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Alissa Wilkinson

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Biography:

Alissa Wilkinson is Vox.com's film critic. Formerly, she was chief film critic at Christianity Today. Her writing has appeared at Rolling Stone, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Paste, and others. She lives and works in New York City, and you can find her @alissamarie.

Reviews

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The White House Effect (2024) 92% EDIT “It’s not easy to make an archival documentary... But “The White House Effect” is a good example of why it’s worth it, and why it’s worth preserving our archives, too. ” – New York Times Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “Ballad of a Small Player contains a great story, but it’s bogged down by its trappings. Perhaps it just got a little too greedy.” – New York Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% EDIT “It’s ideal casting for Stone, with her anime-huge eyes and slightly otherwordly-wide grin, and her ability to flip between deadpan and vivacity on a dime.” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review The Perfect Neighbor (2025) 99% EDIT ““The Perfect Neighbor” deserves to be broadly seen, discussed and heeded. ” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Mistress Dispeller (2024) 95% EDIT “Rather than leaning on caricatures or stereotypes, the film gives each person’s perspective a respectful hearing. The added element of Wang’s subterfuge is what keeps it all fresh.” – New York Times Oct 24, 2025 Full Review John Candy: I Like Me (2025) 88% EDIT “For the most part, this is a movie about a man who was talented, funny and famous, and also generous, beloved and loving, and who believed you could be all of those things at the same time without internal conflict.” – New York Times Oct 10, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% EDIT “So ranked against other "Tron" feature-length installments, while this one fails to capture the adolescent low-fi charm of the 1982 film, it's appreciably more enjoyable (and, frankly, comprehensible) than Legacy. ” – New York Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 38% EDIT “From start to finish, After the Hunt sets its audience adrift on a sea of unmoored signifiers, flailing to keep up with all the arm-wavey gestures at academia and bourgeois morality and ethics,providing nothing beneath to hold it all together.” – New York Times Oct 9, 2025 Full Review The Alabama Solution (2025) 100% EDIT “Bringing several types of filmmaking, amateur and professional, together for a movie like this makes that message all the more powerful.” – New York Times Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Much more interesting is the friendship between Kerr and Coleman, which would have made a fascinating focal point for the film. All the elements are there. ” – New York Times Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (2025) 100% EDIT “Art only works if it’s shared in community and handed down from older people to younger ones, and it’s at its best when artists get to collaborate. Every night at Lilith Fair ended with an encore in which all the artists went onstage and sang together. ” – New York Times Sep 26, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 66% EDIT “There’s enough in “Eleanor the Great” to still make it watchable, especially the genuinely moving intergenerational connection between two women who need each other to move past their particular grief. ” – New York Times Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 43% EDIT “Swiped aims to explore the difficulties of being a woman in a man’s world, from workplaces to the internet more widely. It does so in broad strokes with predictable characterization. ” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Lost in the Jungle (2025) 92% EDIT “What the film does elucidate, in rich and tense storytelling, is that no headline story like this is ever as simple as it seems on the surface. ” – New York Times Sep 12, 2025 Full Review The Man in My Basement (2025) 40% EDIT “Charles is an interesting character, and so, for that matter, is Anniston, and Narciss too. But they feel a little more like stand-ins for ideas than like three-dimensional people.” – New York Times Sep 11, 2025 Full Review A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025) EDIT “Oliphant is the vehicle for the story, but there’s a bigger point here: that American politics, in particular, are built on a rich heritage of protest, of challenging authority, and that cartooning has been a part of that from the start. ” – New York Times Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Twinless (2025) 98% EDIT “If “Twinless” is a bit uneven, it at least gets this right: The drive to be known can turn us all into the protagonists of our own weird, obsessive, funny, painful little tragedies, and there’s no guarantee of a happy ending.” – New York Times Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Roses (2025) 65% EDIT “Lacking that smart framing device, it flinches, and goes conventional, and bad.” – New York Times Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “Lurker is a tight and wicked little film, a promising debut feature for the writer and director Alex Russell, a kind of minimalist counterbalance to the maximalist dissipation of Saltburn.” – New York Times Aug 21, 2025 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% EDIT “This is all to say that “My Undesirable Friends” illuminates a well-known tendency of authoritarian governments...” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Sudan, Remember Us (2024) 100% EDIT “This is why documentaries like “Sudan, Remember Us” need to exist. It’s right there in the name — these films form a testimony, a stalwart assertion of existence: we were here, and we will not go quietly. ” – New York Times Aug 8, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 74% EDIT “Freakier Friday works best if you’re there for the memories. Especially if you’ve learned a lesson or two of your own in the last 22 years.” – New York Times Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation (2025) 70% EDIT “For superfans, Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation will play like a party, and probably drive the repeat reader right back to the book. ” – New York Times Aug 1, 2025 Full Review Harvest (2024) 73% EDIT “It is dreamy, hazy and phantasmic, vacillating between extreme beauty and something approaching folk horror. ” – New York Times Jul 31, 2025 Full Review 2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) 93% EDIT “Chernov asks us to simply observe, and know that these men aren’t just characters on a screen or pawns in a story. He wants us to see what they saw.” – New York Times Jul 25, 2025 Full Review
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