Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton's reviews (from any publication) always count toward the Tomatometer
because this critic is a 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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| 0.5/5 | No Score Yet | Amityville Dollhouse: Evil Never Dies (1997) |
Paint-by-numbers tedium, mixing up most of the ingredients of the previous Amityville pictures into a grey swill, and adding a few terrible ones of its own.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 90% | Planet of the Apes (1968) |
For all its self-conscious thoughtfulness, it also works as a B-grade sci-fi film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3/10 | 43% | Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970) |
The best parts of the film are also the places where it's most ineffective as a sequel.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 79% | Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) |
Easily the strangest film in the series, and a good candidate for the strangest studio-made genre film of the 1970s.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 5/5 | 97% | Cabaret (1972) |
A truly great movie adapted from truly great source material, but it achieves most of its greatness by thoroughly gutting and re-imagining that source.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 93% | War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) |
It's impressive for a 2017 CGI-dominated popcorn movie to be this much of a gravely sober-minded character drama as this.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 1/5 | 24% | The Amityville Horror (2005) |
Assumes for all of its thankfully brief 89 minutes that its audience is stupid and easily-bored, and proceeds to fling nonsense at us without pause.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 93% | Dunkirk (2017) |
For a film with a $150 million price tag, positioned as the biggest superhero-free Warner tentpole of 2017, it does just about as much experimenting as it could possibly dare.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 36% | Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) |
Battle... is where the dwindling budgets of the film in this series finally manage to score a fatal hit.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 72% | The Fifth Element (1997) |
Even 20 years on, The Fifth Element hasn't lost very much of its ability to thoroughly confound and dazzle.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 51% | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) |
As far as presenting elaborately garish spectacle, the film is an absolute triumph.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 1/5 | No Score Yet | The Amityville Haunting (2013) |
I can think of literally not one way in which the film doesn't mostly humiliate itself.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 2/5 | 9% | Aeon Flux (2005) |
It has the unmistakable hollowed-out, jerkily-paced feel that comes when scenes have been ripped out more for reasons of running time than narrative clarity.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 75% | Atomic Blonde (2017) |
Exults in the filthy, glorious energy of divided Berlin at its most ragged and hedonistic.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3/5 | 91% | A Ghost Story (2017) |
A breathtakingly good exploration of different forms of existential loneliness.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 78% | 25th Hour (2003) |
Profoundly suffused with an aura of loss.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3/5 | 74% | My Amityville Horror (2013) |
Daniel Lutz is a tremendously interesting, at times moving and at times deeply off-putting interview subject.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3/5 | 88% | Girls Trip (2017) |
The film lives or dies based on the chemistry between the actors, which is just off the charts.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 82% | Detroit (2017) |
There might have been a way to make a thriller about police brutality... but it needed filmmakers more sensitive to what they were dealing with.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 5/5 | 94% | The Truman Show (1998) |
One of the greatest American films of the 1990s.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 2/5 | 45% | Ghost in the Shell (2017) |
A film whose action is slightly good, in a borrowed way, and whose plot is a benighted mess.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 16% | The Dark Tower (2017) |
The one saving grace is that all three leads are interesting; they feel like they're in three different movies, but that's no matter.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 5/5 | 50% | The Princess and the Cobbler (The Thief and the Cobbler) (1993) |
This is simply one of the most important and best animated features ever made. Or not made. Or whatever.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3/10 | 62% | Dolls (1987) |
A very heart-driven horror movie, all things considered.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 67% | Wolf Warrior II (2017) |
It scratches that '80s action film itch better than the great majority of '80s action films do.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 52% | The Ardennes (D'Ardennen) (2017) |
A film that feels like it wasn't finished being assembled before it was ushered out into the world.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Aug 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 93% | Logan (2017) |
The best parts ... are certainly far in the rearview mirror by the time it ends, and that does suck a lot of the "best comic book movie of the '10s!" energy out of a film that, at its best, really does feel like it's making a strong play for that title.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Jun 22, 2017
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| 10/10 | 100% | Lola (1961) |
