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Robert Stinner

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A Body to Live In (2025) EDIT “A Body to Live In suffers from missing context and formal gaps... [but] Madsen has still crafted an accessible and engaging portrait of an artist and community leader.” – In Review Online Mar 29, 2026 Full Review An American Pastoral (2024) 100% EDIT “By focusing on the minutiae of a local election... Edler reveals much more about the current state of political affairs in the United States than one could by attempting a long view. The result is stark and foreboding.” – In Review Online Mar 10, 2026 Full Review By Design (2025) 72% EDIT “By Design, always pleasurable and charming to watch, nonetheless puts forth startling ideas.” – In Review Online Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “It’s to the director’s credit that, in uncovering an optimistic take on thorny narrative material, he manages to do so with both sexual frankness and genuine warmth.” – In Review Online Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Islands (2025) 92% 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) 68% 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) 91% 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) 76% 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) 97% 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
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