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Scott Tobias

Scott Tobias

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
96% Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) "With Kubo, Laika adds more texture to the dark beauty that's been the house style since Coraline, but it's more emotionally expansive, too. " ‐ NPR
Posted Aug 18, 2016
27% The Boy (2016) "With a little more courage and a lot more craft, Brahms could have been the next Chucky or Annabelle. Instead the little creep is as harmless as a rag doll. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
84% Lamb (2016) "Ross Partridge's unsettling drama Lamb, based on Bonnie Nadzam's novel, leaves this agonizing question to linger over the action for most of the way, which isn't quite as cruel a proposition as it seems. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
55% The Purge: Election Year (2016) "Given the macabre grotesquerie of American politics and culture in our own election year, the time seems right for a great horror series to reflect it back at us. The Purge isn't that series. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
86% Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) "The film's scolding tone, combined with the sentimental gloss of its ending, leaves an aftertaste that sours the screwball fizz of its cheerier moments. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
61% Nerve (2016) "It's easy to be cynical about Schulman and Joost as gimmicky exploiters of the zeitgeist, but in Sharzer's script, they've channeled the illicit excitement of Truth or Dare into a digital form and turned up the gas. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
97% Little Men (2016) "Little Men has only one big dramatic scene, but it's a shot to the heart, so piercing because Sachs was patient enough to define all his characters fully before unleashing it. " ‐ Uproxx
Posted Aug 16, 2016
87% Pete's Dragon (2016) "Lowery's affecting tearjerker strips away the excess and keeps on stripping, until all that's left is the elemental friendship between boy and beast and a lovely affirmation of family, community, and the preciousness of the natural world. " ‐ NPR
Posted Aug 11, 2016
26% Five Nights in Maine (2016) "We're left to guess how they feel at the beginning of the film and we don't learn much more by the end. " ‐ NPR
Posted Aug 4, 2016
60% The Mind's Eye (2016) "Begos' follow-up to Almost Human, his John Carpenter-inspired debut feature, confirms the helmer as an enthusiastic student of '80s genre fare, but a frustrating underachiever. " ‐ Variety
Posted Aug 1, 2016
83% Tallulah (2016) "Unwieldy but affecting ... " ‐ NPR
Posted Jul 28, 2016
75% Lace Crater (2016) "Large chunks of this 81-minute trifle amount to mere banality, including a sex metaphor that's anyone's guess, but Atkins scribbles productively in the margins. " ‐ Variety
Posted Jul 27, 2016
62% Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016) "This ungainly, catch-as-catch-can feature isn't a comfortable expansion of the series, but there's a brightness and spontaneity to it that forgives its many lapses ... " ‐ NPR
Posted Jul 21, 2016
32% Equals (2016) "Its own conceit works stubbornly against it: When two would-be lovers are required to behave like automatons every waking moment, it's not easy to stop being boring when no one is looking. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jul 14, 2016
74% The Secret Life of Pets (2016) ""It's not Pixar, but it'll do" may get families in the theater, but it's not an inspiring proposition. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jul 7, 2016
75% The BFG (2016) "The biggest emotional moments in The BFG combine Rylance's working-class humility and decency with subtle wrinkles in the animation that suggest a stirring of the soul. It's the rare CGI wonder that moves as well as awes. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jun 30, 2016
51% The Neon Demon (2016) "The mesmeric pull of The Neon Demon cannot be denied. It lures you in for the kill. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jun 23, 2016
88% Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2016) "Raiders! nicely interweaves the bittersweet history of the remake with a behind-the-scenes look at the middle-aged Strompolos and Zala collaborating for the first time in decades. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jun 16, 2016
34% Now You See Me 2 (2016) "This is no mere haunted house movie. This is a tour through a giant, spring-loaded funhouse. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jun 9, 2016
76% Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) "It's bright, affectionate, and so keyed into our particular pop moment that it all but hurls itself into a time capsule. " ‐ NPR
Posted Jun 2, 2016
91% The Nice Guys (2016) "It has the byzantine plot of an L.A. noir, but races through it with the breathless energy of Black's other work. " ‐ NPR
Posted May 20, 2016
4% The Darkness (2016) "McLean must have believed he was making John Cassavetes' "Poltergeist," but this odd fusion of psychodrama and supernatural hokum gets away from him. " ‐ Variety
Posted May 14, 2016
62% High-Rise (2016) "High-Rise is a deeply and relentlessly unpleasant experience, and a borderline incoherent one at that. " ‐ NPR
Posted May 12, 2016
0% Search Party (2016) ""Search Party" is a pedal-to-the-metal road trip that aims for spontaneity, but stays within the lines-even when it goes off on wacky tangents, there's never any doubt what direction it's actually headed. " ‐ Variety
Posted May 12, 2016
67% Divine Access (2016) "None of Jack's relationships are handled with enough conviction to make them stick, and that carries over to a religious message that's squishy in the extreme. " ‐ Variety
Posted May 11, 2016
