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Zachary Barnes

Zachary Barnes's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Two Prosecutors (2025) 96% EDIT “If the movie’s just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it’s also soberly convincing. With grim history as his guide, Mr. Loznitsa has crafted a compressed yet potent work of cinema.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Seized (2026) 100% EDIT “Though the film isn’t of much aesthetic distinction, it tells a story of such robustly drawn characters and bright battle lines that it feels almost ready-made for a Broadway-musical adaptation. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Nuisance Bear  (2026) 97% EDIT “The film doubles as a fascinating study of humans’ engagement with their environment, exploring not-always-predictable differences between the approach of the local Inuit population and nonindigenous people with particular ideas about conservation.” – Wall Street Journal Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Barbara Forever (2026) 100% EDIT “A beautifully assembled introduction to Hammer’s adventurous life and work. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Remake (2025) 100% EDIT “ “I used to call myself your father; I used to call myself a filmmaker,” Mr. McElwee says in voiceover... Yet “Remake” shows him still to be a formidable artist in the face of tragedy, and one whose comically askew sensibility remains intact. ” – Wall Street Journal Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Four Rational People (2025) EDIT “The legacy of the Emerson String Quartet includes dozens of recordings, and it’s probably in those that the deepest lessons lie. For anyone curious to meet the musicians who made them, “Four Rational People” is a decent introduction.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% EDIT “The movie is, among other things, very specifically and unabashedly Canadian, and made with evident love for its city. But I expect this is a comedy that can transcend borders.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “It could have been simply shocking, revving its engine in sexed-up style. Instead, as a vehicle for a pair of wonderful performances, “Pillion” purrs.” – Wall Street Journal Feb 7, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% EDIT “A comedy that’s frequently smart in its consideration of art, class, commerce and curdled ambition. But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little, then by the end of its two-hour runtime A Poet comes off more like funny but flabby prose.” – Wall Street Journal Jan 29, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% EDIT “Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 64% EDIT “That Goodbye June comes instead from a script by someone born this century may have something to do with the fact that it feels less like a wise and thoughtful drama than a mopey Christmas pageant. ” – Wall Street Journal Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% EDIT “Formally and dramatically, the movie has poise, which only strengthens its depiction of girls thrown off balance by growing up.” – Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% EDIT “Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe -- a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.” – Wall Street Journal Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Late Fame (2026) 86% EDIT “It’s based on a novel written in the 1890s by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, and the adaptation’s transposition of time and place comes off as anachronistic and unconvincing” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 91% EDIT “Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity -- there’s a tape recorder running, after all -- with wry lightness.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “The film is a zany, all-out crowd-pleaser from Mr. Park, who exhibits a rare genius with the camera throughout, devising breathtaking shots, zooms and transitions, his cockeyed visual wizardry perfectly matched to the outlandishness of the plot.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% EDIT “Occasionally scored to the roiling, impressionistic piano piece by Ravel that gives the film its title, the movie is perhaps best compared to an etude, modest at less than 90 minutes but shimmery and suggestive all the same. ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% EDIT “ The film is a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy. Yet there’s a humane warmth at the movie’s core.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 82% EDIT “Father Mother Sister Brother is no doubt true enough to many a family gathering this Christmas -- awkward, amusing, a bit dissatisfying, but not a disaster. Sometimes that’s reason enough to call for a toast.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Downright harrowing in its depiction of a mom beset by a string of personal and professional catastrophes. ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review The Currents (2025) 100% EDIT “Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.” ” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “Mr. Panahi’s victimization by Iran’s government may well continue, but this is a film of emotional and political truths that can be crushed by no regime.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 76% EDIT “Inserting glitzy musical numbers amid such drama could have come off as a subversive twist, but because everything is presented with the same gentle glow of sentimentality it ends up feeling merely tasteless.” – Wall Street Journal Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Megadoc (2025) 98% EDIT “The cinematography sobers up a bit as the production gets under way, and the documentary becomes a reasonably engaging if unpolished account of a legendary filmmaker’s most quixotic pursuit.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Dreams (2024) 90% EDIT “Mr. Haugerud has this time channeled most of his verbiage into Johanne’s voiceover, which continues throughout the movie to smothering effect. It’s a shame, because the film has a lively, radiant cast and vibrant images.” – Wall Street Journal Sep 12, 2025 Full Review
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