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Steve Macfarlane

Steve Macfarlane

Agrees with the Tomatometer 61% of the time.

Publications:
Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
20

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
1.5/4 —— Assault On Wall Street (2013) " Uwe Boll's insistence on plugging genre tropes into his imagined idea of populism returns us to the same cynical place as Postal, except with none of the sizzle." — Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2013
3/4 98% Mud (2013) " The film ultimately succeeds thanks to small details, from its deep-fried lingo and the swampy texture of its location photography to its uniformly expert cast. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2013
1.5/4 60% American Meat (2013) " Despite the intensity of its scope and research, American Meat is a decidedly soft-hitting display of an overweening good faith that, frankly, just can't jibe with the times." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2013
2/4 92% Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) " It foists its own retelling of Angela Davis's story over any contemplation of her politics, effectively neutering their power as it could apply to today in the hands of a proper film essayist." — Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2013
1.5/4 81% Renoir (2013) " A long string of picnics, portrait sessions, elaborate dinners, and countryside rituals, filtered through a svelte aesthetic pleasantness that ultimately corrodes its larger interests." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 29, 2013
2.5/4 90% My Brother The Devil (2013) " With My Brother the Devil, writer-director Sally El Hosaini tells a story both operatic in its implications and quotidian in its sensory, day-to-day details. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2013
1.5/4 —— Leones () " Jazmín López's Leones is a classically mundane scenario, executed beautifully in 35mm." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2013
1/4 30% Reincarnated (2013) " Essentially 90-minute promo video carefully orchestrated by the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg and his handlers." — Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2013
1.5/4 0% The Condemned (2013) " It adds up to a methodically bland, intellectually sluggish exercise in guilt-tripping that's nonetheless still more interested in its rich and sexy characters than the supposed unfortunates." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2013
1/4 56% Would You Rather (2013) " A shrill Indiewood torture porn that, despite promised shocks and revulsions, doesn't even have the conviction to hold its camera on the story's most appalling twists." — Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 7, 2013
2.5/4 89% Our School (2013) " The filmmakers spend vastly more time chronicling bigoted remarks from Romanians about gypsy life than they do actual gypsy life, so a minor crisis of perspective hangs over Our School." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 16, 2013
3/4 98% 56 Up (2013) " The series is both a testimonial to the vagaries of chance and an endlessly cyclical study into the implications of being studied." — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2012
1/4 19% Lay the Favorite (2012) " Hollywood celebrities romping around in a candy-colored Alexa-shot criminal underworld, pretty much as a means of passing time. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 6, 2012
2.5/4 87% Once Upon a Time in America (1984) " Here was a filmmaker who specialized in pure, blistering images, and this operatic earthiness just doesn't play as well as the horrifying, salacious stuff. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 21, 2012
3.5/4 86% The Law In These Parts (2012) " A film for those who, whether here or in Israel, believe the law is the beginning, and not the end, of rights discourse." — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 14, 2012
2/4 49% The Man With the Iron Fists (2012) " The chop-socky wire-fu scenes are beautifully choreographed, but pretty crudely edited; despite its gourmet neo-grindhouse trappings, the film won't bring the heat like you've never seen before. " — Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 1, 2012
.5/4 62% Café de Flore (2012) " Jean-Marc Vallée deploys a pretty sweeping arsenal of clichés in shoving his camera through the characters' streams of consciousness." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 30, 2012
2/4 61% Tai Chi Zero (2012) " Essentially a live-action anime, it sweats rivulets of Tarantino-era digital anxiety from all pores-every kick, punch, pan, and zoom exaggerated for maximum impact." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 18, 2012
2.5/4 70% The Thieves (2012) " A dazzling heist film that can't help but come off as duly influenced by Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy, South Korea's number one box-office champ of all time is never less than clever." — Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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