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John Bleasdale

John Bleasdale's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Benedetta (2021) 84% EDIT “It is difficult to tell how seriously to take the film, and how seriously the film is taking itself. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Three Floors (2021) 46% EDIT “The problem overall is that Moretti, despite his acting role and his credits as writer and director, seems unwilling to inject anything of himself into the film. It’s unusually po-faced, with hardly any humour.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Titane (2021) 90% EDIT “Julia Ducournau’s second feature is a motor-minded explosion of oily eroticism with a still-beating heart of emotional tenderness under its bonnet. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review The Legionnaire (2021) 100% EDIT “This is a vital and timely work for Italy.” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Spencer (2021) 83% EDIT “Kristen Stewart’s fragile portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, is the crowning achievement of Pablo Larraín’s chilling and restrained biopic. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 70% EDIT “By the time an audaciously silly denouement is reached, everything has become so bafflingly pointless it’s hard to muster a gasp, or sigh. It’s painful to admit, but these last two Indiana Jones just don’t belong in a museum. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review The Devils (1971) 76% EDIT “Oliver Reed is magnificent. His Grandier is carelessly witty and licentious and yet convincingly heroic. ” – Electric Sheep May 7, 2026 Full Review Daaaaaali! (2023) 93% EDIT “Dupieux shares with his subject an obstinacy to forge ahead and in so doing attains a silliness that becomes dangerously close to the sublime.” – Sight & Sound Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Surviving Earth (2025) EDIT “The music by Hugo Brijs has a central role to play but some of the music scenes feel too fleeting. But Vlad himself is driving the narrative on, creating his own problems, driven by his own dissatisfactions.” – Sight & Sound Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “Rose is a tragedy about history’s losers, its victims and those who don’t get to write their own story.” – Sight & Sound Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie tickles the ivories with a melancholy charm in a quiet and restrained performance. He looks album-cover cool, while at the same time drifting through a life marked with tragedy and addiction. ” – Time Out Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Yannick (2023) 95% EDIT “Quentin Dupieux’s latest film is a touch more conventional than his usual absurdist offerings, but maintains a sharp, funny meta-commentary on the divisions between audience and artist. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) 86% EDIT “Bellocchio’s talent is to be able to combine the incisive recreation of a historical moment with an operatic style, as cameras swoop and plunge through corridors and palazzi. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% EDIT “Almost every cliché of the genre is lovingly excavated for the first chapter in Kevin Costner’s epic four-part western, but its traditional approach is part of its charm. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “Twisters isn’t so much about confronting climate change as enjoying it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Bogancloch (2025) 100% EDIT “The pleasure of the film is that, if you are willing to spend some time with Jake on his own terms, there is an ease that comes with it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% EDIT “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn’t boring. It’s undeniably entertaining – at times witty, at times dumb fun.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “In The Brutalist, the artist suffers, but not for art: he suffers simply what history inflicts. Corbet’s film is a grandiose edifice, but he is as interested in the crumbling foundations as the soaring heights. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 50% EDIT “Although Kevin Costner no doubt wishes to be Hayes Ellison, he actually more resembles Mr Pickering – he’s got us all to go to Horizon based on false advertising with the hope that our enthusiasm will build the film we ultimately want to see. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 94% EDIT “There’s something of the dread of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dostoyevskian slow burn Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) here, but Khatami keeps things as tightly wound as barbed wire in his intimate and intense study in disintegration. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% EDIT “I’s hard to resist its irreverence and the onslaught of ideas and quips, factoids and routines.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Despite the saltiness of its subject matter, Harry Lighton’s film – which is adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill – exists within the recognisable tradition of the feel-good English comedy.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 69% EDIT “Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Performances are excellent, with little emoting beyond an occasional glassy stare, so that watching Rebecca Ferguson refusing to cry, or a character apologising to another for getting angry about potato chips at a workstation, becomes oddly moving. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 87% EDIT “Ultimately, it is about the radical possibility of solutions, acceptance and going gentle into that good night. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 6, 2025 Full Review
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