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Dennis Harvey

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Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety

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Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) 94% EDIT “A competently crafted if unmemorable thriller perhaps most impressive for its off-screen enterprise. ” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% EDIT “While imperfect, the feature does vividly convey modern life in provincial Russia -- where people seem to basically expect to get steamrolled by the government, but lack the information sources to grasp how and why.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Serpent's Path (1998) EDIT “Between the director’s evenhanded, unshowy treatment and his script’s contrastingly wild developments, it’s a real find for fans of inspired B-grade genre cinema.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Chime (2024) EDIT “There’s no explanation given here, just a series of unsettling incidents delivered with Kurosawa’s usual low-key exactitude.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 81% EDIT “Flawlessly cast, Fantasy Life is a very astute observational comedy with enough psychological nuance to earn the eventual tug on your deeper emotions.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Serpent's Skin (2025) 92% EDIT “The acting here is uneven, and the direction still lacks much grasp on suspense, setpieces or pacing. But Mackay merits credit for having the chutzpah to acquire her skillset in public, and she is definitely getting better.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 86% EDIT “Dead Lover goes admirably far out on a particular limb. But it gets there immediately, then goes on for 95 minutes that grow a bit tedious and repetitious. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mermaid (2025) 91% EDIT “While not everything here works (veteran Patrick makes a good villain, but he’s really over-indulged in some scenes), the sum is an eccentric original.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Touch Me (2025) 86% EDIT “While at first you may wonder how long you’ll be able to stomach these extremely annoying (non-alien) protagonists, things really elevate once the action moves to Chez Brian -- the mix of barbed comedy, fantasy, quease, gore and more really gels.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Thinestra (2025) EDIT “Thinestra is well-acted, competently made, and has some diverting dream sequences. But its mashup of Stephen King’s Thinner with The Substance doesn’t really have any fresh ideas of its own.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “Director-cowriter Daniel Goldhaber does a decent job with this conceit. Still, Death is still a somewhat disappointingly conventional exercise after his more interesting prior features.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 92% EDIT “Could the whole thing have been conveyed in 15 minutes rather than 95? Perhaps. Yet there is novelty to it, not least in seeing an entire feature built around realizing the aesthetic of artist Escher in live-action terms. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s good enough, taken on its own terms. Still, once again this novel seems to reject being transplanted to another medium.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Palestine '36 (2025) 98% EDIT “It all works quite well as a jigsaw of many pieces that add up to an involving, tragic, relatively even-handed big picture. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Propagandist (2025) EDIT “This fascinating movie, with many clips from much vintage Dutch cinema you likely never knew existed, ends up a powerful indictment of ambition and adaptability curled into evil-enabling corruption -- then blandly trying to whitewash itself clean.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s a bit arid and claustrophobic. But to a large extent that works for this story, which functions like a noose tightening around the protagonist’s neck before he knows it’s even there. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review My Brother's Killer (2026) EDIT “"My Brother’s Killer” succeeds on the core level of providing an absorbing real-life mystery whose long-in-coming resolution adds new layers of strangeness and sorrow.” – Variety Apr 2, 2026 Full Review Bodycam (2025) 88% EDIT “At just an hour and a quarter, this rollercoaster of uniformed panic does not overstay its welcome.” – 48 Hills Mar 25, 2026 Full Review 1000 Women in Horror (2025) 100% EDIT “While there are plenty of famous films excerpted here, like The Exorcist or Suspiria, 1000 Women is also a goldmine of info for casual fans who’d like to find good movies further off the beaten track.” – 48 Hills Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 77% EDIT “It is duly an inspirational tale. But veteran TV director Stephanie Laing’s treatment leans towards predictably cute, sentimental beats.” – 48 Hills Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Drag (2026) 93% EDIT “It’s a narrow, somewhat one-note, crisis-driven premise that might’ve worked just as well as a short. To the filmmakers’ credit, though, tension and edgy humor are sustained for nearly 90 minutes of caustic entertainment. ” – Variety Mar 14, 2026 Full Review Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It (2024) 90% EDIT “That’s the Way God Planned It is well worth seeing for the incredible range and quality of archival musical performances, which span decades and myriad styles -- Preston could seemingly make himself at home in any genre. ” – 48 Hills Mar 13, 2026 Full Review André Is an Idiot (2025) 97% EDIT “This autobiographical memorial celebrates its subject’s idiosyncrasies to a degree that may irk as well as charm some viewers. But as Sinatra once sang, there is no question: Andre Ricciardi did it his way. ” – 48 Hills Mar 13, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “Davies Jr. takes occasional stylistic gambles that don’t quite work. But those are minor flaws -- for the most part, My Father’s Shadow has a mix of propulsion and intimacy that is striking as well as involving.” – 48 Hills Mar 13, 2026 Full Review Dreams (2025) 52% EDIT “Dreams isn’t some cheesy erotic thriller. But it might have been better as one -- in the end, it isn’t good enough to take itself so seriously. ” – 48 Hills Mar 9, 2026 Full Review
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