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Dennis Harvey

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Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety

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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 96% EDIT “I enjoyed Luhrmann’s doc, but let’s hope those 60 hours of largely untapped footage get exposed further in the future, ideally by a different director. ” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% EDIT “It’s a striking film, albeit one that for me ultimately lacked any tangible meaning. Nonetheless, it is a singular enough experience to warrant recommendation.” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Dreadful (2026) 41% EDIT “It lacks a strong resolution. But it pulls you along nonetheless, thanks in large part to cinematography by Julia Swain that is often flat-out gorgeous.” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Diabolic (2025) 62% EDIT “An effective slow-burn horror that takes its time escalating -- but it does get there. I found the character psychology kind of pat, and one late revelation ridiculous. But this is otherwise a decent, sober-sided possession tale.” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Sweetness (2025) 90% EDIT “Sweetness is slick and well-cast. Still, we’ve seen numerous variations on its like in recent years, and this particular effort heads towards closing ironies as predictable as they are trite. ” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 78% EDIT “With its droll performances, sharp presentation, and amusing individual ideas, "Storage" gets so close to being excellent, it’s disappointing that it never quite kicks into the highest gear we expect. Still: It is definitely fun.” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) 98% EDIT “Nostalgic millennials are the ideal target audience, but it’s a testament to the collaborators’ wit that Tail-End Boomer me had a very good time, too. ” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% EDIT “This is a splashy popcorn flick fanboy types are gonna love. But even even those of us normally less susceptible to such things will have to admit it’s selling a very high grade of popcorn.” – 48 Hills Feb 24, 2026 Full Review An American Pastoral (2024) 100% EDIT “Auberi Edler’s 2024 documentary remains alarmingly relevant -- a scrupulously neutral gaze at Americans so indoctrinated they have no idea they represent an extreme, and who are now driving national policy.” – 48 Hills Feb 20, 2026 Full Review A Poet (2025) 100% EDIT “A Poet is a relatively small story. Still, it traverses a wide arc, starting out as caustic satire, finally arriving at an understated depth and tenderness. ” – 48 Hills Feb 20, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% EDIT “Compellingly performed by mostly nonprofessional actors, very well crafted on an often impressive scale, it’s a depressing-sounding story that somehow sports too much warmth, color, and suspense to come off as a simple downer.” – 48 Hills Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% EDIT “Lighton’s debut-feature adaptation maintains some of the book’s cringey aspects, but also adds humor and grace notes.” – 48 Hills Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Dracula (2025) 53% EDIT “It’s an entertaining enough movie, albeit one of those occasions where Luc Besson provides heaping plates of eye candy that leave you hungry for substance an hour later.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “It is thoroughly enjoyable without ever quite touching the greatness this director is capable of. But why quibble: He’s having fun, and so will you.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Magellan (2025) 88% EDIT “What it may lack in excitement and character intimacy, however, the film makes up for in sheer beauty -- it’s best to let the images cast their hypnotic spell, en route soaking up a creditable amount of insight about the clash between cultures.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “A relatively straightforward portrait of coping with grief. But as such, it is thoughtfully crafted and acted, to ultimately touching results.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review In Cold Light (2025) 58% EDIT “A satisfying crime drama that works craftily toward an ending that feels satisfyingly hard-won -- a bittersweet triumph.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Sound of Falling (2025) 93% EDIT “This aesthetic is, well, ascetic, handsome yet forbiddingly stripped-down -- not unlike the screenplay Schilinski wrote with Louise Peter. I felt almost guilty to be so stubbornly unabsorbed by a film that intends to be a sort of harsh palate-cleanser.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “It’s admirably ambitious and unusual, but it either works for you or it doesn’t.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review Arco (2025) 93% EDIT “Probably a little too complicated story-wise for children under 8 or so, this is a colorful and clever juvenile tale that acquires a fair amount of depth in its final stretch.” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “What is satisfying about director-cowriter Rebecca Zlotowski’s comedy thriller is that it presents this “Karen” with sly but understanding humor, then lets us enjoy the gradual de-blocking of her constipated personality. ” – 48 Hills Feb 9, 2026 Full Review The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) 18% EDIT “It stretches material that wouldn’t overfill 90 minutes to 4.5 hours, arriving at no worthwhile destination and conveying scant excitement en route. It aims low… and still bunts.” – Variety Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Iron Lung (2026) 60% EDIT “There’s not a lot of plot here, certainly not enough to sustain a full two hours. And those previously unacquainted with the game are likely to make little sense of the few things that do happen. ” – Variety Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 64% EDIT “Shelter has energy, good pacing, and solid production values…even if neither style or content achieve the distinguishing personality that might make you remember this generically-titled entertainment a week later. ” – Variety Jan 29, 2026 Full Review Clika (2026) 10% EDIT “What’s curious is that “Clika” spends so much time on things it doesn’t know how to do well, and so little on the most enjoyable element here: any scene where JayDee is singing. ” – Variety Jan 23, 2026 Full Review
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