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Zachary Lee

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Biography:

Zachary Lee is a freelance film and culture writer based in Chicago (he feels the need to clarify he's actually from the city). He frequently writes about the intersection between media, faith, technology, and the environment. When he's not transcribing the funny and/or profound quotations the people around him say or finding the next great sparkling water flavor, you can find him hopelessly attempting to catch up on his watchlist over on Letterboxd.

Reviews

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Love Language (2026) EDIT “While the film often tries to make grandiose statements about love and relationships at the expense of fully formed characters, it takes the angst and wrestling of the people in this story seriously.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review The Fox (2026) EDIT “It’s inventive in its savagery, almost always perturbing, but succeeds at the kind of absurd genre blend that made Yorgos Lanthimos a household name.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Crash Land (2026) 100% EDIT “It celebrates how we grow in and out of relationships, and that sometimes moving on from people isn’t indicative of our immaturity but a sign that we’re growing and changing. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Grind (2026) 94% EDIT “It may not be perfect, but it acts as a pulpy wake-up call to wake us up from our doom-scroll-induced slumber. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Campeón Gabacho (2026) EDIT “There’s much to trade blows at in the world and much to solve behind anger and fists. 'Campeón Gabacho’ gives space for our anger and hope, saying both are needed if we are to survive this world.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Beast Race (2026) EDIT “If you are interested in seeing dynamic set pieces, it will deliver, but the story in between never feels compelling enough for one to want to stick around.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Manhood (2026) EDIT “The film articulates, to my mind, a hopeful vision of masculinity, one where we can truly learn what it means to be content with our bodies and selves, even the parts we find shame in. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Baby/Girls (2026) EDIT “It’s powerful to witness the girls, despite their hardships, articulating a tangible hope that one doesn’t often think about when choices are limited. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 73% EDIT “Taccone and his team have managed to take the existential and interior strife common in a marriage and transfigure it into a riotous and convivial physical battle for survival and sanity. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) 73% EDIT “Grabinski directs 'Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ as if it’s the last creative work he’ll be able to make, and the result is a film that, for all of its busyness and grandeur, feels disjointed and shallow. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Power Ballad (2026) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “It reminds us that there’s a difference between knowing lyrics in your head and treasuring a song in your heart. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 19, 2026 Full Review They Will Kill You (2026) 76% EDIT “We witness a rare gift: that of an actor transforming, before our very eyes, earning her stripes in the action hero pantheon in real time. Indeed, Beetz’s Asia Reeves will be the only name you’ll be thinking of when the credits roll. ” – TheWrap Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Forbidden Fruits (2026) 77% 3/4 EDIT “It’s both a creation narrative and a story of paradise lost, how the worlds we construct to save ourselves can be both well-intentioned and perpetuate the same harms we were hoping to escape from. ” – RogerEbert.com Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Pizza Movie (2026) 3/4 EDIT “There’s a reason why comfort movies exist, and ‘Pizza Movie’ is the type of low-calorie guilty pleasure that offers just enough new ingredients to a meal you’ve had many times before.” – RogerEbert.com Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Pretty Lethal (2026) 61% EDIT “Perhaps Timothée Chalamet might appreciate ballet more if the dancers strapped X-Acto knives to their shoes and sliced assailants’ necks with every spin.” – TheWrap Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) 75% EDIT “Samara Weaving’s guttural screams can cover a multitude of sins, but even her fully embodied performance and powers can’t save a movie that mistakes stilted recurrence for high-octane throwback.” – TheWrap Mar 15, 2026 Full Review Pillion (2025) 99% 4/4 EDIT “It's quietly devastating ode to the power of that self-discovery, a reminder that perhaps one of life’s greatest tragedies is that we can’t always remain in a relationship with the people we learn the most valuable lessons from” – RogerEbert.com Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “He doesn’t try to read you a list of facts, but does what the best storytellers do: invites you to a different way to see the world, through the eyes and stories of other people.” – MovieWeb Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) 74% 2/5 EDIT “Not all worlds need to be visited and not all passes need to be cashed — you’d be better off (and more entertained) giving yourself over to an earlier Wain film than taking the yellow brick road to this film. ” – MovieWeb Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Iron Lung (2026) 61% EDIT “Anyone can learn the technical skills of filmmaking, but passion can’t be faked, and Fischbach has the latter in grisly, cosmic spades. ” – RogerEbert.com Feb 4, 2026 Full Review The Gallerist (2026) 54% EDIT “This feels like a treatise masquerading as a movie.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (2026) EDIT “Having memories keeps people alive, and we can’t remember properly if we’re not given access to the whole story.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Invite (2026) 91% 2/4 EDIT “Its thematic reach is often frustratingly in conflict with the realistic story it’s attempting to tell.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review The Weight (2026) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The film has a singularity of vision and cohesion of form that makes it easy to get immersed in, and uses the natural, sometimes wordless drama of its actors to create relatable characters.” – MovieWeb Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Troublemaker (2026) EDIT “While it makes sense the film wouldn’t quite dive into this, the project is reverent, perhaps to a fault, not critiquing the ways Mandela wasn't always present for his children.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 2, 2026 Full Review
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