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Ben Flanagan

Ben Flanagan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Rose (2020) EDIT ““Many British micro-productions focus on Britain’s mud. ‘Rose’ shows us the frost.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Shoplifters of the World (2021) 44% EDIT ““‘Shoplifters of the World’ seems more affectionate to 2000s conceptions of 1980s nostalgia than to the thing itself.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Devil in the Flesh (1986) EDIT ““Bellocchio’s 1986 film ‘Devil in the Flesh’ is perfectly representative of the great Italian director’s outlook.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Slow Machine (2020) 83% EDIT ““The conspiratorial is everywhere in ‘Slow Machine’ but doesn’t come into focus.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review The Carnivores (2020) 76% EDIT ““Johnson doesn’t create a specific sense of place in ‘The Carnivores,’ nor does he develop the characters into anything more than cyphers for American angst that a million Sundance films have delivered before.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review It's A Summer Film! (2021) 100% EDIT ““‘It’s a Summer Film!’ has a genuine emotional core, which layers each wild twist into another heartrending moment.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Bull (2021) 91% EDIT ““Williams’ reliance on violence doesn’t transgress in ‘Bull,’ it merely toes the line. Imagine what he could do if he really let himself go.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Yourself and Yours (2016) 94% EDIT ““‘Yourself and Yours’ is a great summer movie, where the over-lit qualities reflect a state of mind more than an exact reality.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Martin Eden (2019) 88% EDIT ““In ‘Martin Eden,’ the games that Marcello plays with form and structure coalesce into an immensely moving film, which — grounded by the standout turn from Marinelli — offers a new direction for the stale “Great American Novel” adaptation.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review The Traitor (2019) 86% EDIT ““It wouldn’t be surprising to see ‘The Traitor’ filed in the Dad-canon of crime cinema alongside other European films like ‘Mesrine’ or ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’ — films where the context is too wide to sufficiently cover…”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018) 88% EDIT ““Garver doesn’t really provide more than an overview, but perhaps that will indeed bring new eyes to some great American writing.”” – Vague Visages Feb 10, 2024 Full Review Waiting for the Barbarians (2019) 54% EDIT “The datedness of the novel’s politics are swallowed by Guerra, who stages scenes with a typical stillness that, filled with croaky theatrical performances, becomes a non-style worthy of bad prestige TV. ” – Vague Visages Feb 8, 2024 Full Review No Man's Land (2021) 40% EDIT “No Man's Land, Conor Allyn's earthy effort at a serious revisionist western, is a film of good intentions that goes awry when it attempts to unpack any of its ideas.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review A Colt Is My Passport (1967) EDIT “A Colt Is My Passport represents a supreme tension between American and Japanese Noir, and asks questions about the past and future of international cinema.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Riders of Justice (2020) 96% EDIT “For a films shot like prestige TV that is dour and tense, he draws a large family of compelling characters. And that makes Riders of Justice worth giving consideration beyond an opening night film — the art of the hangout movie lives, after all... ” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review As We Like It (2021) EDIT “As We Like It is a film that makes many unique moments out of its childish buffoonery, and it’s lifted, like its characters, into a class of its own.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Dara of Jasenovac (2020) 52% EDIT “It's a shame, as this chapter of history, and the people who died, deserves more than to be used as a stick to poke people through cheap sentimentality...” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Z (2019) 97% EDIT “It makes for good quarantine viewing, but one wishes for a version of the film that does more to eke out the subtext from this well trodden ground.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review TFW No GF (2020) EDIT “By the time TFW NO GF lets the viewer up for air, faith in the facts will have dissipated. It may feel like time to get offline, and stay there.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review The Intruder (2020) 54% EDIT “This humorous touch is indicative of what Meta seems interested in, but perhaps unable to commit to.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Rose: A Love Story (2020) 71% EDIT “Even when an inevitable interloper arrives at their house to add drama to proceedings, the film remains inert and uninterested in the contradictions that make people the way they are. It’s lifeless. ” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Possessor: Uncut (2020) 94% EDIT “There is so much stuff in Possessor that you might think you're at a venerable cinematic feast. But take away the squelching and splatter and there's barely enough to fill an episode of Black Mirror.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review New Order (2020) 67% EDIT “By the time Franco joins together strands that the audience will most likely have seen coming, New Order grinds to a halt.” – Vague Visages Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Mank (2020) 83% EDIT “Given the vastness of Hollywood itself to fool around in, Fincher is aimless. He needs to hole himself up somewhere and get back to work.” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review Freaky (2020) 84% EDIT “Before Freaky even introduces its high concept body-swap premise, director Christopher Landon delivers a whole slasher film in miniature...” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review
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