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Mark Deming

Mark Deming's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Sound City (2013) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Dave Grohl shares a lot of stories in Sound City, and what's most impressive is that for a first-time filmmaker he tells these tales remarkably well.” – TV Guide Dec 16, 2013 Full Review Amour (2012) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “A tale about love at its most terribly, backbreakingly difficult.” – TV Guide Feb 8, 2013 Full Review Yossi (2012) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Eytan Fox and screenwriter Itay Segal have made this a truly universal story about a man who finds the courage to pursue the possibility of love again after heartbreak and loss.” – TV Guide Jan 25, 2013 Full Review Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's clear Mother Nature is the real boss in Bakhtia, and Happy People: A Year in the Taiga documents a few men doing a wary pas de deux with her in a genuinely fascinating and intelligent fashion.” – TV Guide Jan 25, 2013 Full Review Arbitrage (2012) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Gere doesn't give Robert a remarkable amount of depth, but he certainly plays his damaged, agonized soul for all it's worth, even as the movie views him from a coolly removed distance.” – TV Guide Jan 8, 2013 Full Review Monsieur Lazhar (2011) 98% 4/4 EDIT “Philippe Falardeau's direction is a model of the notion that less is more, and this film is a treat well worth savoring.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review The Kid With a Bike (2011) 96% 4/4 EDIT “It's a powerful, well-crafted film and a striking depiction of a side of growing up few filmmakers have tried to put on film. Fewer still have captured it with this sort of honesty and emotional gravity.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review Searching for Sugar Man (2011) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “There's no arguing this is a remarkable story, and director Malik Bendjelloul tells it beautifully, creating a powerful sense of mystery and discovery even when we're tipped off to how the story ends.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review This Is Not a Film (2010) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “This Is Not a Film is a practical joke as much as it is a movie, and while it possesses a deadly serious undercurrent, what's most surprising is how witty the finished product is.” – TV Guide Jan 7, 2013 Full Review Alex Cross (2012) 11% 2/4 EDIT “Tyler Perry's bid to reinvent himself like Bruce Willis or Matt Damon in Alex Cross is ultimately a failure, but if it's any consolation to him, he's hardly the only reason this film is not worth your time.” – TV Guide Oct 19, 2012 Full Review Frankenweenie (2012) 87% 3/4 EDIT “Its heart is still the relationship between a boy and his dog, and it still pulls at the heartstrings no matter how strongly you resist.” – TV Guide Oct 5, 2012 Full Review The Turin Horse (2011) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “If this truly is Bela Tarr's final film, there's no arguing he bows out with something extraordinary that no other director could have imagined.” – TV Guide Apr 6, 2012 Full Review Arthur Christmas (2011) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “In a season unexpectedly full of quality family films, Arthur Christmas may have to fight for the attention it deserves, but if there was ever an example of a film that's a crowd-pleaser without talking down to its audience, this is it.” – TV Guide Jan 3, 2012 Full Review Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Corman's World sometimes plays more like a celebrity roast in which Corman's friends tell funny stories about him for 90 minutes with a lot of film clips thrown in, but those stories are often hilarious and enlightening.” – TV Guide Dec 13, 2011 Full Review Ceremony (2010) 38% 3/4 EDIT “While Ceremony may not look or feel terribly original, Winkler has clearly learned a lot from his study of [Wes] Anderson's oeuvre, and he's made a comedy that's intelligent, stylish, and effective even when it's emulating someone else's work.” – TV Guide Apr 20, 2011 Full Review
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