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Joel Copling

Joel Copling's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) 91% EDIT “Heel might shout its themes directly at the audience, but that’s less important than the clever and thoughtful thriller it becomes.” – Spectrum Culture Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Operation Taco Gary's (2024) 60% EDIT “Despite an entertaining performance by a game Simon Rex, Operation Taco Gary’s doesn’t really have much of a point beyond its own, very silly jokes.” – Spectrum Culture Mar 5, 2026 Full Review Bring the Law (2026) EDIT “This is far from the worst example of this type of movie, but one wishes that its makers would force their film out of its style-starved confines and give us something exciting and fresh.” – Spectrum Culture Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Diabolic (2025) 64% EDIT “Diabolic is an ungodly, shockingly incoherent mess that falls flat even by the standards of empty genre exercise.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Hunting Jessica Brok (2025) EDIT “Hunting Jessica Brok is exhausting and tedious as its action scenes go on and on (and on some more).” – Spectrum Culture Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% EDIT “Matthew Robinson and Gore Verbinksi don’t just look at our world and find a reason to give warning, they see it as a five-alarm fire.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 16, 2026 Full Review The Roaring Game (2025) EDIT “The Roaring Game has such an easy target that one wonders how writer/director Tommy DeNucci could have so wildly missed his mark.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Islands (2025) 94% EDIT “Islands works as a playful and simultaneously mournful subversion of a well-trod genre featuring a deeper protagonist than we might expect that can nevertheless be enigmatic to a fault.” – Spectrum Culture Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Standout: The Ben Kjar Story (2025) 100% EDIT “Christensen’s documentary isn’t an overwhelming experience in terms of its form, but the subject and story are enough to carry it.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 27, 2026 Full Review Killer Whale (2026) 20% EDIT “The incompetence on display in Killer Whale, an alleged thriller about surviving a potential orca attack, is occasionally breathtaking.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Charlie the Wonderdog (2025) 42% EDIT “The movie thankfully isn’t too frantic nor frenetic, but it never recaptures the slight promise of its opening few minutes.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Oscar Shaw (2026) EDIT “Oscar Shaw quickly devolves into both formula and routine.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “Both an interesting profile and a sobering reminder of how our political history continues to bleed into the present.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 8, 2026 Full Review We Bury the Dead (2024) 88% EDIT “Filmmaker Zak Hilditch gets caught up in the broader details without developing them in a particularly worthwhile way.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Choral (2025) 68% EDIT “The Choral has been plotted within an inch of its life, complicating a fairly simple story with too much at the service of too little.” – Spectrum Culture Jan 5, 2026 Full Review Not Without Hope (2025) 75% EDIT “Not Without Hope is a sturdy account of an incredible and tragic event, whatever its shortcomings of perspective and scale.” – Spectrum Culture Dec 16, 2025 Full Review Hunting Season (2025) 60% EDIT “A solid Gibson gives a sturdy foundation to the narrative, but his younger co-stars are just as good. ” – Spectrum Culture Dec 8, 2025 Full Review Tinsel Town (2025) 47% EDIT “Tinsel Town is simply unsure of itself, its uniquely cast protagonist and the potential of its various assembled parts. ” – Spectrum Culture Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Cutting Through Rocks (2025) 100% EDIT “A standard but engaging profile of Shahverdi that functions more effectively as a portrait of the contemporary politics in her region. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Altered (2025) 10% EDIT “Once the gears of Altered’s plot start to turn, any focus on trying to build its initial concept from the inside out is squashed in favor of a tired formula. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 24, 2025 Full Review Murder at the Embassy (2025) EDIT “Whether the series continues from here is sort of an open question, but if it does, maybe the filmmakers can finally figure out a way to do justice to the character. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 19, 2025 Full Review King Ivory (2024) 72% EDIT “The complex, ambitious stories hinted at in King Ivory eventually lose focus as John Swab’s real interest, which has to do with its simpler genre aspirations, gets in the way. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 17, 2025 Full Review I Wish You All the Best (2024) 86% EDIT “I Wish You All the Best only tackles its story in the broadest possible sense. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “The whole of Little Amélie or the Character of Rain is a bit slight and on the nose, but when the film reaches its destination, the results are often lovely. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Self-Help (2025) 82% EDIT “Around the time of the cliched grand finale, we realize how tedious and circular an affair Self-Help has been. ” – Spectrum Culture Nov 3, 2025 Full Review
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