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Mike Mazzanti

Mike Mazzanti's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Sputnik (2020) 88% C- EDIT “While Sputnik succeeds in its striking visual effects and an intriguing central creature, it sputters out from the gravitational pull of amateur pacing and a wildly messy execution.” – The Film Stage Aug 13, 2020 Full Review Relic (2020) 92% B- EDIT “Relic contains three stellar performances and an indelible image of multi-generational love and care in the face of slow annihilation, with mothers and daughters trying desperately to help each other approach the inevitable.” – The Film Stage Jul 2, 2020 Full Review Becky (2020) 72% B EDIT “What ends up making Becky truly interesting is its fascination with moral culpability and with the seeds of anger that are sowed by both personal trauma and social institutions, all resulting in violence as an outlet.” – The Film Stage Jun 3, 2020 Full Review Z (2019) 97% B- EDIT “It's clear Christensen has no shortage of ways to pervade parenthood with chills, perhaps even more so than infiltrating childhood with terror.” – The Film Stage May 18, 2020 Full Review The Invisible Man (2020) 92% B+ EDIT “The Invisible Man is full of tension and surprise, a brooding midnight movie traumatizer packed with the constant threat of unhinged energy that roars with a crowd.” – The Film Stage Feb 28, 2020 Full Review 3 From Hell (2019) 58% B+ EDIT “This is America let loose, with our violence, trauma, and psychopathy sweeping south of the border in a deluge, our arbiters wearing the indigenous garb of those we've already slaughtered to make bedrock.” – The Film Stage Sep 18, 2019 Full Review The Fanatic (2019) 15% D EDIT “Tt cannot be overstated how absurdly apeshit Travolta goes at every moment, and how he becomes totally impenetrable on any empathetic level as a result.” – The Film Stage Aug 27, 2019 Full Review The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) 75% C+ EDIT “In each and every frame, Elliott captivates us as Calvin Barr with subtlety and ease, physicalizing the sensations of regret and age and sheer goddamn exhaustion without ever letting you see him try.” – The Film Stage Feb 7, 2019 Full Review Buffalo Boys (2018) 82% C+ EDIT “The result of this concoction is a rousing action picture, sometimes misguided, even offensive, but never dull.” – The Film Stage Jan 10, 2019 Full Review The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) 38% 2/5 EDIT “[Relies] on a labyrinthine structure when it should just let its bruised heart shine through. The Girl in the Spider's Web demonstrates how uncertainty is a detriment, just as it proves Alvarez will always be a stylist worth watching.” – CineVue Dec 28, 2018 Full Review Summer of 84 (2018) 71% B- EDIT “At its height, Summer of '84 sings like a sandy page-turner you end up finishing in the fall, with the wind swirling and mischief night just around the corner.” – The Film Stage Dec 12, 2018 Full Review Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) 52% C+ EDIT “This take on the man-boy Mowgli and his pack of jungle pals strides in technically bold new directions while also wading through narratively thin waters.” – The Film Stage Dec 6, 2018 Full Review Overlord (2018) 82% B+ EDIT “It's undeniably sublime to see such a showcase of nasty gore in mainstream multiplex cinema, especially one with an intense and earnest approach.” – The Film Stage Nov 10, 2018 Full Review Outlaw King (2018) 63% B- EDIT “Outlaw King is a sincere war picture with ferocious violence and an inconsistent but righteously beating heart.” – The Film Stage Nov 8, 2018 Full Review Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 75% 3/5 EDIT “An audacious and unwieldy cocktail, Bad Times at the El Royale ultimately sings where it counts.” – CineVue Oct 31, 2018 Full Review Halloween (2018) 79% 3/5 EDIT “Trauma is a through line in Halloween, integrated by Matichak and Judy Greer, and carried on the shoulders of Curtis' searing performance, even when the narrative around them often seems hurried.” – CineVue Oct 30, 2018 Full Review The Night Comes for Us (2018) 92% B EDIT “Akin to The Raid 2 in particular, Tjahjanto blends emotion and scale with close-quarter savagery to craft an experience both exhilarating and exhausting.” – The Film Stage Oct 18, 2018 Full Review An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018) 52% C+ EDIT “An off-kilter, at times hilarious film that nevertheless loses some of its impact as it stumbles through its own delirium.” – The Film Stage Oct 18, 2018 Full Review Apostle (2018) 79% B+ EDIT “Evans lets his freak flag billow gloriously in the cinematic wind; leaning into the perverse nature of his work, he fixates on tension and dread to craft a compelling journey enveloped in lunacy.” – The Film Stage Oct 10, 2018 Full Review Hell Fest (2018) 41% B+ EDIT “Razor sharp, with a cast of characters so likable you'll hope they all survive, Hell Fest is a giddy and almost euphoric horror experience.” – The Film Stage Sep 30, 2018 Full Review Don't Leave Home (2018) 70% B- EDIT “Don't Leave Home transposes us to the purgatory between consciousness and slumber, at a time when it is uncertain which is preferable.” – The Film Stage Sep 14, 2018 Full Review What Keeps You Alive (2018) 82% C EDIT “It feels as if Minihan's most exciting elements are buried under the bloodshed and menace, in service of dour brutality that is definitely brutalizing, but decidedly lacking in heft.” – The Film Stage Aug 21, 2018 Full Review Mile 22 (2018) 23% B- EDIT “Through some perverse commitment, Mile 22 manages to subvert ultra-machismo, and reaches a study (at least a study through depiction) of the sort of personality type this job would attract.” – The Film Stage Aug 21, 2018 Full Review Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) 70% C+ EDIT “This is horror, after all, and sometimes we like our allegories and ideas caked in shit.” – The Film Stage Aug 14, 2018 Full Review The Devil and Father Amorth (2017) 45% D EDIT “It's a haphazardly constructed half-film, perhaps better issued as a YouTube clip than a feature a little over an hour.” – The Film Stage Apr 20, 2018 Full Review
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