Alan Mattli
@alanmattli.bsky.social
Film critic for Filmbulletin. By-lines in Maximum Cinema, Swissinfo, Filmexplorer, MUBI Notebook, and Filmmaker Magazine. University of Zurich American literature post-doc. Loves cats. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.
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A ★★ review of Hamnet (2025)
There's a beautiful sonnet by Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy that takes as its point of departure perhaps the most well-known fact about William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway – that, in his will, Sh...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Yeah, it's not a bad list per se! Just an extremely weird (non-)range of choices for someone who's built his public persona around being some sort of hypereclectic cinephile savant.
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Yeah, it's not a bad list per se! Just an extremely weird (non-)range of choices for someone who's built his public persona around being some sort of hypereclectic cinephile savant.
Favourite first-time watches in November:
Pulse (2001)
Chime (2024)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
We Believe You (2025)
Beating Hearts (2024)
Pipes (2022)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Elio (2025)
Pulse (2001)
Chime (2024)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
We Believe You (2025)
Beating Hearts (2024)
Pipes (2022)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Elio (2025)
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Favourite first-time watches in November:
Pulse (2001)
Chime (2024)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
We Believe You (2025)
Beating Hearts (2024)
Pipes (2022)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Elio (2025)
Pulse (2001)
Chime (2024)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
We Believe You (2025)
Beating Hearts (2024)
Pipes (2022)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025)
Elio (2025)
All in all, probably not worth all that Netflix money. Kind of giving the game away when a not insignigicant part of the mid-season cliffhanger is just the finale cliffhanger from the previous season again.
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All in all, probably not worth all that Netflix money. Kind of giving the game away when a not insignigicant part of the mid-season cliffhanger is just the finale cliffhanger from the previous season again.
I'm glad they finally gave Will something to do.
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm glad they finally gave Will something to do.
Way too many scenes where characters discuss plans like they're STRANGER THINGS writers trying to weasel their way out of the lore corner they've written themselves into, and this should not be four hours long – but there are some fun set pieces snd character moments.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Way too many scenes where characters discuss plans like they're STRANGER THINGS writers trying to weasel their way out of the lore corner they've written themselves into, and this should not be four hours long – but there are some fun set pieces snd character moments.
This early-80s home-movie footage in episode four is shot like 2000s home-movie footage and it's bugging the annoying pedant in me.
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This early-80s home-movie footage in episode four is shot like 2000s home-movie footage and it's bugging the annoying pedant in me.