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48 Hills

48 Hills is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dennis Harvey.

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The Blue Trail (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s trippy and stylish, oddly upbeat despite its narrative ambiguities.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s the rare deliberate “crowdpleaser” that manages to hit its marks without feeling like a Pavlovian experiment on the viewer’s emotions.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Paying for It (2024) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
RZA's One Spoon of Chocolate (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
American Dream (1990) Dennis Harvey 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.
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Our Land (2025) Dennis Harvey A beautifully crafted, complex entity that rewards on a lot of levels.
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Dry Leaf (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) Dennis Harvey This is an intelligent entertainment that does not descend to familiar caricatures (re: the art world), offering considerable narrative and other satisfactions.
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Steal This Story, Please! (2025) Dennis Harvey There’s something wistfully sad as well as inspiring about Steal This Story, Please!
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Serpent's Path (1998) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Chime (2024) Dennis Harvey There’s no explanation given here, just a series of unsettling incidents delivered with Kurosawa’s usual low-key exactitude.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Fantasy Life (2025) Dennis Harvey Flawlessly cast, Fantasy Life is a very astute observational comedy with enough psychological nuance to earn the eventual tug on your deeper emotions.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Serpent's Skin (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Lover (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mermaid (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Touch Me (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Thinestra (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s good enough, taken on its own terms. Still, once again this novel seems to reject being transplanted to another medium.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Dennis Harvey It all works quite well as a jigsaw of many pieces that add up to an involving, tragic, relatively even-handed big picture.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Propagandist (2025) Dennis Harvey This fascinating movie, with many clips from much vintage Dutch cinema you likely never knew existed, ends up a powerful indictment of ambition and adaptability curled into evil-enabling corruption -- then blandly trying to whitewash itself clean.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s a bit arid and claustrophobic. But to a large extent that works for this story, which functions like a noose tightening around the protagonist’s neck before he knows it’s even there.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Bodycam (2025) Dennis Harvey At just an hour and a quarter, this rollercoaster of uniformed panic does not overstay its welcome.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
1000 Women in Horror (2025) Dennis Harvey While there are plenty of famous films excerpted here, like The Exorcist or Suspiria, 1000 Women is also a goldmine of info for casual fans who’d like to find good movies further off the beaten track.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) Dennis Harvey It is duly an inspirational tale. But veteran TV director Stephanie Laing’s treatment leans towards predictably cute, sentimental beats.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It (2024) Dennis Harvey That’s the Way God Planned It is well worth seeing for the incredible range and quality of archival musical performances, which span decades and myriad styles -- Preston could seemingly make himself at home in any genre.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
André Is an Idiot (2025) Dennis Harvey This autobiographical memorial celebrates its subject’s idiosyncrasies to a degree that may irk as well as charm some viewers. But as Sinatra once sang, there is no question: Andre Ricciardi did it his way.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Dennis Harvey Davies Jr. takes occasional stylistic gambles that don’t quite work. But those are minor flaws -- for the most part, My Father’s Shadow has a mix of propulsion and intimacy that is striking as well as involving.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Dreams (2025) Dennis Harvey Dreams isn’t some cheesy erotic thriller. But it might have been better as one -- in the end, it isn’t good enough to take itself so seriously.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Crazy Old Lady (2025) Dennis Harvey Skillfully handled as it is, there’s also a certain claustrophobic theatricality to this single-setting, one-note exercise in mingled black comedy and sadism. Throwing themselves into strenuous roles, these performers nonetheless deserve better material.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Dennis Harvey A low-key crowdpleaser, Calle Malaga manages to wring something upbeat from the nightmare scenario of a senior being forced out of their home, into the company of complete strangers.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost Elephants (2025) Dennis Harvey This Wild Kingdom-like adventure may lack the immersive, transcendent qualities of his best work, but it has its surreal, scenic, and sly aspects.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Dennis Harvey I enjoyed Luhrmann’s doc, but let’s hope those 60 hours of largely untapped footage get exposed further in the future, ideally by a different director.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s a striking film, albeit one that for me ultimately lacked any tangible meaning. Nonetheless, it is a singular enough experience to warrant recommendation.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreadful (2026) Dennis Harvey It lacks a strong resolution. But it pulls you along nonetheless, thanks in large part to cinematography by Julia Swain that is often flat-out gorgeous.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Diabolic (2025) Dennis Harvey An effective slow-burn horror that takes its time escalating -- but it does get there. I found the character psychology kind of pat, and one late revelation ridiculous. But this is otherwise a decent, sober-sided possession tale.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Sweetness (2025) Dennis Harvey Sweetness is slick and well-cast. Still, we’ve seen numerous variations on its like in recent years, and this particular effort heads towards closing ironies as predictable as they are trite.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Dennis Harvey With its droll performances, sharp presentation, and amusing individual ideas, "Storage" gets so close to being excellent, it’s disappointing that it never quite kicks into the highest gear we expect. Still: It is definitely fun.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Dennis Harvey Nostalgic millennials are the ideal target audience, but it’s a testament to the collaborators’ wit that Tail-End Boomer me had a very good time, too.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Dennis Harvey This is a splashy popcorn flick fanboy types are gonna love. But even even those of us normally less susceptible to such things will have to admit it’s selling a very high grade of popcorn.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Dennis Harvey Auberi Edler’s 2024 documentary remains alarmingly relevant -- a scrupulously neutral gaze at Americans so indoctrinated they have no idea they represent an extreme, and who are now driving national policy.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Dennis Harvey A Poet is a relatively small story. Still, it traverses a wide arc, starting out as caustic satire, finally arriving at an understated depth and tenderness.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Dennis Harvey Compellingly performed by mostly nonprofessional actors, very well crafted on an often impressive scale, it’s a depressing-sounding story that somehow sports too much warmth, color, and suspense to come off as a simple downer.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Dennis Harvey Lighton’s debut-feature adaptation maintains some of the book’s cringey aspects, but also adds humor and grace notes.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an entertaining enough movie, albeit one of those occasions where Luc Besson provides heaping plates of eye candy that leave you hungry for substance an hour later.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
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