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Jericho Tadeo
Tomatometer-approved critic
Jericho Tadeo is a freelance film critic and interviewer based in Toronto, Canada. He is a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and the co-owner of The Asian Cut. He is also a regular contributor at MovieWeb.
Movies reviews only
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Egoist (2022) |
The problem is that the film fails to cement Kosuke as the titular egoist. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Mother Saigon (2023) |
Some of the most striking imagery the film offers are the nightclub scenes, where we see the queer subjects, who trudge through the day like regular folks, come to life with extravagant outfits, shiny costumes, and breathtaking makeup. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Desire Lines (2024) |
Desire Lines is, at once, a steamy and insightful investigation of the space where gender expression and sexual orientation intersect. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Raging Grace (2023) |
Raging Grace is effectively a solid and chilling debut from Zarcilla. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Persian Version (2023) |
As The Persian Version flits back and forth between the past and present and between America and Iran, we see how even the slightest change in perspective can allow us to see, perhaps even appreciate, a situation in a whole new light. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Queen of My Dreams (2023) |
The Queen of My Dreams dares us to dare, inspires us to connect, and, above all, reminds us to call our moms more often. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Happy Together (1997) |
Happy Together is still a once-in-a-lifetime movie - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Joy Ride (2023) |
Hilarious, heartfelt, and horny - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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One True Loves (2023) |
One Trues Loves tries — perhaps too hard — to be a timeless love story, but where nuance is needed to pull audiences in, it instead chooses melodrama. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Return to Seoul (2022) |
Return to Seoul may seem like a quiet film at first...but, in truth, the film is deceptively devastating in its examination — to a forensic degree in some aspects — of its protagonist’s heart and soul. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Plan 75 (2022) |
Baishô is the film’s lighthouse: as Plan 75’s emotional waves come crashing down — because the film inevitably does reach a harrowing climax — we can’t help but look to her for hope. - The Asian Cut
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Fancy Dance (2023) |
Fancy Dance isn't just a triumphant narrative debut for the director — it's an arrival. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Beacon (2024) |
Part of the magic of Beacon lies in its onscreen duo who complement each other perfectly. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Solo (2023) |
The film shows us that the creative spirit cannot be killed, no matter how hard external forces may try. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Coma (2022) |
Bonello's film is a deeply affecting artifact of sorts: a text that is very clearly situated in a certain time, but with an exposed beating heart that's eternal, ripe for analysis, and, in turn, a launchpad for self-reflection. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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In Flames (2023) |
While In Flames fulfills its promise of thrills, it also offers a story brimming with heart. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Femme (2023) |
It succeeds precisely because it is gay. The film's inherent disruption of tradition speaks to the essence of queer existence, defying the rules placed before them and resisting easy categorization. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Desert Road (2024) |
Triplett...offers a perspective on genre filmmaking that, particularly in the realm of sci-fi, is instantly unique and exciting. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Dìdi (2024) |
More than just going through the coming-of-age motions, however, Wang actively contends with the form itself; the audience, like the characters themselves, must earn the happy ending. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Drift (2023) |
There's an important message about community being telegraphed here, but the story doesn't spare enough time for it to really land. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Frida (2024) |
Here, "bringing to life" Kahlo's work robs the art, at times, of the opportunity to stand on its own. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sebastian (2024) |
Sebastian shows us that sex, intimacy, and pleasure, especially when it comes to queer bodies, can be empowering. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sujo (2024) |
This idea of being unable to escape one's fate looms over Sujo...and though it doesn't offer an outright answer to the debate, its meditation on the matter makes for a gripping coming-of-age drama. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
What's most remarkable about Thelma is that, underneath the action movie echoes, there is a reverberating declaration of self. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Dicks: The Musical (2023) |
A decidedly 21st-Century film brimming with timely pop-cultural references that, at the same time, feels like a classical Hollywood musical. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Strange Way of Life (2023) |
