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Emily DuGranrut

Emily DuGranrut's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Rebuilding (2025) 93% EDIT “A rebuilt script might have smoothed the whole into a better balance, but in its final form here, everything seems to sink into an unfortunate quicksand of sentimentality.” – In Review Online Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% EDIT “Beyond the innate appeal of the fundamentally engrossing, curious subject matter of Mistress Dispeller, the film is also an impressively calibrated text... even often recalling the work of Hong Sang-soo in its gentle patience and durational approach.” – In Review Online Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Romería (2025) 86% EDIT “All of this leaves Simón’s film with the lingering impression of a personal passion project that has failed to fully transcend its intimate genesis, despite the director’s best attempt to zhuzh the material with flits of style.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review All of You (2024) 71% EDIT “A genuinely engaging and intelligent romance, one that mostly resists templatizing its story and instead feels written by real humans about real humans — a rare, refreshing feat.” – In Review Online Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Or Something (2024) EDIT “Or Something‘s strength is in how well-written [its] conversations are, and how authentically they’re carried by the performances of Neely and Rahma.” – In Review Online Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Juliet & Romeo (2025) 26% EDIT “Writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart has clearly never heard the phrase “less is more” or simply doesn’t subscribe, and he instead attempts to cram as many “updates” into Shakespeare’s classic tragedy as possible. ” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025) 75% EDIT “What undermines so much... in Stories of Surrender is the apparent narcissism and self-involvement that seems to be part and parcel of the Bono experience — debatable if that's a filmic flaw exactly, but it makes for stretches of exasperating viewing.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Pets (2025) 82% EDIT “Its insistence on feel-good anecdotes supported by heartfelt soundbites fails to engage the viewer on any deeper psychological level. ” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Sea Lions of the Galapagos (2025) EDIT “Even in avoiding the humanity of it all, the film ... fails to distinguish itself from the surplus of material being pumped out by the collective streaming machine.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Pangolin: Kulu's Journey (2025) EDIT “What could have been a fascinating exploration of the “do no harm” maxim ends up instead settling into pandering, superficial, and uninspiring territory.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review The Heirloom (2024) EDIT “The Heirloom transcends the trope of “pandemic movie” and becomes something far more relatable: a quietly devastating study of how close quarters can transform even the smallest cracks in a relationship into unnavigable canyons.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Borderline (2025) 59% EDIT “for those seeking a sharper take on obsession or celebrity culture, or even just looking for compromised thrills, Borderline will likely feel like an opportunity narrowly missed.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2025 Full Review Teenage Wasteland (2025) 100% EDIT “Perhaps McBaine and Moss’s goal isn’t simply to uplift viewers in the face of pervasive dysfunction... Instead, they remind us that personal stories can offer us all a lifeline when the larger system seems beyond repair. ” – In Review Online Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Rats! (2024) 80% EDIT “Nothing is too absurd or too crass for inclusion, and while that brazenness means the end results can be uneven, this quality is also essential to the film’s uniquely chaotic charm.” – In Review Online Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Disfluency (2021) 86% EDIT “...one can’t help but wonder what the — potentially impressive — effect might have been without the relentless spoon-feeding.” – In Review Online Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Queens (Reinas) (2024) 85% EDIT “Reynicke’s film resists teasing out more pat narrative threads... and instead concerns itself with the small, personal moments that define relationships; the stories we tell, the time we spend, and the ways we try, and too often fail, to show love. ” – In Review Online Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024) 75% EDIT “You leave the film with no new stories, no new insights; all we're left with are the same old photographs, dusted off and arranged for display. If you’re looking for lighting in a bottle, just watch the original special.” – In Review Online Nov 25, 2024 Full Review Stockholm Bloodbath (2023) EDIT “Stockholm Bloodbath‘s essential flaw [is that] the film is all emptiness — of style, character, and topical discourse — masquerading as substance, and quite unconvincingly at that.” – In Review Online Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Endurance (2024) 70% EDIT “Despite notable aesthetic strengths, Endurance struggles to maintain a tonal balance. The high-stakes, life-and-death desperation of Shackleton’s crew is often undercut by the relatively low-risk procedural approach of the modern-day mission.” – In Review Online Nov 1, 2024 Full Review The Devil's Climb (2024) EDIT “In total, the documentary struggles to maintain the excitement of either Honnold or Caldwell's earlier cinematic presentations, or even the high-stakes drama of other climbing films.” – In Review Online Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Darla in Space (2024) 100% EDIT “For those willing to embrace the fundamental absurdity of its designs, the film offers the kind of surprising viewing experience that is all too rare in the current cinematic landscape.” – In Review Online Oct 24, 2024 Full Review House of Spoils (2024) 39% EDIT “What could have been an exciting slurry of food and fear, grub and grue, is instead executed as safely as possible, leaving less a bad taste in one’s mouth than the simply sense that you’ve tasted this before. ” – In Review Online Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Will & Harper (2024) 99% EDIT “Will & Harper is far too heartfelt for such maudlin reductions and is instead content to ride shotgun, surveying the slipperiness of identity and the endurance of friendship through an intimate road trip lens, shared over too many cans of Pringles.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Booger (2024) 97% EDIT “Dauterman's stylish film ultimately succeeds at capturing the extreme and unpredictable ways we attempt to cope with the void left behind by those we love, living up to the grotesquerie of its title but rising above its negative connotations.” – In Review Online Sep 12, 2024 Full Review The Cowboy and the Queen (2023) EDIT “[The film] thrives by virtue of its authenticity, sincerity, and the undeniable chemistry of its two central figures, but it also gives viewers more than a mere tale of unlikely friendship.” – In Review Online Sep 5, 2024 Full Review
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