Johnny Donaldson
Johnny Donaldson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Daily Grindhouse
Movies reviews only
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The Mortuary Collection (2019) |
Cements Spindell's promise as a new voice in horror, and gives us a new slice of midnight movie comfort food to savor. - Daily Grindhouse
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| Posted Oct 21, 2020
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Jojo Rabbit (2019) |
With the world being what it is, maybe we need an act of radically cutesy sweetness such as this, and maybe JOJO RABBIT is a needed film. But there's also no denying this is more sugar than it is nourishment. - Daily Grindhouse
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| Posted Oct 04, 2019
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Saw (2004) |
Saw manipualtes you in clever and morbid ways, but that still doesn't make it a very good movie. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
I Heart Huckabees may be the most looniest, most alienating, most what-were-they-thinking mainstream movie ever made. And I wouldn't have it any other way. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) |
What makes the film effective is its acting... - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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The Grudge (2004) |
The Grudge may have an air of chilly dread, but it's often just a neutered and repetitive slice of tony exploitation horror. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Team America: World Police (2004) |
It's a puerile, gross, and immature comedy that has moments of genuinely abrasive, subversive and much needed humor in it. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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The Forgotten (2004) |
The Forgotten is competently made but ultimately lifeless. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Shaun of the Dead (2004) |
Weird, silly, smart, moving, funny and scary, Shaun of the Dead is potentially a cult classic that's in a field of its own. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Paparazzi (2004) |
The time is about right to make a drama about the tawdry ghost of celebrity mania. Paparazzi is not that movie. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Cellular (2004) |
Cellular never actually comes together as a movie, but it does have enough clever parts to keep you entertained. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Hero (2002) |
Hero for all its sword-swinging action is not a fight film exactly; it is a work of visual poetry. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Vanity Fair (2004) |
Vanity Fair is wan and colorless - a romantic painting that has come haltingly to life. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Nov 10, 2004
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Van Helsing (2004) |
...you get the sense that you're seeing the first movie to be made from nothing but climax. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted May 13, 2004
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Laws of Attraction (2004) |
It's wan and pallid, with little of the lightness of touch that a movie of this sort requires. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted May 13, 2004
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Godsend (2004) |
A mediocre bit of bad seed hokum... - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted May 13, 2004
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Mean Girls (2004) |
It gets all saccharine and righteous on us, but that's okay, seeing as how the bitter medicine helps the spoonful of sugar go down. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted May 13, 2004
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The Punisher (2004) |
...a thuggish and junky vigilante cartoon... - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Apr 29, 2004
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 has the centered emotional grounding and heartfelt maturity lacking in the first installment - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Apr 29, 2004
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Hellboy (2004) |
Hellboy is a big-budget special FX spectacle, but it's one made with the artful, polished beauty of real moviemaking. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Apr 29, 2004
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Walking Tall (2004) |
Walking Tall clocks in at a lean 82 minutes, which means that [director Kevin] Bray has carved off most of the fat. The problem is, most of the meat is gone too. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Apr 29, 2004
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) |
The movie is a gaudy, hyperventilating eyesore with flashing colors and frenetic action that may keep little ones diverted for an hour and a half. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 31, 2004
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
It's an amazing feat, but Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is an even thinner bit of plastic than the first one was. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 31, 2004
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
Quietly beautiful, it's the first genuinely moving film of the year. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 31, 2004
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
...a genuinely jaw-dropping, nerve-frying mercenary thriller. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 24, 2004
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Secret Window (2004) |
...a consistently watchable lightweight horror yarn..." - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 24, 2004
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Monster (2003) |
Theron doesn't just look like Wuornos, but becomes her and it's a display of acting as bravura as any. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 10, 2004
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
...a two-hour wallow in torture and sadism that amounts to nothing more than a snuff film with pretensions of both art and religion - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 03, 2004
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Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2004) |
...the Lizard's ask us to wade through a lot of the cut-rate slasher horror that should have been retired with the demise of the Urban Legend franchise. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 02, 2004
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Eurotrip (2004) |
Crude but not gross, affable rather than offensive, this genial, runty little teen smut-com is better than anyone has any reason to expect it to be. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Mar 02, 2004
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) |
Perhaps my loathing of Drama Queen wouldn't be so complete, so bilious as it is, if the central character was someone sympathetic we could root for. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 25, 2004
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The Singing Detective (2003) |
This new version of The Singing Detective..., is a tinny and off-key stab at replicating the feverish, mad splash of a genuine movie musical. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
A Beautiful Mind is [Howard's] most complex, emotionally resonant film to date. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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The Majestic (2001) |
The Majestic is so sugary that diabetics should avoid it for fear of insulin shock. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) |
...the swordfights are exciting, the movie is nice to look at and as rousing adventures go, there could be worse. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Crossroads (2002) |
Crossroads is hardly a good movie, but it's a harmless, and sometimes even enjoyable lightweight drama. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) |
Brotherhood of the Wolf is an audacious, sensational and utterly preposterous mélange of horror, romance, martial arts, costume drama and God knows what else. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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The Time Machine (2002) |
...remarkably ho-hum. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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The Devil's Backbone (2001) |
The Devil's Backbone is a spare and elegant supernatural thriller... - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Blade II (2002) |
Del Toro has an avid love for things that go squish in the night - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Clockstoppers (2002) |
Clockstoppers...is colorful and energetic, but also a little flat. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Monsoon Wedding (2001) |
The characters chatter, goad, argue, celebrate and communicate with the joyful energy of life. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 19, 2004
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Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) |
...it belongs to a smarter, sharper and funnier breed of romantic comedy. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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Spider-Man (2002) |
It offers what every summer movie should be designed to offer: release, not hype. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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The New Guy (2002) |
After 20 minutes, the filmmakers stop giving a damn. The audience did that 15 minutes earlier. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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Murder by Numbers (2002) |
...moviemaking by numbers. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
...an amped-up, dumbed-down variation on Night of The Living Dead... - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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The One (2001) |
This One sadly comes up zero. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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Life as a House (2001) |
A dubious attempt to cross American Beauty with a Hallmark card, the film features edgier moments that give way to easy sentimentality and sitcom-cute distractions. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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Out Cold (2001) |
Out Cold, your basic hijinxs-in-the-snow madcap comedy, is everything you expect from the trailer: dumb, crass and unlikely to further the art of cinema. - The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
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| Posted Feb 18, 2004
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