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Blake Howard

Agrees with the Tomatometer 86% of the time.

Biography:: AU 2UE Radio critic
Publications:: 2UE That Movie Show

Total Reviews:: 169
Total QuickRatings:: 1

Location:: AU

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3.5/5	52%	Broken (2013)	" Broken takes a toxic suburbia and tenderly examines the fallout." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 29, 2013
1/5	48%	Olympus Has Fallen (2013)	" Olympus Has Fallen is the stupid, dark fantasy of backward white trash America that needs another domestic threat to trigger war. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 26, 2013
1/5	78%	Thérèse Desqueyroux (2013)	" THERESE DESQUEYROUX is an early feminist suffrage text, except instead of the heroine suffering it's the audience." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 26, 2013
4.5/5	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Iron Man 3 is the Marvel film-verse breaking new ground, and it's easily the best of the trilogy." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 24, 2013
3.5/5	88%	Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)	" It's a rousing adventure and Abrams has laid the platform for a healthy and long lasting franchise." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 23, 2013
0.5/5	20%	Identity Thief (2013)	" Identity Thief molests the idea of the 'odd couple' beyond recognition." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 11, 2013
3/5	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" Oblivion succeeds, not for its originality, but by firing the pillars of modern sci-fi cinema through Kosinski's sensory prism." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Apr 10, 2013
1.5/5	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" Jack and the Giant Slayer is yet another passionless money grab that doesn't deserve the talent who just had the golden goose 'decorate' their resume." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Mar 15, 2013
1/5	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" Just like Dorothy's technicolour journey before, this trip through Oz is once again smeared by this ill deserving charlatan." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Mar 15, 2013
2.5	79%	Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012)	" HK:DOAS is a beautifully artistic, yet unflinching revenge film; distorted by unnecessary 3D and 45 minutes of additional runtime." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Mar 15, 2013
5/5	68%	Trance (2013)	" Trance is a lucid cinematic dream that combines popcorn entertainment with artistic style and brains. It's the gold standard for 2013 that all other films are going to have to live up to. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Mar 12, 2013
4.5/5	98%	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012)	" It's not one documentary that you'd care to endure on repeat viewings but it's a necessary investigation into the paedophilic petri dish that the Catholic Church allowed itself to become. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Mar 6, 2013
4.5/5	95%	West of Memphis (2012)	" West of Memphis caps off the Paradise Lost/West Memphis Three saga with a line up full of perpetrators including the media, the West Memphis PD, the legal establishment and suspect gift wrapped with a smoking gun." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Feb 28, 2013
5/5	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" Cloud Atlas is like nothing I've ever seen before. It's a bold cinematic treasure from a brave collaborative filmmaking collective." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Feb 28, 2013
4.5/5	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Silver Linings Playbook is defined by the positive decisions that are made in the face of imperfection, desperation, and the desolate wasteland of your world in pieces." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Feb 23, 2013
1.5/5	14%	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)	" Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters has the hypnotic allure of a candy-coated house but in reality, it's a diabetic coma. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 30, 2013
4/5	79%	Flight (2012)	" As each new chapter of Flight unfolds, you expect it to take a turn toward the generic and schmaltz. Thankfully Zemeckis, Gatins and Washington don't let up this liberating free-fall to rock-bottom." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 27, 2013
5/5	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" it's fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche - only to set loose a bad motherfcker to set it right." — 2UE That Movie Show* Posted Jan 24, 2013
1.5	47%	The Sweeney (2013)	" The Sweeney is a parasitic tapeworm, masquerading as a British crime epic." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 23, 2013
2/5	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" ...being point blank for Brolin delivering the horrendous dialogue coaxed me to exclaim aloud - "this guy is dumb as a post."" — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 21, 2013
5/5	90%	Hunger (2009)	" In the desolate surrounds of a prison environment that affronts humanity McQueen finds the redemptive struggles, and unrelenting spirit in the feces smeared walls of a British prison." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 21, 2013
4.5/5	87%	ParaNorman (2012)	" ParaNorman is style, substance, [delicious] brains and a huge [cold dead] heart." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 17, 2013
1.5/5	38%	The Guilt Trip (2012)	" The Guilt Trip fundamentally doesn't work because the, 'showbiz royalty,' aura that surrounds Streisand is antithetical to the modest working class mother that she's trying to play." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 15, 2013
2/5	45%	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)	" You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is the amnesiac relative of Allen's body of work. It's wearing the fleshy mask of all that you love; but conducts itself with an abrasive and frightened detachment." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 15, 2013
