Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
The Daily Dot
Movies reviews only
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Adding 50 minutes of new material to the 1989 Disney classic, this live-action remake still feels like a pale imitation, exchanging stylish animation for uncanny CGI and poorly-shot musical numbers. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
The latest GotG team-up delivers plenty of visual spectacle and spacefaring hijinks, but the script leaves much to be desired. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 03, 2023
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Ghosted (2023) |
Despite the A-list casting, Ghosted painfully bland, failing to deliver any laughs or make us care about the central romance. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Renfield (2023) |
It’s easy viewing, which isn’t something you can say of many films involving this much gore and severed limbs. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Apr 12, 2023
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Attachment (2022) |
Rooted in Jewish folklore, this queer horror-comedy sees a woman unexpectedly move in with her girlfriend’s mother – an eccentric and overbearing figure who seems oddly obsessed with supernatural threats. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Apr 06, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
This hilarious and intricately-plotted ‘Knives Out’ sequel is just as fun as the original —even if some of the characters and social satire don’t pack quite the same punch.
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
The sheer volume of subplots makes the finished product rather unwieldy, struggling to maintain the tight thematic focus of ‘Black Panther.’ - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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The Wonder (2022) |
Oddly though, the contemporary framing device feels even more superfluous when it returns for the final shot. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
Set on a luxury cruise, this dark comedy feels like a psychological experiment crossed with the gross-out humor of 'Jackass.' - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Nanny (2022) |
Anna Diop stars as a nanny in this Sundance award-winning horror thriller, blending supernatural elements with race and class tensions in a Manhattan household. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Huesera: The Bone Woman (2022) |
Building on the genre defined by Rosemary’s Baby in the 1960s, director Michelle Garza Cervera blends feminist commentary with folkloric horror. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
Mostly it exists as connective tissue between different eras of the MCU, displaying embarrassingly little interest in its own main characters. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 14, 2023
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The Batman (2022) |
Pattinson is one of the premier weirdos of his generation, yet The Batman restrains him and his co-stars into generic crime drama roles. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 07, 2022
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Eternals (2021) |
The story is bloated and underdeveloped, featuring too many characters and a clumsy plot. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 03, 2021
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Last Night in Soho (2021) |
The script barely engages with something that should be a central theme: The contrast between real 1960s London and Eloise's idealized view. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 28, 2021
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Chaos Walking (2021) |
If you like the sound of some not-too-schlocky thrills featuring well-chosen roles for Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland, it's worth checking out. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 05, 2021
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Space Sweepers (2021) |
The main characters of Space Sweepers are relatably overworked, annoyed, and struggling with debt-and very aware of their place in a toxic capitalist hierarchy. Like Pacific Rim, this film's politics don't need to be subtle to be effective. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 19, 2021
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Mank (2020) |
I found myself watching Mank as if from a distance, failing to drum up an emotional connection to the characters at hand. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 08, 2020
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020) |
Ignoring the conservative political context of the book, it's a clumsy and simplified interpretation of the American Dream. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 10, 2020
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Rebecca (2020) |
With stilted performances and a clumsy screenplay, it's a horribly misguided new interpretation of the novel. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 21, 2020
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The Devil All the Time (2020) |
This sprawling mid-20th century drama is disappointingly dull and shallow, mistaking gritty violence for mature storytelling. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Sep 16, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow (2020) |
She Dies Tomorrow is a compellingly weird indie drama about a psychological contagian. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 14, 2020
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Project Power (2020) |
Some of the film's ideas work but others are clumsy and ill-thought-out. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 14, 2020
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The Old Guard (2020) |
This forgettable action-thriller features decent combat scenes but threadbare storytelling. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 05, 2020
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Radioactive (2019) |
The only way Amazon Prime Video's Marie Curie biopic could be more by-the-book is if it starred Benedict Cumberbatch. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 04, 2020
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Butt Boy (2019) |
The whole thing is just a gross-out joke stretched to absurd proportions, seemingly designed to attract epithets like "weirdest film of the year." But you know what? It works. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2020
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) |
