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José Teodoro

José Teodoro's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Lodge (2019) 75% 3/5 EDIT “In a cabin-fever story otherwise drenched in foreboding, Keough's hint of eccentricity provides a little freshness against which to leverage inevitable doom.” – NOW Toronto Feb 22, 2020 Full Review Ray & Liz (2018) 94% EDIT “Gorgeously photographed on 16mm, Richard Billingham's Ray and Liz counters the grubby, quasi-authentic tenets of so-called British miserablism with humor, beauty, and a sensuality that in no way dilutes the hardships and neglect at its core” – Film Comment Magazine Jul 15, 2019 Full Review Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Their story may be too poignant and too complex to be lassoed into a workmanlike documentary such as this, but it's what we have and it's very much worth watching.” – NOW Toronto Jul 10, 2019 Full Review Too Late to Die Young (2018) 96% EDIT “Too Late to Die Young's strengths lie in the expansiveness of both its portraiture and its mise en scène: while Hernández gives a moving, nuanced performance, Sofia's emotional turmoil is more affecting for being placed against those around her” – Film Comment Magazine Jun 17, 2019 Full Review Sunset (2018) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Nemes and cinematographer Mátyás Erdély's signature style is entrancing, unnervingly intimate, virtuosic and occasionally annoying in its manner of withholding information.” – NOW Toronto Apr 3, 2019 Full Review Black Mother (2018) 97% EDIT “With its almost palpable earnestness and its reverence for the community it's depicting, Black Mother can't help but generate goodwill.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Ghost Town Anthology (2019) 96% 4/5 EDIT “A compassionate, subtle commentary on the casualties of urbanization.” – NOW Toronto Mar 12, 2019 Full Review Never Look Away (2018) 77% 3/5 EDIT “The film's saving grace [is] the third-act sequences.” – NOW Toronto Feb 20, 2019 Full Review Three Identical Strangers (2018) 96% 3/5 EDIT “Wardle's approach suffers from the documentarian's anxiety over holding a mainstream audience's attention...But I credit him with bringing organization and coherence to a complicated and immensely compelling story.” – NOW Toronto Jul 11, 2018 Full Review Let the Sunshine In (2017) 87% 5/5 EDIT “Time may classify this as minor Denis, but it is perfect on its own terms - and features one of the most ingenious closing scenes in memory.” – NOW Toronto May 31, 2018 Full Review Pope Francis -- A Man of His Word (2018) 81% 3/5 EDIT “Wenders's documentary about Pope Francis is shamelessly cuddly, obnoxiously titled and genuinely inspiring. What's best emerges from its subject's ability to articulate and embody an ideology that embraces interfaith dialogue and transcends dogma.” – NOW Toronto May 17, 2018 Full Review A Quiet Place (2018) 96% 3/5 EDIT “The film's effectiveness arises, rather, from the elimination of everything inessential and a steady focus on teamwork both on and off-screen.” – NOW Toronto Apr 6, 2018 Full Review 1918: Journey's End (2018) 91% 4/5 EDIT “By keeping us down in the muck, Dibb and company generate an intimacy rare to war films - and especially welcome in a story so rich in characters.” – NOW Toronto Mar 29, 2018 Full Review Pontypool (2008) 83% EDIT “It's when our grasping for digestible concepts, clear causality, or anything resembling resolution is as thwarted as the characters' struggle to articulate or take action, that we're in the best position to absorb Pontypool's full impact.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 27, 2018 Full Review Silent Light (2007) 85% EDIT “If Reygadas has ever subscribed to Bresson's philosophy of narrative structure, it's here in Silent Light, with its grueling emotional escalation leading up to a peak of exquisite release.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 20, 2018 Full Review A Fantastic Woman (2017) 94% EDIT “This film's heart is clearly in the right place, but to plant a marginalized character in the foreground of a narrative is not quite the same as making that character live and breathe.” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 3, 2018 Full Review Insignificance (1985) 73% EDIT “... it's calculated misdirection with little in the way of greater purpose.” – Cinema Scope Oct 13, 2017 Full Review Conan the Barbarian (2011) 25% EDIT “It's mostly just fights and fights and humdrum CGI and us in the audience wondering which of these big climaxes will be the last.” – Cinema Scope Oct 13, 2017 Full Review Fright Night (2011) 72% EDIT “... thrives on humour but takes its vampire business just seriously enough to keep from collapsing into camp.” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review Cosmopolis (2012) 67% EDIT “... a perverse twist on neorealism...” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971) 83% EDIT “Captivating while remaining unvarying in tone and pace...” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review Hitchcock (2012) 59% EDIT “... Hitchcock blends fact, rumour, conjecture, fantasy, fiction, pop psychoanalysis and sheer screenwriting laziness into a gaudy, risible mishmash.” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review The Face of Love (2013) 44% EDIT “... the material repeatedly shies away from the eeriness and unease the intriguing premise deserves-this could have been melodrama of a higher order.” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review The Amazing Catfish (2013) 100% EDIT “... has enough craft and intelligence to render its sentimental story about coming out of one's shell more charming and inventive than one would expect.” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review Therese (2013) 41% EDIT “... very little nuance or fresh insight.” – Cinema Scope Oct 12, 2017 Full Review
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