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Michael Wade Simpson

Michael Wade Simpson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan (2016) 100% EDIT “It is a powerful and moving documentary about one artist choosing to rise above the seemingly insurmountable obstacles placed upon her by age, injury, and ballet itself.” – culturevulture.net Dec 19, 2017 Full Review Jersey Boys (2014) 51% EDIT “...the movie actually drags a bit in between songs. Lacking is the dramatic staging and lighting of the musical.” – culturevulture.net Jul 4, 2014 Full Review Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2013) 90% EDIT “"Here, in a few minutes of black-and-white footage, are a gaze, a touch, a few steps and a look out at the audience that create an unforgettable impression. "” – culturevulture.net Mar 17, 2014 Full Review The Great Beauty (2013) 91% EDIT “For those of us who spend most of our time still dealing with rent and health care, it is a two-hour journey into ideas and emotions we only wish there were time to consider. That's a reason to go to the movies.” – culturevulture.net Feb 17, 2014 Full Review Farewell, My Queen (2012) 93% EDIT “... a moody, elegant and perceptive film that presents a three-dimensional King and Queen mired in a tornado of their own creation.” – culturevulture.net Jul 12, 2012 Full Review Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) 81% EDIT “... a concert-that-never-was film that trumps that genre because of its ultimate humanity, imperfection and lack of overproduction” – culturevulture.net Nov 12, 2009 Full Review The Witnesses (2007) 86% EDIT “André Téchiné is a master at taking life experiences and stripping them of sentimentality, leaving us with only the bare-bones honesty of relationships and desire.” – culturevulture.net Mar 3, 2008 Full Review Hairspray (2007) 92% EDIT “This is born-again anti-establishmentarianism.” – culturevulture.net Aug 4, 2007 Full Review Little Children (2006) 81% EDIT “The success Fields has with this film comes through the uncomfortable intersection between comedy, melodrama and tragedy. Oh, and romance.” – culturevulture.net Apr 3, 2007 Full Review Babel (2006) 68% EDIT “There is some hope, in Iñárritu's world, each of the characters may have a family and love, but this is shown to be, at best, a diversion against the real world, which is a much more intolerable, incomprehensive place.” – culturevulture.net Mar 27, 2007 Full Review Harsh Times (2005) 48% EDIT “A movie that seems gritty and pointless for its first third, begins to grow in meaning as the pointlessness snowballs into absurdity and then tragedy.” – culturevulture.net Mar 27, 2007 Full Review God Grew Tired of Us (2006) 91% EDIT “It deflates upon arriving in the vast, familiar blandness we know as America.” – culturevulture.net Mar 5, 2007 Full Review Sacred Stage - The Mariinsky Theater (2005) 33% EDIT “There is old and new here, great artists, great traditions and a kind of paradoxical survival story.” – culturevulture.net Nov 30, 2005 Full Review Ballets Russes (2005) 91% EDIT “A moderately engaging historical document” – culturevulture.net Nov 8, 2005 Full Review Last Dance (2002) 80% EDIT “A fascinating look into the creative process” – culturevulture.net Dec 1, 2004 Full Review My Mother Likes Women (2002) 45% EDIT “The directors' attempt to go slightly high-brow comes off as fake and the heightened state of madcap craziness seems simply forced.” – culturevulture.net Jun 8, 2004 Full Review
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