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James Poniewozik
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Friends: The Reunion (2021) |
The special is better when it gets out of the cast's way and shows us what drew us to them, and them to each other. - New York Times
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| Posted May 26, 2021
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Cinema Verite (2011) |
While the film is well-made, it feels unnecessary. Perhaps from the need to fit the story into the confines of an hour-and-a-half feature, everyone ends up falling into types. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jun 04, 2020
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James Dean (2001) |
Sick of movie-star biopics? Then there's little to change your mind in this one... It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted May 11, 2020
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After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News (2020) |
In other places "After Truth" plays more like a survey, something that might have made an hourlong feature on CNN. But its strongest animating idea is that fake news is not simply a political abstraction. - New York Times
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| Posted Mar 19, 2020
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Deadwood: The Movie (2019) |
It can't, in its abbreviated run, recreate the series's full glory, but it does offer that glory a wistful toast. - New York Times
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| Posted May 29, 2019
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Brexit (2019) |
Cumberbatch's tight-wired performance is the best thing in this brisk but mechanical retread of recent events. - New York Times
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| Posted Jan 18, 2019
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The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science (2018) |
The documentary's structure, jumping between history and contemporary patient stories, is a bit choppy, but the themes are timely. - New York Times
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| Posted Sep 24, 2018
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Sometimes in April (2005) |
April was unsparing, without being gratuitous, in showing how horrific yet casual the violence was, and Idris Elba (The Wire) was stunning as a Rwandan officer who came to see the light too late to save his mixed-ethnicity family. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Sep 11, 2018
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Recount (2008) |
If you have the slightest interest in politics and movie treatments thereof, I recommend it. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jun 13, 2018
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018) |
Mr. Jordan (Creed) puts flesh on Montag's conflict... But the script does little to give him inner life beyond some flashbacks. Mr. Shannon's imperious enforcer lacks the eccentric spark he brings to his best roles. - New York Times
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| Posted May 16, 2018
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Spielberg (2017) |
For all its sweep, Spielberg the documentary succeeds most distinctively where Mr. Spielberg the director has: accessing the child in its subject. - New York Times
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| Posted Oct 05, 2017
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You Don't Know Jack (2010) |
You Don't Know Jack may be a film about the case for making dying patients comfortable. But admirably, it recognizes that thinking about this, or watching, should be discomfiting. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jun 07, 2017
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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) |
In the end, Sharknado 3-like the CGI monsters that are its true stars-is the beast that it is: single-minded, greedy and ravenous. But for all that, it can still be a lovely creature. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 22, 2015
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Peter Pan Live! (2014) |
Technically and visually, Peter Pan Live! delivered. The smartest thing the production did was to be unashamedly stagey. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Dec 05, 2014
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The Normal Heart (2014) |
Some 30 years later, this movie-strident, passionate, frenetic, and aching-is a reminder, as Memorial Day weekend begins the summer, of all those empty spots the plague left on the beach. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted May 23, 2014
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Mitt (2014) |
Anyone who followed the '08 and '12 elections will not be surprised by how Mitt's story plays out. But it's an interesting footnote, a spin-free picture of the personal cost of campaigning; I found it humanly sympathetic regardless of political sympathies. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 24, 2014
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Sharknado (2013) |
And it happens, and it happens, and it's an awesome, immersive thing. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jul 26, 2013
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The Loving Story (2011) |
A low-key but moving documentary about two low-key people and their moving struggle. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Jan 25, 2013
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Crossfire Hurricane (2012) |
It's not a revelation, but it's an intimate story of the band, with performance sequences that show how five guys-in different lineups -- came together and made an entity of pure fire and sex. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Nov 16, 2012
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) |
Perhaps all things must pass, but I would not pass this one up. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Aug 06, 2012
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Game Change (2012) |
It all feels like piling on - the campaign movie as blooper reel. - TIME Magazine
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| Posted Aug 03, 2012
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