John Swansburg

John Swansburg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): Slate

Publications: Slate

Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
80%	Patriots Day (2017)	A film content with the charming, if chuckleheaded, cartoon of the Boston local that Wahlberg has regularly inhabited throughout his career. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 13, 2017
88%	Straight Outta Compton (2015)	While no one will mistake this for a protest film-there are too many pool parties-the movie's portrait of a militarized police force all too eager to assault young black men can't help but resonate in our own moment. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 14, 2015
92%	Source Code (2011)	It's this emotional arc underlying the ticking-time-bomb plot that keeps the movie from succumbing to its flaws. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 23, 2014
41%	Crooked Arrows (2012)	The plucky underdog Native American lacrosse movie I never knew I wanted. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted May 18, 2012
49%	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)	Its attempts to overcome the story's episodic nature are clumsy, its effects only intermittently special, and its dufflepuds not nearly funny enough. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 9, 2010
51%	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	It's easy to imagine why Pelham's producers wouldn't want Scott's professional but dull picture to be compared with the 1974 classic. - Slate EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 11, 2009