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Steven Nguyen Scaife

Steven Nguyen Scaife's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Mother of Flies (2025) 94% 2/4 EDIT “Despite the affinity the Adams clan has displayed for spooky, goopy imagery in the past, Mother of Flies finds them reluctant to fully exercise those talents for fear of tipping their hand.” – Slant Magazine Jan 18, 2026 Full Review 100 Meters (2025) 100% 3/4 EDIT “To get to the primal thrill of racing, Iwaisawa Kenji uses just about every technique at his disposal.” – Slant Magazine Oct 6, 2025 Full Review The Ugly (2024) 53% 2/4 EDIT “The film plays a long game with audiences that frustrates far more than it illuminates.” – Slant Magazine Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Fixed (2025) 56% EDIT “The the balls-out shock value doesn’t detract from the fact that Fixed is more square than its makers probably think it is.” – Slant Magazine Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Boys Go to Jupiter (2024) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Julian Glander powerfully channeling the ennui of his characters with images of everything from vacant parking lots to empty swimming pools.” – Slant Magazine Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Don't Log Off (2025) 3/10 EDIT “Both the COVID-era setting and the computer-screen presentation of Don’t Log Off show flickers of promise, but this horror film has no clever ideas for using either one. ” – IGN Movies Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Best Wishes to All (2024) 77% 6/10 EDIT “Brimming with misanthropy and feel-bad vibes, the social commentary doesn’t sustain the film for its full runtime. Director Yûta Shimotsu’s command of uncanny atmospherics only takes him so far -- even if it is, admittedly, pretty far.” – IGN Movies Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Clown in a Cornfield (2025) 74% 6/10 EDIT “Past the halfway point, Clown in a Cornfield grasps for greater thematic weight, and there it withers, a promising crop that never quite grows to maturity.” – IGN Movies May 9, 2025 Full Review Ash (2025) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Ash is a solid delivery mechanism for genre thrills.” – Slant Magazine Mar 17, 2025 Full Review In the Lost Lands (2025) 24% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film provides Paul W.S. Anderson with a sturdy canvas for his unique brand of gaudy, campy cool.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2025 Full Review The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024) 72% 2/4 EDIT “The film single-mindedly sees its elderly characters as objects of disgust or receptacles for harm.” – Slant Magazine Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Rounding (2022) 66% 2/4 EDIT “A few scenes show glimmers of promise for what Alex Thompson can achieve when he’s more in his wheelhouse. It’s a shame that the horror and tension that make up the bulk of Rounding are so clearly outside of it.” – Slant Magazine Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Armand (2024) 73% 2/4 EDIT “By the time we’re watching whole conversations be drowned out by noise of pounding rain, the abstract tendencies of Armand begin to feel like an act of unintentional self-sabotage.” – Slant Magazine Feb 2, 2025 Full Review The Colors Within (2024) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film is able to suggest great depths by withholding so much, by having characters express what they feel only in abstract terms during a fraught, transitional period of their lives.” – Slant Magazine Jan 20, 2025 Full Review Night Call (2024) 82% 2/4 EDIT “Michiel Blanchart’s film often feels like a patchwork of half-developed ideas, each more loosely and tenuously woven into the whole than the last.” – Slant Magazine Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Gints Zilbalodis’s animated feature is movingly attuned to its characters’ primal instincts.” – Slant Magazine Nov 17, 2024 Full Review Memoir of a Snail (2024) 95% 3/4 EDIT “Adam Elliot, whose work is no stranger to despondency, never allows the film to fully succumb to despair.” – Slant Magazine Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Sleep (2024) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “Jason Yu’s film may not reach its full potential, but it offers a devious commentary on the all-too-human desire for easy explanations.” – Slant Magazine Sep 24, 2024 Full Review Apartment 7A (2024) 45% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film’s potential never crystallizes outside of one 10-minute stretch that, unfortunately, is immediately followed by the credits.” – Slant Magazine Sep 20, 2024 Full Review His Three Daughters (2023) 97% 3/4 EDIT “His Three Daughters sneaks up on you, for as chatty, monologue-forward as Jacobs’s screenplay may be, it conveys so much through absence and suggestion.” – Slant Magazine Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Only the River Flows (2023) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “The craft brought to bear on Only the River Flows is captivating, but when it comes to matters of story, it cultivates a frustrating air of disinterest.” – Slant Magazine Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Crumb Catcher (2023) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “Chris Skotchdopole’s feature debut is a tantalizing mix of the absurd and the mundane.” – Slant Magazine Jul 15, 2024 Full Review Oddity (2024) 96% 2.5/4 EDIT “Thanks to its expert staging, the film doesn’t lose much in the way of immediacy.” – Slant Magazine Jul 14, 2024 Full Review Dandelion (2024) 75% 2/4 EDIT “So much of making art is about confidence, and while Nicole Riegel has set aside some of the clattering obviousness of her debut feature, 2020’s Holler, she still doesn’t fully trust her textured images to do the talking.” – Slant Magazine Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Blood for Dust (2023) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film is held together by the intensity of its haunted-looking cast and the dour atmosphere.” – Slant Magazine Apr 17, 2024 Full Review
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