Kurt Loder
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Movies reviews only
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The Lost King (2022) |
Moving in its affection for human eccentricity. Like collectors of antiquarian books and vintage vinyl records, the members of the Richard III Society are motivated by pure, unquestioning devotion. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) |
"I'm going to kill them," Wick tells Winston.
"You can't kill everyone," Winston says.
I didn't catch Wick's reply. - Reason Online
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Orson Fortune is an agent who'll only fly private and only drink "the finest clarets." I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think of Jason Statham as a "finest clarets" kind of guy. - Reason Online
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Stick around for the credits. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania wants to psych you up about the launch of "Phase Five" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a corporate entity that's now 15 years old and starting to look a little winded. - Reason Online
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Baby Ruby (2022) |
A horror story for women. I hesitate to presume anything on behalf of my fellow life voyagers, but I think women will instantly recognize the dark outlines of the story told here. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022) |
One of the sad truths of low-budget filmmaking is that it's hard to make a good movie with no money, but simplicity itself to make a bad one. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Why Shyamalan neglected to tack on the word "Door" at the end of the title is an issue that will have to be thrashed out between him and his god (please copy me on that, guys). - Reason Online
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
For those who figured this director couldn't possibly go much farther down the road of WTF than he did in the alarming Possessor, he would now like to demonstrate how very, very wrong you were. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
By the end, after offering us virtually nothing at all in the way of action, the movie is undone by its 100-minute length. It feels at least half an hour too long. - Reason Online
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
The movie goes on too long, and it ends on a note so muted you wonder what became of all the fun buildup that preceded it. This is the real mystery. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
The implacable M3gan is a real piece of work. Literally. - Reason Online
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| Posted Jan 06, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
Decadence shouldn't be such a chore to sit through. - Reason Online
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| Posted Dec 23, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
Is this one of the things we want from movies right now — pictures that take long-famous, Oscar-winning actors and bury them so deeply in digital gelatin that passing fantasy fish and phosphorescent flora outshine them at every turn? - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
Aronofsky has a tender regard for the problems endured by the overweight: negotiating the complexities of bathrooms, struggling to force wheelchairs through too-narrow doorways, dropping a set of keys on the floor... - Reason Online
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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Violent Night (2022) |
Definitely not your parents' kind of Christmas movie. - Reason Online
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
Jackie Hoffman, as Bautista's mother, gets to utter, possibly for the first time ever in a semi-genteel, English-style murder mystery, the words "Fibonacci sequence." - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Nov 25, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
It's set up like an Agatha Christie mystery, but also has the trappings horror -- blood is shed, and not only by luckless livestock. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
One of the year's creepiest and, at the same time, most romantic films. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
A Steven Spielberg movie about his childhood back in the 1950s sounds like a ticket to a cotton-candy apocalypse. But The Fabelmans, while certainly sweet, is never sugary. And it's deeply engaging. - Reason Online
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) |
An amiable brain-fry. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Holy Spider (2022) |
Raw and unsentimental, and reminiscent in some ways of the gruesome 1986 true-crime movie Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (although nowhere near as bloody). - Reason Online
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
A stirring demonstration of the actor's art. - Reason Online
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
The movie feels longer than it is (a little under two hours) because of a serious Michael Myers deficit in the early innings. - Reason Online
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Amsterdam (2022) |
Unfortunately, the movie is bad. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Smile (2022) |
There's some fine, creepy leering. But several elements—upside-down camera moves and pointless cat closeups—serve no purpose (not to mention use of the old Chordettes hit "Lollipop" for no bleedin' reason whatsoever). - Reason Online
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
The twisty plot may not keep you up nights tugging at its knots, but it's
fun to watch play out. Florence Pugh is a big plus, and feather-boa proponent Harry Styles a small, happy surprise. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Sep 23, 2022
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Blonde (2022) |
An ambitious film that leaves a nasty aftertaste. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Sep 23, 2022
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House of Darkness (2022) |
The risk in pursuing a love of old-school B-movies is that if you cleave too faithfully to the bare-bones ethos of the form, you could wind up with nothing more than a tedious, old-school B-movie. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Sep 09, 2022
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The Good Boss (2021) |
In one of his subtlest performances, in one of his best films, Bardem is wonderfully funny puncturing the low-hanging balloons of upper-class moral pretensions. - Reason Online
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) |
Considering the stature of the artist at the helm, it's a disappointment. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Emily the Criminal (2022) |
Emily is a woman who's found no way to exert control over her life until she gets in touch with her inner badass. - Reason Online
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| Posted Aug 22, 2022
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Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) |
This is what happens when you try to make a movie that winks knowingly at a done-to-death genre format and don't quite pull it off. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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Bullet Train (2022) |
Pitt exudes both easy warmth and deep chill in equal measures. At age 58, he is the Elder Dude of interesting movies.... - Reason Online
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| Posted Aug 05, 2022
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Resurrection (2022) |
Much too silly. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jul 29, 2022
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Nope (2022) |
Not quite. - Reason Online
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| Posted Jul 22, 2022
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The Gray Man (2022) |
The most enjoyable parts of "The Gray Man" are the two or three moments in which nothing blows up. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) |
Bringing Russell Crowe in to play Zeus -- in a scene that goes on much too long -- is an idea that must have been hatched during an all-night mead bender. - Reason Online
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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The Forgiven (2021) |
Eurotrash decadence in the sweltering Sahara - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jul 01, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
Butler captures the conflicted soul of a man who conquered the world but died alone on a bathroom floor in Memphis. - Reason Online
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| Posted Jun 24, 2022
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Abandoned (2022) |
It is my considered opinion that all strange neighbors — and maybe all weirdos — should be played by Michael Shannon, who radiates an oddity that seems to me entirely heartfelt. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Crimes of the Future (2022) |
The master of big-screen body horror has returned to the land of exploding heads and mutant flesh that birthed him — home, in other words. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted Jun 03, 2022
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Men (2022) |
Its five-alarm body-horror ending is pretty frickin' scary. - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted May 20, 2022
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The Innocents (2021) |
Has some memorable horror flourishes, but its real subject is evil itself... - Reason Online
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| Posted May 13, 2022
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) |
a bit of a fizzle - Creators Syndicate
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| Posted May 06, 2022
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Hatching (2022) |
The drool will stay with you. - Reason Online
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Dual (2022) |
Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy), who plays Sarah and her eventual clone as two identical women who are nevertheless very slightly different. - Reason Online
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) |
A reminder to never, ever write Nic Cage off... - Reason Online
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) |
What really distinguishes the film is its truly excellent CGI, which recalls the long-gone time when computer imagery really did seem to be a species of magic. - Reason Online
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| Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Ambulance (2022) |
If an alien visitor pulled up to our planet one day in some sort of interstellar space Uber and wanted to know what a Michael Bay movie was, we could just show them "Ambulance." - Reason Online
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| Posted Apr 08, 2022
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