Cinafilm has over 5 million movie reviews and counting …

About Us
Contact Us
Sitemap
Follow us onCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest

Last updated: 19 Jul 2026 at 01:09 UTC

Movie Reviews by Jesse Cataldo - Page 2 of 7

21-40 of 136 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Pearl Button (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Oct 2015

Despite the defeated tone of Patricio Guzmán's tales, a spotlight is placed on the power of persistence…

Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Sep 2015

The film carves out a rich emotional sphere concomitant to its stunning production design, finding delicate poetry in the dispassionate pursuit…

Review of The End of the Tour (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Jul 2015

It does well in using dialogue to shape its escalating tête-à-tête, but the filmmaking is too fuzzy to expand on those ideas…

Review of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 25 Apr 2015

The lack of real analysis or consideration leaves this perilously close to a Goldilocks-style depiction of privileged female indecision…

Review of Aloft (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Apr 2015

The film's images, so continually heartrending so as to never become redundant, effectively function as visual proselytizing…

Review of White God (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Mar 2015

It affects a general air of artistically inclined realism, but it's mostly concerned with building tension via a steady accumulation of flatly…

Review of The Salvation (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Feb 2015

The film achieves nothing more than hollow caricature, too caught up in dumb dress-up pageantry to accomplish anything else…

Review of Blackhat (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jan 2015

Michael Mann's camera elegantly collapses the spaces between bodies and objects without sacrificing spatial coherence…

Review of Joy of Man's Desiring (2015)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jan 2015

A chronicle the act of labor as both a universal function of life and a spectacle in itself…

Review of Winter Sleep (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Dec 2014

Staring deep into the darkness of an apparently static character, Nuri Bilge Ceylan again exhibits his gift for making interesting stories…

Review of Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 03 Nov 2014

Refusing to mourn anything, displaying a Futurist-style disdain for the past, Sion Sono imagines a world in which static adherence to old ideas…

Review of Fury (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Oct 2014

The film itself is a lumbering tank of a movie, chunky, loud, and clumsy, mulching down men into meat as proof of its dramatic seriousness…

Review of The Drop (1965)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

Review of The Drop (2006)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

Review of The Drop (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Sep 2014

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past…

Review of Bird People (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Sep 2014

Pascale Ferran's film isn't daring enough to fully embrace the narrative fragmentation that it sporadically assumes…

Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 17 Aug 2014

Ira Sachs's push for heartrending poetry makes it clear that the film is putting too fine a gloss on the acute pains of one small tragedy…

Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Jul 2014

Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests, building on John Le Carré's sense of…

Review of Mood Indigo (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Jul 2014

Michel Gondry bungles his adaptation of the Boris Vian novel by indulging in homespun craftwork at the expense of plot and character detail…

Review of Closed Curtain (2013)

By Jesse Cataldo (136) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 Jul 2014

The next step in Jafar Panahi's personal cinema of captivity, a fully fictionalized, wildly bewildering work which imagines a man at war with…

1
2
3
4
...
7

Page 2 of 7

Jesse Cataldo has written reviews for:

Slant Magazine (8,298)
MUBI (191)

Jesse Cataldo is connected to:

Share This Page

Share

Tweet

Popular Movies Right Now

2017

82%1,785 Reviews

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

2019

81%171 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

2022

47%33 Reviews

2014

67%866 Reviews

2022

72%115 Reviews

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

2019

88%251 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Get social with CinafilmFollow us for reviews of the latest moviesCinafilm - Twitter Cinafilm - Pinterest Cinafilm - RSS

© 2026 Cinafilm Internet Productions

Prime Video logo is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates

Our website support team can be reached by email at [email protected], or by phoning +44 3300 431 396

Cinafilm IP, Office 12693, PO Box 15113, Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 2NJ, United Kingdom