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Vincent Mancini

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: FilmDrunk

Total Reviews:: 40

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
A-	78%	Iron Man 3 (2013)	" Watching a Shane Black movie is like listening to a noisy garage band, where no matter how sloppily they skronk through a verse, when they tighten up and hit that sing-along chorus, the lack of polish somehow makes it sound even better." — FilmDrunk Posted May 7, 2013
C-	8%	The Big Wedding (2013)	" Their idea of a minority is, in all seriousness, a British dude painted orange. " — FilmDrunk Posted Apr 26, 2013
	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" I'll forgive a lot for an IMAX film this pretty, and Oblivion is an artful mish-mash of older sci-fi that borrows from just enough sources that it doesn't feel like a ripoff. " — FilmDrunk Posted Apr 18, 2013
D	68%	Trance (2013)	" Like a beautifully elaborate origami weave of story strands I didn't believe for even a single second." — FilmDrunk Posted Apr 12, 2013
B	81%	The Place Beyond The Pines (2013)	" A technically brilliant film, but a bummer that's more about inevitability than possibility. Sidenote: the baby actor's name is "Anthony Pizza Jr." " — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 29, 2013
C-	67%	Stoker (2013)	" Stoker is symbolism in search of a story. It's like Breaking Bad if it was a show about Walt killing flies, and only tangentially concerned with the meth business." — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 27, 2013
B+	——	A Band Called Death (2013)	" Takes its time getting there, but when it hit, it packed an emotional punch that knocked me on my ass so hard I left a skid mark on the floor." — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 21, 2013
B	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" If it's something different you're after, Upstream Color is your movie. But be careful what you wish for. It's a film about having pig dreams, and the courage to follow them. " — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 20, 2013
A	——	Mr. Angel ()	" A movie about a man with a vagina that kicked me right in the emotional nutsack. " — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 14, 2013
B+	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" *A movie in which many fcks are spoken, but few given.*" — FilmDrunk* Posted Mar 14, 2013
B-	60%	Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)	" "We are what we pretend to be" is not only one of my favorite Vonnegut quotes, but a surprising sentiment to be found in a Disney movie for kids. " — FilmDrunk Posted Mar 8, 2013
F	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" There isn't much interesting about delving into the psyche of a broad, meaningless caricature. Ooh, tell us about your rich internal life, Joe Camel! " — FilmDrunk Posted Feb 14, 2013
B+	85%	Side Effects (2013)	" No spoilers: Side Effects is damn good at being a movie. " — FilmDrunk Posted Feb 11, 2013
C+	37%	Stand Up Guys (2013)	" Al Pacino's chemically-induced boner that has to be drained with a needle in the first act is a nice metaphor for the whole movie. " — FilmDrunk Posted Feb 1, 2013
C-	59%	The Last Stand (2013)	" Reminds me of Metallica in Some Kind of Monster, where they'd just kind of all play loud at the same time and occasionally stumble upon an okay-sounding bit that they'd then record. The Last Stand is kind of like the St. Anger of Arnold movies." — FilmDrunk Posted Jan 18, 2013
B-	93%	Zero Dark Thirty (2013)	" This isn't a bad movie, it's just too easy. This is a movie for people who want to eat their fish without having to gut it first. " — FilmDrunk Posted Jan 11, 2013
C	32%	Gangster Squad (2013)	" I don't mind not thinking too hard if I'm going to get something out of it at some point, but this is more like a self-perpetuating Ouroboros loop of not thinking too hard." — FilmDrunk Posted Jan 10, 2013
A+	88%	Django Unchained (2012)	" When we look back at history, we tend to put evil up on this pedestal in a way that unfairly flatters people like Hitler, et al. Tarantino pulls evil men down from their dignified perch and allows you to laugh at them as the actual clowns they were." — FilmDrunk Posted Dec 26, 2012
B-	70%	Les Misérables (2012)	" Review formatted to Smash Mouth's "All Star." SooomeBODY once TOLD me, the SOOONGS were gonna BORE me, I AIN'T a cultured DUDE just a GUUUUUEST/Anne was LOOKin kinda GLUM with her HAAAAIR up in a BUN, and some DIRT on her FACE, yeah she's POOR, now " — FilmDrunk Posted Dec 24, 2012
