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Neil Genzlinger

Neil Genzlinger's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Big Time (2002) 71% EDIT “Carol Flint's script strikes a nice balance between drollery and drama, and best of all, she knows just how far to take the drama.” – New York Times Dec 11, 2023 Full Review Mary and Martha (2013) 56% EDIT “The malaria story, it seems to say, is filmable only if the central figures are white and it is larded up with the kind of button-pushing that television dramas thrive on. The Africans in this film are largely props for Ms. Swank to hold.” – New York Times Oct 8, 2020 Full Review A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration (2010) EDIT “It's tempting to say that watching "A Family Is a Family Is a Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration" is like drowning in a vat of syrup. But you could never actually drown in a vat of this program. Because it's too shallow.” – New York Times Aug 18, 2020 Full Review A Room with a View (2007) 60% EDIT “The adornments to the core story in "A Room With a View" are generally to good effect.” – New York Times Mar 4, 2020 Full Review Camp Rock (2008) 50% EDIT “The movie has some bright spots, but so much of it revolves around the resident diva of the title camp that it's hard to focus on the good stuff; you're too annoyed at having this lazily imagined character shoved down your throat for the zillionth time.” – New York Times Sep 11, 2019 Full Review Tru Confessions (2002) EDIT “[H]idden among the dross are beautifully accurate glimpses of life in a family with a disabled child, made possible by a remarkable performance from a young actor named Shia LaBeouf.” – New York Times Sep 11, 2019 Full Review Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King (2017) 78% EDIT “"Homecoming King" seems unsurprising and premature... Appropriating from one world while trying to secure a place in another makes you wonder if he's really found his identity at all.” – New York Times Jul 16, 2019 Full Review The Last Dance (2000) EDIT “This is an insulting view of the elderly, but the ''Touched by an Angel'' crowd, at whom this film is aimed, will be too busy reaching for hankies to notice.” – New York Times Nov 29, 2018 Full Review Descendants 2 (2017) 83% EDIT “The kids are largely on their own in Descendants 2. That makes for a dumber film, but the target audience for this colorful tuneful fluff won't care and may even consider it an improvement.” – New York Times Jul 22, 2017 Full Review First Kill (2017) 15% EDIT “A decently executed but generic thriller ... most notable for advancing the dubious theory that the best way to help a child who is being bullied is to traumatize the heck out of him.” – New York Times Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Blind (2017) 19% EDIT “The film, directed by Michael Mailer, wanted to be a steamy romance, but it ended up leaden and occasionally laughable.” – New York Times Jul 13, 2017 Full Review Mike and the Mad Dog (2017) EDIT “It's an enjoyable excursion for fans of the longtime radio partners Mike Francesa and Chris Russo.” – New York Times Jul 13, 2017 Full Review Almost Sunrise (2016) 90% EDIT “We're left ... feeling we've had only a glimmer of illumination on a vexingly complex problem.” – New York Times Jul 13, 2017 Full Review Presenting Princess Shaw (2015) 91% EDIT “The film, which had a brief theatrical release last year, is a feel-good story for the age of viral video.” – New York Times Jul 12, 2017 Full Review Tour De Pharmacy (2017) 90% EDIT “The film is directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Murray Miller, who paired so well on an earlier installment in what we can only hope will be a series of sports dismantlings.” – New York Times Jul 11, 2017 Full Review Austin Found (2017) 21% EDIT “Comedies don't come much dumber.” – New York Times Jul 6, 2017 Full Review Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) 16% EDIT “If for some reason the drawn-out and incoherent battle scenes are what you liked about the earlier films, the climactic one here is still both of those things. The movie is shorter than the last one, though, and considerably more bearable.” – New York Times Jun 20, 2017 Full Review Hearing Is Believing (2016) 60% EDIT “Ms. Flowers's career is just beginning. There might be a better documentary to be made about her some years in the future.” – New York Times Jun 15, 2017 Full Review Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017) 21% EDIT “A bunch of well-known faces look lost in "Once Upon a Time in Venice," which is billed as an action-comedy but has little comedy and less action.” – New York Times Jun 15, 2017 Full Review Miles (2016) 70% EDIT “It's hard to root for a protagonist who is focused only on his own narrow needs and seems indifferent to the broader issues his tale raises.” – New York Times Jun 8, 2017 Full Review Megan Leavey (2017) 86% EDIT “If the conclusion doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you're way too cynical.” – New York Times Jun 8, 2017 Full Review Becoming Cary Grant (2016) 87% EDIT “The film, elusive and impressionistic, is at least somewhat successful in capturing that inner tumult.” – New York Times Jun 8, 2017 Full Review EDIT “It provides delightful evidence that there is plenty of life yet in the population born before the Great Depression. Now the broader culture needs to consider how to change its preconceptions if 90 is the new 65.” – New York Times Jun 5, 2017 Full Review Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) 87% EDIT “The best animated movies for children are sublime. This one generally settles for noisy, though it throws in a positive message at the end.” – New York Times Jun 1, 2017 Full Review Dean (2016) 67% EDIT “Mr. Martin, taking a lesson from Woody Allen, gives his character lots of amusing opportunities to skewer pretentiousness.” – New York Times May 31, 2017 Full Review
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