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Alissa Wilkinson

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Alissa Wilkinson is Vox.com's film critic. Formerly, she was chief film critic at Christianity Today. Her writing has appeared at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Paste, and others. She lives and works in New York City, and you can find her @alissamarie.

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Lumière! The Adventure Continues (2024) EDIT “Making a film like this, which restores and celebrates some of the movies’ earliest creators and innovators, is a way to place faith in humanity.” – New York Times Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% EDIT “Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.” – New York Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “Still, it’s a properly scary movie, the kind that merits watching in a theater with a good sound system.” – New York Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% EDIT “Hoppers possesses that certain charm that comes with pudgy beavers and dastardly caterpillars, and a touch of weird humor beside. Cute animals and a little absurdity can make any mildly overcrowded plot more watchable. ” – New York Times Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) 100% EDIT “So this is really a movie for hard-core McCartney (or Wings) fans who want to see all of the rare archival footage — or, conversely, for curious newbies who want a fast-paced introduction to one of the most talented songwriters of all time. ” – New York Times Feb 27, 2026 Full Review In the Blink of an Eye (2026) 17% EDIT “There’s just not enough space given to these characters to grow into full beings, or for us to understand the full import of their actions before we’re whisked away elsewhere. ” – New York Times Feb 26, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “This is a fun movie, and a revealing one, too.” – New York Times Feb 20, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s that sharp contrast of beauty with an undercurrent of pain that makes “My Father’s Shadow” so bittersweet, and it’s why it cuts to the quick. ” – New York Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 82% EDIT “ The weird gets piled on top of more weird, and there are twists and revelations and — well, I don’t really think it’s a satisfying ending, but you might, and it certainly lands with a bang.” – New York Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 88% EDIT “It’s a good story, well told, and Polgar makes for an interesting subject. ” – New York Times Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Natchez (2025) 97% EDIT “The wish the mayor voices slowly cracks apart; we witness progressively more uncomfortable encounters that show how even agreed-upon histories clash with one another. ” – New York Times Feb 2, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% EDIT “[The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn’t about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art.” – New York Times Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “The landscape in which this family makes its domestic life is wild and lovely, and Palmason signals the changing of the seasons by showing us all of its beauty” – New York Times Jan 29, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “What does work about “H Is for Hawk” (aside from Mabel, whose presence is enough to recommend the film) is its refusal to make grief facile or tidy, or to proclaim that healing must look the same for everyone. ” – New York Times Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Seeds (2025) 97% EDIT “The impersonal problems of financing and statistics become personal, and the history of discrimination feels much closer, more concrete. And if we’re looking closely, we can see, in the younger generations of farmers, the seeds of the future. ” – New York Times Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “DaCosta’s talents as a director are a terrific, confident match for this material. ” – New York Times Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “That slower pace allows a tenderness to develop, and the tension between the girls’ youth and newfound maternal instincts to emerge.” – New York Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% EDIT “Watching it with your whole being, it becomes real to you too.” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “Yet it’s also exhilarating, because “The Plague” commits to its narrative arc and then sees it through right to the wild, whirligig end. ” – New York Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Breakdown: 1975 (2025) 77% EDIT “the best thing that “Breakdown: 1975” can do is help viewers discover films from the past that might have something to say to the present, too.” – New York Times Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 73% EDIT “It’s a fantasy of terrible behavior getting its due. That’s what makes it satisfying, even fun, despite its deadly serious premise.” – New York Times Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 24% EDIT “Ella McCay is a bizarre movie that would have worked better if it went all-in as an homage to another era. Since we won’t get to see that version, you’ll just have to buckle up and enjoy the very strange ride.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2025 Full Review WTO/99 (2025) 83% EDIT “It’s clear that the movie has a point of view; what’s most interesting, though, is the raw materials it employs.” – New York Times Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “It feels personal not just to Clooney but to Baumbach.” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% EDIT “The legend woven throughout heightens the film’s feeling of truth: The effects of young people leaving and returning on a small, close-knit community have been felt for many generations. ” – New York Times Dec 1, 2025 Full Review
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