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Dennis Harvey

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Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety

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The Blue Trail (2025) 100% EDIT “It’s trippy and stylish, oddly upbeat despite its narrative ambiguities.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 97% EDIT “It’s the rare deliberate “crowdpleaser” that manages to hit its marks without feeling like a Pavlovian experiment on the viewer’s emotions.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Paying for It (2024) 86% EDIT “This is one of those offbeat, low-key relationship dramedies that don’t aim for any big payoff, yet ingratiate with its smartly insightful script, character delineation and performances. ” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 85% EDIT “Ohs’ latest is quirky and interesting but never feels substantial. That’s perhaps an accurate representation of characters who themselves remain immature and indecisive. But it makes this breezy divertissement... feel almost weightless.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) 38% EDIT “The vigilante-flick cartoonishness of RZA’s script needs zestier execution than he provides as director. While slick enough, this movie is too slowly paced, its setpieces too lacking in punch or stylish distinction, for a screenplay so simplistic.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 88% EDIT “I found Hokum’s framing device gratuitous, and general emotional involvement lean. But there is still no doubt this director knows just how to give you a fine case of the creeps.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review American Dream (1990) 100% EDIT “What makes "Dream" a particularly heartrending downer -- though a thoroughly engrossing one -- is that the union's position is no longer strong enough to protect their interests. ” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Our Land (2025) 97% EDIT “A beautifully crafted, complex entity that rewards on a lot of levels. ” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Dry Leaf (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s a pleasing warm bath of a movie, though it takes some getting used to the disconcerting choice of a low-res digital shooting format -- offering a lyrical wallow in you might call Blur-O-Vision.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 92% EDIT “Even if Jupe’s episodic screenplay doesn’t really go anywhere, it still has bite, the overall indictment being of a society that would like to do the right thing, but will gladly settle for complaining how doing the wrong thing isn’t its fault.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 96% EDIT “This is an intelligent entertainment that does not descend to familiar caricatures (re: the art world), offering considerable narrative and other satisfactions.” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Steal This Story, Please! (2025) 95% EDIT “There’s something wistfully sad as well as inspiring about Steal This Story, Please!” – 48 Hills May 6, 2026 Full Review Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) 88% EDIT “A competently crafted if unmemorable thriller perhaps most impressive for its off-screen enterprise. ” – Variety Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) 100% EDIT “While imperfect, the feature does vividly convey modern life in provincial Russia -- where people seem to basically expect to get steamrolled by the government, but lack the information sources to grasp how and why.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Serpent's Path (1998) EDIT “Between the director’s evenhanded, unshowy treatment and his script’s contrastingly wild developments, it’s a real find for fans of inspired B-grade genre cinema.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Chime (2024) EDIT “There’s no explanation given here, just a series of unsettling incidents delivered with Kurosawa’s usual low-key exactitude.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 81% EDIT “Flawlessly cast, Fantasy Life is a very astute observational comedy with enough psychological nuance to earn the eventual tug on your deeper emotions.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Serpent's Skin (2025) 93% EDIT “The acting here is uneven, and the direction still lacks much grasp on suspense, setpieces or pacing. But Mackay merits credit for having the chutzpah to acquire her skillset in public, and she is definitely getting better.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Dead Lover (2025) 86% EDIT “Dead Lover goes admirably far out on a particular limb. But it gets there immediately, then goes on for 95 minutes that grow a bit tedious and repetitious. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Mermaid (2025) 92% EDIT “While not everything here works (veteran Patrick makes a good villain, but he’s really over-indulged in some scenes), the sum is an eccentric original.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Touch Me (2025) 83% EDIT “While at first you may wonder how long you’ll be able to stomach these extremely annoying (non-alien) protagonists, things really elevate once the action moves to Chez Brian -- the mix of barbed comedy, fantasy, quease, gore and more really gels.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Thinestra (2025) EDIT “Thinestra is well-acted, competently made, and has some diverting dream sequences. But its mashup of Stephen King’s Thinner with The Substance doesn’t really have any fresh ideas of its own.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% EDIT “Director-cowriter Daniel Goldhaber does a decent job with this conceit. Still, Death is still a somewhat disappointingly conventional exercise after his more interesting prior features.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% EDIT “Could the whole thing have been conveyed in 15 minutes rather than 95? Perhaps. Yet there is novelty to it, not least in seeing an entire feature built around realizing the aesthetic of artist Escher in live-action terms. ” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s good enough, taken on its own terms. Still, once again this novel seems to reject being transplanted to another medium.” – 48 Hills Apr 14, 2026 Full Review
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