Jeremy Heilman
Tomatometer-approved critic
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| Publications: | Apollo Guide, MovieMartyr.com |
| Critics' Group: | Online Film Critics Society |
| Location: | NYC, NY |
| Official Websites: | moviemartyr.com |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 3.5/4 | 83% | The Tall Man (2011) |
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Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2013
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| 77/100 | 83% | Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) (1973) |
The final moments here, which simultaneously suggest a return to traditionalism and a new form of globalized alienation, offer open-ended ruminations on Senegal's future role in the world.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 18, 2012
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| 73/100 | 80% | Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) |
Duty leads to detachment, as is typical in Ford, and there are sterling examples here of resolute stoicism triumphing over hysteria.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 16, 2012
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| 70/100 | No Score Yet | The Chase (1946) |
A last-act plot twist, equally likely to alienate as to fascinate, makes Arthur Ripley's obscure The Chase an especially bizarre jaunt through a nightmarish crime world.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 15, 2012
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| 82/100 | 100% | The Heiress (1950) |
[A]n outstanding literary adaptation and a superb example of Hollywood fare at its most intelligent and sharply honed.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 15, 2012
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| 74/100 | No Score Yet | Show People (1928) |
Show People is a classic of its type, certainly more entertaining than The Artist, which recycled the same material to considerably diminished effect.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 13, 2012
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| 60/100 | 100% | The Tunnel Movie (2012) |
[It] might sound like a mundane retread of recent creature features such as Creep or The Descent, but it manages to be something a bit more haunting in practice.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2012
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| 62/100 | 55% | V/H/S (2012) |
A fairly fun ride, crafted by filmmakers who understand the genre enough to set any pretensions aside.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 8, 2012
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| 44/100 | 80% | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Guilty of Murder?) (1945) |
Had it ended two minutes earlier, it would have been a considerably more successful film. Like many Hollywood dramas of the 1940s, it stumbles during its dismount.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Aug 5, 2012
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| 61/100 | 46% | The Tall Man (2012) |
Almost to the same degree as Laugier's Martyrs, it changes its game midway through and makes audiences radically shift sympathies as its plot develops.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 30, 2012
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| 57/100 | No Score Yet | Pitfall (1948) |
De Toth's sensitive handing of Pitfall stalls out somewhere along the way.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 27, 2012
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| 53/100 | No Score Yet | Driftwood (1947) |
Despite any formulaic plot contrivances, Driftwood is an eminently likeable film.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 26, 2012
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| 50/100 | 75% | Mama Africa (2018) |
Kaurismaki presents the facts of Makeba's life in straightforward manner. As a result, his politics don't get in the way of his subject's.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 68/100 | 39% | Detention (2012) |
Its willingness to not only acknowledge but outright revel in its own shallowness is refreshing.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 9/100 | 68% | Ted (2012) |
Ted is dispiriting because it has no faith in us and no ambition for itself.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 54/100 | 46% | Brake (2012) |
It's a clever B-movie that has a number of fun twists up its sleeve.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 67/100 | 88% | Miracle Mile (1989) |
By focusing one frantic couple's attempts to salvage their future together it channels Cold War anxieties into something beautiful.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 58/100 | No Score Yet | The Great Flamarion (1945) |
[T]he film stands out for its pessimistic view of sex and its willingness to admit that our impulses sometimes ask us to act against our better judgments.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 52/100 | 97% | Tomboy (2011) |
Far from surprising at any point, Tomboy nonetheless holds one's attention though its sheer force of observation.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 54/100 | 69% | Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits) (Dark Hideout) (1983) |
Dark Habits is a film in love with films and pop culture in general.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 69/100 | No Score Yet | 2081 (2010) |
In twenty-odd minutes it manages to create characters to care about, deliver a potent social message and transport us to an absurd and horrific possible future.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 56/100 | 81% | Nothing But the Truth (2008) |
Its surprising focus on motherhood and its strong female protagonist give this story a human interest angle.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 65/100 | 100% | Wake in Fright (2012) |
Wake in Fright remains powerful both as a portrait of a particular place at a particular time and as a potent assertion of the country's mindset.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 61/100 | No Score Yet | Brownian Movement (2010) |
Brownian Movement becomes feminist not through Charlotte's agency, but rather in the sense that she is irreducible to a stock type due to her contradictions.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 78/100 | 100% | The Prowler (Cost of Living ) (1951) |
The Prowler becomes a twisted vision of American entrepreneurship, with the two leads forming a grotesque nuclear family.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 63/100 | 93% | Last Ride (2012) |
While the basic premise of the film is something of a cliché, the execution is nuanced and the two lead performances are never less than convincing.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 53/100 | No Score Yet | The Possessed (1977) |
