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Matthew Odam

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Publications:: Austin American-Statesman

Total Reviews:: 33

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
B+	83%	Graceland (2013)	" It is one of the bleakest movies you'll see all year, but its dramatic contours mark Morales as a filmmaker with the ability to craft a tight and unnerving story." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 25, 2013
A-	98%	Mud (2013)	" The movie, like adolescence, is a rich and emotional experience that jolts and jangles with a sense of wonder, mystery and discovery." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 25, 2013
B	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" Berger peppers the dialogue with enough clever lines and observational humor about the nature of relationships and human fallibility to make for an entertaining and darkly comic film." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 18, 2013
A-	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" "To the Wonder" traces the purity and pains of romantic love, straying to encapsulate ideas of God and the power of surrendering to a higher power. It is sweet and tortured, startlingly clear and mystifying in its opaqueness." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 10, 2013
C+	80%	The Story Of Luke (2013)	" The outsized nature of their insensitivities is meant to reinforce the pain and humiliation from Luke's perspective, but it makes for a movie with an uneven tone." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 4, 2013
B	70%	Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)	" Somebody Up There Likes Me is a poignant and at times trying work of personal art that will likely mean different things to different people. Like its director, it seems to reflect more than it reveals." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Apr 4, 2013
B	70%	Wrong (2013)	" The story wanders at times and includes interludes that feel like non sequiturs even for a movie hinged on such absurdities, but Dupieux, with the help of Plotnick, has created a unique world of soft chaos and goofy humor." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Mar 28, 2013
C+	67%	Stoker (2013)	" The aesthetic accomplishments of the movie can't make up for the lack of a compelling narrative." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Mar 22, 2013
B-	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Korine gives Spring Breakers a remarkable energy but then trips it up with a repeated leit motif that feels inauthentic and overwrought." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Mar 22, 2013
B+	80%	Only The Young (2012)	" Only the Young is an original and handsome work that belies the age of the two young filmmakers behind it." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Feb 21, 2013
B	58%	Snitch (2013)	" Snitch makes entertaining work of entwining elements of family drama, raw action and a message movie without feeling trite or heavy-handed." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Feb 21, 2013
A-	94%	The King's Speech (2010)	" It's refreshing to see a historical drama avoid grand gestures and sweeping melodrama in favor of smaller more intimate stories." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Feb 16, 2013
4.5/5	——	Fourplay ()	" "Fourplay" is crass, unapologetic, imaginative, challenging and, ultimately, comforting." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Feb 7, 2013
C+	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" The movie from director Fisher Stevens echoes much of the visual stylings of the pulpy noir of the 1990s set in Los Angeles, but the story, which lacks any adrenaline, ambles about, never quite hooking the audience." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 31, 2013
A	93%	Amour (2012)	" It is hard to recommend Amour. Austrian director Michael Haneke's film cannot justly be described as entertaining, and it will likely leave you sad and weary. But it is a film you must see." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 24, 2013
A	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" Despite knowing how the attack ends, the tight confines of the mission and the danger lurking behind every closed door make for a breathless cinematic experience." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 10, 2013
B+	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" Quentin Tarantino jumps back in his cinematic time-traveling machine and retreats to the past to rewrite history and exact some bloody revenge." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 8, 2013
3.5/5	87%	Arbitrage (2012)	" With his burrowed eyes, perfect hair and flawless wardrobe, Gere brims with a regal air and unsettling chilliness in his best role in more than a decade." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 8, 2013
A	86%	The Master (2012)	" The at-times-impenetrable film will require multiple viewings to fully appreciate the multitude of themes and subtext. " — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 8, 2013
B+	90%	Bernie (2012)	" Bernie delivers an abundance of belly laughs, but at its center is a confounding act committed by a man too beloved to be hated and a community too passionate to think clearly." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 8, 2013
B+	87%	Frankenweenie (2012)	" Tim Burton's Frankenweenie embodies the excitement, innocence, awkwardness and imagination of childhood." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 7, 2013
4.5/5	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" The Sessions belongs completely to Hawkes, who disappears into the role of Mark O'Brien, delivering a stunning performance that illuminates what it means to be a whole person." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 4, 2013
4.5/5	92%	Skyfall (2012)	" The film serves as a trip back to the beginning of the 50-year-old cinematic legend and the promise of a golden future with Craig in the role of 007." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 4, 2013
3.5/5	93%	Looper (2012)	" Despite its confusing logic and ornate storyline, Looper still grabs the audience with the raw emotional storyline on the farm and the constant popping back and forth in time. It's a head-scratching ride, but a fun one nonetheless." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Jan 4, 2013
B-	38%	Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)	" Murray disappears into his role as FDR, blending Lothario charm with professorial cool." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Dec 21, 2012
B-	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Those tensions and the way the couple talk about them -- both comically and seriously -- give the movie its heart, but Apatow is easily distracted by the desire to cram in more jokes." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Dec 20, 2012
C+	50%	In Our Nature (2012)	" The characters in this family drama are not given enough backstory or nuance to make their problems feel real, and none of the characters warrants much interest or compassion." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Dec 13, 2012
4/5	90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" It may be the weirdest and most challenging movie to open in Austin this year. It's also oddly moving." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Dec 7, 2012
1.5/5	36%	The Collection (2012)	" The Collection never hits audiences in the stomach with any immediate sense of danger, and the dialogue and most of the performances feel entirely too campy for the movie to actually be taken seriously. Maybe that is the point, but I don't think so." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Nov 30, 2012
3.5/5	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" The movie calls to mind ominous Scorsese heavies menacing with their fearless gravitas and quick-mouthed Tarantino featherweights exchanging verbal barbs in a slowly enclosing ring." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Nov 30, 2012
A	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" Speaking of Oscars, the great DeNiro is great once again here." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Nov 21, 2012
B-	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" [Day-Lewis] brings humanity and warmth to a man too often made static by history." — Austin American-Statesman Posted Nov 21, 2012

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