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Maxwell Rabb

Maxwell Rabb's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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undertone (2025) 72% EDIT “As Undertone crescendoed through its final act, I found myself pleading for Evy to thrust off her headphones. But Tuason’s successfully nerve-racking film relentlessly suffocates within its inescapable, eerie soundscape.” – Chicago Reader Mar 19, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “The Bride! is a film in constant motion with no direction. ” – Chicago Reader Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% EDIT “Hoppers is thoughtful, animated with the same genuine, openhearted energy that defines the best of Pixar’s classics.” – Chicago Reader Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% EDIT “There is plenty to appreciate in Laxe’s film, which wrestles aggressively with ideas of grief and catharsis. Unfortunately, the intensity he brings when telling Luis’s story ultimately undoes the film, hammering in these themes with punishing insistence.” – Chicago Reader Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Idiotka (2025) 68% EDIT “While the new director shows her ability to poke fun at superficiality and harness compelling emotions, her inaugural film is more patchwork than finished piece” – Chicago Reader Mar 9, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% EDIT “The President’s Cake is carried by the remarkable performances of its predominantly amateur cast, especially its child actors.” – Chicago Reader Mar 9, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “What makes The Bone Temple the best iteration of the “rage virus” series is how willingly it leans into absurdity.” – Chicago Reader Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 86% EDIT “Amanda Seyfried shines as Ann Lee, delivering a potent performance, her eyes lit with commanding devotion.” – Chicago Reader Jan 26, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% EDIT “Birney’s gritty, imaginative filmmaking results in a compelling fantasy that leaves us nowhere to hide . . . from ourselves.” – Chicago Reader Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “The success of this film relies on Chalamet’s possessed performance.” – Chicago Reader Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 87% EDIT “The problem with Is This Thing On? isn’t its setup, but how little it actually excavates loneliness or the ways a lack of purpose can curdle into something corrosive. ” – Chicago Reader Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 24% EDIT “It’s bewildering to watch, as the characters oscillate between various emotions and motivations, making it impossible to track what is going on.” – Chicago Reader Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% EDIT “It falls short at every turn: The dialogue never sparks a real connection between Mikkelsen and Sloan, the CGI looks unfinished, and the conclusion simply flatlines. What we are left with is just an unfilling, patchwork dream.” – Chicago Reader Dec 29, 2025 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 77% EDIT “Instead of an empathetic glimpse into one niche of Americana, Hollywood mutates a real-life phenomenon into a disheartening impersonation.” – ScreenAnarchy Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Lone Samurai (2025) EDIT “Slogs forward as the samurai wanders aimlessly across the island before being captured by a band of cartoonishly evil natives. The story is stitched together so sloppily that there's no tension, no momentum -- just dead air between swings of the blade.” – ScreenAnarchy Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 87% EDIT “Mescal and Buckley deliver twin but divergent blueprints for mourning, and in the film’s final reckoning, their dual performances offer the year’s most devastating finale.” – Chicago Reader Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% EDIT “What makes Left-Handed Girl so potent is how disarmingly charming parts of it can be.” – Chicago Reader Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 76% EDIT “The kind of film that could've gone sideways fast. ... But it's shockingly assured, never straying far from its genuinely heartfelt purpose. Its bits of ridiculousness are grounded by thoughtful scenes and some complicated emotions.” – ScreenAnarchy Nov 24, 2025 Full Review The Red Spectacles (1987) EDIT “ ​​You won't find anything else quite like it. ... Tackles some well-worn fears of authoritarianism, yet refracts them through Oshii's unmistakably strange, singular vision.” – ScreenAnarchy Nov 19, 2025 Full Review Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) 61% EDIT “Promises a show with new tricks up its sleeve, but this attempt at a hat trick is nothing more than a botched encore.” – ScreenAnarchy Nov 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Die My Love frays alongside Grace, falling prey to its aesthetic machinations, which meander their way to a dull ending unfit for its lethal, serrated performances. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% EDIT “Baumbach shows us the brittle reality of stardom. It’s hardly a new premise, but he tells Jay’s story with such sincerity that it feels unexpectedly fresh.” – Chicago Reader Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% EDIT “Trier deftly explores how familial trauma is held deep within the hearts, unwittingly passed along by generation and through the spaces we live in. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “Linklater tells a stylized, straightforward story about making the film but does little to evoke the timelessness of its source material. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% EDIT “Lanthimos’s hand is steady as he spins us deeper into chaos, always withholding just enough to keep us questioning what’s real. ” – Chicago Reader Nov 3, 2025 Full Review
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