Intuited rather than explained & felt rather than understood.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Mar 1, 2017
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| 7/10 | 85% | Lion (2016) |
The beats aren't anything new; the value is in the execution, and that's great.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 9, 2017
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| 9/10 | 100% | Things to Come (L'avenir) (2016) |
One of the year's best pure character studies.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 8, 2017
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| 8/10 | 88% | A Monster Calls (2017) |
A greedy tearjerker, greedy and shameless - and effective, to be perfectly fair.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 8, 2017
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| 8/10 | 83% | Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) |
Isn't quite a documentary and definitely isn't narrative fiction, but is some kind of of narrative written out of the material of the real world.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 8, 2017
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| 9/10 | 99% | Cameraperson (2016) |
A tribute to what happens in front of the camera, how it is captured, and the eternal present of cinema.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 4, 2017
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| 10/10 | 89% | When Harry Met Sally (1989) |
An outright masterpiece of romance, comedy, and cinema itself.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 3, 2017
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| 3/10 | 57% | Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
Rare is the terrible film that's this upbeat and delightful and entertaining.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Jan 3, 2017
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| 9/10 | 94% | Neruda (2016) |
A great piece of cinema and a great attempt to engage with history and pro-people politics.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 31, 2016
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| 3/10 | 74% | Nocturnal Animals (2016) |
Animated by a largely morbid revulsion at human beings that has disguised itself in a thick lacquer of outlandishly beautiful cinematography.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 30, 2016
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| 6/10 | 92% | Hidden Figures (2017) |
Paint-by-numbers biopic about people who were almost beyond a shadow of a doubt more interesting than the film ever suggests.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 30, 2016
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| 5/10 | 83% | Captain Fantastic (2016) |
Plays around with a lot of big words and famous leftist names, but it's strictly an affectation .‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 30, 2016
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| 8/10 | 93% | Fences (2016) |
If Fences was doomed to be made into an awards-season prestige picture, I really can't imagine how it could have turned out more satisfying than this.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 29, 2016
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| 9/10 | 96% | Paterson (2016) |
A feature-length exploration of the linkages between routine, unexceptional daily life and the creation of art, and the kind of personality it takes to transform one into the other.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 29, 2016
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| 8/10 | 92% | I, Daniel Blake (2017) |
A hectoring political op-ed about The State Of Britain Today, but when you've been hectored by Loach, you've been hectored by the very best.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 28, 2016
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| 4/10 | 13% | Collateral Beauty (2016) |
There are, I'll bet, ways of making this work. Collateral Beauty doesn't find them.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 28, 2016
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| 10/10 | 92% | Toni Erdmann (2016) |
The whole thing is, basically, perfect: impeccably-made cinema with a pair of smart messages hiding inside the driest, funniest movie of the year.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 26, 2016
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| 9/10 | 81% | Baraka (1993) |
Among the most overwhelmingly gorgeous films ever made.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 26, 2016
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| 9/10 | 96% | Manchester by the Sea (2016) |
A completely breathtaking film about humans in crisis, presented with a muted but still sharp-witted aesthetic.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 26, 2016
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| 8/10 | 85% | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) |
When Rogue One is good, it is VERY good. When it is bad, it is... well not prequel trilogy-bad, at least.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 22, 2016
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| 6/10 | No Score Yet | Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) |
It isn't particularly good, but it is a considerable improvement over The Ewok Adventure.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2016
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| 4/10 | 25% | The Ewok Adventure (1984) |
Nothing but a transparent attempt to keep the brand name alive and the marketing spigot open, and it really does not attempt to go above that horribly mediocre bar.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2016
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| 7/10 | 96% | The Love Witch (2016) |
Mercilessly carve out a third of the running time, and suddenly we have one of 2016's best, most subversively smart and deliciously entertaining films.‐ Antagony & Ecstasy
Read More | Posted Dec 17, 2016
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