Lucas Hilderbrand

Lucas Hilderbrand
Lucas Hilderbrand's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): PopMatters Citysearch
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Movie Reviews Only

T-Meter Title | Year
87% Far From Heaven (2003) Beneath this conservative façade lies a complicated and progressive commentary on the present that Haynes leaves to the viewer to interpret. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 1, 2002
53% Storytelling (2002) The stories here suffer from the chosen format. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 25, 2002
85% Ni na bian ji dian (What Time Is It Over There?) (2001) Although What Time offers Tsai's usual style and themes, it has a more colorful, more playful tone than his other films. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 18, 2002
80% The Royal Tenenbaums (2002) With its emphasis on characters over events -- though a lot does happens -- The Royal Tenenbaums occasionally makes the audience, much like Eli, want to be part of the family, in spite of their neuroses and flaws. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Dec 14, 2001
33% Dog Run (1996) The refusal to make the squatting and drug-using lifestyle exciting or exaggeratedly excruciating is commendable. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 22, 2001
73% Fat Girl (2001) The sex in Fat Girl is ... an all-consuming, character-defining process of sorting through emotions and attitudes that convincingly perplexes these girls. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 19, 2001
88% La Cienaga (2001) Within the first moments of her debut feature, La Ciénaga, writer/director Lucrecia Martel demonstrates a piercing sensibility and a sharp eye. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 12, 2001
84% L.I.E. (2001) Granted, these desires can be conflicted and perplexing, but the representation here reads as a failure of nerve, a refusal to take on an uncomfortable topic. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Oct 8, 2001
90% In the Mood for Love (2001) Shines with radiant color schemes and two devastating central performances. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 8, 2001
73% Before Night Falls (2001) A sumptuous, dreamy film that only touches reality in its ravaging final moments. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2001
78% O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) The ideas seem half-baked at best, and the gags are the flattest in any of the Coens' films. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 4, 2001
59% Deep Blue Sea (1999) Packs a brutal scare! - Citysearch EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
77% Gladiator (2000) Had the filmmakers been daring enough to make the movie without its clunky dialogue or without digital filler, Gladiator could have been epic in more ways than its running time. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
57% Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) The action and the intended-to-be-graceful moments are more silly than stunning, prompting more laughter than applause. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
70% Frequency (2000) I realized there was a surprising potential for a provocative film if only its makers had not taken a wrong step at every turn. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
66% Small Time Crooks (2000) Small Time Crooks, finally, brings Allen back to form. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
84% Chuck & Buck (2000) As the film stands, it sheds some light on what happens between young boys, but very little about what happens between men after they have grown up ... whatever that means. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
97% Yi Yi (2000) With Yi Yi, Edward Yang accomplishes what so few films (U.S.-made, in particular) even strive to do: present an earnest depiction of familial relations. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
69% Dancer in the Dark (2000) Although less developed and satisfying than Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark is ultimately more devastating. - PopMatters EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000
89% Tarzan (1999) Disney has crafted one of its most satisfying family films yet! - Citysearch EDIT
Read More | Posted Jan 1, 2000