Matt Prigge
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Decalogue (1989) |
It's the compassion that towers over "The Dekalog," even moreso than its insane ambition. - Metro
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| Posted May 01, 2021
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What Keeps You Alive (2018) |
Spy vs. Spy by way of The Revenant, only better directed. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 21, 2018
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Cocote (2017) |
Getting one's bearings isn't impossible; it's like divining the trick of a Sunday crossword. But Cocote isn't purely academic. It's alternately clinical and sensual. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 01, 2018
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Araby (2017) |
This is a beautiful bummer, giving voice to someone who's barely a number, but only to remind us that most of us are OK not thinking about numbers at all. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 20, 2018
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Believer (2018) |
A better doc would have used its superstar lead as a linchpin, structuring it so that he's absorbed into the cause, gradually upstaged by those directly affected by sanctioned bigotry. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 13, 2018
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) |
It's devastating stuff - no less than a stick figure "Tree of Life" - and it confirms that Hertzfeldt has become "mature" without sacrificing any of his considerable gifts. - Metro
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| Posted Mar 06, 2018
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The Dark Tower (2017) |
Stephen King has inspired plenty of terrible movies before; we guesstimate the number at around 40 to 50. But "The Dark Tower" has to sting. - Metro
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| Posted Aug 03, 2017
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The Emoji Movie (2017) |
The Poochie of movies. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 27, 2017
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) |
We give "An Inconvenient Sequel" a pass for doing the bare minimum. After all, all it had to do was show up. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 25, 2017
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Logan Lucky (2017) |
A purely auteur-driven lark slipped into an era when studios no longer want to work with directors with personality and pesky calls for final cut - a high entertainment with a handmade feel. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 24, 2017
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Detroit (2017) |
The "incident," which eats up about an hour of the middle, may be the greatest thing Kathryn Bigelow's ever made. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 23, 2017
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Atomic Blonde (2017) |
More John Le Carré than "Jane Wick," and less James Bond and more one of the grounded Bond knock-offs. (Think the Harry Palmer films featuring a bespectacled Michael Caine.) - Metro
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| Posted Jul 19, 2017
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Girls Trip (2017) |
Tiffany Haddish gives the kind of turn - like Michael Keaton in "Night Shift" or Jack Black in "High Fidelity" - that makes you want to see her in everything and wonder why she isn't everywhere already. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 18, 2017
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Dunkirk (2017) |
The war movie as sensory overload, and the opposite of a Wikipedia movie. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 17, 2017
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Lady Macbeth (2016) |
Focused, precise and pitiless, just like its hero. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 13, 2017
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Wish Upon (2017) |
It's a savage takedown of the capitalist urge, which forces all of us to ignore the misery upon which our happiness rests - or it would be if its filmmakers had even realized it. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 13, 2017
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) |
At its best, "Valerian" has the dense, madcap rush of a comedic cartoon sci-fi - think "Futurama" or "Rick and Morty," though neither as funny nor as inventive as either. - Metro
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| Posted Jul 11, 2017
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A Ghost Story (2017) |
For its first hour, "A Ghost Story" is a top-notch contribution to the grief genre. It's right up there with "Truly Madly Deeply." - Metro
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| Posted Jul 05, 2017
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2016) |
In its quiet, charming way, this is a sad, dark Errol Morris movie, about loss and change and aging out of one's profession. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 30, 2017
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) |
Quick on its feet, fun and funny, yet not smug and self-satisfied a la "Deadpool." It's such a blast it took me a long time to realize I didn't care about anyone or anything that happened. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 29, 2017
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Okja (2017) |
It's a mess - a Spielbergian heartwarmer that's also an action movie that's also an activist screed that takes on not only capitalism but also animal rights. But that it doesn't all go together is part of the charm. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 27, 2017
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Baby Driver (2017) |
Arrives like the Calvary to save our depressingly franchise-heavy summer movie season. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 26, 2017
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Despicable Me 3 (2017) |
It's fine. But it's fine the way another so-so episode of a beloved TV show you watch religiously is fine. It's depressing that it's only fine, because it shows a once-inspired series is finally low on gas. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 26, 2017
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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) |
Far as this year's downer franchise entries go, it's far less smug and more deeply-felt than "Logan." - Metro
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| Posted Jun 26, 2017
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The Bad Batch (2016) |
There's slow and then there's Ana Lily Amirpour's "The Bad Batch." - Metro
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| Posted Jun 22, 2017
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The Beguiled (2017) |
