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Chris Plante

Chris Plante's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Iron Claw (2023) 89% EDIT “Through Durkin’s eyes, longtime fans and newcomers alike can see the paradoxical reality of pro wrestling — an entertainment that is both theater and sport, fake and real, and too often safer in the ring than outside of it.” – Polygon Dec 12, 2023 Full Review Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022) 76% EDIT “Another solid example of Western adult animation.” – Polygon Apr 14, 2023 Full Review Kwaidan (1964) 91% EDIT “The stories themselves fall somewhere between classic fables and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. And the feeling? There's nothing quite like it.” – Polygon Oct 25, 2021 Full Review The Sandlot (1993) 66% EDIT “The Sandlot is a classic because so much of the film focuses on time spent off the field. It's not a movie about baseball players, it's a movie about kids who happen to play baseball.” – Polygon Jul 7, 2021 Full Review Midnight Run (1988) 95% EDIT “It's trite to say "they don't make 'em like this anymore," but listen, studios really don't make movies like Midnight Run anymore.” – Polygon Apr 27, 2021 Full Review Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 85% EDIT “Despite the setting (a Royal Navy ship off the eastern coast of South America during the Napoleonic Wars) and the gore (blunt limb removal, exposed brains) the film is tender and poetic.” – Polygon Mar 30, 2021 Full Review Broadcast News (1987) 98% EDIT “I struggle to think of a safer, more charming film.” – Polygon Dec 1, 2020 Full Review Hellraiser (1987) 71% EDIT “It's gross! It's unenjoyable! And I can't stop thinking about it!” – Polygon Dec 1, 2020 Full Review Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) 42% EDIT “Director John Hancock and lead actress Zohra Lampert collaborate to produce something stranger and vaguer than the film's countless contemporaries, giving the heroine far greater agency.” – Polygon Oct 20, 2020 Full Review Contact (1997) 69% EDIT “The core message feels a little thinner... but the story is no less propulsive, particularly the final 40 minutes which play like an acid trip at the planetarium.” – Polygon Sep 29, 2020 Full Review Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) 100% EDIT “Without voice over, you see footage from these once-lost-films not as documentary materials, but as films, the way people in the turn of century saw them. They're beautiful and alive.” – Polygon Aug 4, 2020 Full Review The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 100% EDIT “What an incredible film.” – Polygon Aug 4, 2020 Full Review Ready Player One (2018) 71% EDIT “In fact, it appears, for a moment, to be barreling toward a potent critique of the book and the broader culture of the privileged, young white millionaire men of Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, it stumbles at the finish line.” – Polygon Apr 3, 2018 Full Review O.J.: Made in America (2016) 100% EDIT “Edelman has crafted a structure that always seems to answer the viewer's next question without allowing the complicated themes or various narrative threads to become overwhelming.” – The Verge Apr 11, 2017 Full Review The Discovery (2017) 48% EDIT “An exceptional cast does their damnedest with what they have, but the lines hang dully in the air. It's like watching a high-school play starring a gaggle of anxious teens.” – The Verge Mar 31, 2017 Full Review The Big Sick (2017) 98% EDIT “A beautiful, somewhat traditional love story.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review The Little Hours (2017) 78% EDIT “Beneath all the bodily fluids and sex jokes, Baena and his actors show a deep fascination with the way we communicate our love, romantically and platonically.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) 80% EDIT “As a call to recruit and energize a new generation of environmentalists, no, it's not good.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review Wind River (2017) 87% EDIT “Better than the lion's share of action films and crime procedurals on film and television. The violence, in particular, is special.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review A Ghost Story (2017) 91% EDIT “The film has a good shot at burrowing into the brain of the viewer, where it will haunt them for much longer than its runtime.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review Kuso (2017) 32% EDIT “The copious gore, the cruel extended rape joke, the abortion sight-gags, and any number of other vomit-inducing pseudo-goofs are so distracting and disorienting that making sense of the film would require a repeat viewing.” – The Verge Jan 25, 2017 Full Review Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) 97% EDIT “The film would be thuddingly familiar if not for Waititi's willingness to grasp overused tropes and manipulate them into something new.” – The Verge Dec 29, 2016 Full Review Nuts! (2016) 94% EDIT “Like a great true crime story, it is impossible to look away from.” – The Verge Feb 12, 2016 Full Review Grease: Live! (2016) 92% EDIT “Grease: Live opted for a more cinematic approach, connecting the dots between the live-to-tape soap operas of the 1940s and the "live music videos" you see at contemporary MTV awards shows.” – The Verge Feb 2, 2016 Full Review Sing Street (2016) 95% EDIT “I say this with love, sincerity, and respect: Sing Street is Once: Kidz Bop Edition” – The Verge Jan 29, 2016 Full Review
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