Rob Humanick
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Only in theory does Joe Dante's subversive brand of satire effectively compliment Homecoming's schlocky horror premise. - Projection Booth
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| Posted Apr 29, 2021
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Godzilla on Monster Island (1972) |
Among the most efficient and exciting of the series since the 1954 original. - Projection Booth
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Godzilla Raids Again (1959) |
Unwise in investing so much time in its human characters, who are poorly drawn and never particularly compelling. - Suite101.com
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| Posted May 24, 2019
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Monster Zero (1965) |
The lip flapping English of the American version is only negligibly more entertaining. - Nerdist
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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J.T. LeRoy (2018) |
It's disappointing that so much of the film feels like mere tilling of the soil. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Apr 24, 2019
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Dust (2007) |
For those most curious about the world around them, Dust is a revelation. - Suite101.com
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| Posted Apr 06, 2016
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Rebels of the Neon God (1993) |
One of the great films about modern unrest and the pangs of youth. I can't wait to watch it again. - Projection Booth
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| Posted Jun 12, 2015
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The World According to Sesame Street (2006) |
Anyone who doubts the socially and culturally shaping powers of television, film or any other medium of expression need only look to Sesame Street in order to dispel their skepticism. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted May 21, 2015
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Remote Area Medical (2013) |
Despite the subdued anger and drawn-out suffering on display, the documentary is primarily a work of hope. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Nov 26, 2014
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Extraterrestrial (2014) |
A knowing mlange of recognizable genre tropes bordering on shopworn clich, with little else introduced to the equation to justify its existence. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Nov 19, 2014
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Interstellar (2014) |
While [...] imperfect in many ways, the whole proves to be far more than the sum of its parts. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Nov 08, 2014
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Love Is Strange (2014) |
Molina and Lithgow are a marvelous presence, establishing such potent chemistry that it remains tangible during their long stretches apart. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Nov 06, 2014
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Pelican Dreams (2014) |
The film is spare, empathic, and deeply introspective, and its imagery, such as a pelican fascinated by its own reflection, is so sublime in its kookiness as to be worthy of Werner Herzog. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Nov 06, 2014
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Private Peaceful (2012) |
By modestly embracing its inherent minimalism and finding the emotions underlying even the most schematic of scenarios, the film taps into something unmistakably human. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Oct 29, 2014
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
Alternately thought-provoking, philosophical, and politically conscious. It's also seriously cool. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Oct 17, 2014
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Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead (2014) |
By formally acknowledging the material's inherent silliness ad nauseam, the filmmakers have distanced themselves from the spirit of the parody, robbing it of its gruesome pleasures. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Oct 07, 2014
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Obvious Child (2014) |
Beneath the film's frequently sardonic front [...] is a sobering maturity, one contextualized with quotidian poetry. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Oct 06, 2014
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Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968) |
"Just as brilliant, beautiful, and entertaining as Romero's first zombie masterpiece." - Projection Booth
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| Posted Sep 30, 2014
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) |
"...an excruciatingly monotonous plunge through the id of our cultural subconscious, which means that it might even be a decent allegory in spite of itself." - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Sep 28, 2014
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The Hornet's Nest (2014) |
"...little more than lip service to the horrors, and ethical challenges, of modern war." - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Sep 24, 2014
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The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013) |
The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 21, 2014
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Pump (2014) |
The doc does a good job of avoiding partisan caterwauling, limiting its argument to a clear thesis and well-articulated supporting statements. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 17, 2014
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Godzilla (2014) |
This new Godzilla [...] walks a fine line, and that it never loses balance is something of a miracle. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Sep 15, 2014
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Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) |
Becomes full-on parody without even necessarily recognizing it. - Projection Booth
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| Posted Sep 12, 2014
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The Rover (2014) |
Might be described as an anti-High Noon. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Sep 09, 2014
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Venus in Fur (2013) |
"Revels in deception." - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Sep 08, 2014
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Forrest Gump (1994) |
It might hit you right in the feels, even as your eyes are rolling. To quote one of Forrest's truest pieces of wisdom: Maybe both is happening at the same time. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 04, 2014
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The Double (2013) |
Despite its pleasures, the film proves ultimately little more than an echo, forgoing a thorough exploration of its themes for a more literal approach that treads close to lip service. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Aug 25, 2014
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) |
There's a purely visual element to the storytelling that escapes many films of the genre - or, at least, everything but their action scenes. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Aug 24, 2014
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Blue Ruin (2013) |
A prismatically efficient thriller. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Aug 12, 2014
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Ragnarok (2013) |
In the end, any and all potential B-movie fun is extinguished by Ragnarok's depressingly listless anonymity. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Aug 12, 2014
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Locke (2013) |
Hardy's introspective intensity helps to achieve and sustain and level of intimacy that's more thrilling than many films with 100 times the budget. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Aug 11, 2014
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Boyhood (2014) |
For all of its contained and implied profundities, Boyhood succeeds in large part thanks to a virtually unnoticeable sleight of hand. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Aug 11, 2014
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Hercules (2014) |
The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Jul 26, 2014
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Tokarev (2014) |
It's sobering conclusions are heartfelt, but ultimately unearned. - Projection Booth
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| Posted Jul 22, 2014
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) |
It isn't too soon to add Only Lovers Left Alive to the list of the greatest vampire films. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jul 21, 2014
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The Immigrant (2013) |
As haunting, and haunted, as any of [James Gray's] prior achievements. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jul 21, 2014
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Snowpiercer (2013) |
Merits near-hyperbolic praise. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jul 15, 2014
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Life Itself (2014) |
Emotionally raw, visually spare, and poetic, even in its imperfections. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jul 15, 2014
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America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014) |
Beholden to the same plethora of taboos, half-truths, and outright lies traded en masse by mainstream conservatism for the last seven years. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Jul 01, 2014
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The Unknown Known (2013) |
It is, by definition, nonfiction, but at times suggests a horror movie. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jun 30, 2014
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Ida (2013) |
A painterly act of contemplation and one to compare with any of the greatest films made about the nature of faith. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jun 27, 2014
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Ernest & Célestine (2014) |
Were the film made 30 years ago, it would be the kind many families would have worn thin from endless VHS repeats. I can't wait to watch it again. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jun 16, 2014
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014) |
This film would have been well-made regardless of its casting, but the pairing of Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt is an inspired one. - The Berks-Mont News
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| Posted Jun 12, 2014
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) |
If [the film] ultimately resolves without quite plumbing its own depths as much as I'd have preferred, I'm still more than impressed with where it opts to go in the first place. - Projection Booth
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| Posted May 04, 2014
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Under the Skin (2013) |
Under the Skin doesn't just affirm the movies' ability to draw us out of our worldview: it raises the bar. I can't wait to watch it five or six more times, at least. - Projection Booth
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| Posted Apr 30, 2014
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That Demon Within (2014) |
It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino's films for all the wrong reasons. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Apr 17, 2014
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The Short Game (2013) |
This window into the world of youthful competition almost entirely disposes of social awareness in favor of routine drama. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 19, 2013
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Winnie (2011) |
The film's tonal inconsistencies speak less to the struggles of its titular subject than to its own grasp-exceeding ambitions. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 06, 2013
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Out of the Clear Blue Sky (2012) |
By de-emphasizing politics in favor of humanitarianism, Danielle Gardner's work also suggests how Americans might yet unify even as the world around them threatens to tear itself apart. - Slant Magazine
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| Posted Sep 06, 2013
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