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Adrian Mack
Adrian Mack's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Georgia Straight
Movies reviews only
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Grand Unified Theory (2016) |
... this Theory really works because Ray obviously loves his characters and, sure enough, so do we. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Dec 22, 2020
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Tapeworm (2019) |
Tapeworm's deadpan tone is the real attraction here, climaxing with a cosmically cruel punch line... - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Oct 08, 2020
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The Lodge (2019) |
Where The Lodge succeeds is in its patient atmosphere-building and downer psychedelic style, delivering neatly staged and effective shocks. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 04, 2020
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Come to Daddy (2019) |
A fabulously entertaining comic thriller poised somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and vintage John Waters. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Feb 06, 2020
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Rabid (2019) |
Outlandish fun, with lashings of gore and extravagantly disgusting practical effects compensating for the ripe dialogue and Mackenzie Gray's camped-out performance. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jan 30, 2020
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Color Out of Space (2019) |
An uncaged Cage is no deal-breaker, and the suggestion that Lavinia's bad magic is responsible for drawing down the magenta-hued visitor from space gives the film an emotional weight that eventually pays off. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jan 23, 2020
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Watergate (2018) |
The sordid tale is a deftly structured true-crime saga, with writer-director Charles Ferguson narrating. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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Melody Makers (2016) |
Although a tad threadbare in the talking-head department (here comes Eric Burdon, again), this cheerful history of the British music weekly Melody Maker has enough inside dope to maintain interest. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jul 30, 2019
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Peterloo (2018) |
When that climax comes, helped along by a hasty reading of the riot act, ale for the troops, and the provocateuring of Home Office spies, Peterloo explodes into epic cinema-and epic rage. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jul 24, 2019
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Nightmare Cinema (2018) |
Starts with it strongest short and ends with its weakest. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jun 12, 2019
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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018) |
There's so much here to recommend. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 09, 2019
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) |
Few 20th century artists lived more completely in the process, and Stanley Nelson's film, brimming with fabulous footage, doesn't fail to impart that crucial aspect of the story. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 08, 2019
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Dark Suns (2018) |
Shot in luminous black-and-white and edited to perfection, this 154-minute Canadian production might be the definitive take on the subject. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 06, 2019
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Gods of Molenbeek (Aatos ja Amine) (2019) |
A crisp and absorbing doc from Reetta Huhtanen. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 04, 2019
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Dive: Rituals in Water (2019) |
This isn't the most information-dense of movies, given its 72-minute running time, but every one of those minutes is a joy. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 03, 2019
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Those of us tuned to the very tiny subgenre of docs about the death industry will find this contemplative piece closer to 1979's haunting Des Morts than, say, the mondo autopsy porn of Death Scenes. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 27, 2019
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Amazing Grace (2018) |
Mosco Levi Boucault's film is absorbing and unfussy, flashes of wit aside. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 27, 2019
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Roar (1981) |
Such unusual challenges rob the film of its coherency at times, but so what? Who's going to tear their eyes away from that big, beautiful cat? - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 26, 2019
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Buddy (2018) |
This amounts to about 90 minutes of going "Awwww..." - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 25, 2019
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Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017) |
Its greatest achievement is the way Hagazussa becomes more powerfully hallucinatory and yet more bluntly real as it unfolds. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 25, 2019
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This is a beautiful film: modest, warm, and unflashy in all ways, not counting its sometimes startling photography. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Mia and the White Lion (2018) |
Mia and the White Lion is loaded with such unforgettable moments, constituting perhaps the cat video to end all cat videos. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Diamantino (2018) |
Here's a movie very satisfied with its own zaniness. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Giant Little Ones (2018) |
It's all so beautifully executed that we can forgive certain narrative conveniences. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 28, 2019
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Midian Farm (2018) |
If we're closer to oblivion than ever before, Midian Farm reminds us that the road to utopia still means grappling with the alien technology of being human. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 14, 2019
