Rafer Guzman

Rafer Guzman

Agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

Publications:
Boston Phoenix , Los Angeles Times , Newsday
Total Reviews:
547

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1.5/4 8% Runner Runner (2013) " The movie mostly wants to look timely and seem topical. Instead, it feels irrelevant." — Newsday
Posted Oct 4, 2013
3/4 46% Parkland (2013) " The assassination of John F. Kennedy, as seen through the eyes of bystanders, insiders and other players." — Newsday
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3/4 98% Gravity (2013) " It's a rare combination of jaw-dropping special effects and visual artistry, and it also works as slam-bang entertainment with just two actors and a swift running time of 90 minutes." — Newsday
Posted Oct 3, 2013
3.5/4 83% Don Jon (2013) " Rarely has a film offered such raw and honest talk -- with visuals, too -- about male sexuality." — Newsday
Posted Sep 26, 2013
1.5/4 59% Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) " Mostly, "Cloudy 2" relies on the usual noxious recipe for junky kid flicks: loud noise, pop music and poop jokes." — Newsday
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 95% Enough Said (2013) " A small-scale movie made much bigger by achingly good performances from Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini in one of his final roles." — Newsday
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/4 88% Rush (2013) " In another movie, either of these men -- the arrogant hunk, the frozen robot -- might have been our villain. But screenwriter Peter Morgan ("Frost/Nixon") has a deeper insight." — Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
2/4 50% Thanks For Sharing (2013) " "Thanks for Sharing" has several nice moments and understated insights, but it never quite gets to the heart of its subject." — Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
1/4 5% Battle of the Year (2013) " Battle of the Year is too inept to make this tired premise sing." — Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3/4 80% Prisoners (2013) " Though it's nothing you haven't seen before, it's so artfully made and skillfully executed that you won't care a bit." — Newsday
Posted Sep 19, 2013
4/4 99% The Wizard of Oz (1939) " Any reason to show your children "The Wizard of Oz" on a big screen seems like a good one." — Newsday
Posted Sep 18, 2013
1.5/4 31% Austenland (2013) " "Austenland" understands Austen's enduring romantic appeal but has no use for her deeper themes of class, wealth and gender inequality." — Newsday
Posted Sep 12, 2013
35% Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) " [The film] might have been wackily entertaining if the whole thing weren't so sluggishly paced, poorly lit and dispiritingly unoriginal." — Newsday
Posted Sep 12, 2013
2.5/4 60% Riddick (2013) " It's B-grade cinema made with A-level intelligence and imagination -- skillfully directed, surprisingly well acted and gratifyingly preposterous." — Newsday
Posted Sep 5, 2013
1/4 46% Closed Circuit (2013) " A mystery-thriller-romance that is conspicuously missing three things. One is mystery, another is thrills and the last is anything approaching romance." — Newsday
Posted Aug 27, 2013
2/4 89% The World's End (2013) " Wright knows how to keep the energy spinning, but he also doesn't know when to stop." — Newsday
Posted Aug 22, 2013
1.5/4 26% Jobs (2013) " "Jobs" turns out to be the IBM PCjr of biographical dramas, hampered by creaky formatting and thinking entirely inside the box." — Newsday
Posted Aug 15, 2013
3/4 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " It's a smart, edgy, unpredictable action-comedy, the tonal opposite of overwrought sculptures like "Man of Steel."" — Newsday
Posted Aug 15, 2013
2.5/4 73% Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) " Strong work from the three stars as a family splintered by Civil Rights-era tensions, but the film too often resorts to easy sentiment and simple caricatures." — Newsday
Posted Aug 15, 2013
1.5/4 27% Planes (2013) " If "Planes" were a reasonably priced download, you'd gladly use it to sedate your kids during a long car ride. As a theatrical, 3-D release, however, "Planes" will sedate you, too." — Newsday
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4 68% Elysium (2013) " The movie is both sloppy in its details and too literal in its thinking. A less blunt allegory might have made for sharper entertainment." — Newsday
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2.5/4 54% Lovelace (2013) " This movie is short on nuance, but at least it treats Lovelace with a respect she didn't often find in her difficult life." — Newsday
Posted Aug 8, 2013
2/4 47% We're The Millers (2013) " A smarter, more thoughtful comedy could have made something interesting out of this material, but "We're the Millers" takes the easy route." — Newsday
Posted Aug 6, 2013
2.5/4 38% Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) " With the young wizards of "Harry Potter" fading from memory, the demigod teenagers of "Percy Jackson" are starting to seem like the next best thing." — Newsday
