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Matt McCracken

Matt McCracken's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Magellan (2025) 92% EDIT “What is clear over the course of Magellan’s comparatively brief sub-3-hour runtime is that the defining contemporary artist of longform cinema has gifted the world yet another masterpiece.” – In Review Online May 26, 2025 Full Review Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (2025) EDIT “The film does manage to impress in a limited sense in terms of the action-oriented, spectacular CGI...and the...melodramatics may land for some viewers. But neither is adept enough to salvage a blockbuster that was destined from conception to disappoint.” – In Review Online Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Phantosmia (2024) EDIT “Call him a film-philosopher, film-novelist, film director — there is no one else bringing life to film quite like Lav Diaz.” – In Review Online Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Youth (Homecoming) (2024) 94% EDIT “What is clear in the portraiture of life within Homecoming, and throughout the series, is the deep and abiding respect Wang has for the life on display as he records his subjects and the public sphere he and they each navigate.” – In Review Online Sep 5, 2024 Full Review Baby Assassins 2 (2023) 100% EDIT “While not operating on the same level of action consistency as a John Wick, the sequel here will satisfy the mild critiques of the initial entry that took issue with the lack of kineticism beyond that film’s opening and close.” – In Review Online Apr 4, 2024 Full Review The Boy and the Heron (2023) 96% EDIT “The Boy and the Heron is... perhaps his most minor work yet. Not that this should be taken as criticism, as such pictorial and thematic alliteration is fascinating to see at work in the hands of a master.” – In Review Online Dec 5, 2023 Full Review Snow Leopard (2023) 73% EDIT “In comparison to other entries within the model, and even those by the director himself, it struggles for a sense of motivated purpose beyond the notes it needs to hit — and even those fail to quite coalesce into a proper sense of identity.” – In Review Online Sep 18, 2023 Full Review Man in Black (2023) 100% EDIT “But what [it] underscores... is that there is power in an unwavering orientation toward keeping memory alive and maintaining a faith in the truth spoken and experiences endured by people... who have been made to fight for their existence.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2023 Full Review Taking Back the Legislature (2020) EDIT “Taking back the Legislature principally records an erratic act of sheer despair, the dubious righteousness of which must be measured equally alongside its obvious and disastrous foolishness. ” – In Review Online May 12, 2023 Full Review New Gods: Yang Jian (2022) 63% EDIT “All told, New Gods: Yang Jian is exceedingly competent from a technical standpoint. As for the screenplay and editing, Yang Jian suffers from the same bloated excess of White Snake, managing to be some twenty minutes longer for no discernible reason.” – In Review Online Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Hidden Letters (2022) 91% EDIT “This is a work as slight as the script it documents and unfortunately worthy of roughly just as much attention.” – In Review Online Jun 18, 2022 Full Review Yamabuki (2022) 80% EDIT “Yamasaki’s approach, if anything, displays a sense and awareness of the complexity that rural living contains, and that it may indeed be at the forefront of some of, the most stirring and existentially charged elements of modern living.” – In Review Online May 28, 2022 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (2021) EDIT “While by no means a masterpiece or rewriting of all that has come before, iOnce Upon a Time in Calcuttai exhibits the dramatic potential of a director who refuses to ignore what is oft left forgotten in what is considered "the stages of development."” – In Review Online May 3, 2022 Full Review Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021) 73% EDIT “Jia's latest is a didactic, propogandist exercise, and something of a punctuating about-face from his best work.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2021 Full Review I Walk on Water (2020) 88% EDIT “IWOW is, then, a work of true hubris ... that amount[s] to deranged ramblings of a person who has lost ethical perspective while declaring himself a god.” – In Review Online Jun 6, 2021 Full Review Tesla (2020) 58% EDIT “Tesla offers limited critical purchase or significance beyond highlighting an underappreciated individual intelligence.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Matthias & Maxime (2019) 63% EDIT “Dolan peppers the work with meta-formal allusions and sociological analysis that are curious on their own terms” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Time to Hunt (2020) 69% EDIT “[The film] is as hopelessly out of its depth as its characters, lacking the creativity to mimic the ambitions its artistic coordinates should inspire.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Jinpa (Zhuang si le yi zhi yang) (2018) 78% EDIT “Jinpa is more a film to be experienced for the sensation that the images offer the viewer than it is a narrative feature to be enjoyed for the comprehensive nature of its plot.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review Vitalina Varela (2019) 95% EDIT “This latest film may be most notable...for its changing of the temporal rules that have up until now defined the occupants of Fontainhas.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2021 Full Review
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