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CJ Johnson

Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:

CJ has been a Tomatometer-approved critic since November 2019. He is the resident film and television critic for ABC Radio (Australia?s) flagship national night-time radio show The Nightlife. His website Film Mafia has been one of Australia?s most popular film review sites since launching in 2008.

Official Website:

http://www.abc.net.au/nightlife/reviews/

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Severance: Season 1 (2022) 97% EDIT “Artfully framed, spookily scored, and acted with deadpan wit.” – Film Mafia Feb 21, 2022 Full Review The Beatles: Get Back: Season 1 (2021) 93% 5/5 EDIT “Monumental, the Mona Lisa of rock documentaries, a staggering, towering technical and artistic achievement.” – Film Mafia Dec 1, 2021 Full Review Foundation: Season 1 (2021) 72% EDIT “Sometimes the mood is deliberately lightened, clearly to aid accessibility, and when it is, the tone clashes jarringly ... [but] it feels mostly respectful to Asimov's tone and story, which may make it good for the fans and incomprehensible to [others].” – Film Mafia Sep 26, 2021 Full Review Hacks: Season 1 (2021) 100% EDIT “The depiction of a ludicrously lavish Las Vegas lifestyle is more than half the fun.” – Film Mafia Sep 26, 2021 Full Review Only Murders in the Building: Season 1 (2021) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “Watching Martin and Short together is a treat, and the milieu is delicious.” – Film Mafia Sep 26, 2021 Full Review This Way Up: Season 1 (2019) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “The scenes between Bea and Horgan - they've played sisters before, on the BBC series Dead Boss - sparkle with natural affection and sharp wit.” – Film Mafia Aug 4, 2021 Full Review The White Lotus: Season 1 (2021) 90% 4/5 EDIT “Watching Bartlett as Armond navigate their demands is often very, very funny; it's a sublime performance, playing against an ensemble of famous and instantly recognisable faces.” – Film Mafia Aug 4, 2021 Full Review Blindspotting: Season 1 (2021) 100% 2.5/5 EDIT “Back in the day, they'd call this a 'spin-off', giving a minor character their own show with occasional drop-ins from the original leads to remind viewers why they're there ... thus far, it's touch and go.” – Film Mafia Jun 19, 2021 Full Review Physical: Season 1 (2021) 64% 3.5/5 EDIT “There is a lot of good work going on around her - the production design is excellent - but so far, the singular sensation of the show is Byrne's performance. She's truly ready for her close-up: as a vehicle for her, this is as good as anything.” – Film Mafia Jun 19, 2021 Full Review Girls5eva: Season 1 (2021) 98% 3.5/5 EDIT “This show is one thing and one thing only, escapism, and it works as such.” – Film Mafia May 25, 2021 Full Review It's a Sin: Season 1 (2021) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The script, the milieu and the themes of the show add up to an undeniably addictive, entertaining and deeply important package.” – Film Mafia Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 5 (2020) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “My third favourite is a charming hour-long depiction of a seminal year or so in McQueen's own childhood, when he got shunted off to a school for "special needs" students. Touching, warm and possessing the most humour of the five.” – Film Mafia Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 4 (2020) 96% 3/5 EDIT “The least satisfying entry.” – Film Mafia Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 3 (2020) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Excellent central performance from John Boyega. My fourth favourite.” – Film Mafia Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 2 (2020) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The best one ... The most artful of the five, bordering on experimental, it's joyous, enthralling and magical. This is the one you'll watch twice.” – Film Mafia Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Small Axe: Season 1 (2020) 99% 3.5/5 EDIT “The first in the series and the second best ... a true eye-opener.” – Film Mafia Jan 13, 2021 Full Review Les sauvages: Season 1 (2019) 3.5/5 EDIT “A big, loud, brash, expensive, turbo-charged political thriller, the show is desperate for your attention, and for the most part earns it.” – Film Mafia Dec 27, 2020 Full Review The Flight Attendant: Season 1 (2020) 97% 3/5 EDIT “If Alfred Hitchcock had created a spin-off series for Samantha from Sex and the City it might have been this.” – Film Mafia Dec 27, 2020 Full Review The Queen's Gambit: Season 1 (2020) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “It's unsubtle, obvious, on-the-nose. But it's also compelling. Taylor-Joy is endlessly watchable, and the casting is really fun: every character has a fascinating face. And then there's the chess, treated seriously, with integrity, with respect.” – Film Mafia Nov 3, 2020 Full Review I May Destroy You: Season 1 (2020) 98% EDIT “Angry, vibrant, exhilarating, surprising and funny ... It's a story [that comes] not easily, but with righteous passion and undeniable integrity, in blood, sweat and tears.” – Film Mafia Sep 16, 2020 Full Review The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty: Season 1 (2020) 80% EDIT “Beyond its careful and considered presentation of the facts, which are in themselves (terrifyingly) entertaining, the show features on-camera interviews with a lot of very senior players ... It's BBC 2, and nothing about it is lurid or sensational.” – Film Mafia Sep 11, 2020 Full Review Love Fraud: Season 1 (2020) 92% EDIT “[Like] all these shows, from Making a Murderer on, [Love Fraud isn't] really about the crimes: [it's] about America, and the strange things taken for granted there that play like absurd fiction everywhere else.” – Film Mafia Sep 4, 2020 Full Review Lovecraft Country: Season 1 (2020) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “The very concept itself is more terrifying than anything that plays on screen, but the episode is visceral, exciting and polished, and the three leads display an easygoing and inviting chemistry.” – Film Mafia Aug 24, 2020 Full Review The Great: Season 1 (2020) 90% 4.5/5 EDIT “This is TV at its finest, boldest, and most thrillingly auteurist.” – Film Mafia May 29, 2020 Full Review The Clinton Affair: Season 1 (2018) 75% 3.5/5 EDIT “Comprehensive, revealing and riveting, and, watched in our current era, operates on multiple levels.” – Film Mafia May 21, 2020 Full Review
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