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David Zurawik

David Zurawik's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Stephen King's It (1990) 68% EDIT “It is highly entertaining and deep.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) 10% EDIT “If this were meant to be a parody of The Exorcist, it would be great stuff. Unfortunately, it looks like producer-director John Boorman is trying to be serious.” – Detroit Free Press Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Audible (2021) 100% EDIT “Seeing through the eyes of members of a different culture is the lofty goal of ethnography, and Audible achieves it -- in only 38 minutes running time.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 16, 2021 Full Review Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) 99% EDIT “It's a blessing that the Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed... It's a double blessing that they were discovered and wound up in the directorial hands of someone as culturally astute, sensitive, skilled and visionary as Thompson.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 2, 2021 Full Review Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021) EDIT “The visuals at the start of the film skillfully link the events of 1921 to deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement officers today.” – Baltimore Sun May 31, 2021 Full Review The Dissident (2020) 96% EDIT “As powerful as the film's account of Khashoggi's death is, the real energy of this documentary comes from the story line of a disciple of Khashoggi's, Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudi dissident forced to flee his country and seek asylum in Montreal.” – Baltimore Sun Mar 6, 2021 Full Review The Friendliest Town (2019) EDIT “This is a film steeped in social justice, empowerment and the promise of societal change.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 20, 2021 Full Review Elizabeth is Missing (2019) 93% EDIT “If this isn't TV's dramatic performance of the year, it is close enough for me.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 4, 2021 Full Review City Hall (2020) 98% EDIT “As down on government as you might be feeling these days, City Hall will make you believe in the need and value of public service to this democracy.” – Baltimore Sun Dec 18, 2020 Full Review Between the World and Me (2020) 95% EDIT “For all the good work that TV has done in recent months on Black life, I can think of nothing that offers the depth, insight and power of this HBO effort. It is not to be missed in this year of racial reckoning.” – Baltimore Sun Nov 17, 2020 Full Review All the Way (2016) 85% EDIT “Take this to the bank: Cranston will win the Emmy for outstanding lead performance in a TV movie or miniseries hands down this fall. I don't care who does what later this year; it won't top Cranston's LBJ.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Blood on the Wall (2020) EDIT “A very hard and complicated story to tell. But Junger and Quested are more than up to challenge in Blood on the Wall.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 2, 2020 Full Review Surge (2020) EDIT “I preferred learning in Surge about these three lesser-known candidates and getting a concrete, on-the-ground sense of what campaigning for a seat in Congress was like for these newcomers.” – Baltimore Sun Sep 16, 2020 Full Review The Weight of Gold (2020) 94% EDIT “Phelps and HBO pleasantly surprised me with The Weight of Gold... The athletes are candid, personal and, in some cases, in considerable pain as they talk about their struggles.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Hamilton (2020) 98% EDIT “I believe Miranda is our William Shakespeare and that his words are every bit as elevated, poetic and culturally charged as the iambic pentameter that has delighted and enlightened human beings since the Elizabethan age.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 6, 2020 Full Review Cinema Verite (2011) 61% EDIT “This is one of those productions that reminds you what a special place HBO holds in our culture as TV that makes you think.” – Baltimore Sun Jun 8, 2020 Full Review Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (2020) 35% EDIT “Integrity is not a word I would use in connection with this film. I think some of its messages are not just one-sided; they are dangerous in the way they add to the deep political divide plaguing this nation.” – Baltimore Sun May 15, 2020 Full Review The Rat Pack (1998) 57% EDIT “It's not a home-run swing, but it reaches extra bases for what it has to say about a certain male swagger that's been lost and how upward mobility will take you only as far as the real powers say you can go.” – Baltimore Sun Apr 29, 2020 Full Review Sometimes They Come Back (1991) 67% EDIT “This is Grade "B" Stephen King with nothing-special special effects. There is only one shocking monster-face and no creepy-crawlies.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 15, 2020 Full Review Stephen King's 'The Langoliers' (1995) 48% EDIT “It would take a great dramatic performance by [Bronson] Pinchot for the film to have any chance of working. He doesn't deliver.” – Baltimore Sun Jan 15, 2020 Full Review Jane Austen's Emma (1996) 89% EDIT “2 1/2 hours of that [Kate] Beckinsale smirk is just too, too much of a bad thing.” – Baltimore Sun Nov 19, 2019 Full Review Prayers for Bobby (2009) 73% 3.5/4 EDIT “Weaver is superb -- the depth and authenticity of her performance are unusual, not to say unheard of in a Lifetime movie. This is not a perfect movie, nor even a great one, but there are moments in it of absolute transcendency.” – Baltimore Sun Oct 3, 2019 Full Review Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker (1999) 86% EDIT “[Chris Rock] struts and frets his hour on the stage in black leather, walking back and forth, back and forth, yelling at the audience. This is the comedian as rap performer, not artist.” – Baltimore Sun Aug 2, 2019 Full Review Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (2009) 60% EDIT “It offered me something I could not find anywhere else in popular culture -- closure to the eight-year presidency of George W Bush.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 31, 2019 Full Review Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy Of A Terrorist (2019) 86% EDIT “Part high-tech manhunt and part brutal captivity narrative, "Unmasking Jihadi John: The Anatomy of a Terrorist" is one documentary unlikely to leave anyone in its viewing audience bored.” – Baltimore Sun Jul 26, 2019 Full Review
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