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Christian Blauvelt

Christian Blauvelt's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025) 92% B- EDIT “It feels like a beautiful portrait without a frame. A worthy companion to her receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, but not much of a cinematic achievement in its own right.” – IndieWire Sep 1, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% A- EDIT “The work of a filmmaker capable of shattering categories and inventing new forms. Billed as a docu-fable, it blends non-fiction with the elements of a fairy tale in an extremely sophisticated way for a filmmaker still in her early thirties.” – IndieWire Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “Is it fair of us now to ask her to do have done more to initiate real change? Probably not. That’s easy enough for us to say with the hindsight of 2025. “Tell Me Everything” is sharp enough not to ask that of her either.” – IndieWire Jun 13, 2025 Full Review The Wonderers (2025) B EDIT “..."The Wonderers" is not out to make some statement about disability or living in a family with a disabled person — it's simply trying to capture the emotion of Japy's own experience, the highs and the lows.” – IndieWire May 24, 2025 Full Review Arco (2025) 92% B- EDIT “The artistic intentions couldn’t be better. Maybe with the next film, the ability to better realize them will follow.” – IndieWire May 16, 2025 Full Review Deaf President Now! (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “An extraordinary portrait of one pivotal week in the history of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.” – IndieWire May 16, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 94% B+ EDIT “Can a film be pro-war and anti-war at the same time? This one is.” – IndieWire Feb 6, 2025 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% A- EDIT “Mr. Nobody Against Putin is unique in dealing with serious issues about war and dehumanization with a light, even humorous, and certainly personality-filled, touch -- in the serious-as-a-heart-attack war documentary landscape, it is a unicorn.” – IndieWire Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Men of War (2024) 82% B EDIT “It’s such a complicated film, it’s easy for a viewer to get lost. But hey, so did its subjects.” – IndieWire Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Sharp Corner (2024) 92% B EDIT “What’s so thrilling about Sharp Corner, Jason Buxton’s atmospheric descent into madness, is how strongly it refuses to explain itself.” – IndieWire Sep 16, 2024 Full Review In Waves and War (2024) B- EDIT “It’s all very meaningful to watch and never less than engaging, even if In Waves and War comes across like a pharmaceutical infomercial at times as much as a film. ” – IndieWire Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Separated (2024) 97% B+ EDIT “Watching Errol Morris‘s urgent reminder of a documentary -- possibly the most enraging film yet made by a director who’s certainly known how to illuminate infuriating topics over the past 45 years -- will raise your blood pressure considerably. ” – IndieWire Aug 29, 2024 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% B EDIT “With his new documentary “Riefenstahl,” Andres Veiel absolutely sets out to offer a different perspective: Glorify her at your peril. ” – IndieWire Aug 29, 2024 Full Review Mountains (2023) 97% A EDIT “It’ll be a challenge to find another film character this year with a richer, more realized internal life.” – IndieWire Aug 23, 2024 Full Review June Zero (2022) 86% B- EDIT “This is a film with questions, not answers. Its tangents are like those of any meaty conversation. And it’s a conversation worth having.” – IndieWire Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% A EDIT “It’s not just a supreme example of a movie kids will love that adults will too. With its wordlessness, this is a film that could play in any country of the world, its capacity to reach literally everyone limitless. ” – IndieWire May 24, 2024 Full Review This Life of Mine (2024) 85% B- EDIT “The film she’s left behind, though, is as personal a legacy as one could imagine; if, sadly, an incomplete one. If “This Life of Mine” feels imbued with Fillières in every frame, it feels less like Fillières’ film in its editing,” – IndieWire May 15, 2024 Full Review The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) 97% B- EDIT “This is one promising debut, but the reality is that it’s a far greater feat of directing than screenwriting, for which Galluppi has the sole credit as well.” – IndieWire May 9, 2024 Full Review Nowhere Special (2020) 100% B+ EDIT “That is a five-hankie premise if ever there was one, but in the hands of writer-director Uberto Pasolini and lead actor Norton, it truly becomes a movie, not just a concept masquerading as one.” – IndieWire Apr 25, 2024 Full Review The Lady Bird Diaries (2023) 100% A- EDIT “The result is an extremely multi-dimensional portrait of a First Lady, one who, you can’t help but think, was the most significant at that point since Eleanor Roosevelt in her accomplishments and her influence on policy. ” – IndieWire Nov 13, 2023 Full Review The Peasants (2023) 61% A EDIT “Bringing this 1,000-page novel to animated life in this way isn’t just an adaptation, it’s an illumination. It makes real the heightened reality that exists in your mind when reading a particularly captivating book. ” – IndieWire Sep 15, 2023 Full Review They Shot the Piano Player (2023) 79% C- EDIT “It’s entirely possible They Shot the Piano Player would have been better had it been much longer. It also certainly would have been better without animation. ” – IndieWire Sep 15, 2023 Full Review Coup! (2023) 81% C- EDIT “With “Coup!” so reluctant to own anything, it’s hard to imagine many viewers are going to buy what it has to say.” – IndieWire Sep 8, 2023 Full Review The Monk and the Gun (2023) 94% B EDIT “The cultural and generational disagreements form a nuanced tapestry of a nation at an inflection point, with the mystery of the monk’s desire for guns at the center of it.” – IndieWire Sep 2, 2023 Full Review High & Low - John Galliano (2023) 87% A- EDIT “Macdonald has crafted one of the most riveting rise-fall-redemption story arcs in documentary format in recent memory, with Galliano himself as his unreliable -- but never less than compelling -- guide.” – IndieWire Sep 2, 2023 Full Review
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