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Moviepudding (Substack)

Moviepudding (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): Elissa Suh.

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Familiar Touch (2024) Elissa Suh It sneaks up on you in the gentlest, loveliest way.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) Elissa Suh A gentle, unsparing, and through-and-through New York movie.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) Elissa Suh As a cultural document, the movie is revealing, and more politically correct and psychologically responsible. But it’s not very compelling either.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Elissa Suh Spike Lee’s remake of Kurosawa’s High and Low has that distinct feel of a "late" film, the kind a great director makes on autopilot: pleasant enough, competent enough, but strangely limp.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Elissa Suh Yorgos’s remake is markedly different in tone, more tongue-in-cheek and teeth-grindingly cynical, like Kinds of Kindness before it.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Elissa Suh For all its noise, Die My Love ends up saying very little about this woman in trouble—except that she makes trouble beautifully.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Elissa Suh Drained of glamour, the film reveals itself as a parable of failed escape—futility disguised as crime.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Elissa Suh Benny’s solo act is less a sports biopic than a melancholic jazz riff on one, smudging the genre’s usual sweaty triumphalism into something looser, more subdued, and unexpectedly delicate
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Urchin (2025) Elissa Suh A film of directorial talent still in search of its own frequency. Harris Dickinson hasn’t calibrated his balance of storytelling and political instinct with his cinematic sensibilities.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Shell (2024) Elissa Suh This movie is well-concocted surface-level thrill and therein lies the charm.
Posted Oct 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Elissa Suh Agreeably superb.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Elissa Suh Dialogue is clumsy, exposition flaunts itself, and a dry Andersonian voiceover functions as a necessary buttress against the dead air.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Poetic License (2025) Elissa Suh Showcases Apatow’s comic instincts and sparkles with scene-stealing performances
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Maddie's Secret (2025) Elissa Suh The culmination of Early’s usual wit and what appears to be an impressive cinematic sensibility.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Cloud (2024) Elissa Suh An unflaggingly weird, delightfully fun portrait of an online reseller.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
To a Land Unknown (2024) Elissa Suh For all its slick taut style, the film remains deeply humane and empathetic. Coming from a documentary background, Fleifel brings a neorealist rigor to the story, weaving in vivid textures and the occasional bit of humor.
Posted Jul 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Elissa Suh Still in the grips of theater, Songs thinks in metaphors and dismisses the ample possibilities of cinema, isolating her characters into their own tiny planets.
Posted Jun 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Bonjour Tristesse (2024) Elissa Suh Bonjour Tristesse flings us into the frictionless existence of bourgeois life and the seductively stalled momentum of a hazy summer.
Posted May 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Elissa Suh An unexpected love story between two self-professed “kooky old people” that balances humor and depth without reducing the them to pitiable caricatures of age.
Posted Feb 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Babygirl (2024) Elissa Suh A tale of middle-aged self-discovery and a middling marriage drama parading as an erotic thriller.
Posted Jan 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) Elissa Suh The memory piece is nostalgic but not sentimental, undercut with a specter of settled regret.
Posted Dec 23, 2024  Edit critic review
The Girl With the Needle (2024) Elissa Suh Despite this sweeping portentousness, Von Horn forces us to look at what happens when women's bodies are patrolled.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Oh Canada (2024) Elissa Suh What was poised to be a takedown of the documentary is deflated a bit by sentimentality.
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
The End (2024) Elissa Suh The End falls short of the achieving the grandiosity of the themes it admirably takes on
Posted Dec 09, 2024  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Elissa Suh The film feels narratively affixed to traditional beats, but more intriguing in its smaller moments.
Posted Nov 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Flow (2024) Elissa Suh an exquisitely and universally captivating film regardless of how old you are
Posted Nov 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Elissa Suh Sean Baker’s movies are all about money and his latest, Anora emerges as a neo-screwball comedy fueled by a breathless energy and bravado performances.
