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Adam Keleman

Adam Keleman

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:
Globe and Mail , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
43

Best Reviewed Films

Showing 1 - 35 of 35
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3.5/4 98% How to Train Your Dragon (2010) " Dragon's tolerant heart brings back new life to the otherwise stale DreamWorks animation department." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 26, 2010
3.5/4 94% In the Loop (2009) " Armando Iannucci's debut feature In The Loop carries on the staggering comedic traditions of its source material, his critically embraced BBC series The Thick of It, hardly ever missing a step." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2009
3/4 100% Racing Dreams (2010) " Curry has expertly stitched together a 90-minute triumph in crowd-pleasing, wholesome entertainment." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2010
3/4 86% Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) " Now a 3D animated film, adapted to the screen by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Cloudy looks to work similar magic on a new generation." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2009
3/4 —— Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009) " The principal strength of Wassef's debut is its delicate, revealing look at Marina's life." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2009
3/4 76% Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) " Spread out over 33 years and framed almost entirely in three crucial, tension-filled scenes, Oliver Hirschbiegel's Five Minutes of Heaven dissects the intersection of two men's lives in the aftermath of wartime and sectarian conflict." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2009
3/4 —— Shadow Billionaire (2009) " A vivid tale of deceitful, sexual obsession." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2009
3/4 77% The Garden (2008) " The documentary digs deep into the racial and monetary problems of a tumultuous, melting-pot community." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2009
3/4 71% An Englishman in New York (2009) " This fresh look at the gay culture and its desired goals establishes profound insight into what it means to be a true-to-spirit man these days, no matter if he happens to wear a little lipstick and maybe a scarf or two." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 3, 2009
3/4 92% Under the Sea 3D (2009) " Strictly fodder for the preteen set, Under the Sea 3D, the latest IMAX deep-sea-dive exploration (brought to you by the fisheye's point of view), is expectedly rudimentary but a splendor to watch." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2009
2.5/4 0% Raajneeti (2010) " The partly stiff-acting and tear-inducing reveals shroud the film's more earnest efforts at dissecting the bureaucratic, back-alley dealings." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2010
2.5/4 40% Don McKay (2010) " Jake Goldberger has lassoed a great cast to ham it up in this comical homage to Billy Wilder's classic noirs Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2010
2.5/4 50% Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (2009) " Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans, providing food for thought and animated thrills for adults and kids alike." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 22, 2009
2.5/4 58% Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) " From an outsider's perspective, Died Young is thorough, diving into minor, specific details like the silkscreen process used by many of the artists." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2009
2.5/4 —— Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story (2009) " The film is as insubstantial and irrelevant as the group itself, providing no probing insight into its ultimate purpose and function, or how they managed to survive all these years." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 4, 2009
2.5/4 —— Dazzle (Oogverblindend) () " Dazzle reveals the crack in the walls of humanity, delicately reflecting upon man's inability to survive when emotional burden becomes too much to handle." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 10, 2009
2.5/4 67% Alexander the Last (2009) " Part of that restless, productive team of mumblecore savants, Swanberg allows his actors to do what they do best: act." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2009
2/4 40% Middle Men (2010) " Pretty much proffers everything you can want in a film based on the upstart company that brought porn to a computer screen near you. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2010
2/4 71% The Parking Lot Movie (2010) " What's missing from the film is a real feel-the quiet moments of daily conduct-for the parking lot itself and its inhabitants." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 3, 2010
2/4 20% Red Alert: The War Within (2010) " Red Alert overtly hammers away ideas about corrupt bureaucracy squashing the little man." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 8, 2010
2/4 22% Planet 51 (2009) " The film fails at creating characters with credible emotional textures, a task easily, and vividly, demonstrated by Pixar time and time again." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2009
2/4 72% The Boys Are Back (2009) " Despite buoyant performances from its cast and an excellent score by Sigur Rós, cloying sentimentality is in heavy supply throughout Scott Hick's adaptation of Simon Carr's memoir." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2009
2/4 59% Phoebe in Wonderland (2009) " The taxing whimsy of Phoebe in Wonderland proves more grating than poignantly escapist." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2009
1.5/4 56% Calvin Marshall (2010) " Director Gary Lundgren's Calvin Marshall eventually falls flat in its heavy-handed efforts to score an emotional homerun." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 30, 2010
1.5/4 70% Ramona and Beezus (2010) " At over 100 minutes, Ramona and Beezus is a hefty cinematic effort to get through, especially considering how audience-surveyed and clichéd the film proves" — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2010
1.5/4 62% Raavanan (Villain) (2010) " Somewhat succeeding as a specimen of pulpy, viscerally lavishing moviemaking, but largely weighed down by overly sentimental subplots, mostly thin characters, and an aural onslaught of a score." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 17, 2010
1.5/4 12% Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) " A somewhat amusing yet trite example of the modern-day screwball comedy." — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2009
1.5/4 64% Dare (2009) " Dare is substandard fare by all accounts, plucking its characters from past (and better) teen-angst films." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2009
1.5/4 15% The Other Man (2008) " The film is filled with good-on-paper moments that build up and slowly tighten like a knot but usually end in a whimper." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2009
1.5/4 26% The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) " A mean-spirited nightmare of throwaway gags." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 13, 2009
1/4 57% Bran Nue Dae (2010) " Trite, silly, and grating are all apt words to describe the cinematic buffoonery of Rachel Perkin's Bran Nue Dae, a flimsy excuse for a nostalgic musical that shoots for playful satire but ultimately proves staggeringly impotent. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 13, 2010
1/4 17% Love Happens (2009) " Eckhart operates on cruise control, but the performance can't be helped as the screenplay is insincere and the overall tone of the film is inconsistent." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2009
20% Stay Cool (2011) " This is thoroughly a family affair, but with the Polish brothers' upcoming film Manure just around the corner, Stay Cool feels a bit rushed, suggesting nothing more than an homage to Pretty in Pink or Some Kind of Wonderful." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 3, 2009
1/4 31% Bob Funk (2009) " Playing the misogynistic, bar-hopping, impulsive, titular irritant, Campbell's thespy histrionics come off as truly labored." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2009
.5/4 0% Echelon Conspiracy (2009) " Simply a case of we've-seen-this-before-and-better (at least Sandra Bullock's The Net had camp value), Conspiracy flimsily masquerades as a ticking bomb but is ultimately sans heart-pounding jolts." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2009
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