4.5/5	77%	Killer Joe (2012)	" Killer Joe is America at its worst but Friedkin and McConaghey at very close to their best." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 11, 2013
4/5	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey had me with the dulcet melancholy of displaced Dwarves, yearning to be home." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 8, 2013
5/5	86%	Heat (1995)	" The conversation in Heat is one of the most perfectly executed and eloquently intertextual moments in the history of American Cinema." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 2, 2013
5/5	94%	The Dark Knight (2008)	" The glimpse into the Joker's darkness during his documented torture scene is a credit to the devastatingly lost potential of Heath Ledger. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 2, 2013
5/5	94%	No Country for Old Men (2007)	" Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel was blessed with a usually impossible faithful adaption that translated the power of the words and weaved them into cinema." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 2, 2013
5/5	99%	Apocalypse Now (1979)	" With a famously horrific and documentary inspiring shoot it's almost unfathomable how Francis Ford Coppolla managed to harness the chaotic energy into one of the most potent examinations of war and masculinity to ever grace celluloid. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 2, 2013
5/5	78%	Predator (1987)	" It's the perfect blend of explosive machismo and thrills where the setting is almost as ominous as the terrifying extra-terrestrial villain." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Jan 2, 2013
4.5	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" This is 40 is his [Apatow's] graduation, leaving him totally exposed - and you're at your funniest when your pants are down." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 30, 2012
5/5	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Spectacular performances, brilliant direction and tight scripting are all weaved into visual prose and potent source material to make Zero Dark Thirty not only great, but important." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 30, 2012
4/5	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" ...the moment to moment of the unparalleled craziness that experimental narrative, character dexterity and into the depths of McDonagh's necessary second album psychosis." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 30, 2012
4.5/5	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Lincoln is a performance masterclass. Spielberg humanises the icon and admires Lincoln the man - in the face of the challenges that defined him. It's a special effort in the capable hands of a legend." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 30, 2012
2.5	63%	Hitchcock (2012)	" Unfortunately an illuminating bio-pic of one of cinema's most enduring and celebrated figures is not what's been delivered." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 26, 2012
3/5	79%	Quartet (2013)	" Hoffman's lens adores his performers. His debut lavishes his two leads Courtenay and Smith with key dramatic and cinematic spaces to shine. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 14, 2012
4/5	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Life of Pi is a beautiful allegory about living with faith in the face on unfathomable tests. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 11, 2012
3.5/5	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" Jack Reacher is an above average crime thriller and it could be the beginning of a beautiful collaboration between McQuarrie and Cruise." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 10, 2012
4.5/5	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Hooper's Les Miserables is a game changer. Cinematic musicals won't pass muster unless they're aiming for this new gold standard." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 10, 2012
3.5/5	69%	Liberal Arts (2012)	" Liberal Arts is about going back in time in order to move forward. In so many moments Radnor could have taken disturbing and frustrating turns - and yet it's resistance and maturity saved it. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 7, 2012
1.5/5	51%	Trouble with the Curve (2012)	" Randy Brown's script is a luddite fantasy that has Eastwood grumbling and telling technology to get off his baseball diamond..." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Dec 6, 2012
0.5/5	26%	Fun Size (2012)	" Fun Size is the Nickelodeon equivalent of a Hallmark card for Halloween. Even the target audience will be asking their parents when it's polite to dispose of it after the holiday. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 25, 2012
5/5	85%	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)	" It's adolescent life, without the gloss but the resonant joy of freeze-framed fist pumps." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 22, 2012
0/5	48%	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)	" Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 is an unredeemable waste of time and money. Like the vampire characters it's utterly lifeless and yet by that monstrous twist of fate - it exists. " — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 16, 2012
4/5	86%	Wreck-it Ralph (2012)	" Wreck-it Ralph, under the keen executive producer eye of Pixar titan John Lasseter, is what would happen if Toy Story & Shrek had a video game lovechild." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 14, 2012
3/5	67%	God Bless America (2012)	" God Bless America opens strong but finishes with a preachy bludgeoning." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 13, 2012
4/5	87%	Robot & Frank (2012)	" Robot and Frank poses those big sci-fi, existential questions but with the bedside manner of a carer." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 13, 2012
3/5	85%	End of Watch (2012)	" End of Watch is elevated on the shoulders of its leads and their harsh reality; until the filmmakers drop it on its head and reduce it to a frustrating 'Hollywood' cop film." — 2UE That Movie Show Posted Nov 13, 2012

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