Christy Lemire
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Newsweek,
Associated Press,
Canadian Press,
RogerEbert.com,
NPR.org,
What the Flick?!,
ChristyLemire.com,
Breakfast All Day,
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Movie Reviews Only
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| 1/4 | 44% | Hypnotic (2021) |
What's actually going on here is so simple, yet so insane, that you wish the filmmakers had explored it for maximum screaming-at-the-screen enjoyment. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 27, 2021
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| 3/4 | 80% | Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) |
A lively and sometimes hilarious animated adventure and a sweet story of friendship. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 22, 2021
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| 3/4 | 100% | Introducing, Selma Blair (2021) |
It's impossible to watch Introducing, Selma Blair and not feel deeply moved. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 15, 2021
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| 58% | The Jesus Music (2021) |
It is a celebration of this music and all of its possibilities, but I was surprised at how it also gets at little bits of honesty about the hypocrisy that exists, too. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 75% | Stop and Go (Recovery) (2021) |
This is a very fun little indie and a very different way into the COVID movie. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 50% | Mayday (2021) |
It's an interesting cast and it's a beautiful film. Kind of falls apart by the end, but I liked it for a while. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 30% | The Addams Family 2 (2021) |
I'm not really sure why it exists at all... It kind of lurches (no pun intended) from one wacky scenario into the next. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 57% | Britney Vs Spears (2021) |
It's willing to have a much more emotional to Britney Spears and how heartbreaking it is to watch her suffer. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 73% | The Many Saints of Newark (2021) |
I like a lot about it, but it also feels like [David] Chase is trying to get an entire season of television into this two hour film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 4, 2021
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| 1.5/4 | 10% | Diana: The Musical (2021) |
Diana: The Musical adds nothing novel or substantial to our understanding of [Princess Diana] as a wife, mother, royal or celebrity. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 1, 2021
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| 3/4 | 60% | Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) |
Silliness was the first film's strength, which everyone involved seems to have realized and leaned into hard for the follow-up. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 30, 2021
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| 3/4 | 94% | El Planeta (2021) |
A mother-daughter bond shines through stark black-and-white cinematography and surreal humor in El Planeta. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 24, 2021
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| 47% | Queenpins (2021) |
I laughed here and there... but there's some obvious on-the-nose stuff. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 44% | Kate (2021) |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has a a really incredible presence... and this movie is stylish, but it's really not anything we haven't seen before. What sets it apart is that it is incredibly, brutally violent. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 93% | The Alpinist (2021) |
There's a lack of satisfaction that makes it different and not quite as good as Free Solo... but it's interesting and impressive. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 92% | The Capote Tapes (2021) |
It's entertaining... but I don't know that it's all that revelatory. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 97% | Come From Away (2021) |
Totally charming. Totally dazzling. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 88% | Fauci (2021) |
The intimacy is great, and the candor is great... But this is not in any way a warts analysis of Dr. Fauci. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 86% | The Card Counter (2021) |
Oscar Isaac is tremendous as always... I didn't love it and I really wanted to. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 96% | Language Lessons (2021) |
It's charming, they have incredible chemistry with each other... It's [also] a really inventive way to use the technology to get to the heart of what can be good and what can be bad about [the technology]. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 3.5/4 | 97% | Come From Away (2021) |
Twenty years later, the caring gestures large and small depicted here carry a whole new resonance, a fresh sense of catharsis and even hope. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 10, 2021
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| 1.5/4 | 56% | Afterlife of the Party (2021) |
It's full of awkward smiles and jumpy pacing, as if everyone is in a hurry to wrap up and go home. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 3, 2021
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| 1.5/4 | 60% | Vacation Friends (2021) |
All four actors are trapped in one-note roles in repetitive scenarios that become increasingly tedious. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 27, 2021
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| 2/4 | 61% | The Protégé (2021) |
[A] capable but ultimately forgettable late-summer action-thriller. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 20, 2021
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| 100% | Under the Volcano (2021) |
It's very safe in its structure, but some of the stories are riveting. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 67% | Respect (2021) |
This movie exists in a world in which nobody realizes that Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is out there. It hits, with total earnestness, every single musical biopic cliché. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 97% | The Lost Leonardo (2021) |
It's never pedantic. It plays like a thriller, like a heist. While I was watching, I could totally imagine that someone is going to pick up the rights to this and turn it into a feature film, because it's so gripping and thrilling. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 80% | Free Guy (2021) |
This is really derivative, but I had a good time and laughed a lot more than I thought I would... If you're a fan of Ryan Reynolds, you get a lot of him here. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 96% | CODA (2021) |
You will cry in the best possible ways, even though you know better. It's kind of formulaic, but it's just so warm and true. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 2.5/4 | 45% | Don't Breathe 2 (2021) |
[Don't Breathe 2] can't quite match the novelty and thrills of the surprise-hit 2016 original. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 2/4 | 86% | Vivo (2021) |
Vivo becomes far less interesting the farther it gets from the strength of [its] heartwarming musical origins. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 6, 2021
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| 2.5/4 | 74% | Stillwater (2021) |
Ultimately, the cacophony of all these plot lines converging and the weight of the messaging being conveyed is almost too much to bear. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 30, 2021
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| 3/4 | 97% | The Boy Behind the Door (2020) |
The debut feature from the writing/directing duo of David Charbonier and Justin Powell is so skillful, precise and well-acted that you'll want to give the film a chance and stick with it, even through some deeply uncomfortable moments. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 29, 2021
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| 100% | Stuntman (2021) |
It gets caught up in its own logistics in a way that's a bit of a drag, but Eddie Braun is a fascinating character. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 39% | Joe Bell (2021) |
It's incredibly formulaic and mawkish, although its heart is obviously in the right place. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 56% | The Last Letter From Your Lover (2021) |
Well-made, solid, romantic... A good couch sit. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 93% | Val (2021) |
If you love movies and Val Kilmer, you will dig it. I ultimately found it really moving and really sad. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 41% | Jolt (2021) |
I enjoyed it, and I love to see Kate Beckinsale getting to show off how funny she can be. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 36% | Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) |
This is a movie that takes Henry Golding and manages to drain everything interesting about him. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 50% | Old (2021) |
It's nutty, really silly a times, but I dug it. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jul 26, 2021
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| 0.5/4 | 17% | Die in a Gunfight (2021) |
Schiffli's snarky and snide self-aware tone quickly grows wearisome, and his action sequences have a cheapness about them that's distancing. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 16, 2021
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| 1.5/4 | 52% | The Tomorrow War (2021) |
A blandly derivative and overlong sci-fi thriller. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 2, 2021
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| 86% | Wolfgang (2021) |
It's not exactly a warts-and-all depiction of Wolfgang Puck, but it is a fascinating rags-to-riches story of a man who truly did revolutionize restaurants. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 97% | I Carry You with Me (2021) |
It's so lovely. It's a very intimate and empathetic depiction of this love story that is true. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 91% | Rebel Hearts (2021) |
It's thrilling to watch them coming into their own. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 94% | LFG (2021) |
Infuriating and inspiring all at once. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 88% | Zola (2021) |
It's always light on its feet, and there's a bit of Spring Breakers in here. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 99% | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) |
Questlove is the perfect person to make this film because he has such an encyclopedic knowledge of music and such a passion for it, and that passion is infectious. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 59% | F9 (2021) |
This is 2.5 hours and it is more soapy than ever... This feels not as fun or light. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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| 1.5/4 | 42% | The Ice Road (2021) |
Despite its many perils, both natural and human, The Ice Road is surprisingly dull. It's definitely not as crazy as it should have been, given the setting and the stakes. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jun 25, 2021
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