A made-for-television movie clearly designed to capitalize upon the blockbuster success of The Exorcist, it is more worthy than its nearly nonexistent reputation might imply.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 48/100 | 83% | Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) |
Rue Morgue disappoints because it gives us too little of Lugosi's hijinks, but its best scenes are nearly as memorable as anything that Universal produced during the era.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 24, 2012
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| 34/100 | 38% | [REC] 3 Genesis (2012) |
This decision to quarantine the shaky camerawork to the pre-credits exposition at once comes as an admission that the handheld cinematography is a gimmick and marks a slide into more conventional (i.e. dull) territory.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 19, 2012
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| 46/100 | 65% | Who Does She Think She Is? (2009) |
The film's clear-eyed view of the art world is tough to argue with, but routes to change in the status quo are beyond the its scope.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 18, 2012
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| 62/100 | 61% | American Pop (1981) |
This is a film that grandly overreaches, attempting to condense a century's worth of triumph and tragedy into ninety minutes. To a surprising degree it succeeds.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jul 18, 2012
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| 71/100 | 79% | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2012) |
It wouldn't just be a bad pun to suggest that this film hits you in the gut.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 28, 2012
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| 48/100 | 93% | Indie Game: The Movie (2012) |
The film becomes a cheerleader for its subjects, which limits its ability to understand them.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2012
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| 72/100 | No Score Yet | A High Wind in Jamaica (1964) |
[It is] a criminally underappreciated movie that may be seen through the eyes of a child but is not scared to see the world as the cruel and confusing place it sometimes is.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2012
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| 26/100 | 35% | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) |
[It] states the moronic what-if that serves as its central conceit right in its title, but even that is unlikely to prepare you for the turgid mess that it delivers.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2012
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| 67/100 | No Score Yet | The Appointment (1982) |
Perhaps guilty of creating atmosphere for its own sake, The Appointment nonetheless manages to succeed in weaving a creepy spell.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 25, 2012
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| 55/100 | 61% | Wizards (1977) |
Bakshi's filmmaking is sloppy and slapdash at times, to be sure, but it is also uncompromising.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 22, 2012
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| 56/100 | No Score Yet | Los Bastardos (2008) |
Los Bastardos manages to discard some of its stoic formalism for a final shot that is genuinely affecting.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 21, 2012
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| 47/100 | No Score Yet | Cell Count (2012) |
With only fluorescent lights and sterile furnishings the director manages to create genuine atmosphere.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 21, 2012
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| 71/100 | 93% | Moonrise Kingdom (2012) |
Moonrise Kingdom is a charming reminder of Anderson's particular talent for spinning fantasies about the collective childhood we all wish we had.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2012
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| 47/100 | 78% | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) |
Penelope Wilton, as the sourpuss among the group, takes top honors. She is the only one who refuses to be taken in by the cheap exoticism and trite affirmations that Hotel offers its guests.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2012
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| 45/100 | No Score Yet | The Collapsed (2011) |
The Collapsed manages to corral its literary pretensions well enough that it manages to avoid embarrassing itself.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2012
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| 37/100 | 41% | Rock of Ages (2012) |
Rock of Ages winks at us, but the joke's on the film, which feels more dated and lame in its stale Broadway conventions than any Warrant song ever will.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 16, 2012
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| 66/100 | 71% | Scalene (2012) |
This methodical thriller becomes doubly troubling by ensuring that all of its pieces, in the final appraisal, don't fit together.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2012
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| 26/100 | 79% | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) |
[W]e can only hope that this series of mediocrities, which has already spanned three continents, spares us the other four.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 12, 2012
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| 55/100 | 56% | Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) |
Kidman is strong here as Martha Gellhorn, using her exceptional figure and old-fashioned movie star glamour to full effect.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2012
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| 41/100 | 10% | Piggy (2012) |
It's a shame that so much talent and energy is placed in the service of a story that feels like it has been told far too many times before.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2012
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| 54/100 | 88% | Polisse (2012) |
Ultimately, engaging as it might be from scene to scene, Polisse fails to make a convincing statement about the toll that a life spent investigating depravity takes.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2012
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| 65/100 | 85% | The Raid: Redemption (2012) |
[T]his is undeniably kinetic and definitely the work of a filmmaker with incredible action chops.‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2012
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| 85/100 | 77% | A Dangerous Method (2011) |
Exploding the era of the costume drama with both its style and its ideas, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method pushes repression to its breaking point at every turn‐ MovieMartyr.com
Read More | Posted Jun 11, 2012
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