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Aja Romano

Aja Romano's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Megalopolis (2024) 46% EDIT “It’s less like a fully coherent narrative and more like a fun project for theater kids and their friends who recently got into computer animation. ” – Vox Oct 3, 2024 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% EDIT “It wouldn’t be an American dream if it weren’t giant, over the top, and fueled less by reason than by sentiment. ” – Vox Jul 1, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% EDIT “Thanks to a strong ensemble cast, incredible action scenes and production values, and a high-stakes, high-concept chase that lasted for most of the run time, the film gave depth and beauty to its brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland. ” – Vox May 25, 2024 Full Review Thanksgiving (2023) 83% EDIT “You can’t have well-done social satire without follow-through, and Roth ultimately isn’t aiming his darts where he should be.” – Vox Nov 17, 2023 Full Review Hidden Blade (2023) 67% EDIT “As much as Tony Leung was made for subtle but heady roles like this, Hidden Blade belongs to Wang Yibo, and so does this review.” – Vox Feb 28, 2023 Full Review Purple Hearts (2022) 32% EDIT “The entire script is a bingo card full of politicized stereotypes.” – Vox Aug 18, 2022 Full Review Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022) 31% EDIT “If trans people are to be thrown to the wolves of comedy, one would hope the wolves would at least be funnier.” – Vox May 26, 2022 Full Review Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (2022) 100% EDIT “Carmichael’s approach to his coming-out is to turn his comedy stage into a place of healing and acceptance, in which the audience becomes his confessors. ” – Vox Apr 8, 2022 Full Review Saint Maud (2019) 92% EDIT “St. Maud marks a stunning feature film debut for writer-director Rose Glass. Understated yet opulent, measured, and intensely creepy, it's a tour de force in balancing uncomfortable levels of tension and suspense with deep pathos.” – Vox May 20, 2021 Full Review Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Raya herself is a wonderful protagonist, easily one of my favorite Disney princesses by a mile... By the time I was near the end, however, the film's innumerable borrowed tropes really began to get to me.” – Vox Mar 6, 2021 Full Review Earwig and the Witch (2020) 28% 3/5 EDIT “Earwig's themes are so disjointed that it's not quite clear what the takeaway is.” – Vox Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Housebound (2014) 95% EDIT “Housebound is writer-director Gerard Johnstone's only feature film, but its unique tone has the confidence of an established, more experienced screenwriter” – Vox Jan 12, 2021 Full Review Death to 2020 (2020) 45% EDIT “Death to 2020 is ultimately just more of the same painfully humorless noise that's made up most of the year.” – Vox Dec 29, 2020 Full Review The Prom (2020) 54% 3.5/5 EDIT “The jokes land, the cast is superb, the score is still charming, and fans of the show will have little to complain about.” – Vox Dec 12, 2020 Full Review American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) 87% EDIT “Crucially, the documentary doesn't concern itself with digging deeper into Chris Watts's persona, with mythologizing him or probing for underlying motives in his behavior.” – Vox Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Dave Chappelle: 8:46 (2020) 90% EDIT “Even unrefined and exhausted - or perhaps because it is both of those things - Chappelle's perspective on being black in America is still searing, powerful, and worth hearing.” – Vox Jun 15, 2020 Full Review It: Chapter Two (2019) 62% 3.5/5 EDIT “While Chapter Two works perfectly fine as a complement to Chapter One, it still falls short in that the closer our heroes come to triumphing over "It," the further they get from a satisfying conclusion.” – Vox Sep 6, 2019 Full Review Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “Given that I was mainly expecting monsters with a side of more monsters, I can't complain too much. I got what I came for, and this is certainly not the first horror film to serve a sloppy social allegory along with its chills.” – Vox Aug 9, 2019 Full Review Child's Play (2019) 64% 3/5 EDIT “It's silly, even nigh nonsensical, full of flat stock characters, plot non sequiturs, and a hand-wave-y take on technological dystopia that never manages to get above eye roll levels of sincerity. But it's also fun and funny.” – Vox Jun 21, 2019 Full Review The Perfection (2018) 71% EDIT “In essence, the movie looks like it should be a slick, thrilling emotional arc that speaks to women. But beneath the surface, it's something more regressive.” – Vox May 29, 2019 Full Review Aladdin (2019) 57% 2.5/5 EDIT “The terrible musical sequences, the lackluster CGI, and the strange creative and emotional restraint that permeates the film frequently flatten Disney's original Aladdin into a cardboard version of itself.” – Vox May 22, 2019 Full Review Rent Live (2019) 27% EDIT “But to make all of this even weirder, there was a live performance of Rent happening onstage - and it was awesome!” – Vox Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Conformist (1970) 98% EDIT “It's easy to overlook how stark The Conformist's political and allegorical message is because it's just so damn beautiful.” – Vox Dec 3, 2018 Full Review Tomorrow May Never Come (2003) 70% EDIT “KHNH drips with color and cheer.” – Vox Nov 28, 2018 Full Review Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 60% EDIT “Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie that consciously tries to position a gay man at its center while strategically disengaging with the "gay" part as much as it can...” – Vox Nov 16, 2018 Full Review
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