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From the Front Row

From the Front Row is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Mattie Lucas.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/4
Magellan (2025) Mattie Lucas Diaz seeks to reframe the ancient myths by reminding us of the soul-crushing power of buying into one's own vanity, and takes us all to hell along the way.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Mattie Lucas While (it) doesn't quite have the same emotional gravity that made 28 Years Later such an unexpected powerhouse, its willingness to sit in the quietness is often quite remarkable.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Afternoons of Solitude (2024) Mattie Lucas At once beautiful and repulsive, a haunting danse macabre of the eternal struggle against a patriarchal system that praises conquerers and punishes anyone who does not bend the knee to their self-styled superiority.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught by the Tides (2024) Mattie Lucas Jia reflects on both his own work and the shifting landscapes of modern China as he charts a bold course into the future.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Mattie Lucas Maddening, tedious, and heartbreaking in equal measure, laying bare the stark realities of Israel’s brutal occupation of Gaza and its oppression of the Palestinian people. It's the year’s most vital, most unshakable film.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Mattie Lucas A big, unwieldy, breathtaking celebration of the power of collective dreaming through cinema. May we ever wake up.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Mattie Lucas Each new Jafar Panahi film feels like a miracle.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Mattie Lucas Working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, Boyle creates a thrilling and often jolting vision of the apocalypse, showcasing a kind of formal experimentalism that films of this scale rarely attempt these days.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Song Sung Blue (2025) Mattie Lucas Aggressively...fine.
Posted Dec 28, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Mattie Lucas A disarmingly rich text, rivetingly directed by Safdie, who turns ping pong into a kind of brutal kinetic spectacle that makes for some of the year's most thrilling cinema.
Posted Dec 27, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Mattie Lucas If the cinema is a church, then The Testament of Ann Lee has revealed Mona Fastvold to be one of its most fervent new prophets.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Mattie Lucas Rarely do we see such unabashedly heart-on-the-sleeve filmmaking at this level, but Cameron continues to up his own game.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Ella McCay (2025) Mattie Lucas A film that does not seem connected to any conceivable plane of reality, as if space aliens who've never met an actual human wrote a movie about the American political system. Naturally, I loved every minute of it.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Hamnet (2025) Mattie Lucas Feels strangely empty, its dramatic inertia creeping it toward an overwrought, weepy conclusion that feels unearned.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Oh. What. Fun. (2025) Mattie Lucas What should have been a sweet "little something" for Christmas, ends up being a holiday turkey.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Mattie Lucas (Cooper) takes what could have easily been a minor romantic comedy and turns it into some of the most compelling and emotionally astute of his young filmmaking career.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Mattie Lucas A warts-and-all requiem for the emotional wreckage left in the wake of the Hollywood dream factory.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Mattie Lucas It's every bit as witty and fun as its predecessors, but Wake Up Dead Man takes things one step further to become a surprisingly potent rumination on the nature of faith.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Train Dreams (2025) Mattie Lucas A quietly beautiful film, as haunting as the lonely whistle of a steam engine echoing through mountain passes and rural hamlets.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Mattie Lucas Chu's attempts attain a darker, more naturalistic feel to the proceedings creates a kind of tension with the material that it's never really able to overcome.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Freakier Friday (2025) Mattie Lucas It's great seeing Lohan back on screen, and she's clearly having a blast with Curtis, but this is so clearly the reheated leftovers of something much better.
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Die My Love (2025) Mattie Lucas A nervy, restless film from a director working at the peak of her craft.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Mattie Lucas A portrait of blinding, beautiful, reckless queer love; of time passing and slipping away, captured in small moments to be held and cherished like wildflowers plucked from the earth.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hell's Angels (1930) Mattie Lucas Despite the rather banal soap opera at its core, however, it's hard to deny what a stunning technical achievement this is.
Posted Nov 11, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Frankenstein (2025) Mattie Lucas I found something incredibly resonant in...Elordi's haunting performance. I only wish that the parts of the story surrounding the Creature's Tale felt less leaden, less suffocated by its own grandiosity.
Posted Nov 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Mattie Lucas Gandbhir is holding up a mirror to a trigger-happy America, and the reflection isn't pretty.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
One Battle After Another (2025) Mattie Lucas Captures the almost numbing banality of living in a world where our freedoms are slowly being eroded, where the world seems to be falling apart and putting it together often feels like a Sisyphean task.
