Tony Macklin
Tomatometer-approved critic
| Biography: |
Please see my bio at http://tonymacklin.net/about.php.
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http://tonymacklin.net/content.php?cID=18
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| Publications: | Bright Lights Film Journal, Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Weekly, Fayetteville Free Weekly, tonymacklin.net |
| Critics' Group: | Las Vegas Film Critics Society |
| Location: | Las Vegas, NV |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 3.0/5 | 91% | Mirai (2018) |
It probably will make you think about your own familial relationships.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Dec 10, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 82% | Green Book (2018) |
It's the film's right to do so, but the real world lurks just off camera.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 30, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 81% | Destroyer (2018) |
Destroyer should be titled Destroy-her.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 27, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 95% | The American Meme (2018) |
It is ironic how human the falsity can be.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 19, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 40% | The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) |
In 2018, schlock often rules.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 12, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 100% | What Haunts Us (2018) |
What Haunts Us has a power that lasts far after one views the film.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 1, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 92% | The Old Man & the Gun (2018) |
The Old Man & the Gun is not a swan song; it's a duckwalk -- without the guitar.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2018
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| 3.0/5 | 90% | A Star Is Born (2018) |
A Star Is Born is part slog, part hymn.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 80% | What We Started (2018) |
What We Started is a sporadic, heartfelt history of EDM.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Sep 18, 2018
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| 3.0/5 | 94% | RBG (2018) |
The documentary RBG is a compelling clarion call. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Sep 7, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 59% | Operation Finale (2018) |
Acting is the indomitable strength of Operation Finale.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 95% | BlacKkKlansman (2018) |
D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is a great film. BlacKkKlansman is a good film.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 17, 2018
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| 3.0/5 | 88% | I Am Paul Walker (2018) |
I Am Paul Walker is not a tell-all movie -- it's a best-of-him movie.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 16, 2018
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| 3.0/5 | 71% | Christopher Robin (2018) |
Christopher Robin is very bearable. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 9, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 97% | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) |
IMF is WTF.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 2, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 100% | Leave No Trace (2018) |
Leave No Trace is a paean to empathy.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 17, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 63% | Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) |
Sicario: Day of the Soldado is steeped in cruelty. It's a product of its age.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 2, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 99% | Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) |
Was Fred Rogers "a lamb"? Won't You Be My Neighbor? suggests he really was.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jun 18, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 68% | Ocean's 8 (2018) |
Ocean's 8 is one of those 2018 specialties, in which writing doesn't matter.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jun 10, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 84% | Pope Francis - A Man of His Word (2018) |
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word is the quintessential anti-Trump film.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted May 17, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 84% | Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |
For better or worse, Avengers: Infinity War is a blast.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted May 6, 2018
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| 3.0/5 | 69% | Paterno (2018) |
It's the Nittany Lions against the Christians.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Apr 10, 2018
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| 2.5/5 | 92% | The Shape of Water (2017) |
Why did The Shape of Water win the Oscar as Best Picture? ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Mar 7, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 97% | The Light of the Moon (2017) |
In The Light of the Moon, calculation and contrivance intrude, but fortunately creativity transcends them.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2018
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| 3.5/5 | 97% | Black Panther (2018) |
Move over Star Wars. A new force is with us.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Feb 23, 2018
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| 1.5/5 | 24% | The 15:17 to Paris (2018) |
The empty chairs have taken over.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Feb 11, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 88% | The Post (2018) |
The Post is a decent movie. That's its curse.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jan 11, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 91% | Phantom Thread (2018) |
One wonders who the audience is for Phantom Thread. It demands a tolerant audience.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jan 6, 2018
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| 2.0/5 | 95% | Call Me by Your Name (2018) |
Most reviewers love it. I don't.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Dec 16, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | 83% | Molly's Game (2018) |
Molly's Game breaks in two.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Dec 7, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 30% | Wonder Wheel (2017) |
Even die-hard fans of Woody Allen should be perplexed.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Dec 6, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 89% | I, Tonya (2018) |
I, Tonya is a sucker punch in the gut of the American Dream.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Dec 2, 2017
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| 4.0/5 | 91% | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) |
It sends its audience sprawling. It swerves past our preconceptions. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 29, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 97% | Mudbound (2017) |
Mudbound is a quality film, but it doesn't have the vision or depth of the novel.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 27, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | 84% | Darkest Hour (2017) |
The cast often transcends the hokum of the screenplay.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 20, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 80% | The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) |
The Man Who Invented Christmas puts the hum in "humbug." ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 17, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 57% | LBJ (2017) |
LBJ is a glass half-full of Texas moonshine. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Nov 6, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 85% | Loving Vincent (2017) |
Loving Vincent takes us beyond the myth.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Oct 21, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 87% | Blade Runner 2049 (2017) |
We replicants, who are critics, think Blade Runner 2049 is worthy of intelligent perception.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Oct 6, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 86% | American Made (2017) |
Those of you who thought earlier this year that Tom Cruise was on the verge of being Mummified as an actor, don't worry. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Sep 30, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 91% | Stronger (2017) |
Stronger brings humanity back to the screen.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 87% | Wind River (2017) |
Wind River is so good, is it fair to wish it were even better?‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 16, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | No Score Yet | Fare (2016) |
Fare is representative of the independent film today. It shares many of the trials and dilemmas of that aspiring category.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Aug 7, 2017
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| 1.5/5 | 89% | Lady Macbeth (2017) |
It's not my cup of bile.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 28, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | 92% | Dunkirk (2017) |
Nolan seems somewhat uninterested in the humans standing amid his spectacular effects. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 25, 2017
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| 3.0/5 | 93% | War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) |
Despite some lapses in subtlety, War for the Planet of the Apes makes the incredible mostly credible.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 21, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | 92% | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) |
It's Peter Parker Pastiche.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 9, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 93% | Baby Driver (2017) |
It sometimes misses its target, but it certainly keeps on firing with high velocity.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jul 3, 2017
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| 2.0/5 | 79% | The Beguiled (2017) |
Coppola's film may have more birds chirping -- almost constantly -- than any film in history.‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jun 20, 2017
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| 2.5/5 | 93% | Wonder Woman (2017) |
Wonder Woman is a "suspension of disbelief" movie. ‐ tonymacklin.net
Read More | Posted Jun 19, 2017
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