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Dmitry Samarov

Dmitry Samarov's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Andres Veiel paints a complex and contradictory portrait.” – Chicago Reader Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Wildcat (2023) 59% EDIT “Despite a strong cast, this Flannery O’Connor biopic doesn’t capture the prose of its subject.” – Chicago Reader May 3, 2024 Full Review Exhibition on Screen: John Singer Sargent - Fashion & Swagger (2024) EDIT “As such, it’s a serviceable introduction that might inspire a visit to a couture dress shop over one to a museum.” – Chicago Reader Apr 20, 2024 Full Review Pictures of Ghosts (2023) 100% EDIT “It’s like celestial time travel while rarely leaving one’s childhood block.” – Chicago Reader Jan 26, 2024 Full Review The Settlers (2023) 94% EDIT “Structured like an old-fashioned western, Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s debut is a turgid, ofttimes muddled mix of mismatched buddy film, morally-righteous screed, and quasi-religious nature-worship.” – Chicago Reader Jan 19, 2024 Full Review The Unknown Country (2022) 92% EDIT “Morrisa Maltz’s debut narrative feature deftly mixes in documentary-style sketches...” – Chicago Reader Aug 11, 2023 Full Review Love, Deutschmarks and Death (2022) EDIT “This is one of those movies that will renew your faith in the human spirit.” – Chicago Reader Jul 14, 2023 Full Review The Dream of Light (1992) 90% EDIT “Rather than showing the romanticized wild-man version of the artist’s life that’s become pop culture cliche, here is what the work actually entails, moment to moment, day to day, year to year.” – Chicago Reader Jul 14, 2023 Full Review Dalíland (2022) 43% EDIT “Ben Kingsley and Barbara Sukowa ham it up as Dalí and Gala, but there is no other way to portray this pair. It is a testament to Harron’s skill that she’s able to make these despicable and delusional monsters sympathetic...” – Chicago Reader Jun 23, 2023 Full Review Reality (2023) 93% EDIT “By presenting testimony without editorializing, the film becomes a searing indictment of a country that routinely punishes low-level true believers while rewarding traitors and opportunists up the food chain for their treachery.” – Chicago Reader Jun 3, 2023 Full Review You Hurt My Feelings (2023) 94% EDIT “Definitely one to watch the way most people do with SNL: wait till the highlights hit YouTube and skip the rest.” – Chicago Reader May 24, 2023 Full Review Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022) 100% EDIT “What raises this above the typical nostalgia-logged music doc is the clear sense that Johansen is not reliving his long discography onstage but continuing to live it in that moment.” – Chicago Reader Apr 26, 2023 Full Review Hilma (2022) 67% EDIT “In a Q&A after a recent screening, Olin admitted that they only learned about the painter a couple years before making this film. It shows.” – Chicago Reader Apr 15, 2023 Full Review The Worst Ones (2022) 100% EDIT “The line between fact and fiction always blurs when a camera is pointed at people, but in Lisa Akoka and Romane Gueret’s arresting new feature, it’s more like a game of three-card monte.” – Chicago Reader Apr 7, 2023 Full Review Art Talent Show (2022) 100% EDIT “This funny, thoughtful, verité look at the yearly selection process in Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts manages to pack insights about education, societal shifts, and intellectual differences without getting bogged down in culture war cliches.” – Chicago Reader Mar 11, 2023 Full Review Cocaine Bear (2023) 65% EDIT “Save yourself the price of admission and just watch the trailer if you haven’t already, or—better yet—make your own TikTok version. It’ll be funnier and will cost viewers a lot less time.” – Chicago Reader Mar 3, 2023 Full Review A Man Called Otto (2022) 70% EDIT “I haven’t read the 2012 Swedish book or 2015 film that this is based on, but I can’t imagine either could be half as tone-deaf.” – Chicago Reader Jan 14, 2023 Full Review Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) 60% EDIT “As long as you don’t think too long about some of the implications of what flashes past your eyeballs, this is a film to be dazzled by and lost in.” – Chicago Reader Dec 17, 2022 Full Review White Noise (2022) 64% EDIT “The structural problems remain: there’s a campus comedy, a disaster flick, and a crime caper that never cohere, but I liked Baumbach’s Gladney family much more than DeLillo’s...” – Chicago Reader Dec 17, 2022 Full Review Armageddon Time (2022) 77% EDIT “His coming of age feels more like something out of the Marvel Universe than the childhood of a real living boy. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 11, 2022 Full Review Riotsville, USA (2022) 91% EDIT “Sierra Pettengill’s disquieting documentary uses only archival footage shot by the military and clips from period news coverage to explore this uncanny episode in the country’s history.” – Chicago Reader Oct 1, 2022 Full Review See How They Run (2022) 75% EDIT “I have no idea how an A-list cast like this was hoodwinked into participating in this wink-wink nudge-nudge snooze fest.” – Chicago Reader Sep 24, 2022 Full Review Catherine Called Birdy (2022) 89% EDIT “I was very aware while watching that as a 51-year-old man I was not who this was made for. But is it a good message to send young girls that they can be bad and do what they want for a little while but when the rubber hits the road they must toe the line?” – Chicago Reader Sep 24, 2022 Full Review Let the Little Light Shine (2022) 100% EDIT “It would have been easy to cast heroes and villains in black and white, but Shaw’s film shows the whole spectrum.” – Chicago Reader Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Anonymous Club (2021) 86% EDIT “What this quiet little movie does is let us hang on the couch with her for a bit before and after she hits the stage. Feels just right...” – Chicago Reader Aug 6, 2022 Full Review
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