Michael C. Walsh

Michael C. Walsh's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Boston Phoenix
Publications:
Boston Phoenix
Movie Reviews Only
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2.5/4 | 94% | Knuckleball! (2012) |
For a film that's centered around such a silly-looking pitch, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary is packed with considerable drama. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 19, 2012
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3/4 | 38% | Lockout (2012) |
It's Pearce's film, and he chews and spits the one-liners like a hardened wise-ass. Han Solo would be proud. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 19, 2012
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2.5/4 | 41% | Detention (2012) |
Sort of like The Breakfast Club meets Donnie Darko, except without a hint of subtlety. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 13, 2012
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3/4 | 97% | Rapt (2011) |
Belvaux, who wrote the script, defies genre expectations at every turn while still providing apt doses of tension and depravity. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 13, 2011
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1.5/4 | 22% | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D (2011) |
A daft plot seemingly jacked from the most brainless of Saturday morning cartoons. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 24, 2011
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3/4 | 94% | Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2011) |
Instead of going all Al Gore and casting stones from his soap box, Siegel takes an evenhanded approach in getting both sides of the story... - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jun 16, 2011
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1.5/4 | 50% | Yellowbrickroad (2011) |
We arrive at something resembling a mid-'90s Marilyn Manson music video. Just bizarre. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jun 2, 2011
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1.5/4 | No Score Yet | A Beautiful Life (2009) |
Unfortunately, Lau throws in one too many wrinkles, squandering our empathy by forcing us through a long-winded relationship involving betrayal and illness. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted May 19, 2011
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3/4 | 82% | The Double Hour (2011) |
The knockout climax comes about two-thirds of the way through the film, rendering the tail end a punch-drunk afterthought, but that doesn't detract from the clinic in critical suspense that Capotondi gives in the film's first hour. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 28, 2011
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3/4 | 93% | Nine Nation Animation (2010) |
Each would be headache-inducing if any longer than 10 minutes, but they work here, tying their eclectic but masterful exercises in the medium to pointed messages. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 13, 2011
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42% | HappyThankYouMorePlease (2011) |
What will they do? And, more important, why should we care about their trivial hipster quandaries? - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Mar 31, 2011
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0.5/4 | 42% | Faster (2010) |
What sends Faster into headache-inducing territory long before the uninspired-twist climax are the nauseatingly edited chase scenes and plot holes large enough to drive a Mustang through. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Dec 1, 2010
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3/4 | 29% | The Virginity Hit (2010) |
There's no suave dork or sensitive jock. Rather, the high-school kids act like high-school kids -- relentlessly immature and all the better for it. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 18, 2010
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1.5/4 | 56% | Bran Nue Dae (2010) |
Bran Nue Dae isn't just hurting in the spelling department -- it's also lacking the feel-good story that musicals rely on to support their ethos in the absurdist environment of spontaneous song and dance. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 9, 2010
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0.5/4 | 28% | Charlie St. Cloud (2010) |
Zac Efron should consider a new agent. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 5, 2010
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3/4 | 60% | Breaking Upwards (2010) |
Wein's debut feature is kind of a mess: he withholds and warps the emotions of the main characters till there's little sympathy to be had. But though this tactic is usually enough to derail a film, it works here... - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jul 14, 2010
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2.5/4 | 38% | Don McKay (2010) |
The plot unfolds like a numbed-down neo-noir, and the actors treat it as such, using overwrought dramatic turns as a springboard for delightfully hammy performances. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Mar 31, 2010
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2/4 | 82% | City Island (2010) |
De Felitta knows how to depict family dysfunction, but he lards his film with asinine quips and too many headache-inducing dinner-table shouting matches, and the humor is so contrived, Garcia's Bronx accent sounds channeled through Fred Flintstone. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Mar 31, 2010
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1/4 | 15% | Our Family Wedding (2010) |
Yikes. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Mar 17, 2010
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