Alex Pappademas

Alex Pappademas's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Village Voice
Grantland
Publications:
Village Voice,
Grantland
Movie Reviews Only
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36% | Our Brand is Crisis (2015) |
It's the first time I've watched a David Gordon Green movie and found myself wishing I was in the capable hands of a set-'em-up-knock-'em-down director like Jay Roach. - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 30, 2015
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18% | The Last Witch Hunter (2015) |
A feature film that feels like a longish TV pilot. - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 23, 2015
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85% | Steve Jobs (2015) |
Fassbender looks enough like Jobs that it's not distracting, and he finds a voice for the character. - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 9, 2015
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83% | The Walk (2015) |
For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie. - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 2, 2015
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91% | The Martian (2015) |
It's a brisk, funny piece of competence-porn sci-fi. - Grantland
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| Posted Oct 2, 2015
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50% | Tomorrowland (2015) |
We like apocalyptic futures, one character says, because they ask nothing of us; Tomorrowland can't quite sell the alternative, but at least it dares to imagine something different. - Grantland
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| Posted May 22, 2015
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97% | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) |
Fury Road is also one of the best action movies of the decade, a punk Last Judgment with manic invention and depraved wit on display in every frame. - Grantland
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| Posted May 15, 2015
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12% | The Boy Next Door (2015) |
You always have to wonder why anybody says yes to a project like this one, but it's a particularly strange choice on Lopez's part, since she's done her best work in movies that dare to empower her. - Grantland
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| Posted Jan 23, 2015
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12% | Mortdecai (2015) |
Mortdecai isn't particularly funny, but it's also not the Pistachio Disguisey 2015 train wreck the Internet has spent the last few months anticipating. It's brainless, but it's painless. - Grantland
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| Posted Jan 23, 2015
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90% | X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
The plot is about a fearful society whose expansion of its security apparatus has unintended consequences, but Singer doesn't even touch the story's topical resonances... There's also no real moral quandary to be grappled with. - Grantland
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| Posted May 23, 2014
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76% | Godzilla (2014) |
The first truly joyous popcorn action movie of the season. - Grantland
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| Posted May 16, 2014
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81% | The Raid 2 (2014) |
This is an absurdly violent film, but it's too in love with the physical genius of its actors to really feel sadistic. - Grantland
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| Posted Apr 3, 2014
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54% | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) |
I'm aware that commercial and cultural forces require everything to be rebooted triennially with fresher, hotter stars. But this is the second time the Jack Ryan franchise has rejected a youth transplant. - Grantland
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| Posted Mar 14, 2014
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92% | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) |
In its own silly, artificial way, it's the first Anderson film to acknowledge the existence of a world outside its own little toy box and to ground its characters' nostalgia in something resembling actual historical reality. - Grantland
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| Posted Mar 14, 2014
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22% | Need For Speed (2014) |
There's nothing here you haven't seen before. - Grantland
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| Posted Mar 14, 2014
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31% | Underworld (2003) |
It takes a premise that should have made for primo goth froth ... and renders it (forgive me) bloodless, even when the corn syrup flows by the gallon. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 16, 2003
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22% | Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
You sense Spade is scared of what finding too much of himself in Dickie might mean. - Village Voice
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| Posted Sep 9, 2003
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36% | 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
The vehicular action in 2 Fast is profoundly low-tech, and engagingly brawny. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 10, 2003
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20% | House of 1000 Corpses (2003) |
Wit follows coherence out the window. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 15, 2003
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9% | Darkness Falls (2003) |
This is horror-flick boo-ya at its most rote. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 28, 2003
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38% | Star Trek - Nemesis (2002) |
John Logan clones Enterprise skipper Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), geek-relatable android Data (Brent Spiner), and -- less successfully -- 1982's Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 17, 2002
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