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Kathleen Sachs

Kathleen Sachs's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Ms. 45 (1981) 86% EDIT “...visions to behold on the big screen, and the connection between them leaves much to consider long after viewing...” – Chicago Reader Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Scarlet (2022) 79% EDIT “Sparkles especially with intimate feeling and pure affection for the craft.” – Chicago Reader Jul 10, 2023 Full Review The Quiet Epidemic (2022) 100% EDIT “It’s hard to deny that CLD and the controversy surrounding it evoke many existential questions about the reality of suffering that are best served by this particular medium.” – Chicago Reader Jun 3, 2023 Full Review Waiting for the Light to Change (2022) 82% EDIT “This award-winning drama has a patient, character-focused script.” – Chicago Reader May 17, 2023 Full Review Godland (2022) 92% EDIT “Maria von Hausswolff’s cinematography astounds, though the gimmickry of the image framing—soft, rounded edges, like those of an old photograph—mirrors the superfluous avidity of Pálmason’s direction.” – Chicago Reader Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Knock at the Cabin (2023) 67% EDIT “Shyamalan dazzles here with his gift for taking the kinds of ideas that once comprised the plots of pulp magazine stories, anthology television, and B movies and turning them into high art.” – Chicago Reader Feb 17, 2023 Full Review See You Friday, Robinson (2022) 100% EDIT “The documentary footage of the filmmakers is both edifying and endearing...” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review The Brick and the Mirror (1965) EDIT “Brick and Mirror offers a prescient glimpse of prerevolutionary Iran with all its seemingly modern zeal, beneath which festers troubles portending future conflict.” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review World War III (2022) 100% EDIT “The questions it raises—as to what’s going on, who’s telling the truth, and the degree to which parallels between the movie in the film and Shakib’s dilemma are intentional—certainly account for a heightened level of ambiguity. ” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review Without Her (2022) EDIT “[It] recalls Hitchcock by way of Brian De Palma.” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review Subtraction (2022) 100% EDIT “Less specifically, the film speaks to an almost otherworldly sensation of having to accept and live with something out of the ordinary—something that Iranians are more familiar with than most.” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review The 400 Blows (1959) 99% EDIT “Jean-Pierre Léaud’s revelatory turn...” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review The Runner (1984) 100% EDIT “His gleeful entreaty is open for interpretation: is he merely seeking attention from the enviable explorers within, or do they represent a yearning for a sort of liberation? ” – Chicago Reader Feb 11, 2023 Full Review All That Jazz (1979) 88% EDIT “Even thinking about it still brings tears to my eyes. That, that is what I’m seeking when I go to the movies. All that jazz.” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 88% EDIT “What if Jesus had thwarted crucifixion? What if Peggy Sue could go back in time and not marry her adulterous husband? The same predicament, really.” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% EDIT “...shockingly potent, leaving me in tears...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 95% EDIT “It also demands to be seen on the big screen, where the walls and ceiling of the cinema become the confines of Dielman’s domiciliary rituals...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review In the Cut (2003) 35% EDIT “Campion’s In the Cut is a criminally neglected masterpiece...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Beneath the Skin (1981) EDIT “Beneath the Skin considers domestic violence with chimerical self-possession...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review The Sex Demons (1972) EDIT “It exceeded my wildest expectations (because, as it turns out, I don't have the capacity to amuse expectations this wild)...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Dr. Broadway (1942) EDIT “Mann, with the help of German-born cinematographer Theodor Sparkuhl, contributes meticulous compositions and dramatic lighting to the otherwise satisfyingly pot-boiler-esque proceedings.” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Drylongso (1998) 100% EDIT “Smith’s independent masterpiece...” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Simone Barbes or Virtue (1979) EDIT “Treilhou's direction is as assured as the film's unflappable protagonist, with whom we careen through an anything-but-ordinary Parisian eventide. ” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Dawn of the Dead (1978) 92% EDIT “Dawn of the Dead is arguably Romero’s best zombie film, and its stark social satire (it takes place in a mall, where the excesses of capitalism help to sustain survivors of the zombie apocalypse) will wake you up figuratively if not literally.” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Tomorrow and Again Tomorrow (1998) EDIT “Overall her work connects the personal with the social, depicting how someone’s intimate life is influenced by (and sometimes even influences) what’s happening outside it.” – Chicago Reader Dec 27, 2022 Full Review
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