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Amy Biancolli

Amy Biancolli's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Houston Chronicle contributor.

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The Secrets (2007) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “The Secrets twines coming-out, coming-of-age and coming-to-terms-with-Orthodoxy in a way that diminishes all three -- and dilutes its message with clichs.” – Houston Chronicle Jan 19, 2017 Full Review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 88% EDIT “In its last third, The Goblet of Fire builds to a climax of such overpowering dread that you might just forget the rest. Harry grows up in an instant, and the film does, too.” – Houston Chronicle Dec 8, 2014 Full Review War of the Buttons (2011) 25% 2/4 EDIT “It does not attempt to provide a complete or even vaguely realistic depiction of the rural French resistance in the endgame to World War II.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 11, 2012 Full Review Argo (2012) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Even though most people know the outcome, this movie still will have you on the edge of your seat.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 11, 2012 Full Review Frankenweenie (2012) 87% 4/4 EDIT “The overall effect is great cinema, good fun, a visual feast for pie-eyed Burton fans - and a terrifically warped reminder of just how freaky a PG film can be.” – San Francisco Chronicle Oct 4, 2012 Full Review The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 85% 4/4 EDIT “Somehow, these imperfections fit. Somehow, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" shouldn't be flawless.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 28, 2012 Full Review Pitch Perfect (2012) 81% 3/4 EDIT “"Pitch Perfect" is major key all the way, a blast of tuneful sugary cheer kicked up with enough tart humor to offset the glucose.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 28, 2012 Full Review Hotel Transylvania (2012) 45% 3/4 EDIT “The film is good goofy fun, even as the plot uncorks a whole lotta nothing.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 28, 2012 Full Review How to Survive a Plague (2012) 98% 4/4 EDIT “When it's over, this documentary lingers as a testament to extraordinary human bravery. It stands as one of the most heartbreaking and suspenseful sagas of the year.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 20, 2012 Full Review 10 Years (2011) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Even the most exhausted, hackneyed and innately annoying genre can yield a film of breezy charm and prickly dramatic consequence.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 20, 2012 Full Review End of Watch (2012) 85% 4/4 EDIT “The best scenes are filmed inside the cruiser, dashboard shots that face inward instead of out, catching Gyllenhaal and Peña in moments so playful and true they make all other buddy cops look bogus by comparison.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 20, 2012 Full Review Arbitrage (2012) 87% 2/4 EDIT “Features an exceedingly dapper Richard Gere in a series of nice suits and handsome close-ups that serve no purpose other than to remind us how exceedingly dapper Richard Gere looks in nice suits and handsome close-ups.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 13, 2012 Full Review Bachelorette (2012) 58% 2/4 EDIT “Headland works hard to reconcile the wild and the tame; if she never quite gets the balance right, ya gotta admire her bold juxtaposition of overdose-resuscitation gags with lessons on self-loathing and bulimia.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 6, 2012 Full Review The Words (2012) 24% 2/4 EDIT “"The Words" is a decent, ambitious, unoriginal film about a decent, ambitious, unoriginal writer. Both aim for greatness. Both fall short.” – San Francisco Chronicle Sep 6, 2012 Full Review For a Good Time, Call ... (2012) 57% 2/4 EDIT “Adheres to those familiar, looping patterns of joy, rancor and revelation that everyone, in the age of Final Draft, have come to expect of a standard comic screenplay.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 31, 2012 Full Review The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012) 32% 1/4 EDIT “The whole thing runs about an hour too long: It should have been a TV show. The adventure's too big for the kids who would love it the most.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 31, 2012 Full Review Sleepwalk With Me (2012) 83% 3/4 EDIT “It all adds up to a fine, funny exercise in disheveled self-deprecation: a self-portrait of a guy who can't control a major portion of his life.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 31, 2012 Full Review Compliance (2012) 89% 3/4 EDIT “We feel like gutless witnesses to a crime.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 23, 2012 Full Review Premium Rush (2012) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Like the lithe and maligned carriers weaving their way through Big Apple traffic, "Premium Rush" is a thin, brash, sinewy thing built entirely for speed.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 23, 2012 Full Review ParaNorman (2012) 89% 3/4 EDIT “The world of Blithe Hollow exists in real space. The residents have real bags under their eyes, real bellies at their belt buckles. Ugliness alternates with rapturous beauty ...” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 16, 2012 Full Review The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) 36% 3/4 EDIT “A sun-dappled, heartwarming family film about a 10-year-old who sprouts out of the garden one magic night. It stars an extraordinary boy, C.J. Adams, with an extraordinary pair of gray eyes that gleam with joy and insight.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 15, 2012 Full Review The Campaign (2012) 66% 3/4 EDIT “Raucous in its send-ups of the moral, financial and sexual peccadilloes of the common political animal.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 9, 2012 Full Review 360 (2011) 19% 2/4 EDIT “Much like its own characters, it dithers too much - and it dares too little.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 9, 2012 Full Review Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) 52% 3/4 EDIT “Real emotions get expressed. Real family harmony emerges.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 2, 2012 Full Review Total Recall (2012) 30% 2/4 EDIT “For all of its dazzlingly rendered cityscapes and nonstop action, this revamped "Total Recall" is a bland thing - bloodless, airless, humorless, featureless. With or without the triple-bosomed prostitute.” – San Francisco Chronicle Aug 2, 2012 Full Review
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