Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire's reviews (from any publication) always count toward the Tomatometer
because this critic is a Tomatometer-approved critic.
| Publications: | Newsweek, Associated Press, Canadian Press, RogerEbert.com, NPR.org, ChristyLemire.com |
| Critics' Group: | Los Angeles Film Critics Association |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 1.5/4 | 46% | The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) |
The pieces are all there, but they never really snap into place.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 21, 2017
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| 3.5/4 | 86% | Brad's Status (2017) |
In the vein of his previous screenplays for Chuck and Buck, The Good Girl and Beatriz at Dinner, White depicts the darker side of human nature with deadpan humor and daring honesty.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 14, 2017
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| 3/4 | 85% | It (2017) |
Despite the many terrifying moments they endure in their quest -- scenes that will leave you trembling and giggling at once -- It is even more powerful in the warm, easy camaraderie between its young stars.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2017
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| 1/4 | 36% | Jackals (2017) |
The film's ultimate nihilism makes the whole exercise seem like an annoyingly pointless waste of time-even for a movie that's barely 80 minutes long.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 1, 2017
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| 3/4 | 93% | All Saints (2017) |
All Saints feels like a bit of a miracle. It's a faith-based movie inspired by a true story that lets its dramatic moments unfold without relying on melodrama.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Aug 25, 2017
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| 2/4 | 48% | The Glass Castle (2017) |
A film that never quite clicks tonally and doesn't do justice to its harrowing central story.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Aug 11, 2017
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| 3/4 | 86% | Wind River (2017) |
[Sheridan's] storytelling is meaty but efficient, and his pacing moves along at a steadily engrossing clip.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Aug 5, 2017
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| 1.5/4 | 32% | Fun Mom Dinner (2017) |
These are indeed moms, and they do have dinner, but the 'fun' part is in short supply.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Aug 4, 2017
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| 1/4 | 5% | The Last Face (2017) |
Sean Penn turns African strife into a two-hour perfume commercial with The Last Face, veering between gauzy impressionism and shrieky melodrama with his latest directorial effort.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2017
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| 1.5/4 | 46% | Person to Person (2017) |
A solid cast whose talents mostly go to waste and a movie that meanders from one moment to the next without much momentum.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2017
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| 3/4 | 88% | Lady Macbeth (2017) |
You can't stop watching its beauty, even as you long to look away from its cruelty.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2017
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| 3/4 | 100% | Swim Team (2017) |
Swim Team is a sports movie full of familiar highs and lows, great expectations and come-from-behind victories.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jul 7, 2017
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| 1/4 | 17% | The House (2017) |
The rare raunchy comedy that actually could have stood to be a little longer-and not just by padding the running time with outtakes.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jun 30, 2017
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| 3.5/4 | 98% | The Big Sick (2017) |
Again and again, [Showalter] finds that laughter-through-tears sweet spot, often in the unlikeliest of places.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jun 22, 2017
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| 2/4 | 46% | Rough Night (2017) |
A dead man is at the center of Rough Night, but the women forced to deal with him never feel truly alive.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jun 15, 2017
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| 2/4 | 77% | The Hero (2017) |
Elliott could sell us anything, or course -- barbecue sauce, whatever -- just by showing up and being his formidable, glorious self. But he could use some meatier material.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jun 9, 2017
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| 1/4 | 44% | Vincent N Roxxy (2017) |
A nasty little piece of B-movie trash that lacks both the verve to grab you as a guilty pleasure and the artistry to be taken seriously as a dramatic thriller.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2017
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| 3/4 | 73% | Berlin Syndrome (2017) |
Australian director Cate Shortland creates a dreamlike sense of place within a nightmare scenario with this taut and strongly acted thriller.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted May 26, 2017
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| 1/4 | 20% | Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017) |
You'll never know how good the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies were until you're forced to see the fourth one.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted May 18, 2017
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| 3/4 | 55% | Lowriders (2017) |
There's an earnestness and a fundamental truth to this familial saga-as well as an appealing, low-budget scrappiness-that consistently make it hum.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted May 12, 2017
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| 2/4 | 36% | Snatched (2017) |
As an exercise in afternoon cable-channel surfing while dozing in and out from cold medication, it's harmless. But as a summer-launching comic adventure, it's a frustrating waste of everyone's abilities. ‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted May 11, 2017
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| 2/4 | 33% | 3 Generations (2017) |
Takes on the topic of gender dysphoria with a talented cast but not much to say.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted May 5, 2017
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| 3/4 | 72% | Sleight (2017) |
[Latimore] has a magnetic screen presence mixed with a down-to-Earth directness. And while he's got swagger for days, he's just as compelling when his character is quietly contemplating his next move.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Apr 28, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 26% | Unforgettable (2017) |
Slick, glossy and radiating juicy villainy, it knows exactly what kind of movie it is and goes for it with giddy abandon.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Apr 21, 2017
