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The Lonely Film Critic is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Tomas Trussow.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
3.5/5
Blue Moon (2025) Tomas Trussow The spotlight on Hart’s tragic inability to save himself from his fate makes Blue Moon something of a dispiriting watch, but Linklater’s assured vision and resolution to honour this man ... makes it gratifying in spite of it.
Posted Nov 02, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5
U Are the Universe (2024) Tomas Trussow I believe many will be won over by the film’s heartfelt humanity. And ... when the indelible final image takes over the screen, even the hardest of hearts will likely be softened a bit more, as the fates of these characters hover into devastating focus.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Lovely Day (2025) Tomas Trussow It’s a light, breezy, sweet, frequently entertaining affair with a distinct Quebecois flavour and a charmingly game cast, with all the main characters getting at least one opportunity to steal a scene.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Seasons (2025) Tomas Trussow Fazendeiro interweaves her gaze through Alentejo’s history like a living tapestry in motion, observational but intentional, depicting in it a serenity of existence that teems with both mythological and scientific potency.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Tomas Trussow Miroirs No. 3 reaches its quintessence in the calm moments of mutual recognition and appreciation, in the quiet kindnesses afforded to those who have suffered pain, in the way the ghosts of the past come back to bring peace rather than fear.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Rose of Nevada (2025) Tomas Trussow The level of craft on display thanks to Jenkin is exquisite, of that there is no doubt. He is a man awash in ideas that are relevant to this world and churning with potential, and he moreover understands the vision he wants to impart to us.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Erupcja (2025) Tomas Trussow Erupcja’s main strengths do lie in its emotional counterbalances and the way it does not judge its characters but takes them on their own terms.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Dry Leaf (2025) Tomas Trussow Dry Leaf does place a high degree of demand on its viewer, but in truth, many of our greatest films do the same thing, asking them to reconsider their perceptions and to think more deeply about what the cinematic artform is capable of doing—and why.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
To the Victory! (2025) Tomas Trussow Vasyanovych has revealed himself to be one of Ukraine’s vital artistic voices this past decade, and To the Victory! only cements that distinction still further.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Whitetail (2025) Tomas Trussow Whitetail is a film steeped in melancholy and almost as aloof as its main character, for better and for worse. Its rewards are not always the most satisfying, but its elemental beauties are difficult to ignore.
Posted Oct 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Do I Know You from Somewhere? (2024) Tomas Trussow There is ambition and verve here ... that was difficult to resist. Perhaps I have an affinity for scrappy underdogs that dare to push boundaries a little.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) Tomas Trussow What On Becoming a Guinea Fowl offers is a vital vision in our cinematic landscape of today, told by a filmmaker who does not fear taking the bold and uncompromising approaches needed to make her voice heard.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Mr. K (2024) Tomas Trussow Where Mr. K does fall short, ultimately, is that its larger reveals don’t hold the same level of grandeur and risk as Schwab’s setup.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Viktor (2024) Tomas Trussow We never lose Viktor’s reality amidst the galling reality of Russia’s brutality. It’s a reality we quickly learn is adaptable: not a handicap, but a way to be in the world anew, full of life and sense of self.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Really Happy Someday (2024) Tomas Trussow It's thanks to the acting from Lalama and Lopez ... and Stevens’s sensitivity in finding joy in the smallest of moments as a director, that Really Happy Someday nevertheless emerges from its cocoon of woes with a sense of ultimate triumph and serenity.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
3/5
Sad Jokes (2024) Tomas Trussow I laughed quite a bit during Sad Jokes. I also cringed and winced—and I’m sure that’s exactly what Fabian Stumm wanted me to do.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
Universal Language (2024) Tomas Trussow Rankin’s ear for quick and absurd wit hits with aplomb as his characters traverse their environs and comment on their situations with the driest of deadpans outside of, perhaps, Finland’s Aki Kaurismäki.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4.5/5
All We Imagine as Light (2024) Tomas Trussow A timeless portrait of two women drawn close together out of both necessity and empathy.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
4/5
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023) Tomas Trussow While the film’s overt deliberateness will not be for everyone, Arnow’s cinematic voice is excitingly distinct and one that I, personally, will be looking forward to seeing again.
