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Tony Macklin

Tony Macklin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 72% of the time.

Biography:
Please see my bio at http://tonymacklin.net/about.php.
Favorites:
http://tonymacklin.net/content.php?cID=18
Publications:
Bright Lights Film Journal , Fayetteville Free Weekly , Las Vegas CityLife , Las Vegas Weekly , tonymacklin.net
Critics' Group:
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
441
Location:
Las Vegas, NV

Best Reviewed Films

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5.0/5 —— State of Play (2008) " The movie State of Play is equal to its brilliant source (the BBC television program aired in 2003). Until the end. Then it gets contrived and caves in. This article compares and contrasts the two." — tonymacklin.net
Posted May 5, 2009
5.0/5 82% Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) " Altman and crew have done the necessary reorganizing and reediting on Buffalo Bill and have created a terrific movie out of the troubled dust of what was. The first time I saw the movie in New York, it was explicit, contrived, and needed a lot of help." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 7, 2009
5.0/5 98% Sunset Boulevard (1950) " Sunset Boulevard's entire point of view is based on a gimmick. Whether one considers it an "artistic cheat" or a valid and audacious device depends up his ability and desire to suspend his disbelief." — Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Mar 9, 2009
5.0/5 92% The Shining (1980) " The Shining met the fate of several other Stanley Kubrick films when it came out; most viewers did not like it, so they rejected it. Most importantly, they did not understand it in any way which allowed them to deal with it constructively." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 2, 2009
5.0/5 100% Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) " It's a nostalgia trip with the new, special edition DVD of Dr. Strangelove." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
5.0/5 95% Nashville (1975) " The DVD of Nashville is a godsend, the first time it has been available on home video in its original widescreen aspect ratio." — Las Vegas CityLife
Posted Feb 2, 2009
5.0/5 94% No Country for Old Men (2007) " When you see No Country for Old Men, leave your preconceptions at home. But bring your Alfred Hitchcock lenses. They're useful. No Country for Old Men is a dazzling time-bomb of a movie. It is an engrossing, brutal, nerve-wracking moral tale" — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
5.0/5 98% Chinatown (1974) " Is Chinatown the best private eye film ever? It may well be. Nearing its thirty-fifth anniversary, it deserves a reconsideration and a celebration." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 1, 2009
4.5/5 97% The Hurt Locker (2009) " The Hurt Locker takes the viewer by the scruff of the neck. And it embeds him or her in the middle of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad in Baghdad." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 21, 2009
4.0/5 77% Match Point (2005) " But, perhaps, the greatest parallel between Woody's Match Point and Hitch is duality. It's a brilliant device." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Sep 14, 2013
4.0/5 98% Mud (2013) " Like great directors before him -- Hitchcock, Polanski, Altman, et al. -- Nichols uses duality with real skill and impact." — tonymacklin.net
Posted May 1, 2013
4.0/5 —— History Of The Eagles: Part 1 () " The Eagles live in both the present and the past." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Feb 26, 2013
4.0/5 88% The Dark Knight Rises (2012) " The best quality of this film is that it shows that "blockbusters" do not have to surrender to a bombardment of special effects. They can keep intelligence and humanity. Because of that monumental lesson, this film could become an important classic." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 18, 2012
4.0/5 95% Marley (2012) " Marley is a terrific documentary. It goes beyond one figure, and captures the essence of life itself. The film is as infectious and spiritual as one of his songs." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 28, 2012
4.0/5 86% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) " David Fincher's American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a powerhouse of a picture. And, in an incredible feat, Rooney Mara wrests the role away from the unforgettable Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version -- Mara and Fincher make it her own." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 14, 2011
4.0/5 77% Melancholia (2011) " Melancholia is a challenge for a critic. It may stymie reviewers. Some viewers will find it tedious and a total waste of time. Others will find it engrossing and rich in symbolism -- a veritable work of art." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4.0/5 93% Midnight in Paris (2011) " Woody Allen soars in Midnight in Paris. He suggests that no matter what era you're in you are unaware of its value, so you look back and see a better past. And the past, of course, is a selective illusion." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 4, 2011
4.0/5 93% 127 Hours (2010) " I don't think I ever cursed at and with a movie so much. [Under my breath, of course.] But partway through the intense experience, movie magic occurs. Despite the gruesome circumstances, we get involved. And the ending is rapturous." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 23, 2010
4.0/5 86% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) " The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo takes one on a journey down the icy roads to hell, with a dogged, investigative journalist and an avenging punk angel -- an odd couple par excellence." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 30, 2010
4.0/5 68% Public Enemies (2009) " Public Enemies is a delicious feast for an interpretive viewer." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 2, 2009
4.0/5 98% Up (2009) " Up is an engaging, exciting, warm-hearted trip at the movies. Up starts slowly, but picks up helium and soars... In 1923 Buster Keaton made The Balloonatic. 86 years later Up enters the Buster Keaton stratosphere." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 6, 2009
4.0/5 95% Star Trek (2009) " In making yet another Star Trek, the great challenge the filmmakers... faced was to be contemporary while also respecting the past. Star Trek passes its obstacles with dazzling, time-warping colors." — tonymacklin.net
Posted May 12, 2009
4.0/5 86% The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) " If you want to go into another world in which imagination leads you into recesses and crevices you haven't visited, The Man Who Fell To Earth is a fantastic guide." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Apr 14, 2009