The film offers its share of dirt and denim, brute force and fist-fighting, and a nerve-wracking stand-off. It plays by the classic genre's rules, for sure, but it ultimately suggests that there's still storytelling territory waiting to be explored. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Critic (2023) |
the plot presents too many players and takes too many turns with their arcs and motivations that the stories that could have been essentially never go anywhere. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Memory (2023) |
Sarsgaard bares body and soul as Saul, presenting to us a broken man without ever once demanding pity. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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After the Fire (2023) |
a moving story about a family coming together when the odds are against them - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The New Boy (2023) |
Many movies with religious themes often turn inwards...The New Boy instead takes it outward, offering a subtle, though no less powerful, battle of wills between Sister Eileen's Christianity and the New Boy's Indigenous beliefs. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Lee (2023) |
Ugly and uncomfortable as it can be, the truth of history, and historical truth, must be the only way forward. This is what Ellen Kuras' newest film, Lee, shows us. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Holdovers (2023) |
Giamatti and Payne are a movie match made in heaven - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Seven Veils (2023) |
Seyfried is sublime in walking the tightrope between impassioned artist and woman-on-the-verge. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
offers a uniquely poignant, and at times darkly funny, portrait of the highs and lows of sisterhood - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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My Animal (2023) |
charters a somewhat atypical route, favoring mood and the exploration of our lead characters' internal lives over traditional gore and body horror. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Aloners (2021) |
Hong Sung-eun's feature directorial debut, Aloners, epitomizes the idea that cinema can be a universal language. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Women in the Front Seat (2023) |
An uplifting account of a diverse group of women motorcycle riders who, against the odds and rules forced upon them, found their passion and their drive both on and off the road. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sisu (2022) |
It takes itself seriously enough to string together a blood-drenched action thrill ride...but doesn't necessarily burden itself too much with matters of realism, probability, or even, when it comes to certain ballistic patterns, physics. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Passion (2008) |
Passion effectively historicizes its director's curiosities as a young filmmaker...essentially providing a time travel-trail of bread crumbs of the themes and ideas that would continue to pop up in his later films. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Fremont (2023) |
Fremont ultimately asserts that life is messy, random, and bound to hurt, but it also reminds us that we gain nothing from standing by and letting it pass. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Cassandro (2023) |
A touching biopic where camp meets verisimilitude - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Fairyland (2023) |
Fairyland is the little film the could, and Durham the perfect conductor to transport us across three decades of San Francisco's queer history, never losing steam, intention, or, most importantly, heart. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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L'immensità (2022) |
sits firmly at the intersection of the pain of adolescence, the sliding scale of strength and fragility that is family, and the epiphanic moment of self-actualization - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) |
Sometimes I Think About Dying isn't a declaration of one woman's defeat, but instead an examination — at times, a confession even — of what everyone is thinking: being a person can sometimes be very hard. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Inspection (2022) |
Bratton's film makes the argument that, amidst the brutality of war (and in training for it), strength can also be found in and built upon vulnerability and empathy. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Soft & Quiet (2022) |
All we're left with by the end of the film is anger, death, and, especially for racialized audiences, trauma. More significantly, and detrimentally as far as the movie-watching experience goes, we're left with nothing we didn't already know. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Eternal Spring (2022) |
Eternal Spring succeeds as history made tangible, shareable, and, of utmost importance here, personal. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022) |
Between the Hallmark-y score and certain narrative beats that, in literary form, may read as engrossing, but, on-screen, err towards the overly sugary, Fikry can't seem to find its place between the grounded and the grandiose. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sidney (2022) |
"Revolutionary" is a word that gets thrown around and carelessly tacked on to a lot of things, but it is precisely the best word to describe Poitier as an artist and activist. Sidney triumphs in reminding us of why exactly that is. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
What Spielberg spotlights about cinema and filmmaking here, above the business and politics that inevitably come with it, is the sheer joy and wonder of the medium. - MovieWeb
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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