B	61%	Jack Reacher (2012)	" A movie that never pretends to be a film, it's like a puffed-up Law & Order episode done well - the kind of guilty pleasure popcorn movie people always tried to convince me Bourne was. Why hasn't Werner Herzog played a bad guy before?" — FilmDrunk Posted Dec 21, 2012
C-	66%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)	" It's all fight scenes, and the fight scenes have no arc. You just sit there waiting for some inevitable deus ex machina to save the day whenever Peter Jackson feels like it. The characters have no agency. It's like watching a kid play with his GI Joes." — FilmDrunk Posted Dec 14, 2012
C-	86%	Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)	" When you live in the city and you buy your meat wrapped in cellophane, it's a pleasant fantasy to believe that people who sleep in the dirt and gut their dinners are possessed of a spiritual richness that you've always felt you're somehow lacking." — FilmDrunk Posted Dec 3, 2012
B+	76%	Killing Them Softly (2012)	" An oppressively cynical cinematic Motörhead song about the scum-covered nutsack of society. What it lacks in nuance it makes up for in brutal purity. " — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 30, 2012
B	88%	Life of Pi (2012)	" Going into a religious allegory like Life of Pi, you expect an abundance of meerkats, and Life of Pi, sadly, has only a moderate amount of meerkats. " — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 21, 2012
B	92%	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)	" David O. Russell is screwing with us. He's seeing how many indie rom-com tropes he can juggle at the same time and still make it work, with one big twist: Brad Cooper is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with a penis." — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 16, 2012
B-	89%	Lincoln (2012)	" Spielberg's entertaining and bravely esoteric tale of 1860s politics comes with an unfortunate side dish of contrived family drama that's as hokey as it is dull. " — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 10, 2012
D+	79%	Flight (2012)	" If you leave after the first 20 minutes, you'll see a great nude scene and a harrowing plane crash without being subjected to the after-school special about alcoholism that comes later." — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 2, 2012
C+	68%	Cloud Atlas (2012)	" ...like a three-hour, constantly shifting contradiction. You want to give it credit for all its dazzling imagery, but almost every actual idea it presents it eventually contradicts or leaves incomplete." — FilmDrunk Posted Nov 1, 2012
B+	94%	The Sessions (2012)	" That exceedingly rare combination of sexy, clever and sweet, a winning tale of one charming disabled man's quest to get some stank on his hangdown." — FilmDrunk Posted Oct 26, 2012
C	82%	Seven Psychopaths (2012)	" On paper, a movie I should love. In practice, like watching two grad students pee on each other for two hours." — FilmDrunk Posted Oct 19, 2012
D+	39%	Here Comes the Boom (2012)	" To see MMA marketed once again to the Truck Nutz Energy Drink Crowd is, yes, predictable, but still disappointing. It's impossible for me to see Henry Winkler singing an acoustic version of a POD song in an airport as anything but an embarrassment. " — FilmDrunk Posted Oct 12, 2012
B+	96%	Argo (2012)	" Clever, competent filmmaking with lovable characters and catchy dialog, the kind of movie Aaron Sorkin might make if he was just a smidge less of a smarmy prick. And obviously, Affleck's beard is the bomb." — FilmDrunk Posted Oct 12, 2012
A-	93%	Looper (2012)	" Looper is like a Christopher Nolan movie with a sense of humor. " — FilmDrunk Posted Sep 28, 2012
B	78%	Dredd (2012)	" A good B-movie makes the grade with retard strength, not by acing math tests, and Dredd has a plot like a sledge hammer." — FilmDrunk Posted Sep 21, 2012
A	86%	The Master (2012)	" I knew The Master would be beautiful, but I was pleasantly surprised by all the fart jokes and boobs." — FilmDrunk Posted Sep 21, 2012
C	64%	Cosmopolis (2012)	" I don't know if DeLillo's fetishized doubletalk ever works in a visual medium like film, but I can tell you that Robert Pattinson sure as hell isn't up to it, at least not without better direction than this. " — FilmDrunk Posted Aug 30, 2012
C	87%	ParaNorman (2012)	" Incredible animation unfortunately paired with a preachy, recycled story and unpleasant character design. " — FilmDrunk Posted Aug 30, 2012
A-	78%	The Ambassador (2012)	" The closest I've ever seen to a real-life Heart of Darkness, but funnier." — FilmDrunk Posted Aug 30, 2012
B+	95%	The Queen of Versailles (2012)	" A well-told tale about having to atone for sins of the sub-prime era." — FilmDrunk Posted Jul 27, 2012

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