Alex Doenau
Alex Doenau's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Trespass
Movies reviews only
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) |
Pokémon Detective Pikachu, despite the unwieldy official title, is an accessible movie. It skews young, but it never condescends to any demographic. - Trespass
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| Posted May 10, 2019
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Avengers: Endgame (2019) |
It would be accurate to say that a lot of the film is designed for crowd-pleasing, but that is nowhere near saying that it panders to fans. The film celebrates and revels in the franchise without seeming self-indulgent. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 26, 2019
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Shazam! (2019) |
The greatest element of Shazam! is that it doesn't fall into the trap of earnestness. It is not ashamed to embrace the more outré elements of the comic book universe. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Pet Sematary (2019) |
Shored up by confident performances and mostly impressive production design, Pet Sematary is not afraid to be pessimistic without nihilism. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Us (2019) |
Either viewing it on a surface level or tunnelling deep into its mythos, Us is a richly composed film that succeeds on every level. Even its more contentious elements are still a sign of the victory that Peele exerts over the cinema-goer. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 29, 2019
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Fighting With My Family (2019) |
A buoyant, sunny movie, driven by performances from a cast unafraid of charming vulgarity. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 25, 2019
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Captain Marvel (2019) |
It is unfortunate that Danvers can fly effortlessly and Samuel L. Jackson can almost recapture his younger self, but the movie cannot stretch itself to make computer-generated cables and flying cats seem natural. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 08, 2019
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If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) |
If Beale Street Could Talk is an evergreen movie that focuses not solely on the injustice that its characters face, but on the love that suffuses them. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 21, 2019
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Happy Death Day 2U (2019) |
Happy Death Day 2 U is the Super Mario Bros. 2 of movie sequels: it has many of the same elements, while adapting and changing enough to make a separate but still enjoyable experience. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 21, 2019
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The Hate U Give (2018) |
The Hate U Give may never stop being relative, or it may one day be a quaint reminder of systematic injustice. Regardless of what the future holds, The Hate U Give stands for something worth considering. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 01, 2019
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Aquaman (2018) |
With charismatic leads and some sublime visuals that overpower the ridiculous, Aquaman is DC's second good movie and first real statement piece since 2013. - Trespass
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| Posted Dec 26, 2018
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Bumblebee (2018) |
Though his hand on the musical cues is heavy, Knight's touch is light on the film as a whole, and Bumblebee breathes. - Trespass
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| Posted Dec 20, 2018
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |
Showing a flawless understanding of the comic-book aesthetic and storytelling without sacrificing its cinematic qualities, Into the Spider-Verse is a deeply satisfying film for comic fans that has more than enough to offer everyone else. - Trespass
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| Posted Dec 12, 2018
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) |
McCarthy is a powerhouse who isn't afraid to teeter between being deeply sympathetic and completely repellent. It's a performance that brings out the essential ambivalence that Israel, as written, feels about herself. - Trespass
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| Posted Dec 05, 2018
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Lean on Pete (2017) |
This is realism almost too gritty to take, but with just enough light mixed in so that we keep looking to the horizon. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 29, 2018
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Love at Least (2018) |
A drama with many low points, but it allows room for hope. With a well-realised central performance that brings its lead a rare dimensionality, Love at Least is a relationship drama that makes the outlandish credible. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 26, 2018
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Ribâzu ejji (2018) |
A two-hour drudgery that solves a mystery whose answer was never pressing with the silliest possible solution. There's a wide chasm between realism and misanthropy, and River's Edge falls on the wrong side of that gap. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 20, 2018
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One Cut of the Dead (2017) |
If you want something fun and slightly cerebral to chew on while your own brains are being chewed on, One Cut of the Dead is the intelligent zombie movie you need. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 16, 2018
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The Old Man & the Gun (2018) |
Redford has said that he wanted to go out on a fun note, and that is an accurate description of this movie. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 16, 2018
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) |
A strangely charmless and excessively dingy film. Too long and static for anyone but the most die hard, with neither a richness of tone nor colour, this is a film guaranteed to sell tickets at the cost of its own soul. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 14, 2018
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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) |
The Girl in the Spider's Web is a frozen techno-thriller that makes sense of all of the movies that were never made before it. - Trespass
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| Posted Nov 09, 2018
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A Star Is Born (2018) |
A drama with credible songs in it that elevates an outré personality into a legitimate actress, a vanity project with none of the vanity. - Trespass
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| Posted Oct 19, 2018
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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) |
An imperfect movie, and one impossible to pigeonhole, but it offers more delights than many bigger films. - Trespass
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| Posted Oct 15, 2018
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A Simple Favor (2018) |
Paul Feig saw the base elements of the mess that was A Simple Favour's original form and reassembled them into a stylish semi-thriller that places a high priority on entertainment, be it mild mystery and intrigue or intentional humour. - Trespass
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| Posted Sep 17, 2018
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Crazy Rich Asians (2018) |
You can celebrate Crazy Rich Asians for many reasons, and all of them are valid - it's an unambiguously well made and well intentioned movie that does not lead the viewer into hell. - Trespass
