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48 Hills

48 Hills is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Dennis Harvey.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dreadful (2026) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Diabolic (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Sweetness (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Dennis Harvey Lighton’s debut-feature adaptation maintains some of the book’s cringey aspects, but also adds humor and grace notes.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) Dennis Harvey A relatively straightforward portrait of coping with grief. But as such, it is thoughtfully crafted and acted, to ultimately touching results.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
In Cold Light (2025) Dennis Harvey A satisfying crime drama that works craftily toward an ending that feels satisfyingly hard-won -- a bittersweet triumph.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s admirably ambitious and unusual, but it either works for you or it doesn’t.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Dennis Harvey 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.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an entertaining-enough watch, but given the talent involved, the results should have been more memorable.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Dennis Harvey Everyone involved does good work, Stewart most of all. Yet as obviously enamored as she is with the material, its careening nature still feels short on narrative shape, growing more exhausting than insightful over two full hours’ course.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosemead (2025) Dennis Harvey Rosemead impresses with its understanding treatment of both schizophrenia and well-intentioned if not always astute family coping mechanisms. It’s not an exceptional movie, but one that realizes its modest ambitions with moving, detailed care.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Dennis Harvey Voice of Hind Rajab can hardly help making a powerful impact due to its wrenching content. But I’m not sure I wouldn’t have found a straight documentary at least as poignant, and less problematic.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Dennis Harvey While this 145-minute saga can be a bit uneven in pacing and impact, it offers compelling performances, some powerful sequences, and a lot of food for thought that amply reward the viewer’s investment.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Plague (2025) Dennis Harvey A strong, confident, unnerving drama about bullying -- a subject that seems only to grow more relevant in our society -- as well as a stealth example of moviemaking that might be imperiled in the near future.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Texas (1941) Dennis Harvey Plotwise, Texas is unmemorable if twisty. But it’s well-produced -- landing somewhere between “A” and “B”-grade values -- with a real comedic esprit that’s almost screwball in tenor.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Dennis Harvey It is fun, and highly accomplished; it’s just simultaneously a more blunt hitting of a simpler target than we might expect from Park.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Dennis Harvey Hyperbolic, though controlled in its seeming recklessness, this movie careens from souped-up tenement drama to Tennessee Williams parody to crime-thriller violence. It’s perhaps the year’s wildest ride in US cinema, this side of One Battle After Another.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Suburban Fury (2024) Dennis Harvey It’s an absorbing if slow-moving inquiry [whose] ultimate fascination lies precisely in being about someone who gets less and less cooperative with the filmmaking process.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) Dennis Harvey "We Shall' rigorously eschews sentimentality. Nonetheless, it arrives at a closure that is bittersweet and validating.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Dennis Harvey I’m not sure it actually has anything to say. And this director has been gilding a sort of old windbag’s wistfulness for “the good old days” so long already, where can he go from here?
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Resurrection (2025) Dennis Harvey Those who found "Long Day" somewhat impenetrable will be even more baffled by this exquisite-corpse structure of cryptic, successive narratives. Taken as pure phantasmagoria, however it achieves a level of aesthetic sumptuousness that’s its own reward.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Cactus Pears (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s a touching, poetically restrained romance that avoids the pull of both over-idealizing and melodramatic tragedy.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) Dennis Harvey A harrowingly up-close look at press freedoms under siege. Needless to say, it’s a cautionary tale we can’t afford to dismiss here in the U.S.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Dennis Harvey The performances are note-perfect, the script’s giant, serpentine puzzle as surprising and relevant as that of One Battle After Another.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
The Librarians (2025) Dennis Harvey The ideological/political purpose of these attacks, which increasingly involve arrest and death threats, is clear. Though as ever, the gullibility of activists who think they’re “saving the children” from largely imaginary perils amazes, and infuriates.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Merrily We Roll Along (2025) Dennis Harvey This isn’t the most ingenious visualization of a demanding work, but it’s functional. And needless to say, the score is a lot more than that.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Dennis Harvey At nearly 2.5 hours, "Wake Up" is overlong, over-contrived, at once snide and pretentious.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Dennis Harvey This becomes one of those enterprises that assumes the more crying, screaming, moaning et al. the performers do in closeup, the more intense the emotional experience will be for viewers.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an ultimately delightful and touching movie that at its abrasive outset looks hardly likely to be either.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Disinvited (2024) Dennis Harvey A smart, resourceful enterprise that introduces some talents definitely worth watching in the future.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Anniversary (2025) Dennis Harvey This story really should sprawl over a miniseries’ length, allowing for larger physical scale as well as better development of characters who sometimes feel vague... Nonetheless, this provocative update of It Can’t Happen Here should be seen.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Dennis Harvey Its larger context filled in by occasional glimpses of global TV news reportage, "Soul" offers a look at civilian life during wartime that is as up-close and personal as it gets.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Dennis Harvey Numerous well-known names are dropped (Ginberg, Sontag, Burroughs, Ed Sanders, Hibiscus, Fran Leibowitz etc.), but few truly interesting things are said -- the level of verbal detail is more like a laundry list than a path towards insight.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Rebuilding (2025) Dennis Harvey This is a quiet drama with good performances and a fine feel for the stark rural landscapes of southern Colorado. But the air of hard-scrabble authenticity once again borders on overkill.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Dennis Harvey Baumbach can’t sell earnest emotions he clearly doesn’t believe in, and his large, starry cast seems wasted in roles that never develop relatable dimensionality. While I’ve seen worse movies this year, few have seemed quite so fundamentally fraudulent.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Dennis Harvey It reveals Wright doesn’t have a natural flair for staging action. And while the antifascist political jabs made are on-point, they’re also done in broad strokes that ultimately sink beneath the general mechanics of a generic mall flick.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Sentimental Value (2025) Dennis Harvey "Value" astutely illustrates truths about depression, heredity’s role in mental health, different approaches to the artistic life, and filmmaking itself. It is the rare movie reflecting upon that latter subject which is not, well, sentimental.
Posted Dec 03, 2025  Edit critic review
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