Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 85% | Ingrid Goes West (2017) |
Ingrid is the contemporary anti-hero for an image-saturated world, her only transgression being that she takes the false reality of Taylor's Instagram universe too seriously.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted Dec 14, 2017
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| Recommended | 100% | Chicken People (2016) |
The viewer becomes less like a chicken competition voyeur and more like a member of the community.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted Jul 23, 2017
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| Not Recommended | 70% | Beauty and the Beast (2017) |
It is a live-action remake that is so faithful to the original film that one cannot help but question why it exists at all. ‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted Jul 23, 2017
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| Not Recommended | 45% | The Girl on the Train (2016) |
The film's pacing is practically sedentary, spurred on only by Danny Elfman's dramatic soundtrack.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted Oct 9, 2016
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| Not Recommended | 86% | Maggie's Plan (2016) |
Miller's characters are pseudo-intellectual at best - they are academic by job description alone.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted Jun 13, 2016
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| Strongly Not Recommended | 25% | Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) |
In the lacking of an engaging subjectivity, the narrative of sexual awakening falls flat.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Recommended | No Score Yet | Frackman (2015) |
By the end of the film, Dayne [Pratzky] has us not only convinced, but also inspired.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Not Recommended | 86% | Gayby Baby (2016) |
The film feels less like an exploratory documentary ... and more like a saccharine, two-dimensional advertisement for same-sex marriage. ‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Not Recommended | 86% | Trainwreck (2015) |
The only saving grace of Trainwreck is seeing Tilda Swinton in fake tan.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Recommended | 54% | The Dressmaker (2016) |
Often evoking the dark humour of a Beckett play, with its world a relatively plausible representation of an unforgiving and tragic universe.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Recommended | 80% | Girls Lost (Pojkarna) (2015) |
The main strength of Girls Lost lies not in its portrayal of the transgender experience, but rather in its portrayal of the adolescent experience.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 15, 2016
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| Recommended | 43% | The Angry Birds Movie (2016) |
The humour thrives primarily off of the kookiness of its characters.‐ 4:3
Read More | Posted May 13, 2016
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