Chris Sawin
Tomatometer-approved critic
Chris Sawin has been writing about film for over a decade. Formerly of Examiner.com, Chris has an unabashed admiration for weird and eccentric cinema, the nastiest of horror films, and particularly loves animation when it's done right.
Movies reviews only
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) |
The Wrath of Becky continues a solid trend of practical special effect kills, but still tends to be lacking in every other aspect. The sequel isn’t as funny as the filmmakers are wanting it to be and the villains are becoming forgettable cannon fodder. - Hub Pages
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
Tearfully moving with bonkers humor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 gives the world’s most bad ass trash panda from space the most meaningful film in a trilogy overrun with super heroic and perfection obsessed a-holes. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Sisu (2022) |
Sisu is a 90-minute slaughter fest loaded with despicable characters that you will actually enjoy seeing being ripped to pieces. It endorses its simplicity a bit too heavily, but is an otherwise immensely entertaining piece of popcorn entertainment. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted May 10, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023) |
Ultimately, Evil Dead Rise’s biggest flaw is that it simply isn’t as good as its ten-year-old predecessor. Nevertheless, the film is fun, blood splattering carnage that will hopefully take the Evil Dead franchise in a bold and exhilarating direction. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted May 03, 2023
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Speak No Evil (2022) |
Speak No Evil is exhaustingly tense with desperate performances enduring cerebrally hellish behavior. Christian and Mads Tafdrup know how to drive the audience to the brink of insanity while throwing off the scent of foreseeable expectations. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Heaven: To the Land of Happiness (2020) |
Heaven: To the Land of Happiness is an emotionally captivating odyssey featuring exceptional performances with a significant meaning that allows its audience to reflect inward. Choi Min-sik and Park Hae-il are extraordinary together. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Sakra (2023) |
Donnie Yen has a strong on-screen presence and is as talented as ever when it comes to anything martial arts related, but Sakra drags its feet with its storytelling, meandering aimlessly between spurts of heavy action. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Renfield (2023) |
Renfield is like the junk food version of a horror comedy. It has all the right ingredients for something that should be fantastic, but its recipe for action, comedy, and satisfying storytelling is imbalanced to the point of near disgust. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Suzume (2022) |
With a compelling story, jaw-dropping animation and impressive action sequences, Suzume is a contender for Makoto Shinkai’s most thrilling and enjoyable film to date. A dazzling rabbit hole of animation and charm. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge (2022) |
Scare Package II is still entertaining with great practical effects, but its overly meta humor and its never ending rolodex of horror references make it much less enjoyable than the first film. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 13, 2023
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Ride On (2023) |
Genuinely touching with a heart wrenching story that’s as gripping as it is moving, Ride On delivers fast paced action with a side of uncontrollable crying and poignant satisfaction. IT is easily the most emotional film of Jackie Chan's career. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 13, 2023
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |
The Super Mario Bros. Movie is like Fruit Stripe Gum. It’s super colorful and eyecatching, but it seems to instantly lose its flavor and charm. The film is surprisingly dull when it isn’t slapping you in the face with rainbow colored nostalgia. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 06, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
John Wick: Chapter 4 is explosive, nunchuck-bashing, bone-crunching cinematic ecstasy that allows action junkies to gorge on a buffet of bullet casings and broken necks. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Apr 02, 2023
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Inside (2023) |
Dafoe commands every scene with an unbelievably desperate performance, the film is overall held back by its predictable outcome and dreadfully slow pacing – which, sadly, no amount of Dafoe dancing to the Macarena or talking to a pigeon helps to alleviate - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Mar 26, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Cocaine Bear is mindless entertainment in its purest and most uncut form. It is so dumb, so over the top with gore, and so funny that you can’t help but root for this doped up bear’s murderous rampage to not only continue, but hopefully never end. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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Nocebo (2022) |
While the film has some clever explanations for things and a handful of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it dark fantasy sequences, Nocebo is mostly a mediocre thriller that is only worth seeking out for its unshakable finale. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Feb 28, 2023
