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Chris Cabin

Chris Cabin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
Film Racket , Filmcritic.com , House Next Door , MovieWeb , Reel.com , Slant Magazine
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
757
Total QuickRatings:
1

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59% The Bling Ring (2013) " Sofia Coppola's beguiling, expertly directed true-crime tale nabs a fantastic A/V transfer from Lionsgate, but the accessories are not exactly designer." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2013
2/4 25% Machete Kills (2013) " The films that Robert Rodriguez emulates here are known for similar unexpected narrative turns, but the crucial value that he misses is their actual cheapness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3.5/4 92% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) " As played by an eloquently beleaguered Oscar Isaac, Llewyn Davis is arguably the most vivid and complex character the Coens have dreamed up since Marge Gunderson. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2013
4/4 84% A Touch of Sin (2013) " As depicted by Jia Zhang-ke, the balance between the spoils and moral rot of murder are far preferable to the debasing rigors of tradition and hollow nationalism." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2013
2.5/4 62% About Time (2013) " Instead of looking for depth or verisimilar romance, director Michael Mayer turns his characters into mere cogs in a pseudo-suspenseful thriller." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2013
1.5/4 78% Metallica Through the Never (2013) " The songs still sound great here, but the instruments aren't amplified nearly as much as the nostalgia and vanity of the men who wield them." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 24, 2013
1.5/4 88% Rush (2013) " Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2013
1.5/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Enough can't be said about how the late James Gandolfini comes so close to saving writer-director Nicole Holofcener's latest articulation of white suburban anxieties." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2013
100% La Cage Aux Folles (1979) " Criterion dolls up Edouard Molinaro's spirited international hit with a routinely excellent A/V transfer and a smattering of hugely entertaining extras." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2013
1/4 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " A full realization of the very worst fears one could imagine when its director, James Wan, unexpectedly emerged from the torture-porn murk with its original, spiritedly directed predecessor." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2/4 95% Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) " Though occasionally aesthetically alluring and evocative, feels like an introductory chapter to a more substantive, sprawling study of the actor." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2013
49% Pain & Gain (2013) " Paramount jacks up the presentation of Michael Bay's unexpectedly bold Pain & Gain with a top-shelf A/V transfer, but, perhaps purposefully, give no extras to help reveal the film's origins or themes." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/4 23% A Teacher (2013) " We're only allowed an insufficient glimpse of the anxiousness and curiosity that drive these creatures, a tactic which feels suspiciously like hesitance masquerading as enigma." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2013
44% To The Wonder (2013) " Terrence Malick gets swept up in a bad love affair in picturesque Oklahoma and Magnolia does more than well by the visual and auditory splendor of the director's strangely ferocious sixth feature." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2013
3/4 95% Enter the Dragon (1973) " Director Robert Clouse works the material for efficiency and optimum thrill, while providing a buoyant visual style to the action." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2013
1/4 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " The film doubles down on the love-hate relationship with ultra-violence that typified its predecessor, but A History of Violence this is not." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2013
3.5/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2013
2/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " Though the cast partially eschews the family-friendly timidity that the film defers to in the end, this would-be wild thing remains little more than a rowdy endorsement of the status quo." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 7, 2013
2.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " For those who've hankered this summer-movie season for splattering body explosions, Elysium provides a (not exactly) healthy fix." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 2, 2013
83% The Ice Storm (1997) " Ang Lee's aching study of the "me" generation provides a stunning array of period detail to give distinct form to the social disconnect and discomfort of the Nixon era, though its Blu-ray premiere doesn't prove to be a banner release from Criterion." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2013
1/4 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " Raja Gosnell's particular zeal to modernize the Smurfs only develops this would-be family comedy into a shamelessly manipulative smurftastrophe." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 29, 2013
1/4 42% Red 2 (2013) " An awfully expensive and grossly extended Cialis commercial." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 17, 2013
93% No (2013) " One of the most unexpectedly resonant and heartfelt films of the year, Pablo Larrain's No receives an excellent A/V transfer from Sony, along with a strong commentary track from the director and his star, Gael García Bernal." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2013
.5/4 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " The hard work that obviously went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 11, 2013
95% Enter the Dragon (1973) " Still haunted by its star, Robert Clouse's legendary Enter the Dragon celebrates its 40th anniversary with a top-shelf package from Warner Home Video, that includes a bounty of extras and a beautiful new transfer." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2013
