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Sam Weisberg

Sam Weisberg's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Invisible Hands (2018) 60% EDIT “Invisible Hands lacks focus. Rather than targeting its rage at the most egregious megacorporations, calling for specific boycotts, it swipes broadly at consumerism as a whole.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 28, 2018 Full Review Mobile Homes (2017) 57% EDIT “In Vladimir de Fontenay's Mobile Homes, Imogen Poots gives a performance of such multifaceted distinction that it might be hard to believe you're watching the same actress from frame to frame.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 14, 2018 Full Review The Grief of Others (2015) 92% EDIT “Working with deliberately limited resources, writer-director Patrick Wang revels in technical gaucherie that would hinder lesser filmmakers.” – L.A. Weekly Nov 6, 2018 Full Review Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (2018) 97% EDIT “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable is an elegant, tender ode to Winogrand, but it's no hagiography.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 3, 2018 Full Review Netizens (2018) 92% EDIT “Cynthia Lowen, who produced the disturbing 2011 doc Bully, scores another infuriating triumph with her directorial debut, Netizens, which follows three victims of online sexual harassment and defamation.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2018 Full Review No Greater Law (2018) EDIT “At long last, here is a documentary about religious fanatics that, while certainly critical, doesn't treat any of its subjects with a trace of condescension.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2018 Full Review Little Woods (2018) 95% EDIT “Nia DaCosta's absorbing debut is laced with urgent dread, experienced by characters you care deeply about.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2018 Full Review The Feeling of Being Watched (2018) 94% EDIT “Boundaoui's expos of her own near-Sisyphean quest for justice is a searing snapshot of an ongoing battle with seemingly no end in sight.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2018 Full Review The Seagull (2018) 68% EDIT “Bening has played so many high-intensity mothers by now, you'd think she'd have exhausted her resources. But she's a firecracker in Michael Mayer's spirited adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, as the aging, boastful actress Irina.” – Village Voice Apr 19, 2018 Full Review Love After Love (2017) 85% EDIT “Harbaugh, with his subtle approach, renders this trio likable. He knows just when to burrow the camera in for jittery effect and when to relent.” – Village Voice Mar 28, 2018 Full Review Ramen Heads (2017) 65% EDIT “As demonstrated by this exquisite documentary, the preparation of Japan's national dish is an arduous affair ...” – Village Voice Mar 14, 2018 Full Review November (2017) 93% EDIT “[A] bone-chilling, hallucinatory tour de force ...” – Village Voice Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Frank Serpico (2017) 75% EDIT “Frank Serpico, though sprawling and seething, isn't a hagiography. It probes instead into Serpico's personal agonies.” – Village Voice Nov 1, 2017 Full Review The Exception (2016) 75% EDIT “Whenever Plummer is onscreen, The Exception is scintillating entertainment. Unfortunately, it gets bogged down ...” – Village Voice May 31, 2017 Full Review Take Me (2017) 68% EDIT “While the film, to its credit, doesn't become a trite morality play, the ending is thin and contrived nonetheless.” – Village Voice May 3, 2017 Full Review Flames (2017) 67% EDIT “Flames, though energetically crafted, erotic, and at times heartfelt, is an exasperatingly esoteric meditation on love.” – Village Voice Apr 27, 2017 Full Review Actor Martinez (2016) 82% EDIT “Whether the real-life Martinez is this hotheaded and quick-tempered is left a mystery, but it matters not a whit, because even five minutes in the company of this Martinez is excruciating.” – Village Voice Mar 15, 2017 Full Review Nakom (2016) 88% EDIT “The film ... transcends its familiar "career vs. home obligations" conflict.” – Village Voice Mar 1, 2017 Full Review Rooted in Peace (2015) EDIT “The film is not without its trenchant moments, most rooted not in peace but in science.” – Village Voice Dec 14, 2016 Full Review Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016) 87% EDIT “Byrne never resorts to such cheap tricks as matching the imagery to what the interviewees are saying, and the film is no hagiography.” – Village Voice Nov 30, 2016 Full Review By Sidney Lumet (2015) 83% EDIT “Shares the flaws of Lumet's own movies: It's workmanlike and impassioned, but ultimately preaching to the choir.” – Village Voice Oct 27, 2016 Full Review EDIT “A gruesomely riveting sucker punch of a movie.” – Village Voice Oct 20, 2016 Full Review Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) 100% EDIT “The film, in the end, is a celebration of a humble artist who easily could have been - and perhaps deserves to be - a megalomaniac.” – Village Voice Oct 12, 2016 Full Review London Town (2016) 53% EDIT “It's extremely likable, but sentimental is the last thing a tale about growing up poor and angry in working-class, late-1970s England should strive to be.” – Village Voice Oct 5, 2016 Full Review La Notte (1961) 84% EDIT “Ennui and eroticism make an oddly alluring combo in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte.” – Village Voice Sep 16, 2016 Full Review
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