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Ryan Lattanzio

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Ryan Lattanzio is the Executive Editor for IndieWire, where he oversees all film features and festival coverage.

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Blue Film (2025) B+ EDIT “Blue Film leaves you feeling a little bit ill, and very uneasy about how you’re supposed to feel. But when most films either wouldn’t dare go here at all, or would tell you how to feel about the material, that’s rare and welcome.” – IndieWire Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 93% C+ EDIT “Though often lethargic and listless, "Is This Thing On?" does stir up a vivid portrait of the New York City underground comedy milieu, even when New York City as a character feels more like the afterthought it isn't supposed to be.” – IndieWire Oct 10, 2025 Full Review Anemone (2025) 56% B EDIT ““Anemone” is a miserable movie top to toe, but it’s directed with enough promising skill to suggest actual smarts and talent on the part of its director/writer. ” – IndieWire Sep 29, 2025 Full Review Swiped (2025) 43% C- EDIT “The film’s anti-patriarchal thesis is a worthy one that feels oddly undeveloped given that it’s the entire point, the actors here merely reading lines from a script as pat as a canned solicitation to swipe right.” – IndieWire Sep 19, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% D+ EDIT ““A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is miscalculated as a romance and a fantasy, and while I’m loath to blame a craftsman as intelligent as Kogonada entirely for the outcome, he did, after all, agree to direct this lousy script.” – IndieWire Sep 16, 2025 Full Review The Long Walk (2025) 88% B EDIT ““The Long Walk” doesn’t tell you or ask you anything new if you’re feeling pent up with rage by American leadership these days, but the film’s grim commitment to the bit is a rarity for a studio movie.” – IndieWire Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Barrio Triste (2025) C EDIT “There is beauty in the ugliness of “Barrio Triste,” but the film feels like a half-started sentence, a germ of an idea that doesn’t bloom. More to come, I’m sure, but Stillz’s movie doesn’t justify waiting it out.” – IndieWire Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 66% C+ EDIT “A heart-on-its-sleeve, inoffensive, and amusing sequel about the legacies we run away from only to come crashing back into them in middle or later age.” – IndieWire Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 96% B- EDIT “The film’s occasionally clumsy symbolism and sputtered drama aren’t a reason to write off the film. On the contrary, “Preparation for the Next Life” is a promising narrative debut that also harnesses Liu’s established bona fides as a documentary director” – IndieWire Sep 5, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 76% A- EDIT “Bigelow’s work is procedural to its core, and that this film is a speculative what-if is made all the more horrifying because of its banality.” – IndieWire Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% B+ EDIT “Safdie’s film is rather a sweet duet between a remarkably unembellished Johnson and a blazingly good, blue-collar and freshly blown-out Emily Blunt as his codependent girlfriend and eventual wife Dawn Staples-Kerr.” – IndieWire Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Landmarks (2025) 93% A- EDIT “Martel’s film ultimately makes Chocobar not a national symbol of Indigenous struggle but a real human, with people who loved him and whom he loved, regardless of that fact. ” – IndieWire Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 82% A- EDIT “In appearing to give you nothing, Jim Jarmusch‘s almost perversely downplayed trio of short stories “Father Mother Sister Brother” winds up giving you almost everything if you can tap into its cool vibrations.” – IndieWire Aug 31, 2025 Full Review The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025) 49% C+ EDIT ““The Wizard of the Kremlin” operates at a slow burn to chart the banality of evil, though the film could stand to be more pissed off, with a little more venom in its veins, to stir us, maybe not up in arms, but at least up in our seats.” – IndieWire Aug 31, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% B EDIT “If you want a period monster movie that’s solid, almost oaken in its sturdiness, you don’t need to knock on wood to assure that del Toro is keeping the innermost essence, the soul of cinema, alive at least.” – IndieWire Aug 30, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 38% C EDIT “It strives for moral ambiguity, but ends up startlingly morally stark, pampering the viewer against discomfort.” – IndieWire Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 87% B EDIT ““Bugonia” has all the streak of [Will] Tracy’s kill-the-rich brand of satire, but with the Greek Oscar-nominated filmmaker interrogating the potential performativity of such capitalist-fighting crusades.” – IndieWire Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2024) 91% B EDIT “The grand takeaway is Venter’s astonishing turn. That kid’s got a future, and it began with a filmmaker who knew how to direct her.” – IndieWire Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Drowning Dry (2024) 80% B+ EDIT “It’s one of those movies where the ground is ever shifting beneath you, as Bareiša replays scenes you thought you understood and recontextualizes them to suggest you perhaps never did.” – IndieWire Jul 18, 2025 Full Review Our Hero, Balthazar (2025) 100% B- EDIT ““Our Hero, Balthazar” isn’t cold by any means, but the result comes off as more ethnographic in tone than the in-your-face bravado of the approach would suggest.” – IndieWire Jun 10, 2025 Full Review Romería (2025) 88% B- EDIT “While we leave “Romería” with a sense of Simón’s goals, we just aren’t as sure of Marina’s. This film, though, invites us to ponder where Marina might go next, and I wouldn’t object to a sequel that explores her later years.” – IndieWire May 24, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 91% B EDIT “[Kelly Reichardt’s] observational approach doesn’t always retrofit seamlessly to the genre scaffolding that surrounds it...but the period-rich atmosphere she conjures...makes for an intoxicating, transportive experience.” – IndieWire May 23, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% B EDIT “The History of Sound is as plaintive and lilting as a piano note in minor key, never wallowing in its own misery but still keen to explore the psychic sensations, afterglow, and wreckage of a meaningful connection.” – IndieWire May 21, 2025 Full Review Pillion (2025) 100% A- EDIT “Ultimately a deeply moving love story, one where we become the submissives to Lighton’s strange, beautiful, and sexy vision. It also never hurts to be anchored by two actors who are totally game and committed to that vision.” – IndieWire May 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 80% B EDIT “What Lawrence achieves here is extremely impressive, a marquee movie star throwing herself with abandon into a filmmaker’s warped and demandingly miserable vision. ” – IndieWire May 17, 2025 Full Review
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