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Jeffrey Zhang

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Biography:

Jeffrey Zhang is a critic and writer living in New York. He is the editor and chief critic for Strange Harbors, a site that covers film, television, and popular culture.

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The Shrouds (2024) 75% A EDIT “Way ahead of its time, strangely comforting, and wildly funny, The Shrouds extends the legendary filmmaker’s polarizing late oeuvre into deeply personal territory.” – Strange Harbors Jan 3, 2026 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% A- EDIT “A work of pure alchemy transforming misanthropic comedy into a brutal downer.” – Strange Harbors Jan 3, 2026 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% A EDIT “Many will bristle against The Substance and its explicit, repetitive assault on good taste, but it’s precisely the juxtaposition of its bluntness and wanton escalation of sickly textures that makes it so effective.” – Strange Harbors Sep 24, 2024 Full Review The Shadow Strays (2024) 92% B+ EDIT “2024 finds action fans eating good, and The Shadow Strays is another full-on meal from a genre legend.” – Strange Harbors Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% C+ EDIT “An overwrought score, a goofily thin election year allegory, and an outrageous final twist are only a few moving parts of its manufactured gravitas — Conclave leaves just enough wiggle room to suggest it knows how silly it all is. ” – Strange Harbors Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% B EDIT “Sean Baker reaches back in time to rediscover a romantic charm that has all but evaporated from modern filmmaking, but he also widely miscalculates one thing: those movies used to be a tight 90.” – Strange Harbors Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 60% C- EDIT “The struggle of motherhood told exclusively through Facebook mom group memes dug from their 2008 graves, read aloud...” – Strange Harbors Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Cloud (2024) 93% A EDIT “An escalation of anonymous petty crimes that bridges the gap between doing damage with a keyboard and the violence of bloody, in-person retribution.” – Strange Harbors Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% B+ EDIT “A horror gimmick elevated by brazen formal discipline, drawing a straight line from its poltergeist to filmmakers as puppetmasters and voyeurs.” – Strange Harbors Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 56% A- EDIT “A deliriously entertaining facade masks perhaps Shyamalan’s most intimate film yet: a dizzying portrayal of shifting spaces that strikes at a universal fear -- being a bad dad. ” – Strange Harbors Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 85% B+ EDIT “The most terrifying aspects of Longlegs aren’t in its spooky ciphers, sharp jolts, or even Nicolas Cage’s full freak-flag performance, it’s in the stink of apathy.” – Strange Harbors Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% A EDIT “With Furiosa, George Miller forges his protagonist’s sizzling, magma rage into a new blade that is remarkably unlike Fury Road…” – Strange Harbors Jul 25, 2024 Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% A EDIT “The rare blockbuster-level crowdpleaser that’s still full of blood, vitality, and texture.” – Strange Harbors May 2, 2024 Full Review Monkey Man (2024) 89% B+ EDIT “Monkey Man is one ferocious inaugural beat ‘em up.” – Strange Harbors Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% A- EDIT “Collides dense sci-fi imagemaking with Herbert’s heady and prescient themes: the gravity of manufactured destiny, the untamable tendrils of belief, and a harrowing subversion of the hero’s journey.” – Strange Harbors Mar 14, 2024 Full Review Ferrari (2023) 73% A EDIT “Ferrari’s “failure” as biography is its rousing success as poetry: the rhythm of irreconcilable dichotomies, the prison of masculinity, the fiery synthesis of metal and religion.” – Strange Harbors Mar 14, 2024 Full Review The Breaking Ice (2023) 91% A- EDIT “What Anthony Chen’s films lack in sticking to the ribs is more than made up for in their emotional verisimilitude, and “The Breaking Ice” is no exception” – The Playlist Feb 9, 2024 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% A EDIT “The Killer’s disguise as a trash genre exercise has elicited plenty of shrugs, but make no mistake, it’s every bit as potent and layered as Fincher’s masterworks of The Social Network and Fight Club.” – Strange Harbors Nov 28, 2023 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% A- EDIT “In a landscape where movies try too hard to be funny and are too afraid to be sexy, Hit Man is refreshingly -- and effortlessly -- both.” – Strange Harbors Oct 6, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% A EDIT ““[Jonathan] Glazer conjures a prison of illusory obliviousness and never once is tempted to peek over its squat walls. The effect is immense.”” – Strange Harbors Sep 16, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% B+ EDIT “...[Greta] Gerwig’s pink, plastic epic is infused with its director’s indie spirit and far more cognizant of the toy’s complicated legacy than you might expect.” – Strange Harbors Sep 11, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% A EDIT “ A devastating examination of the vast gulf between science and empathy…” – Strange Harbors Jul 22, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% A- EDIT “Tom Cruise’s crusade for analog supremacy finally becomes text and the results are unbelievable.” – Strange Harbors Jul 13, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% A- EDIT “A multiverse story...fully in service of its characters rather than the other way around.” – Strange Harbors Jun 7, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% B+ EDIT “A colorful reminder that the best of these aren’t made by committee, but by the sincere weirdos who love the craft and love these heroes. ” – Strange Harbors Apr 28, 2023 Full Review
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