Tim Brayton
Tomatometer-approved critic
| Publications: | Film Threat, Antagony & Ecstasy, Alternate Ending |
| Critics' Group: | Online Film Critics Society |
| Location: | Chicago, IL |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 5/5 | 97% | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) |
One of the very best action epics ever made. And I suspect, one of the best that will be made for an extremely long time to come.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3/5 | 60% | Pantaleon y las Visitadoras (2002) |
There's a winning, genial quality to the film that makes the satire go down well.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 52% | Equalizer 2 (2018) |
It's just very standard, very predictable, very much exactly the movie you think it's going to be: that is the whole of its appeal and also its most glaring limitation.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 59% | Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) |
We're now two-for-two on films in this series that really feel like they ought to be doing more than just presenting the same old shocks in online drag.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 94% | Sorry to Bother You (2018) |
Sorry to Bother You is a godsend.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 79% | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) |
There's more plot than "celebrity karaoke in Greece", and the songs generally support the narrative in some way rather than just providing space for the next showstopper.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 75% | Dead and Buried (1981) |
One of the most interesting American horror films of 1981.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2/5 | 33% | Grease 2 (1982) |
Aimless and horribly dull, with its vigorous group dances failing to compensate for the insipid songs.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 98% | Eighth Grade (2018) |
Totally harrowing.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2/5 | 48% | Skyscraper (2018) |
Beyond well-rendered pixels and pectorals, Skyscraper is a pretty joyless slog.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 88% | White Fang (Croc-Blanc) (2018) |
One of the most interesting attempts to do something different with the medium of computer-generated 3-D animation that has come along in a really long time.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 30% | Deep Rising (1998) |
One of the big problems with this film compiled out of big problems: it has awful characters, and awful performances bringing them to life.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3/5 | 61% | Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) |
There's a fair amount of comic business that exists more or less solely for the animators to play around with their characters' boneless bodies and endlessly malleable faces.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 1/5 | No Score Yet | Mardi Gras Massacre (2005) |
A sizable portion of the film consists of watching uncomfortably-framed wide shots of people having deeply uninteresting conversations.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2/5 | 52% | The First Purge (2018) |
Nothing but the same material as The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year yet again, and this film is worse at it.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 38% | The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) |
It's not that this is bad, for a 21st Century slasher film, but it's also not "good".‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3/5 | 36% | Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) |
I'm at a loss to say whether any of this is good or bad, and whether "good and bad" are meaningful words in the first place.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 94% | Antz (1998) |
It's the noble attempt by the doomed PDI to announce its worthiness to the world‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 1/5 | 0% | La Horripilante bestia humana (Night of the Bloody Apes)(Horror and Sex)(Gomar: The Human Gorilla) (1969) |
A real loopy, real bad movie.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3/5 | 88% | Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) |
The willingness to go breezy and small scale is extremely welcome.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 86% | American Animals (2018) |
Though it's mostly doing the expected thing, American Animals does it with great energy.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 24% | The 15:17 to Paris (2018) |
The shoddiest thing Eastwood has ever directed. By far.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 64% | Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) |
A dreary, droning film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2018
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| 4/5 | 100% | Dodge City (1939) |
A big splashy Hollywood spectacle, with gorgeous sets and a riot of colors in the costumes and wide-open skies.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 2/5 | 52% | A Kid Like Jake (2018) |
Dull and lifeless filmmaking about dull and lifeless people.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4/5 | 90% | Blazing Saddles (1974) |
An extraordinarily gutsy film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3/5 | 99% | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) |
Getting to spend any quantity of time hearing Mister Rogers remind us that it is good to be good and nice to be nice... that is a good way to spend time.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 90% | Hearts Beat Loud (2018) |
It has an easygoing way about it that makes it easy to like a great deal, maybe even love it.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3/5 | 51% | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) |
Very much a big, dumb, fun movie, the best triangulation of those three qualities in quite some while.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 2/5 | 46% | The Land That Time Forgot (1975) |
A drab little splat of a movie, a swashbuckling adventure about a mysterious island full of dinosaurs in which the adventure is inert.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 2/5 | 68% | The Seagull (2018) |
Hugely blasé .‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 51% | Superfly (2018) |
As dodgy, doomed to fail remakes go, Superfly actually does a pretty good job justifying its own existence.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 93% | Incredibles 2 (2018) |
Utterly infatuated with being a superhero movie, and because It's animated, it gets to be a way better one.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4/5 | 92% | Superfly (1972) |
It has a subdued psychological acuity that goes far beyond the grubby baseline of the normal exploitation film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 58% | Hotel Artemis (2018) |
A real trashy movie, pulpy and derivative, and these are all good things in this case.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 55% | Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
A merry referendum on movie stardom and sequel-making.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4/5 | 89% | Hereditary (2018) |
Toni Collette does some extraordinary work, acting through a series of contorted faces, guttural howls, and despondent line deliveries.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 67% | Ocean's 8 (2018) |
If it suffers, it mostly only suffers in comparison to the other Ocean's films.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 73% | Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982) |
One of the more exceptional, unprecedented films to ever come from Great Britain, a guttural howl of rage at the darkest aspects of English culture.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 2/5 | 97% | The Rider (2018) |
Acting is best left to actors, lest you get this kind of shiftless, awkwardly mumbling emptiness going on for the entire length of a very drearily slow-moving movie.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 73% | Adrift (2018) |
An admirable little piece of storytelling, far beyond the basic requirements of a summertime survival thriller.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jun 7, 2018
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| 2/5 | 47% | The Perfect Storm (2000) |
We needn't appeal to the fact that this was all a true story to find it horribly dispiriting: it does a perfectly bad job just as a self-contained story in its own right.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jun 5, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 76% | Lu Over the Wall (Yoake tsugeru Rû no uta) (2018) |
This high-energy narrative flow is very much manifest in the animation... a tremendous achievement.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 85% | Disobedience (2018) |
The film's 114-minute running time is hardly outrageous for a story of this type, but it feels a whole lot longer than that.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 31, 2018
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| 3/5 | 84% | Cargo (2018) |
A pretty nifty little psychological drama in genre film clothes.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 31, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 40% | Anon (2018) |
The big aesthetic misstep is the film's claustrophobic, suffocating reliance on a greyed-out color palette.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 28, 2018
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| 3/5 | 53% | Willow (1988) |
A charming, albeit greatly compromised attempt at doing a monumental epic in just two hours... the most handsome and technologically accomplished film of the '80s fantasy cycle.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 28, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 6% | Solo (1996) |
An altogether nonsensical bit of action/sci-fi garbage that marries a dreadful script with hilariously chintzy action.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 27, 2018
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| 4/5 | 94% | Romeo and Juliet (1968) |
This more-or-less unprecedented naturalism in screen Shakespeare is part and parcel of why the film works so well, and why it was such a huge success in 1968.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 26, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 71% | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) |
The largely adorable cast is one of the only things about Solo that works particularly well.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted May 25, 2018
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