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Alice Stoehr

Alice Stoehr's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “Costin's sheer access means she turns up a number of amusing tidbits, but just as many platitudes. So much of the art form goes unheard.” – Film Freak Central Nov 8, 2019 Full Review Gwen (2018) 71% 3/4 EDIT “The film might only descend into bloodshed near its end, at which time it's brutal though under cover of night. But it leaves the viewer no space for confusion: everyday commerce is itself a form of violence.” – Film Freak Central Aug 22, 2019 Full Review Adam (2019) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “All large-scale LGBT storytelling runs into an unfair question, one that cis and straight artists can safely ignore. In order to represent your experiences, do you court outrage or concede to good taste? Adam is a nonanswer.” – Film Freak Central Aug 19, 2019 Full Review Starfish (2018) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “The first act of Starfish, with its oblique dialogue and shallow focus, is so lovely that it scarcely requires the pleasant if shallow film beyond it.” – Film Freak Central Jun 4, 2019 Full Review Domino (2019) 34% 3/4 EDIT “It's tawdry material, nesting two revenge narratives and plenty of terrorist intrigue inside a film that's under 90 minutes long.” – Film Freak Central Jun 4, 2019 Full Review The Public (2018) 65% 2/4 EDIT “Though actor, writer, and director Emilio Estevez might again be "on the wrong side of the law for all the right reasons," right reasons alone don't make for good art.” – Film Freak Central Apr 8, 2019 Full Review Madonna and the Breakfast Club (2019) 2/4 EDIT “It's stiff and colourless--at best, an act of devotion. Made with much love and little skill, the film is strongest as a repository for everything about Madonna before Madonna.” – Film Freak Central Mar 20, 2019 Full Review The Amityville Murders (2018) 0% 2.5/4 EDIT “[The] last ten minutes satisfy this requisite as Butch ascends the stairs against flashes of lightning from the rainstorm outside. But the slayings and the sober epilogue that follows make for a flat ending to this relatively ambitious horror movie.” – Film Freak Central Feb 12, 2019 Full Review Close (2019) 35% 2/4 EDIT “Forget bodyguards, forget about love: Close is about little more than the crunch of a snapping rib, the glimmer of sunlight on water, and Noomi Rapace smoking a cigarette in another forgettable movie.” – Film Freak Central Jan 22, 2019 Full Review The New Romantic (2018) 63% 2/4 EDIT “Carly Stone, a first-time writer-director, introduces a startling degree of pain yet lacks the willingness to fully reckon with it.” – Film Freak Central Nov 20, 2018 Full Review Summer '03 (2018) 65% 1.5/4 EDIT “Is this a black comedy à la Todd Solondz? Or a quirky teen drama with a dash of girl power? All in all, it's too glib, too zany, too half-hearted to be a solid example of either.” – Film Freak Central Oct 3, 2018 Full Review Night Comes On (2018) 98% 3/4 EDIT “This is a short, tight story about everything two sisters can give each other and the father they want nothing from.” – Film Freak Central Aug 6, 2018 Full Review The Year of Spectacular Men (2017) 65% 2.5/4 EDIT “Thompson directs deftly in her feature debut, and her daughters' rapport is tangible, especially when they're serenading her in that bathroom.” – Film Freak Central Jun 26, 2018 Full Review Sequence Break (2016) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Despite its tiny cast and handful of nondescript locations, Sequence Break isn't minimalist. It's just empty.” – Film Freak Central May 25, 2018 Full Review November (2017) 93% 3/4 EDIT “Bodies of water and the overcast sky likewise become clean white sheets. This high-contrast palette applies a picturesque gloss to even the most prosaic shots.” – Film Freak Central Feb 23, 2018 Full Review The Road Movie (2016) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “At its most exploitative, The Road Movie aspires to the sensationalism of mondo filmmaking. The dashcam framing, however, both inhibits and enhances the film. Because the camera's static, it's more objective than handheld. It's incapable of gawking.” – Film Freak Central Jan 19, 2018 Full Review Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017) 92% 2/4 EDIT “Near tears, he speaks forthrightly about his comedy's roots in sadness. Stories like this are poignant and, to some degree, unlock Carrey's acting. They're outweighed, however, by his metaphysical babbling, which often drags on needlessly.” – Film Freak Central Nov 21, 2017 Full Review What Happened to Monday (2017) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “Even by the downbeat metric of dystopian sci-fi, the attrition sustained by What Happened to Monday's heroines is a little shocking.” – Film Freak Central Aug 24, 2017 Full Review Something Like Summer (2017) 1.5/4 EDIT “The film glides superficially, devoid of insight, over the substance of real gay lives.” – Film Freak Central Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Sand Castle (2017) 47% 2/4 EDIT “Strip away everything tedious or generic, everything that merely advances the plot, and this would just be a movie about men's bodies.” – Film Freak Central Apr 27, 2017 Full Review Love.Honour.Obey. (2014) 1.5/4 EDIT “Deadly Virtues casually conflates BDSM with sexual assault while also exploiting it as a plot device.” – Film Freak Central Mar 28, 2017 Full Review
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