Micah Towery

Publications: | Slant Magazine |
Movie Reviews Only
Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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2.5/4 | 67% | LIfe. Support. Music. (2009) |
Suffers from its inability to disentangle its sentimental attachments from what is universally empathic.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Feb 4, 2009
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2/4 | 64% | How About You (2008) |
Though the film misses its chance to make a real commentary on our society's treatment of the elderly, as far as Christmas films go, you could do much worse.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Nov 13, 2008
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3.5/4 | 91% | Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008) |
The film's care in telling the story produces a real sense of condemnation for the invasiveness of the media after the survivors return.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2008
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2/4 | 51% | What Just Happened? (2008) |
The film could be faulted for being another masturbatory exercise in Hollywood narcissism, but that's really nothing new.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Oct 11, 2008
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2.5/4 | 75% | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
What this movie does so well is capture not only the incidental qualities of the [hipster] subculture, it seems to peg the sexual mores as well.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2008
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1.5/4 | 9% | Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2007) |
This particular film surely straddles the line between 'romp' and 'zany,' and maybe even deserves that most hallowed of accolades: 'zany romp.'‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Sep 8, 2008
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