Jason Adams
Tomatometer-approved critic
Jason knew the movies were his bag the second he saw that lawyer sitting on a toilet getting eaten by a Tyrannosaur, and he's never looked back once since. Simultaneously a movie snob who watches Fassbinder for fun while also being a trash apologist prone to reenacting the death scenes in the Friday the 13th series through vivid pantomime, he's got room for everything projected onto a big screen in his big roomy heart. He's been covering the daily beat on his site My New Plaid Pants since 2005 and is a regular contributor to The Film Experience. He's a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and has been accredited to cover basically every New York City based film festival for the past ten years including NYFF and Tribeca. You can follow him on Twitter at @JAMNPP
Movies reviews only
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Master Gardener (2022) |
A gentility and honest-to-goodness sweetness is suddenly Schrader’s most disarming characteristic. - Mashable
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| Posted May 19, 2023
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Sanctuary (2022) |
Abbott is real good at this sort of thing, with those bedroom cow-eyes of his, black as tar. Unknowable. Punchable. And Qualley, her current star rising like the sun seen from six inches away, proves a formidable partner. - Mashable
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| Posted May 19, 2023
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The Eight Mountains (2022) |
Manufactured for maximum middle-aged man tears The Eight Mountains, glorious and perhaps perfect, contains the sweep of entire lives and loves as high as its alpine scenery set against the minutiae of small things we are never able to speak out loud - Pajiba
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| Posted May 04, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
manic clawing for "cool" - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted May 01, 2023
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Sisu (2022) |
Ninety minutes of glorious gore-soaked mayhem - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) |
Contains some of the most poetic imagery that Ritchie’s ever filmed - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023) |
It's a lean, mean, eviscerating machine - Mashable
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
A three-hour-long panic attack in psychosomatic cinematic form... will have you upping your meds the minute you leave the theater. A Thunderdome of maternal disappointment! - Pajiba
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| Posted Apr 17, 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) |
What makes Pipeline stand out is its fiercely political point-of-view; anger of the sort that's sadly a real rarity in these generic times of ours - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Inside (2023) |
If you're a person who would want to stare at Willem Dafoe's endlessly fascinating face for ninety minutes, this is a movie for you. - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
Scream VI seems fine with staying to its series of quick blasts, leaving us temporarily rattled but never profoundly stirred, never deeply disturbed. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Champions (2023) |
It would be unthinkable not to immediately adore these players, the movie posits, just by virtue of their existence. And so Champions is never inclined to strain to define any of them much beyond that. - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Children of the Corn (2020) |
Plenty of cornpone corn porn to go around - Pajiba
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| Posted Mar 02, 2023
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
Disney's cartoon drawings had more character in one swoop of pencil line than any of these women are given before they start getting their faces mashed into wood chippers and their tops torn off. - Mashable
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Shyamalan truly aims to put everyone into our shoes, and strives to ennoble gay love as hard-won; like a diamond beaten down, we're more gorgeous for our battle scars.... it's a thrill and a pleasure to see that centered in a mainstream movie like this - Mashable
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| Posted Feb 13, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
There’s no sweaty cash bulging out of this movie’s thong once it hits backstage because it never drops its damn pants in the first place. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022) |
A found-footage flick that vibes hard on genre-daddy The Blair Witch Project... I’m just left with a sinking feeling that The Outwaters doesn’t really add up to much in its end. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Magazine Dreams (2023) |
[Jonathan] Majors is more than up to the task of holding the center of the frame in his teensy posing strap for this measly two hours. His work in Magazine Dreams is enormous, electrically charged, alternately terrifying and endearing - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 06, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
Sweet and genuine and perfectly human-sized... a simple and lovely fable about how honest we need to be with the people closest to us, You Hurt My Feelings is honest in every single place that it counts. - Pajiba
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
It dives hard and headstrong into absolute awfulness, and it’s got two terrific actresses unafraid to dive in and get totally goopy with it. An absolute treat, slimy and delicious, this one - The Film Experience
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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The Starling Girl (2023) |
There’s something truly electric about The Starling Girl - The Film Experience
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Passages (2023) |
Ira Sachs’ masterfully callous romantic quandary of a film - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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The Accidental Getaway Driver (2023) |
Rich and lovely, a slow surprise ride I won’t soon forget - The Film Experience
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Eileen (2023) |
Eileen... has mad surprises in store, and I was made giddy by its swerves off the expected path. It’s the movie Carol didn’t want to be, and I’m personally thankful we now live in a world where we can have both - The Film Experience
