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Christine N. Ziemba

Christine N. Ziemba's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Holy Hell (2016) 73% 7/10 EDIT “What begins as a video memoir evolves into a much larger portrait of betrayal, grief and healing.” – Paste Magazine Jun 9, 2016 Full Review Manhattan Night (2016) 35% 4.9/10 EDIT “It's bogged down by hackneyed characters that do no justice to the film noir titles it tries to emulate.” – Paste Magazine May 23, 2016 Full Review The Family Fang (2015) 84% 6/10 EDIT “Bateman's strength is his ability to work so well with actors-as someone in the business for a long time (he started at age 12 on Little House on the Prairie), he's able to coax nuanced performances from his cast.” – Paste Magazine May 6, 2016 Full Review The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015) 58% 7.7/10 EDIT “Through anecdotal and social science research, Senko's film also provides much-needed insight as to why Donald Trump's caustic discourse and demagoguery is catnip for so many people.” – Paste Magazine Mar 18, 2016 Full Review Backgammon (2015) 0% 3.3/10 EDIT “The new feature film Backgammon has at least one thing in common with its namesake board game: After watching it for just a few minutes, you're bound to get bored.” – Paste Magazine Mar 18, 2016 Full Review Eye in the Sky (2015) 95% 7.9/10 EDIT “At its core, the film is a welcome piece of mindfulness and moral complexity on our increasingly black-and-white world stage.” – Paste Magazine Mar 9, 2016 Full Review Where to Invade Next (2015) 79% 5.4/10 EDIT “The film's snide humor can't lift the veil of melancholy that pervades it, nor can Moore repeatedly placing himself in front of the camera to explain the most obvious ideas already on display.” – Paste Magazine Feb 18, 2016 Full Review Touched With Fire (2015) 67% 6.8/10 EDIT “Touched with Fire is at its most successful when Dalio attempts to articulate the bipolar mind.” – Paste Magazine Feb 18, 2016 Full Review The Choice (2016) 11% 4/10 EDIT “If we were to measure The Choice on a scale which is only used to measure other Sparks films, The Choice is par for the course, pandering as ever to a built-in audience.” – Paste Magazine Feb 11, 2016 Full Review Synchronicity (2015) 48% 4.9/10 EDIT “A lot of homage and genre too often get in the way of what could have been a well-paced, smart story” – Paste Magazine Jan 28, 2016 Full Review Lamb (2015) 83% 7.9/10 EDIT “A beautiful, confounding and unsettling ride.” – Paste Magazine Jan 8, 2016 Full Review Dementia (2015) 79% 4.5/10 EDIT “Any horror or suspense film worth its salt raises the audience's hackles at least once, but Dementia is a wimpy psychological thriller.” – Paste Magazine Dec 15, 2015 Full Review Miss You Already (2015) 70% 6.4/10 EDIT “[Collette and Barrymore] capture the bond between two women who love each other unconditionally, for better or worse.” – Paste Magazine Dec 3, 2015 Full Review #Horror (2015) 46% 4.1/10 EDIT “#Horror is a prime example of style over substance.” – Paste Magazine Nov 25, 2015 Full Review 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) 3.9/10 EDIT “Bly's life is an intrinsically compelling one, and the failure of 10 Days in a Madhouse is that it never once lives up to the indelible nature of the life it portrays.” – Paste Magazine Nov 18, 2015 Full Review The Hallow (2015) 69% 7/10 EDIT “Rather than falling into clich, Hardy's quickening pace, coupled with truly creepy cinematography by Martijn van Broekhuizen and gruesome makeup, creates a surprisingly taut thriller.” – Paste Magazine Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Rock the Kasbah (2015) 7% 4/10 EDIT “If Levinson were trying to capture the sentiment of his earlier film Good Morning, Vietnam, which successfully mixed comedy and war, Rock the Kasbah completely misses the mark.” – Paste Magazine Oct 29, 2015 Full Review Suffragette (2015) 73% 6.8/10 EDIT “Director Gavron does a respectable job in capturing the political and social atmosphere of the era, though her gauzy filter can be a little too on the nose to evoke the past.” – Paste Magazine Oct 22, 2015 Full Review He Named Me Malala (2015) 73% 6.4/10 EDIT “Such dramatic, awe-inspiring scenes are plenty in the film, but the dearth of the small moments, the everyday occurrences, places Malala higher and higher on Guggenheim's pedestal, farther and farther out of reach for the rest of us.” – Paste Magazine Oct 6, 2015 Full Review Uncle John (2015) 85% 8.2/10 EDIT “Uncle John is an audacious combination of genres: a slow-burning mystery-thriller mixed with a mumblecore love story. There's a dash of morbid comedy thrown in for good measure, too.” – Paste Magazine Sep 22, 2015 Full Review Break Point (2014) 71% 6.1/10 EDIT “Break Point has its moments. It's passable, light entertainment, but ultimately comes up short when reaching for deeper comedic or dramatic flair.” – Paste Magazine Sep 10, 2015 Full Review Meet the Patels (2014) 87% 7.8/10 EDIT “Something revelatory happens during the course of Meet the Patels: We watch as a family learns to communicate, honestly, with each other. With that, Meet the Patels is a journey of self-discovery, but it's not Ravi's alone.” – Paste Magazine Sep 10, 2015 Full Review Top Spin (2014) 100% 6.9/10 EDIT “There's triumph, heartbreak and loss in Top Spin.” – Paste Magazine Aug 26, 2015 Full Review Learning to Drive (2014) 65% 6.1/10 EDIT “Both Wendy and Darwan are familiar cinematic archetypes, yet the performances keep the film from becoming too preachy or maudlin.” – Paste Magazine Aug 26, 2015 Full Review People, Places, Things (2015) 77% 8/10 EDIT “Strouse's script is so entertaining and Clement and supporting players give such endearing, heartfelt performances, relatable to denizens of Brooklyn, Astoria and beyond.” – Paste Magazine Aug 19, 2015 Full Review
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