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Rob Humanick

Rob Humanick

"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot"

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:
House Next Door , Projection Booth , Slant Magazine , Stranger Song , Suite101.com
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
713
Total QuickRatings:
74

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1.5/4 81% The Short Game (2013) " This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2013
1.5/4 15% Winnie Mandela (2013) " The film's tonal inconsistencies speak less to the struggles of its titular subject than to its own grasp-exceeding ambitions." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2013
3.5/4 100% Out of the Clear Blue Sky (2013) " By de-emphasizing politics in favor of humanitarianism, Danielle Gardner's work also suggests how Americans might yet unify even as the world around them threatens to tear itself apart." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 6, 2013
73% Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996) " The lousy feature-length adaptation of a great television series about terrible movies gets a pretty-good Blu-ray/DVD release courtesy of the ever-reliable Shout! Factory." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 4, 2013
—— The Awful Dr. Orloff (Gritos en la noche) (1964) " A minor but memorable classic of Spanish cinema, The Awful Dr. Orlof compensates for its narrative shortcomings with an abundance of workmanlike artistry, faithfully preserved on Kino Redemption's HD release." — Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2013
1.5/4 40% American Made Movie (2013) " The documentary's refusal to challenge the comfort zones of its target audience is apparent throughout." — Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2013
58% Clear History (2013) " Clear History's shorthanded characterizations and ethical vacuum prove so flaccid that it fails even if one views it as a nihilistic statement." — Projection Booth
Posted Aug 10, 2013
3/4 —— Postales (Postcards) () " Throughout the film, writer-director Jash Hyde avoids Paul Haggis's patronizing white liberal attitude toward class warfare. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2013
1.5/4 65% Nicky's Family (2013) " This is a powerful chapter in our human history, but it's made melodramatic and dull through Matej Minac's indulgence of hokey reenactments and sound-augmented archival footage." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 18, 2013
87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " Suggests someone painting by numbers with Herculian intensity, and the effect is hollow and dispassionate." — Projection Booth
Posted Jul 7, 2013
3/4 72% How To Make Money Selling Drugs (2013) " The film employs a flashy text-and-graphics aesthetic that immediately brings to mind the satirical undercurrent of a Grand Theft Auto video game." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 24, 2013
—— Going Up The Stairs () " The triumph of an artistic spirit conquering its invisible chains is potent in front of and behind the camera." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
73% 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) " ...never speaking to the diversity and complexity of a social movement and only inadvertently to its often inherent disorganization." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
79% Pussy Riot- - A Punk Prayer (2013) " The film benefits greatly from the young feminists' understanding of political theater." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
—— Assistance mortelle () " ...holds an appropriately cynical attitude toward spectacle..." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
100% Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington (2013) " Hetherington's portrait-like approach to his subjects is itself a form of cinema." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
—— Camera/Woman () " ...so exquisitely captured sans breaking the fourth wall that it occasionally suggests a Kiarostami-esque blurring of fact and fiction." — House Next Door
Posted Jun 22, 2013
56% Man of Steel (2013) " Eschews camp and lends Superman a genuinely fantastic, spiritual heft, one that grounds the ruthless destruction to come and elevates it above mere popcorn spectacle." — Projection Booth
Posted Jun 18, 2013
1.5/4 25% The Guillotines (2013) " Despite the multitude of cinematic tricks the prolific Andrew Lau has up his sleeve, the film is a disappointingly rote entry in the wuxia pantheon. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2013
49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " Luhrmann makes the most out of what might be considered the text's music video counterpart." — Projection Booth
Posted May 22, 2013
2/4 —— 3 Geezers! (2013) " The film's self-aware mockumentary setup indicates that this is all meant to be taken as an exercise in self-deprecating rib-nudging, though the proceedings rarely rise to the occasion." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 17, 2013
60% The Last Stand (2013) " Disappointing supplements notwithstanding, Lionsgate's BD release of the under-seen The Last Stand does well by a film that's proud to be small." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 16, 2013
1/4 20% Pilgrim Song (2013) " It aims for a sense of soulful introspection that instead comes off as an unwitting parody of languid indie conventions." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2013
