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David Fear

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Film Critic, Rolling Stone

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Public Access (2026) 58% EDIT “David Shadrack Smith’s doc gets into the good, the bad, and the Midnight Blue of it all, filling in a lost chapter of media history that’s crazier than you could imagine.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2026) 100% EDIT “It’s the way that Greaves gives you a true portrait of a community, and lets you eavesdrop on their bickering and airing of grievances as well as their mutual admiration and gratitude. A masterpiece, this.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Lake (2026) 100% EDIT “Abby Ellis’ look at three people fighting to keep Utah’s rapidly disappearing Great Salt Lake from turning into an “environmental nuclear bomb” keeps things simple and observational, and is the stronger for it. ” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Josephine (2026) 97% EDIT “The youngster’s performance transcends the “good for a child actor” compliment and goes straight to “phenomenal.” Not even a detour into familiar courtroom dramatics can shake the feeling that you’re watching something brilliant, singular, and astounding.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 90% EDIT “It’s the sort of one-location, star-driven ensemble piece that could have merely been a theatrical exercise, and somehow manages to avoid being either stagy or stodgy. Even more impressive is how the actors sync up their own unique performance styles.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Incomer (2026) 93% EDIT “Writer-director Louis Paxton’s debut has the keenest of wits, and Rankin and O’Rourke deliver two of the funniest comic turns we’ve seen in a long time.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review How to Divorce During the War (2026) EDIT “Prepare to relate in a way that will almost assuredly be too close for comfort.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% EDIT “The question was always: Could he sustain something like that in a longer format? The answer is a resounding [in John Wilson voice], “Um, well… yes.”” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Closure (2026) EDIT “Though he borrows the visual template of the true-crime doc, complete with several surreal Lynchian flourishes, Marczak never steers his film into exploitative waters. ” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review The Friend's House Is Here (2026) 100% EDIT “The fact that Keshavarz and Ataei’s extraordinary slice of life under a repressive regime had to be smuggled out of the country in order to play in Park City only underlines the importance of free expression as a form of resistance. Amazing.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Broken English (2025) 93% EDIT “If you can hold your tears from going by as she gives what would be her final performance, a rendition of “Misunderstanding” accompanied by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, than you’re a stronger person than I am.” – Rolling Stone Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “It’s merely a portrait of a guy trying to find his way back, one confessional freeform monologue at a time... Arnett understands this, possibly better than we might know. Regardless, the role brings out a side of him that feels revelatory. ” – Rolling Stone Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “The few full-blown examples of 18th century everyday people losing themselves to the holy-roller beat carries this film even more than the meticulous historical recreations. It’s a period film with 6/8 pulse.” – Rolling Stone Dec 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s the sort of parting joke that makes the chuckles catch in your throat. Yet it’s also the kind of grace note of a kicker that reminds you how slyly Director Park and his lead actor have been letting this story unfold.” – Rolling Stone Dec 23, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “The piles of ash here looks and sounds phenomenal. What you would not give to feel some actual fire burning behind all of this.” – Rolling Stone Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% EDIT “You have to be a hustler to make movies like this in the age of AI and IP, even ones with genuine movie stars in them. It’s in Safdie’s DNA as much as Marty’s. Both end up champions in their own way, and we’re the ones who end up winning.” – Rolling Stone Dec 2, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Marcelo’s story keeps everything connected and the humanity in the forefront, but the overall effect is still akin to surfing channels late at night, slipping from one delirious after-hours offering to the next.” – Rolling Stone Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 77% EDIT “It helps immensely that Teller and Olsen pair well with each other -- she brings out the best in a scene partner who can sometimes seem remote onscreen -- and that Turner knows exactly how to make this “perfect” guy feel flawed yet still likable. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “Yet the sensation of a work that, in translation from one medium to another, no longer defies gravity but sort of roughly plummets back down to terra firma can’t easily be shaken off. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% EDIT “Sirāt is not for everyone. But it is the sort of overwhelming cinematic experience and undeniable work of sound and vision that could be life-changing for those ready to receive it. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 52% EDIT “You spend a good deal of Keeper forming theories about what’s going on... Once everything is revealed, however, you wish you’d gone back that previous ignorance that now seems like a state of bliss.” – Rolling Stone Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “You’ll find yourself wishing this was the superior movie you think it could be. As it is, Baumbach’s addition to the movies-about-movies canon still makes the most of the star power at the center of it. ” – Rolling Stone Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here.” – Rolling Stone Nov 12, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Most filmmakers would have diluted the grit and genuine sense of moral free-fall. Wright doubles the dosage. Every adrenaline rush comes with a chaser of low rage and simmering despair.” – Rolling Stone Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Sentimental Value is essentially a double act between Skarsgård and Reinsve, and these two performers play off each other in a way that’s recognizable to anyone who’s struggled with paternal baggage, by which we mean everybody.” – Rolling Stone Nov 7, 2025 Full Review
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