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Eli Friedberg

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LifeHack (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “he latest from producer and screenlife mastermind Timur Bekmambetov, Ronan Corrigan’s LifeHack drapes the Bekmambetov-approved medium of in-screen PC and smartphone captures over the skeleton of a heist film.” – Slant Magazine May 13, 2026 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Despite loose ends, it’s one of the most dreamily affectionate (and affectionately critical) portrayals of the natural sciences ever committed to the screen. ” – Slant Magazine May 4, 2026 Full Review Blue Film (2025) 94% 3/4 EDIT “On the whole, Blue Film’s raw, skin-crawling interrogations of aberrant sexuality and trauma ring fearless and true. ” – Slant Magazine May 3, 2026 Full Review Amrum (2025) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “Fatih Akin’s Amrum is a delicate coming-of-age parable tracking national identity and violence to their most intimate origin points during the waning days of the Third Reich.” – Slant Magazine Apr 13, 2026 Full Review ChaO (2025) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “The narrative is nonsense, but it’s at least an arch and sweet kind of nonsense as it jumps through its fairy-tale hoops on the way to the next splash of artful color and manically doodled creativity.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2026 Full Review The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) 42% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film is an unpretentiously vapid cocktail of big-budget technical mastery and lack of artistic ambition.” – Slant Magazine Mar 31, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’s novel is haunting, transportive, and tragically humanist, a worthy introduction to the text for the skeptical (or a refresher for the lapsed) and a memorably grim drama in its own right. ” – Slant Magazine Mar 29, 2026 Full Review Yes (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Nadav Lapid’s film locates a dire spiritual crisis facing the nation of his birth. ” – Slant Magazine Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% 2/4 EDIT “It falls well short of providing any satisfying exploration of its weighty theme of persuasion versus violence in the face of oppression.” – Slant Magazine Mar 2, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT “This is an immensely effective tropical island-set chamber drama in which two characters see their gender and labor relations start to reverse in ways that eventually reveal surprising ambiguities.” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% 2.5/4 EDIT “More than anything, this twisty dystopian thriller commits to the jittery anxiety of doomscrolling.” – Slant Magazine Jan 21, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% EDIT “Visually, this is all a treat of a sort that won’t be hugely surprising to fans of classic Studio 4°C productions like Mind Game and Tekkonkinkreet.” – The Film Stage Jan 16, 2026 Full Review My Neighbor Adolf (2022) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film at once wrings this premise for whimsical absurdism and slow-burn suspense, on each side vulgarizing the memory of the Holocaust.” – Slant Magazine Jan 4, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.” – Slant Magazine Oct 6, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 91% 1.5/4 EDIT “At times, Resurrection seems to outright taunt viewers for trying to make sense of it all.” – Slant Magazine Oct 2, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “Kathryn Bigelow’s nerve-shredding A House of Dynamite stares down impossible questions about an unthinkable scenario.” – Slant Magazine Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% 3/4 EDIT “If there’s still anyone uncritically repeating Riefenstahl’s narrative of naïveté, they’ll find it hard to sustain by the end credits.” – Slant Magazine Aug 31, 2025 Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% 3/4 EDIT “The sum of its aesthetics, as in The Pianist, feels at once like a gritty window into history as it was and a haunting amber-trapped essence of the feeling of an age.” – Slant Magazine Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% EDIT “Next to the grit and self-reflexiveness of today’s action-thriller vocabulary, [Pamela Anderson's character] feels appropriately (and endearingly) like a relic of a different era; the rest of the film is stuck in-between.” – The Film Stage Aug 1, 2025 Full Review Seven Veils (2023) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “For better and worse, Seven Veils abounds in myriad thematic swings tied loosely to one another through echoes and rhymes.” – Slant Magazine Mar 2, 2025 Full Review From Ground Zero (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The film is a stirring testament to art as a tool of survival, to the power of community art-making to affirm life in the face of omnipresent death, and to a nationless people’s desire to be seen by and engage in dialogue with the community of nations.” – Slant Magazine Dec 27, 2024 Full Review Nocturnes (2024) 93% 3/4 EDIT “The film is uplifting in its understated optimism that understanding of the natural world driven by technology might accompany understanding of the divine.” – Slant Magazine Oct 15, 2024 Full Review Intercepted (2024) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film’s most effective material comes in its analysis of how the military state’s permission structures for inhumanity traumatize citizens in order to harden them and focus their hatred.” – Slant Magazine Oct 1, 2024 Full Review The Imaginary (2023) 91% C EDIT “The Imaginary seems crucially lacking in the very quality it so breathlessly extols: it’s technical competency without imaginative vision, nor deep understanding of children.” – The Film Stage Jul 2, 2024 Full Review The First Slam Dunk (2022) 100% B+ EDIT “Inoue’s film is not just an effective youth melodrama––much as it is that––but a fully sensory action film that deeply understands the raw appeal of its subject beyond wide-angle shots from the bleachers.” – The Film Stage Jul 28, 2023 Full Review
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