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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

Movies TV Shows
The Choral (2025) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “We need the gift of new narratives to help us imagine beyond present circumstances. While 'The Choral' may be riddled with a few too many false notes for comfort, the purity of its song and message make it a hard tune to disregard. ” – RogerEbert.com Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Man Finds Tape (2025) 86% 3/5 EDIT “What unfolds is never what you expect, and what they manage to concoct is far more surprising than the ingredients they’ve used to get there.” – MovieWeb Dec 6, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% 4.5/5 EDIT “It is an exercise in hope, offering a portrait of how a community, united by a common crisis, can exorcise the temptation to self-isolate and instead remain present and carry each other’s burdens.” – MovieWeb Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Keeper (2025) 52% 2/4 EDIT “It’s not short on visual style or atmospheric tension, ultimately, it’s a tedious genre exercise undone by an undercooked narrative and its allergy to mystery. ” – RogerEbert.com Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The film reminds us that so long as we stoke the fires of memory, we’ll never lose the people, places, and experiences that have made us.” – MovieWeb Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Coexistence, My Ass! (2025) 92% 3.5/4 EDIT “Accord is not possible when there’s an imbalance of power, yet 'Coexistence, My Ass!’ uses humor as a cathartic, light-hearted vehicle to entertain what a plausible reconciliation might look like.” – RogerEbert.com Oct 29, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “This is a world where everyone is prepared but no one is ready, and Bigelow’s film shows the horror of when people have to put their training to the test. ” – JoySauce.com Oct 27, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 41% 3/4 EDIT “Cerveza has found a way to take an old story and comment on something new without fundamentally altering the source material. In this act of creation, she’s revealed the malleability of the text she’s working with and unlocked its storytelling potential. ” – RogerEbert.com Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “Those with power believe that they can mold the world into their image. But Van Sant has crafted a film that reminds us that as long as people like Tony Kiritsis live, there will always be a reckoning for such hubris.” – MovieWeb Oct 20, 2025 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Panahi was able to craft something that's thrilling in its own right, even as it acts as a cathartic inner monologue on the limits and merits of forgiveness for its creator.” – MovieWeb Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Night Patrol (2025) 2.5/5 EDIT “It takes a delicate balance to critique these issues while also trying to mine thrills, and it’s not one that Prows always does well.” – Dread Central Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% 4.5/5 EDIT “He’s crafted a film about the ways families age, inviting us to consider the ways we’ve loved imperfectly and how we can learn to love more gracefully.” – MovieWeb Oct 7, 2025 Full Review Blue Moon (2025) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “Films like these act as compassionate portraits, reaffirming the multitudinous humanity of people who had more to give before their time was up.” – MovieWeb Oct 7, 2025 Full Review The Alabama Solution (2025) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “This is a project for and by those who have experienced inhumanity firsthand yet refuse to have their voices snuffed out by a corrupt institution. ” – RogerEbert.com Oct 3, 2025 Full Review Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025) 95% 4/5 EDIT “If you’re wondering who might win in a fight between a cargo truck and a fighter plane, this film provides the gory, blood-soaked answer — laws of physics be damned.” – MovieWeb Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 71% 4.5/5 EDIT “By taking belief seriously, it reframes the ways that grace and love can be tactile, potent weapons that cut against the heart of darkness and evil.” – MovieWeb Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Primate (2025) 92% 3.5/5 EDIT “It knows exactly what it wants to be, and commits to it in all of its jaw-ripping, head-smashing, chest-impaling glory. ” – MovieWeb Sep 20, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 84% 3.5/5 EDIT “'Dust Bunny' feel like a family classic in the making. Yes, it’s spooky, but it reminds us that we can always overcome that which frightens us.” – MovieWeb Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 97% 7/10 EDIT “When ‘Exit 8’ remains fixed on its circuitous terrors, it remains an unmissable, enveloping nightmare worth replaying many times over.” – MovieWeb Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 71% 6/10 EDIT “Warning against the danger of conflating identity with performance is not exactly a novel idea, and Safdie’s muted approach may not work for all. But the vessel he’s crafted … allows that message to hit harder than even the most riveting of sports films.” – MovieWeb Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Normal (2025) 83% 5/10 EDIT “Those in the mood for familiar action-movie comforts will appreciate the contours of what director Ben Wheatley has outlined here. But the film could have been so much more, given its ingredients.” – MovieWeb Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 9/10 EDIT “At its core, it's a film about how humanity and monstrosity are simply states of being, ones that we can oscillate between depending on our capacity to forgive.” – MovieWeb Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Carolina Caroline (2025) 100% EDIT “It’s a rip-roaring, tragic, joyride.” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 72% EDIT “There’s an urgent, timely, and powerful message “Nuremberg” offers; I just wonder how many more it will convince through its stilted approach who aren’t already on Jackson’s side.” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review Eternal Return (2025) EDIT “There’s a strength to this core message, which makes the film’s diversions into some questionable plot twists by the film’s end or certain erratic characterizations feel as if Raz was trying to overcompensate for a standard narrative. ” – RogerEbert.com Sep 15, 2025 Full Review
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