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The Amazing Maurice (2022) |
The Amazing Maurice has a gloriously memorable villain, a surprisingly scary version of The Pied Piper, and a fantastically sound explanation for talking animals. Even with a ton of missteps, it manages to land on all four feet when the dust clears. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
It’s not that Knock at the Cabin is entirely bad, it’s that it seems to actively know it could be more creative, thrilling, and shocking and yet purposely chooses to bury its head in the sand and let mediocrity have its remorselessly bland way with it. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Feb 05, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
Ambiguously haunting with bloodcurdling sensuality, Infinity Pool is not for the squeamish and yet such an impressive and bourgeois bloodbath for those who admire unusually unsettling cinema. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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You People (2023) |
You People is two hours of people being dicks to one another in unfunny fashion with a rushed bow filled with forced heartfelt predictability tacked on at the very end. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Jan 28, 2023
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New Gods: Yang Jian (2022) |
New Gods: Yang Jian feels like an alternate timeline of Journey to the West along with all of the jazzy influence of Cowboy Bebop. The animation is slick and impressive, but the intentionally slow storytelling dims the spectacle of the visuals. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
Even with some sketchy acting and predictable story elements, M3gan is a massively entertaining horror film that kicks off a new year of movies to exceed expectations with a lethally robotic and electrifying bang. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) |
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is stylish and fun with sleek animation, a thrillingly adventurous story, off-the-wall humor, and fantastic writing that is penned in a way that rejuvenates what was thought to be a dead CGI animated franchise. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
State-of-the-art special effects and revolutionary underwater cameras can’t hide the fact that Avatar: The Way of Water is basically the same movie as the original with more blue people (some are slightly green now!) that get on your last nerve. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 20, 2022
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Babylon (2022) |
A fecal, anal honking, and vomit-infused tale revolving around orgy-driven slaphappiness and punchdrunk intoxication as the silent movie era disjointedly stumbled into sound and talkies. Babylon is an aggressive assault of the senses. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 17, 2022
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) |
Del Toro has crafted a darker yet equally more emotional version of Pinocchio. It is exquisitely animated with rich textures, gorgeous lighting, and mostly welcome character reinventions. It is absolutely a contender for this year's best animated film. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Christmas Bloody Christmas (2022) |
Christmas Bloody Christmas should not be missed if you’re looking for a new Christmas horror film that is essentially a yuletide slasher film where you root for a killer Santa cyborg as a bunch of horny 30-somethings are killed off to squeamish delight. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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Violent Night (2022) |
Violent Night overcomes its weak script and familiar concept with enough ooey gooey squelchy violence to appease bloodthirsty horror fans and action junkies alike. It still manages to be a bloody festive blast filled with head squashing Christmas carnage. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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Strange World (2022) |
Visually wondrous but spectacularly dull, unbelievably unfunny, and lackluster from the inside out in every other aspect, Strange World is a superficially stimulating with the entertainment value of a wet yet adventurous sponge. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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Nanny (2022) |
Nanny is a peculiar debut for Nikyatu Jusu. The performances in the film are decent, but Aisha’s experience in America feels like a terrible scavenger hunt with the world’s worst Cracker Jack prize as its reward. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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Black Adam (2022) |
With a horrid script, lackluster performances, and a waste of potentially awesome characters, Black Adam is an explosive, $195 million, anti-heroic dud. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Oct 23, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
Entertaining at times and frustrating at others, Halloween Ends is a bloody scenic route of a conclusion that is mostly satisfying despite its underappreciated albeit risky detours. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Oct 19, 2022
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Hellraiser (2022) |
Hellraiser feels like it takes forever to get to Cenobite action more involved than a brief cameo appearance, but Jamie Clayton’s strong performance and some surprisingly solid gore make for a commendable take on Barker’s creation. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Blonde (2022) |
