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Alexander Mooney

Alexander Mooney's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Seeds (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Brittany Shyne’s lens is held rapt by the ramblings and insights of the elderly, but it springs to life when it’s turned toward the next generation, whose future is of utmost concern in light of the socioeconomic tensions documented by the film.” – Slant Magazine Jan 11, 2026 Full Review Keeper (2025) 52% 1/4 EDIT “Osgood Perkins mistakes abstruseness for surrealism, and an oppressive atmosphere for palpable tension.” – Slant Magazine Nov 14, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “After the Hunt seems to pride itself on vulgarity and cynicism, but it refuses to make those qualities remotely interesting... a muck of empty symbols and italicized frissons.” – In Review Online Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% 2/5 EDIT “Plainclothes is especially frustrating because its frenetic presentation and sensational scenario initially suggest a coherent perspective – hard to come by in the increasingly censored and commodified landscape of queer cinema.” – Little White Lies Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “If Dead Man’s Wire adds up to less than the sum of its vicarious jolts and sardonic jabs, it’s perhaps a result of Gus Van Sant’s style fading into the background.” – Slant Magazine Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Happyend strikes a remarkable balance between social satire and adolescent drama, finding points of alignment between the humour of everyday teen life and the absurdity of the bureaucracies that shape it.” – Little White Lies Sep 18, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% 1.5/4 EDIT “Olivier Assayas’s knack for fostering insight through irony is nowhere to be found in the film.” – Slant Magazine Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “This protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist.” – Slant Magazine Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 1/4 EDIT “The few glimpses we get of the supporting cast suggest a more exploratory film, but these strands only exist to be woven back into Philip’s formulaic journey of self-discovery.” – Slant Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% 6/10 EDIT “The results are perplexing, exhausting, yet strangely winning.” – Exclaim! Aug 25, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% EDIT “The decision to reboot this D-list slasher series in 2025 is a telltale sign that Hollywood is giving new meaning to scraping the bottom of the barrel. ” – In Review Online Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “It’s one thing [for Materialists] to needlessly amplify the rom-com’s pre-existing subtexts of gender and class; it’s quite another to foist a harrowingly prevalent issue onto the genre as a shortcut to thematic import.” – In Review Online Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Bring Her Back (2025) 89% EDIT “Bring Her Back’s similarly giddy and excitable form squares poorly with its anguished, sensitive content, and the ultimate result is a harsh, morose, and acutely unpleasant viewing experience.” – In Review Online May 29, 2025 Full Review Tornado (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “Tornado’s winking theatricality, thematic fixations with myth and avarice, and pared-down plotting add up to a heady concoction, but it’s more conducive to reflection than engagement.” – Slant Magazine May 26, 2025 Full Review Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) 14% 0.5/4 EDIT “Hurry Up Tomorrow is remarkable in its ceaseless and shameless capacity for failure, constantly finding new and innovative ways to fall flat on its face.” – Toronto Star May 15, 2025 Full Review Bonjour Tristesse (2024) 68% 3/4 EDIT “The film finds a state of grace in that torrential pull between the familiar and the new.” – Slant Magazine Apr 28, 2025 Full Review The Wedding Banquet (2025) 86% EDIT “This narrative ingenuity works better on paper than it does on screen, but The Wedding Banquet’s endearing qualities largely outweigh its deficiencies.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Redux Redux (2025) 98% EDIT “Its scrappy combination of the burnt-out multiverse trend and the time-loop structure... is emblematic of its generic and dramatic shortcomings.” – In Review Online Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% 4/10 EDIT “An idea masquerading as a movie.” – Exclaim! Apr 4, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 41% EDIT “The film is unafraid to capture the confusion, anguish, and frustration of parenthood, and its equal commitment to being confusing, anguished, and occasionally frustrating in its own right ... is both refreshing and ravishing.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “[Mickey 17] doesn’t always clear the high bar [Bong has] set for himself... but mixed bags are simply part and parcel of a director whose adventurous spirit sends him chasing giddy thrills and nasty punchlines right off the face of the earth.” – In Review Online Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Armand (2024) 73% EDIT “Armand depicts a sensational scenario but buries those sensations in italics and quotation marks; what little it has to say in the first place is muted to a teasing whisper. ” – In Review Online Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Grand Theft Hamlet (2024) 94% EDIT “The overall effect is not one of generosity and collaboration... but rather of two artists exploiting and mythologizing their underdog story in real-time. ” – In Review Online Feb 4, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% EDIT “So unabashedly and unshakably plain that even its posturing throughline of “rejecting tradition” feels like a kowtow to the mainstream... a legend printed in Comic Sans.” – In Review Online Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 7/10 EDIT “Queer's contradictions are inseparable from its achievements. ” – Exclaim! Dec 16, 2024 Full Review
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