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Darren Franich
Darren Franich's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Entertainment Weekly
Movies reviews only
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Mad God (2021) |
If you're any kind of sicko like me, this is an absolute treat. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) |
There's a secret blandness behind the frantic insider gags. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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Deep Water (2022) |
Deep Water isn't really thrilling or erotic, but it accomplishes a kind of diagonal camp sincerity, plummeting its glamorous characters into ever-tawdrier situations. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 17, 2022
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Vivo (2021) |
Throughout, Miranda makes a valid attempt to merge mambo, hip-hop, and a bit of EDM with his trademark leafblower-of-lyricism flow. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 04, 2021
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F9 The Fast Saga (2021) |
The title doesn't lie. F9 isn't bad, and it's not good. It's just fnine. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 22, 2021
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Army Of The Dead (2021) |
Army of the Dead grills its cheese to a crisp, but Bautista adds some healthy flavor. His headshots never miss your heart. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 21, 2021
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Nobody (2021) |
A rather chilly festival of carnage, too rigid to ever really spark to life. It's wickless. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 23, 2021
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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) |
This cut is no worse than the theatrical edition, but it sure is longer. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 15, 2021
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Saint Maud (2019) |
Saint Maud is a remarkable feature debut for Glass, who conjures an intimate mood of psychological horror before veering assuredly into a more extreme freakout. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 29, 2021
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020) |
Howard thinks he's making an inspirational tale. He doesn't realize it's an American horror story. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 28, 2020
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An American Pickle (2020) |
Things go south anytime humans have to speak. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 04, 2020
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The Hunt (2020) |
It's a complicated form of 2016 catharsis, condemning recognizable pastiches of the left and the right. And yet, there's a playful terror in its portrayal of people getting trapped by silly things they type. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 11, 2020
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) |
Rise of the Skywalker isn't an ending, a sequel, a reboot, or a remix. It's a zombie. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 18, 2019
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A Hidden Life (2019) |
A Hidden Life is another Terrence Malick nature poem, transforming a true tale of conscientious objection into a ravishing portrait of goodness in a time of tyranny. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 12, 2019
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Uncut Gems (2019) |
Sandler's never been better, really, balancing speedwalking desperation and fast-talking salesmanship with sorrow and glee. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 10, 2019
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Queen & Slim (2019) |
This haphazard film is a ride, a romantic provocation torn between cultural strife and individual striving. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 25, 2019
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Charlie's Angels (2019) |
Kristen Stewart sounds unleashed with every line reading, teasing the whole movie toward throwaway charm. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 12, 2019
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The Little Mermaid Live! (2019) |
It felt like watching The Little Mermaid with regular interruptions for commercials and karaoke. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 06, 2019
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Doctor Sleep (2019) |
Doctor Sleep aims for redemption - it's Feel-Good Horror - but the scary hotel is just a scary hotel now. And not even so scary, when you've seen it all before. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 30, 2019
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) |
This is another unsteady piece of franchise recycling, never really deciding whether it's continuing the story of familiar icons or launching a new adventure. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 22, 2019
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) |
El Camino is a playful project, very fun, not always necessary. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 11, 2019
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Freaky Friday (2018) |
[Cozi] Zuelhsdorff and [Bridget] Blickenstaff give good age-crossed performances, but the tone around them is all over the place. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 18, 2019
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) |
I wound up liking Far From Home more than any Spider-Man film this decade. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 27, 2019
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Yesterday (2019) |
I appreciated the songbook quality of Yesterday, and found something profoundly disquieting in its drugless, sexless version of the Beatles. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 27, 2019
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Annabelle Comes Home (2019) |
You worry this franchise machinery is getting creaky from overuse, like a beloved old chair that can now only hold the weight of one tiny doll. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 24, 2019
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Toy Story 4 (2019) |
It took Pixar decades of technological innovation, but they finally made a beautiful piece of trash. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 13, 2019
