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Stephanie Bunbury

Stephanie Bunbury's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “As political critique goes, it’s a mere skim over the obviously bumpy surface of things, but the accumulation of images and excerpts does gather force over two hours to become a convincing roar of protest.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “This back and forth, tick-tocking between episodes of hope and defeat, doesn’t amount to a conventional story arc, but Dickinson...maintains an unerring pace, kicked along by unpredictable bursts of Alan Myson’s electronic score. ” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 30, 2025 Full Review The Marching Band (2024) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Emmanuel Courcol’s Gallic charmer is nevertheless the film we need right now: a story in which people learn to be their best selves; that pays respect to working communities torn apart by the global economy; a story, moreover, centred on a brass band.” – Sydney Morning Herald Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Toxic (2024) 92% EDIT “In a film about something so familiar, everything Bliuvaite delivers is unexpected.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Motor City (2025) 70% EDIT “As this film proves, cliches are often cliches because they work. Of course, some cliches are nothing but lazy thinking... Enjoy Motor City as pastiche, however, and the nonsensical bits can just about be read as part of the film’s retro charm. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 100% EDIT “What endures is curiosity and, at least in this film, a lasting sense of wonder. What a lovely piece of work this is.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s one of the strengths of Kelly Reichardt’s film — which will live, like all her films, as among the most interesting marginalia of American cinema — that she manages to turn a simple heist story into a sidelong look at an entire generation.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 23, 2025 Full Review Romería (2025) 86% EDIT “Romería glows with warmth, but so many hints at not very much makes the process of storytelling feel as heavy as wet sand. Simón reaches a kind of point, but she certainly takes the long way round. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 21, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “The film’s sheer, unrelenting squalor can wear you down, too. Those three performances, on the other hand, are indelible triumphs. Along with the power of Ducournau’s cinematic vision, of course, which carries all the ordure in the world before it.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 19, 2025 Full Review Renoir (2025) 87% EDIT “This humanity is, in fact, Hayakawa’s hallmark. If this story doesn’t coalesce as seamlessly as her first film does, it still has the power to touch and then to haunt us. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 17, 2025 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “The film [Kristen Stewart] has made is simultaneously raw and intricately constructed, as precise and potentially perilous as a Jenga skyscraper. So much visual and aural artifice could easily collapse in on itself, but it holds steady. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 16, 2025 Full Review Case 137 (2025) 92% EDIT “This is still quite recognizably a Dominik Moll film. He and his co-writer Gilles Marchand bring into play their experience with suspense and an insistent narrative rhythm so that, while it isn’t exactly fun, it is gripping. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily May 15, 2025 Full Review The Safe House (2025) EDIT “As Grandpapa says, there’s nothing wrong with having a good imagination: it gives luster to a life that might otherwise seem dull. And there is nothing dull about life in The Safe House.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Mar 19, 2025 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 97% EDIT “Anyone who has seen Leonie Benesch at work knows she is one of best actresses now working... Here, she is simply marvelous.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% EDIT “It is Jude on, if not his best behavior, at least the kind of behavior that won’t get him thrown out of a diplomatic reception, in the unlikely event that he wanted to go to one.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Mother's Baby (2025) 73% EDIT “The most viscerally ghastly evocation of new parenthood we’ve seen since Eraserhead.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 19, 2025 Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 80% EDIT “The Ice Tower is full of brilliantly conceived and rendered pathways that end in cul-de-sacs; it is beguiling, but hardly satisfying.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2025) 68% EDIT “Thuddingly obvious, both at the level of metaphor and as a drama of thwarted love. ” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% EDIT “In a bravura theatrical performance, Hawke makes the genius truly pathetic.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 18, 2025 Full Review Hot Milk (2025) 37% EDIT “The complex dependencies and jealousies between mothers and daughters are not exactly virgin territory, but Levy and Lenkiewicz have a tough take on the way the mother’s sins are visited on her child that is frank and fresh enough to make us gasp.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 15, 2025 Full Review The Light (2025) 14% EDIT “All the magnificent views across Berlin that punctuate the story, however, cannot change the essential fact that this is a farrago of nonsense.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Feb 13, 2025 Full Review You're Cordially Invited (2025) 48% 3/5 EDIT “It’s all entertaining enough, but you do wish Stoller could have reined in the slapstick, stabled the alligator and let the talking do the talking.” – Financial Times Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% 3/5 EDIT “The colours are Barbie-bright, right down to the pink title sequence; writer-director Drew Hancock is similarly aiming to give us sexual politics in a popcorn box, but with added stage blood. ” – Financial Times Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Pushpa: The Rule - Part 2 (2024) EDIT “Given it’s not even the end of the story, you do wonder why it had to go on so long. But Pushpa 2 gives a lot of bang for a punter’s buck. A lot of bang, plus a disturbing number of cut logs.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Kneecap (2024) 96% EDIT “It’s a big fat-fingered eff-you. Amazing, really, how much fun that can be.” – Deadline Hollywood Daily Dec 4, 2024 Full Review
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