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| 3/4 | 89% | Norman (Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer) (2017) |
In Richard Gere's deft, veteran hands, Norman Oppenheimer is consistently, completely fascinating. You may not be able to root for him, but you can't help but feel for him.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 48% | Going in Style (2017) |
Its stars are such pros, they're so enormously charismatic and have such lovely chemistry with each other, it's hard not to be charmed by their mere presence on screen.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Apr 7, 2017
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| 3/4 | 65% | Carrie Pilby (2017) |
As the title character, Bel Powley is so enormously compelling that she breathes life into Carrie's quirks and the story's contrivances.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2017
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| 2/4 | 79% | T2 Trainspotting (2017) |
An opportunity to wallow in grimy nostalgia seems to be its sole purpose.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Mar 16, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 74% | The Sense Of An Ending (2017) |
A film that's well-acted but tastefully restrained to a fault, with gentle humor about aging and a central mystery that isn't all that engaging.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2017
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| 3.5/4 | 90% | Raw (2017) |
Ducournau's lurid, vivid film is visually striking, full of images that will shock you while others will lull you with a hypnotic beauty.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2017
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| 3.5/4 | 65% | As You Are (2017) |
Joris-Peyrafitte shows confidence and talent beyond his years, with an artful eye for imagery and a truthful ear for dialogue.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 72% | XX (2017) |
If XX is trying to make some sort of statement, it's not doing so with much clarity or power.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Feb 17, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 83% | A United Kingdom (2017) |
A United Kingdom is well made and well-intentioned. But Asante is also saddled with a script from Guy Hibbert that spells out everything for the audience.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 1.5/4 | 17% | The Space Between Us (2017) |
The twists are just unbearably ridiculous, which drains all the power out of their supposed catharsis.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2017
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| 3/4 | 74% | Split (2017) |
A rare, straight-up horror film from Shyamalan, Split is a thrilling reminder of what a technical master he can be.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jan 21, 2017
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| 1/4 | 9% | The Book Of Love (2017) |
Filled with contrivances, false emotions and even flimsier accents, it strains mightily to tug at our heartstrings while also enticing us with whimsy, and fails on both fronts.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Jan 13, 2017
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| 2.5/4 | 92% | I, Daniel Blake (2017) |
I, Daniel Blake is an extremely Ken Loach-y Ken Loach film, for better and for worse.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Dec 23, 2016
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| 1.5/4 | 39% | Why Him? (2016) |
After an increasing cavalcade of flatly crass visual gags featuring high-tech toilets, moose urine and poorly-timed sexual shenanigans, Why Him? collapses the way so many R-rated comedies do.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Dec 20, 2016
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| 3/4 | 86% | Two Lovers and a Bear (2016) |
Beautiful and thoroughly unpredictable; you never know where Nguyen is going with this story, including the chilling, sci-fi/horror direction he heads in toward the film's climax.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Dec 16, 2016
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| 3.5/4 | 96% | Moana (2016) |
Moana would have been enormously entertaining regardless of when it came out, but its arrival at this particular moment in history gives it an added sense of significance-as well as inspiration.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Nov 22, 2016
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| 3.5/4 | 95% | The Edge of Seventeen (2016) |
The Edge of Seventeen is a delight, with Hailee Steinfeld serving as the radiant star at its center.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2016
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| 1/4 | 0% | My Dead Boyfriend (2016) |
A mixture of misplaced gallows humor, wildly over-the-top caricatures and a gimmicky use of animation.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Nov 4, 2016
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| 3/4 | 84% | The Ivory Game (2016) |
A documentary that plays with the gripping pacing and glossy production values of a suspenseful, international thriller.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Nov 4, 2016
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| 2/4 | 21% | Inferno (2016) |
The multiple twists, double-crosses and leaps in logic are more likely to prompt giggles than gasps.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Oct 27, 2016
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| .5/4 | 0% | Max Steel (2016) |
A movie based on a toy should be a whole lot more fun than this.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Oct 14, 2016
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| 3.5/4 | 97% | Aquarius (2016) |
It may feel like it drags a bit in the middle, but Aquarius has so many individual moments of grace that it rewards you for sticking around.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Oct 14, 2016
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| 1.5/4 | 44% | The Girl on the Train (2016) |
A flat and suspense-free tale of pretty people in peril.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2016
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| 1.5/4 | 64% | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) |
The latest from Tim Burton would seem tailor-made for his tastes but it's a convoluted slog, dense in mythology and explanatory dialogue but woefully lacking in thrills.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 29, 2016
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| 3/4 | 64% | Storks (2016) |
Zippy and zany, cute and cuddly, Storks manages to balance wild humor with winning heart-for the most part.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 22, 2016
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| 3/4 | 88% | Other People (2016) |
"Other People" breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.‐ RogerEbert.com
Read More | Posted Sep 12, 2016
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