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John Thomason

John Thomason's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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A Separation (2011) 99% 5/5 EDIT “If any one film can re-inject life into an entire national cinema, it's A Separation.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 7, 2012 Full Review War Horse (2011) 74% 3/5 EDIT “War Horse is a fine example of a director, his conductor, his cinematographer and his actors working in handsome, elegant synchronization to play us all like dime-store harmonicas.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 28, 2011 Full Review The Help (2011) 75% 1/5 EDIT “With its focus group-tested quotient of laughs and tears targeted to lowest-common-denominator audiences, writer-director Tate Taylor's vulgar The Help is as much a piece of assembly-line hackwork as any Transformers sequel.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 10, 2011 Full Review Horrible Bosses (2011) 69% 4/5 EDIT “Heavy on action, light on character depth and utterly over-the-top, Horrible Bosses is best approached by removing the veneer of plausibility and, to paraphrase the title of a far lesser Jennifer Aniston picture, just going with it.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 7, 2011 Full Review Potiche (2010) 84% 4/5 EDIT “Potiche is as light and refreshing as a pinafore.” – Orlando Weekly May 4, 2011 Full Review Jane Eyre (2011) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The film ... retains the book's strongest message as a proto-feminist tract, underlining Jane's strength and defiance.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 31, 2011 Full Review Red (2010) 72% 2/5 EDIT “Just as inexhaustibly stupid and utterly routine as any number of John Cena, Paul Walker or Vin Diesel vehicles those young whipper-snappers eat up.” – Orlando Weekly Oct 14, 2010 Full Review The Ghost Writer (2010) 84% 5/5 EDIT “It might not be the right time for a Polanski film to play in a theater near you, but those unwilling to forgive the sinner will be missing the first great film of 2010, a Manchurian Candidate for the post-9/11 world.” – Orlando Weekly Mar 4, 2010 Full Review Zombieland (2009) 89% 2/4 EDIT “Unencumbered by such petty nuisances as a point, a vision or even an ounce of social commentary, Ruben Fleischerâ(TM)s transparently hollow zombie flick still succeeds at passing the time, even if a good 15 of its 81 minutes are pure filler.” – Orlando Weekly Oct 2, 2009 Full Review Humpday (2009) 79% 3/4 EDIT “This low-budget art film about two straight men who drunkenly decide to shoot a porno together in the style of a low-budget art film is actually kind of touching, if you can get past the inherent credibility gap.” – Orlando Weekly Sep 4, 2009 Full Review Julie & Julia (2009) 76% 1/5 EDIT “I suppose it's telling that the only time in Julie & Julia that I heartily chuckled was during an archived clip of Dan Aykroyd impersonating Child on Saturday Night Live. Now there was entertainment with some life to it.” – Orlando Weekly Aug 6, 2009 Full Review The Informers (2009) 13% 3/5 EDIT “The result turns the novel's cynical satire into a facile morality play, in which these privileged children want to be told the difference between right and wrong.” – Orlando Weekly Apr 23, 2009 Full Review P.S. I Love You (2007) 25% 0.5/5 EDIT “A romantic dramedy that stumbles through its excruciatingly Oscar-padded 126-minute running time with no end in sight.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 20, 2007 Full Review Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) 75% 4.5/5 EDIT “Reilly, imitating early Beatles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson, shows more range than ever in the role that should catapult him into the A-list.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 20, 2007 Full Review Charlie Wilson's War (2007) 82% 4/5 EDIT “Ultimately it's a film that understands that it's OK to insert a little T&A into the political discourse.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 20, 2007 Full Review Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 86% 5/5 EDIT “An invigorating experience that ranks among the best stage-to-screen translations ever filmed.” – Orlando Weekly Dec 20, 2007 Full Review In Between Days (2006) 87% EDIT “In Between Days is a wise and beautiful study of yearning and repression.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 29, 2007 Full Review August Rush (2007) 36% 0/5 EDIT “Pandering to the point of offensive.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 22, 2007 Full Review Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) 25% 1.5/5 EDIT “Oh, dear. What literary giant has the unstoppable Hollywood machine gone and tarnished now? That would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The grandfather of magic realism is given a clumsy, saccharine and unsubtle treatment.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 15, 2007 Full Review Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) 89% 4.5/5 EDIT “Loaded with operatic gravity and noirish fatalism.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 15, 2007 Full Review Lions for Lambs (2007) 28% 3.5/5 EDIT “Lions for Lambs provides a more robust debate about the wars we're in and may soon be in (in regard to Iran, the movie feels like it was written yesterday) than you're likely to get from any cable news show.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 8, 2007 Full Review My Kid Could Paint That (2007) 94% 4/5 EDIT “My Kid Could Paint That is great theater, thereby proving that even a story as unique as this can't stay fresh without a little media-manipulated drama.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 8, 2007 Full Review Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) 66% 1.5/5 EDIT “The witless Wristcutters holds all the fascination of a train wreck. Youâ(TM)ll stay in your seat just to see if itâ(TM)ll get any worse, and you wonâ(TM)t be disappointed.” – Orlando Weekly Nov 1, 2007 Full Review Dan in Real Life (2007) 65% 1.5/5 EDIT “The movie is called Dan in Real Life, but it's a stretch worthy of Reed Richards to believe that anything in this tepid plate of idiocy would actually happen in real life.” – Orlando Weekly Oct 25, 2007 Full Review The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) 76% 4.5/5 EDIT “Eschewing John Ford(TM)s advice to 'print the legend,' The Assassination of Jesse James instead chooses historical accuracy, a move that could make this epic unpalatable to a mass audience. But this contemplative movie is worth your patience.” – Orlando Weekly Oct 18, 2007 Full Review
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