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Gary Thompson

Gary Thompson

Agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

Publications:
Philadelphia Daily News , Philadelphia Inquirer
Total Reviews:
1655

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
2.5/4 —— Changing the Game (2012) Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 16, 2012
1.5/4 66% God Bless America (2012) " You can sympathize with Goldthwait's outrage here, even laugh at some of his jokes, and still wonder whether he's decrying the decline of our culture, or contributing to it." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 10, 2012
2.5/4 44% Restless City (2012) " Violent episodes explode and recede, but without context and emotional connection, they're sometimes just pictures." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 3, 2012
3/4 75% The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) " [Madden directs] a treasure trove of top-notch British actors who bring professionalism and humanity to a leisurely story that never sinks under the weight of a sentimental script." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted May 3, 2012
2.5/4 87% The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) " The figures, materials, and sets are beautifully and intricately designed, so polished it's difficult to tell the models and puppets from the computer-animated figures used to fill out the frame." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 27, 2012
2/4 21% The Raven (2012) " The problem with "The Raven" is that ambitious as it sometimes is, it's never really scary." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 26, 2012
2.5/4 55% Safe (2012) " Yakin wants you to feel (and hear) every broken bone, snapped and cracked skull." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 26, 2012
3/4 74% Chimpanzee (2012) " "Chimpanzee" is a laudable feat of technical prowess and determination..." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 19, 2012
3/4 87% Bully (2012) " What gives Bully its substance and power are the rich, detailed portraits of life at home for the victims..." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
3.5/4 90% The Cabin in the Woods (2012) " The movie is smart, funny, unpredictable, deeply weird, and thoughtfully cast..." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
2.5/4 47% The Three Stooges (2012) " The problem is that you feel the Farrellys' attention to detail may have gotten in the way of the larger mission - to create a workable movie around the central performances." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 12, 2012
3/4 84% The Raid: Redemption (2012) " Die Hard goes condo in The Raid: Redemption, a frenzied Indonesian action movie whose action credentials are through the roof." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 5, 2012
3/4 88% Titanic (in 3D) (2012) " The central love story involving steerage passenger Leonardo DiCaprio and rich girl Kate Winslet has lost none of its luster - metaphorically speaking." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Apr 4, 2012
2.5/4 50% Mirror Mirror (2012) " The cast is very game. Hammer and Roberts have the right attitude, and Collins makes a pretty Snow White." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 30, 2012
2/4 25% Wrath of the Titans (2012) " I'm sure digital artists labored like Hercules to create the meshing gears of this intricate subterranean world, but it feels as mechanical as it looks." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 29, 2012
3/4 84% The Hunger Games (2012) " Lawrence , a rock on which to build a franchise, sells all of this beautifully. Her empathy roots the sci-fi extravaganza in an emotional reality that becomes crucial as the games unfold." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 22, 2012
2.5/4 55% Being Flynn (2012) " What keeps you watching is its gritty look at life in a homeless shelter, the sort of unexpectedly compelling, slice-of-life context that made "The Soloist" so compelling, and so tough to watch." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
2.5/4 44% Casa de mi padre (2012) " Probably too strange for mainstream tastes, but a movie sure to have a cult-movie afterlife." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
3.5/4 85% 21 Jump Street (2012) " Against all odds, "21 Jump Street" is actually pretty funny and lifts movie comedy out of its recent creative rut." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 15, 2012
2/4 76% We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) " You understand the symbolism implied in Kevin's choice of weapon, but I didn't really believe it could work as a WMD." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
2.5/4 63% Friends With Kids (2012) " It's all meant to be a cutting- edge examination of changing times, non-traditional breeding/parenting, but to my eyes there wasn't enough here to distinguish Julie and Jason from their co-habitating friends." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
2.5/4 52% John Carter (2012) " "Carter" is so good-natured, and so goofy, that it's hard to completely dislike. But impossible, I think, to understand." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
