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Max Maller

Max Maller's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Ahed's Knee (2021) 74% EDIT “If anything, the story might have gone on longer, as the Tamimi project never entirely takes shape and the powerful forces let loose in Y’s desert epiphany fizzle out by the end credits.” – Chicago Reader Apr 7, 2022 Full Review Big Gold Brick (2022) 21% EDIT “The effect is full disorientation, which feels refreshingly campy now and then, but bewilderingly out of touch the rest of the time.” – Chicago Reader Feb 23, 2022 Full Review Strawberry Mansion (2021) 87% EDIT “Some bolder flights of fancy even gesture at fluffy 80s fantasy for kids like The NeverEnding Story, but always in an endearingly handmade way, which the bedroom grandeur of Dan Deacon’s score offsets at key moments.” – Chicago Reader Feb 23, 2022 Full Review Jackass Forever (2022) 86% EDIT “Many are the amateur farts these films have kindled, Johnny Knoxville-voiced skull and crutch-crossbone disclaimer be damned. But the franchise’s lasting aesthetic mark is as a movie-shaped slot machine of rapid-fire bits.” – Chicago Reader Feb 16, 2022 Full Review Clean (2021) 46% EDIT “Every great actor wants his chance to be Clint Eastwood...Sadly, these stark textures never redeem the film's tired savior narrative, which would-be poignant moments gesture towards inverting...” – Chicago Reader Jan 28, 2022 Full Review The Hand of God (2021) 84% EDIT “Paolo Sorrentino has made more luscious films, but he's never made a more personal one.” – Chicago Reader Dec 18, 2021 Full Review The Humans (2021) 92% EDIT “At times, unexplained booming noises from upstairs, burned-out lights, and the claustrophobia of it all shade the ambience into horror movie territory. Chekhov by electric lamplight, A24 style, for the holidays.” – Chicago Reader Dec 4, 2021 Full Review What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) 90% EDIT “A film so soothing to look at that you can almost forgive it for being essentially two hours and 30 minutes of watching grass grow...” – Chicago Reader Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Zeros and Ones (2021) 54% EDIT “The paradoxical need for a would-be redeemer of humanity to know sin at first hand animates the film all the way down, from Hawke's passionate performance on through to the kinetics of Ferrara and Williams's seedy roving camera.” – Chicago Reader Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Ema (2019) 88% EDIT “...if there is a submerged morality at play, the 102-minute film is much more palpably a sweaty, sexy, neon-bathed scorcher...” – Chicago Reader Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Wildland (2020) 93% EDIT “Kampp's performance tracks the slow immersion into a life of crime with more patience, even sweetness, than we're used to seeing.” – Chicago Reader Aug 24, 2021 Full Review The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021) 94% EDIT “The pieces range from humorous asides under the undignified conditions of lockdown to revelatory experiments.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review The Worst Person in the World (2021) 96% EDIT “Reinsve is masterful as Julie, throwing light on every facet of the art of being a total mess.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Val (2021) 93% EDIT “The actor Val Kilmer opens his massive home video archive to documentary filmmakers Ting Poo and Leo Scott to help sort through the captivating highs and lows of his career.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review The French Dispatch (2021) 75% EDIT “You know what you're in for, and it's either going to flatten you with joy, as it did me, or it won't.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Benedetta (2021) 84% EDIT “Charlotte Rampling, acting in French, gives a strong turn as the skeptical Abbess.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Annette (2021) 72% EDIT “The rock opera ain't dead. Ron and Russel Mael of Sparks score Leos Carax's latest over-the-top extravaganza.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Titane (2021) 90% EDIT “Fans of Raw will find plenty to squirm over here, but this French-language selection for Cannes registered as a definite shot across the bough aesthetically...” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review In Front of Your Face (2021) 95% EDIT “In essence a series of banal conversations that don't culminate in much, in the grand scheme of things, this is a humble but winning outing from Hong.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Drive My Car (2021) 97% EDIT “At two hours and 59 minutes, there is an endurance factor, but this is as patient and sensuous as movies get.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Marx Can Wait (2021) 100% EDIT “A severe late work from a master.” – Chicago Reader Jul 30, 2021 Full Review The Killing of Two Lovers (2020) 93% EDIT “From such simple beginnings through to all the complexities life can throw at a family, then back to the primal struggles anew, director Robert Machoian's first solo feature achieves technically what it sets about to portray emotionally, a rare feat.” – Chicago Reader May 21, 2021 Full Review
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