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| Posted Sep 04, 2018
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On Chesil Beach (2017) |
On Chesil Beach balances idyllic pastoral scenes with the screaming awkwardness of a honeymoon, but when it catches up with itself it can't quite keep up. - Trespass
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| Posted Aug 13, 2018
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The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018) |
With only one and a half gadgets on display, there's at least one itch that it doesn't scratch, but McKinnon is so well utilised here that The Spy Who Dumped Me is more worth seeing than its 41-year-old reference gag title would suggest. - Trespass
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| Posted Aug 13, 2018
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) |
Outside of his ambitious sci-fi movies, Cruise knows his Mission: Impossible. 22 years and six films in, he has perfected the art of convoluted international intrigue mixed with over-the-top stunts that he performs himself. - Trespass
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| Posted Aug 03, 2018
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The Equalizer 2 (2018) |
Washington brings nuance to an otherwise black-and-white scenario, which elevates The Equalizer 2 above so many other "nice guy/secret killer" films. - Trespass
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| Posted Jul 20, 2018
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) |
There is a pain threshold that you must have to survive a movie of this calibre; if you believe you have the endurance, take on Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - at the very least, it is never not fascinating. - Trespass
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| Posted Jul 19, 2018
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Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) |
Ant-Man and the Wasp is fun on a bite-sized scale, and it is everything that it wants to be. - Trespass
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| Posted Jul 06, 2018
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Upgrade (2018) |
Upgrade is pulp, but if we've learned anything from the last 30 years, it's that pulp can be good for you - they keep it in orange juice for a reason. - Trespass
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| Posted Jun 12, 2018
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Disobedience (2017) |
Weisz and McAdams are reliable as ever, and their interplay is almost electric enough to bring colour to the screen. Together they plumb unwritten depths to discover a mutual strength that prevents Disobedience from being completely depressing. - Trespass
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| Posted Jun 12, 2018
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) |
Those that need it will never watch it, and those that watch it will most likely already agree with its thesis - but this is quality filmmaking regardless. - Trespass
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| Posted Jun 12, 2018
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Ocean's 8 (2018) |
Movies are supposed to contain event, and you'll be hard pressed to find any of that in the 110 minutes of Ocean's 8. - Trespass
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| Posted Jun 11, 2018
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Tully (2018) |
While this isn't a particularly cheery movie for an alleged comedy, it's a finely tuned work that provokes without tipping itself over the edge. - Trespass
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| Posted May 16, 2018
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Deadpool 2 (2018) |
Deadpool 2 is everything that it is supposed to rail against: a generic comic book movie that is only a step above the lesser entries in the Marvel/Fox continuum. - Trespass
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| Posted May 16, 2018
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Unsane (2018) |
Unsane is not much more than potentially dangerous boilerplate designed to make people fear the mental health profession. - Trespass
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| Posted May 03, 2018
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018) |
There's a lot to meditate on in this breathlessly told comic book adventure film. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) |
This is a sweet, well-shot and well-acted piece drawn from a thoughtful script. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 25, 2018
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Super Troopers 2 (2018) |
For fans of the original, Super Troopers 2 has enough of that Broken Lizard flavour that they've been craving for almost two decades. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 25, 2018
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Isle of Dogs (2018) |
You may not quite be able to put a finger on what you're watching, but Isle of Dogs is a hand-crafted adventure through garbage, fire, and bureaucracy. Certainly it has an all-star cast, but more importantly it has a Dog Star heart. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 13, 2018
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Ready Player One (2018) |
There is nothing to recommend the film itself, which may as well have been assembled by the soulless corporate drones that it purports to hold in such contempt. - Trespass
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| Posted Apr 06, 2018
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Annihilation (2018) |
Annihilation is science fiction that is unashamed to be weird and disturbing. There's a market for that, though it may not be a mass one. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 16, 2018
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Tomb Raider (2018) |
Tomb Raider is an action adventure movie that is almost okay, but it runs out of steam long before it gets to the time to raid tombs. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 16, 2018
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Initiation Love (2015) |
Initiation Love is one third of a good movie, let down by 80 minutes of consistent frustration and inconsistent meeting of audience expectations. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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Misono Universe (2015) |
La La La at Rock Bottom evaporates like so many lost memories. It's not an unpleasant film, but it's missing key elements that would have provided both narrative satisfaction and cohesive characterisation. - Trespass
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| Posted Mar 08, 2018
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Lady Bird (2017) |
Lady Bird is a teen movie written by someone who remembers what it was like to be a teen, and one that understands that a character can be difficult without being irredeemable. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 23, 2018
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Black Panther (2018) |
Black Panther gives you everything that you want from a Marvel movie, but it goes just that little bit further to sink its claws in and reward its unsuspecting audience. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 22, 2018
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Sweet Country (2017) |
Sweet Country is a landmark work of Australian cinema, even if it lacks commerciality: what it does offer is the diamond hardness of certainty. Few films are as sincere as this one. - Trespass
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| Posted Feb 02, 2018
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