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Tomas Trussow

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Biography:

Tomas Trussow is a chronic cineaste, English lit grad, and freelance writer from Toronto, Canada currently stationed with Film Inquiry.

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Blue Moon (2025) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “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. ” – The Lonely Film Critic Nov 2, 2025 Full Review U Are the Universe (2024) 3.5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Lovely Day (2025) 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review The Seasons (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Rose of Nevada (2025) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Dry Leaf (2025) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review To the Victory! (2025) 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Whitetail (2025) 90% 2.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 21, 2025 Full Review Do I Know You from Somewhere? (2024) 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Mr. K (2024) 79% 2.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Viktor (2024) 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Really Happy Someday (2024) 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Sad Jokes (2024) 90% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Universal Language (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 4.5/5 EDIT “A timeless portrait of two women drawn close together out of both necessity and empathy.” – The Lonely Film Critic Dec 2, 2024 Full Review The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023) 87% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 1, 2023 Full Review The Holdovers (2023) 97% 3.5/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Oct 1, 2023 Full Review Riddle Of Fire (2023) 79% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Sep 27, 2023 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% 2.5/5 EDIT “[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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Sep 27, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “[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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Sep 27, 2023 Full Review I Don't Know Who You Are (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Sep 27, 2023 Full Review Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) 90% 3/5 EDIT “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.” – The Lonely Film Critic Sep 22, 2023 Full Review
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