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Scott Foundas

Scott Foundas's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Biography:

Scott Foundas is the chief film critic for the Village Voice. Before Foundas, a native of Tampa, Florida, moved to New York in 2009, he was the film editor at the Voice's sister paper in Los Angeles, LA Weekly, from 2005 to 2009. Foundas was also associate program director at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from January 2010 to December 2012. Foundas' film reviews and features appear in all Voice Media Group publications, as well as on its websites and mobile platforms. Follow Scott on Twitter at @FoundasOnFilm.

Reviews

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Ultimate X: The Movie (2002) 72% EDIT “For all his visual flair, Hendricks never goes deeper inside X Games culture. The film is too insular and self-contained, as though those who are not already members of the party are not invited to attend. ” – Variety Sep 12, 2023 Full Review Iron Jawed Angels (2004) 56% EDIT “Gussied up with a comically anachronistic use of period music on the soundtrack and flashy, MTV-style montage sequences, pic misguidedly strives - but ultimately fails -- to belie its instincts as an assembly-line movie-of-the-week.” – Variety Nov 11, 2020 Full Review The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007) 100% EDIT “It offers an urgent contribution to the raging debate over the physical and psychological divides separating the U.S. from its neighbor to the south.” – L.A. Weekly Oct 19, 2020 Full Review The Loved Ones (2009) 98% EDIT “A juicy piece of Ozploitation, [Sean] Byrne's very stylish film pays its respects to Carrie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the late John Hughes while finding in its primary location...a speical version of Hell on Earth.” – L.A. Weekly Jan 8, 2018 Full Review Destricted (2006) 18% EDIT “Wearing its presumed scandal value like a merit badge, porn omnibus Destricted loses almost all its salacious appeal as soon as it hits the screen.” – Variety Aug 16, 2017 Full Review Amnesia (2015) 81% EDIT “The thorny subject of German historical memory binds the characters in Barbet Schroeder's Amnesia, a thoughtful, sensitive character study that reps a minor-key comeback for the veteran Swiss filmmaker.” – Variety May 16, 2017 Full Review The Frontier (2015) 50% EDIT “An appreciably moody but dramatically stilted crime drama that exudes a certain retro appeal before collapsing into a series of empty neo-noir poses.” – Variety Oct 24, 2016 Full Review Ixcanul (2015) 98% EDIT “A transporting, hypnotically beautiful debut feature from Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante.” – Variety Jul 26, 2016 Full Review Embers (2016) 83% EDIT “Claire Carre's debut feature could be described as a mass-scale Memento, but that thumbnail sketch misses both the pic's impressive conceptual breadth and its numbing dramatic stasis.” – Variety Apr 11, 2016 Full Review The Measure of a Man (2015) 92% EDIT “Low-key but powerfully affecting.” – Variety Mar 28, 2016 Full Review Mountains May Depart (2015) 89% EDIT “The cumulative impact is still enormously touching, highlighted by Jia's rapturous image-making and a luminous central performance by the director's regular muse (and wife), Zhao Tao.” – Variety Feb 10, 2016 Full Review The Club (2015) 88% EDIT “Those willing to enter "The Club" will discover an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama in which Larrain's fiercely political voice comes through as loud and clear as ever.” – