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Stephanie Bunbury
Stephanie Bunbury's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Movies reviews only
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Kalki 2898 AD (2024) |
So this is how the world ends, not with a whimper but a great many massive bangs, battles and increasingly complicated alliances, betrayals and stirring songs. It is terrific, cathartic fun. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jul 01, 2024
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Memoir of a Snail (2024) |
You don’t have to be mad to do stop-motion animation but, as the saying goes, it helps. Which makes it all the remarkable that Memoir of a Snail, peopled though it is with flawed, unpredictable characters, is so reassuringly sane. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Simon of the Mountain (2024) |
[A] moving, puzzling and wholly original debut feature. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 28, 2024
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Le Royaume (2024) |
Despite its pace, The Kingdom doesn’t feel like the thriller it resembles. It feels like epic drama. It isn’t glamorous, but it does look glorious. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 28, 2024
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) |
There are moments so vertiginously heightened that they become laughable. Cutting through that excess, however, is the undoubted power of immediate currency -- this is news; this is right now -- and the impressive collective commitment of cast and crew. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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To a Land Unknown (2024) |
This would be unworkable were it not for the warmth of the performances by Bakri and Sabbah, who cling to each other, fight and make up again with the urgency of people whose only remnant of home, having been exiled twice over, is each other. - Screen International
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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September Says (2024) |
There are flashes in September Says of truly original accomplishment, but the tussle between July and September doesn’t amount to more than a summer fling. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 23, 2024
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The Shrouds (2024) |
Whatever else you may expect of Cronenberg as a distinctive auteur -- wry humor, a measured pace, exultant wallowing in foul goo -- you’re not expecting the narrative to explode into bits. That really is a new kind of ick. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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The Surfer (2024) |
If the risks were more frequent and the obstacles insuperable, if the whole thing snapped along faster so that there was no time to feel the suspension of disbelief sagging, the sense of peril would steamroller its absurdity into the sand. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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The Balconettes (2024) |
None of these characters is developed enough to be likable; they are just moving pieces in a very bloody, somewhat didactic game. The point is that the men are so much worse. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Lula (2024) |
For everybody, it is terrifically accessible. You could come to this film with zero knowledge of Lula da Silva’s existence and come out feeling you had a good grasp on his story. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Rumours (2024) |
Anyone with a fascination for political process and the idiocies of bureaucracy will find one joke after another hitting the bullseye. For anyone else, it is mild fun at best. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 20, 2024
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Emilia Perez (2024) |
How could Emilia Pérez be anything but a hot mess? But here is it is on the screen, a musical marvel. Of course it’s crazy, but Audiard has set up his impossible conjuring trick and made it work. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 19, 2024
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Three Kilometres to the End of the World (2024) |
The actors bring to these portraits the naturalistic ease combined with intensity that is a hallmark of Romanian New Wave cinema, each one a whole person with their own reasons. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Here it is, the new Lanthimos: puzzling, brilliant and, in all honesty, not easy to like. What is this teasingly unfathomable filmmaker telling us? We may never know. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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When The Light Breaks (2024) |
Rúnarsson has kept his ambitions small; his canvas is limited, his narrative spare -- so spare, indeed, that it sometimes drags. Within his self-imposed limitations, however, he draws a portrait of muffled grief that feels true and poignant. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 16, 2024
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Wild Diamond (2024) |
Riedinger’s debut feature approaches her subject with remarkable empathy, taking Liane on her own terms and seeing her surroundings largely through her eyes. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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The Second Act (2024) |
If the results are always a bit ragged, does it matter? Dupieux may never make a masterpiece, but his slapdash, wild entertainments are irresistible. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted May 14, 2024
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The Roundup: Punishment (2024) |
Along with its moral certainty that punishment will be meted out to the right people, it is doubly reassuring in its comforting similarity to any number of other films. That said, it does that same thing at premium quality level. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 27, 2024
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Seven Veils (2023) |
Egoyan habitually gives explosive emotions a wide berth, refusing to allow characters or audience any kind of catharsis. It is an unforgiving kind of stringency... [But] for those of us with a taste for it, that coldness is satisfyingly bracing. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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The Devil's Bath (2024) |
Franz and Fiala are relating a slice of verifiable history, but have given it the trajectory of a folk tale, the sensibility of horror and the vital sense that it is as much about us as it is about these peasants and their corrosive superstitions. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Dying (2024) |
Every character rings true, even if their situations occasionally do not. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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A Traveler's Needs (2024) |
Frustratingly slight. It is a mystery with too few clues. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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My Favourite Cake (2024) |
