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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| 2.5/5 | 49% | My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) |
Enough of the jokes land that it's not a complete grind.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 15, 2017
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| 3/5 | 62% | The Ice Cream Truck (2017) |
There's immense charm to the film's engagement with hoary slasher film tropes played mostly sincerely, but with a sense of humor about it.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 15, 2017
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| 4/5 | 90% | Raw (2017) |
It's a terribly good snapshot of being a teenage girl arriving at college and being totally overstimulated... and it's also a terribly good schlocky horror film.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 12, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 93% | Rat Film (2017) |
It's an arresting piece of work, but it's also disordered and shapeless.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 10, 2017
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| 3/5 | 100% | Dawson City: Frozen Time (2017) |
It's quite an interesting thing: more a work of historiography than of filmmaking.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 10, 2017
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| 3/5 | 88% | Blade Runner 2049 (2017) |
At 163 minutes, the film has a lot of room, and a lot of plot to fill it with, but the first 100 minutes are largely taken up with detective movie boilerplate.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 9, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 86% | Cult of Chucky (2017) |
A movie besotted with horror movies, with nary a trace of irony.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2017
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| 2/5 | 50% | Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) |
Bloated with subplots and go-nowhere add-ons, some of which are obvious fan pandering, some of which can't even rise to that level.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2017
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| 3/5 | No Score Yet | Tam Cam: The Untold Story (2017) |
The most appealing thing, by far, is that it's so resolutely unserious about being a fluffy, silly fairy story.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 2, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 98% | The Fits (2016) |
Uses visual arts to indicate the interior sensation of one of the year's most fascinating and rewarding characters.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 2/5 | 18% | Assassin's Creed (2016) |
There are undoubtedly worse video game adaptations... [but] Assassin's Creed is plenty bad in its own right and hardly deserves pity points.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 2/5 | 73% | Sing (2016) |
Puts six massively trite subplots into a blender... and mashes them into a uniform paste that can be spackled across 108 unreasonably long minutes.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | No Score Yet | The Wizard of Speed and Time (1989) |
I doubt very much that any feature could capture the pure delight of the short this is based on, and this particular feature misses that mark by quite a lot.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 85% | Lion (2016) |
The beats aren't anything new; the value is in the execution, and that's great.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 4/5 | 100% | Things to Come (L'avenir) (2016) |
One of the year's best pure character studies.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 87% | A Monster Calls (2017) |
A greedy tearjerker, greedy and shameless - and effective, to be perfectly fair.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 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.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 99% | Cameraperson (2016) |
A tribute to what happens in front of the camera, how it is captured, and the eternal present of cinema.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 5/5 | 89% | When Harry Met Sally (1989) |
An outright masterpiece of romance, comedy, and cinema itself.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 57% | Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
Rare is the terrible film that's this upbeat and delightful and entertaining.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 1/5 | 12% | Nine Lives (2016) |
A lot of movies are bad, and a lot of children's movies in particular are very bad. Nine Lives is something else - it is wrong.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 94% | Neruda (2016) |
A great piece of cinema and a great attempt to engage with history and pro-people politics.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 45% | Everything, Everything (2017) |
The film goes to some enormously dark, cruel extremes, apparently without noticing that it has done so.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 44% | Saban's Power Rangers (2017) |
A rather offensive misfire of style.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 2/5 | 10% | Fifty Shades Darker (2017) |
At least a touch more zany than the last one, even if it's still choking a bit on its own attempts to feint at respectability.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 3/5 | 70% | Casshern (2004) |
When Casshern is tapping into a sense of awe, it most fully earns the somewhat exhausting world-building it takes to get there.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Oct 1, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 19% | Underworld: Blood Wars (2017) |
It resides smack dab in the middle of a franchise that has ranged from "bad" to "irredeemably awful".‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 4/5 | 98% | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
Good or bad, success or failure, this is a magnificent, gonzo piece of cinema, and the art form would be far lesser if it had never existed.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 0.5/5 | 23% | The Bye Bye Man (2017) |
Pure incompetence.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 84% | Silence (2017) |
The cinematic experience of the film is exemplary, if hardly "fun".‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 91% | Elle (2016) |
The film is a lot of things, most of them nasty, many of them uncomfortably hilarious.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 4/5 | 96% | Sideways (2004) |
A beautiful little chamber dramedy about four sharply-drawn characters played with a very lovely mixture of nuance and showmanship.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 5/5 | 94% | The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge) (2017) |
It tells a profound emotional story using only a few simple ingredients, and it only works in animation.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 87% | Pete's Dragon (2016) |
In its emotional maturity and visual beauty, this is as dignified and fine as any children's movie I've seen in an inordinately long time.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 2/5 | 31% | Monster Trucks (2017) |
Confronts us with the spectacle of a great many people trying very desperately to convince us what FUN we're having, but the seams show all over the place.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | No Score Yet | Messiah of Evil (1973) |
It's an amazing success at instilling the sensation of waiting for something awful and nightmarish to happen.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 1/5 | 17% | Friend Request (2017) |
There's no indication... that Friend Request has the smallest clue how actual college students use anything at all.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 26, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 53% | The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) |
Finally places the franchise securely in territory it's managed to avoid twice, against all odds: this movie pretty obviously just wants to sell toys to kids.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 25, 2017
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| 4/5 | 91% | Blow Out (1981) |
A wonderful thriller, densely plotted and so full of thematic resonance that it's almost incapable of supporting its own weight.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 24, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 88% | First They Killed My Father (2017) |
Combines a frank look at the atrocities with fluid, chronologically ambiguous impressionism.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 21, 2017
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| 3/5 | 83% | A United Kingdom (2017) |
[David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike] generate enough heat to light up the entirety of what would otherwise be a pretty dim and drab motion picture.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 20, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 82% | Beach Rats (2017) |
An exceptionally satisfying exercise in otherwise unimaginative cinematic realism.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 35% | Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017) |
Offers the strange spectacle of an action movie with a world-class action hero and unbearably bad action walking hand in hand.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 3/5 | 60% | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
Could surely be a lot better, but there's much to enjoy in the film that exists, with its organic mixture of comic tones, and generally upbeat attitude of breezy fun.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 3/5 | 88% | 20th Century Women (2017) |
The lovely moments outweigh the bad ones by a meaningful margin.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 4/5 | 96% | The Salesman (Forushande) (2017) |
It's awfully, though hobbled from the word "go" by one fundamental decision: it picks the wrong protagonist.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 3.5/5 | 91% | The Lego Batman Movie (2017) |
An act of merry self-critique that absorbs all of... the criticisms that have been levied against the brand over the years, and enthusiastically agrees with them.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 11% | Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) |
Its best gags are great, but they make up something like 5% of the whole, and its middle-tier gags are pretty mediocre.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 4.5/5 | 89% | John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) |
It's beautiful, obsessed with surfaces, and drenched in blood, and the results couldn't be more striking.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 67% | The Wall (2017) |
At best a tossed-off lark that taxes its creator not at all, and at worst feels like some exercise that everybody involve decided to joylessly grind through.‐ Alternate Ending
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2017
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