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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A Thousand and One (2023) |
A Thousand and One will have your heart broken into a thousand and one little bits - The Film Experience
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| Posted Jan 30, 2023
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Rotting in the Sun (2023) |
A farce of mounting miscommunications and pornographic indignities... breathlessly funny and mean-spirited, a tonic for these trying, boring times. Call it chicken soup for the sodomites. - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
Infinity Pool feels genuinely dangerous in ways that other recent one-percenter satires like The Menu and Triangle of Sadness never quite muster - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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Close (2022) |
Close, gorgeous and devastatingly sad, is a tender whisper of brutality, a razor precise excavation of a year of innocence lost - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Talk to Me (2023) |
It's the handshake to Hell, baby - The Film Experience
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Missing (2023) |
If you were a fan of Searching then I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t be a fan of Missing—- they’re both competently made thrillers starring under-appreciated actors with enough twists and turns to tie anybody following the clues into knots - Pajiba
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
2023 might be brand new but it’s already birthed a legend. Bow down to your cyborg glamour queen y’all – all hail Miss M3GAN. Or else!!! - The Film Experience
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
There’s been a lot of talk about the death of the movies lately, but Babylon’s two paddles to its heart. Muy awooga. For awhile, at least. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 23, 2022
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The Son (2022) |
Would've probably just been swept aside if lesser hands had made it, but with this big-time crew yeesh what a disaster. - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
A staggering behemoth of big screen wizardry to behold - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Empire of Light (2022) |
Mendes stacks the deck so hard with game-top collaborators that it’s just a shame his story in service of them lets them all a little down - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
The Whale tries to awkwardly straddle the ciphers of Aronofsky’s allegorical obsessions with the sins of some very too-real flesh, and it comes up wanting. - Pajiba
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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2nd Chance (2022) |
An absolutely fascinating documentary that's as funny as it is terrifying - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Nr. 10 (2021) |
The best, funniest, most delightful ending of any movie I have seen in years - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) |
A lush period piece with a thrumming pulse - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Spoiler Alert (2022) |
I was happily impressed (when I wasn't bawling my eyes out) by the meta touches and offbeat moves this movie decides to make when it could've easily been far lazier in its choices. - Mashable
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Skinamarink (2022) |
I haven’t felt this challenged or this horrified by a film in a very long time. Literal guttural sounds of the purest terror fell out of me at several points across its span. This is quite plainly the scariest movie I have seen in a very very long time. - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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Devotion (2022) |
Majors winds a surprising path towards enlightening this man and what must have been his daily struggle, choosing to snarl and obscure just a little more than a lesser actor, a lesser film, would feel necessary - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 24, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
Watching our greatest cinematic sentimentalist wrestle with the thorny ways he’s wrestled reality into more manageable and digestible entertainments is riveting stuff, when it busts through to the front of the busy picture anyway - Pajiba
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| Posted Nov 24, 2022
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The Irishman (2019) |
An All American epic that gains its import from its accumulation of seconds and minutes and years -- those tracking shots turned to myth, and we, a country of endless highways stretched end to end, always ending somewhere, on some face - The Film Experience
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
Ultimately middling - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Soft & Quiet (2022) |
The innocence of the American Dream is befouled, and this brave movie looks the filth of it straight in the face. It's the truest sort of horror -- the one too horrible to be anything but true. - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Nov 02, 2022
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Old Flame (2022) |
It digs into some of the difficult conversations of our moment in time with real knifes-edge skill, and because it does so with a couple of surprisingly effective and believable performances at its center from relative newcomers - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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The Inspection (2022) |
The Inspection is the best case example for what happens when we let untold stories be told by the marginalized groups who lived them. It thrums with an honesty in the nuances that could only come from someone who’s seen through these eyes. - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022) |
Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter immediately ranks among the very best of the Ghost Stories. One which interrogates reality, memory, personhood and self, by the simplest of its twists and turns. I am quite frankly astonished by it - Pajiba
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
Whatever Halloween Ends is, it ain't it. - My New Plaid Pants
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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