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Zachary Lee

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Biography:

Zachary Lee is a freelance film and culture writer based in Chicago (he feels the need to clarify he's actually from the city). He frequently writes about the intersection between media, faith, technology, and the environment. When he's not transcribing the funny and/or profound quotations the people around him say or finding the next great sparkling water flavor, you can find him hopelessly attempting to catch up on his watchlist over on Letterboxd.

Reviews

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Over Your Dead Body (2026) 73% EDIT “Taccone and his team have managed to take the existential and interior strife common in a marriage and transfigure it into a riotous and convivial physical battle for survival and sanity. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 80% EDIT “Grabinski directs 'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ as if it’s the last creative work he’ll be able to make, and the result is a film that, for all of its busyness and grandeur, feels disjointed and shallow. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “It reminds us that there’s a difference between knowing lyrics in your head and treasuring a song in your heart. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 19, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 78% EDIT “We witness a rare gift: that of an actor transforming, before our very eyes, earning her stripes in the action hero pantheon in real time. Indeed, Beetz’s Asia Reeves will be the only name you’ll be thinking of when the credits roll. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 83% 3/4 EDIT “It’s both a creation narrative and a story of paradise lost, how the worlds we construct to save ourselves can be both well-intentioned and perpetuate the same harms we were hoping to escape from. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) 3/4 EDIT “There’s a reason why comfort movies exist, and ‘Pizza Movie’ is the type of low-calorie guilty pleasure that offers just enough new ingredients to a meal you’ve had many times before.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 64% EDIT “Perhaps Timothée Chalamet might appreciate ballet more if the dancers strapped X-Acto knives to their shoes and sliced assailants’ necks with every spin.” – TheWrap Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 76% EDIT “Samara Weaving’s guttural screams can cover a multitude of sins, but even her fully embodied performance and powers can’t save a movie that mistakes stilted recurrence for high-octane throwback.” – TheWrap Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 4/4 EDIT “It's quietly devastating ode to the power of that self-discovery, a reminder that perhaps one of life’s greatest tragedies is that we can’t always remain in a relationship with the people we learn the most valuable lessons from” – RogerEbert.com Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “He doesn’t try to read you a list of facts, but does what the best storytellers do: invites you to a different way to see the world, through the eyes and stories of other people.” – MovieWeb Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Not all worlds need to be visited and not all passes need to be cashed — you’d be better off (and more entertained) giving yourself over to an earlier Wain film than taking the yellow brick road to this film. ” – MovieWeb Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Iron Lung (2026) 61% EDIT “Anyone can learn the technical skills of filmmaking, but passion can’t be faked, and Fischbach has the latter in grisly, cosmic spades. ” – RogerEbert.com Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 54% EDIT “This feels like a treatise masquerading as a movie.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026) EDIT “Having memories keeps people alive, and we can’t remember properly if we’re not given access to the whole story.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 91% 2/4 EDIT “Its thematic reach is often frustratingly in conflict with the realistic story it’s attempting to tell.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The film has a singularity of vision and cohesion of form that makes it easy to get immersed in, and uses the natural, sometimes wordless drama of its actors to create relatable characters.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Troublemaker (2026) EDIT “While it makes sense the film wouldn’t quite dive into this, the project is reverent, perhaps to a fault, not critiquing the ways Mandela wasn't always present for his children.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Jane Elliott Against the World (2026) 100% EDIT “But there’s a warm irony that despite the film’s title, she’s "against" the world; in reality, Elliott is very much for the world. ” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review The Disciple (2026) EDIT “This is the stuff of great fiction: the cost of flying too close to the sun, when money and ambition get in the way of brotherhood, and the power of faking it till you make it.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review TheyDream (2026) EDIT “It dares us to try to remember and render our stories with such ferocious love.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 31, 2026 Full Review Ghost in the Machine (2026) 73% EDIT “It’s a reminder for humanity to put the machine in its rightful place, before it tries to put us in ours.” – RogerEbert.com Jan 31, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 72% 4.5/5 EDIT “Ian Tuason and his crew know that whatever you can imagine is probably scarier than anything that’s explicitly put on screen. All he has to do is provide the catalyst for the viewer to muse on something unsettling–which ‘undertone’ has in spades. ” – MovieWeb Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Queen of Chess (2026) 88% 3/4 EDIT “'Queen of Chess' embodies both sentiments, acting not only as a celebration of the sport’s versatility but as a testament to the enlivening power of one woman’s ambition and determination. ” – RogerEbert.com Jan 29, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 88% EDIT “Rather than trying to wine and dine you, Araki’s film moves at a breakneck pace and uses its depiction of the carnal to dive into the messy ways we’ll empty ourselves in the pursuit of being desired.” – MovieWeb Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) 100% EDIT “Through Rushdie’s path, we see a way to put our pain in its proper place, acknowledging that it does not have to be the sole way in which we’re defined by the world.” – TheWrap Jan 28, 2026 Full Review
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