2.5/4 67% Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012) " It has the U.K. knack for institutional/bureaucratic satire, and Kristin Scott Thomas has a small, vivid, funny role as a tough-talking politico who manages the project from behind the scenes." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 8, 2012
3.5/4 90% In Darkness (2012) " A grueling but rewarding story of survival." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
2/4 38% Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012) " "Billion Dollar Movie" has the feel of improv that reached for design after the fact, in editing, and never quite found it." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
2.5/4 26% Project X (2012) " "Project X" depicts bad behavior compulsively, and ends weakly." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Mar 1, 2012
4/4 95% Undefeated (2012) " If you can get through this movie dry-eyed, you are made of sterner stuff than I." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 23, 2012
3/4 25% Act of Valor (2012) " [It] raises a sticky question: Should realistic combat look this awesome? Should it be so much fun to watch?" — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 23, 2012
3.5/4 71% Thin Ice (2012) " Director Jill Sprecher and sister/writer Karen Sprecher have applied several layers of plot to their chilly thriller, and it's a kick to watch it play out." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
3.5/4 93% Coriolanus (2011) " Fiennes heads a great cast. Crew cut and scarred, his Coriolanus blends patrician arrogance with the bloodthirsty intensity of the thug he played in "In Bruges."" — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
2/4 25% This Means War (2012) " Watching "This Means War" is like have someone on Ecstasy describe a movie to you in the middle of a rave. It's a date movie if you're dating someone you don't like." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 16, 2012
1/4 12% W.E. (2012) " Finally, a Hollywood feature directed by someone who's performed live at the Super Bowl halftime show." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 9, 2012
2.5/4 54% Safe House (2012) " What kills the movie ... is the script. That's strange, because it was known for years as one of the industry's best unproduced screenplays." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 9, 2012
3/4 85% Chronicle (2012) " This is a movie that understands how to engage its audience - a spoonful of philosophy and a bucket of CGI." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 2, 2012
3/4 65% The Woman in Black (2012) " I haven't seen this many people jump out of their seats since "Jack and Jill," although in this case, people returned." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Feb 2, 2012
3.5/4 89% Miss Bala (2012) Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 27, 2012
2/4 94% Pina (2011) " This seems like a ripping good idea. In practice, "Pina" turns out to have a few problems." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
2.5/4 31% Man on a Ledge (2012) " Completely preposterous, relying on massively improbable twists of fate. The same few crooked cops are assigned to every major police action in the city of New York." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
3.5/4 89% Miss Bala (2012) " You feel the movie's authenticity, throughout the ordeal that leaves Laura brutalized, terrified, confused, abandoned, with nowhere to turn." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
2/4 55% Albert Nobbs (2012) " As for Close, she looks nothing like a man. Nor much like a woman." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
3/4 78% The Grey (2012) " It's a tight thriller helped a great deal by on-location shooting (in British Columbia) that gives the movie a very vivid sense of place and of winter peril." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 26, 2012
3/4 36% Red Tails (2012) " It's awesome." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
2.5/4 80% Haywire (2012) " Five minutes of Carano fighting, 85 minutes of half-baked espionage plotting that nobody, not writer Lem Dobbs or Soderbergh, seems to care much about." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
2.5/4 47% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012) " This is a story invented to exist in a book, and you can feel it resisting the jump to screen." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 19, 2012
2.5/4 40% The Flowers of War (2011) " A strange hybrid of "City of Life and Death" and "Father Goose" that nevertheless, in the hands of Zhang Yimou, musters a few striking moments." — Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 19, 2012
3.5/4 96% Pariah (2011) Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted Jan 13, 2012
2.5/4 54% The Iron Lady (2012) " "The Iron Lady" is keenly attuned to the small indignities of a woman trying to elbow her way into a man's world." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
3.5/4 96% Pariah (2011) " Part of what makes "Pariah" exceptional is its skill at mapping family dynamics." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
2/4 72% Carnage (2011) " This has black comedy potential, but "Carnage" is less gruesome fun that it might have been, and for a surprising reason - the performances." — Philadelphia Daily News
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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