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Men in Black: International (2019) |
International is better than Men in Black II and worse than Men in Black III, and they're all bad, so erase this sentence from your memory. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 12, 2019
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Deadwood: The Movie (2019) |
This movie is a gift, and a fond farewell. I love Milch's writing, his loquacious waterfall. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 03, 2019
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Hellboy (2019) |
Look, I'm glad expensive movies are R-rated again. But this is the doofiest kind of maturity: boring CGI bloodsprays, F-bombs galore. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 10, 2019
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Captain Marvel (2019) |
The movie's treatment of its source material is clever. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 05, 2019
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019) |
A better version of this movie would've kept its mind on the game. Better title: Rollerblade Runner. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Feb 01, 2019
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Rent Live (2019) |
Lots to enjoy - and yet, there was something a bit remote about this Rent. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |
Spider-Verse has plenty of small delights, and it looks unique. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 28, 2018
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) |
Too many realms, not enough nutcracker. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 01, 2018
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Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018) |
This is one of those Marvel products peddling self-aware detachment as a defining narrative strategy...It feels less like a feature film than a meme somebody made about an Ant-Man trailer. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 27, 2018
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) |
So Day of the Soldado is our generation's Rambo: First Blood, Part 2, a half-mad sequel transforming a traumatized political parable into a fantasy of all-American murder gods. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 21, 2018
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Incredibles 2 (2018) |
Don't let the dazzle fool you. Bird's made the weirdest Pixar movie ever, revolutionary and retro, an anti-authoritarian ode to good parenting. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jun 11, 2018
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A Wrinkle in Time (2018) |
Depressingly, A Wrinkle in Time has less in common with its spiky protagonist than her plastic doppelganger, flattened into familiar wonders, a sincere attempt at empowerment crushed into preachy dullness. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Mar 07, 2018
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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) |
Ten years and three films deep, the loose trilogy is a case study in marketing, a portrait of how the noise around a franchise starts to matter more than the movies that form the franchise. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Feb 07, 2018
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A Christmas Story Live! (2017) |
If this live musical craze continues, can I request a follow-up from this same creative team? - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Dec 18, 2017
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017) |
It's not quite good, and in some ways the film's point is rather loathsome, but it's also an enthralling look at the artistic process - and, maybe accidentally, a bleak vision of the power and privilege of celebrity. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Nov 17, 2017
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Jigsaw (2017) |
Seven years after Saw 3D, you would've expected a back-to-basics approach, but Jigsaw doubles down on the franchise's twisty storytelling. It feels too long, and it's only 90 minutes. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Oct 28, 2017
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Gerald's Game (2017) |
When it works, it's because of Gugino, the rare performer who can suggest victimized despair and empowered triumph. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 29, 2017
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Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017) |
There's a noirish glamour ... Conversely, there are moments of raw and casual power. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Sep 22, 2017
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The Villainess (2017) |
The setpieces in The Villainess never lose that initial vibrant you-are-there dexterity. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 23, 2017
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What Happened to Monday (2017) |
[Rapace] gives seven performances; at least four are good. It's an audition for smarter roles than Hollywood's been giving her, maybe. Or maybe it's a wigstore-raiding lark. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 17, 2017
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The Dark Tower (2017) |
Bad dialogue, lame plot, fine. The bigger issue: How could a film with Elba and McConaughey have so little swagger? - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Aug 03, 2017
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The Emoji Movie (2017) |
There's a justifiable self-loathing running through The Emoji Movie, a fragile attempt to (sigh) deconstruct the meaning of Emojis while also (sigh) demonstrating the profound possibility that Emojis are the language of the future. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Jul 28, 2017
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The Wizard of Lies (2017) |
The Wizard of Lies is less convincingly about Bernie Madoff than it is about the struggle to understand Bernie Madoff: The search for why and how, by his family and his victims and the system, maybe even the man himself. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted May 18, 2017
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Sleight (2016) |
It ... becomes a weirdly expository melodrama. - Entertainment Weekly
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| Posted Apr 27, 2017
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