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/4 90% Bridesmaids (2011) " The star and co-writer of Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig, puts herself and her female co-stars through the comedy wringer." — Newsday
Posted Aug 2, 2013
4/4 97% The Act Of Killing (2013) " "The Act of Killing" works on so many levels -- psychodrama, horror movie, Orwellian nightmare, Poe story -- that sifting through your reactions could take days." — Newsday
Posted Aug 1, 2013
1/4 22% The Canyons (2013) " Despite its impressive pedigree and unorthodox methods, "The Canyons" is hopelessly thin, clumsy and dull." — Newsday
Posted Aug 1, 2013
2.5/4 63% 2 Guns (2013) " It's a jumbled film with a lazy plot and poorly sketched action sequences, but the natural charm of its two stars, along with some colorful bit players, may put you in a forgiving mood." — Newsday
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3.5/4 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Allen's story of a fictitious Ruth Madoff figure works as both a what-if comedy and a penetrating psychological portrait. Major credit goes to Blanchett, raw and funny and astounding as ever." — Newsday
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/4 69% The Wolverine (2013) " Like most superhero films, "The Wolverine" depends mostly on sheer mechanics -- both in front of and behind the camera -- and on that level it's a resounding success." — Newsday
Posted Jul 25, 2013
1/4 52% The To Do List (2013) " So determined to one-up the boys that it goes overboard, misses its mark and accidentally makes an entirely different kind of statement." — Newsday
Posted Jul 25, 2013
3.5/4 94% Fruitvale Station (2013) " Some of this narrative feels cliched, but Coogler and his actors make it work by leaning toward understatement." — Newsday
Posted Jul 25, 2013
2.5/4 14% R.I.P.D. (2013) " Despite its flaws, "R.I.P.D." is a fairly entertaining and frequently funny movie." — Newsday
Posted Jul 19, 2013
2.5/4 86% The Conjuring (2013) " What saves the movie is a surprisingly fine cast and deft direction from James Wan, the horror veteran who gave us "Saw."" — Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/4 42% Red 2 (2013) " "RED 2" stands quite sturdily on its own as a caper comedy whose stars just happen to be approaching 50, 60 and even 70 years old." — Newsday
Posted Jul 18, 2013
2.5/4 65% Turbo (2013) " "Turbo" has just enough heart to make it to the winner's circle." — Newsday
Posted Jul 16, 2013
1/4 8% Grown Ups 2 (2013) " For all its warm and fuzzy notions of family and community, Grown Ups 2, directed by longtime Sandler cohort Dennis Dugan, has a desperate reliance on nasty jokes about pee, poo and -- with surprising frequency -- gay panic." — Newsday
Posted Jul 11, 2013
1.5/4 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " It lasts more than two hours. And there is nothing endearing about it." — Newsday
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/4 63% Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013) " Any comic who can play the Garden must be good, but you wouldn't know it from this jumble of random routines and on-the-bus footage." — Newsday
Posted Jul 4, 2013
2.5/4 75% Despicable Me 2 (2013) " Better, or at least sweeter, than the first, with Wiig adding some much-needed romantic charm to the toddler-level humor." — Newsday
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3/4 31% The Lone Ranger (2013) " The Lone Ranger succeeds on all counts -- perhaps too well. The movie is so imaginative, so brimming with ideas that it can't quite decide what to be." — Newsday
Posted Jul 2, 2013
3/4 99% 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) " This illuminating documentary looks into a small corner of the music industry to find deeper truths about talent, artistry and success." — Newsday
Posted Jun 28, 2013
3.5/4 65% The Heat (2013) " McCarthy owns this movie, but nearly everyone in it is hilarious." — Newsday
Posted Jun 27, 2013
3/4 67% World War Z (2013) " A smart, entertaining zombie flick that's slightly cleverer and classier than most." — Newsday
Posted Jun 20, 2013
3/4 78% Monsters University (2013) " "Monsters University" has an emotional quality that its whimsical predecessor lacked." — Newsday
Posted Jun 20, 2013
2.5/4 56% Man of Steel (2013) " Cavill broods handsomely as Superman, but this reboot skimps on fun and romance." — Newsday
Posted Jun 14, 2013
2/4 98% Before Midnight (2013) " "Before Midnight" is heartbreaking, but not because of Jesse and Celine. It's the filmmakers' passions that seem to have cooled." — Newsday
Posted Jun 13, 2013
2/4 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " It would rather mock its protagonists than help us understand them." — Newsday
Posted Jun 13, 2013
3/4 84% This Is the End (2013) " With no outsiders to coddle, this tight-knit ensemble locks into a groove and reaches some truly giddy heights, turning even the weakest material (a spoof of "The Exorcist") into anarchic fun." — Newsday
Posted Jun 11, 2013
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