful emotional connection, leaving it more inert than affecting.
Posted Dec 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Train Dreams (2025) Filipe Freitas Influenced by the dreamy tones and minimalist aesthetic of Terrence Malick, Benton crafts a cruel, elegiac, and melancholic tone poem about life, loss, grief, and the inexorable passage of time.
Posted Dec 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Filipe Freitas Support for Panahi is unquestionable, but he has articulated sharper and more inventive statements in his previous films.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
To Kill A Mongolian Horse (2024) Filipe Freitas Adopting a documentary-like, Jia Zhangke-esque approach, To Kill a Mongolian Horse carries a reflective strength, keeping you in quiet suspense until its shattering finale.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Blue Moon (2025) Filipe Freitas Observant in the way only Linklater can be, the film feels strikingly authentic and radiates a contagious pleasure. It is not a conventional biopic, but it’s cleverly attuned to emotional nuance, and that makes all the difference.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Bugonia (2025) Filipe Freitas Though it sometimes feels calculated, it is also finely crafted, hallucinatory, and immensely entertaining. A galvanizing cinematic experience with a radical edge—one that, whether you love it or hate it, won’t be easy to forget.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Misericordia (2024) Filipe Freitas Both the story and the style end up lumbering and graceless, sketching a web of desires and suspicions that feels amorphous, undercooked, and oddly weightless.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Filipe Freitas Nouvelle Vague arrives as a triumphant recreation of a defining cinematic moment.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
No Other Choice (2025) Filipe Freitas No Other Choice is potently harsh, unflinchingly amoral, and sinfully enjoyable. Pure noir zaniness.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Broken Voices (2025) Filipe Freitas Broken Voices is the antithesis of a feel-good movie—something that fractures from the inside and leaves a long-lasting bruise.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Afternoons of Solitude (2024) Filipe Freitas Repetitive and displeasing, Afternoons of Solitude stands as an ode to barbarity that leaves you wondering, almost in disbelief: is this seriously never going to end?
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
La venue de l'avenir (2025) Filipe Freitas The script, which could easily sit alongside Alain Resnais’ lighter works, earns its own originality through its endearing characters and narrative fluidity.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Frankenstein (2025) Filipe Freitas This deceptive, CGI-laden spectacle—split into two amorphous chapters—is weak and unsurprising, lacking coherence in several places.
Posted Nov 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Hedda (2025) Filipe Freitas Awkward and atonal, Hedda feels like one of Cassavetes’ fervent dramas but without the genuine discomfort or emotional and psychological acuity that defined them.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Ice Tower (2025) Filipe Freitas But does its dreamlike, phantasmagoric aura carry us anywhere more profound than the merely artistic? Not quite. The narrative eventually freezes, suffocating without knowing where to go next. It’s a film that transfixes more than it enchants.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) Filipe Freitas These modest, uncynical tales make space for compassion—occasionally moving, never manipulative.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The Smashing Machine (2025) Filipe Freitas It’s a minor biopic with a satisfying retro flavor—one we watch without either great enthusiasm or boredom.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Summer Book (2024) Filipe Freitas Slight at its core, The Summer Book remains stubbornly stalled between sincere intentions and a weary torpor.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
One Battle After Another (2025) Filipe Freitas It’s a breathtaking achievement—visceral, intelligent, and electrifying cinema at its finest.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Young Mothers (2025) Filipe Freitas It’s a vital, humanistic work that captures the wounds of the past, contradictions of the present, and fears of the future. Not the grandest film of the year, perhaps—but quite possibly the most essential.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Killing Faith (2025) Filipe Freitas Entering in psycho-religious mode but obliterating any potential nuances or characterization work in the process, Killing Faith’s intriguing concept dissolves into arrhythmic storytelling and monotonous execution.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Tinā (2024) Filipe Freitas Generic and uncomplicated—which doesn't mean it doesn't work—Tina catches the eye as an admirable tale of resilience and hope.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Lurker (2025) Filipe Freitas It’s a pity that this perspicacious setup never fully detonates, but even without the explosive payoff it hints at, Lurker remains an astute, unnerving character study that lingers.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kontinental '25 (2025) Filipe Freitas Depending on one’s patience for slow cinema, this unabashedly sardonic work will either repel or fascinate—but it unmistakably continues Jude’s bold dismantling of Romanian society from within.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Sirāt (2025) Filipe Freitas It builds on fear and anguish, creating a palpable sense of doom that seeps into your bones—you’ll feel the sweat on your back in its most intense moments.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Twinless (2025) Filipe Freitas What might have been an incisive exploration of grief and identity instead collapses into triviality, half-serious and half-baked.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Manas (2024) Filipe Freitas The setting’s haunting isolation makes everything feel even more suffocating and real.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Splitsville (2025) Filipe Freitas Believability really goes out the window here, and Splitsville might have been easier to take if it were less infatuated with its own cleverness.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
A Little Prayer (2023) Filipe Freitas Balancing heartache and grace, the film captures the tragic and the beautiful facets of family life with rare empathy and control.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Caught Stealing (2025) Filipe Freitas Caught Stealing promises a bloody good time, and it delivers — cerebrally, cinematically, and without compromise.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Suze (2023) Filipe Freitas Suze is a smartly observed excavation of dependent single parenthood, middle-aged crisis, conflicted choices, and the unfulfilled expectations of youth.
Posted Oct 11, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Filipe Freitas Dragged out over two-plus formulaic hours, the film underscores Lee’s vertiginous decline.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Honey Don't! (2025) Filipe Freitas A pedestrian neo-noir detective comedy weighed down by a basic script and textbook psychology.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Dracula (2025) Filipe Freitas Offers a winsome new angle and deeply personal update on Bram Stoker’s novel.
Posted Oct 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
40 Acres (2024) Filipe Freitas Despite this intriguing layer, everything in 40 Acres feels carefully telegraphed, playing into the familiar rhythms of survivalist cinema we’ve seen countless times.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Familiar Touch (2024) Filipe Freitas This is a small film, but one that gets to the heart with profound affection.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Kill the Jockey (2024) Filipe Freitas While the narrative occasionally feels circular, its offbeat tone and whimsical audacity make it potentially addictive once you surrender to its peculiar rhythms.
Posted Sep 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Together (2025) Filipe Freitas One of those immediate audience-grabbers that, even when veering into absurdity, remains undeniably fun.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Hallow Road (2025) Filipe Freitas The ambiguous finale leaves your mind spinning more than your gut churning, as hope flickers desperately within the shadows of the woods.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Late Shift (2025) Filipe Freitas You won’t find a more stressful cinematic rollercoaster this year—and its haunting finale continues to linger long after the credits roll.
Posted Sep 09, 2025  Edit critic review
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