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World Socialist Web Site is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): David Walsh, Joanne Laurier, Prairie Miller.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
4/4
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Joanne Laurier Fatima lives with her family in a small apartment in one of the most devastated areas of northern Gaza Access to basic necessities such as food, water and electricity is highly unreliable; over time, shortages worsen and Fatima … "eating like animals"
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Jay Kelly (2025) David Walsh All in all, wouldn’t it have been more interesting if the filmmakers had concretely examined the movie business during the years in which Clooney has been a leading figure, with its various strengths and weaknesses?
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
The Mastermind (2025) David Walsh Is such a "subversion" of this type of misogyny truly important, or, frankly, even necessary? Don’t we have bigger fish to fry? The end result of this misplaced concern with the secondary and even tertiary is a rather drab and even dull film.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
After the Hunt (2025) David Walsh It sets out the various sides in an episode where a sexual assault has been alleged with such even-handedness that drawing larger conclusions is challenging. The various ambiguities remain largely that, ambiguities.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
2/4
Anniversary (2025) David Walsh Why has "The Change" emerged in the form it does? Why does it gain mass traction? What are the conditions under which the erstwhile "democratic" state turns toward dictatorship? What are the social and economic forces propelling this repressive movement?
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Bugonia (2025) David Walsh As a partial portrait of a damaged, half-crazed victim of "the world," Bugonia has its merits. But its "unexpected" and shocking final portion ... is largely an evasion.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Suspended Time (2024) David Walsh Unfortunately, however, to repeat, Suspended Time alternates between middle class obliviousness and awareness of graver, widespread difficulties.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (2025) David Walsh One feels that one has crawled in the mind of a discontented, overwhelmed semi-left artist or intellectual, one without an informed perspective on any of the events he introduces, and the results are not happy, to say the least
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Frankenstein (2025) Joanne Laurier A visually imaginative work to some extent, with a number of urgent and disturbing sequences and an overall gravitas, but its conceptions in the end fail to rise above the relatively pedestrian and predictable
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Battleship Potemkin (1925) Joanne Laurier ... captures the brutality of the regime that the workers and sailors tried unsuccessfully to overthrow in 1905 ... This complex revolutionary process is captured in some of the most stunning and iconic images ever committed to film.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
One Battle After Another (2025) David Walsh The brutality and fascistic character of the anti-immigrant hysteria and ICE raids in particular receives convincing expression in the film ... The film movingly makes no bones about siding with the persecuted immigrants and those assisting them.
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) David Walsh The film doesn’t ...make any effort to connect the generally deplorable behavior on show with these individuals’ social function as defenders of British imperialism...currently helping to coordinate the mass murder of Palestinians
Posted Oct 07, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Honey Don't! (2025) David Walsh The attitudes of the creators ... are terribly smug and supercilious. This is the complacent upper middle class portraying itself as tolerant and liberated and everyone else in America as backward and perpetually led by the nose.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
My Dead Friend Zoe (2024) David Walsh My Dead Friend Zoe, as it unfolds, gradually drops its anti-establishment pretenses and becomes an uncritical and unhealthy endorsement of the US armed forces, the principal source of violence and terror on the planet for decades.
Posted Sep 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Cloud (2024) David Walsh The biggest difficulty is the general political and cultural stagnation in which Kurosawa developed. In the end, despite their sometimes gruesome “sound and fury,” his films, like many by his global contemporaries, are essentially passive, non-committal
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) David Walsh A project like this, with its gigantic budget and myriad corporate connections, is unlikely to deviate from ... from cliches and formulas. It can’t afford to, as far as its producers are concerned. Too much is at stake to let art and complexity interfere.
Posted Jul 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Mountainhead (2025) David Walsh At a certain point, the four characters consider using their military and technological powers to overthrow the US government, which is not doubt actively considered among these fascistic layers in real life.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Superman (2025) David Walsh The film has come under concerted right-wing attack for its sympathetic attitude toward immigration and related matters, and its creator has been denounced for suggesting that “basic human kindness is a value and … something we have lost.”
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Joanne Laurier Has Anderson got the present situation right? No, not exactly. There are tangents and red herrings and dead ends here. But the filmmaker is on a healthy path. Without a doubt, gangster capitalists are among the central figures of our times.
Posted Jul 18, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Beloved Tropic (2024) David Walsh Other than establishing that there are many lonely, even desperate people in Panama City & that individuals from different social backgrounds, under certain conditions, can form a meaningful bond, it is not clear how much new ground Beloved Tropic breaks.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Brink of Dreams (2024) David Walsh No doubt it is very difficult under the present circumstances of intense repression to offer a more searing and deep-going indictment of Egyptian society, but this is pretty tepid stuff.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
The Wolves Always Come at Night (2024) David Walsh Brady is able and hard-working and sympathetic, she is evidently genuinely concerned with the fate of her protagonists ... But the passivity of The Wolves Always Come at Night is a problem, along with its immersion in the immediate details of life.
Posted May 23, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Triumph (2024) Joanne Laurier The picture emerges of an extremely backward, grasping and rather stupid ruling elite dreaming of “national greatness.”
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Cloud (2024) Joanne Laurier Everyone in Cloud is either a fraudster, a cynic, an opportunist or a psychopath. Not a single one of them deserves the viewer’s concern or attention. How accurate is that as a view of life in Japan, or anywhere else?
