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Adam Graham
Adam Graham's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Detroit News
Movies reviews only
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Saw X (2023) |
Saw X wipes that silliness out, positioning itself as a direct sequel to "Saw" and presenting a singular, streamlined story of revenge that works from a clear channel of logic. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 29, 2023
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The Creator (2023) |
The Creator winds up feeling like sci-fi leftovers, warmed up from last night's dinner. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Flora and Son (2023) |
Flora and Son is a small story that knows its boundaries and doesn't try to become more than it is. But it comes alive thanks to Hewson's spunky performance and Carney's belief that music can bring people together... - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
You're not ready for Fair Play, an erotic thriller wrapped in barbed wire that throws back to the genre's '80s and '90s heyday while rooting itself firmly in the present. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Make Me Famous (2021) |
The conditions of life — "everyone was living in garbage," says one of Brezinski's contemporaries — are romanticized in director Brian Vincent's portrait of an artist living on the edge. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 27, 2023
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Expend4bles (2023) |
This is a dumb-as-rocks exercise in violence and stupidity, which represents a low for a franchise that was already scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it's on the very short list of candidates for the year's worst movie. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 26, 2023
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Cassandro (2023) |
But Bernal, who at 44 could slide for 24, is never not captivating. He's convincing inside the ring and out, breathing life into his character at every step in his journey, his smile able to light up an entire arena's worth of fans. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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It Lives Inside (2023) |
Dutta, making his feature film directorial debut, zeroes in on a thread of displacement and assimilation as felt through the immigrant experience, but the metaphor makes for odd bedfellows with the literal monster that is stalking around. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
It's a pretty cool underdog story, nothing less, but it unfortunately misses its opportunity to plant its flag in the ground and be about something more. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 20, 2023
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A Haunting in Venice (2023) |
It's such a dull, stiffly rendered mystery that neither the who nor the what of the crime (a mare-dare!, as intoned by Poirot) registers, and even the Venice setting, potentially its chief asset, is wasted... - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 18, 2023
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Love at First Sight (2023) |
A generic if moderately charming romantic comedy that wants to be light and airy but where the seams are constantly showing. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 14, 2023
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) |
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3" serves only to trot out the past with increasingly diminishing returns. It's a Greek tragedy. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 07, 2023
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The Equalizer 3 (2023) |
"The Threequalizer" is easily the best entry in the series, and Washington's best work in the action space in more than a decade. Consider it a relaxing vacation with a side order of violence. - Detroit News
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| Posted Sep 01, 2023
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The Good Mother (2023) |
The Good Mother takes a few unconvincing turns as it settles into routine thriller territory, more suited to a weekly television series than a feature film. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 31, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
... Its tone tends to wander. But its go-for-broke nihilism is admirable, even if its execution is hit or miss. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 30, 2023
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023) |
It's a breezy but heartfelt affair, light and colorful, perfectly suitable for family viewing. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) |
... The film is at least one argument against parents who yell at their children that all that time spent playing video games won't lead to anything in the real world. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 24, 2023
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Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023) |
Cory Finley presents an up-and-down satire, both deeply weird and totally original, with a dry sense of humor and takeaways that are funny, messy and unsettling, sometimes all at once. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 17, 2023
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Strays (2023) |
Strays is stuck being a naughty movie about pups — Homeward Bound but with swear words — made for dog lovers who probably don't choose to imagine their cuddly pals cursing non-stop like Samuel L. Jackson after stubbing his big toe. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 17, 2023
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Heart of Stone (2023) |
For international intrigue to be, you know, intriguing, you first have to care about the characters, and "Heart of Stone" skips over that part. It's generic, spy-by-numbers, and you've forgotten most of it by the time the credits roll. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 11, 2023
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) |
André Øvredal works with handsome production design on board the ship, but "Demeter" never feels like anything but a doomed voyage. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 10, 2023
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Shortcomings (2023) |
It's a hyper-talky and overly literate comedy which, if it has a shortcoming itself, is in its presentation of characters as stand-ins for beliefs or ideas rather than as living, breathing people. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 03, 2023
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) |
It's not heady or weighty, but there's a little more substance here than in your average "Turtles" film. - Detroit News
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| Posted Aug 03, 2023
