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Keith Staskiewicz

Keith Staskiewicz's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Lazarus Effect (2015) 13% C- EDIT “I would have loved to see more from the filmmakers, daring to fail while staking out some new terror incognita instead of just going through the motions of an experiment for which we already have the results.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 27, 2015 Full Review Blue Ruin (2013) 96% A EDIT “With the same brand of realist irony the Coens used to cool down Blood Simple, writer-director Jeremy Saulnier slows the genre's heartbeat to gripping effect.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 5, 2015 Full Review Mr. Turner (2014) 96% A EDIT “To use a word often associated with Turner and his art, it's sublime.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 31, 2014 Full Review Me and You (2012) 71% B EDIT “The movie is slight but observant and not nearly as maestro-batory as some of Bertolucci's other work.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 3, 2014 Full Review Happy Christmas (2014) 75% B EDIT “Swanberg's naturalistic, improvised style lets the conflict come about organically, repeatedly putting the characters in situations to which they could react with clichés but instead go with something more empathetic and nuanced.” – Entertainment Weekly Dec 2, 2014 Full Review Big Hero 6 (2014) 90% B+ EDIT “At times, Big Hero 6 gets a little too noisy for its own good, but that never manages to drown out its many quieter charms.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 7, 2014 Full Review The Zero Theorem (2013) 49% B EDIT “Gilliam's penchant for overstimulation can numb your visual cortex, but Theorem is still the best thing he's pulled out of that bag in a while.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 12, 2014 Full Review The Guest (2014) 92% B+ EDIT “The coat of irony helps when the film takes a major pivot in tone, and Stevens is unnervingly placid as the corn-fed terminator.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 12, 2014 Full Review A Letter to Momo (2011) 80% B+ EDIT “Thankfully, the supernatural elements never overshadow the human story occurring in the foreground.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 11, 2014 Full Review Mood Indigo (2013) 62% C+ EDIT “After a while, all that frivolity starts to collapse under its own weight like a fallen souffl.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 17, 2014 Full Review Dormant Beauty (2012) 81% B+ EDIT “It's well acted and gorgeously and tenebrously shot.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 20, 2014 Full Review Maleficent (2014) 54% B- EDIT “Maleficent feels classical in nature. The characters are boiled down to their essentials, the humor is timelessly broad, and Jolie's at her best when she's curling her claws and elongating her vowels like a black-sabbath Tallulah Bankhead.” – Entertainment Weekly May 28, 2014 Full Review God's Pocket (2014) 36% C EDIT “[Philip Seymour Hoffman,] John Turturro, Richard Jenkins, and Christina Hendricks round out a formidable cast that isn't given much to work with.” – Entertainment Weekly May 8, 2014 Full Review Stage Fright (2014) 37% B EDIT “This singing-and-dancing genre mash-up actually has some good, bloody fun.” – Entertainment Weekly May 7, 2014 Full Review Need for Speed (2014) 23% C EDIT “Need for Speed is just another pileup in Hollywood's long accident report of taking games from the couch to the theater seat.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 12, 2014 Full Review The Wind Rises (2013) 88% A- EDIT “As gorgeously animated as any of his previous movies, Wind has Miyazaki trading in his more fantastical impulses for contemplative, old-fashioned drama and period detail.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 6, 2013 Full Review Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) 71% B EDIT “The animation is inventive and elastic, the dialogue zippy and shamelessly punny, and the tone lighthearted and fun, even if on a whole it's not quite a full meal.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 14, 2013 Full Review Call Me Kuchu (2012) 98% A- EDIT “The film is impassioned and powerful but not frenzied, riling the viewers' emotions without giving in to them itself.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 4, 2013 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% A EDIT “In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 20, 2013 Full Review Battle of the Year (2013) 6% D+ EDIT “The actual dancing scenes are occasionally electrifying, if far too sparse, but other than that and the welcome sight of co-star Chris Brown getting clocked in the face, the film barely gets off the ground, much less sticks the landing.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 20, 2013 Full Review Riddick (2013) 58% C+ EDIT “Twohy succeeds in staging moments both tense and funny, but they're fewer and farther between than one would hope, and the dialogue is served up with a heaping helping of cheese, especially when delivered in Diesel's low-frequency growl.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 4, 2013 Full Review The Croods (2013) 71% C+ EDIT “A handful of adrenalizing sequences of animated anarchy can't save this story from feeling overly primitive.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 20, 2013 Full Review Escape From Planet Earth (2013) 35% C- EDIT “An animated film that goes lamely where many have gone before.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 18, 2013 Full Review Snitch (2013) 57% C- EDIT “The film tries to paint in shades of gray with vague criticisms of the war on drugs, but the absurdity of its he-man Everyman plot ends up turning its moral palette a muddy brown.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 28, 2013 Full Review Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) 17% C- EDIT “The movie has been sitting on the shelf for a while, and like, say, a house of candy you might find in the woods, it's gotten a bit stale.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 25, 2013 Full Review
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