89% Dheepan (2016) "What started as a piercing drama about refugees, rooted firmly in the ethnic crises that have plagued modern Paris, shifts into a cathartic melee that nearly tips into outright fantasy. One part of the film can't be reconciled with the other. " ‐ NPR
Posted May 5, 2016
76% Keanu (2016) "Key and Peele have such a sensationally giddy chemistry together that the film's raggedness plays, in their hands, like a kind of spontaneity. " ‐ NPR
Posted Apr 28, 2016
100% A Beautiful Planet (2016) ""A Beautiful Planet" may be little more than an Epcot attraction with broader distribution, but it delivers emphatically on its title and should wow field-trip takers and large-format devotees. " ‐ Variety
Posted Apr 28, 2016
100% Silicon Valley: Season 3 (TV, 2016) "Unlike dramas, comedies don't always need friction to create a spark, but Season 2 thrived by having Richard step on rake after rake after rake. " ‐ New York Times
Posted Apr 25, 2016
92% Always Shine (2016) "With her confident second feature, director Sophia Takal ("Green") takes on Tinseltown misogyny and the toxic rivalry between friends, but that's mere prelude to a gonzo meta-fiction that deconstructs itself nearly to death. " ‐ Variety
Posted Apr 17, 2016
91% Green Room (2016) "The film's "punk versus skinheads" hook gives it the quality of a blood-spattered graphic novel, but there's a sophistication to the writing and direction that transcends brute conflict. " ‐ NPR
Posted Apr 14, 2016
53% Demolition (2016) "Demolition is the rare film that's doomed by its central conceit: It starts in a hole and mostly keeps digging. " ‐ NPR
Posted Apr 7, 2016
88% No Home Movie (2016) "It's an exceptionally challenging and enigmatic work, especially for Akerman neophytes, but there's an intimacy to it that's occasionally startling. " ‐ NPR
Posted Apr 1, 2016
92% The Fear Of 13 ""The Fear of 13" is the classic stranger-than-fiction scenario, but it's also a testament to the power of storytelling, which can make the truth sound like embellishment. " ‐ Variety
Posted Mar 29, 2016
28% My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) "It's comforting to break bread in Vardalos' cheery Chicago enclave again, even if you're being served yesterday's dinner out of the microwave. " ‐ NPR
Posted Mar 24, 2016
13% The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016) "Creatively speaking, if not financially, the Divergent series is less a franchise than a quagmire, an unwinnable war that nonetheless must be fought until the bitter end. " ‐ NPR
Posted Mar 17, 2016
27% The Perfect Match (2016) "Woodruff, a music-video specialist with a filmography full of retreads ... has mostly made another one here. " ‐ Variety
Posted Mar 11, 2016
90% 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) "Trachtenberg and his screenwriters, Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken, take advantage of the shelter's tight quarters, which contribute to the expected pressure-cooker atmosphere of suspicion and hostility but also open up the punch-drunk comedy ... " ‐ NPR
Posted Mar 10, 2016
68% Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) "The laughs are scattered, the emotions are muted, and the politics are largely toothless. Yet it still doesn't take much squinting to see the M*A*S*H that might have been. " ‐ NPR
Posted Mar 4, 2016
16% Gods Of Egypt (2016) "Many of the images in Gods of Egypt would make for a fetching prog-rock album cover, but Proyas has populated his digital paradise with banal characters, cherry-picked mythology, and a score just a few notes off from Lawrence of Arabia. " ‐ NPR
Posted Feb 25, 2016
61% Race (2016) "Race follows the pattern of so many other sports biopics in which it's white patronage that makes black triumphs possible. " ‐ Village Voice
Posted Feb 19, 2016
91% The Witch (2016) "The Witch immediately joins the pantheon of great horror movies, with the caveat that it's just barely a horror movie at all. " ‐ NPR
Posted Feb 18, 2016
23% Zoolander 2 (2016) "Zoolander 2 seems like the result of a 15-year game of "exquisite corpse," the surrealist exercise where different writers add to a story independent of each other, strand by strand, without full knowledge of previous contributions. " ‐ NPR
Posted Feb 11, 2016
89% Mountains May Depart (Shan he gu ren) (2016) "No director has done more to chronicle change in contemporary China and the instability it breeds in the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people. Yet there's a foreground/background problem that continues to plague his work ... " ‐ Village Voice
Posted Feb 9, 2016
0% All Roads Lead to Rome (2016) "A combination romance, farce and road movie that whiffs in all three departments. " ‐ Variety
Posted Feb 5, 2016
42% Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) "Not enough has been preserved from Austen's book to give it any presence, much less gain an exciting new resonance. The only true zombie metaphor here is the impulse to turn everything into fodder for teenage boys. " ‐ NPR
Posted Feb 4, 2016
75% The World Of Kanako (Kawaki) (2015) "Relentlessly unpleasant and ultimately banal. " ‐ Variety
Posted Feb 3, 2016
7% Fifty Shades of Black (2016) "At a minimum, a parody should be funnier than the film it's sending up, but "Fifty Shades of Black," a quick-and-dirty riff on last year's S&M romance "Fifty Shades of Grey," falls a laugh or two short of even that low standard. " ‐ Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2016
70% Snowtime! (2016) "Covering the emotional spectrum between dog farts on one end and tragedy on the other reps a tonal challenge that "Showtime!" can't pull off, despite a gentler touch than most kiddie fare of its kind. " ‐ Variety
Posted Jan 29, 2016
60% Film Hawk "If the doc weren't about him, it's easy to imagine that Hawk, in his professional capacity, would come back with pages of handwritten notes about it. " ‐ Variety
Posted Jan 28, 2016
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