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Mark Dujsik

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

Mark is the sole writer/editor/webmaster of Mark Reviews Movies(www.markreviewsmovies.com) and co-film critic at UR Chicago Magazine (www.urchicago.com). He has been a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2002 and the Chicago Film Critics Association since 2006.

Favorites:

The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Third Man, Vertigo, Grave of the Fireflies, The Seventh Seal, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, On the Waterfront, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Casablanca, Apocalypse Now, Singin' in the Rain, Schindler's List, Mon Oncle, Die Nibelungen, Fantasia, Raging Bull, The Thin Red Line

Location:

Chicago, IL

Official Website:

http://www.markreviewsmovies.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 75% 1.5/4 EDIT “[I]t becomes clear that the filmmaker has run out of ideas for this premise.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 90% 3/4 EDIT “It's an extensive and engaging examination of AI and a call not to become complacent...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review You're Dating a Narcissist! (2025) 60% 2/4 EDIT “You're Dating a Narcissist! becomes so contrived that it makes us constantly question the intelligence, sincerity, and believability of its main character.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% 2/4 EDIT “They know each other well, and that might be to the downfall of Marc by Sofia.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Kontinental '25 mostly ... talks itself into circles around some important ideas and persistent problems...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Holy Days (2026) 50% 2/4 EDIT “[T]he movie enters and never leaves formulaic territory.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 27, 2026 Full Review Yes (2025) 90% 3/4 EDIT “The protagonist may try to mute his conscience, but the film's is loud and doesn't hide.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 67% 2/4 EDIT “Once the shock of the plot's actual setup is put forward, the movie falls into a series of familiar patterns...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review She Dances (2025) 86% 3/4 EDIT “[I]ts emotional core is ... frank and truthful.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “It is [funny] in a twisted way that's meant to make us uncomfortable, because there shouldn't be anything remotely comfortable about characters like these and subject matter like this.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 75% 2/4 EDIT “[It] ends with such a formulaic third act that one has to wonder if the writers ... couldn't determine how to bring all of it together.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 82% 3/4 EDIT “[The central] relationship is believable because it doesn't, despite what the title says, come across as a fantasy.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% 1.5/4 EDIT “Is a striking visual metaphor enough to carry a movie? Writer/director Julia Ducournau ... is counting on that with Alpha.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 62% 1.5/4 EDIT “[T]he violence of director Vicky Jewson's movie is constantly flippant, while the staging of those brawls becomes increasingly ridiculous. ” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (2026) 29% 1.5/4 EDIT “[I]ts mix of humor and horror comes across as clunky and awkward.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “[T]here is plenty of tension in Two Prosecutors, which is impressive since the plot itself does amount to so much waiting ... for meetings...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 20, 2026 Full Review The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026) 3/4 EDIT “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel feels personal and intimate, even within ... its by-the-books structure.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 90% 2.5/4 EDIT “There was probably no way ... to resolve the show's narrative and make a movie that stood on its own, so the movie is a commendable, if unfortunately unsuccessful, effort...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Late Shift (2025) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Volpe's film works well as warning ... because it is compelling drama first and foremost.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Tow (2025) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “Tow ... is trying to look at this story from so many angles and without any apparent awareness of the social failings underneath it...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 74% 2.5/4 EDIT “The new elements are mostly superficial.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “Of all the unlikely things about Project Hail Mary, the fact that it becomes the tale of an authentic and emotionally potent friendship is probably the most impressive of all.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review The Pout-Pout Fish (2026) 68% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Pout-Pout Fish, with its generic design and animation, features no sense of wonder and, with its bland adventure tale, a real feeling of familiarity.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Palestine '36 (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Writer/director Annemarie Jacir's film attempts ... to provide a counterpoint to what has been considered the official history for decades.” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “[I]t is impossible to avoid and ignore that Petzold's screenplay ... doesn't feel like a complete narrative...” – Mark Reviews Movies Mar 19, 2026 Full Review
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