Frank Swietek

Frank Swietek

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
One Guy's Opinion
Critics' Group:
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
4540
Total QuickRatings:
767

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
B+ 98% Wadjda (2013) " Both uplifting and realistic, charming and incisive." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
D+ 63% Pulling Strings (2013) " Every bit as bad as most Hollywood romantic comedies." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
C- 8% Runner Runner (2013) " A piece of lurid pulp...[whose] similarity to '21' is so striking that it should really be titled 'Rerunner Rerunner.'" — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B- 46% Parkland (2013) " Compulsively watchable [although] the film comes across as a little tacky, and some will even see it, fairly or not, as exploitative." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B 98% Gravity (2013) " An astonishing technical tour de force and an exciting thrill ride, but as a human drama it barely registers, and it carries none of the metaphysical weight of a film like '2001.'" — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B 90% Inequality For All (2013) " Basically constitutes a liberal jeremiad, but it's one presented with civility, good humor and a human face as well as impassioned conviction." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
C+ 59% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) " Trippy in one sense but trite in another...contains some genuinely gonzo eye-candy, but the weirdly imaginative images are wedded to a tired script. " — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
D+ 16% Baggage Claim (2013) " It would have been better for all concerned if [it] had been consigned to that limbo where lost luggage winds up, never to be heard from again." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
B 83% Don Jon (2013) " Undoubtedly raunchy, but it's also pretty funny [and] far more mature and insightful than the frat-boy gross-out farces that come down the pike every week or so." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
C+ 95% Enough Said (2013) " Apart from Gandolfini, this is just bland, middlebrow fare that's not intrinsically superior to standard-issue Hollywood romantic comedies." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
B+ 88% Rush (2013) " Delivers the adrenaline rush the title promises, but thankfully it does more than that, providing an engrossing--and ultimately stirring--human story as well." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 26, 2013
C 34% Salinger (2013) " Buries a few nuggets in a mountain of repetition and overstatement." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 23, 2013
B 89% The Trials Of Muhammad Ali (2013) " A solid PBS-level treatment of the triumphs and setbacks in the career of a man who challenged American prejudices at a time when they were still very deep and very dangerous." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
C- 51% A Single Shot (2013) " A slow-moving, unsurprising piece of noirish backwoods pulp." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
C 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " Heartfelt and well-intentioned, but it comes across like an adult version of an afterschool special." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
A 80% Prisoners (2013) " A terrific thriller, shattering domestic drama and probing character study in a single package." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 19, 2013
B- 83% The Patience Stone (2013) " An intermittently powerful piece, driven by Farahani's nuanced performance, though eventually its verbosity takes a toll." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 18, 2013
D 35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " Nothing in the picture delivers the jolts that the first 'Insidious,' or Wan's more recent 'The Conjuring,' did. " — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 13, 2013
C- 33% The Family (2013) " Strongly cast, but Besson proves incapable of melding the nastiness and laughs into a cohesive whole--the result is tonally schizophrenic and abrasive." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
B+ 92% Museum Hours (2013) " Whether you find the result tedious or enlightening will be a factor of your openness to the director's languidly atmospheric approach." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
B- 71% Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve (2013) " It resembles a decent academic lecture on the subject...interesting, if hardly scintillating." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
D+ 59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " Does not make for an evening's pleasure." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 12, 2013
C+ 34% Passion (2013) " Though you can't logically buy into the movie in the slightest, at least you can enjoy it for the lurid trash that it is." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 8, 2013
B 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " The alcohol flows freely...but happily not all the high spirits are of the liquid variety." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 6, 2013
B 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " In lesser hands...could easily have become a tearjerker, but it neatly sidesteps the trap to remain truthful and affecting." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 6, 2013
C 60% Riddick (2013) " A mostly competent but utterly mediocre exercise in outer-space mayhem." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Sep 5, 2013
B+ 95% The Hunt (2013) " A strong, moving portrait of a man shunned by the only society he knows for reasons he can't understand, marked by a stunning lead performance from [Mads] Mikkelsen." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
C- 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " A serious, gravely artistic, stylistically operatic film that's visually intoxicating but also a crashing bore." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
D 31% Austenland (2013) " A broad, witless romantic comedy...a would-be homage that lacks both common sense and an appropriate sensibility." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
B 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " Part concert movie, part bio-sketch and all commercial [but] expertly directed, handsomely shot, spiffily edited and--perhaps most important of all--well recorded." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
F 3% Getaway (2013) " So completely idiotic you might swear it was made by Luc Besson and starred Jason Statham or Liam Neeson." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 29, 2013
C 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " A legal thriller curiously devoid of thrills--the sort of stolid, unexceptional film that might serve as a perfectly adequate offering on PBS Masterpiece Mystery but is woefully out of place on the big screen." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 26, 2013
C 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " With ostentatiously artsy visuals...and far more concern for mood than narrative coherence, it's a film that tries to mimic the style of Terrence Malick and succeeds only too well." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 23, 2013
B+ 88% Hannah Arendt (2013) " For those who value the life of the mind and the responsibility of the public intellectual, it's an engrossing--indeed important--film." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 23, 2013
B 89% The World's End (2013) " Isn't as wacky as 'Shaun of the Dead' or 'Hot Fuzz,' but it's amusing enough to please their many fans and plenty of others besides." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 22, 2013
C+ 91% In a World... (2013) " A good deal smarter than most big-budget romantic comedies, but its shrillness makes it less pleasurable than it should be." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 22, 2013
F 75% You're Next (2013) " A thoroughly repulsive picture that's even worse when it tries to add some dark humor to the grisly mix of carnage and gore." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 20, 2013
D 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " Overstuffed, overlong...and brainless beyond belief...[with a] numbingly convoluted and derivative plot, woodem acting and cheesy effects." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 20, 2013
D+ 4% Paranoia (2013) " A tepid would-be corporate thriller with a young lead not ready for prime time, and even old hands like Ford and Oldman can't save it." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 16, 2013
C+ 97% A Hijacking (2013) " While there's a certain tautness to the result, the many longueurs along the way almost make one yearn for an infusion of good old Hollywood pizzazz." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 16, 2013
B 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " This might not be a spectacular movie, but compared to the stuff Hollywood usually churns out about teenagers, it's a breath of fresh air." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
B 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " Strangely affecting...a small-scaled film that offers an alternately funny and sad rumination on the fragility of human affairs." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
C 26% Jobs (2013) " A pedestrian work that exhibits none of the imagination and daring its subject was famous for." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
C+ 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " An earnest, well-intentioned film...obviously a labor of love for all concerned, [but] manipulative, melodramatic and rather simplistic." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
D+ 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Its predecessor was almost shamefully giddy fun. By contrast Wadlow's picture is simply shameful...nasty, brutish, but certainly not short." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 15, 2013
B- 54% Lovelace (2013) " The spin it gives to the story makes for an intriguingly stylish, if incomplete, biography/cautionary tale." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 11, 2013
B 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " A shocking exhibition of what Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil--or, in this case, the absurdity of evil." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
A- 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Both a sharp-edged character study of a woman on the verge of a psychological breakdown and a cannily-constructed ensemble piece reflecting the differences of class and culture that permeate American life." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
C 68% Elysium (2013) " Expertly made but intellectually shallow, especially when it devolves into standard-issue he-man heroics in the last act." — One Guy's Opinion
Posted Aug 8, 2013
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