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Caspar Salmon

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

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The Origin of Evil (2022) 93% EDIT “If The Origin of Evil were only lurid camp it would pall fairly quickly, but Marnier is careful to weave a fine vein of pathos through this narrative.” – Sight & Sound Dec 8, 2023 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% EDIT “Poor Things is a film of immense ambition and craft, and one that mostly does what it set out to do, which is to be a vast and riotous psychodrama, whose eccentricity should not impede its popular appeal.” – The Daily Beast Sep 10, 2023 Full Review Origin (2023) 82% EDIT “"[It's] a tricky subject for a narrative film, as opposed to a documentary. The film’s disjointed execution bears that fear out, in a series of vignettes stuck together with glue and masking tape.” – The Daily Beast Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Lubo (2023) 50% EDIT “Lubo is built around another magnetic central performance by Franz Rogowski in the title role. He portrays the titular character Lubo as a gracious, impish kind of live-wire—a man whose love of performing is coded into his DNA.” – The Daily Beast Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% EDIT “Hit Man clearly does not condone his behavior, but, equally, he is presented as a highly charismatic and charming central character, in what is—this is indisputable—a wickedly funny and entertaining crime caper.” – The Daily Beast Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 91% EDIT “The result is a sad, piercingly beautiful fable, whose delicacy and grace barely conceal Hamaguchi's mordant purpose.” – The Daily Beast Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% EDIT “Coppola displays perhaps more tenderness than ever before, making for a film which, for all its slightness and occasional missteps, is affectingly clear-eyed and candid.” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023) 95% EDIT “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is two warring things... First and foremost, it is the last film by a justly acclaimed and beloved director, William Friedkin; it is also (and this presents a bit of a problem for the reviewer) a terrible, terrible film.” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% EDIT “Rather, there is something ever so gently unhinged in this lean, crisp action film that doubles as an arthouse character study; something just a little askew in its perspective, giving it an inviting absurdity.” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Maestro (2023) 78% EDIT “The miracle of Maestro is that something works here; the actors invest, there is feeling and heart and style, which amply compensate for some of the more iffy touches and longueurs.” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Aggro Dr1ft (2023) 41% EDIT “Aggro Dr1ft—just writing the title out can obliterate up to 50 brain cells!—is intended as an experience. It certainly is that. (At least for those who stayed; there was a flurry of walkouts at its Venice premiere.)” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 84% EDIT “In fact, I entered the request “Write the plot of a Woody Allen film set in Paris, with a wife cheating on her husband, and containing the theme of chance” into ChatGPT and it’s truly astounding how close the bot got.” – The Daily Beast Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Allelujah (2022) 38% EDIT “The film’s impassioned defence of the NHS is welcome, but feels simple and sentimental.” – Sight & Sound Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Perfect Days (2023) 96% EDIT “Due to Wenders’ delicate filmmaking, beautifully shooting the city in carefully constructed frames, we also derive pleasure.” – The Daily Beast May 30, 2023 Full Review Club Zero (2023) 65% EDIT “This is a discomfiting kind of science-fiction, anchored in a timeless sort of era, like ours but at a weird, distancing remove.” – The Daily Beast May 24, 2023 Full Review The New Boy (2023) 76% EDIT “A valiant but perhaps rather mannered performance by Cate Blanchett cannot rescue this movie from its turgid instincts.” – The Daily Beast May 22, 2023 Full Review Firebrand (2023) 58% EDIT “[Jude] Law’s characterisation goes far beyond what is required of him, becoming an overstated, self-indulgent rehearsal of grotesquerie.” – The Daily Beast May 22, 2023 Full Review How to Have Sex (2023) 97% EDIT “How To Have Sex, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, doesn’t advertise itself as immersive or a war film—the film centers on three British teenage girls heading to Crete for a hedonistic summer break—but it is in fact both.” – The Daily Beast May 22, 2023 Full Review Holy Spider (2022) 82% EDIT “It’s guilty of the very misogyny it’s criticizing.” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review Decision to Leave (2022) 94% EDIT “This device doesn’t just tell us about Hae-joon’s creeping obsession, but it casts it in a sexual dimension, and delivers a hit of pure cinematic pleasure given its immaculate execution...” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review Crimes of the Future (2022) 80% EDIT “Crimes of the Future can also be lumbering and, whisper it, boring. Kristen Stewart’s Timlin is the only properly fun character in the film...” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review Funny Pages (2022) 82% EDIT “A lo-fi comedy bursting with humor.” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review Stars at Noon (2022) 63% EDIT “Woefully miscast...” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review The Silent Twins (2022) 69% EDIT “This film based on the real-life story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin Black girls who grew up in Wales, is visually arresting and transportive.” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review Elvis (2022) 77% EDIT “It lurches about flashing its gold like a drunk old millionaire.” – The Daily Beast May 27, 2022 Full Review
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