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Vincent Mancini

Vincent Mancini

Agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

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D+ 46% Parkland (2013) " A shouty acting exercise masquerading as history. Like Jobs before it, Parkland is a movie that seems to have been researched with exhaustive study of other movies and only a cursory skim of its own subject matter. DRAMA!" — FilmDrunk
Posted Oct 4, 2013
A 98% Gravity (2013) " That Gravity, in 2013, can make you wonder how it was made with almost every shot, is an incredible achievement. It manages to punch you in the nuts with reality and make you believe in magic all at the same time." — FilmDrunk
Posted Oct 3, 2013
B —— Narco Cultura (2013) " Fascinating, bizarre, and beautifully shot, but if I have one criticism, it's that I feel like I left with more questions than answers. Maybe it's the material, maybe it's the messenger, probably it's both. Either way, it's a must-watch." — FilmDrunk
Posted Sep 26, 2013
B+ —— Nordvest (Northwest) () " The idea that a poor kid might get recruited into the underworld lifestyle by a surrogate family of criminals isn't anything new, but the whole thing is so well executed and the details so specific to Copenhagen that it never feels trite. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Sep 25, 2013
B+ 75% Jigoku de naze warui (Why Don't You Play in Hell?) () " A wacky, slapstick parody that's also a gangster caper and a romantic comedy, it's like Mel Brooks meets Guy Ritchie, juggling genres like flaming chainsaws." — FilmDrunk
Posted Sep 25, 2013
C- 80% Prisoners (2013) " Dark subject matter like this feels that much more perverse when it's totally phony. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Sep 20, 2013
A- 89% The World's End (2013) " Like Ghostbusters, takes a plot that keeps one-upping its own ridiculousness and grounds it with a cast of talented actors who commit to the material 1000%, reacting honestly to the preposterousness around them without jumping outside the text." — FilmDrunk
Posted Aug 23, 2013
D+ 26% Jobs (2013) " A junior high term paper about Steve Jobs, using Apple's marketing materials as the main source, answering the unasked question, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MYTHOS?! " — FilmDrunk
Posted Aug 16, 2013
D+ 30% Kick-Ass 2 (2013) " Imagine if Jonathan Swift had penned a sequel to A Modest Proposal where you couldn't tell if he was serious about cannibalism. That's Kick-Ass 2, a weird, fake satire. LET THEM EAT BABIES. I THINK. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Aug 16, 2013
B- 54% Lovelace (2013) " Linda Lovelace had at least two, wildly different public personae, and instead of trying to find the middle ground, Lovelace just gives us both of them, which is either admirable or artistically cowardly, depending on your perspective." — FilmDrunk
Posted Aug 14, 2013
C- 22% The Canyons (2013) " Imagine American Psycho if Patrick Bateman only killed because he was angry about other dudes banging Evelyn." — FilmDrunk
Posted Aug 6, 2013
C+ 80% Drinking Buddies (2013) " Drinking Buddies is well acted, pretty, and avoids the Hollywood ending, but there are better options for avoiding a Hollywood ending than a Hollywood non-ending. Honesty is great, but hey, how 'bout some weirdness?" — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 31, 2013
A 98% Blackfish (2013) " There aren't too many animal-rights documentaries that could be described as "metal," but Blackfish, one part horror movie and one part nature film, fits the bill and then some." — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 29, 2013
B 69% The Wolverine (2013) " The Wolverine isn't great, but it's better than we've come to expect, and when it screws up, at least it doesn't do it in the usual ways. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 25, 2013
B 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " The aggressive tastelessness of the plot and the hyper-tastefulness of the style choices give the impression of a misanthropic interior decorator who creates magnificent spaces for an ugly world that doesn't deserve them." — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 22, 2013
B 86% The Conjuring (2013) " In a summer of convoluted action films, the simplicity of a haunted house movie is actually kind of refreshing. Sometimes you want processed cheese, and this cheese is nicely processed. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 19, 2013
C- 72% Pacific Rim (2013) " A jumble of grating caricatures shouting dopey lines at each other in a film with no real sense of cause and effect. It was like watching a nerd play with his dolls for two hours. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 11, 2013
A- 85% The Way Way Back (2013) " You basically get to live vicariously through a kid who becomes Sam Rockwell's best pal, and I promise, that's all you've ever wanted, even if you don't know it yet. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jul 5, 2013
C- 50% White House Down (2013) " I would watch an entire film of Channing Tatum trying to talk a squirrel off a birdhouse, but the rest of the film fails to live up to its finest scene. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 28, 2013
F 51% The Iron Lady (2012) " ...ignores the political and historical context of almost EVERYTHING that happens so that they can make the fabulously reductive statement that LIFE WAS TOUGH FOR GIRLS, BUT SHE WAS A TOUGH GIRL. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 14, 2013
A+ 87% Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) " Sometimes a scene is a set up for a future plot twist, and sometimes Werner Herzog just wants to film some alligators. Who knows what'll happen? It's like filling your underpants with salamanders." — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 14, 2013
B+ 84% This Is the End (2013) " Feels a bit like a feature-length sketch, but it's a really funny one, and funny is enough. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 14, 2013
D 59% The Bling Ring (2013) " With so many vicarious celebrations of wealth masquerading as critiques as it is, I think you owe the audience at least the wisp of a point of view, and there's none here. There is no here here." — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 14, 2013
B 56% Man of Steel (2013) " I still don't think anyone's made an incredible Superman movie, but at least Man of Steel made me believe that it's possible. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Jun 12, 2013
D 19% The Hangover Part III (2013) " The Hangover III is all big, broad comedy, a movie that never met a hacky punchline that it didn't shriek in your face and then repeat two seconds later. " — FilmDrunk
Posted May 29, 2013
C+ 49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " As Carraway's depicted in the movie, I can finally see why Hemingway thought Fitzgerald was such a pussy. Carraway is writer as observer-eunuch, the antithesis of Hemingway's phallus-brandishing lion killer." — FilmDrunk
Posted May 10, 2013
A- 79% 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- 7% The Big Wedding (2013) " Their idea of a minority is, in all seriousness, a British dude painted orange. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Apr 26, 2013
54% 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 69% 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 82% 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- 69% 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+ 96% 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 85% 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 f*cks are spoken, but few given." — FilmDrunk
Posted Mar 14, 2013
B- 59% 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 15% 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+ 84% Side Effects (2013) " No spoilers: Side Effects is damn good at being a movie. " — FilmDrunk
Posted Feb 11, 2013
C+ 38% 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- 60% 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- 65% 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+ 75% 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
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