1.5/4 75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " The script's jumble of plot asides and family-friendly pandering is enough to make you want to root for a hero." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
.5/4 54% Some Girl(s) (2013) " Like most of Neil LaBute's work in the field of "emotional terrorism," the film protests that bad behavior isn't only good, but also essential to art." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 26, 2013
1/4 67% World War Z (2013) " The zombies twitch, leap, gnash, and destroy, but the film has all the thrill and surprise of a model U.N. summit." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2013
1.5/4 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " Praises the electric carelessness of teenage angst while depicting it as if it were ultimately no more exciting, though no less pleasant, than an hour in the wave pool." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 18, 2013
1.5/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " All its faux-patriotism isn't played for satire, but instead utilized to align the film with an idyllic, unquestioned vision of goodness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2013
67% Electra Glide in Blue (1973) " Electra Glide in Blue speeds onto Blu-ray with a fantastic A/V transfer and a highly enjoyable commentary by director James William Guercio, making for a particularly exceptional release from Shout! Factory." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2013
95% Strictly Ballroom (1992) " The hollow dazzle of Strictly Ballroom looks bold and sounds great, thanks to Lionsgate's strong transfer and packaging, which includes a menagerie of relevant extras." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2013
2/4 84% Much Ado About Nothing (2013) " The film is nothing without the physicality of the performers, as Joss Whedon's script handles the transition of Shakespeare's language to modern day indifferently." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2013
1/54 11% After Earth (2013) " The art of storytelling is both of distinct narrative interest and personal issue in the latest payload of calcified nonsense from one of modern cinema's oddest would-be auteurs." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 30, 2013
2/4 76% The Kings of Summer (2013) " The film's aesthetic is marked by off-tempo editing and a tone that vacillates between grim and coy, and though it's occasionally visually evocative, it's also unmistakably over-calculated." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 28, 2013
95% National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) " Little more than a cash-in, this 30th-anniversary edition of Harold Ramis's classic comedy is, with the exception of a feature-length making-of doc, identical to the previous Blu-ray edition of the film." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 28, 2013
3.5/4 95% Behind the Candelabra (2013) " Thematic kin to Clint Eastwood's terrific J. Edgar, Behind the Candelabra is powerful, funny, and emotionally rigorous, and though it might act as a fiery and forceful resignation, it also serves as an uncommonly heartfelt Dear John letter." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2013
100% Jubal (1956) " Criterion may not adorn Delmer Daves's stunning Jubal with much more than a reliably top-shelf transfer, but the salvaging of a lost masterpiece is reward enough." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2013
1/4 19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " A sequel every bit as disposable as its predecessor." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 23, 2013
3.5/5 93% The Great Escape (1963) " John Sturges largely evades the action and horror of war, and instead focuses on an immense creative process." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 22, 2013
1/4 69% Fast & Furious 6 (2013) " Justin Lin overruns his films with talky stand-offs, forced comedic repartee, and overtly sentimental familial drama, none of which makes use of the essential narrative freedom that the series has, for better or worse, earned at this point." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 16, 2013
3/4 87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " The film is densely plotted, occasionally bordering on the convoluted, but the clarity and inventiveness of the direction keeps the drama and the action constantly percolating." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 14, 2013
66% Cloud Atlas (2012) " Warner Home Vidoe does good by Cloud Atlas's technical skill, but tellingly offers only brisk and flimsy featurettes to add any weight to the latest stylish mass of hoosafudge from Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 13, 2013
3.5/5 85% Sightseers (2013) " His satirical stab at the traditionally quiet vision of proper England, pointed as much at the monarchy as it is at the Merchant-Ivory generation, is refreshing up to a point and almost always funny, but its sense of agitated hopelessness feels strained." — Film Racket
Posted May 9, 2013
3/4 —— Three Sisters (2013) " Wang Bing's no-frills style of documentation visually echoes the preadolescent trio's simple yet unforgiving world and its sense of labor as life." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2013
1.5/4 35% Peeples (2013) " Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2013
3.5/4 79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " Shane Black here replaces his once-acidic spite for government and bureaucracy with a call for corporate responsibility." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2013
80% Richard III (1956) " Laurence Olivier's venomous take on Richard III ascends from Criterion's already impressive DVD treatment to Blu-ray with a characteristically stunning A/V transfer and hugely insightful supplements." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 29, 2013
.5/4 88% What Maisie Knew (2013) " David Siegel and Scott McGehee's film renders the rhapsodic Henry James novel of the same name into an abhorrent slice of tasteless familial drama." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2013
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