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Michael Pattison

Michael Pattison's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Michael has a BA in Film and English Studies, and an MA in Film. He has been published by Senses of Cinema, Indiewire, Slant Magazine and others. In 2013, he was a member of the Critics Academy at Festival del film Locarno. Michael is based in Gateshead, England. He never picks his feet in Poughkeepsie.

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http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/writer/Michael%20Pattison

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Amy (2015) 96% EDIT “Intentionally or otherwise, Amy partakes in the media's main offence: narrativising Winehouse's arc, sensationalizing her, speculating about her, making her infamous.” – Vice Jul 11, 2018 Full Review It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 100% EDIT “Juxtaposed against so many potential futures, the present moment seems perishable and trivial indeed. If such truisms are horrifying, however, they can also be oddly, paradoxically reassuring.” – MUBI Mar 6, 2018 Full Review Dovlatov (2018) 80% EDIT “Evokes the pervasively banal paranoia of Leningrad under Brezhnev with a certain ease.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 22, 2018 Full Review Transit (2018) 94% EDIT “More evidence of [Petzold's] confidence and skill as a director.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 22, 2018 Full Review Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) 77% EDIT “Van Sant's film is fascinating for many reasons.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 22, 2018 Full Review Land and Shade (2015) 88% EDIT “A cumulatively impressive, if overall muted, take on one murky dwelling crippled by the raging, top-down hostilities of capitalism.” – Slant Magazine Sep 26, 2015 Full Review The Postman's White Nights (2014) 89% EDIT “The film is a low-key comedy of quotidian detail, of ordinary folk surviving long past the point at which they've been forgotten.” – Slant Magazine Sep 26, 2015 Full Review Macbeth (2015) 80% EDIT “Justin Kurzel's film is most compelling when advancing its familiar plot through associative editing.” – Slant Magazine Sep 26, 2015 Full Review Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) 28% D EDIT “t's possible that Every Thing Will Be Fine is understated to a fault, that excavating its deeper meanings is deliberately impeded rather than enabled by its gently casual vibe.” – IndieWire Sep 16, 2015 Full Review James White (2015) 92% EDIT “Josh Mond's debut feature is a refreshingly authentic and profitably low-key drama.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2015 Full Review Junior Bonner (1972) 92% EDIT “The historical moment is precious, as its only constant is flux.” – Slant Magazine Aug 9, 2015 Full Review Schneider vs. Bax (2015) 70% EDIT “Schneider vs. Bax is one of those violent, twisty comedies whose slick telling (smooth pans, subtle tracks, surgical cuts) offsets the nonsensical premise.” – Slant Magazine Aug 9, 2015 Full Review Knight of Cups (2015) 47% 2/4 EDIT “With vacant eyes and mouth agape, man continues his seemingly irrevocable fall from innocence, in Terrence Malick's eternally juvenile seventh feature Knight of Cups.” – Movie Mezzanine Feb 9, 2015 Full Review Queen of the Desert (2015) 18% EDIT “Given the intrigues and even political insights that a serious, fully committed treatment of Bell's life might have resulted in, it's a shame her years in the land she loved are apparently reducible to ill-fated investments in two bland, charmless men.” – RogerEbert.com Feb 7, 2015 Full Review The Overnighters (2014) 97% EDIT “A quietly fascinating and frequently touching account of one man's dogged and possibly naive quest to juggle social, professional and familial duties.” – Film4 Oct 31, 2014 Full Review A Most Wanted Man (2014) 86% 3/5 EDIT “A thorny, welcome reminder of the mainstream media's short-term memory regarding the abduction, extradition and torture of innocent Muslims under the Bush administration and beyond.” – Little White Lies Sep 11, 2014 Full Review Starred Up (2013) 99% EDIT “For all its shockingly graphic bloodshed and atmosphere of pervasive doom, the moments when Starred Up grabs the jugular most are the scenes in Oliver's anger-management classes, where Eric sits with people of similar age and vulnerability.” – Sight & Sound Mar 20, 2014 Full Review Bravehearts (Til ungdommen) (2012) 6/10 EDIT “Nobody wants to knock a teen's confidence, of course, but the intellectually deficient climate in which a racist political party flourishes needs to be challenged.” – Eye for Film Oct 1, 2013 Full Review The Deflowering of Eva Van End (2012) 5/10 EDIT “Even if we overlook the curious implications of a blonde-haired blue-eyed German emancipating a middle-class Dutch family from its own anxieties, Deflowering has its problems.” – Eye for Film Oct 1, 2013 Full Review Wrong Cops (2013) 55% 1/10 EDIT “In an age of vicious crackdowns upon the Occupy movement, Dupieux serves up a police comedy whose repeat gags are painful, bottom-denominator non-sequiturs.” – Grolsch Film Works Sep 19, 2013 Full Review Short Term 12 (2013) 98% 8/10 EDIT “With its focus on togetherness and strength in numbers, though, Short Term 12 has a fine sense of emotional timing.” – Eye for Film Sep 19, 2013 Full Review Yumen (2013) 6/10 EDIT “Mournful in tone and associative in style and rhythm.” – Eye for Film Sep 18, 2013 Full Review Workers (2013) 8/10 EDIT “Labour is innately ritualistic, alienating, aestheticised - a performative act of mannered repetition.” – Eye for Film Sep 18, 2013 Full Review Tokyo Waka: A City Poem (2013) 100% 7/10 EDIT “The neon showcase that makes Tokyo-at-night such a film-friendly space is only sparingly present here. Even by day, though, it's a patchwork city.” – Eye for Film Sep 18, 2013 Full Review The Stoker (2010) 100% 8/10 EDIT “Effortless tonal shifts abound and there is outrageous comedy to be had merely in someone's sartorial choices.” – Eye for Film Sep 18, 2013 Full Review
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