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Robert Stinner

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Islands (2025) 93% EDIT “Islands is less likely to leave a viewer on the edge of their seat than it is to make them feel that they’ve dozed off on a picturesque beach.” – In Review Online Jan 30, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “Dabis does sometimes struggle to craft fully rounded characters within [the film's] vast scope... but [the director] impressively manages to accrue character detail and thematic nuance by tracing her film’s central family, patiently but with purpose.” – In Review Online Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) 95% EDIT “Structural vagueness is a minor quibble... in a film marked by both sensitivity and boldness. Céspedes, with a distinctive point of view, holds the community of queer outsiders that populate his film with a loving yet unflinching gaze.” – In Review Online Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Oh. What. Fun. (2025) 35% EDIT “There is no joy, no humor, no pathos to be found in Oh. What. Fun.; the best one can say for it is that it might inspire viewers to turn off the TV and spend time with their family.” – In Review Online Dec 5, 2025 Full Review 100 Nights of Hero (2025) 69% EDIT “Though there are some glimmers of aesthetic and narrative interest around the margins of 100 Nights of Hero, the film fails to add up to a cohesive or captivating whole.” – In Review Online Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “A tender, tactile remounting of a near-forgotten moment in time. Yet... far from a distantly respectful memorial, the vital, immersive Peter Hujar’s Day emanates life in every frame.” – In Review Online Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “Occupies a well-appointed, glossy middle ground; its diversions from Ibsen are not too shocking, and its provocations are not overly provoking. ” – In Review Online Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% EDIT “Frenetic and focused, alluring and excruciating, a perfect marriage of the pleasures of musical cinema with lacerating political critique... and spectacle that meets the eye with a direct, implicating gaze.” – In Review Online Oct 13, 2025 Full Review With Hasan in Gaza (2025) 100% EDIT “A sober presentation of a nearly forgotten archive that briefly vivifies what has been irretrievably lost, With Hasan in Gaza is a vital and mournful work of preservation.” – In Review Online Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% EDIT “Rose of Nevada... sees Jenkin taking on time travel as his literal subject, and he delivers absorbing and surprisingly emotional results.” – In Review Online Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 69% EDIT “The History of Sound is an uncommonly sensitive and insightful film.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Griffin in Summer (2024) 94% EDIT “The all-around confident craft leaves the audience in the perfect position to identify with, and just as often cringe at, Griffin as he navigates his formative summer.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Plainclothes (2025) 83% EDIT “Some might find erotic intrigue and emotional catharsis in Plainclothes, but its clumsy execution precludes the film from reaching its full artistic potential.” – In Review Online Oct 2, 2025 Full Review The Currents (2025) 100% EDIT “Though Mumenthaler’s narrative strategy is flawed, her visual strategies are often striking... [a] flawed but fascinating film.” – In Review Online Sep 25, 2025 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 63% EDIT “A Pale View of Hills ultimately does not outmatch its formidable source material, but Ishikawa has crafted an admirable counterpart.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Calle Málaga (2025) 95% EDIT “As much a personal tribute to Touzani’s home city as it is an affecting showcase for Carmen Maura, Calle Málaga satisfies on both levels.” – In Review Online Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Night Always Comes (2025) 52% EDIT “Caron’s missteps in both form and content result in the failure of Night Always Comes as both a social critique and as an engaging piece of genre cinema.” – In Review Online Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Went Up the Hill (2024) 67% EDIT “Went Up the Hill manages both to be absorbing in its Gothic-inspired trappings and thoughtful in its staging of how grief and memories of abuse haunt those left in their wake.” – In Review Online Aug 18, 2025 Full Review The Birthday Party (2025) EDIT “The Birthday Party, though persuasively performed and appealing to the eye, unfortunately plays like a faded derivative of... The White Lotus.” – In Review Online Aug 16, 2025 Full Review To a Land Unknown (2024) 98% EDIT “The stories of Chatila and Reda are compelling narratively, but they carry a weight beyond the scope of the film as symbolic microcosms of the devastating, disorienting effects of generations of displacement.” – In Review Online Aug 12, 2025 Full Review I Don't Understand You (2024) 52% EDIT “Propelled by charismatic and broadly funny, yet also ultimately grounding, performances from Andrew Rannells and Nick Kroll, I Don’t Understand You is an entertaining exercise in genre slippage. ” – In Review Online Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Queerpanorama (2025) EDIT “The array of queer men depicted in Li’s film is indeed panoramic, but Li struggles to fully pair the external variety with internal depth.” – In Review Online Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Everything's Going to Be Great (2025) 56% EDIT “Family strife and backstage drama have formed the material for many great films, but in the case of Everything’s Going to Be Great, the viewer is never given a good reason to emotionally invest in the theatrical family at its center.” – In Review Online Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Natchez (2025) 100% EDIT “In her probing and critical, yet invariably empathetic, interrogation of... the unsettled community of Natchez, Herbert has crafted a major achievement in documentary filmmaking. ” – In Review Online Jun 18, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% EDIT “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life ultimately proves to be a well-crafted, comfortingly familiar romantic comedy... the exact sort of broadly accessible and thoughtfully made “movie for adults” that has nearly disappeared from mainstream cinema in recent years.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2025 Full Review
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