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Dayne Linford

Dayne Linford's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Alice (2022) 29% EDIT “As a film bringing all these elements together into one succinct piece that carries both the weight of its concept and the panache of its stylistic forebears, it falls short.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 17, 2022 Full Review Needle in a Timestack (2021) 38% EDIT “Ultimately, Needle in a Timestack is only occasionally rewarding.” – Battleship Pretension Oct 25, 2021 Full Review Cryptozoo (2021) 71% EDIT “Though imaginative, often beautifully striking, the ambitions of the film's aims undercut themselves.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 22, 2021 Full Review The Meaning of Hitler (2020) 81% EDIT “It's a necessary, immediate rumination in our very loud age, calling us to a quiet recompense with our historical moment and its antecedents, before we call ourselves to be witnesses, if not participants in the next attempt at national purity.” – Battleship Pretension Aug 17, 2021 Full Review The Sleepless Unrest (2021) EDIT “It's just all so disappointing, and you're left wondering if they're just as thoroughly bored with it all as you are.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The Birthday Cake (2021) 23% EDIT “...lacking a strong agent to carry us through his world, we ping pong between derivative set-ups portrayed capably, but utterly lacking insight and emotional heft.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 18, 2021 Full Review Monuments (2020) 78% EDIT “Despite the talent supporting it, Monuments ends up being one of a million slight indie films about appreciating life and what you have, learning to let go, what's really valuable, and on and on deep into the dustbin of clichéd moral takeaways.” – Battleship Pretension Jun 15, 2021 Full Review The Djinn (2021) 86% EDIT “The directors succeed best in building a visual thematic framework, which, while blunt, does pay off nicely in the last scene.” – Battleship Pretension May 30, 2021 Full Review Assault on VA-33 (2021) EDIT “It is just another entry in the military glorification canon, offering nothing else and little enough of that.” – Battleship Pretension Apr 24, 2021 Full Review Fruitvale Station (2013) 94% EDIT “Ultimately, Fruitvale Station is a great film because it sticks to a single core concept - the portrayal of a single life, the mundane, difficult, and sublime nature of which was lost in the media controversy and the ensuing riots.” – Battleship Pretension Feb 25, 2021 Full Review The Dead Lands (2014) 68% EDIT “The Dead Lands is a solid action movie of the straightforward type we don't often see anymore, a rather simple revenge plotline enlivened by a sense of place and culture lacking in your standard action fare.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 20, 2021 Full Review Rebels of the Neon God (1993) 100% EDIT “Rebels of the Neon God is a very strong, textured, multilayered debut from a gifted filmmaker.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 20, 2021 Full Review Forbidden Games (1952) 100% EDIT “Forbidden Games is a truly stunning work, filled with a gentle humor that suddenly catches in your throat, and an insightful, penetrating gaze that is, nonetheless, generous.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 14, 2021 Full Review The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (2014) 74% EDIT “Distant, admiring, by the numbers, and completely devoid of character.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 14, 2021 Full Review The Amina Profile (2015) 89% EDIT “Amina is documentary filmmaking of the highest sort, an opportunity to expand the horizons of and provoke response from the viewer through the generous and honest reflections of the participants.” – Battleship Pretension Jan 14, 2021 Full Review
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