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Carla Meyer

Carla Meyer

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography:
Film Critic, San Francisco Chronicle
Publications:
Dallas Morning News , Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle
Critics' Group:
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Total Reviews:
692

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3.5/4 98% Gravity (2013) " The year's great cinematic visual achievement." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " Never before has Gordon-Levitt disappeared into character as he does here." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Sep 27, 2013
1.5/4 31% Austenland (2013) " Austenland needs lessons on how a proper spoof should behave." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2.5/4 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " For parents who must accompany them to the film, there's good news as well: It's far from the worst movie ever, and it lasts only 95 minutes." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 30, 2013
3/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Oprah Winfrey is great at everything. This is no news flash, but it's as apparent as ever when watching Lee Daniels' The Butler." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 23, 2013
4/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Teller and director Ponsoldt have crafted a character who only grows more sympathetic as the complications below his sunny exterior are revealed." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 23, 2013
3/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Jasmine is unlikable, but Blanchett makes you feel her pain, anyway, because she's so subtly yet devastatingly good at showing that pain." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/4 68% Elysium (2013) " The violence in Elysium is stark and cruel, befitting a film about a divided society." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 9, 2013
3/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " A triumph of bad taste and good casting, the very funny road comedy We're the Millers benefits from Jason Sudeikis' sleaze and Jennifer Aniston's lack thereof." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Fruitvale Station's arrival in theaters corresponds with the outcry over the Trayvon Martin case. But Fruitvale did not need added relevancy to be remarkable." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jul 26, 2013
2.5/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " You ride along with inconsistencies because Ranger is building toward a final showdown. When that showdown disappoints, you feel every minute of the film's 2 1/2-hour length." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jul 1, 2013
3/4 67% World War Z (2013) " Pitt has hidden his inner John Wayne-Bruce Willis for too long. In the highly engaging World War Z, he proves to be a capable, winning and -- in the great American film tradition -- exceptionally hard-to-kill action hero." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 21, 2013
2.5/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Man of Steel contains little fun apart from the visceral thrill of seeing objects smashed in one of its endless action sequences." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 13, 2013
4/4 95% Stories We Tell (2013) " The great conceit of Polley's theories of perspective and truth is that she, as director, ultimately controlled everyone's memories because she arranged them on film." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 7, 2013
3.5/4 93% Frances Ha (2013) " A celebration of cinema, New York City and the distinctive charms of actress Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha was co-written by Gerwig and its director, Noah Baumbach, and it's the best film either has made." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2.5/4 38% Admission (2013) " The tone and story lack such solidity. Opportunities for moments between Portia and Jeremiah go wasted." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 31, 2013
2/4 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " "Spring Breakers" might engender multiple viewings and a cult status à la "Scarface." Korine, unfortunately, jumps the gun by frequently repeating lines of Franco's dialogue in voiceover, as if "Spring Breakers" already is on repeat." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
47% Phil Spector (2013) " The movie broadens from Spector's legal case into larger explorations of prejudices people can harbor about celebrities and eccentrics. The result is a thoughtful, sometimes fascinating, purposefully inconclusive character study." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
3/4 59% Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) " The funny, warm-hearted "Wizard of Oz" prequel "Oz the Great and Powerful" veers far enough from the Yellow Brick Road paved by the original film to avoid dangerous direct comparisons." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
4/4 93% Zero Dark Thirty (2013) " "Zero Dark Thirty" shows guts in taking on loaded subject matter and filmmaking confidence and skill in not telling us how we should feel about it." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
2.5/4 89% Lincoln (2012) " Spielberg and Kushner lend the House scenes so much vigor that "Lincoln" comes fully alive for about half an hour. Then Spielberg tacks on three addenda, and thus dissipates the good will that has developed on both sides of the movie-theater aisle." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
4/4 87% Life of Pi (2012) " Teenage acting newcomer Suraj Sharma, discovered through a casting call in India, gives Pi an earnestness and toughness that ground this elaborate story." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 28, 2013
65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) " "Unexpected Journey" runs nearly three hours. That gives Jackson plenty of time to revive its magic [which he does] by triggering our good will toward the "Rings" trilogy. He evokes the trilogy's tone and its rhythms." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 24, 2013
2/4 88% Django Unchained (2012) " The fear, anger and betrayal in Jackson's eyes, when Stephen feels his place is threatened, says more about the cruelties of slavery than the ultra- violent, sickening passages of "Django Unchained."" — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 23, 2013
