Joshua Polanski

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Oct 21, 2026 The problem is ... [there is only one] tool in the toolkit for Fielder and Oppenheim as they are seduced by their own game. And once you see through this formal myopia, you see everything. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 98% - -

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Oct 21, 2026 Musk is less of a biographical exposé of a real-life Icarus flying too close to the sun than it is a (mostly) live-action documentary dramatization of a comic book villain come to life. Go to Full Review Musk (2026) 96% - -

Joshua Polanski There Were No Gods Left Oct 5, 2026 Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is both a hopeful and incredible war picture. It is rousing and galvanizing as much as it is heartwarming and heart-wrenching. Go to Full Review Once Upon a Time in the Middle East (2026) 100% - -

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Sep 29, 2026 It’s much easier to go mainstream when the characters reflect the mainstream Go to Full Review Take Off (Fei Xing Jia) (2025) - - - -

Joshua Polanski There Were No Gods Left Sep 22, 2026 John Wilson is the Jonas Mekas of the ensh--tification era. Go to Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 97% - -

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Sep 18, 2026 By sharing their own account with the world, the author raises his middle finger one last time, an affirmation that Salman Rushdie will never be silenced. Go to Full Review Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) 97% - -

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Sep 15, 2026 A beautifully preposterous foray into science fiction. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 79% - -

Joshua Polanski Midwest Film Journal Sep 14, 2026 Maybe it’s fitting that Lang’s most dictatorially stylized film is, in fact, about a power-hungry "dictator." Go to Full Review The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) 86% 90%

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Sep 14, 2026 [Gael] García Bernal cannibalizes every actor he performs alongside. Go to Full Review Hombre al agua (2026) 63% - -

Joshua Polanski Boston Hassle Sep 14, 2026 Rafael Manuel leverages every ounce of ... class-charged symbolic oppressiveness in his scoldingly politically observant debut feature film Filipiñana. Go to Full Review Filipiñana (2026) 90% - -

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Aug 29, 2026 How to Divorce During the War [is poetic]... in [its understanding] that something as quotidian as grammar might occupy our attention in a time of war. Go to Full Review How to Divorce During the War (2026) 100% - -

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Aug 26, 2026 Colony is the second-best zombie film Yeon Sang-ho has made thus far. And that may not sound like the most urgent praise, but it is also just the second-best zombie film. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -

Joshua Polanski Bay Area Reporter Aug 26, 2026 Young people, regardless of their country’s political power, must be afforded the opportunity to live in order to be free. Cocoon understands this. Go to Full Review Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood (2025) - - - -

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Aug 26, 2026 There is nothing new under the Further’s sun. Go to Full Review Insidious: Out of the Further (2026) 58% - -

Joshua Polanski In Review Online Aug 17, 2026 KATSEYE: Wild Hearts is best watched with a six-inch rectangular distraction in hand. Go to Full Review KATSEYE: Wild Hearts (2026) - - - -

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Aug 17, 2026 Contemporary cinema’s greatest humanist has turned a Roomba into a stoic boy. Go to Full Review Sheep in the Box (2026) 43% - -

Joshua Polanski There Were No Gods Left Aug 8, 2026 It is indicative of the inner-Romantic within Ryoo to make sense of a world that still has a trace of hope: the revelation of the truth as inevitable as a peaceful peninsula and gun taekwondo in the films of Ryoo Seung-wan. Go to Full Review Veteran (2015) 90% 79%

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Aug 3, 2026 It’s ambitious, stylish, and a must-see debut film. Go to Full Review Fucktoys (2025) 97% - -

Joshua Polanski There Were No Gods Left Jul 26, 2026 While [Shinji] Higuchi is an adept enough filmmaker to deliver a high-stress and satisfyingly entertaining train movie, his latest loses sight of its own strengths and crashes before the titular train when it abandons its socio-political themes. Go to Full Review Bullet Train Explosion (2025) 65% - -

Joshua Polanski The Rapidian Jul 23, 2026 A surprisingly brisk 90 minutes, the pickleball comedy embraces the quirky and shows no shame in doing it. Something is empowering about its chutzpah to unabashedly be a little dorky. Go to Full Review The Dink (2026) 76% - -