Erin Blackwell
Erin Blackwell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Bay Area Reporter
Movies reviews only
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Go Fish (1994) |
Go Fish is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful film. If you don't believe me, throw this paper down and go see for yourself. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Aug 25, 2021
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The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) |
I'd recommend seeing anything Constance Talmadge is in because she's totally nuts, I mean she's a subtle comic genius who transcends gender, as geniuses will. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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The Man Who Laughs (1928) |
...instantly breathtaking... - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 17, 2020
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Zero Days (2016) |
Well-researched, meticulously edited, densely informative, Zero Days is utterly riveting as visual display and thoroughly mind-boggling as techno-military history. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Ixcanul (2015) |
The young woman, whose coming-of-age story this is, responds limply to every force she comes in contact with. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 10, 2020
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Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016) |
This story is so trippy it could use some clarity. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste (2014) |
A thrilling new documentary. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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The Battle of Algiers (1966) |
A stirring reminder that all creatures crave liberty, administered by themselves. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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We Are X (2016) |
Fascinating for Japanophiles. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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National Bird (2016) |
Director Sonia Kennebeck has made a masterpiece. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Seasons (2015) |
For 80 minutes we are submerged in a sort of home movie, shot to the highest professional standard, of animals living their lives. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Old Stone (2016) |
Its linear plot proceeds step by obvious step, following an anti-hero who is alone in possessing any twinkle of subjectivity. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Theo Who Lived (2016) |
David Schisgall has directed this film with grace and eloquence, letting Theo tell it his way, in a site-specific reenactment that is itself a bit adventurous. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) (2015) |
At an hour and 50 minutes, Videofilia winds up looking like a self-indulgent exercise in editing across visual platforms that ultimately merge in a sloppy psychedelic soup of porn-fueled machismo undercutting any claim to originality. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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Saving Banksy (2017) |
Director Colin M. Day, while dutifully illustrating his subject, fails to have a point of view. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 09, 2020
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The Lure (2015) |
The concept is delightful, and the realization a first-rate labor of love, talent, and artistic skill, untrammelled by big budget. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Frantz (2016) |
These mood swings make this costume drama very much of the moment. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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I, Olga Hepnarová (2016) |
We are held at arm's length, in a literal-minded rendering of alienation that remains tentative and cautious where its anti-heroine was over-the-top monstrous. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Cézanne and I (2016) |
Alas, Paul Cezanne and his friend Emile Zola, the titular "Me," are not so well-served by director Daniele Thompson. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Finding Oscar (2016) |
Producer-director Ryan Suffern threw his Finding Oscar into the Hollywood mangle with predictable results. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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A Quiet Passion (2016) |
To say A Quiet Passion lasts two hours is to give the reader no clue as to the mind-numbing parade of disconnected scenes that stretches from school years through indistinguishable family sit-downs and walk-abouts and posings. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Prevenge (2016) |
[Alice Lowe's] first feature as a director is brilliant in a Jennifer Saunders way, mordant, skillful, outrageous, and true. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia (2016) |
The movie is not a disinterested or critical history, but a backgrounder for investors and other global mercenaries. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Desierto - Border Sniper (2015) |
There's no story here, only a one-sided shoot-em-up as callous as a video game. Hollywood has always been cynical, but Desierto distinguishes itself by its indifference to the dilemma it depicts. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Churchill (2017) |
Churchill creates, as did the man himself in his lifetime, the illusion of stability, even at the height of crisis. This alone is worth the price of admission. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Letters From Baghdad (2016) |
Directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Kayenbuehl have meticulously crafted an overly cautious but much-needed corrective to USA's disastrous, ongoing campaign of oil-based misinformation. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Manifesto (2015) |
As a concept this may please some art students, but as entertainment it's a dud. Exactly why boredom sets in early has something to do with the difference between visual and dramatic art. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Moka (2016) |
If the anti-climax was designed to confound my thirst for vengeance, it succeeded. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 08, 2020
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Human Flow (2017) |
[The refugees'] situation is extreme, the risks dire, and they're real people. Was it obscene to parade them for my consumption, or was my irritation at his constantly inserting himself into the frame like Hitchcock beside the point? - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 04, 2020
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Rat Film (2016) |
[Director Theo Anthony's] approach is formal, poetic, and associative, but ultimately thin, strained, and incoherent. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 04, 2020
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The Square (2017) |
Beautifully choreographed and... tweaked but scathingly true to life. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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My Friend Dahmer (2017) |
This superficial treatment of an American tragedy may pass as a condemnation of superficial American culture, but the opportunity to make a film as rivetingly creepy-compassionate as the comic has been blown. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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The Divine Order (2017) |
Divine Order works as a dream. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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Voyeur (2017) |
This isn't the first documentary made by people without the journalist gene, but their lack of initiative is appalling. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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Darkest Hour (2017) |
Make-up does not a performance make, as is proved by Darkest Hour. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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I, Tonya (2017) |
Director Craig Gillespie has reinvented the biopic, a notoriously dreary genre, by striking a hair-trigger balance between trauma and parody, mockumentary and melodrama, demolishing the fourth wall. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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Happy End (2017) |
If you're looking for timeless analysis of the ludicrous resilience of the ruling class, see Buñuel's deliciously surreal Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 03, 2020
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The Peacemaker (2016) |
After 60 minutes, Peacemaker loses traction and shifts into a maudlin, slow-moving, and perverse unraveling of the man and his self-ordained mission. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Gemini (2017) |
No aesthetic pleasures, however, could mask the wimpiness of the denouement's reliance on an old Agatha Christie trick, delivered to the disappointed viewer with zero emotional payoff. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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The Seagull (2018) |
If everyone played with [Elizabeth Moss'] brio and depth, if the characters weren't reduced to bare outlines, and if the film itself were less self-conscious about taking up people's time... Chekhov would be better served. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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(undefined) |
I was laughing out loud at the comedy, the tragedy, and the director's self-satire. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Mrs. Hyde (2017) |
Although Mrs. Hyde leaves a lot to be desired, its storytelling wobbly, not for an instant did I feel that Huppert, now 65, was repeating herself. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Nancy (2018) |
These characters never progress beyond a thumbnail sketch as Choe tippy-toes around the sinkhole that is Nancy's arrival. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Man Made (2018) |
A slick, upbeat documentary about bodybuilders transitioning or transitioned to male. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018) |
If you're a free spirit, you'll enjoy this spirited backward glance at a great British designer, provocateur, businesswoman, whose smash-the-box approach continues to inspire in these dull gray days of our despair. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf (2017) |
This is a missed opportunity to raise consciousness about the nature of plants in general and a new philosophy of gardening in particular. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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The Ladies Almanack (2017) |
Sometimes the point of a film is to relish the opportunities such a project affords to gad about Paris and rub elbows with Eileen Myles, Hélène Cixous, Terry Castle, Guinevere Turner, Deborah Bright, and other lesser-known queers. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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The Misandrists (2017) |
I feel like I've just been dragged by the hair backwards through my radical feminist past and seduced into enjoying the ride. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 01, 2020
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Dark Money (2018) |
Director Kimberly Reed has made one of the most important films in years. - Bay Area Reporter
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| Posted Jun 01, 2020
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