Matt Donato
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Tetris (2023) |
Tetris tries its best to make a story about international video game rights into something infinitely more thrilling, with a smidge better than mixed results. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Molli and Max in the Future (2023) |
Molli and Max in the Future is an out-of-this-world adorable romantic comedy. - Slashfilm
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| Posted Mar 20, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023) |
Evil Dead Rise is both a familiar and refreshing Evil Dead sequel that delivers all the gore you’d expect with a measured dose of the humor that makes this series a fan favorite. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Late Night With the Devil (2023) |
A found footage film with '70s horror vibes. - Slashfilm
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Brooklyn 45 (2023) |
Brooklyn 45 is a stagey chiller about a World War II era séance. - Slashfilm
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is an accessible fantasy adventure that both roasts and respects D&D culture without losing newcomers along for the ride. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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If You Were the Last (2023) |
Bourassa pens a romantic comedy in a hopeless place, finding humor where it should not exist. - Slashfilm
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) |
A fun-filled slaughter-fest. - Slashfilm
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Talk to Me (2023) |
A nasty possession film for the TikTok generation. - What To Watch
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| Posted Mar 12, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
Scream VI features duller horror commentary but a sharper killer's blade, trading satirical blows for gruesome fates that'd make any slasher jealous. - What To Watch
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Children of the Corn (2023) |
Kurt Wimmer’s newfangled Children of the Corn is a rotten husk of a Stephen King adaptation. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre gives us what we want from another Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham collaboration, even if they fall into formulaic espionage-comedy rhythms. - What To Watch
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| Posted Mar 01, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
Director Elizabeth Banks delivers what’s on the Cocaine Bear tin. There’s a bear, it does cocaine. People die, and you will laugh. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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The Strays (2023) |
Nathaniel Martello-White’s feature debut The Strays is a social thriller that lacks bite, discipline, and a compelling third act. - Bloody Disgusting
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is noteworthy only for its name, as it turns out that blending slasher blood with Pooh’s honey together is like oil and water: it just doesn’t mix. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Feb 18, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
While brimming with imagination thanks to environmental Quantum designs, Quantumania doesn't escape feeling like a layover between major franchise destinations. - What To Watch
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| Posted Feb 14, 2023
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The Unsettling (2022) |
Excuse the low-hanging fruit, but The Unsettling just isn’t that unsettling. - Bloody Disgusting
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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The Outwaters (2022) |
The Outwaters is found-footage fearlessness that needs to be seen to be believed, but will be met by only the most divisive of reactions. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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She Came from the Woods (2022) |
There’s a passionate attempt to prove life can find new ways in a decade’s old slasher formula, and She Came from the Woods keeps the beat(ings) alive for now. - Bloody Disgusting
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Mean Spirited (2022) |
Jeff Ryan’s Mean Spirited voices relevant and vile concerns about social media soullessness, but its commentary is neutered by shaky execution. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Feb 07, 2023
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80 for Brady (2023) |
There's unavoidable Brady worship (mostly in joke form), but it's easily digested because the film stays rightly focused on its legendary leading ladies. - Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
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| Posted Feb 05, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
Knock at the Cabin is an apocalypse movie that doesn’t feel all that apocalyptic, despite the efforts of a heavyweight Dave Bautista performance. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Feb 01, 2023
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Blood (2022) |
It’s not that it’s been done before; it’s that it’s also been done better, with more vigor and greater reinvention. Blood runs thick, in that it’s hard to trudge through. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 26, 2023
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The Lair (2022) |
Stay far away from The Lair. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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There's Something Wrong with the Children (2023) |
There's Something Wrong With The Children is an energetic but expected kiddies-gone-killer tale that wades into some murky waters. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Kids vs. Aliens (2022) |
Kids vs. Aliens brings gloopy, grotesque practical effects to a childlike sci-fi thriller that fails to shine outside kill sequences and costumes. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Missing (2023) |
Missing owes its best moments to learning from 2018’s Searching, but is a bit of a downgrade in terms of Screenlife usage. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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House Party (2023) |
Calmatic isn’t afraid to go big or go home—even if the rowdy trespassing comedy lands somewhere between a blow-out win and a total rout. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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The Devil Conspiracy (2022) |
The Devil Conspiracy is a high-concept religious action flick with horror influences that sells its ambitions short but still entertains despite itself. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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Plane (2023) |
Plane is an unpretentious and dependable action film that might not be a first-class experience, but gets audiences from point A to point B with minimal hiccups. - What To Watch
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| Posted Jan 11, 2023
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Human Resources (2021) |
Human Resources is a debut that you hope leads to better tomorrows because today—keeping with the metaphor—feels like a Going Out of Business sale. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Jan 09, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
M3GAN proves itself more than gifable android dances and NFL halftime shows — a movie that pays off viral hype with the production goods. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) |
Glass Onion is a biting satire about billionaire smoke and mirrors that sacrifices some whodunit suspense to let Benoit Blanc lay into the moronic upper crust of society. - What To Watch
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| Posted Dec 23, 2022
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Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge (2022) |
Rad Chad’s enthusiasm isn’t enough to save Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge from planting itself smack-dab in the middle, thanks to a suffocating pile of references. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Dec 22, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
Cameron’s world-building is obsessively rich — focal storytelling not as much. - Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
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| Posted Dec 19, 2022
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Babylon (2022) |
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon is a beautiful disaster of old school Hollywood proportions, but his fantasy commentary is woefully scattershot and the film a bloated mess. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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Adult Swim Yule Log (2022) |
Adult Swim Yule Log earns some laughs but overstays its welcome as an absurd Christmas Horror story based on a holiday tradition. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
Tries to do too much with too much movie — but when it stuns, it's stunning. - Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
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| Posted Dec 12, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
A top-notch exploration of the toxic relationship between art, artist and consumer. Sharp satire, commentary with precise cuts, and tantalizing tension that brings the heat. - Perri Nemiroff (YouTube)
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| Posted Dec 08, 2022
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The Mean One (2022) |
What could have been an embarrassment of parody riches is just an inept slasher embarrassment. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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The Leech (2022) |
The Leech is a seedy, nefarious and scrappy morality tale that excels on the backs of its big-swinging performers. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Dec 05, 2022
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Dash (2022) |
Dash is a devious and thrilling one-take adventure through Los Angeles captured by a rideshare driver’s dashboard camera. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Nov 30, 2022
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Violent Night (2022) |
Violent Night brings the Christmas spirit to a gore-first action flick that delivers what’s advertised thanks to a top-form David Harbour. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Nov 30, 2022
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Blood Relatives (2022) |
Blood Relatives is doing the best with what it's got as a shaky vampire indie that gets by on the charming chemistry between its bloodsucking leads. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Nanny (2022) |
Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny is a tale of prolific sadness that challenges horror’s identity. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 23, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
Luca Guadagnino tethers cruel massacres to heartfelt healing as few can, but not without dragging feet (and not just when moving corpses). - What To Watch
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Presence (2022) |
Christian Schultz’s Presence is a possession thriller gone aimlessly adrift over international waters. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Mandrake (2022) |
Mandrake tiptoes into the Irish horror canon without making much noise, but shouldn’t be skipped by genre fans with more appreciation for natural folklore bred right underneath our feet. - Paste Magazine
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| Posted Nov 09, 2022
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The Killing Tree (2022) |
The Killing Tree decks the halls with holiday horror absurdity that hits the expected highs and lows of a killer Christmas tree slasher. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Nov 01, 2022
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Slayers (2022) |
Slayers wants to be a Gen Z vampire party, but chooses an online video style that’s more distracting than it is inviting. - IGN Movies
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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