Posted Oct 01, 2023  Edit critic review
3.5/5
The Holdovers (2023) Tomas Trussow While not the strongest of efforts from Payne, there is certainly a pleasing warmth to The Holdovers that is accentuated by his undeniable sense of craftsmanship and attention to the little details.
Posted Oct 01, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Riddle Of Fire (2023) Tomas Trussow Razooli does great work in evoking the way overactive childhood imaginations help to sensibly order the eccentric dictums of the real world, which all too easily can lurch from being ordinary to unknowable with the snap of a tree branch.
Posted Sep 27, 2023  Edit critic review
2.5/5
American Fiction (2023) Tomas Trussow [In] processing the film, one can’t help but feel that there was so much more potential left untapped to have it go the distance as a modern classic. And in saying so, perhaps Cord Jefferson should have waited a little longer to tackle it.
Posted Sep 27, 2023  Edit critic review
4.5/5
The Zone of Interest (2023) Tomas Trussow [The Zone of Interest] shows us that there is no possible point of comprehension in the cinders of depravity. We bear witness to the totality of the truth in darkness.
Posted Sep 27, 2023  Edit critic review
4/5
I Don't Know Who You Are (2023) Tomas Trussow I certainly hope queer filmmakers of all stripes will be inspired by the issues the film presents well down the line so that, hopefully, the inequalities here can be rectified.
Posted Sep 27, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Tomas Trussow Humanist Vampire remains a pleasing, yet insubstantial diversion, one best viewed on a cool October night with your romantic partner when every shadow outside your window feels imbued with mystery and cuddling close together is a necessity.
Posted Sep 22, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Solo (2023) Tomas Trussow [Its] unfiltered empathy, coupled with its focus on drag’s cathartic qualities, allow it to stand with enough merit alongside other works that celebrate drag’s sheer power and fierceness.
Posted Sep 22, 2023  Edit critic review
3/5
Valeria Is Getting Married (2022) Tomas Trussow Vinik’s indictment of manufactured marriages that are dehumanizingly transactional is a cutting one, and she is unsparing in her critique of the male characters in particular.
Posted Sep 29, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
One Fine Morning (2022) Tomas Trussow Hansen-Løve’s uncanny ability to wring wells of profundity from the humblest of ideas ... encapsulates why this film---unsurprising as its general story may be on the whole---manages to nevertheless console us with its wise and warm perceptiveness anyway.
Posted Sep 29, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
No Bears (2022) Tomas Trussow The master has left the building, albeit only for a moment. And like any master worth following, he has left behind his most challenging work for us to reckon with in his wake.
Posted Sep 29, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Return to Seoul (2022) Tomas Trussow Park is able to thread the needle of her maturation while keeping an air of danger within her; like a live grenade on the cusp of explosion, she throws herself into terrain that even she sometimes is not ready to tread.
Posted Sep 29, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
This Place (2022) Tomas Trussow The battle to preserve connections of all kinds becomes the shaping tenet of Nayani’s work, which is engrained in all facets of the film’s makeup ... allowing viewers to see how fully and freely these characters live out their roots in the moment.
Posted Sep 26, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022) Tomas Trussow De Humani Corporis Fabrica already feels like one of the most vital and pioneering documentaries of the decade because of how thoroughly and unbelievably it lays everything on the line, providing us with a singular experience of unmatched perspicacity.
Posted Sep 26, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Other People's Children (2022) Tomas Trussow By the time Rachel is caught in one final freeze frame, her face almost out of view as the frantic pace of life quickens once more, the weight of Zlotowski’s efforts careens into its fullest focus and we’re able to walk out feeling nourished.
