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Matthew Nestel

Matthew Nestel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Daylight (2010) 91% 3.5/5 EDIT “Daylight is a caper full of lechery and unforced twists with strong characters and no pretense.” – Boxoffice Magazine Jul 22, 2011 Full Review Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Ddon't let the tongue-tying title deter you: this doc's a grabber. Filmmaker Joseph Dorman strikes Aleichem's story with gusto.” – Boxoffice Magazine Jul 19, 2011 Full Review The Arbor (2010) 96% 4/5 EDIT “The peanut gallery might say Clio Barnard's genre-bending The Arbor is a mixed-up moving target, but it's strikingly honed in on its subject: the lauded writer and loathed matriarch Andrea Dunbar.” – Boxoffice Magazine May 3, 2011 Full Review Loveless (2011) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “The clever windups and nimble writing put this romcom a nose ahead of the pack.” – Boxoffice Magazine Apr 4, 2011 Full Review Zenith (2010) 55% 2/5 EDIT “Zenith is a genre-bending experiment that needs an extended beta phase before going operational.” – Boxoffice Magazine Jan 25, 2011 Full Review Every Day (2010) 35% 2/5 EDIT “Auds will be wise to the contrived metaphors and realize there's not much going on below the surface except stock discourse.” – Boxoffice Magazine Jan 15, 2011 Full Review Beijing Taxi (2010) 80% 3.5/5 EDIT “Shadowing the ups and bunny-hill downs of three cabbies, Wang's documentary will entreat loads of audiences to get first hand-to-mouth evidence that a nation's prosperity doesn't turn every bean into magical stalk.” – Boxoffice Magazine Dec 21, 2010 Full Review Urville (2009) 71% 3.5/5 EDIT “Fuel for the imagination.” – Boxoffice Magazine Dec 21, 2010 Full Review Robert J. Lifton: Nazi Doctors (2010) 38% 3/5 EDIT “You learn a great deal about the thinker and storyteller in Lifton, but you'll learn so little when it comes to where he truly stands.” – Boxoffice Magazine Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Kings of Pastry (2009) 86% 3/5 EDIT “The work is a brutal rite of passage that will click with anybody who has put it all out there and lost once, twice or thrice. And still got up to face the music again.” – Boxoffice Magazine Sep 18, 2010 Full Review Clear Blue Tuesday (2009) 20% 3/5 EDIT “Though naive in execution, the story gingerly bypasses loaded drama to pluck bushels of hope from obvious blight.” – Boxoffice Magazine Sep 4, 2010 Full Review Finding Bliss (2009) 30% 2/5 EDIT “” – Boxoffice Magazine Aug 31, 2010 Full Review Long Knives Night (1999) 3/5 EDIT “” – Boxoffice Magazine Aug 27, 2010 Full Review Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (2008) 88% 2.5/5 EDIT “A misguided edit shortchanges audiences of what could have been a doc that capitalized on its exclusive sit-downs and reportage.” – Boxoffice Magazine Aug 18, 2010 Full Review Red Birds (2010) 20% 3/5 EDIT “You fly with these birds, nibble on berries and blossom and feed off of the each artist's incision. All of it inches closer to vivid listening and thinking” – Boxoffice Magazine May 26, 2010 Full Review Pornography (2009) 29% 0.5/5 EDIT “” – Boxoffice Magazine Apr 16, 2010 Full Review It Came From Kuchar (2009) 89% 3.5/5 EDIT “Kuchar disciples will swarm after selling-out small movie houses to enjoy the loaded array of titillating clips and heavyweight filmmakers dishing catnip praise.” – Boxoffice Magazine Apr 9, 2010 Full Review The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (2010) 88% 3/5 EDIT “The filmmakers do bang-up job expanding the frontline perspectives, aiming to subvert a ruling regime's course and expose its cloudy human rights record.” – Boxoffice Magazine Apr 2, 2010 Full Review Shutterbug (2009) 33% 1.5/5 EDIT “Its drowsy work and parlor tricks suck the life out of what's supposed to be a sleepless city” – Boxoffice Magazine Mar 24, 2010 Full Review The Good Soldier (2009) 75% 3/5 EDIT “Their wars differ but their tales are eerily identical. Their material is arresting, with troves of detailed memories pouring out for the first time.” – Boxoffice Magazine Nov 16, 2009 Full Review Four Seasons Lodge (2008) 82% 3.5/5 EDIT “The collective's flame burns bright and disrupts the darkness of a time that too many would soon rather forget. Luckily, we still care to remember.” – Boxoffice Magazine Nov 13, 2009 Full Review Act of God (2009) 63% 3/5 EDIT “Interlaces spectacular visuals with meaty chatter by various luminaries and laymen talking about life after being struck by lightning.” – Boxoffice Magazine Nov 5, 2009 Full Review Labor Day (2009) 13% 2/5 EDIT “. No opinion seems to stray from the talking points. Everybody's giddy to stump. Everyday. This makes the film feel padded and rinsed. Is the director solely trying to please his subjects?” – Boxoffice Magazine Oct 30, 2009 Full Review Adventures of Power (2008) 32% 3/5 EDIT “The playful plot with go-figure ending is bubbly, and the mechanics of the film are on-point for the most part.” – Boxoffice Magazine Oct 9, 2009 Full Review Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (2008) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Schulman's passion to be present in the here and now and "stop time" with his photographs is indicative of a mortal who has channeled the powers that be to make something that wasn't there before: Art in its greatest sense.” – Boxoffice Magazine Oct 9, 2009 Full Review
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