Tony Macklin

Tomatometer-approved critic

Biography:

Please see my bio at http://tonymacklin.net/about.php.

Favorites:

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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

Movies
TV

	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Review
2.0/5	56%	The Highwaymen (2019)	The Highwaymen will be compared to the classic Bonnie and Clyde (1967). - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 16, 2019
2.0/5	60%	The Things We've Seen (2017)	The Things We've Seen is an evocative movie. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 21, 2019
1.5/5	71%	Triple Frontier (2019)	Triple Frontier could have been a good film instead of the brutal, rigged mess it turned out to be. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 18, 2019
2.5/5	88%	To Dust (2019)	To Dust is macabre and mirthful, authentic and absurd. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 6, 2019
2.5/5	61%	Champs (2015)	Champs is sociological as well as soulful. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 2, 2019
2.5/5	93%	High Flying Bird (2019)	High Flying Bird could be titled, Here Comes LeBron. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 10, 2019
2.0/5	92%	Stay Human (2018)	Stay Human should be titled Stay Positive. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 31, 2019
3.0/5	88%	Social Animals (2018)	Social Animals shows the fallible, would-be wizards who live behind the screen. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 24, 2019
2.5/5	85%	A Boy Called Sailboat (2018)	A Boy Called Sailboat is an odd and unique film. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 19, 2019
4.5/5	95%	Springsteen on Broadway (2018)	Springsteen outdid all the superheroes on screen in 2018. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 23, 2018
3.0/5	70%	The Mule (2018)	Clint can be proud. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 19, 2018
3.0/5	66%	Vice (2018)	Vice is clever and credible -- and surprisingly entertaining. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 17, 2018
2.0/5	96%	Roma (2018)	This year's gaga film is Roma. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 14, 2018
3.0/5	92%	Mirai (2018)	It probably will make you think about your own familial relationships. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 10, 2018
2.5/5	78%	Green Book (2018)	It's the film's right to do so, but the real world lurks just off camera. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 30, 2018
1.5/5	74%	Destroyer (2018)	Destroyer should be titled Destroy-her. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 27, 2018
2.5/5	93%	The American Meme (2018)	It is ironic how human the falsity can be. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 19, 2018
1.5/5	40%	The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)	In 2018, schlock often rules. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 12, 2018
2.5/5	100%	What Haunts Us (2018)	What Haunts Us has a power that lasts far after one views the film. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 1, 2018
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 21, 2018
3.0/5	89%	A Star Is Born (2018)	A Star Is Born is part slog, part hymn. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Oct 6, 2018
2.5/5	80%	What We Started (2018)	What We Started is a sporadic, heartfelt history of EDM. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 18, 2018
3.0/5	94%	RBG (2018)	The documentary RBG is a compelling clarion call. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 7, 2018
2.5/5	61%	Operation Finale (2018)	Acting is the indomitable strength of Operation Finale. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Sep 5, 2018
2.5/5	96%	BlacKkKlansman (2018)	D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is a great film. BlacKkKlansman is a good film. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 17, 2018
3.0/5	89%	I Am Paul Walker (2018)	I Am Paul Walker is not a tell-all movie -- it's a best-of-him movie. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 16, 2018
3.0/5	72%	Christopher Robin (2018)	Christopher Robin is very bearable. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 9, 2018
2.0/5	97%	Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)	IMF is WTF. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Aug 2, 2018
3.5/5	100%	Leave No Trace (2018)	Leave No Trace is a paean to empathy. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 17, 2018
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Jul 2, 2018
2.5/5	98%	Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)	Was Fred Rogers "a lamb"? Won't You Be My Neighbor? suggests he really was. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 18, 2018
2.0/5	69%	Ocean's 8 (2018)	Ocean's 8 is one of those 2018 specialties, in which writing doesn't matter. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jun 10, 2018
2.5/5	83%	Pope Francis - A Man of His Word (2018)	Pope Francis: A Man of His Word is the quintessential anti-Trump film. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted May 17, 2018
2.5/5	85%	Avengers: Infinity War (2018)	For better or worse, Avengers: Infinity War is a blast. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted May 6, 2018
3.0/5	69%	Paterno (2018)	It's the Nittany Lions against the Christians. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Apr 10, 2018
2.5/5	92%	The Shape of Water (2017)	Why did The Shape of Water win the Oscar as Best Picture? - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Mar 7, 2018
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 25, 2018
3.5/5	97%	Black Panther (2018)	Move over Star Wars. A new force is with us. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 23, 2018
1.5/5	23%	The 15:17 to Paris (2018)	The empty chairs have taken over. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Feb 11, 2018
2.0/5	88%	The Post (2018)	The Post is a decent movie. That's its curse. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 11, 2018
2.0/5	91%	Phantom Thread (2018)	One wonders who the audience is for Phantom Thread. It demands a tolerant audience. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Jan 6, 2018
2.0/5	95%	Call Me by Your Name (2018)	Most reviewers love it. I don't. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 16, 2017
2.0/5	82%	Molly's Game (2018)	Molly's Game breaks in two. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 7, 2017
1.5/5	30%	Wonder Wheel (2017)	Even die-hard fans of Woody Allen should be perplexed. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 6, 2017
3.0/5	89%	I, Tonya (2018)	I, Tonya is a sucker punch in the gut of the American Dream. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Dec 2, 2017
4.0/5	90%	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)	It sends its audience sprawling. It swerves past our preconceptions. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 29, 2017
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 EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 27, 2017
2.0/5	84%	Darkest Hour (2017)	The cast often transcends the hokum of the screenplay. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 20, 2017
3.0/5	80%	The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)	The Man Who Invented Christmas puts the hum in "humbug." - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 17, 2017
3.0/5	57%	LBJ (2017)	LBJ is a glass half-full of Texas moonshine. - tonymacklin.net EDIT Read More \| Posted Nov 6, 2017