Posted Oct 29, 2024  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) Elissa Suh a formally and politically radical inquiry
Posted Oct 06, 2024  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Elissa Suh goes to comically grotesque lengths to accommodate its critique of our looks-obsessed society
Posted Oct 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Between the Temples (2024) Elissa Suh Silver, who has a knack for acerbic wit and tortured metafictions, retains a sense of his idiosyncratic chaos and an aesthetic scuzziness.
Posted Sep 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Near Orouët (1971) Elissa Suh A disarmingly capricious summer film.
Posted Aug 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Good One (2024) Elissa Suh Donaldson’s deeply personal story bears the mark of hindsight, anchored by patient observation and precise attention to the unique rhythms of dad-speak.
Posted Aug 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Cuckoo (2024) Elissa Suh If you’re looking for the answers, you may have missed the point: visceral impact over explanatory depth.
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Elissa Suh This nasty little (actually very bloated) anthology film doesn’t so much highlight the Greek director’s idiosyncratic flair for cruelty as it does provide a hackneyed low-rent version of it
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
MaXXXine (2024) Elissa Suh MaXXXine is so possessed of its B horror trappings that it becomes a victim of its own mimicry, predictable, forgettable, and as empty as the schlock it emulates.
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
This Closeness (2023) Elissa Suh Zauhar is a filmmaker distinctly her own, and This Closeness is a small-budget-indie miracle.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
Free Time (2023) Elissa Suh A satirical portrait of disaffected youth, Ryan Martin Brown’s concise almost unbearably hilarious film is small in scale but suggestive of something larger in spirit as it dramatizes the Millennial Resignation and elevates it into fable.
Posted Apr 11, 2024  Edit critic review
Tendaberry (2024) Elissa Suh An assured debut and quiet marvel
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Featherweight (2023) Elissa Suh A small but impactful film of fleet ingenuity, not unlike its title.
Posted Apr 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Taste of Things (2023) Elissa Suh The Taste of Things is constructed on ordinary foundations and story mechanics, but where it stands out is as a fierce champion of the gourmet and the artistry of taste.
Posted Feb 09, 2024  Edit critic review
Tótem (2023) Elissa Suh The rustling interplay between life and death, restlessness and hope, creates an evocative atmosphere in Lila Aviles’s second feature, a poignant and unnervingly intimate portrayal of a young girl's experience on her father's birthday
Posted Jan 28, 2024  Edit critic review
The Settlers (2023) Elissa Suh Swaggeringly sure of itself.
Posted Jan 28, 2024  Edit critic review
The Breaking Ice (2023) Elissa Suh Redolent with longing and loosely tracing the edges of Jules and Jim (1960), Anthony Chen’s menage a trois drama is an instantly familiar story which one can slip into with ease.
Posted Jan 28, 2024  Edit critic review
Fingernails (2023) Elissa Suh Fingernails relies on soft mood sand feelings without imbuing them with proper depth.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Priscilla (2023) Elissa Suh Priscilla falls entirely short, struggling to make impact beneath its artfully constructed atmosphere and delicately opulent imagery, of which there doesn’t seem to be enough.
Posted Nov 10, 2023  Edit critic review
Chop & Steele (2022) Elissa Suh What also transpires is a portrait of friendship and underdogs, choosing to preserve a way of life and denying compromise in the process...
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
A Life on the Farm (2022) Elissa Suh [It] advocates for creative expression while offering proof of a life fully lived, free from public purview.
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
A Tale of Springtime (1989) Elissa Suh The dynamics of cohabitation and coupling turn into a philosophical meditation, characteristically Rohmerian...
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Claire's Knee (1970) Elissa Suh A more perfect inauguration and encapsulation of warm weather...
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Inside (2023) Elissa Suh Inside begins as a tale of American ingenuity a la The Martian, but evolves into an ambiguous critique on the art world and an uncertain allegory about heaven and hell...
Posted Aug 21, 2023  Edit critic review
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