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Joseph Jon Lanthier

Joseph Jon Lanthier's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) 38% EDIT “Like most ersatz-feminism from the same era, the escape-from-domestic-oppression storyline of Jack Cardiff’s Girl on a Motorcycle makes its protagonist seem more irresponsible than iconically recalcitrant.” – Slant Magazine Dec 26, 2022 Full Review Homicide (1991) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The Pulitzer-winning playwright's movies are often a few steps ahead of their audiences, but Homicide seems to have intuitively anticipated its now-exemplary status.” – Slant Magazine Dec 13, 2017 Full Review The Providence Effect (2009) 47% 2/4 EDIT “Rollin Binzer's tribute only underscores the mind-bogglingly hazardous crapshoot we take when entrusting our children to local classrooms anywhere in the U.S.” – Slant Magazine Feb 28, 2015 Full Review Purple Noon (1960) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Its mechanical aesthetic suggests that rather than having to sublimate what remorse Tom Ripley might feel toward his actions, he simply doesn't experience any.” – Slant Magazine Jan 10, 2014 Full Review Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (2011) 96% 2/4 EDIT “The doc's looseness adequately portrays George Plimpton as an inwardly conflicted figure, but it fails to make much of a case for the man's legacy outside of The Paris Review's still-noticeable brand.” – Slant Magazine May 17, 2013 Full Review Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man (2012) 80% 3.5/4 EDIT “Jonas Mekas's camera is never passive, often seeming to feed upon sensation that energizes it to the point of jittery transcendence.” – Slant Magazine Apr 25, 2013 Full Review Portrait of Jason (1967) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Shirley Clarke counters Jason's queen-bitch attitude by reminding us with vocal and technological interjections that this is a performance, and that aesthetic judgments have been made while recording it.” – Slant Magazine Apr 16, 2013 Full Review Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “It never bothers to attempt the one thing we'd expect and hope from a documentary about Ricky Jay: It doesn't try to bamboozle us.” – Slant Magazine Apr 14, 2013 Full Review Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner (2013) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Perhaps the most valuable insight that the film provides about its subject is that he acts even as he directs.” – Slant Magazine Apr 5, 2013 Full Review Dog Pound (2010) 63% 2.5/4 EDIT “The plot willfully denies our satisfaction, often at the risk of compromising its own structural integrity.” – Slant Magazine Mar 25, 2013 Full Review Heaven's Gate (1980) 57% 3/4 EDIT “Michael Cimino's film represented a slight return to classicism--to larger-than-life Panavision spectacle and crane shot-managed majesty, however contradicted by narrative bleakness.” – Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2013 Full Review 108 (2010) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Renate Costa's doc gradually simplifies into an elaborate seesaw between general, journalistic scoopery and unabashedly personal confrontation.” – Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2013 Full Review The Unspeakable Act (2012) 89% EDIT “Writer-director Dan Sallitt's fourth feature moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down.” – Slant Magazine Feb 26, 2013 Full Review The Little Fugitive (1953) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “The not-to-be-underestimated singularity of Little Fugitive is such that its legacy nearly contradicts its nature.” – Slant Magazine Jan 27, 2013 Full Review Nana (2011) 67% 3/4 EDIT “Its meta-cinematic "think piece"-ness is redeemed by the slinky symmetries drawn between Massadian's own auteur-ship and the protagonist's narrative role.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2013 Full Review Black Narcissus (1947) 100% 4/4 EDIT “Michael Powell was right when he called Black Narcissus an "erotic film," but the attraction is pure Pygmalionism.” – Slant Magazine Dec 30, 2012 Full Review On the Road (2012) 47% 2/4 EDIT “The lack of a strong expository voice further simplifies the wealth of explicit sex Walter Salles dramatizes, much of it drawn from juicy swathes of Jack Kerouac's only recently published original scroll.” – Slant Magazine Dec 17, 2012 Full Review Consuming Spirits (2012) 89% 4/4 EDIT “Not only a monstrous visual achievement, but one of the most uniquely humanistic animated features of all time.” – Slant Magazine Dec 10, 2012 Full Review Wagner & Me (2010) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “Even when Wagner & Me seems uneven as an art historical study, it's fairly successful as a travelogue.” – Slant Magazine Dec 4, 2012 Full Review My Brothers (2010) 1.5/4 EDIT “An uncommon example of purely allegorical cinema, Paul Fraser's film foregoes plot almost entirely in favor of thematic resonance.” – Slant Magazine Nov 27, 2012 Full Review The Central Park Five (2012) 92% 2.5/4 EDIT “Though relentlessly and admirably logical, the movie constantly glosses over the buried human element.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2012 Full Review The Man in the White Suit (1951) 100% 4/4 EDIT “That Stratton proves so unable to resist his hubris surely provides the film with a cautionary subtext, but this is beautifully complicated by an ending that denies the possibility of rehabilitation.” – Slant Magazine Nov 10, 2012 Full Review Persistence of Vision (2012) 86% EDIT “One of the least stylistically handicapped documentaries ever produced about animation.” – House Next Door Nov 8, 2012 Full Review The Comedy (2012) 50% 3.5/4 EDIT “Tim Heidecker's Swanson does not amuse us in spite of the pity he inspires but because of it.” – Slant Magazine Nov 4, 2012 Full Review This Must Be the Place (2011) 66% 3.5/4 EDIT “The film believes in maturity, but only as a freely continual process of acceptance.” – Slant Magazine Oct 28, 2012 Full Review
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