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Blake Simons

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Scarlet (2025) 72% EDIT “Toggling between 2D and 3D animation, Hosoda Mamoru’s gender-swapped take on Hamlet takes admirably big swings but only skims the surface of its deeper thematic concerns. ” – Sight & Sound Mar 13, 2026 Full Review A New Dawn (2026) C- EDIT “Shinomiya’s engagement with the impact of climate change, gentrification, and urban encroachment on our green world is admirable, but these themes are explored in a series of undeveloped “yes, and”-style non sequiturs, both visual and aural.” – IndieWire Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 94% EDIT “Shimmering and sparkling, Ha-chan carries the rarest maturity about sex, love, grief, and allowing yourself to take life one step at a time.” – The Film Stage Feb 5, 2026 Full Review BURN (2026) B- EDIT “Nagahisa imbues these characters with such earthy, lived-in existences that it’s frustrating to see the back half of his film hit grim and well-worn trauma tropes... irrespective of the richness of the earlier character writing.” – IndieWire Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) 96% 8/10 EDIT ““Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc” understands that failed flirtations are the filler arcs of our own lives. They may not amount to anything, but in the moment, nothing feels bigger.” – Next Best Picture Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Duse (2025) 67% C+ EDIT “It is hard to understand someone or grow sympathy for them when they won't stop yelling at you, and when all the world's a maximalist stage for the ensemble of "Duse," an emotional response is hard to elicit.” – IndieWire Sep 3, 2025 Full Review Love on Trial (2025) EDIT “A heartfelt, Hamaguchi-shaped work of two halves that expands [Fukada's] palette to suit an ever-more-openly political cinematic climate.” – The Film Stage Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “Kawamura’s literary verve has elevated and transformed a dialogue-free indie game into a mystery box more reminiscent of complex ADV adventures such as “Zero Escape” and “Danganronpa,” and the cult film classic “Cube.”” – IndieWire May 24, 2025 Full Review Brand New Landscape (2025) EDIT “It’s a remarkably embodied film, deeply affecting––finding cinematic language for the complex pain of estrangement just as last year’s I Saw The TV Glow achieved for dysphoria.” – The Film Stage May 18, 2025 Full Review A Pale View of Hills (2025) 63% B- EDIT “A Pale View of Hills doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, but it’s worth that first curious glance.” – IndieWire May 18, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “It's sharp, continually chaotic screwball stuff, a love letter to the joys and madness of creative collaboration, the riffs on Godard's film and its surroundings akin to a 'boundary break' on Breathless. ” – ScreenAnarchy May 18, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 47% EDIT “This is barely a feature film. ... It's disheartening that Minecraft's promise of boundless creativity has been translated to a film so devoid of it.” – ScreenAnarchy Apr 9, 2025 Full Review Endless Summer Syndrome (2024) 86% B+ EDIT “While perhaps a little too in-love with its own clever construction to explore its characters’ psyches to the fullest depth, Endless Summer Syndrome is a compellingly subversive concoction that dares raise uncomfortable questions with no easy answers. ” – The Film Stage Jan 10, 2025 Full Review
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