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Rob Staeger

Rob Staeger's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Super (2017) 40% EDIT “"I was in The motherf**king Wire!" I imagine that thought was running through the head of Paul Ben-Victor as he grouched his way through The Super.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 22, 2018 Full Review Calling All Earthlings (2018) 63% EDIT “The film skirts the edges of its story like a garrulous pothead, its interviews never quite getting to the point.” – Village Voice Aug 1, 2018 Full Review Occupation (2018) 50% EDIT “Occupation is an action-movie throwback, a comfortable old combat boot. It's rousing in the old, familiar ways, but shouldn't all that sound and fury signify something?” – Village Voice Jul 19, 2018 Full Review Psychotic! (2016) EDIT “The amped-up acting is oversaturated in self-aware irony, and the few laughs wrung from the characters' train wreck of a band aren't worth the time spent listening to it.” – Village Voice Jan 26, 2018 Full Review The Price (2017) 83% EDIT “... the interaction of the film's many tensions nonetheless brings it to complex life.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 10, 2017 Full Review B&B (2017) 92% EDIT “Ahearne deftly builds the suspense, raising the stakes before steering the story into surprising new directions.” – Village Voice Oct 11, 2017 Full Review A...holes (2017) 17% EDIT “What begins as revolting and off the rails peters out into a weak-sauce final payoff presented as an intervention-themed reality show, so tired and quaintly stupid it no longer offends.” – Village Voice Oct 4, 2017 Full Review Realive (2016) 76% EDIT “Realive's greatest strength is that it takes its premise so seriously, engaging with its moral and spiritual questions.” – Village Voice Sep 28, 2017 Full Review Shot (2017) 56% EDIT “The characters deal with guilt, disability, and trauma, culminating in an intense final confrontation...and an underlying whiff of a Very Special Episode.” – Village Voice Sep 20, 2017 Full Review The Monster Project (2017) 50% EDIT “It's sometimes tough to follow the action, but for a short while it's breathless fun, as escaping one monster leads the group to the next.” – L.A. Weekly Aug 18, 2017 Full Review It Stains the Sands Red (2016) 64% EDIT “Like a dog turd lurking in the middle of a jelly doughnut, a needless, brutal rape scene poisons the whole experience.” – Village Voice Jul 27, 2017 Full Review Dead Awake (2016) 11% EDIT “The whole affair plods along in by-the-numbers fashion, and the characters are all types, displaying little evidence of interior lives.” – Village Voice May 11, 2017 Full Review Another Evil (2016) 67% EDIT “Proksch tilts his wretchedness into menace, and Mell stages a climax that's thrilling and ridiculous in equal measure.” – Village Voice May 3, 2017 Full Review Eloise (2017) 11% EDIT “Mysteries of the characters' pasts are revealed, but Dushku and Crawford are so bland that their secrets barely registered to begin with.” – Village Voice Feb 1, 2017 Full Review We Are the Flesh (2016) 73% EDIT “Filmgoers who brave We Are the Flesh may regret seeing it. Forgetting it is another matter entirely.” – Village Voice Jan 18, 2017 Full Review SiREN (2016) 68% EDIT “A lot can go wrong in a movie centered on a supernatural strip club. So why is Siren so damn entertaining?” – Village Voice Nov 30, 2016 Full Review Creepy (2016) 91% EDIT “The performances are compelling all around, but Kagawa stands out: His Nishino, somehow as cowardly as he is sinister, recalls the oily nervousness of Peter Lorre.” – Village Voice Oct 18, 2016 Full Review The Lennon Report (2016) 57% EDIT “Profe does an admirable job walking us through the day's events, weaving together the accounts of people on the scene.” – Village Voice Oct 5, 2016 Full Review Long Way North (2015) 98% EDIT “Where most post-Shrek animated films are manic and all too eager to please, Rémi Chayé's deliberately paced Long Way North tells its story with clarity and an urgent calm.” – Village Voice Sep 28, 2016 Full Review Carnage Park (2016) 61% EDIT “Much of Carnage Park is merely a sun-bleached desert creepshow, a murky soup of a murderer toying with his victims simply because he's cra-a-azy.” – Village Voice Jun 29, 2016 Full Review Intruder (2016) 23% EDIT “Even [its] looming threat can't enliven the plotless lollygagging in the foreground.” – Village Voice Jun 23, 2016 Full Review Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016) 92% EDIT “There's no explicit attempt to put forth a Grand Unifying Theory of Zappa; Schütte immerses us in the competing aspects of Zappa's public persona for their own sake. The results are fascinating.” – Village Voice Jun 22, 2016 Full Review What We Become (2016) 78% EDIT “In our zombie-glutted media landscape, this is familiar territory; we know what's coming, pretty much beat for beat.” – Village Voice May 11, 2016 Full Review Sacrifice (2016) 29% EDIT “This watered-down throwback to The Wicker Man never really heats up.” – Village Voice Apr 27, 2016 Full Review They're Watching (2016) 50% EDIT “Writer-directors Micah Wright and Jay Lender are kids'-cartoon vets and show a facility for comedy on a more human level here - as does the nimble cast, which ably handles the tonal shift from travel nightmare to actual nightmare.” – Village Voice Mar 22, 2016 Full Review
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