Ana de Armas delivers a beautiful and conflicted mess of a performance that is both heartbreaking and mesmerizing. For anyone seeking out a film that is so depressingly cruel yet significantly brilliant in its execution, Blonde is not to be missed. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) |
While Dupieux’s Rubber and Deerskin are his best films, Smoking Causes Coughing is hands down his funniest – not to mention most enjoyable – to date. It’s bloody, absurd, and sports a Super Sentai influence in all the best ways imaginable. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Kids vs. Aliens (2022) |
Coupled with a ridiculously entertaining script and an on-screen chemistry between Gary and his friends that fuels the film’s comedy, Kids vs. Aliens is a surprisingly bloody and unbelievably creative 75-minute free-for-all. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Shin Ultraman (2022) |
Loaded with with silly humor, monster-fighting action, scrambling human dialogue, and various plans of retaliation being laid out by the SSSP against their foes , Shin Ultraman is the most evenly-balanced kaiju film to date. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Unicorn Wars (2022) |
Unicorn Wars is a blood infused and adorably amputated blend of Full Metal Jacket and the aforementioned Happy Tree Friends that horrifies and nauseates more often than it impresses. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Smile (2022) |
Smile swings for the fences in its pursuit of weirdness, gore, and overall goal of melting its viewers’ brains, but thanks to its sluggish pacing and focus on bizarre horror over storytelling, the end result ends up in the outfield rather than the stands. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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Goodnight Mommy (2022) |
Goodnight Mommy (2022) has the skeletal structure of a brain twisting and psychologically scarring horror film. However, it’s been cosmetically redesigned into something so misshapen, hideous, and unrecognizable that it’s a shell of its former shelf. - Hub Pages
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| Posted Sep 16, 2022
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Pinocchio (2022) |
With tangled strings and meandering storytelling, Pinocchio is a musical misfire that seemingly sets out to annihilate everything that made its animated counterpart so enjoyable. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Sep 10, 2022
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Mutant Action (1993) |
Accion Mutante is a messy and chaotic sci-fi film and an even sloppier comedy, but it’s worth checking out for its ridiculously aggressive and amalgamated "futuristic" mayhem. - Hub Pages
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| Posted Jul 20, 2022
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The Roundup (2022) |
Don Lee is a certified, bone-breaking megastar. The Roundup is a savagely captivating action extravaganza with lightning fast action and brilliant performances. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jul 20, 2022
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The Deer King (2021) |
The Deer King is as visually gorgeous as any Studio Ghibli film. But even with its exceptional animation, its storytelling and pacing is lacking as the film seems to prioritize monotonous dialogue and petty human squabbling over anything remotely exciting - Hub Pages
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| Posted Jul 16, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022) |
Tedious and sluggish with punches and kicks and kills that barely satisfy, The Gray Man is a dead on arrival action thriller that squanders potential almost as often as Ryan Gosling chews gum. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
Thor: Love and Thunder is mostly just a brightly colored filler episode that will likely be forgotten about like most of the Thor franchise. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jul 13, 2022
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The Forgiven (2021) |
Despite the best efforts of a massively talented cast, The Forgiven trudges around in circles to the point where you don’t care what its destination is as long as it finally and truly ends. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jul 01, 2022
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) |
Laugh out loud funny, sad in a gut punching kind of way, and overwhelmingly big-hearted. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a heartwarming delight. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jun 30, 2022
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The Black Phone (2021) |
With a breakthrough performance from Madeleine McGraw and Ethan Hawke’s hauntingly memorable turn as The Grabber, The Black Phone is a solid, pulse-racing horror film that packs a punch, but simply won’t be as delectable on repeat viewings. - Reel Rundown
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| Posted Jun 26, 2022
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The Witch 2: The Other One (2022) |
Overall, The Witch 2: The Other One is a mostly solid sequel that simply isn’t as good as its predecessor. It lacks the emotional investment and satisfying pay-off of The Witch: Subversion. - Bounding Into Comics
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| Posted Jun 20, 2022
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