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Climax (2018) |
I liked it, but then, as the great Chuck Barris once said, "I like morgues." - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Feb 28, 2019
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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) |
Velvet Buzzsaw never reconciles its moods, mixing its outré humour and satisfyingly nasty wish fulfillment with an inelegant grasp of horror. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Feb 07, 2019
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V6A (2018) |
Romano keeps the film's politics low-key. Through its warmth and heart... V6A is already making a big enough statement. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jan 31, 2019
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The House That Jack Built (2018) |
The film certainly isn't interested in the engineering of drama; just shock and disgust and the projection of Von Trier's incoherent ideas. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Dec 13, 2018
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Border (2018) |
A moving celebration of the potential to simply do good. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Dec 06, 2018
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Tiger (2018) |
There's no boxing-movie cliché left unturned in this biopic... but it's an amiably rousing effort all the same. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Nov 29, 2018
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This Mountain Life (2018) |
[An] astounding hymn to the natural world. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Nov 01, 2018
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Mandy (2018) |
Mandy borrows from a (Panos) cosmology of profane influences-stoner metal, '80s trash cinema, bad drugs-and fashions them into something that feels sacred. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Sep 13, 2018
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The Crescent (2017) |
The title sequence alone is a masterpiece of downer psychedelia, setting the tone for the film's acid-gobbling take on the supernatural. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Aug 08, 2018
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Shock and Awe (2017) |
The real problem here is false consciousness. Joey Hartstone's didactic, sermonizing screenplay is hardly any less fantastical than the lies it seeks to condemn. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jul 26, 2018
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Leave No Trace (2018) |
Beneath the slight narrative, deliberate pace, and long stretches of quiet, Granik and her outstanding cast are busy flushing Leave No Trace with sadness and compassion. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Jul 05, 2018
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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (2017) |
Appropriately unhurried... Oudolf is giving us new ways to see. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 18, 2018
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Ethiopiques: Revolt of the Soul (2017) |
According to Elvis Costello, one of the film's parade of international notables, once you've heard one volume, you'll want all 32. He's right. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 10, 2018
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Ex-Shaman (2018) |
Bolognesi has refashioned his footage into a quasi-fictional narrative, landing on a kind of diplomatic storytelling language to bridge two stubbornly incompatible worldviews. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 08, 2018
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Anote's Ark (2018) |
We should feel drowned by this film. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 07, 2018
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The Cleaners (2018) |
Deep nausea aside, The Cleaners is a very noble effort to backspace us into reality. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 04, 2018
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The Pain of Others (2018) |
[A] heartbreaking doc. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 04, 2018
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The Quiet Zone (2017) |
What really beguiles about this modest film... is the in-the-moment quality that it somehow manages to transmit (not by radio) to screen. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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Roller Dreams (2017) |
Roller Dreams delivers ecstatic jolts of adrenaline while retelling the never-ending story of America's war on the poor. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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Our New President (2018) |
Pandering to the new McCarthyism of the pseudoleft with dollops of Evil Putin porn only clouds the film's gonzo entertainment value, revealing its dangerous blind spots and ideological bent. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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The Endless (2017) |
Tthey have a ball with the film's screwy internal logic and effective visual design, somehow landing on a breezy tone despite a seriously heavy nucleus of unthinkable dread. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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Shut Up and Say Something (2017) |
If the film and its subject both tend to be assiduously apolitical, Shut Up still reminds us time and again that Shane Koyczan means something to a lot of good people. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 30, 2018
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Before We Vanish (2017) |
In some ways, a distant and much less portentous cousin to 2016's Arrival. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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The Death of Stalin (2017) |
I enjoyed this so much that I screened it twice, back-to-back. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 05, 2018
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Too Funny To Fail (2017) |
With some of the funniest people on Earth enthusiastically discussing their greatest failure, it's the interviews that really sell this insanely entertaining film. - Georgia Straight
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| Posted Mar 05, 2018
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