4.0/5 —— Images (1972) " It is a rare film that can entice me to surrender my logic, but Images does just that. [It] is a film in which Altman doesn't worry about defenses. He boldly creates a spiritual vision and lets logic and caution fall by the wayside of wondrous beauty." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 31, 2009
4.0/5 95% Dirty Harry (1971) " Don Siegel's Dirty Harry is an apt example of a film with a vision that few people perceive beyond its violent, flamboyant surfaces. If director Siegel might be a bit uncomfortable with a close reading of his movie, he also might be pleased that the..." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 1, 2009
4.0/5 82% Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) " Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which Allen wrote and directed but did not act in, is Woody at the top of his game." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 6, 2009
4.0/5 91% Million Dollar Baby (2004) " Million Dollar Baby adds to Clint Eastwood's legacy in ways we might not have expected. It explores emotional terrain as he hasn't done before, and it gives him a kind of role that he has never had before." — Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Feb 2, 2009
4.0/5 91% Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) " The most important film of 2006 was Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima. In 20 years Letters from Iwo Jima will be a classic." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
4.0/5 94% The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) " The Bourne Ultimatum keeps the pedal to the floor and burns serious rubber." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
4.0/5 96% Ratatouille (2007) " When is a rat a lark? When he's created by Brad Bird. Brad Bird, the animation maestro from Pixar, invents a spunky, gourmet rodent in the lively, spicy romp Ratatouille." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
4.0/5 82% Into the Wild (2007) " Into The Wild has been made into a prayer of a motion picture by Sean Penn. It may not touch everybody, but those whom it does touch, it will touch deeply. It is a haunting odyssey." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 2, 2009
4.0/5 89% The Visitor (2008) " The best movies are those that understand the human condition and have a personal vision. The Visitor is one of those rare creations. The Visitor is a parable of decency." — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 1, 2009
4.0/5 92% Frost/Nixon (2008) " When the movie version of Frost/Nixon was being cast, Frank Langella might well have been bypassed. Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty were mentioned, but Langella survived and got the role. On screen Langella nails -- or fangs -- Nixon. Langella does not m" — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 1, 2009
4.0/5 79% Gran Torino (2009) " Gran Torino had the biggest wide-opening at the box office of Clint Eastwood's career. In Gran Torino Clint plays hard-bitten, alienated, anti-everything Walt Kowalski. Sound familar? Clint didn't bring back Dirty Harry, but he gave us Dirty" — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 1, 2009
4.0/5 89% Zodiac (2007) " It's a deceptively rich film." — Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Jul 18, 2007
—— Brideshead Revisited (2006) " http://tonymacklin.net/content.php?cID=12" — Fayetteville Free Weekly
Posted Feb 6, 2009
3.5/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " Director/writer Woody Allen still has vitality, creativity, and the man can write." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 24, 2013
3.5/5 83% Berberian Sound Studio (2013) " Berberian Sound Studio is a film for critics. General public -- come at your own risk." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 6, 2013
3.5/5 62% Broken (2013) " Attention: Book Discussion Groups. Have I got a book for you. And a movie beautifully adapted from it. Both are titled Broken." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 9, 2013
3.5/5 93% Amour (2012) " A viewer may want to watch Amour, because it is a work of art." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 21, 2013
3.5/5 88% Django Unchained (2012) " Django Unchained is part Red Bull and part bloody bubble bath. It's a hoot and a holler." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 6, 2013
3.5/5 63% Hitchcock (2012) " Hitchcock takes us through the struggle, travail, and rejections that faced Hitch as he tried to make a new kind of movie. We perhaps forget how revolutionary Psycho was in 1960. No one had ever done what Hitchcock was attempting." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Nov 8, 2012
3.5/5 88% Neil Young Journeys (2012) " Neil Young Journeys does for some of us what a rare film can do - it revives and renews our spirit. Neil Young and Jonathan Demme. Heart and soul. Wisdom and age. Fire and ashes. Lightning and thunder." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Aug 9, 2012
3.5/5 78% The Deep Blue Sea (2012) " The Deep Blue Sea is an eloquent love song. It's both hauntingly pitiful and very human. It's love in all its labor." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jul 30, 2012
3.5/5 70% Men in Black III (2012) " The actor and character that most humanizes the movie is Michael Stuhlbarg as Griffin, the alien with the gift of seeing potential futures. Griffin is both knowing and insecure. Stuhlbarg gives an affecting performance of warmth and fearful anxiety." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jun 2, 2012
3.5/5 84% The Hunger Games (2012) " The Hunger Games is much more than a game. It is a memorable human experience. Thank the gods for the wonder of literature and the vision of movies. Some of us still hunger for eloquence on the screen." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Mar 26, 2012
3.5/5 76% We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) " I'm a sucker for Hitchcock, and last year Jeff Nichols showed he knew his Hitch in Take Shelter (2011). But perhaps Lynne Ramsay knows her Hitchcock even better." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Jan 5, 2012
3.5/5 96% The Muppets (2011) " The Muppets is a joyful mix of the nostalgic past and a vibrant present. It tops the list of family movies for the holidays. The movie asks the question, "Do you have what it takes to be one of the Muppets?" Of course, we do." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 26, 2011
3.5/5 98% The Artist (2011) " The Artist is vibrant. It is clever and dramatic, and has a rich treasure trove of cinema lore and vitality. The Artist captures the eternal wonder of movies -- new and old." — tonymacklin.net
Posted Dec 2, 2011
3.5/5 92% Take Shelter (2011) " On rare occasions, a movie comes along that does genuine honor to Alfred Hitchcock. Take Shelter is such a movie. It could be subtitled "Take Shelter with Hitch."" — tonymacklin.net
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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