3.5/4 92% Skyfall (2012) " It is not the breath of fresh air that was 2006's "Casino Royale," but it is nearly as satisfying." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 23, 2013
4/4 85% The Master (2012) " The film never lags. It is too gorgeous, too expertly acted, and above all, too well directed and written. Nearly devoid of exposition, "The Master" unfolds seamlessly and naturally." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 23, 2013
3/4 73% The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) " The bigger standouts are scenes of character transformation. these moments alone are worth the price of admission. They are the reason to keep seeing summer blockbusters on a big screen. There are few new ideas, but still plenty of new thrills. " — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 23, 2013
3.5/4 88% The Dark Knight Rises (2012) " Gloom never looked as good as it does in the mesmerizing "The Dark Knight Rises."" — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 17, 2013
3.5/4 84% The Hunger Games (2012) " The filmmakers' devotion to Collins' page-turner will please the book's fans and anyone who likes action, sci-fi, social commentary or a female protagonist with smarts, compassion and survival skills." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 17, 2013
3.5/4 82% The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) " "Place Beyond the Pines" will not lift spirits. Yet there are hints of hope attached to the film's view that change is possible -- if people can just get out of their own way." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 17, 2013
3/4 78% Brave (2012) " The movie's thoughtful depiction of the mother-daughter bond is female-forward enough to mark "Brave" as special." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 17, 2013
49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " Given how much better the movie's calmer, more emotional scenes play than the hyper-kinetic ones, Luhrmann's visual fervor suggests less of a style than a crisis of confidence." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 9, 2013
2.5/4 79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Often entertaining yet exhausting." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 2, 2013
— —— The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (1999) — San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Apr 4, 2011
2.5/4 43% The Proposal (2009) " The Proposal often lies flat where it should spark, with director Fletcher failing to maximize her talented cast's potential. The timing is off in several scenes, and a would-be outrageous character inspires more eye rolls than laughs." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 19, 2009
2/4 50% The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) " Pelham 1 2 3 ultimately plays as too old-school and low- tech to compete with the summer's other big action films." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 12, 2009
2/4 64% The Girlfriend Experience (2009) " Steven Soderbergh's study of a high-priced Manhattan call girl through the prism of the economic crisis, is meta enough to intrigue yet too removed to truly engage." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 5, 2009
2.5/4 79% The Hangover (2009) " It distinguishes itself from other what-happens-in-Vegas comedies (practically a subgenre at this point) by setting an especially vivid scene and telling an actual story instead of pasting together random shenanigans the way many modern comedies do." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Jun 5, 2009
2/4 66% The Brothers Bloom (2009) " Rarely allowing substance to interfere with style, filmmaker Rian Johnson occasionally amuses but mostly frustrates with his con-job fantasia The Brothers Bloom." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 29, 2009
4/4 98% Up (2009) " With Ratatouille, WALL-E and now Up, Pixar Animation Studios has graduated from moviedom's finest animation house to its most consistent producer of great cinematic art, period." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 29, 2009
3/4 43% Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) " Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian throws everything -- history, high jinks, lots of famous faces in supporting roles -- at the museum walls to see what sticks. Happily, much of it does." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 22, 2009
33% Terminator Salvation (2009) " Christian Bale should have taken a vacation instead." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 21, 2009
3/4 73% Rudo y Cursi (2009) " The lead characters might flirt with spiritual and emotional ruin, but Cuarón's filming style is so lively, and Luna and García Bernal's performances so full of energy, that the picture is fun even when it probably shouldn't be." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 15, 2009
2/4 37% Angels & Demons (2009) " Angels & Demons might cause controversy among viewers who like their Tom Hanks films to be of some substance." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 15, 2009
3.5/4 95% Star Trek (2009) " Abrams' Star Trek strikes a beautiful balance, with enough allusions to Trek mythology to please longtime fans and enough 21st century verve to wow even those viewers who know nothing of Star Trek." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 8, 2009
2.5/4 38% X-Men Origins - Wolverine (2009) " Another action film that doesn't fulfill its potential." — Sacramento Bee
Posted May 1, 2009
3/4 56% The Soloist (2009) " Downey, Foxx and director Joe Wright ultimately pierce the more artificial elements to deliver an unusually perceptive film." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Apr 24, 2009
89% Sin Nombre (2009) " A very southern modern Western, the Spanish-language Sin Nombre offers a treacherous frontier, a conflicted outlaw and fine performances by actors with whom the camera clearly is besotted." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Apr 17, 2009
84% State of Play (2009) " A serviceable thriller -- one that's tensely paced and enjoyable before the script betrays audience trust." — Sacramento Bee
Posted Apr 17, 2009
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