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Zachary Lee

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Biography:

Zachary Lee is a freelance film and culture writer based in Chicago (he feels the need to clarify he's actually from the city). He frequently writes about the intersection between media, faith, technology, and the environment. When he's not transcribing the funny and/or profound quotations the people around him say or finding the next great sparkling water flavor, you can find him hopelessly attempting to catch up on his watchlist over on Letterboxd.

Reviews

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The History of Concrete (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “He doesn’t try to read you a list of facts, but does what the best storytellers do: invites you to a different way to see the world, through the eyes and stories of other people.” – MovieWeb Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Not all worlds need to be visited and not all passes need to be cashed — you’d be better off (and more entertained) giving yourself over to an earlier Wain film than taking the yellow brick road to this film. ” – MovieWeb Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Iron Lung (2026) 54% EDIT “Anyone can learn the technical skills of filmmaking, but passion can’t be faked, and Fischbach has the latter in grisly, cosmic spades. ” – RogerEbert.com Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 53% EDIT “This feels like a treatise masquerading as a movie.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026) EDIT “Having memories keeps people alive, and we can’t remember properly if we’re not given access to the whole story.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 90% 2/4 EDIT “Its thematic reach is often frustratingly in conflict with the realistic story it’s attempting to tell.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Weight (2026) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The film has a singularity of vision and cohesion of form that makes it easy to get immersed in, and uses the natural, sometimes wordless drama of its actors to create relatable characters.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Troublemaker (2026) EDIT “While it makes sense the film wouldn’t quite dive into this, the project is reverent, perhaps to a fault, not critiquing the ways Mandela wasn't always present for his children.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Jane Elliott Against the World (2026) EDIT “But there’s a warm irony that despite the film’s title, she’s "against" the world; in reality, Elliott is very much for the world. ” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Disciple (2026) EDIT “This is the stuff of great fiction: the cost of flying too close to the sun, when money and ambition get in the way of brotherhood, and the power of faking it till you make it.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review TheyDream (2026) EDIT “It dares us to try to remember and render our stories with such ferocious love.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 31, 2026 Full Review Ghost in the Machine (2026) 82% EDIT “It’s a reminder for humanity to put the machine in its rightful place, before it tries to put us in ours.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 31, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 87% 4.5/5 EDIT “Ian Tuason and his crew know that whatever you can imagine is probably scarier than anything that’s explicitly put on screen. All he has to do is provide the catalyst for the viewer to muse on something unsettling–which ‘undertone’ has in spades. ” – MovieWeb Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 3/4 EDIT “'Queen of Chess' embodies both sentiments, acting not only as a celebration of the sport’s versatility but as a testament to the enlivening power of one woman’s ambition and determination. ” – RogerEbert.com Jan 29, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 87% EDIT “Rather than trying to wine and dine you, Araki’s film moves at a breakneck pace and uses its depiction of the carnal to dive into the messy ways we’ll empty ourselves in the pursuit of being desired.” – MovieWeb Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) 100% EDIT “Through Rushdie’s path, we see a way to put our pain in its proper place, acknowledging that it does not have to be the sole way in which we’re defined by the world.” – TheWrap Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Shitheads (2026) 71% EDIT “Contrary to its title, 'The Shitheads' has a lot on its mind; very much like its title, it can often get in its own, irreverent way.” – MovieWeb Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Bedford Park (2026) 95% EDIT “This is a deeply sincere film, one that avoids the cringe of melodrama by rooting all that transpires, the quiet and vociferous, elation and tragedy, in the lives of its characters. ” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “‘Obex’ is sympathetic to the ways we’ll migrate to digital worlds to escape the hell of embodied living, but it sweetly and gently reminds us about the beautiful inconvenience of community.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “We need the gift of new narratives to help us imagine beyond present circumstances. While 'The Choral' may be riddled with a few too many false notes for comfort, the purity of its song and message make it a hard tune to disregard. ” – RogerEbert.com Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 82% 3/5 EDIT “What unfolds is never what you expect, and what they manage to concoct is far more surprising than the ingredients they’ve used to get there.” – MovieWeb Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It is an exercise in hope, offering a portrait of how a community, united by a common crisis, can exorcise the temptation to self-isolate and instead remain present and carry each other’s burdens.” – MovieWeb Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 52% 2/4 EDIT “It’s not short on visual style or atmospheric tension, ultimately, it’s a tedious genre exercise undone by an undercooked narrative and its allergy to mystery. ” – RogerEbert.com Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The film reminds us that so long as we stoke the fires of memory, we’ll never lose the people, places, and experiences that have made us.” – MovieWeb Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Coexistence, My Ass! (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Accord is not possible when there’s an imbalance of power, yet 'Coexistence, My Ass!’ uses humor as a cathartic, light-hearted vehicle to entertain what a plausible reconciliation might look like.” – RogerEbert.com Oct 29, 2025 Full Review
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