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Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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One (2000) 59% EDIT “One's stubborn resistance to dramatic artifice, its deliberate pacing and unexpressive-or rather, unemphatic-naturalism, leave it teetering on the brink of vapidity.” – Film Comment Magazine Feb 26, 2019 Full Review Smoke Signals (1998) 90% EDIT “It's crammed with Deep Thoughts, fortune-cookie epiphanies, and laboring-to-be-offbeat comic observations about cultural heritage, sons coming to terms with dead fathers, etc., complete with "poignant" ending.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review High Art (1998) 78% EDIT “High Art is often compelling and uncannily accurate in its evocation of downtown demi-monde characters and druggy, entropic milieu-the art in this film is high in more ways than one.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Slam (1998) 60% EDIT “Suffused with an emphatic but completely vague sociopolitical anger, Slam can't get beyond reiterating familiar sentiments about genocidal cycles of violence and black male prison statistics.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Next Stop Wonderland (1998) 73% EDIT “A beguilingly honest look at romantic longing.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Pi (1998) 88% EDIT “A tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design, π at times ventures to the limits of cinematic legibility.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review Buffalo 66 (1998) 76% EDIT “There is a air of intriguing atavism about the textures and contours of Buffalo '66's visual style and tone.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 11, 2018 Full Review The Thin Red Line (1998) 80% EDIT “There has truly never been a film about modern war quite like this one: a kind of lyric epic poem about the way men are transformed for good by the experience of war, carefully balancing romanticism and dispassion, action and introspection.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Hamlet (2000) 59% EDIT “Ingeniously and divertingly updating Shakespeare to corporate New York, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet benefits from playfully iconographic casting.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Trixie (2000) 27% EDIT “Alan Rudolph's Trixie is a delightful mystery/conspiracy thriller genre pastiche, full of his customary inversions, mirrorings, and visual mischief.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Joe Gould's Secret (2000) 67% EDIT “The film is too lackluster and inconsequential to pack any punch. Director Tucci's mise-en-scne is too self-regarding and fussy, the just-so period design is stifling, the cinematography arid.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Our Song (2000) 91% EDIT “Our Song is completely convincing and much more visually accomplished, thanks in part to Jim Denault's attentive vérité camerawork.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review You Can Count on Me (2000) 95% EDIT “Unusually sharp editing is the first hint that in fact it's a superior, acutely observed comedy-drama about family ties and the struggle to find a sense of purpose, even managing to work in some genuinely metaphysical intimations.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Chuck & Buck (2000) 85% EDIT “The film is pretty negligible, pointless, almost an exercise.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review Girlfight (2000) 87% EDIT “[Girlfight is] grounded in a precise, unemphatic naturalism.” – Film Comment Magazine Apr 10, 2018 Full Review I Heart Huckabees (2004) 63% EDIT “I ♥ Huckabees is a rarity-a tremendously optimistic film for a truly dark time.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 19, 2013 Full Review
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