Robert Kojder
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Shooting Stars (2023) |
Falls into a ciché, Lebron James centered rise and fall tale when the camaraderie among friends (and spreading the story among them) touching on how their actions influenced and shaped the future NBA superstar is more compelling - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Padre Pio (2022) |
The history here is fascinating to a degree, but the execution is akin to an amateur hour stageplay, rounded out by an out-of-place, horrendous performance from Shia LaBeouf
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| Posted Jun 02, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
While brilliantly repurposing tired origin stories into something to defy, every image (especially the watercolor art animation) is spellbinding and often innovative, taking the phrase “a picture is worth 1000 words” as a challenge to triumph over - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
It’s the definition of a tearjerker, something so lived-in without a single dishonest second, and one of the most relatable romances anyone will ever see in their lives. Everyone should see it in every life - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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The Machine (2023) |
Bert Kreischer’s schtick is irritating and gets old fast - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
The Boogeyman successfully uses striking direction, suspenseful craftsmanship, and emotional performances to distract from overwhelming familiarity
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| Posted May 26, 2023
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About My Father (2023) |
It’s one of the safest, most tame, lamest spins on this story in recent memory
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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Kandahar (2023) |
Waugh knows how to stage bombastic destruction and admirably wants to tell a thoughtful story around that, but he also gets lost within too many characters when the compelling dynamic between Tom and translator Mo provides enough riveting drama
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) |
Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote know that there should be a sense of humor and that the movie should be fun, above all else, with cleverly painful injuries and kills once the revenge starts - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings (2023) |
With piercing observations, a cutting script, and hilariously honest performances, the film stings its viewers just as much as it does its characters - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 23, 2023
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The Little Mermaid (2023) |
Maybe things are better under the sea, but they sure as hell aren’t better in live-action
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| Posted May 22, 2023
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White Men Can't Jump (2023) |
Between this and January’s House Party remake, Calmatic can’t make good movies. White Men Can't Jump is so bafflingly bad that even the title doesn't make sense in this version - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
Jason Momoa is having an infectious blast as a refreshingly irredeemable villain, and #FastX X certainly delivers unabashed chaos, but there's also so much weightless filler that there's no justification for splitting this entry into parts
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Sanctuary (2022) |
Sanctuary is a nonstop exhilarating kinky thrill-ride that dares to keep one-upping itself in abhorrent behavior that one can’t help cheering on; Margaret Qualley and Christopher dominate the screen - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Master Gardener (2022) |
Where Paul Schrader is ultimately going with the film isn’t so much preposterous and insulting but simply underwritten and unearned
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Crater (2023) |
Crater is slightly more ambitious than the average family film, with an endearing focus on friendship with winning performances (the flashbacks between Isaiah Russell-Bradley and Scott Mescudi are moving) and an unexpected emotional punch - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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The Mother (2023) |
The Mother is emotionally inert with mostly dull action.
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Fool's Paradise (2023) |
It’s an admirable concept for a Hollywood parody that starts amusing and full of potential but unfortunately stops being funny and becomes exhausting as it hits every piece of low-hanging fruit
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Hypnotic (2023) |
The real power of hypnosis is Robert Rodriguez being able to get this nonsense made
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
BlackBerry is a scintillating and often riotously hilarious cautionary tale about wealth, business ethics, power, and friendship. One doesn’t need to know a thing about the device to find it riveting - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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The Starling Girl (2023) |
The hardcore Christian angle baked into The Starling Girl, alongside these compelling performances, is enough to give this enough of a unique slant for this familiar storytelling ground - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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Monica (2022) |
Trace Lysette is outstanding, and the film has a way of crystallizing everything about the story through minimalism while still evoking overwhelming emotion
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| Posted May 11, 2023
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Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023) |
These characters feel stuck inside a narrative that is unsure if it wants to treat them and their concerns seriously or use them as an excuse to rattle off cringe sexual one-liners every two minutes - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 08, 2023
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022) |
There’s authenticity and a delicate approach to these thorny situations that make the nearly two-hour running time worth it - Flickering Myth
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| Posted May 05, 2023
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Johnny & Clyde (2023) |
Johnny & Clyde is an insufferably bad film that doesn’t seem to understand a thing about Bonnie and Clyde characterizations and narratives or the basics of horror