Though the two "Beguiled"s are very different, they're the same in a key way: Both are thrilling works of art too complex for sometimes reductive think pieces. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 21, 2017
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The Big Sick (2017) |
This is a comedy that needs room to breathe, that would feel gutted if it ran a mere hour-and-a-half - the same way an epic trimmed of an hour by nervous studio execs would seem gutted. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 21, 2017
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Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) |
Plays like Michael Bay dragged some writers to the desert, fed them acid, wrote down their bats- ideas for the next "Transformers," threw those ideas into the air, then Scotch-taped them together at random. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 20, 2017
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All Eyez on Me (2017) |
Bad comes in many flavors, and "All Eyez on Me" is bad in a way that breaks your heart. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 15, 2017
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The Book of Henry (2017) |
It's bad the way "The Cobbler" and "Labor Day" are bad. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 15, 2017
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Rough Night (2017) |
Plays like a rough draft for a comedy, in which everyone showed up assuming they'd kill it. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 14, 2017
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Cars 3 (2017) |
There's something badass about a movie aimed squarely at kids that's all about the pains of getting old. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 12, 2017
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My Cousin Rachel (2017) |
It's not a film that lives or dies by the final twist. The fun lies in the way it quietly drills into your head. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 09, 2017
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Megan Leavey (2017) |
Anything that might offend those allergic to the corny, the simplistic, even the patriotic has been surgically removed. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 08, 2017
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The Mummy (2017) |
A depressing watch, and not only because it's an awkward, misshapen mess. It's also because it finds the last classic movie star giving up and giving in. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 07, 2017
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It Comes at Night (2017) |
You see it to jump in your seat; you wind with something even freakier: you get to watch what it's like to live when life is no longer worth living. - Metro
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| Posted Jun 05, 2017
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Wonder Woman (2017) |
Along with the first "Iron Man," it's the film you point to when you want to prove that this overly prolific genre is worth keeping around. - Metro
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| Posted May 29, 2017
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War Machine (2017) |
Brad Pitt's the only straight-shooter, the only thing that consistently kills in the wobbly, well-intentioned "War Machine," which is what you'd call "theoretically funny." - Metro
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| Posted May 25, 2017
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Baywatch (2017) |
Most of the time "Baywatch" plays too much like an episode of "Baywatch," as though the filmmakers had filmed a straight-faced script written in 1995 by mistake. - Metro
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| Posted May 23, 2017
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) |
Well, at least it's short. - Metro
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| Posted May 22, 2017
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Snatched (2017) |
This is a seriously weird comeback movie, and one that didn't necessarily need to feature the Goldie Hawn herself. But we'll take what we can get. - Metro
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| Posted May 10, 2017
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) |
You might not imagine Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur" could be so very Guy Ritchie. - Metro
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| Posted May 09, 2017
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Alien: Covenant (2017) |
It's a mixed bag that still works better than it should, given its absurdly huge ambitions. - Metro
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| Posted May 06, 2017
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The Circle (2017) |
Essentially a so-so episode of "Black Mirror." - Metro
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| Posted Apr 27, 2017
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Free Fire (2016) |
Always quick to rebound from a dead patch with a nasty joke, a funny line delivery (especially from Hammer, Copley and Reynor) or, eventually, some Midnight Movie gore. If only Wheatley thought up a better punchline. - Metro
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| Posted Apr 18, 2017
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The Promise (2016) |
Unimaginable horrors apparently weren't enough for the makers of "The Promise"; they also felt compelled to throw in a love triangle, as though Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor" was a movie worth ripping off. - Metro
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| Posted Apr 18, 2017
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The Fate of the Furious (2017) |
It's an auto fetishist saga that's officially spinning its wheels. - Metro
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| Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Going in Style (2017) |
It tells you where to laugh, where to get angry, where to get teary, and when to cheer. And when it's over, you'll forget Zach Braff had anything to do with it. - Metro
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| Posted Apr 06, 2017
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Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) |
You feel a little bad for the writers and animators, who clearly put in some hard work. But they didn't work hard enough to ensure the kids watching it wouldn't mostly forget it, as you mostly forgot the show. - Metro
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| Posted Apr 06, 2017
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The Boss Baby (2017) |
Has the most convoluted, bizarre story since "Collateral Beauty." Trying to explain the plot at parties will make you feel like you're on acid. - Metro
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| Posted Mar 29, 2017
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