79% Iron Man 3 (2013) " A superhero movie with enough intelligence and personality that it should appeal to plenty outside its intended comic book demographic." — Projection Booth
Posted May 7, 2013
2.5/4 67% Free The Mind (2013) " Phie Ambo deftly captures her subjects' sense of paranoia and helplessness without encroaching on their brave candor." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 2, 2013
.5/4 7% The Big Wedding (2013) " For a movie ultimately about what freaks we all are behind the fronts we build for the sake of normalcy, the apathetically performed The Big Wedding couldn't possibly be more square." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 27, 2013
71% Naked Lunch (1991) " Whether you're upgrading from Criterion's DVD set or making space on your shelf for the first time, this re-release of Croneberg's ecstatic masterpiece is cause for celebration. Mugwump jism can't be beat." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 15, 2013
2/4 67% Fists Of Legend (2013) " The film is so generous in its characterizations that it's easy to overlook the fact that its hot-topic drama (bullying, economic marginalization, etc.) amounts to little more than padded lip service." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 10, 2013
1.5/4 75% Murph: The Protector (2013) " One wonders if the filmmakers ever asked themselves who their film was intended for, or if it was at least a consciously self-serving effort from the outset. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2013
3.5/4 67% Vanishing Waves (2013) " A scintillating sci-fi throwback, Vanishing Waves draws inspiration from Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky, among others, but without feeling plagiaristic. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2013
88% College (1927) " Arguably the most underrated work of cinema's greatest director, Buster Keaton's College is swift, hilarious, hopeful, defiant, and ultimately life-affirming." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 13, 2013
3/4 69% Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) " What Craig Scott Rosebraugh's film lacks in originality, it makes up for in comprehensiveness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 6, 2013
1/4 16% The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) " Scenes of solemn importance drag on to the point of self-parody in an attempt at establishing mood, while dialogue reeks of connect-the-dots spoonfeeding." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 1, 2013
3/4 100% Pavilion (2013) " George Washington this isn't, but there's enough heft here that the comparison can be tastefully made." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 26, 2013
1.5/4 27% Escape From Planet Earth (2013) " An energetic but thoroughly watered-down kiddie flick. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2013
2/4 36% The Berlin File (2013) " A sporadically entertaining, modestly ambitious shoot 'em up that frequently succumbs to spelling out its subtext. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2013
A 87% Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) " If the first Hellboy was about the loss of our fathers and the mystery of where we come from, Hellboy II centers on where we are going, and what we do when the mantle passes." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 6, 2013
C- 64% Quantum of Solace (2008) " This time around, Bond's biggest adversaries are those behind the camera." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 4, 2013
B- 91% Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) " Its flaws are more so of the executional than the conceptual kind, the whole more than the sum of its parts." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 3, 2013
B- 83% Avatar (2009) " This sci-fi epic would be a masterpiece if judged solely on its technical merits." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 3, 2013
83% Avatar (2009) " Cameron is flexing his creative muscles, but the film never overcomes the nagging feeling that he's also simply going through the motions." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 3, 2013
B 81% Warm Bodies (2013) " The creative production design and earnest script go a long way in elevating so modest a work." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 2, 2013
B 66% Mama (2013) " No mere shocker, but a thoughtful rumination on what it means to love, lose, and move on from life's cruel blows." — Projection Booth
Posted Feb 1, 2013
C- 32% Gangster Squad (2013) " All style and pose devoid of soul." — Projection Booth
Posted Jan 31, 2013
B+ 60% The Last Stand (2013) " If the sequences removed from Sommerton held a little more presence [...] I'd be less hesitant to call The Last Stand anything less than great." — Projection Booth
Posted Jan 31, 2013
D 15% Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) " It would be different if Hansel & Gretel were only stupid; that it's also boring is unforgivable." — Projection Booth
Posted Jan 30, 2013
20% Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) " Few elements of Fallen are completely odious unto themselves, but rolled together it becomes a wave of inescapable proportions." — House Next Door
Posted Jan 27, 2013
B+ —— Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) " Among the most efficient and exciting of the series since the 1954 original" — Projection Booth
Posted Jan 27, 2013
B 98% Up (2009) " Quintessential Pixar." — Projection Booth
Posted Jan 27, 2013
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