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Dennis Harvey

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Film Critic, San Francisco Bay Guardian and Variety

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Dracula (2025) 52% 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) 50% 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) 92% 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) 61% 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) 63% 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 Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s an entertaining-enough watch, but given the talent involved, the results should have been more memorable.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “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. ” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “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. ” – 48 Hills Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Texas (1941) EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% EDIT “It is fun, and highly accomplished; it’s just simultaneously a more blunt hitting of a simpler target than we might expect from Park.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 94% EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Great Flood (2025) 58% EDIT “It’s an ambitious shotgun marriage of too many ideas that end up seeming underdeveloped and rushed within a conventional feature runtime.” – Variety Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Suburban Fury (2024) 100% EDIT “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.” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review We Shall Not Be Moved (2024) EDIT “"We Shall' rigorously eschews sentimentality. Nonetheless, it arrives at a closure that is bittersweet and validating. ” – 48 Hills Dec 20, 2025 Full Review
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