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Christopher Runyon

Christopher Runyon's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Wind Rises (2013) 88% A+ EDIT “Reveals itself to be not just a drama about love, romance, aircraft, or war, but a drama of the very essence of humanity: why do we try to live?” – Movie Mezzanine Jul 2, 2014 Full Review The Last Survivors (2014) 75% B EDIT “The kind of serviceable yet lovingly crafted indie genre picture you wish was made more often.” – Movie Mezzanine Jun 20, 2014 Full Review They Came Together (2014) 70% B+ EDIT “No, it's not the tightest spoof movie around, but you'll laugh a lot.” – Movie Mezzanine Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Love Is Strange (2014) 93% B+ EDIT “Sachs finds drama in silence, and makes the mundane rich with humanity.” – Movie Mezzanine Jun 17, 2014 Full Review Snowpiercer (2013) 94% B EDIT “Maybe some restraint would have improved Snowpiercer in the traditional sense, but I wouldn't want to live in that world.” – Movie Mezzanine Jun 17, 2014 Full Review From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) 87% C+ EDIT “A rather mediocre film...And yet, even with all of its faults, I still find myself oddly swept up in its familial drama.” – Movie Mezzanine May 25, 2014 Full Review The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) 94% B EDIT “There are undeniable signs of this being a first-feature from an "unproven" director, but there's also a confidence in Yonebayashi that elevates the material a great deal.” – Movie Mezzanine May 25, 2014 Full Review Ponyo (2008) 91% B EDIT “Not as profound as Miyazaki's other works, but the fact that an animated children's film actually has the brains to go for larger, resonant themes is worth congratulation.” – Movie Mezzanine Apr 21, 2014 Full Review Tales From Earthsea (2006) 37% D EDIT “An overly stoic, pretentious, boring, unimaginative trainwreck that just happens to have been made by some of the greatest animators in the history of Japanese anime.” – Movie Mezzanine Apr 15, 2014 Full Review Oculus (2013) 75% A- EDIT “It's nice to get a horror film whose horrors are so intrinsically rooted to very human fears and follies that they become one and the same. Oculus is that movie.” – Movie Mezzanine Apr 13, 2014 Full Review The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 82% A+ EDIT “Dares us to reconcile our spiritual and physical selves.” – Movie Mezzanine Apr 12, 2014 Full Review Enemy (2013) 73% B+ EDIT “We can't help but refuse to ignore the experience, digging deeper and deeper into the horrors that await us.” – Movie Mezzanine Mar 14, 2014 Full Review Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 88% B+ EDIT “Despite the muddy narrative... It's the more intimate character relationships that ultimately make Howl's Moving Castle work as a whole.” – Movie Mezzanine Mar 10, 2014 Full Review Bethlehem (2013) 79% B- EDIT “Bethlehem never really comes together as a revelatory experience until an incredible, wince-inducingly savage finale that leaves a strong aftertaste.” – Movie Mezzanine Mar 7, 2014 Full Review The Rocket (2013) 95% B EDIT “The Rocket won't change anyone's world, but as a pleasantly sweet piece of world cinema, it's still worth seeing and being charmed by.” – Movie Mezzanine Mar 4, 2014 Full Review The Cat Returns (2002) 88% C+ EDIT “The Cat Returns...is all fluff, but it's cute and enjoyable fluff at the very least.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 23, 2014 Full Review The End of Evangelion (1997) 92% A+ EDIT “A masterpiece of animation and filmmaking.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review The Tree of Life (2011) 86% A+ EDIT “Go ahead and take away my credibility badge...The film is one of the most emotionally affecting and profound experiences of my life, regardless of how recent it is.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review The New World (2005) 63% A EDIT “Malick manages to do something I never thought possible, and that's make America seem like a New World to begin with.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review The Thin Red Line (1998) 80% A EDIT “One of the most harrowing of anti-war statements, and the most beautiful too.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Days of Heaven (1978) 93% A+ EDIT “Ethereal, gorgeous, and evocative.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Badlands (1973) 97% A EDIT “The movie is just as free, experimental, and unsure of itself as its main characters are, and thus fits like a glove.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Dune (1984) 36% D EDIT “An incoherent, strange, plotless, poorly structured mess that has to be seen to really be believed.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review The Elephant Man (1980) 91% C+ EDIT “Lynch shows a weakness in this film that isn't present in just about any of his others: Sentimentality.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review Eraserhead (1977) 87% A+ EDIT “The most terrifying film ever made.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 21, 2014 Full Review
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