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Chris Fyvie

Chris Fyvie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Queen of Earth (2015) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Alex Ross Perry being playful is still more unnervingly aggressive than most filmmakers going at you full-throttle.” – The Skinny Jun 27, 2016 Full Review Midnight Special (2016) 83% 3/5 EDIT “Midnight Special's ending almost critically undermines what is, for the most part, an unsettling piece of genre cinema.” – The Skinny Apr 8, 2016 Full Review Youth (2015) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel have great chemistry as best pals holed up in a swanky Swiss sanatorium.” – The Skinny Jan 19, 2016 Full Review The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It's difficult to recall another example in the coming-of-age genre so steadfast in its lack of judgement, especially one featuring a female protagonist.” – The Skinny Aug 4, 2015 Full Review The Chambermaid Lynn (2014) 4/5 EDIT “The funny bits are funny, and the creepy bits creepy, while Haeb's unobtrusive style captures with great beauty the tenderness and excitement of burgeoning romance.” – The Skinny Jun 19, 2015 Full Review Child 44 (2015) 30% 2/5 EDIT “A hopelessly muddled, po-faced and occasionally accidentally hilarious thriller set in Stalinist Russia.” – The Skinny Apr 17, 2015 Full Review A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Profound but never oppressive, (Andersson's) thought-provoking and ostensibly dark thesis is of civilisation trundling along in perennial fug.” – The Skinny Apr 17, 2015 Full Review Lost River (2014) 30% 4/5 EDIT “An often dazzling and always thought-provoking modern fairy tale that's never less than beautiful to look at.” – The Skinny Apr 10, 2015 Full Review Man From Reno (2014) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Dave Boyle's dreamy, laconic neo-noir plays out kind of like an episode of Murder She Wrote as filtered through the minds of the Coen brothers.” – The Skinny Feb 25, 2015 Full Review The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) 66% 4/5 EDIT “Dutch angles, dual-focus, dream sequences and at least one belting tracking shot invoke B-movie masters in a film that's way more stylish and thoughtful than one might expect.” – The Skinny Feb 20, 2015 Full Review Theeb (2014) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Theeb is a self-contained coming-of-age adventure at its core. A tense and really quite beautiful one to boot.” – The Skinny Feb 18, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 1/5 EDIT “A cynical, perfunctorily directed, guileless, sexless and artless re-tread of the novel - the worst kind of fan, and potential franchise, service.” – The Skinny Feb 13, 2015 Full Review A Most Violent Year (2014) 89% 4/5 EDIT “It's very much a mood piece, body-swerving genre clichs, beautiful to look at and dripping menace via Bradford Young's sepia-tinged cinematography under Chandor's expert direction.” – The Skinny Jan 23, 2015 Full Review The Gambler (2014) 43% 3/5 EDIT “With dialogue as acidic as this delivered by actors like these, The Gambler somehow transcends its pomposity to be really quite fun.” – The Skinny Jan 22, 2015 Full Review Ex Machina (2014) 92% 4/5 EDIT “There's no little hint of Kubrick and Hitchcockian paranoia to Alex Garland's debut as writer-director, a nifty, quasi-Gothic three-hander of great performances and unerring control.” – The Skinny Jan 21, 2015 Full Review American Sniper (2014) 71% 3/5 EDIT “No matter how well made and compelling Eastwood's film is, to produce something this incurious about its troubling real life subject, to promote his "legend" with little more than jingoistic hagiography, is at best disingenuous and distasteful.” – The Skinny Jan 15, 2015 Full Review Wild (2014) 88% 4/5 EDIT “An honest and insightful work.” – The Skinny Jan 12, 2015 Full Review Whiplash (2014) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Builds to a finale that's somehow fist-pumpingly fantastic and utterly tragic at the same time. You'll want back for more as soon as it's over.” – The Skinny Jan 12, 2015 Full Review The Grandmaster (2013) 78% 3/5 EDIT “It's far from the misunderstood masterpiece many still prayed it might be, but almost every shot is predictably jaw-dropping and metaphor-dripping.” – The Skinny Dec 5, 2014 Full Review St. Vincent (2014) 78% 3/5 EDIT “St. Vincent is at its strongest when Murray just gets to behave badly, and the talented Lieberher gets to develop some chutzpah of his own.” – The Skinny Dec 5, 2014 Full Review The Homesman (2014) 81% 4/5 EDIT “Jones adds a fierce political edge, unexpected comic moments and some astonishing, at times wilfully transgressive imagery.” – The Skinny Nov 20, 2014 Full Review The Imitation Game (2014) 90% 3/5 EDIT “Morten Tyldum ties it all together with such steadfast dedication to fine-ness that makes it very difficult to be cross with his film.” – The Skinny Nov 13, 2014 Full Review The Drop (2014) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Refreshingly unconventional narrative developments, complex characters and great performances” – The Skinny Nov 13, 2014 Full Review Interstellar (2014) 73% 3/5 EDIT “The film's self-seriousness is, in fact, its great ally: the conviction with which Nolan directs prevents us questioning the absurdity as it unfolds.” – The Skinny Nov 6, 2014 Full Review WolfCop (2014) 63% 3/5 EDIT “It's a bit A-Team, a bit Steven Seagal, kinda MacGyver, and a whole lot of fun.” – The Skinny Oct 24, 2014 Full Review
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