Both actors seem lit from within, radiant with renewed life. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 21, 2024
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Small Things Like These (2024) |
Without any dramatic tension to carry us along, we’re all just stuck knee-deep in the bog, trudging through the terrible facts of recent history. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Cuckoo (2024) |
Stevens has an appealingly quirky, ironic twist to his evil smile that encourages us to think this is all a bit of a lark, really. He finds a fine contrasting foil in Schafer, who plays her sulky teen-turned-avenging angel absolutely straight. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Treasure (2024) |
A strangely flat experience, the Fry-Dunham dream team barely sparking a laugh between them and the original story’s central theme of trauma passed down within Jewish families never explored in any visceral way... - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Suspended Time (2024) |
Assayas’s film, slight and playful though it is, is a stab in that dark. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Dahomey (2024) |
Open-ended, fecund with imagination and ideas, never hectoring or lecturing, not so much posing questions as asking what questions might be posed: Mati Diop’s film is a marvelous provocation. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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Catch Me Daddy (2014) |
Wolfe’s achievement here is something to behold; bleak and beautifully shot by ace cinematographer Robbie Ryan, Catch Me Daddy throws a bridge between classic British social realism and revenge tragedy with both sincerity and style. - The Age (Australia)
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| Posted Dec 26, 2023
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Inshallah a Boy (2023) |
There is no denying the harshness of this slice of life, but Rasheed does everything possible to cushion it with domestic detail. His pace is steady, the performances delivered with quiet force. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Dec 15, 2023
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Tótem (2023) |
Nothing in Tótem lingers, because nothing is milked for emotion. This is a film about family tragedy without a shred of sentimentality; you can just about imagine Nuri telling you that you can cry on your own time. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Dec 15, 2023
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Holly (2023) |
A curious, clever film, "Holly" is "Carrie" seen from the other side of the mirror, those magic hands by her sides, looking at her own image and wondering who she is. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Lubo (2023) |
The film [would] feel unwieldy if it were not for Rogowski’s binding performance; he is at the center of every scene, but the ripple of feeling -- and pretended feeling -- across his face never grows dull. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Memory (2023) |
It is all exactly right in the writing but also in the performances; there is thoughtfulness behind all of it. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Woman Of (2023) |
Woman Of is not exactly a campaigning film, but it is a work of advocacy. Aniela’s long trail... is laid before us as a clear demonstration of social injustice. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Housekeeping for Beginners (2023) |
It confirms Stolevski’s standing, established with the witchy thriller You Won’t Be Alone, as a filmmaker of impressive originality, skill and style. Goran Stolevski. Remember that name. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Enea (2023) |
While the characters vie to make their points, it doesn’t leave a sense of having itself made a point about anything. A blast of sound, fury and meticulously considered framing, Enea isn’t a lasting high. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Coup de Chance (2023) |
Coup de Chance isn’t good, but it may just have enough that is familiar from the director’s long back catalog to please those who wish they really were living in 1953, a hokey 2023, or whatever year it is in WoodyWorld. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Priscilla (2023) |
The devil is in the details... Small things, but Coppola finds the meaning in them. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) |
Drive My Car was manifestly a masterpiece. Evil Does Not Exist is less grand, less declarative -- its meanings slip away as soon as you try to grasp them -- but it is a brilliant piece of work. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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The Theory of Everything (2023) |
The Theory of Everything presents a world in itself, appropriately enough, that many people will not want to enter, in the same way that many of us really don’t want to put ourselves through a ride on the Mad Mouse. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Finally Dawn (2023) |
A sprawling story of uncertain tone -- sometimes thrilled, sometimes appalled and sometimes as generally bewildered as nervous ingenue Mimosa. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Poor Things (2023) |
Brought to vivid life by Stone’s energetic embrace of Bella’s persona, the universally excellent supporting performances and Lanthimos’ wild determination to surprise us. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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The Promised Land (2023) |
Mads as Ludwig Kahlen, soldier settler in some of the most inhospitable country on Earth, is at his staunch, heroic, conflicted and deeply flawed best. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Elemental (2023) |
Pixar always had something new up its collective artistic sleeve. And yet here they are, coming out with a film as dull-witted and syrupy as Elemental. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Last Summer (2023) |
It would be a mistake to think of [Catherine Breillat] as merely a cinematic shock jock, going for effect over substance. Outrage is her weapon. In Last Summer, every shot finds its target. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) |
We are immersed in a world constructed for effect. An orchestral score swoops and surges, sometimes at overwhelming volume, less of an accompaniment than the stuff of drama in itself. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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Club Zero (2023) |
Club Zero may look like an exercise in style, but it is made with the anger and purpose of a documentary, full of detailed particulars that speak of in-depth research. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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About Dry Grasses (2023) |
Not everyone can stomach hours of verbal sparring... For Ceylan’s many fans, however, this is another opportunity to slip into his world, spot his sly political references and subside for a while into the life of the mind. - Deadline Hollywood Daily
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| Posted Oct 31, 2023
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