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Noah Berlatsky

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Noah Berlatsky is a film and television critic. He writes for NBC Think Online, the Verge, the Escapist, Chicago Reader, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics from Rutgers University Press.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Magic Mike (2012) 78% EDIT “ There’s some magic in those stripper performances. But the movie around them is too decked out in moralistic drag to deliver the goods.” – Splice Today Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% EDIT “It positions Hollywood as critiquing Vatican sexism—even while it uses its Vatican setting as an excuse and a justification for the very typical movie sexism of marginalizing women and paying virtually none of them to perform. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Mar 13, 2026 Full Review The Informant! (2009) 79% EDIT “Informant!’s cheerful tone, in 2026, feels toothless and too blasé.” – Splice Today Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Out of Sight (1998) 94% EDIT “ It’s not an all-time masterful gambit, but to the extent the film smuggles Soderbergh’s indie film focus on female desire into a male big budget package, it does qualify as a suave and sexy sleight-of-hand.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Mar 6, 2026 Full Review For Worse (2025) 76% EDIT “For Worse is a gentle middle-aged rom-com that deliberately lowers expectations even as it faithfully hits all the genre beats. It’s an approach designed to charm without dazzling, and at that it succeeds admirably.” – Chicago Reader Mar 4, 2026 Full Review Re-Animator (1985) 89% EDIT “A mad scientist riff which replaces Mary Shelly’s melodramatic angst with giddy gore. Rarely has the grotesque looked like so much fun.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 27, 2026 Full Review The Good German (2006) 34% EDIT “This is one of the great World War II films, precisely because it turns the genre against itself and against the American self-aggrandizement that has generally been its purpose.” – Splice Today Feb 26, 2026 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% EDIT “Wright’s Running Man, however self-aware, just drags you along on another round of the same boring game where everyone loses.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “ the film is an illustration of what you can do with hoary narratives if you’re willing to trust your audience to identify with people who aren’t quite the usual heroes.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “It is difficult to recommend a movie that goes so far out of its way to be more racist than its 19th-century source material.” – Chicago Reader Feb 21, 2026 Full Review Solaris (2002) 66% EDIT “Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 remake isn’t necessary, but is nonetheless all the more in the spirit of the original’s vision of reality, and of itself, by being an ersatz copy.” – Splice Today Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 92% EDIT “A strange multiple film about the multiple selves people bring to, and give birth to, in love and marriage. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “for all its technical virtuosity and noble intentions, the film is predictable, preachy, and tedious.” – Splice Today Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Erin Brockovich (2000) 87% EDIT “Oscar-bait isn’t my favorite genre, but it can be done better or worse, and Soderbergh does it better.” – Splice Today Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% EDIT “It’s made with some thought, glee, and, surprisingly, some heart.” – Splice Today Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Schizopolis (1996) 70% EDIT “Why say anything, Schizopolis asks, when saying nothing is a lot more fun?” – Splice Today Jan 26, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “Some viewers may be put off by the fact that H Is for Hawk has no neat moral and no cathartic end to grief. But it wouldn’t be true to either the impossible bird or the impossible person if it did.” – Chicago Reader Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 96% EDIT “Sex, Lies and Videotape remains a gloriously odd, perfect little film.” – Splice Today Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “Beetlejuice famously presents itself as a joyride of mystical weirdness. But when you actually rewatch it, it comes across as an oddly sincere embrace of drab suburban conventionality.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “If you mainly sat down to see some gory special effects and a completely over-the-top Ralph Fiennes, the movie delivers.” – Splice Today Jan 14, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “I can’t begrudge it the many accolades it’s received. But while I think it’s worth seeing, I was also in the end somewhat disappointed.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Self-aware misogynist scapegoating doesn’t stop being that because the person deploying it thinks it’s fun or entertaining or a cool jump scare delivery system. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 91% EDIT “The disjunction between message and follow through in Kpop Demon Hunters makes it hard for me to want to sing along.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “It takes part in the long Hollywood tradition of films that are entertaining if you don’t think about them that hard—a tradition that is, unfortunately, especially ill-suited for our current christofascist moment.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “The biggest failure of the film is that, for all her impassioned scene-chewing, Jennifer Lawrence never stops being Jennifer Lawrence, super star, emoting for the awards committee.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 26, 2025 Full Review
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