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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| 4/5 | 83% | In the Last Days of the City (Akher ayam el madina) (2018) |
The amount of calculation that went into assembling this film from a towering mountain of footage is absolutely evident.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2018
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| 3/5 | 62% | Come Sunday (2018) |
Ejiofor makes the movie worth seeing, full stop.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2018
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| 2/5 | 47% | Godard Mon Amour (Le redoutable) (2018) |
Pitched at an audience that has an encyclopedic recall for individual scenes from 50-year-old art movies, but the sense of humor never rises above the most basic sitcom stuff.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2018
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| 4/5 | 100% | Minding the Gap (2018) |
The best coming-of-age movie of the 2010s.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 24, 2018
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| 2/5 | 51% | Rampage (2018) |
Never succeeds in being cheesy matinee fun. Worse yet, it doesn't seem to have crossed its gloppy, solemn mind for this to have even been a possibility.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 18, 2018
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| 4/5 | 90% | Isle of Dogs (2018) |
One effect of this is the extraordinary pleasure of seeing imagination brought to life without any compromise.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 18, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 89% | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios) (1988) |
A film whose overwhelming liveliness provides an enthusiastic, ebullient rebuke to the despair of its characters.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2018
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| 5/5 | 92% | Zama (2018) |
A smart film, historically-minded, literary in the most cinematic possible way.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2018
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| 5/5 | 94% | The Green Fog (2018) |
As revelatory as it is silly.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 13, 2018
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| 3/5 | 95% | A Quiet Place (2018) |
The pervasive and sometimes actually damaging problem is that the film has a non-diegetic musical score, and it really shouldn't.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 11, 2018
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| 3/5 | 92% | Love, Simon (2018) |
The film captures, as do the Hughes films it nakedly wants to be, something pleasantly casual about the rhythms of teenage life.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 11, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 96% | The Death of Stalin (2018) |
The funniest, smartest, most unforgiving comedy in years, and the best satiric film of the 2010s.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2018
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| 0.5/5 | 8% | God's Not Dead 2 (2016) |
Utterly impossible and hapless.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2018
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| 1/5 | 14% | God's Not Dead (2014) |
Its ineptitude at depicting recognisable human behavior is matched only by its ineptitude at following any known rules of narrative.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Apr 2, 2018
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| 3/5 | 73% | Ready Player One (2018) |
Bright, shiny, packed to the brim with detail, and totally without passion.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2018
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| 2/5 | 43% | Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) |
Awfully boring all in all, and that's a terrible problem for such an empty-headed popcorn movie.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 29, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 79% | Unsane (2018) |
Hung up on a cinematography gimmick that never comes within a mile of justifying itself, and too ramshackle as a script to work in spite of that gimmick.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 29, 2018
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| 2/5 | 20% | Sherlock Gnomes (2018) |
The film isn't 'bad', so much as it is flagrantly mediocre.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2018
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| 3/5 | 80% | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) |
It's very much Annette Bening and Jamie Bell's film when all is said and done, and they are stunning in it.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 20% | All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (1996) |
Showily bizarre.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | No Score Yet | Forgotten (2018) |
A little sick, a little sad, and a lot confusing and mysterious in all the right ways.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 94% | A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) (2018) |
The film's thinness as a story is largely compensated for by Daniela Vega imposing a personality on the character and material that aren't quite there without her.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 21, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 87% | Kaidan (Kwaidan) (Ghost Stories) (1964) |
A film that captures something deep and real about the remoteness of traditional folklore.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 21, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 47% | Red Sparrow (2018) |
A more tawdry sex romp would have been fun; a more balanced, honest, tightly-plotted spy thriller could have been brainy.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 18, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 39% | A Wrinkle in Time (2018) |
It's depressing that's not very good, given what an obvious, tangible passion project this is.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 14, 2018
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| 4/5 | 90% | On Body and Soul (A Teströl és Lélekröl) (2018) |
The barnburner of an opening leads straight to an equally audacious plot hook.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2018
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| 4/5 | 82% | Game Night (2018) |
Even if the humor in the film is merely pleasant and conventional for the most part, the characters themselves are massively enjoyable.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2018
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| 3/5 | 96% | My Fair Lady (1964) |
It works fine. It works no better than that, is all.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 87% | Annihilation (2018) |
Quietly, pervasively uncomfortable.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2018
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| 2/5 | 74% | Crash (2004) |
Outside of the excellent cast doing their best in impossible situations, there's virtually nothing enjoyable or aesthetically admirable here.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 11, 2018
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| 5/5 | 100% | It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
The feature built out of those three parts thus lacks anything "new"; but the experience of watching them all in one smooth stream is nothing shy of a revelation. ‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Mar 6, 2018
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| 2/5 | 15% | Mute (2018) |
I know for a rock-solid fact that this was Duncan Jones's great passion project, but with the finished product glibly playing out before my eyes, I cannot begin to fathom why.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 82% | Early Man (2018) |
Might not be a particularly impressive film, and it darn sure isn't a surprising film, but it is a wonderfully pleasant & pleasurable film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2018
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| 4/5 | 96% | Black Panther (2018) |
Comes as close as a film possibly can to sloughing off all of the problems that persistently cling to this franchise.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2018
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| 5/5 | 96% | Double Indemnity (1944) |
Dialogue so hard boiled that you could use it to drive railroad spikes.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 62% | Peter Rabbit (2018) |
Almost completely devoid of charm or appeal on any level other than morbid curiosity.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 13% | Fifty Shades Freed (2018) |
While it has more and more explicit sex scenes than Fifty Shades Darker, they are presented with clinical disinterest.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2018
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| 4/5 | 85% | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) |
The strangest... most broken... most tonally discordant of the Indiana Joneses, and for all these reasons it is the one that feels the most like its own thing.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2018
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| 4/5 | 100% | Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971) |
You'll never see a more vivid portrait of a dynamic city at a specific moment than this film's documentary-quality depiction of Paris.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 42% | Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) |
Full of barely-defined characters having simulacrums of relationships with each other; but at least it's a looker.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 8, 2018
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| 2/5 | 14% | Winchester (2018) |
The latest haunted house movie in the venerable "sort of Insidious except so much worse" mold.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 6, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 16% | The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) |
A promising opening for a fun genre romp that gets worse and worse, dumber and dumber, as it goes along.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 5, 2018
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| 5/10 | 19% | The Jungle Book 2 (2003) |
Not a good movie, and probably better left unwatched. Which, for a DisneyToon sequel, is actually a pretty good place to land.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 4, 2018
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| 9/10 | 98% | 101 Dalmatians (1961) |
One of the most entirely fun, entertaining of all Disney features.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 4, 2018
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| 4/5 | 100% | Strong Island (2017) |
A film about a systemic injustice that seems all the crueler for how vividly it depicts the personal effect of that injustice.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2018
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| 4.5/5 | 85% | Wandâfuru raifu (After Life) (1998) |
A wild daydream about what might happen to human souls after they die... mostly interested in the most basic, everyday kind of thoughts and feelings.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2018
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| 1/5 | 7% | Rings (2017) |
2017 had a fair number of dodgy horror films, but this unquestionably deserves to rank among the worst.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 83% | The Villainess (Ak-Nyeo) (2017) |
It's not merely that the action is superb in this movie; it's superb without ever repeating itself, and that's all the more impressive because there is a whole lot of it.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2018
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| 2/5 | 21% | Forever My Girl (2018) |
A passionless romance about a couple that it's almost impossible to root for.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jan 23, 2018
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| 0.5/5 | 28% | Proud Mary (2018) |
I would have assumed that $14 million at least means you can afford some ADR sessions.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2018
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