Matt Pais

Matt Pais

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Publications:
Chicago Tribune , Metromix.com , RedEye , The Cinema Source
Critics' Group:
Chicago Film Critics Association
Total Reviews:
1674
Location:
Chicago

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/4 98% Gravity (2013) " It's easy to think, 'Shut up, brain, and just enjoy the view!'" — RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1.5/4 8% Runner Runner (2013) " Reiterating that onscreen cool and edge can't be faked, Runner Runner feels a little like an offshore, Internet-era version of Wall Street." — RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/4 94% Muscle Shoals (2013) " Has funky magic in it. Ooh, baby, does it ever." — RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 68% Bad Milo! (2013) " Should entertain a certain pocket of comedy fans, particularly those happy for the rare chance to see the excellent Marino play a nice guy." — RedEye
Posted Oct 3, 2013
1.5/4 88% Rush (2013) " A collection of strategic choices that has the emotional impact of shopping for tires." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/4 83% Computer Chess (2013) " Arguably boring topics like programming don't have to yield boring films, and Computer Chess makes Ashton Kutcher's recent, uneven Jobs look like a classic." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 86% Blue Caprice (2013) " Wonders how something like this happens without suggesting any simple means of prevention." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1.5/4 90% Inequality For All (2013) " You're saying taxation is out of hand, and there was some sort of housing bubble too? Go on with all this new information, please." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3.5/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " Do people, especially men, go see movies like this anymore? I don't think so. Prove me wrong, people. Prove me wrong." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1/4 16% Baggage Claim (2013) " With the year's worst comedic performance (non-Kevin James division), Patton's playing a human-shaped bubble, or perhaps a puppy who switched bodies with its owner." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " The sound of one hand clasping." — RedEye
Posted Sep 26, 2013
2/4 34% Salinger (2013) " Perpetuates a problem that the film fails to acknowledge: Artists' most devoted supporters frequently refuse to oblige their simple request to be left alone." — RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
2.5/4 75% Populaire (2013) " After all those words pounded onto the typewriter, this throwback finds a way to capture the big L in any language." — RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3.5/4 99% Short Term 12 (2013) " A breakout role that will earn an Oscar nod if there's any justice." — RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3.5/4 71% C.O.G. (2013) " Everyone in this wonderful surprise is looking for a place to belong while ultimately having to look out for No. 1. And I don't mean that in the spiritual sense." — RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/4 51% A Single Shot (2013) " Lands somewhere between a good novel and a deadly country song, all with the power to take hold and refuse to leave you be." — RedEye
Posted Sep 23, 2013
3/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " These are problems you feel in your heart, instead of your head saying, "Pff, lame."" — RedEye
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/4 60% Riddick (2013) " Franchises don't work if the movie improves when the main character is offscreen." — RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
3/4 59% Afternoon Delight (2013) " The lack of judgment toward McKenna's part-time sex work that makes Afternoon Delight refreshingly open-minded. Dan Savage would approve." — RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
2/4 15% Winnie Mandela (2013) " Obscured truth disrespects history, and a biopic without strong writing and acting isn't much of anything." — RedEye
Posted Sep 5, 2013
1/4 53% Instructions Not Included (2013) " Alternately and creepily plays toward young children and horny adults." — RedEye
Posted Aug 30, 2013
2/4 81% Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) " Like crust with the bread cut off." — RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
1/4 74% The Grandmaster (2013) " This super-serious, horribly-told story may focus on kung fu, but it put me in an almost instant sleeper hold." — RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2.5/4 64% One Direction: This Is Us (2013) " Has an advantage that the Katy Perry and Justin Bieber docs didn't: Its subjects are amusing, and the fun is contagious." — RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
1.5/4 3% Getaway (2013) " Believes in logic like the VMAs believe in music." — RedEye
Posted Aug 29, 2013
2/4 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " Captain Obvious goes to England." — RedEye
Posted Aug 27, 2013
2.5/4 75% You're Next (2013) " Thin excuses to trot out the usual sequences of maniacs busting through windows and gleeful deaths that add layers of bloodlust-fueling cruelty the film's premise doesn't support." — RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2/4 31% Austenland (2013) " More prejudice than pride." — RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3.5/4 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " Streamlined and real like a new favorite song that both reminds you of something you already loved and gets you to see it with fresh eyes." — RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
3.5/4 89% The World's End (2013) " So fun and so funny." — RedEye
Posted Aug 22, 2013
2.5/4 12% The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013) " Earning the coveted and easily attained praise "better than Twilight," City of Bones thrives not on the presence of awesome but the absence of terrible." — RedEye
Posted Aug 20, 2013
1.5/4 4% Paranoia (2013) " Destined to be started but not finished by Netflix streaming subscribers." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " The film absolutely doesn't glamorize this behavior, and it's staggering the matter-of-fact manner with which some of these killers and corruption advocates speak." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 84% Prince Avalanche (2013) " The film's full weight ultimately feels just out of reach, but for a small story about isolation, that mood is fitting." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 91% In a World... (2013) " A message movie guided by good sense, and a good sense of humor." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2.5/4 26% Jobs (2013) " Delivers a powerful lesson via an OK movie: That people can change the world if they don't let others stand in their way." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1.5/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Feels like a 12-year-old's C- oral presentation on the subject." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2/4 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Crass and affected, preferring to snicker instead of recognize that kids wielding guns is a troubling thing and amateurs hunting down bad guys has moral and physical consequences." — RedEye
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3.5/4 91% The Spectacular Now (2013) " Teller and Woodley are phenomenal. My heart was floating through The Spectacular Now -- and you know what they say about what goes up." — RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
3/4 54% Lovelace (2013) " Does a good job of setting the record straight about the person behind the '70s late-night talk show punchlines." — RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
0.5/4 27% Planes (2013) " Smurf this movie too." — RedEye
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " Overloads with plot and under-delivers on texture." — RedEye
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " A funny trip with people who are fun to hang with even when they squabble." — RedEye
Posted Aug 6, 2013
2.5/4 95% The Hunt (2013) " Shows that even when Klara's parents and their friends aren't sure, they'd rather be wrong on the defensive than be wrong and do nothing." — RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 22% The Canyons (2013) " Resembling the all-time dullest episode of MTV's 'Undressed,' The Canyons unfolds like Lifetime tried to make a Cinemax movie." — RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Blanchett's incredible, never allowing Jasmine to become a parody. She's the center of a semi-tragic character study about phoniness and deluded personal fantasies." — RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/4 63% 2 Guns (2013) " This is what a star vehicle should be: a well-written project that works without the big names but shines with them." — RedEye
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 14% The Smurfs 2 (2013) " What did you smurfin' expect?" — RedEye
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/4 98% Blackfish (2013) " To analyze real-life tragedy we must understand it so we can prevent it, Cowperthwaite justly argues. Not so we can sigh and hope it doesn't happen again." — RedEye
Posted Jul 25, 2013
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