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John Bleasdale

John Bleasdale's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Devils (1971) 78% EDIT “Oliver Reed is magnificent. His Grandier is carelessly witty and licentious and yet convincingly heroic. ” – Electric Sheep May 7, 2026 Full Review Daaaaaali! (2023) 93% EDIT “Dupieux shares with his subject an obstinacy to forge ahead and in so doing attains a silliness that becomes dangerously close to the sublime.” – Sight & Sound Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Surviving Earth (2025) EDIT “The music by Hugo Brijs has a central role to play but some of the music scenes feel too fleeting. But Vlad himself is driving the narrative on, creating his own problems, driven by his own dissatisfactions.” – Sight & Sound Apr 24, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “Rose is a tragedy about history’s losers, its victims and those who don’t get to write their own story.” – Sight & Sound Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Norwegian actor Anders Danielsen Lie tickles the ivories with a melancholy charm in a quiet and restrained performance. He looks album-cover cool, while at the same time drifting through a life marked with tragedy and addiction. ” – Time Out Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Yannick (2023) 95% EDIT “Quentin Dupieux’s latest film is a touch more conventional than his usual absurdist offerings, but maintains a sharp, funny meta-commentary on the divisions between audience and artist. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) 86% EDIT “Bellocchio’s talent is to be able to combine the incisive recreation of a historical moment with an operatic style, as cameras swoop and plunge through corridors and palazzi. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% EDIT “Almost every cliché of the genre is lovingly excavated for the first chapter in Kevin Costner’s epic four-part western, but its traditional approach is part of its charm. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% EDIT “Twisters isn’t so much about confronting climate change as enjoying it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Bogancloch (2025) 100% EDIT “The pleasure of the film is that, if you are willing to spend some time with Jake on his own terms, there is an ease that comes with it.” – Sight & Sound Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 75% EDIT “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice isn’t boring. It’s undeniably entertaining – at times witty, at times dumb fun.” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “In The Brutalist, the artist suffers, but not for art: he suffers simply what history inflicts. Corbet’s film is a grandiose edifice, but he is as interested in the crumbling foundations as the soaring heights. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 50% EDIT “Although Kevin Costner no doubt wishes to be Hayes Ellison, he actually more resembles Mr Pickering – he’s got us all to go to Horizon based on false advertising with the hope that our enthusiasm will build the film we ultimately want to see. ” – Sight & Sound Dec 18, 2025 Full Review The Things You Kill (2025) 94% EDIT “There’s something of the dread of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dostoyevskian slow burn Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) here, but Khatami keeps things as tightly wound as barbed wire in his intimate and intense study in disintegration. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% EDIT “I’s hard to resist its irreverence and the onslaught of ideas and quips, factoids and routines.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Despite the saltiness of its subject matter, Harry Lighton’s film – which is adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ novel Box Hill – exists within the recognisable tradition of the feel-good English comedy.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 69% EDIT “Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone’s comic talents are lost to one-dimensional roles in a misguided pandemic satire filled with dated jokes and disingenuous political messaging. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “Performances are excellent, with little emoting beyond an occasional glassy stare, so that watching Rebecca Ferguson refusing to cry, or a character apologising to another for getting angry about potato chips at a workstation, becomes oddly moving. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 8, 2025 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 87% EDIT “Ultimately, it is about the radical possibility of solutions, acceptance and going gentle into that good night. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 6, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Del Toro throws everything he can at the screen. Frankenstein is loud, bombastic, sublime and silly. This is a universe in which towers totter above precipices, cellars drip hollowly and women wear impossible dresses in the snow. ” – Time Out Aug 30, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 5/5 EDIT “With humour blacker than black bean noodles, the film is a masterful work of cinema which might well be Chan-wook’s masterpiece. And given this is the man who directed The Handmaiden that’s saying a lot.” – Time Out Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Rollerball (1975) 56% 4/5 EDIT “With a fantastic stunt team, a gamely macho star and some wonderful editing, Rollerball is so convincing, urban legend had it there were fatalities during the shoot. ” – CineVue Jun 2, 2025 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Gaza (2025) 92% 7/10 EDIT “This is a well-made and thoroughly entertaining thriller/dramedy that evokes a lost Palestinian city that has been destroyed before our eyes.” – Next Best Picture May 24, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “Lee has made stunningly good crime thrillers – Clockers and 25th Hour – but like his protagonist, here he appears to be struggling to stay relevant and still use his own unique voice. ” – Time Out May 23, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 90% 5/5 EDIT “If you’re down for a trip, Sirat is The Wages of Fear meets The Vanishing on shrooms; startlingly original, jarringly hilarious and deeply disturbing.” – Time Out May 16, 2025 Full Review
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