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| Posted May 05, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a messy movie but a rousing, emotionally satisfying sendoff for the core team. It's also a reminder that no one understands and can get viewers to care about outcasts quite like James Gunn - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) |
Peter Pan & Wendy takes too long to fly
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023) |
Somewhat passable during its first half, functioning as a rise to fame and wealth from nothing generic sports story that, unfortunately, becomes frequently hilariously bad once it pivots into faith-based mode
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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The Artifice Girl (2022) |
The Artifice Girl succeeds as a stagey moral drama - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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The Black Demon (2023) |
It’s as if everything from the shark, the Aztec mythology, and human drama was stuffed into an ecological story without considering how those elements would connect
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Sisu (2022) |
Sisu offers up deliciously violent grindhouse fun with a grizzled and silently killer turn from Jorma Tommila - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Clock (2023) |
There are graphic, effectively disturbing images in Clock and moments so silly they elicit unintentional laughter, sometimes all within the same scene - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Polite Society (2023) |
A genre-bending oddity openly expressing its influences with just enough bizarre plot points, rebellious spirit, and cultural specificity to offset its rather predictable narrative framework - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 27, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) |
Charming and sweet, with plenty of laughs coming from the embarrassingly adorable situations these characters find themselves in, but also with no shortage of emotional weight stemming from family and religion
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| Posted Apr 25, 2023
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Ghosted (2023) |
It's lazy, simply trying to coast along by star power casting alone, with no self-awareness that the characters quickly become irritating - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 22, 2023
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Chevalier (2022) |
Chevalier‘s electric performances, vibrant costumes, heavenly compositions, and operatic love story steeped in emotionally devastating tragedy further a desire to seek out more historical information about Joseph Bologne - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 21, 2023
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Evil Dead Rise (2023) |
Evil Dead Rise is mostly a gruesome fun time that struggles to get off the ground fully and make an emphatic mark on the series - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Somewhere in Queens (2022) |
As far as directorial debuts go, Ray Romano has crafted something emotionally cutting, poignantly funny, painfully awkward for the right reasons, and deeply personal; Hopefully, this is a new phase for his career - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Quasi (2023) |
Steve Lemme is amusing to look at portraying Quasi and has the line deliveries down. So it’s a shame that everything else about Quasi comes across as an unfinished, lazy rough draft - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Gringa (2023) |
Gringa kicks off on a sour note and never recovers - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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To Catch a Killer (2023) |
Hyper-focusing on putting together a modus operandi is interesting, but weak themes, excessive side stories, and underexplored characters surround it - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) |
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant is one of his best films, unlike anything the director has ever made. Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim are riveting, effectively developing their bond and holding this emotionally draining story up in each of their own valiant ways - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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Carmen (2022) |
Coming from celebrated dance choreographer Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan) and current great composer, Nicholas Britell, it only feels right that Carmen is less concerned with traditional storytelling, homing in on eliciting reactions through pure feeling - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 18, 2023
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The Pope's Exorcist (2023) |
Russell Crowe understands the assignment, appropriately hamming it up, but the filmmakers here are caught between having fun with this absurdity and treating certain themes and clichés too seriously - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Mafia Mamma (2023) |
Mafia Mamma is filled with lazy comedy and disorienting clashing tones causing one to question who the hell this movie is for - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 13, 2023
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Sweetwater (2023) |
While Sweetwater functions as a compelling history lesson about basketball’s evolution, it fails everywhere else, only capable of exploring (whether it be characters, racism, or themes) at a frustratingly basic, surface level - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 13, 2023
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Renfield (2023) |
It is a shame everything surrounding Renfield‘s central concept sucks - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 12, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
It’s a brain-melting, deeply harrowing, existentially idiosyncratic complex portrait of a son and mother with a black comedy heart that transcends genre classification - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 11, 2023
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Ride On (2023) |
Ride On quickly starts bogging itself down, incapable of fixating on what’s actually intriguing about this story - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 08, 2023
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One True Loves (2023) |
It’s a love story that will only inspire hatred toward these characters - Flickering Myth
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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