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Noah Berlatsky

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Biography:

Noah Berlatsky is a film and television critic. He writes for NBC Think Online, the Verge, the Escapist, Chicago Reader, and other venues. He is the author of Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics from Rutgers University Press.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Predator: Badlands (2025) 86% EDIT “ the film is an illustration of what you can do with hoary narratives if you’re willing to trust your audience to identify with people who aren’t quite the usual heroes.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 22, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 59% EDIT “It is difficult to recommend a movie that goes so far out of its way to be more racist than its 19th-century source material.” – Chicago Reader Feb 21, 2026 Full Review Solaris (2002) 66% EDIT “Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 remake isn’t necessary, but is nonetheless all the more in the spirit of the original’s vision of reality, and of itself, by being an ersatz copy.” – Splice Today Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Honey Bunch (2025) 91% EDIT “A strange multiple film about the multiple selves people bring to, and give birth to, in love and marriage. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% EDIT “for all its technical virtuosity and noble intentions, the film is predictable, preachy, and tedious.” – Splice Today Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Erin Brockovich (2000) 87% EDIT “Oscar-bait isn’t my favorite genre, but it can be done better or worse, and Soderbergh does it better.” – Splice Today Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 61% EDIT “It’s made with some thought, glee, and, surprisingly, some heart.” – Splice Today Feb 5, 2026 Full Review Schizopolis (1996) 70% EDIT “Why say anything, Schizopolis asks, when saying nothing is a lot more fun?” – Splice Today Jan 26, 2026 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 80% EDIT “Some viewers may be put off by the fact that H Is for Hawk has no neat moral and no cathartic end to grief. But it wouldn’t be true to either the impossible bird or the impossible person if it did.” – Chicago Reader Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) 96% EDIT “Sex, Lies and Videotape remains a gloriously odd, perfect little film.” – Splice Today Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% EDIT “Beetlejuice famously presents itself as a joyride of mystical weirdness. But when you actually rewatch it, it comes across as an oddly sincere embrace of drab suburban conventionality.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “If you mainly sat down to see some gory special effects and a completely over-the-top Ralph Fiennes, the movie delivers.” – Splice Today Jan 14, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “I can’t begrudge it the many accolades it’s received. But while I think it’s worth seeing, I was also in the end somewhat disappointed.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Weapons (2025) 93% EDIT “Self-aware misogynist scapegoating doesn’t stop being that because the person deploying it thinks it’s fun or entertaining or a cool jump scare delivery system. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 31, 2025 Full Review KPop Demon Hunters (2025) 92% EDIT “The disjunction between message and follow through in Kpop Demon Hunters makes it hard for me to want to sing along.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “It takes part in the long Hollywood tradition of films that are entertaining if you don’t think about them that hard—a tradition that is, unfortunately, especially ill-suited for our current christofascist moment.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 28, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “The biggest failure of the film is that, for all her impassioned scene-chewing, Jennifer Lawrence never stops being Jennifer Lawrence, super star, emoting for the awards committee.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “For all its snark and absurdity and despair, Lanthimos’ message, like those of misanthropes before him, is uncomfortable not because it’s callous, but because it’s uncomfortably sincere. ” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “The movie asks you to care about them for real failures and real flaws, which makes Song’s belief in love more, rather than less, sweeping.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% EDIT “If you love Neil and can stand Oscar-bait, Song Sung Blue will make you a (qualified) believer.” – Splice Today Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Hedda (2025) 89% EDIT “DaCosta uses her command of filmic resources to create a claustrophobic story of thwarted ambition and stifled love which is relevant in the current era of dwindling possibilities and escalating bigotry.” – Splice Today Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “A stylish, ambivalently ironic commentary on America’s obsession with anti-establishmentarian violent spectacle as a substitute for actual change.” – Splice Today Dec 8, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “Polinger’s careful not to provide any catharsis or relief.” – Splice Today Nov 28, 2025 Full Review The Annihilation of Fish (1999) 76% EDIT “A broad, schmaltzy, and overly cutesy parable about the redemptive power of film, quirkiness, and love, not necessarily in that order.” – Splice Today Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Good Boy (2025) 90% EDIT “Good Boy isn’t a great horror movie. It’s got a core of sadness, though, that is hard to leave behind.” – Everything is Horrible (Substack) Nov 16, 2025 Full Review
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