Richard Lawson
The Hollywood Reporter
undertone
2026 · The Hollywood Reporter
Undertone is a gloomy, conceit-heavy picture that loses itself in its influences. What there is precious little of in Undertone is Tuason's own ideas, and the film becomes so frustratingly derivative that all its other flaws are cast into much harsher light.
Predator: Badlands
2025 · The Hollywood Reporter · Nov 2025
Trachtenberg made a similarly thoughtful Predator movie, Prey, a few years ago, and now further asserts himself as a filmmaker who can take a tired old piece of IP and breathe new life into it. It's a perspective shift that mostly works, so thoughtful is the film's construction.
One Battle After Another
2025 · The Hollywood Reporter · Sep 2025
One Battle After Another is a furious film, a richly engaging and persuasive polemic from a filmmaker who has never shied from provocation but who has not before spoken so directly to his audience. Anderson does not operate with blinkered hope; his movie pays sober reverence to the brutal losses suffered already and to those inevitably to come. But he insists, in his film's glorious and just-shy-of-corny final seconds, that there is still something like a future out there, past the smoke and ruin, worth struggling toward, inch by agonizing inch.