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Joe Matar

Joe Matar's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Community: Season 6 (2015) 89% EDIT “"Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television" is a wonderful finale to an occasionally great, but mostly ho-hum season and a beautiful ending for Community, thankfully being everything the abysmal season five ending was not.” – Den of Geek Aug 12, 2024 Full Review FLCL Progressive: Season 2 (2019) EDIT “I was largely unmoved, but there always remained a tiny, haunting sense of the promise of a more engaging, more emotional series hidden beneath the sci-fi mundanity. On the bright side, that series already exists. It's called FLCL.” – Den of Geek Oct 24, 2023 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 10 (2022) 5/5 EDIT “Though it wasn’t always amazing, coming off the heels of the worst season of the show, season six was less cynical, much funnier, and more character-driven. It’s at least on par with, if not better, than season four.” – Den of Geek Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 9 (2022) 3.5/5 EDIT “Let’s note up front that, without the milestone of Rick being truly, openly kind to Morty, “A Rick in King Mortur’s Mort” would be a slight, silly episode. That’s not to say it’s a bad episode, because it’s quite consistently funny.” – Den of Geek Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 8 (2022) 5/5 EDIT ““Analyze Piss” has pretty much everything you could want in a Rick and Morty episode: character development; clever, surprising storytelling; tragedy and pathos; and a whole lot of hilarious, sci-fi craziness. ” – Den of Geek Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 7 (2022) 2.5/5 EDIT ““Full Meta Jackrick” is certainly clever, though not much fun to watch. I didn’t dislike it as much as the Story Train episode, at any rate, or maybe I just think that because this season has built up some good will by being pretty solid so far. ” – Den of Geek Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 9 (2020) 2.5/5 EDIT ““Childrick of Mort” is a welcome change of pace after a bunch of sometimes-samey, Rick-and-Morty-centric episodes, but only on the most basic of levels because it’s kind of mediocre.” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 8 (2020) 4/5 EDIT “It’s not the funniest or most emotional episode, but it’s still dark enough to hurt in that Rick and Morty way and it’s a good episode because it explores the areas of the series still worth exploring.” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 4 (2019) 4.5/5 EDIT ““Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty” is a purposefully, aggressively dumb episode, but a successfully very funny one, so there’s not much to complain about.” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 3 (2019) 3.5/5 EDIT “I certainly have to acknowledge how amazingly clever the episode is, but it’s maybe too clever by half, as I spent less time laughing or connecting with the characters, and more time bewildered, watching the gears of these plot machinations turn.” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 2 (2019) 4.5/5 EDIT “It this point it’s still novel to divide and pair off the Smith family, stick them in sci-fi adventures, and see what happens. It works out mostly extremely well in “The Old Man and the Seat.” ” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 4, Episode 1 (2019) 4/5 EDIT “After a two-year-long wait, it's the good, solid, sci-fi punch in the face we all needed.” – Den of Geek Oct 26, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 10 (2021) 3.5/5 EDIT “I was just bewildered by all the information being chucked at me. Still, if nothing else, it was certainly a cool-looking spectacle.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 9 (2021) 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s all very clever, well-executed stuff, though, typing it out, it sure sounds weird.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 8 (2021) 4/5 EDIT “True to season five form, it’s not funny. If nothing else, unlike other episodes this season that were complicated despite being aggressively stupid and hollow, this one feels like it’s worth a rewatch to fully glean everything from it.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 7 (2021) 3/5 EDIT “The problem with “Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion” is that, as more bizarre plot turns get thrown in, it doesn’t feel like a giant robot episode or a gangster episode; it’s just a bunch of crazy crap.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 6 (2021) 3.5/5 EDIT “This one’s still very deliberately stupid as hell, but it doesn’t feel quite so braindead. I can’t say I’m in love with the direction the plot takes when it brings in the Pilgrim robots but the jokes are certainly better.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 5 (2021) 4/5 EDIT ““Amortycan Grickfitti” is still not consistently funny, but it’s well-plotted and it finds time to give the characters decent arcs. In other words, it’s the most solid episode of season five so far.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 4 (2021) 3/5 EDIT “This is just a bunch of shameless jokes about sperm and horse-people sex. “Rickdependence Spray” lives and dies almost entirely on the quality of those jokes. All told, about half of it is funny. The rest is not.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 3 (2021) 2.5/5 EDIT “For the most part, this is a really silly episode that relies on the old Rick and Morty standbys of ultraviolence and gross-out gags/” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 2 (2021) 4/5 EDIT “You’ll either love every moment of the freewheeling violence and madcap sci-fi rigamarole or you’re one of the fans like me who more appreciates the sitcommy characterization side of the series and will therefore find a lot less to latch onto.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 5, Episode 1 (2021) 3.5/5 EDIT “"Mort Dinner Rick Andre" is another functional Rick and Morty episode... But a functional Rick and Morty still guarantees you a lot of clever sci-fi tropes taken to extremes in creative ways, so, yeah, pretty good.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 6 (2022) 4/5 EDIT ““JuRicksic Mort” is a well-constructed, funny episode. There have certainly been funnier episodes but the good gags do come at regular intervals here.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 5 (2022) 4/5 EDIT ““Final DeSmithation” reminded me of the sentient sperm episode in how brazenly stupid and over-the-top it all is but, unlike the sperm episode, I laughed a bunch and found the escalating ridiculousness charming in its bonkers creativity. ” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review Rick and Morty: Season 6, Episode 4 (2022) 4.5/5 EDIT “There have been funnier Rick and Morty episodes (though this one is still pretty funny) and there have been better character-focused episodes, but “Night Family” takes a clever central premise and creates a solid, fun, and engaging plot around it.” – Den of Geek Oct 25, 2022 Full Review
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