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Rita Cannon

Rita Cannon's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Any Day Now (2012) 78% EDIT “...as slight as the story is, Any Day Now proves that Matt Jay knows how to set a mood and it's one that should resonate with anyone who's ever felt uneasy in a new place.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 16, 2021 Full Review Rec 3: Genesis (2012) 45% EDIT “This movie doesn't negotiate its shifts in tone quite as nimbly as Wright's did, but its blend of absurd humor, bloody thrills, and genuine human emotion took me by surprise, and I mean that in a good way.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Clown (2010) 74% EDIT “Klown finds itself in the strange position of being kind of groundbreaking and kind of tired at the same time. It takes dark, awkward, character-based humor to new heights...a series of bizarre comic set pieces that will forever raise the bar...” – Battleship Pretension Mar 10, 2021 Full Review The Pact (2012) 65% EDIT “The Pact takes its time revealing anything specific about the horrors that hide in the family's house. For most of its running time, we don't have a good idea what Annie is up against, which makes the slow trickle of clues that much more tantalizing.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Americano (2011) 50% EDIT “Compelling in places, and gorgeous-looking all the way through. But what starts as an absorbing meditation on one man's struggle with his personal heritage soon dissolves into something else, and the second thing is a lot less interesting.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) 34% EDIT “...so refreshingly weird and inherently watchable.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 10, 2021 Full Review Headhunters (2011) 93% EDIT “The point of Headhunters isn't where you land, but the wild ride taken to get there, and that part of the film definitely delivers.” – Battleship Pretension Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Good Ol' Freda (2013) 85% EDIT “Kelly's stories are often delightful. Combine that with tons of rare photos and great music from the Beatles and other bands of the era, and you have a breezy, amiable doc that leaves you with a smile on your face.” – Battleship Pretension Feb 24, 2021 Full Review Short Term 12 (2013) 98% EDIT “It's a perfect example of the raw emotion and attention to detail that make Short Term 12 such a moving, unforgettable experience.” – Battleship Pretension Feb 24, 2021 Full Review Thanks for Sharing (2012) 50% EDIT “There's nothing wrong with shifting between comedy and drama, even with such serious subject matter, but as we near the end of Thanks For Sharing, the shifting gets less graceful and becomes more of a lurch.” – Battleship Pretension Feb 24, 2021 Full Review Paradise (2013) 20% EDIT “Paradise claims to be the story of young woman's crisis of faith and subsequent rebirth, but in execution, it feels more like a story about someone who was in a bad mood for a while but eventually got over it.” – Battleship Pretension Feb 16, 2021 Full Review Broadway Idiot (2013) 62% EDIT “Feeling like a making-of featurette that somehow got stretched out to 80 minutes, Broadway Idiot has moments that are truly compelling, but they're few and far between, and the filler will be pretty boring to anyone who isn't already a fan...” – Battleship Pretension Feb 16, 2021 Full Review Breath (2017) 80% EDIT “Despite a dearth of concrete dramatic developments, Breath is saturated throughout with foreboding.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review Leave No Trace (2018) 100% EDIT “McKenzie and Foster serve as compelling guides on Granik's emotional journey.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review Game Night (2018) 85% EDIT “The film does have a lot of laughs, even if they sometimes feel unevenly distributed among its impressive comic ensemble.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review In the Fade (2017) 75% EDIT “Akin takes us through the intense events of the film in a deliberate, almost businesslike way.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review An L.A. Minute (2018) 22% EDIT “It's actually kind of incredible that they've managed to make a movie so nonsensical it can't even convince us of something we already know is true.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review The Disaster Artist (2017) 90% EDIT “Well-intentioned and sometimes genuinely funny but ultimately still a little depressing.” – Battleship Pretension Jul 26, 2019 Full Review The Favourite (2018) 93% EDIT “It's as bleak and nasty as Lanthimos' previous work, but it's also infused with more recognizable humanity than I've seen from him before -- which makes the funny stuff funnier, and the icky stuff infinitely ickier.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 26, 2018 Full Review The Angel (2018) 73% EDIT “Casts an effective spell, inviting viewers to try their best to extract a character study out of a figure who never even seemed very interested in studying himself.” – Battleship Pretension Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Apostle (2018) 79% EDIT “Much like the cult it depicts, Apostle has a lot of powerful forces at its disposal, but can't seem to marshal those forces well enough to define its goals, much less achieve them.” – Battleship Pretension Oct 11, 2018 Full Review White Boy Rick (2018) 56% EDIT “While undeniably entertaining, White Boy Rick ultimately hobbles itself by forcing a complicated story into a simpler format than it deserves.” – Battleship Pretension Sep 14, 2018 Full Review
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