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Yasmin Omar

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Yasmin writes for and edits the Curzon Journal, and is a member of the London Film Critics' Circle. Find her on Twitter @yasmin_omar6.

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Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Bobbing and zipping, slashing and thrashing, Marty Supreme is a frenzied portrait of the athlete as a young, selfish man that leaves you, agape, questioning the true meaning of victory. ” – The Curzon Journal Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Bugonia is still a deliciously nasty little genre movie that criticises late-stage capitalism with Yorgos Lanthimos’ dry humour, toe-curling brutality and cheeky absurdism. ” – The Curzon Journal Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “The isolation of fame and the mutability of identity are core tenets of Noah Baumbach’s ruminative, pleasingly melancholy character study.” – The Curzon Journal Oct 10, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “Make no mistake: competency porn this is not. The film frustrates our desire to see each stage in a grand plan fall into place – and it’s all the better for it. ” – The Curzon Journal Sep 24, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “One Battle After Another is a full meal of a film, a character piece smuggled into a roof-jumping, grenade-tossing, car-flipping action movie that smartly comments on third-rail political issues. ” – The Curzon Journal Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Sorry, Baby (2025) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “A dramedy in the truest sense of the word, it pulls off the delicate tightrope act of moving between harrowing intensity and Sahara-dry gallows humour.” – The Curzon Journal Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “In many ways, The Final Reckoning is less an action movie, more a disaster movie. Where worst-case scenarios used to be implied, here they’re visualised with apocalyptic projections.” – The Curzon Journal May 15, 2025 Full Review Sister Midnight (2024) 98% 3/5 EDIT “An over-eager, idea-stuffed debut that keeps you engaged with its surprising twists, but which nevertheless could have used a little pruning. ” – Empire Magazine Mar 18, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Without being too grandiose, The Brutalist is what cinema is all about.” – The Curzon Journal Jan 10, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 4/5 EDIT “Much of the film’s drama derives from its morally porous central relationship, its skirting around the question of who exactly has the power. ” – The Curzon Journal Jan 6, 2025 Full Review Better Man (2024) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “ Better Man doesn’t feel as guarded, as micromanaged, as other films of its ilk. ” – The Curzon Journal Dec 17, 2024 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 82% 4/5 EDIT “It’s bracing to watch The Apprentice. This is an uncompromising movie defiantly working outside the system and answering to no one. ” – The Curzon Journal Oct 10, 2024 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 74% 3/5 EDIT “The film is much like the social-media platforms whose parlance it has swallowed: a lacquered, curated irreality that’s fun to spend time with – but might just end up being very bad for you. ” – The Curzon Journal Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Sky Peals (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Sky Peals builds tension effectively, but stops short of meaningfully engaging with its chosen (and very worthwhile) themes. Still, if it’s a creepy-mood piece you’re after, this fits the bill. ” – Empire Magazine Aug 20, 2024 Full Review Kensuke's Kingdom (2023) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Though low-stakes for an adventure film, this is nonetheless an engaging, found-family eco-fable that imparts an important conservationist message with considerable, at times impressionistic, style. ” – Empire Magazine Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s necessarily silly – the kind of dumb fun that has you rolling your eyes, but simultaneously outstretching your hand for more.” – The Curzon Journal Jul 16, 2024 Full Review The Nature of Love (2023) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “The Nature of Love offers a well rounded, even-handed view of an amorous dalliance – from the fizzing endorphin rush to the inevitable comedown – that’s sympathetic to both parties.” – The Curzon Journal Jul 2, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 4/5 EDIT “Emma Stone has two Oscars and the world at her feet, but prefers to collaborate with Lanthimos on freaky curios that require her to fellate nightsticks as opposed to following a more conventional, A-list path. More power to her. ” – The Curzon Journal Jun 25, 2024 Full Review The Beast (2023) 86% 4/5 EDIT “What keeps all of the film’s sky-high concepts not only legible, but engrossing, is Seydoux; she is its grounding force, guiding us through the Dantean maze of mahogany-panelled ballrooms and neon-streaked dancefloors.” – The Curzon Journal May 29, 2024 Full Review Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) 96% 3/5 EDIT “A watchable, if by-the-book, documentary. It’s only a pity that the conventional storytelling hems in such a deeply unconventional director. ” – Empire Magazine May 17, 2024 Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Challengers is full of games. Tennis games, naturally, but also mind games, power games, sex games.” – The Curzon Journal Apr 16, 2024 Full Review Anyone But You (2023) 53% 3/5 EDIT “I don’t need much more from these sorts of films than vague narrative coherence, chemistry between the leads and memorable set pieces, all of which Anyone But You has.” – The Curzon Journal Dec 21, 2023 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% 2/5 EDIT “Anne Hathaway brightens this limp genre exercise that mistakenly prioritises B-movie thrills over more nuanced character interplay. ” – Empire Magazine Dec 1, 2023 Full Review Fingernails (2023) 60% 3.5/5 EDIT “A searching, gently melancholy romantic drama that recognises, when it comes to love, we are often left with more questions than answers.” – The Curzon Journal Nov 2, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 4/5 EDIT “A sprawling, kaleidoscopic portrait of greed, violence and moral depravity.” – The Curzon Journal Oct 10, 2023 Full Review
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