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John Locanthi

John Locanthi's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) 87% B EDIT “If you ever wanted to see Meryl Streep have the time of her life, Florence Foster Jenkins delivers.” – Willamette Week Aug 11, 2016 Full Review Wiener-Dog (2016) 74% C+ EDIT “It is a film sneering at how terrible people are, and you are so terrible that you will probably laugh too.” – Willamette Week Jul 13, 2016 Full Review The Lobster (2015) 87% C EDIT “Interesting concept, but this vision of the future mostly involves Farrell, John C. Reilly, Rachel Weisz and the rest of cast lurching through their lines in a dull, passionless monotone.” – Willamette Week May 25, 2016 Full Review Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) 29% D EDIT “A mess of lame attempts at wit, faux profundity and unearned emotional resolutions.” – Willamette Week May 25, 2016 Full Review Knight of Cups (2015) 47% B- EDIT “Being a true Malick film, Knight of Cups has little narrative momentum. It is mostly a series of beautiful images and beautiful people speaking with their voices drowned out by internal monologues and poetry.” – Willamette Week Mar 10, 2016 Full Review Klown Forever (2015) 59% B EDIT “There is plenty of humor in this tried-and-true story. Klown Forever just never knows when to pull back.” – Willamette Week Feb 24, 2016 Full Review Francofonia (2015) 87% B+ EDIT “Francofonia is a Russian documentary that weaves between archival footage and pictures and historical re-creation to tell the story of the Louvre, primarily during the German occupation of France during WWII.” – Willamette Week Feb 24, 2016 Full Review Coz Ov Moni 2: Fokn Revenge (2014) B- EDIT “While Cos Ov Moni 2 tells a threadbare story of revenge, it is mostly a series of songs loosely tied together.” – Willamette Week Feb 24, 2016 Full Review The Pearl Button (2015) 93% B EDIT “It's an important story about a little-known people, especially for an American audience.” – Willamette Week Feb 23, 2016 Full Review Men & Chicken (2015) 84% A- EDIT “Men & Chicken is The Island of Dr. Moreau meets an irreverent slapstick comedy. Better yet, it's a version of Dr. Moreau that's intentionally funny.” – Willamette Week Feb 23, 2016 Full Review Zoolander No. 2 (2016) 21% D EDIT “The trouble is that Zoolander already exists, and Zoolander 2 is entirely too aware of that.” – Willamette Week Feb 11, 2016 Full Review Timbuktu (2014) 98% A EDIT “We're left with a haunting look into daily life under the reign of militant Islam, with a depth absent in American depictions of the struggle.” – Willamette Week Dec 30, 2015 Full Review The Night Before (2015) 69% B+ EDIT “It feels like one of the longest 101-minute films ever made as it tries to wrap up every storyline. But it also manages to tap into the spirit of the season, essentially a hokey Christmas movie masquerading as a dudebro comedy.” – Willamette Week Nov 18, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% D EDIT “Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the landmark works of the new millenium, the novel that proved definitively Americans will suffer through anything for a few fleeting moments of titillation.” – Willamette Week Oct 14, 2015 Full Review Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) 75% A- EDIT “Kingsman isn't a send-up of the genre; it's a rebuke of the relentlessly grim, faux realistic modern Bond, Bourne, Batman and the latter half of Liam Neeson's career.” – Willamette Week Jul 13, 2015 Full Review What We Do in the Shadows (2014) 96% B+ EDIT “New Zealand's vampire scene is fleshed out. It feels lived in.” – Willamette Week May 13, 2015 Full Review Merchants of Doubt (2014) 86% B EDIT “The movie is at its best when profiling the titular merchants.” – Willamette Week May 13, 2015 Full Review The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) 29% C- EDIT “The film is essentially one long fight with occasional scene changes -- they're on a train! Rooftop gunfight! Fisticuffs in the hallway!” – Willamette Week May 13, 2015 Full Review The D Train (2015) 55% C EDIT “Maybe there's no way to pull it off. Instead of trying to make something meaningful out of its mound of plot material, The D Train retreats into the warm embrace of cheap laughs.” – Willamette Week May 13, 2015 Full Review Wild Tales (2014) 94% B+ EDIT “Wild Tales' mix of humor and darkness works because every situation escalates too quickly for the gravity to register.” – Willamette Week May 13, 2015 Full Review 1971 (2014) 97% B+ EDIT “Minor quibbles aside, it's an important documentary.” – Willamette Week Mar 5, 2015 Full Review
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