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Paul Brunick

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Bigger Than Life (1956) 91% EDIT “The film presents viewers with an ambiguity that's almost Brechtian in its political implications.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 20, 2018 Full Review I Love You, Man (2009) 82% EDIT “[T]his unpretentious crowd-pleaser is still punchy enough to send packed theaters reeling in riotous laughter.” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 20, 2014 Full Review Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) 19% EDIT “Eager to get myself into the right mindset for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I turned to the multiplex patron sitting next to me and politely asked him to slam my head against the forward seatback.” – Film Comment Magazine Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Caitlin Plays Herself (2011) 1/5 EDIT “Why would she return for more of this guy's thin gruel? the film asks. Why do we?” – New York Times Dec 5, 2011 Full Review A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps (2011) 2/5 EDIT “Ms. Rosenmeier's tendency to insert herself at the center of the story ... at first seems slightly immodest. Gradually, it suggests a deeply unsettling level of self-involvement.” – New York Times Dec 1, 2011 Full Review Le Premier Rasta (2011) 3/5 EDIT “The movement defies definition and thus invites it. And yeah, the music is pretty good.” – New York Times Nov 29, 2011 Full Review Immortals (2011) 50% 1/5 EDIT “Sing to me, O Muse, of gods and men, of timeless legends and forgettable retreads. Speak of "Immortals," and answer in all seriousness: did you even read that awful script?” – New York Times Nov 10, 2011 Full Review In the Family (2011) 96% 4.5/5 EDIT “Mr. Wang's slow-reveal psychological drama isn't just a showcase for his excellent ensemble cast. Beautifully modulated and stylistically sui generis, "In the Family" is also one of the most accomplished and undersold directorial debuts this year.” – New York Times Nov 3, 2011 Full Review Glitch in the Grid (2010) 63% 1/5 EDIT “Not much happens, but the most basic shifts in time and place are so badly signposted, you'd be lost without a synopsis.” – New York Times Oct 19, 2011 Full Review The Catechism Cataclysm (2011) 47% 3/5 EDIT “Weird and well-acted...” – New York Times Oct 18, 2011 Full Review Connected (2011) 36% 2.5/5 EDIT “There are a lot of vibes in this film, most of them vaguely positive. If only "Connected" had a stronger center of gravity.” – New York Times Oct 13, 2011 Full Review To Be Heard (2010) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Check your cynicism at the ticket booth. "To Be Heard" is one of the best documentaries of the year.” – New York Times Oct 11, 2011 Full Review The Sons of Tennessee Williams (2010) 69% 2.5/5 EDIT “The talking-head testimonials succeed one another so quickly that it becomes difficult to track individual personalities, a structural problem that works to dissolve unique stories...” – New York Times Oct 6, 2011 Full Review The Nine Muses (2010) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Themes don't develop so much as they endlessly repeat, nor do they gain much through extended duration. It fails to engage either the intellect or the senses.” – New York Times Oct 5, 2011 Full Review Courageous (2011) 43% 2.5/5 EDIT “Overplotted and understructured, "Courageous" is a slog to get through at 130 minutes.” – New York Times Oct 2, 2011 Full Review Jane's Journey (2010) 42% 3/5 EDIT “Skimps on intellectual substance but skirts by on the lightly likable charm of its subject, who appears throughout.” – New York Times Sep 15, 2011 Full Review The Weird World of Blowfly (2010) 63% 3/5 EDIT “Somehow Mr. Reid has an ability to push so far into the depths of stupidity that he breaks out the other side, making you laugh in spite of yourself.” – New York Times Sep 15, 2011 Full Review Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) 40% 2.5/5 EDIT “"Granito" is less rough-edged than its guerrilla-film predecessor, but it shares a spirit of simplistic revolutionary solidarity.” – New York Times Sep 13, 2011 Full Review The High Cost of Living (2010) 53% 2.5/5 EDIT “So artistically well-intentioned and earnest in its ambitions that you can almost forgive the banality of its every scene.” – New York Times Sep 9, 2011 Full Review Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football (2010) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “It rather proudly affirms the American dream, reclaiming it for Muslims who see no conflict between their patriotism and their faith.” – New York Times Sep 9, 2011 Full Review My Kingdom (2011) 2/5 EDIT “Though its reverence for Peking Opera gives the film a thinly heritage sheen, its generic mix of backstage musical and swordplay spectacular is vintage discount bin.” – New York Times Sep 9, 2011 Full Review Stripped Down (2006) 1/5 EDIT “"Stripped Down" is bad in so many ways I can't help but feel a slightly tender affection for it.” – New York Times Aug 25, 2011 Full Review Vincent Wants to Sea (2010) 64% 1/5 EDIT “The principal characters can be reduced to a handful of tics, and the entire story line is immaculately devoid of incidental detail. It's like sitting in a padded cell for about 90 minutes.” – New York Times Jun 27, 2011 Full Review Extraordinary Stories (2008) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A contagiously playful and thrillingly inventive work, a film that's more compulsively watchable and conventionally entertaining than any synopsis would begin to suggest.” – New York Times May 3, 2011 Full Review Poison (1991) 80% EDIT “Did Haynes not realize how incompatible his own sensibility is with Genet's?” – House Next Door Apr 22, 2011 Full Review
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