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Megan Burbank

Megan Burbank's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Lure (2015) 89% EDIT “Agnieszka Smoczyska's debut is original and beautiful, and it showcases powerful, charismatic women.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 15, 2022 Full Review Flight (2012) 77% EDIT “Flight proves, in a bad way, that believable characters are essential for all good movies.” – Bitch Media Jan 14, 2021 Full Review Outside In (2017) 96% EDIT “It's a completely believable web of conflicting desires among people who lack the language and wherewithal to ask for what they want. But stick with it, and Outside In's relentless sadness gives way to something more gently hopeful...” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Apr 5, 2018 Full Review Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) 81% EDIT “We aren't accustomed to seeing older women partnered with younger men, which is, at least for its novelty, a more interesting and uncharted dynamic, and one elegantly captured in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Feb 7, 2018 Full Review I, Tonya (2017) 90% EDIT “I, Tonya, is a solid attempt, largely thanks to Margot Robbie's portrayal of a very human, very sympathetic Tonya.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Jan 3, 2018 Full Review The Snowman (2017) 7% EDIT “I liked The Snowman just fine-it's scary, and all the casual detective knitwear looked cozy-but I watch a lot of murder mysteries and have a high tolerance for even the category's most mediocre entries. This is certainly one of them.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 24, 2017 Full Review Gerald's Game (2017) 91% EDIT “But against these bad odds, [Carla] Gugino totally sells her endurance piece of a role.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Brad's Status (2017) 79% EDIT “I have a low tolerance for tales of privileged white guy ennui, so I'm pleased to tell you that Brad's Status, starring Ben Stiller as a dad with an existential crisis, is (twist!) one I actually liked!” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Sep 20, 2017 Full Review The Midwife (2017) 88% EDIT “Not much happens-but under the surface, everything does, and [Catherine] Frot and [Catherine] Deneuve make it impossible to miss.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Sep 14, 2017 Full Review Rebel in the Rye (2017) 28% EDIT “It's less of a tribute to Salinger than to the guy in your MFA who wouldn't know a realistic woman character if she was staring them in the face.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Sep 14, 2017 Full Review Crown Heights (2017) 79% EDIT “The best storytelling accesses the universal through the personal and director Matt Ruskin's depersonalized approach to this story means he can't do it justice.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Sep 6, 2017 Full Review The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) 29% EDIT “Of all the things in Insurgent-the second installment of the YA sci-fi action Divergent series-the lack of concern for Chicago winter is the most unbelievable.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Dark Places (2015) 23% EDIT “Dark Places has all the building blocks of a good feature-and then forces everyone in it to motormouth through heavy-handed dialogue, trying to cram a fairly complex novel into an uninspired two-hour crime drama.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Doctor Strange (2016) 89% EDIT “Doctor Strange might have a lot of baggage, but more than anything else, it's fun.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015) 11% EDIT “Papa just wallows in the haze of nostalgia.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Space Between Us (2017) 17% EDIT “The Space Between Us is terrible at explaining itself in any other way than 'Gary Oldman is a genius space inventor!'” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Eagle Huntress (2016) 94% EDIT “I went in pumped up to see a girl-power/girl-falconer documentary with plenty of big, cool-looking birds, and I was not disappointed.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review CHIPS (2017) 20% EDIT “What a stupid, beautiful movie.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Wonder Woman (2017) 93% EDIT “Wonder Woman is a thrilling start.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) 47% EDIT “Those of us who loved The Fifth Element will get exactly what we've been missing with Valerian. It's a delight.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Two Faces of January (2014) 80% EDIT “[Patricia Highsmith's] world is gloomy, but it's nuanced. It's fun. That's not the world in [The Two Faces of] January, which seems incapable of humor or irony. Which isn't to say it fails.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Age of Adaline (2015) 55% EDIT “It's a clunky, luminous mess that ultimately suggests that a person who has lived to be more than 100, raised a daughter, traveled the world, learned a ridiculous number of languages, and had a lot of adorable pets hasn't lived until she finds a man.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Water Diviner (2014) 63% EDIT “It's the cinematic equivalent of switching between 40 open tabs on your computer for two hours.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review Selma (2014) 99% EDIT “Selma forces a kind of reckoning for its viewer. At these moments, you won't be able to look away. And you shouldn't.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) 95% EDIT “The film may open with Minnie's search for love and validation from other people, but it ends with the legitimizing, exhilarating discovery that her most important relationship is with herself.” – The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 22, 2017 Full Review
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