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Mark Dujsik

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Mark is the sole writer/editor/webmaster of Mark Reviews Movies(www.markreviewsmovies.com) and co-film critic at UR Chicago Magazine (www.urchicago.com). He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2002 and the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2006.

Favorites:

The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Third Man, Vertigo, Grave of the Fireflies, The Seventh Seal, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, On the Waterfront, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Schindler's List, Mon Oncle, Die Nibelungen, Fantasia, Raging Bull, The Thin Red Line

Location:

Chicago, IL

Official Website:

http://www.markreviewsmovies.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “[T]he film feels as if it is encompassing the entire spirit of what made Presley the kind of performer whose appeal still remains all these decades after his death.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 20, 2026 Full Review The Dreadful (2026) 38% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Dreadful is a bit too dull for the occasional excesses in which the movie indulges and too confounding for the very simple fable it's telling.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Diabolic (2025) 67% 1/4 EDIT “Diabolic ... at least gets its dumbest idea out of the way almost immediately.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 20, 2026 Full Review This Is Not a Test (2025) 50% 2/4 EDIT “[T]he movie becomes a shallow piece of horror melodrama.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Redux Redux (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The ideas driving Redux Redux are front and center in the story here...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 3/4 EDIT “[Writer/director Harry] Lighton shows some real insight into the psychology of this relationship...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 19, 2026 Full Review I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) 2.5/4 EDIT “Having both of these stories co-exist in I Can Only Imagine 2 does neither any favors.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 19, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 52% 2/4 EDIT “The central gag here becomes an easy and repetitive one.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Blades of the Guardians (2026) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The most striking part of the choreography here ... is the dynamism and variety of the action.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 78% 3/4 EDIT “Cold Storage is strange and silly enough ... to succeed...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 16, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 64% 2.5/4 EDIT “It's definitely funny by the end, but as for being innovative or perceptive, the movie falls quite short.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “In its specifically twisted way, it is a thoughtful and surprisingly tender [love story]...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 13, 2026 Full Review By Design (2025) 71% 2/4 EDIT “The joke here ... runs its course pretty quickly...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 60% 3/4 EDIT “[T]he boldness of this film in both interpreting and telling this story in such an unsparing manner is worth witnessing.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “[T]he result is a comedy of so many intricate components and details that it's a bit of a miracle it is hilariously funny, too.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Mortuary Assistant (2026) 40% 1.5/4 EDIT “[A]ny sense of tension or suspense dissipates once it becomes obvious that the stakes of the plot will just keep resetting and repeating.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) 1.5/4 EDIT “The plot of Hunting Jessica Brok continues a long tradition of villains who know exactly what they want, which is to kill the hero, but ... keep delaying that goal.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die offers ... a wacky but identifiable world and set of concerns about our present and future...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review GOAT (2026) 82% 2/4 EDIT “[W]e're mostly left with a couple of promising ideas, some hit-or-miss comedy, and plenty of attention to detail in the design of this world.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 87% 3/4 EDIT “[W]riter/director Bart Layton cares about who these characters are, what they want, why they want it, and exactly how far they are and aren't willing to go to get it.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 12, 2026 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) 18% 0.5/4 EDIT “It's finally over.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 86% 3/4 EDIT “Judit's story is ... compelling on its own terms.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Roaring Game (2025) 1/4 EDIT “This one seems to be trying to figure out the concept of a joke for most of its run time.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “[The] feeling that this little getaway simultaneously is and isn't exactly what it seems to be ... is so strong that the entire film carries an emotional weight that might otherwise be too much to bear.” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 61% 2/4 EDIT “In pulling from so many established concepts and clichés ... the movie ... quickly starts to feel redundant...” – Mark Reviews Movies Feb 5, 2026 Full Review
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