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Ronnie Scheib

Ronnie Scheib's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Variety film critic.

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Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride (2012) 78% EDIT “Uniquely accessing an endless flow of rampant hypocrisy, [Zipper] should amuse audiences even as it horrifies. ” – Variety May 31, 2024 Full Review Muskrat Lovely (2005) EDIT “An utterly fascinating look at a joint muskrat skinning contest-cum-beauty pageant in Dorchester County, Maryland, “Muskrat Lovely” neither glorifies nor condescends to its oddly anomalous, two-sided subject which “all ties into one."” – Variety May 31, 2024 Full Review Yaaba (1989) 88% EDIT “[Its] directness breeds an intimacy, a sense of familiarity. By the film’s end we know every mud-bricked courtyard and intersection of the tiny village...” – Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 Full Review In Bed with Ulysses (2012) 86% EDIT “A surprisingly felicitous amalgam of literature and biography...” – Variety Mar 17, 2022 Full Review Koch (2012) 93% EDIT “Barsky wisely includes just enough dissenting voices and admissions of grievous error by Koch himself to prevent the pic from seeming like a 100% feel-good puff piece.” – Variety Nov 3, 2020 Full Review Abandoned (2001) EDIT “Yet for all its dreary trappings, Abandoned possesses a remarkable distance and clarity that are promises in themselves.” – Chicago Reader Feb 12, 2020 Full Review Virunga (2014) 100% EDIT “With enough action, pathos, suspense, venal villains, stalwart heroes and endangered gorillas for a dozen fiction films, von Einsiedel's extraordinary documentary Virunga lays out the complex of deadly forces threatening the titular national park...” – Variety Jul 3, 2018 Full Review The Road to Fame (2013) 100% EDIT “Throughout, Hao's focus on individual students struggling to secure key roles in the production invites viewer identification.” – Variety Mar 28, 2018 Full Review Tall as the Baobab Tree (2012) 100% EDIT “Chris Collins' serene lensing highlights the family's closeness and its connection to the environment, while Jay Wadley's African harp score adds to the pic's authenticity.” – Variety May 11, 2017 Full Review Violet (2014) 85% EDIT “Intensely stylized, highly original and utterly mesmerizing.” – Variety Apr 3, 2017 Full Review Among the Believers (2015) 95% EDIT “The filmmakers skillfully orchestrate the various levels of their exploration, from the intimate details of Talha and Zarina's lives to the workings of the big national picture.” – Variety Sep 2, 2016 Full Review Virgin Mountain (2015) 92% EDIT “Working in small, skillfully nuanced, always surprising increments, Kari, enabled by Gunnar Jonsson's extraordinary performance, charts a moving, totally believable flowering of untapped potential as Fusi falls in love.” – Variety Feb 29, 2016 Full Review Applesauce (2015) 67% EDIT “Applesauce, Onur Tukel's latest and most accomplished microbudget exercise in cynical absurdism, throws dismembered body parts into a couple of amicable marriages and charts the resultant explosions as paranoia runs rampant.” – Variety Nov 23, 2015 Full Review High Society (2014) 67% EDIT “A triumph of minor-key storytelling.” – Variety Aug 3, 2015 Full Review Song of Lahore (2015) 100% EDIT “A fascinating study in cross-cultural pollination, Song positively sings.” – Variety Jul 31, 2015 Full Review Mala Mala (2014) 94% EDIT “Beginning as a colorful documentary about the Puerto Rican transgender community... Mala Mala slowly morphs into a celebration of solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of its likable protagonists.” – Variety Jun 29, 2015 Full Review Gabriel (2014) 88% EDIT “Gabriel's dilemma, though suitably heartbreaking, and goosed along by Patrick Higgins' tension-stringed score, ultimately becomes as wearisome to viewers as it is to his exhausted clan.” – Variety Jun 17, 2015 Full Review Rubble Kings (2015) 73% EDIT “Cramming a lot of anecdotes, urban lore and frenzied movement into a mere 71 minutes, Nicholson's docu imperceptibly builds to an unexpected, revelatory climax.” – Variety Jun 17, 2015 Full Review Age of Panic (2013) 100% EDIT “Triet brilliantly orchestrates the intersection of documentary and fiction.” – Variety Jun 15, 2015 Full Review Tonnerre (2013) 83% EDIT “A career-stalled rock musician, leaving Paris for his small hometown of Tonnerre, falls in love and falls apart in Guillaume Brac's engrossingly nuanced character study.” – Variety Jun 4, 2015 Full Review Kai Po Che! (2013) 80% EDIT “[The acting] is technically accomplished, but never quite transcends their scripted traits, rendering the film's tonal shifts more matter of fact than emotionally wrenching.” – Variety May 17, 2015 Full Review One Cut, One Life (2014) 100% EDIT “As exasperating as it is weirdly compelling.” – Variety May 17, 2015 Full Review I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014) 84% EDIT “Schmaltz continually threatens to overcome genius in this super-sentimental account of gifted puppeteer Caroll Spinney.” – Variety May 11, 2015 Full Review In Transit (2015) 100% EDIT “Sampling snippets and snatches of lives and conversations, Maysles and his fellow filmmakers undertake a folk odyssey through northern landscapes that proves a fitting farewell to an American ethnographer.” – Variety May 6, 2015 Full Review Talaash (2012) 86% EDIT “This thoroughly engrossing, highly anticipated pic boasts assured direction by sophomore helmer Reema Kagti, a well-constructed script by Kagti and... Zoya Akhtar, and strong thesping by familiar Bollywood luminaries.” – Variety May 5, 2015 Full Review
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