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) Joanne Laurier The story gets a bit tedious. Without anger, protest, genuine non-conformism, the details of such lives are not that fascinating or illuminating.
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Ricky (2025) Joanne Laurier The ambitions are worthy ones, as far as they go, but the results are somewhat dull. Everything is rounded off to grey, to drabness, in the interests presumably of “realism.”
Posted May 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Where the Wind Comes From (2025) David Walsh The greatest strength here is Eya Bellagha’s breathtaking performance. She has so much personality, energy, disobedience and resilience in her.
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Xoftex (2024) David Walsh It goes some distance in representing the psychological trauma and disorientation resulting from the current displacement of refugees from the Middle East and other regions and the condition of mass “statelessness.”
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Souleymane's Story (2024) David Walsh Souleymane’s Story is very strong, sympathetic. It cuts through a lot of rubbish and sets out the nightmarish, exhausting, debilitating circumstances undergone by the undocumented, friendless, isolated immigrant
Posted May 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Borderland: The Line Within (2024) Joanne Laurier The film is an incisive exploration of the “border industrial complex,” a term used to describe the profitable systems, worth billions of dollars annually, built around capturing, incarcerating and deporting immigrants.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Room Next Door (2024) Joanne Laurier Does being able to die at one’s own hand at the moment one chooses really seem the most pressing issue in America or the world today?
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Hard Truths (2024) Joanne Laurier The film is deliberate, conscious of its aims, but also contains the contradictoriness and unexpectedness of real life.
Posted Apr 24, 2025  Edit critic review
It Ends With Us (2024) David Walsh The vacuous character of the Lively-Baldoni warfare speaks to the largely barren state of mainstream filmmaking, dominated by conglomerates, billionaire CEOs and a handful of enormously wealthy performers.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Anora (2024) David Walsh Baker’s watchword, as it were, is no indictment, no condemnation. When it comes to Ani, that’s fine. When it comes to the social order, that turns into artistic and social negligence.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) David Walsh The Brutalist is a historical film with almost no concrete history or historical reference points, taking place during a period...of explosive developments...; a film about artists and intellectuals who barely discuss art and intellectual problems.
Posted Apr 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Alam (2022) Joanne Laurier Alam is a sincere and honest film. Its thoughtful presentation of its central character’s dilemma—the desire to live a normal life under conditions of perpetual repression and violence ...—has a resonance beyond the borders of the Middle East.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
H2: The Occupation Lab (2022) Joanne Laurier In their 2022 documentary H2: The Occupation Lab, Israeli filmmakers Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf detail the impact of fascistic Jewish settlers, backed by the Israeli military, on the Palestinian city of Hebron and its population.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Where Olive Trees Weep (2024) Joanne Laurier Where Olive Trees Weep is a sensitively and movingly made film about the plight of the Palestinian people, filmed in 2022 in the occupied West Bank, directed by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mother of All Lies (2023) David Walsh The filmmaker’s approach is unusual, to a certain extent perhaps forced upon her by circumstances. For political reasons, it remains difficult to confront the crimes committed by Hassan II (whose son, Mohammed VI, is the nation’s present ruler).
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
My Old Ass (2024) David Walsh It doesn’t take that much to be more interesting. Simply a certain social insight and sympathy. Contemporary cinema is capable of that too.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) David Walsh The characters are all deluded and continuously pushed around, under external control of various kinds and in love with that control. They want to be enslaved and abused, they long or even beg for it. It is the only source of genuine pleasure for them.
Posted Jan 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Megalopolis (2024) David Walsh A confused, shallow mess. It intends to be a broad statement about contemporary American life, culture and politics, but it fails in any meaningful sense along those lines.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
The Goat Life (2024) Joanne Laurier The filmmakers in this case have confronted an immense injustice and tragedy of our time head-on and deserve full credit.
Posted Oct 04, 2024  Edit critic review
3/4
Wicked Little Letters (2023) David Walsh Wicked Little Letters loses a certain amount of strength as it goes along, through no fault of Colman, Spall, Buckley, Atkins .... It loses force in proportion to the filmmakers’ attempt to turn the work into a critique of patriarchy and misogyny.
Posted Aug 26, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Fallen Leaves (2023) David Walsh Fallen Leaves has humorous and moving moments, but they are too few in number. In general, the self-consciously restrained style is irritating, not illuminating. It closes the film off to life, rather than opening it up.
Posted Aug 26, 2024  Edit critic review
4/4
To a Land Unknown (2024) David Walsh To a Land Unknown is able to draw power and significance from contemporary events because it is already oriented toward the great questions of our time.
Posted Aug 26, 2024  Edit critic review
One Life (2023) Joanne Laurier For filmmaking to portray the barbarism of fascism in all its aspects therefore retains its burning relevance and necessity.
Posted Aug 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Killer (2023) David Walsh The Killer is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?
Posted Jul 11, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Hit Man (2023) David Walsh What Hit Man entirely fails to examine is the more obvious, glaring matter: the intense brutality of American life.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
2/4
Emily the Criminal (2022) David Walsh Writer-director Ford, who introduces intriguing social facts into his work, seems unclear himself about the driving forces in the drama.
Posted Jul 03, 2024  Edit critic review
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