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James Slaymaker

James Slaymaker's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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First Reformed (2017) 94% EDIT “The power of First Reformed is rooted in Schrader's ability to take a number of clear forbearers — Bresson, Dreyer, Pialat — and twist them into a style that feels wholly unique and rooted in a personal set of values and obsessions.” – Vague Visages Dec 14, 2023 Full Review For Some Inexplicable Reason (2014) EDIT “For Some Inexplicable Reason strains for authenticity but only registers as a compendium of conventions familiar to the tired subgenre of the post-collegiate dramedy.” – Vague Visages Dec 14, 2023 Full Review The Comedy (2012) 50% EDIT “A piercing critique of millennial amorality, The Comedy takes as its subject one of the most off-putting lead characters to grace contemporary American film.” – Vague Visages Jun 15, 2023 Full Review Esther Kahn (2000) 54% EDIT “Phoenix delivers an opaque but strikingly physical performance, reminiscent of the women in Charlie Chaplin’s films.” – Vague Visages Jun 15, 2023 Full Review New Rose Hotel (1998) 24% EDIT “Like Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Ferrara collapses history within his iconographic mise-en-scene, stressing the burden of tradition his characters have placed on their shoulders.” – Vague Visages Jun 15, 2023 Full Review There's Something About Mary (1998) 84% EDIT “What begins as a seemingly lightweight romantic comedy gradually expands into a surprisingly sophisticated exploration of romantic obsession and self-delusion.” – Vague Visages Jun 15, 2023 Full Review Sleep Has Her House (2017) EDIT “Like the great Jean-Marie Straub, Scott Barley creates striking images by returning us to the basics of cinema, the natural world, but abstracting it through profilmic means by reducing the landscape to pure, basic forms.” – MUBI Jun 11, 2019 Full Review 24 Frames (2017) 92% EDIT “24 Frames is in many ways rooted in the principles of the Lumières' project, it is also fundamentally removed from the material basis in empirical reality of their work, using the medium to transform the world it into something wildly artificial.” – MUBI Feb 5, 2018 Full Review
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