Posted Sep 26, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Aftersun (2022) Tomas Trussow Both Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio are more than up to the task to bring Wells’s poetic meditations to fruition, and it's their collective efforts that ensures the ending devastates us with the weight of its impact.
Posted Sep 26, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Walk Up (2022) Tomas Trussow The many strands of the story ... guide us to a further appreciation of Hong’s stealthy craftsmanship, particularly in the way he can peel back the hidden melancholies of life with such nimble placidity and unconventional detours.
Posted Sep 25, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Saint Omer (2022) Tomas Trussow Saint Omer is the filmic microcosm of all that is wrong in the world, but also one that demands us to open our eyes and hearts even wider to access truths and feelings that we would otherwise let lie dormant.
Posted Sep 25, 2022  Edit critic review
4.5/5
EO (2022) Tomas Trussow [EO] is a powerful, brutal and unexpectedly emotional work that asks little more from its audience than to keep the animal world close to us, and in doing so, it becomes that much more impactful.
Posted Sep 25, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Tomas Trussow It’s easy to see why this year’s Cannes jury was so smitten with what [Östlund] achieves here, even though I hope his next venture will be a tighter and more disciplined affair.
Posted Sep 25, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Winter Boy (2022) Tomas Trussow While I don’t think Honoré unduly limits Kircher, I do think Kircher could have benefited from a film that dared to match his capriciousness step for step, as it would have made the emotional grace notes of his performance that much more rewarding.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Sick (2022) Tomas Trussow It leaves us questioning just how much the ordeal of the pandemic has changed our ways of thinking, and for that alone, Sick and its heart-pounding thrills really leave their mark.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
Women Talking (2022) Tomas Trussow It is incredibly affecting material that strikes us with grief, rage and hope over all that transpires. But for all that Polley does well, there are some missteps here that force me to moderate my opinions.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
2/5
Empire of Light (2022) Tomas Trussow Its assertions---on cinema’s wondrous capacities, on race relations, on mental illness, on working-class living---are glassy-eyed and crudely drawn, lacking any true sense of insightfulness to make this project legible.
Posted Sep 22, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Something You Said Last Night (2022) Tomas Trussow That is the refreshing thing about Luis De Filippis’s feature debut: It is a film about trans livelihood without seeking to cater to preconceptions and stale notions about how trans life should be depicted cinematically.
Posted Sep 21, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
I Like Movies (2022) Tomas Trussow Despite the disjointedness, I Like Movies nevertheless possesses enough charm to win you over because of Levack’s sterling commitment to detail.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
My Imaginary Country (2022) Tomas Trussow The film’s brevity does not undermine the potency of its goals, even if one can’t help but wish Guzmán had waited a little longer to finish it in order to fill in the inevitable gaps that time and circumstance have left.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The Inspection (2022) Tomas Trussow The film’s overall lack of complexity becomes an issue, for without more rigorous critiques of the problematic institutions it’s depicting, The Inspection veers dangerously close to being propagandistic.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
3/5
The Whale (2022) Tomas Trussow It is a testament to the genuineness of Fraser and Chau that the film manages to scrape by as it does, flaws and all.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
The Eternal Daughter (2022) Tomas Trussow The fact that both the mother and the daughter are played by the same person opens up a wealth of fascinating contradictions and gradations that help anchor a film that can sometimes feel a bit too restricted by its own limitations.
Posted Sep 20, 2022  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Casa Susanna (2022) Tomas Trussow There is much we will never know about what went on behind the casa’s walls, but there is enough here to get a taste of it. For me, at least, I was able to walk away enlightened and humbled by the beauty and freedom of these stories.
Posted Sep 19, 2022  Edit critic review
4/5
Pacifiction (2022) Tomas Trussow It is frighteningly beautiful work that turns the cruel ambivalences and reckless indifferences of postcolonial corruption onto those figures of power, forcing them to contend with the same fears that colonial subjects were subjected to in the past.
Posted Sep 19, 2022  Edit critic review
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