Posted Oct 08, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) Mattie Lucas For longtime fans of the series, it will serve as a charming, if slight, capper on the decades-spanning story.
Posted Sep 13, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Friendship (2024) Mattie Lucas DeYoung and Robinson mine (the) social ineptitude for increasingly tense laughs, ruthlessly dissecting the social ritual of male bonding with vicious aplomb.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Eephus (2024) Mattie Lucas In the shimmering twilight of this wise and remarkable film, time passes slowly, yet like its ragtag players, I never wanted it to end.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Bad Guys 2 (2025) Mattie Lucas A pretty middle-of-the-road kids' movie that does exactly what it needs to, no more, no less.
Posted Aug 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Weapons (2025) Mattie Lucas An absolute blast, an unnerving and surprisingly funny journey into the dark underbelly of our collective fears and anxieties.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mattie Lucas A vibrantly colored tale of resilience and self-discovery filled with indelible images, compelling characters, and a pulsing soundtrack that is nothing but bop after bop.
Posted Aug 08, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
The Naked Gun (2025) Mattie Lucas Gloriously silly, a return to a kind of joke-heavy humor that favors puns, plays on words, and goofy pratfalls that feel straight out of a Marx Bros. movie.
Posted Aug 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Superman (2025) Mattie Lucas We're not breaking any new ground here, but Gunn infuses this with a sense of gee-whiz comic book fun that has been sorely missing from this genre.
Posted Jul 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
F1 The Movie (2025) Mattie Lucas Kosinski is playing in a familiar key, but it's hard not to be drawn in by the craft on display here.
Posted Jul 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) Mattie Lucas Like Gould himself, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is imbued with a touch of madness, an essential element for any film trying to capture the heart of the creative impulse.
Posted Jul 07, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Mattie Lucas Rebirth pushes the franchise in the right direction, but it's still nowhere close to the magic that Spielberg once conjured.
Posted Jul 04, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Misericordia (2024) Mattie Lucas A paranoid thriller with the heart of a bedroom comedy (or perhaps it's the other way around?)
Posted Jun 16, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Disney's Snow White (2025) Mattie Lucas Webb's reliance on shallow feints toward modernizing the narrative without deepening its substance feels disappointingly empty.
Posted Jun 12, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Mattie Lucas The emotional layers of the father/daughter relationship intertwine with themes of religion, capitalism, and global politics to form a richer text than might initially meet the eye.
Posted Jun 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Mattie Lucas It may not bring the franchise out on its highest note, but it's hard to resist its eye-popping charms.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) Mattie Lucas An undeniably beautiful entry in [Bava's] canon, marking perhaps one of his most stunning visual achievements, turning classical horror into something akin to poetry.
Posted Sep 27, 2024  Edit critic review
The Gods (1972) Mattie Lucas This is the Senegalese filmmaker's Lysistrata, a feminist screed whose magical realism points to the uselessness of clinging to tradition in the face of deadly subjugation.
Posted Jun 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Xala (1975) Mattie Lucas In Xala, the powers that be in Senegal have lost sight of the revolutionary fervor felt in Emitaï , and through Sembène's acerbic lens, that once glittering promise becomes little more than a bitter joke.
Posted Jun 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Ceddo (1977) Mattie Lucas Despite the heavy subject matter, Sembène's filmmaking is often playful, lampooning the inherent ridiculousness of the religious hypocrisies on display while taking bold formal swings.
Posted Jun 18, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
The First Omen (2024) Mattie Lucas A spooky air of gloom and dread hangs over the film, and Stevenson isn't afraid to explore the darkness at the heart of the concept
Posted Jun 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
In a Violent Nature (2024) Mattie Lucas It requires a certain amount of patience, but by upending the expected rhythms of the genre, the deliberate stillness of In a Violent Nature feels more intense than any slasher has in ages.
Posted May 30, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Evil Does Not Exist (2023) Mattie Lucas A small and rapturous wonder that cements Hamaguchi as one of our most compelling contemporary filmmakers.
Posted May 29, 2024  Edit critic review
0/4
Madame Web (2024) Mattie Lucas So shockingly inept that it's hard to believe its real.
Posted May 23, 2024  Edit critic review
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