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Dennis Perkins

Dennis Perkins's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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B+ EDIT “Dave Chappelle is back for real.” – AV Club Nov 16, 2021 Full Review A EDIT “Chappelle is as relaxed and confident as he's ever been.” – AV Club Nov 16, 2021 Full Review All the Way (2016) 85% B- EDIT “The film's exhumation of a more-relevant-than-ever social and political fight makes All The Way seem cannier than it is.” – AV Club Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Coastal Elites (2020) 57% B EDIT “Callie's wine-flavored tale of the attempts of performatively attentive school acquaintance Ivanka to charm the activist into joining her father's side is, in Rae's hands, riveting, ultimately chilling stuff.” – AV Club Sep 10, 2020 Full Review Marc Maron: End Times Fun (2020) 71% B+ EDIT “End Times Fun is largely static, with performer and director aware that watching Maron's mind whirr while his body stays largely hunched on a center-stage stool is what people are there to see.” – AV Club Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Pete Davidson: Alive From New York (2020) 40% C+ EDIT “Alive From New York shows a comedian who's far too committed to the character of a guy from Staten Island for whom such a leap is far too much effort.” – AV Club Feb 25, 2020 Full Review Rob Delaney: Jackie (2020) B EDIT “Delaney's is a paradoxically cozy misanthropy, gleeful in tearing down outright assholes while lumping himself into his overriding assumption of failure and embarrassment.” – AV Club Jan 9, 2020 Full Review Jim Gaffigan: Quality Time (2019) 100% B EDIT “If that smacks suspiciously of brand solidification after the near career-derailment Jeannie's illness temporarily brought about, Quality Time is at least quality old-school Gaffigan.” – AV Club Aug 16, 2019 Full Review A- EDIT “Spatial is signature Watts, meaning it's alternately exhilarating, silly, exhausting, and transcendent.” – AV Club Aug 6, 2019 Full Review Michael Che Matters (2016) 100% B+ EDIT “Even when some material isn't as strong-his biblical jokes run too long without being particularly original-Che can work a crowd.” – AV Club Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017) 78% EDIT “Homecoming King triumphs by transforming a seemingly intractable dilemma into thoroughly, hilariously human comedy.” – AV Club Jul 16, 2019 Full Review Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, 60 (2016) C EDIT “What keeps Carvey's set coasting along is Carvey himself, his enthusiastic embodiment of characters making up for the fact that those characters don't have much meat on their bones.” – AV Club Jul 15, 2019 Full Review Colin Quinn: The New York Story (2016) B EDIT “Quinn's grousing is more an affectionately exasperated head tilt than the full-on assaults that other comics launch against "PC culture."” – AV Club Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Jerry Before Seinfeld (2017) 94% B EDIT “Seinfeld works the cramped stage of his old haunt with not only the effortless and inevitable confidence of the old pro and cultural touchstone he is, but with an enthusiasm belying any hint of obligation.” – AV Club Jul 11, 2019 Full Review Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (2016) 86% A- EDIT “Throughout, both Oswalt's more angry, passionate pieces and his observational material are uniformly sharp and confident.” – AV Club Jul 9, 2019 Full Review David Cross: Making America Great Again (2016) 71% B+ EDIT “Alternating angrily articulate ranting with writerly, well-crafted punchlines, Cross works his audience over relentlessly.” – AV Club Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Hannibal Buress: Comedy Camisado (2016) 100% A- EDIT “Buress' new Netflix special sees the comic run through his hour-plus set with wily ease.” – AV Club Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable (2018) 92% B- EDIT “After all this time away from the stage, Relatable [is] a promising new beginning for an old pro.” – AV Club Dec 18, 2018 Full Review Demetri Martin: The Overthinker (2018) C+ EDIT “Even tarting up his act with music, a sketch pad, and, here, running snatches of inner monologue, a Demetri Martin set plays out in pleasantly amusing but ultimately pretty forgettable fashion.” – AV Club Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Jim Gaffigan: Noble Ape (2018) 100% B EDIT “Noble Ape shows how Gaffigan's onstage persona can weather all storms and come out still getting the same laughs.” – AV Club Jul 13, 2018 Full Review John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (2018) 100% A- EDIT “For a guy whose eagerness to both please and admit his own lack of personal authority is so central to his act, politics would appear to be a tricky tonal minefield to navigate. But Mulaney's inevitable Trump material is brilliantly crafted.” – AV Club May 2, 2018 Full Review Chris Rock: Tamborine (2018) 100% B EDIT “[Tamborine] sees Rock addressing his self-selected smaller audience with both less volume and more intimacy.” – AV Club Feb 14, 2018 Full Review Patton Oswalt: Annihilation (2017) 100% A EDIT “Annihilation is courageous most as evidence of a master comedian choosing to continue to think, even when thought is the enemy.” – AV Club Oct 26, 2017 Full Review House of Darkness (2016) D EDIT “House Of Darkness plays like a horror movie told secondhand by people who don't like or understand horror movies.” – AV Club Apr 15, 2016 Full Review
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