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Mattie Lucas

Mattie Lucas

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Biography:

Mattie Lucas (she/they) is a freelance film critic from North Carolina whose work has appeared in print and online since 2004. She attended Appalachian State University where she studied Theatre and Film Studies.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Presence (2024) 87% 3/4 “A bracing formal experiment whose conceit enhances rather than impedes its emotional core. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 30, 2025 Full Review Back in Action (2025) 28% 2/4 “A limp comeback vehicle that coasts on tired clichés cribbed from better films.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 28, 2025 Full Review Flight Risk (2025) 26% 2/4 “Flight Risk's biggest throwback is its forgettability, never establishing a unique personality or particularly compelling characters to justify its low-rent aesthetic. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Femme (2023) 93% 3/4 “A sexy and stylishly directed thriller with a genuine heat in its depiction of sexuality, thanks to some fantastic performances by both Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 23, 2025 Full Review From Ground Zero (2024) 98% 3/4 “A harrowing portrait of human resilience from a painfully unrepresented perspective, allowing Palestinian artists to tell their stories and shine a light on the conflict's human toll. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 52% 2.5/4 “It's as if the film wants to be a metaphor that it doesn't have the courage to explore.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Mother and the Whore (1973) 94% 3.5/4 “As a portrait of shifting sexual mores following the free love movement of the 1960s and a piece of personal catharsis, The Mother and the Whore remains a landmark of the era. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Satranic Panic (2023) 3/4 “Takes the vibes of psychotronic VHS exploitation horror and rebrands into a gleeful deconstruction of binary gender narratives, creating something both silly and electrifying, a perfect combination for a new vanguard of independent queer cinema. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 15, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 96% 3/4 “In those moments when the film makes the internal feel tangible, I’m Still Here blossoms into something quite lovely. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 10, 2025 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% “A rapturous cinematic poem that finds camaraderie in shared experience and emotional connection. ” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023) 94% “A work of quiet introspection that somehow feels as vast as the universe.” – trans|cendental cinema Jan 7, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% 3/4 “It may not be Murnau (what is, these days?), but Eggers' combination of Jane Eyre aesthetics with the dark lure of the macabre proves to be a winning concoction.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 77% 2/4 “An erotic thriller that seems to be stuck in the mud, furiously spinning its tires and never really getting anywhere.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 19, 2024 Full Review Carry-On (2024) 88% 3/4 “A "dad movie" par excellence, a smashingly entertaining white-knuckle thriller that is leagues better than Netflix's typical throwaway filler content. ” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Red One (2024) 30% 1.5/4 “An ugly, under-lit, joyless slog, devoid of any holiday charm or sense of fun. ” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 13, 2024 Full Review Nightbitch (2024) 59% 2/4 “Never feels as transgressive as it clearly wants to be, content instead to use its obvious metaphors to scratch at the surface of its ideas rather than dive into them headfirst.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 12, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 4/4 “Not just a towering piece of classical Hollywood cinema; it's also a visionary work of tormented genius that feels electrifyingly modern.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 90% 3.5/4 “By putting audiences in his protagonists' shoes, Ross invites us to participate in radical empathy, allowing its themes to resonate in disarming and profound ways. ” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Funny Girl (1968) 95% 3.5/4 “It is the role Streisand was born to play and she nails it, finding the joy, the humor, and the pathos of Brice's story and turning it into pure screen magic. ” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 3/4 “ Queer’s languid reveling in queer malaise is a heady, exhilarating concoction.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 9, 2024 Full Review Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) 78% 3.5/4 “Wholly sublime, a delicately thorny snow globe whose warm sense of nostalgia is tinged with an inescapable sense of sadness that gives its Christmas setting a disarmingly human core. ” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% 3.5/4 “Flow is one of the most original animated films in years, an enchanting work of pure cinema that creates a world filled with wonders.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 5, 2024 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% 2.5/4 “It is clearly trying to maintain a kind of political neutrality, which is a trap modern news often falls into, because that neutrality is itself political.” – trans|cendental cinema Dec 3, 2024 Full Review Moana 2 (2024) 61% 2/4 “This might be enough to keep the film’s target audience of kiddos entertained, but adults are more likely to find the blatant laziness of conceit dull and unimaginative to sit through.” – In Review Online Dec 2, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 74% 1/4 “An ugly, messy film, populated by painfully written musical numbers and increasingly bizarre directorial choices that seem wholly uninterested in treating Emilia as a full person.” – trans|cendental cinema Nov 27, 2024 Full Review
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