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Zachary Barnes

Zachary Barnes's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “That Goodbye June comes instead from a script by someone born this century may have something to do with the fact that it feels less like a wise and thoughtful drama than a mopey Christmas pageant. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “Formally and dramatically, the movie has poise, which only strengthens its depiction of girls thrown off balance by growing up.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe -- a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Late Fame (2026) 85% EDIT “It’s based on a novel written in the 1890s by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, and the adaptation’s transposition of time and place comes off as anachronistic and unconvincing” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity -- there’s a tape recorder running, after all -- with wry lightness.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “The film is a zany, all-out crowd-pleaser from Mr. Park, who exhibits a rare genius with the camera throughout, devising breathtaking shots, zooms and transitions, his cockeyed visual wizardry perfectly matched to the outlandishness of the plot.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% EDIT “Occasionally scored to the roiling, impressionistic piano piece by Ravel that gives the film its title, the movie is perhaps best compared to an etude, modest at less than 90 minutes but shimmery and suggestive all the same. ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 96% EDIT “ The film is a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy. Yet there’s a humane warmth at the movie’s core.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “Father Mother Sister Brother is no doubt true enough to many a family gathering this Christmas -- awkward, amusing, a bit dissatisfying, but not a disaster. Sometimes that’s reason enough to call for a toast.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Downright harrowing in its depiction of a mom beset by a string of personal and professional catastrophes. ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Currents (2025) 100% EDIT “Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.” ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 97% EDIT “Mr. Panahi’s victimization by Iran’s government may well continue, but this is a film of emotional and political truths that can be crushed by no regime.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% EDIT “Inserting glitzy musical numbers amid such drama could have come off as a subversive twist, but because everything is presented with the same gentle glow of sentimentality it ends up feeling merely tasteless.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “The cinematography sobers up a bit as the production gets under way, and the documentary becomes a reasonably engaging if unpolished account of a legendary filmmaker’s most quixotic pursuit.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% EDIT “Mr. Haugerud has this time channeled most of his verbiage into Johanne’s voiceover, which continues throughout the movie to smothering effect. It’s a shame, because the film has a lively, radiant cast and vibrant images.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Mr. Veiel has performed a remarkable feat of archival spelunking, piecing together a documentary portrait that is measured in tone and damning in effect.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 4, 2025 Full Review Griffin in Summer (2024) 94% EDIT “It sees its premise stretched thin and undermined by an amateurish construction. But the commitment of the cast and a handful of good comic ideas keep the proceedings watchable and amusing.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Its title notwithstanding, the fascinating, frustrating “Highest 2 Lowest” ends up somewhere in the middle.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 15, 2025 Full Review By the Stream (2024) 100% EDIT “By the Stream thrums gently with the wisdom of artists who, subject to the battery of public opinion, have stayed committed to their craft. It’s a film of slightly drunken, ultimately dignified humility.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Once Mr. Cregger starts to let loose his revelations, though, disappointment creeps in, and the scale and soul of the film shrink before our eyes.” – Wall Street Journal Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Together (2025) 89% EDIT ““Together” is less a fully conceived horror movie than a plodding relationship drama with some impressively disgusting effects superimposed on it. The two elements, alas, don’t quite complete each other.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 31, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% EDIT “The presentation of the mission is frequently disorienting... The film is more illuminating in its depiction of a distinctly contemporary war, in which men are augmented at every step by advanced machines. ” – Wall Street Journal Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Cloud (2024) 93% EDIT “I stopped being convinced by it for a while. As “Cloud” continues, though, the nature of its narrative becomes clear. It isn’t realism; it’s a fable of a man besieged.” – Wall Street Journal Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) 100% EDIT “Ms. Coppola, asked by her husband to film the production for publicity purposes, observes and narrates all of this with a matter-of-factness that keeps “Hearts of Darkness” from slipping into gasping cinephilic reverence. ” – Wall Street Journal Jul 7, 2025 Full Review
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