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Dana Schwartz

Dana Schwartz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Hole in the Ground (2019) 83% B- EDIT “The Hole in the Ground never seeks to differentiate itself from the established horror movie aesthetic: we get creepy jangling lullaby music, a decrepitly old hooded women mumbling to herself ominously, bare feet on creaking wooden floors, broken mirrors.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 1, 2019 Full Review Isn't It Romantic (2019) 70% B+ EDIT “Isn't It Romantic pulls off a sweet sleight-of-hand trick as a rom-com-within-a-rom-com, mocking all of the classic rom-com tropes while still letting us indulge in them.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 12, 2019 Full Review What Men Want (2019) 41% C+ EDIT “It delivers exactly what you expect, in exactly the way you expect. If you're looking to save some cash, it might be worth it to just watch the trailer five times in a row and call it a night.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2019 Full Review The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) 90% B EDIT “The script is good-natured and action-packed and attempts to delve into thematic territory beyond what might be normally expected from a kid's movie.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 22, 2019 Full Review Holmes & Watson (2018) 10% D+ EDIT “If you choose to watch this movie, you'll be treated to an hour and a half of different versions of the same gag: what if [insert modern thing] somehow existed in Victorian times!?” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 26, 2018 Full Review All Is True (2018) 73% B EDIT “Slowly, as the thematic center of the film begins to take shape, so does Branagh's character - and in those moments the audience is treated to what amounts to nothing short of a Christmas gift for any Anglophile or Shakespeare lover.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 21, 2018 Full Review The World Before Your Feet (2018) 100% A- EDIT “Like the apostles who followed Forrest Grump as he ran cross country, one could find Buddhist wisdom or metaphorical meaning in Green's work, even if it's not necessarily there.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 21, 2018 Full Review The Christmas Chronicles (2018) 67% B EDIT “Make some cocoa for the family, and spike yours if you have to, but remember what the holiday is about: watching mediocre, predictable movies with the people you love.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 20, 2018 Full Review The Clovehitch Killer (2018) 79% B+ EDIT “Unlike so many recent horror movies, The Clovehitch Killer is patient with its thrills, almost excruciatingly so.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 16, 2018 Full Review Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) 88% B+ EDIT “Ambitious, beautifully animated, and clever to a fault, Ralph Breaks the Internet breaks free of the pitfalls of most sequels by never forgoing heart for the sake of bigger franchise pyrotechnics.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 14, 2018 Full Review Here and Now (Blue Night) (2018) 23% C EDIT “For most of the film, Parker's Vivienne is bland and forgettable.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 7, 2018 Full Review Johnny English Strikes Again (2018) 37% D EDIT “Every gag in this movie has already been done before, and better, presumably by one or both of the earlier Johnny English films.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 26, 2018 Full Review Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) 48% C+ EDIT “The cinematic equivalent of an Ikea dresser put together in a rush. It's slightly askew, and there's a gap between drawers, but it'll still hold your T-shirts.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 11, 2018 Full Review Life Itself (2018) 13% C EDIT “What the viewer is left with... is the curious sensation of having just watched a ninety-minute prologue to something that they're no longer interested in.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 20, 2018 Full Review Peppermint (2018) 13% D+ EDIT “Whatever moments of fun there are watching Garner infallibly tear through the ranks of the drug gang are canceled out by the movie's lack of creativity and imagination.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2018 Full Review Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018) 58% B EDIT “And so even if you've seen it all before, Sierra Burgess will still satisfy your end-of-summer sweet tooth.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 6, 2018 Full Review The Nun (2018) 24% B EDIT “The Nun comes closest to its ideal form of go-to midnight-movie, the fun younger cousin of the Conjuring movies with less build-up but more of the money shots you'll come to a theater to see.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 5, 2018 Full Review The Darkest Minds (2018) 15% D+ EDIT “What we're left with is a Mad-Libs version of a dystopian YA adaptation done by someone who saw half of an X-Men movie on TV once, with no depth, no new ideas, and no point.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 3, 2018 Full Review Teen Titans GO! to the Movies (2018) 92% B+ EDIT “The meta jokes flow like Mountain Dew - this is a rollicking, goofy superhero send-up that never overstays its welcome...” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 27, 2018 Full Review Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) 77% B- EDIT “Although Van Sant uses humor to avoid the pitfalls of a schmaltzy Lifetime movie recovery story, he still seems afraid to confront Callahan as an artist, and a person, in any meaningful way.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 13, 2018 Full Review The First Purge (2018) 55% C+ EDIT “For the first two-thirds or so of the movie, the scares are lacking.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 5, 2018 Full Review Damsel (2018) 67% A- EDIT “The film is unpredictable and bizarre, stunningly beautiful and weird in the best ways...” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 18, 2018 Full Review Set It Up (2018) 92% B EDIT “The movie achieves the highest honor for a streaming romantic comedy, which is that it's perfect to watch while eating takeout Chinese food on your couch and also drinking wine that has been in your fridge too long.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 14, 2018 Full Review Nancy (2018) 86% B+ EDIT “Much like a play, it forces you to pay attention to the nuances of each of the actors' (very well-done) performances, to sit with the characters quietly as if in a sitting room too formal to do much else.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 5, 2018 Full Review John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018) 100% EDIT “If you don't know who John Mulaney is yet, it's time for you to catch the heck up.” – Entertainment Weekly May 22, 2018 Full Review
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