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Talk to Me (2023) |
Talk to Me is a sleek and stylish ride that plays better as social commentary about teenage behaviors than it does as an exploration of trauma, which is the path it eventually leads down. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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The Beanie Bubble (2023) |
The Beanie Bubble needlessly complicates itself. But it also makes a compelling reflection of history repeating itself. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Haunted Mansion (2023) |
... A senseless barrage of bad CGI effects in service of a story that ultimately exists to sell more tickets to Disney World. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Theater Camp (2023) |
If it doesn't reach the heights of Guest's works — "Waiting for Guffman" is its clear antecedent — it's recognizably funny, where you might acknowledge a particular joke is funny even if it doesn't leave you laughing out loud. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 27, 2023
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023) |
Juel Taylor's feature debut is a little bit Get Out, a little bit The Cabin in the Woods and a little bit Invasion of the Body Snatchers, while being equal parts weighty and fun. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
Nolan isn't interested in scaling down or tidying up. Heck, no one expects a bomb to go off cleanly, and there's plenty to sift through in "Oppenheimer's" shrapnel. People will likely be going through it for years. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
Barbie is not only built for this moment, it's built to last, just like the doll at its center. This is a Barbie you'll want to hold onto and cherish for quite some time. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 18, 2023
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Sound of Freedom (2022) |
But even as the film's pacing starts to thud... its work has been done, competently if not altogether artfully. Sometimes, obvious works just fine. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Bird Box Barcelona (2023) |
In a world of bombed-out journeys into darkness, it's one apocalypse too many. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) |
What a wonderful world it would be if all supermassive movies were this well executed, this thoughtful, this much fun. But they're not, and that's what renders the "Mission: Impossible" series a cut above its competition. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 11, 2023
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Joy Ride (2023) |
Joy Ride is sex-positive and drug friendly and doesn't feel the need to hold its characters to strict judgment for their behaviors. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jul 06, 2023
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) |
"Dial of Destiny" is an unnecessary addendum to the Jones saga, simultaneously action-packed and lacking in any genuine thrills. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 30, 2023
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Asteroid City (2023) |
It's all very cute but not much else, as the story remains locked inside Anderson's dollhouse and is inaccessible to all but his most ardent fans. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 27, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
It's a deep, resonant, intimate story which unfolds naturalistically and at a soulful pace. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 22, 2023
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No Hard Feelings (2023) |
There's humor and heart in No Hard Feelings, an R-rated sex comedy that has more on its mind than just titillation. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 22, 2023
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The Flash (2023) |
It quickly turns into such a blur of nonsense that its early charms are all but wiped away, and the film runs out of steam as it drags to the nearly two-and-a-half hour mark. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Cadejo Blanco (2021) |
Justin Lerner's dark exploration of life in Central America has a cold worldview that recalls "City of God" and features a strong central performance from star Karen Martínez. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Extraction 2 (2023) |
Now comes the sequel, which is even heavier on action mechanics and even thinner on character, as if that was even possible. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Lynch/Oz (2022) |
... A thoughtful and probing look at the nature of inspiration and expression, both in Lynch's world and outside his boundaries. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Elemental (2023) |
Elemental is a major misfire. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2023
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Flamin' Hot (2023) |
Flamin' Hot doesn't even feel real, and is so concerned with telling a feel-good, rags-to-riches story that it loses its credibility and any sense of relatability along the way, thereby undercutting the value of the story it's trying to tell. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 08, 2023
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) |
Try as director Steven Caple Jr. might, it's difficult to get invested in or excited about a bunch of CGI junk getting into a fight. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 08, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
It's a thoughtful, organic piece of filmmaking that just happens to have a monster in the middle. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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Sanctuary (2022) |
Zachary Wigon directs this slithery two-hander with style, making what could feel like a stage production a playful exercise in intimacy, trust and betrayal. - Detroit News
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| Posted Jun 01, 2023
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About My Father (2023) |
About My Father leans heavily on situations and tropes that were moldy when De Niro did them in Meet the Parents nearly a quarter century ago. - Detroit News
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
It's flat, dramatically vacant and visually inert, with a lead performance that all too closely resembles a fish out of water. - Detroit News
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
You Hurt My Feelings knows there are bigger problems in the universe than a miscommunication or a bruised ego. But just because they're first-world problems doesn't mean they're not huge problems in the tiny bubble we all create for ourselves. - Detroit News
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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