Birds of Prey serves perfectly well as a kind of cross between Deadpool and a Lady Gaga video, featuring flashy costumes and well-choreographed fight scenes. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Feb 05, 2020
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) |
Backtracking on the bold narrative choices of The Last Jedi, J.J. Abrams ends the Skywalker Saga with clumsy appeals to nostalgia and the conservative side of Star Wars fandom. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 19, 2019
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Vivarium (2020) |
It's gripping and often bitingly funny little sci-fi/horror thriller-and it's refreshingly weird compared to the more high-profile projects from the two leads. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 12, 2019
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The Lighthouse (2019) |
People who signed up for a grim historical drama may be shocked. But for many, it will hopefully be a welcome surprise. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 23, 2019
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The King (2019) |
The King isn't bad enough to be a black mark on Chalamet's record, but it's disappointingly forgettable. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 11, 2019
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Joker (2019) |
Starting as a powerfully unsettling character study, it builds to the kind of corny and obvious finale you'd expect from, yes, a studio superhero movie. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 01, 2019
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Ad Astra (2019) |
With gorgeous NASA-inspired production design and a memorably unsettling role for Pitt, it's one of the best sci-fi films of 2019. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Sep 16, 2019
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Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) |
Following the carnage of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home resets the tone for a goofy teen comedy. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 02, 2019
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I Am Mother (2019) |
It's a satisfying example of a familiar subgenre: self-contained sci-fi dramas that explore wider themes with a small cast. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jun 06, 2019
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Dark Phoenix (2019) |
As a superhero blockbuster, Dark Phoenix is bland and dated, lacking the panache of First Class or the scope of Days of Future Past. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jun 05, 2019
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See You Yesterday (2019) |
Significantly more thoughtful than your average Netflix original movie, See You Yesterday marks Bristol and Duncan-Smith as ones to watch. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted May 17, 2019
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Freaks (2018) |
Standing alongside films like Moon and Ex Machina, it's an original story with more sophisticated ideas and emotional intelligence than most big-budget sci-fi. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Mar 19, 2019
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Polar (2019) |
If Netflix's Polar wasn't so sexist, it would be amusing, trashy fun. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 30, 2019
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Close (2019) |
It's satisfying enough for rainy afternoon viewing, but it doesn't measure up to the fast-paced action of more mainstream thrillers. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jan 18, 2019
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Constantine (2005) |
It's Keanu's offbeat humor and subtle sensitivity that prevent John Constantine from becoming an angsty, chain-smoking, grimly macho cliché. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Dec 04, 2018
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Roma (2018) |
It's undoubtedly one of the greatest movies of 2018, destined to live on as a highlight of Cuarón's career. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Nov 02, 2018
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Suspiria (2018) |
Best viewed while wearing a ballgown and a fur stole, preferably while drinking something expensive in a crystal goblet, and smiling faintly at the memory of your recently murdered husband. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 24, 2018
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Outlaw King (2018) |
With picturesque scenery and an engaging underdog hero, it provides an antidote to the onslaught of relentlessly gritty historical action flicks. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 22, 2018
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Mirai (2018) |
Mirai is heartwarming without being cloyingly sentimental, a charming and often laugh-out-loud funny story about a young sibling rivalry. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 17, 2018
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) |
A Wild West movie all about white men, where Native Americans only appear onscreen to scalp people and get shot in the head? Groundbreaking. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 15, 2018
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Venom (2018) |
For me, Venom succeeded at what Suicide Squad failed to do: deliver an enthusiastically weird superhero spinoff with an edgy-but-funny lead. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Oct 10, 2018
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Good Manners (2017) |
Good Manners understands something that most films-Hollywood and otherwise-just can't manage. It observes how women's lives can intersect without the involvement of men, in a perfectly organic and realistic way. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Aug 14, 2018
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Extinction (2018) |
[It's] a competent if unoriginal thriller where the scary parts aren't too scary, and the sci-fi ideas don't go too deep. Another addition to the list of streaming movies that are Just OK. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jul 31, 2018
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) |
Even for such a transparently commercial franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a flimsy, cynical retread of better material. - The Daily Dot
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| Posted Jun 08, 2018
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