Mel Valentin

Mel Valentin's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
ScreenAnarchy
Movie Mezzanine
That Shelf
The Spool
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eFilmCritic.com,
Movie-Vault.com,
ScreenAnarchy,
Movie Mezzanine,
That Shelf,
The Spool
Movie Reviews Only
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89% | The Nest (2020) |
An adult-focused, multi-layered, character-centered family drama where the visual pyrotechnics don't require big budgets or visual effects, just Durkin's camera lingering on the faces and body language of the central cast. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 21, 2021
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100% | The Boy Behind the Door (2020) |
All in all, Charbonier and Powell appear to be the real deal. They have a thorough understanding of the basics of thriller/horror filmmaking, including visual composition, scene construction, and pacing. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Oct 14, 2020
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85% | How to Deter a Robber (2020) |
How to Deter a Robber will and should be remembered as the work of a talented, first-time filmmaker. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Oct 1, 2020
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73% | Mulan (2020) |
A live-action remake not quite equal to an illustrious predecessor. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Sep 3, 2020
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97% | Z (2019) |
Takes more than a few unexpected plot turns. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Sep 2, 2020
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66% | Spree (2020) |
A nasty, brutish, short (but not short enough), surface-deep satire of social media and its white-male discontents - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 17, 2020
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20% | The Tax Collector (2020) |
Deserves to go down in film history as an object lesson for non-Latino filmmakers. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 7, 2020
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No Score Yet | Shifter (2020) |
Burns shows significant promise as a filmmaker. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 7, 2020
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56% | What We Found (2020) |
Unfortunately, little in What We Found passes the suspension of disbelief test. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 4, 2020
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68% | A Girl Missing (Yokogao) (2020) |
Serves as a social critique and a more personalized critique of a certain personality type (Ichiko's) that embraces social norms more out of convenience and comfort than their rightness or correctness. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 3, 2020
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94% | Calm with Horses (The Shadow of Violence) (2020) |
Shakes off well-worn cliches and genre conventions and turns into a provocative, poignant character study. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 3, 2020
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82% | Holy Trinity (2019) |
A one-of-a-kind sex- and kink-positive supernatural comedy. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 21, 2020
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78% | Flannery (2020) |
A challenge well, if incompletely and frustratingly, met. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 17, 2020
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71% | Carmilla (2020) |
Might look and sound like gothic horror, but in [director Emily} Harris's hands, it's more romance than horror. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 17, 2020
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80% | The Old Guard (2020) |
The Old Guard works both as a franchise starter... and a standalone superhero/action film that offers a surprising number of diversionary pleasures. - The Spool
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| Posted Jul 13, 2020
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78% | Greyhound (2020) |
[Tom] Hanks gives another note-perfect master-class in acting. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 10, 2020
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78% | Archive (2020) |
Deliberately sidesteps exploring or examining the more troubling themes underlying AI . - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 9, 2020
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63% | Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) |
Contains the usual grab-bag of verbal humor and physical gags of varying, sporadic quality. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 26, 2020
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48% | My Spy (2020) |
A film that works incredibly hard to deliver inoffensive, unobjectionable, escapist entertainment and almost succeeds. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 24, 2020
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40% | Irresistible (2020) |
A misguided, tone-deaf, ultimately untimely political comedy/satire. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 23, 2020
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41% | You Should Have Left (2020) |
Joins the haunted house sub-genre as, if not a classic-in-the-making, then as a more-than-solid, thoroughly engaging, ace-level effort from everyone involved. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 18, 2020
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71% | 7500 (2020) |
A surprisingly effective, if ultimately strained use, of the budget-friendly, single-set plot device (a jetliner cockpit) to deliver obligatory thrills and maximize suspense. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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92% | Da 5 Bloods (2020) |
An urgent, timely work of commercial art. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 12, 2020
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75% | The King of Staten Island (2020) |
A loosely structured, fitfully funny character study . - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 12, 2020
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76% | Tommaso (2020) |
Succeeds as a tour-de-force for Willem Dafoe. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 5, 2020
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70% | The High Note (2020) |
A well-made, if ultimately forgettable, pop-musical fantasy/comedy-drama. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted May 29, 2020
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64% | Clementine (2019) |
Captures the mental fog and haze that accompanies the unanticipated, unforeseen end of romantic relationships with wrenching precision and equally wrenching insight. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted May 8, 2020
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89% | Save Yourselves! (2020) |
A delightfully modern-day comedy of (Internet-related) manners with authentic, honest insights into 21st-century romance as the next combo lo-fi sci-fi rom-com. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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87% | Shirley (2020) |
Rises to the level of film as art, not pure commerce. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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90% | Promising Young Woman (2020) |
Delivers a scathingly bracing, broad critique of toxic masculinity in all its self- and other-destructive forms - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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38% | Downhill (2020) |
All but belongs on the disposable entertainment pile, with one notable exception: Julia Louis-Dreyfus. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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97% | La Llorona (2020) |
Engrossing, politically allegorical, horror film ... the monsters aren't supernatural or alien in nature. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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88% | The Night House (2020) |
Benefits from [David] Bruckner's finely calibrated direction, Elisha Christian's moody cinematography, and Rebecca Hall's utterly committed central performance. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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94% | Palm Springs (2020) |
Emerges as the rarest of rare rom-coms: A rom-com with something meaningful to say that never ceases to engage or entertain. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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93% | Possessor: Uncut (2020) |
Confirms [Brandon] Cronenberg as one of the most provocative talents working in or out of the horror genre. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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38% | Wendy (2020) |
Loses its organic, free-flowing form in the second, increasingly tedious hour. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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29% | Come Away (2020) |
A misfire by any other name is still a misfire. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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84% | Scare Me (2020) |
Hampered by an overlong, self-indulgent running time that could have benefited from judicious scene trimming, Scare Me still manages to deliver enough turns, twists, and switchbacks to satisfy the average meta-horror fan. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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36% | The Night Clerk (2020) |
It's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a more tedious, tiresome, more lifeless attempt at a neo-noir thriller. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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73% | Run Sweetheart Run (2020) |
Ella Balinska stars as the "first and final girl" in writer/director Shana Feste's horror film, filled with visceral thrills and real-world commentary. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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92% | The Assistant (2020) |
Writer-director Kitty Green's astute, insightful character study/corporate critique makes a timely, zeitgeist-reflecting arrival in movie theaters. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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70% | Horse Girl (2020) |
Actress and co-writer Alison Brie combines forces with director and co-writer Jeff Baena for a consistently intriguing, occasionally brilliant, black comedy. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 10, 2020
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7/10 | 69% | Brothers in Arms (2003) |
Brothers in Arms leaves little doubt that John Kerry justly received his medals. - Movie-Vault.com
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| Posted May 5, 2015
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B- | 41% | Divergent (2014) |
Given the seemingly endless series of sub-mediocre YA adaptations, we should be thankful for whatever we can get. - Movie Mezzanine
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| Posted Mar 21, 2014
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4/5 | 72% | The Future (2011) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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3/5 | No Score Yet | Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control (2008) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Jan 22, 2013
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2/5 | 38% | Lockout (2012) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Apr 20, 2012
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4/5 | 84% | 21 Jump Street (2012) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Mar 16, 2012
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2/5 | 18% | Valentine's Day (2010) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3/5 | 60% | Real Steel (2011) |
- eFilmCritic.com
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| Posted Oct 7, 2011
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