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Violet Lucca

Violet Lucca

Agrees with the Tomatometer 61% of the time.

Publications:
Film Comment Magazine , Slant Magazine
Total Reviews:
40

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Showing 1 - 40 of 40
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
—— Five Dances (2013) " Unfortunately, schmaltzy music and drab melodrama drag down the otherwise graceful moves of Five Dances." — Village Voice
Posted Oct 1, 2013
—— We Came Home (2013) " We Came Home is ultimately more interesting to talk about than to watch." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 30, 2013
89% After Tiller (2013) " After Tiller's greatest failing is the way in which is fails to engage at length how entrenched the stalemate on abortion is." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2013
95% Enough Said (2013) " The core of the film is very real and immediately felt: the way in which a relationship can be wrecked by doubt and a hasty focus on the other individual's personal flaws." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Sep 8, 2013
34% Touchy Feely (2013) " Just as tedious as waiting in a dentist's office for an hour and a half, Lynn Shelton's latest fumblingly cutesy outing ought to be her last." — Village Voice
Posted Sep 3, 2013
3.5/4 98% Wadjda (2013) " Haifaa Al Mansour's debut feature presents a firm but understated social critique in the form of an endearing coming-of-age story. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2013
43% Abigail Harm (2013) " Plummer's highly emotive performance ... exudes more emotion in a wistful sideways glance than most actresses do over their entire careers." — Village Voice
Posted Aug 29, 2013
93% Our Children (2013) " Masterfully plays with stylistic conventions and all-too-common instances of real-life matricide ..." — Village Voice
Posted Jul 30, 2013
34% Passion (2013) " Precise in its aesthetics, it's an excellent late-period work that shows, without being over-bearing, how the ascent of the corporate ladder can sometimes be a descent into a deeper circle of hell." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 12, 2013
—— End of the Road (1970) " An ambitious adaptation of John Barth's End of the Road gives voice to American malaise" — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2013
93% Girl Model (2012) " Despite its poor technical quality, Girl Model is a much-needed counterpoint to the irresponsible camp mentality of Toddlers & Tiaras." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
68% Ted (2012) " It is a film that seems to have an endless middle." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
21% 360 (2012) " Spending 111 minutes watching people at the mall would be a more illuminating study of human behavior-and undoubtedly more entertaining." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
61% John Dies at the End (2013) " The saving grace of John Dies at the End is undoubtedly its manic storytelling: the energy and pacing of scenes give the movie the impression of being told on the spot (which is of course what the framing device intends)." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
82% Super 8 (2011) " While it may not achieve the level of pop culture canonization as the Spielberg films it invokes, Super 8 should inspire many to use their camera-phones for something more creative than a profile pic." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
73% Chicken with Plums (2012) " These moments give flavor, but fail to cohere into any particular taste." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
100% Murder Is My Beat () " Most of its expressionist-tinged visual flourishes are withheld until the very end, with a final twist that's legitimately thrilling." — Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
84% Sleepwalk With Me (2012) " However, there's something ultimately unsatisfying about the experience of listening to stand-up comedian Mike Birbiglia tell the true story of his inability to marry his longtime girlfriend (played by the far-too-hot-to-be-with-him Lauren Ambrose)." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
63% Hitchcock (2012) " The movie hits the beats, but lacks depth." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
80% Laurence Anyways (2013) " Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan's third film, acknowledges the messiness of transgendered life, and the sizeable gaps between tolerance, acceptance, and actually going to bed with someone." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
47% Maniac (2013) " Perhaps the mannequin metaphor is best: though it's dressed to the nines, Maniac is ultimately just a piece of plastic" — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
30% The Tempest (2010) " Dispensing with tableau compositions, this adaptation feels liberated from static theatrical and, to a lesser degree, cinematic convention by the overall openness of its staging and camerawork that's somewhere between handheld and Steadicam. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
90% Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) " With a diegesis mapped along the mental contours of its protagonist, Martha Marcy May Marlene harkens back to Pasolini's notion of the cinema of poetry--and achieves it beautifully." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
43% The Paperboy (2012) " I'll just get it out of the way now: The Paperboy is unbelievably awful." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
85% Cedar Rapids (2011) " The risks Cedar Rapids takes may not always pay off, but as a general rule, I would advise spending 86 minutes of your life with the movie rather than the city itself. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
90% Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012) " This is certainly not to suggest that White's work is worthless or unimpressive, but the way it is sold to us is predictable and unclever." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
46% A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman (2012) " The experience of A Liar's Autobiography is ultimately deflating instead of celebratory." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
66% Cloud Atlas (2012) " Like a fitted coat worn by someone it wasn't tailored for, parts of Cloud Atlas bulge out, overstretched, begging for more material, while other sections hang laughably loose. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
88% Middle of Nowhere (2012) " Though writer-director Ava DuVernay avoids any and all cliché right up until the closing titles, I have no qualms ending this review with one: I wholeheartedly look forward to her next project." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
85% Upstream Color (2013) " Ultimately, Carruth's tale expresses that, despite the complexity and mutability of human beings, their essence persists." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
85% The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) " "Like real teenagers, Watson and Miller convincingly move from glowing objects of desire to comic relief to deeply troubled human beings."" — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2013
68% Wrong (2013) " Wrong wears out its welcome even at 94 minutes. " — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2013
98% Mud (2013) " In its energy and nuance, Mud seems like the kind of film Hollywood would've made in the Seventies, and would've continued to do if not for the advent of market-conscious filmmaking." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2013
49% The Great Gatsby (2013) " Though it is quite possible that the neutered feel of Luhrmann's Gatsby is entirely due to studio meddling, the finished product isn't enjoyable, either as campy fun or a serious attempt at dismantling the American dream." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2013
56% The Magic Christian (1970) " Joseph McGrath's movie version remains an acerbic, late-Sixties dark comedy classic." — Film Comment Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2013
4/5 55% Fuck For Forest () " The film where porno and environmental charity come together. Very uneasily." — Little White Lies
Posted Apr 18, 2013
2/5 87% Bullhead (2012) " There's not quite enough in here to justify a second sweep." — Little White Lies
Posted Jan 31, 2013
—— A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps (2011) " Great achievements don't guarantee great documentary-or, as A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps proves, they don't even secure a mediocre one." — Village Voice
Posted Nov 29, 2011
20% Cherkess (2011) " Ah, the plodding period costume drama!" — Village Voice
Posted Nov 1, 2011
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