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A.S. Hamrah

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Biography:

A. S. Hamrah is the film critic for n+1. He also currently writes for New York Review of Books, The Nation, Harper’s and Bookforum. He previously wrote for 4Columns, Cineaste, The Boston Phoenix, Suck.com and In These Times.

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Hamnet (2025) 87% EDIT “Despite Buckley’s falconry early in the film I’m not sure that when it comes to grief Zhao knows a hawk from a handsaw. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% EDIT “In many ways a thrilling, beautiful, and disturbing movie, Sirât’s callousness, intended as spirituality, mimics the world’s indifference. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 94% EDIT “The movie, for all its patience and forest majesty, is bland, an example of the creeping Hallmarkization of American film, or of the domestication of Terrence Malick's style in service of an illustrated novel. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Madigan’s outlandish, creepy performance, with its orange wig of baby bangs and large gradient eyewear, was criticized as crone-shaming, but Weapons is in fact the rare film to address the problem of American gerontocracy head-on. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 94% EDIT “In The Voice of Hind Rajab, reality butts up against form in a way that is more gruesome than productive. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “The mere existence of a second Mary Bronstein movie, much less one as amazing as this, proves that patience and a bad attitude are not just their own rewards. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% EDIT “Bugonia shares with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You an excellent screenplay and a great cast, each superior in their concision to those in bigger films this year, whose expansiveness, while admirable, made them a little muddy.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “ Timothée Chalamet wore me out with his relentlessness, and the Mad Libs casting exhausted me.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% EDIT “The made-up problems of these successful Norwegian artistes and academics did not interest me. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% EDIT “Like many a Hollywood action movie, it has more endings than it needs, and before that it descends into mere violence, but the rest of Sinners is grand. ” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “The film looks stagey and snow-globey and its green color palette unfortunately called to mind Wicked. It even has the same poppy fields.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% EDIT “One Battle After Another is a rarity: a big Hollywood action movie self-consciously concerned with liberating the future from the clutches of a geriatric order.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “Mendonça is very generous to his actors.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “With It Was Just an Accident, Panahi has decided to make a film that meets any audience more than halfway.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% EDIT “It’s an instant classic.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 89% EDIT “It will be an alienating movie for many people, probably most people, despite Hawke’s bravura incarnation” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% EDIT “The White Parade is a semi-lost film, existing only as a partial dupe print in an archive. It’s hard to believe a Hollywood film made by a major studio as late as 1934 only exists that way. I hope the same thing happens to F1.” – n+1 Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Melania (2026) 10% EDIT “Melania is an anti-documentary.” – n+1 Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% EDIT “I can only take so much messiah talk in science fiction, especially when it’s coming from Javier Bardem and Timothée Chalamet, both of whom I generally like, but here all I could think about was that they’d played Desi Arnaz and Bob Dylan.” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “In the second section... we lose the Ani we’d come to know.” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% EDIT “Chalamet’s performance is a success, a real feat of acting in which he thoroughly inhabits Dylan-ness without slipping into parody” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% EDIT “These nice boys in their nice movie made me miss Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, in their talky two-handers.” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% EDIT “If animated cats, dogs, and lemurs are your thing, Flow is the movie for you. Thankfully these animals don’t talk and it isn’t a musical. ” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% EDIT “The Brutalist is a deeply confused film that touches greatness by mixing disparate elements that have no business being together.” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 92% EDIT “That Ross and Fray have managed to make it work and have created a film unlike any other proves it was a risk worth taking.” – n+1 Mar 4, 2025 Full Review
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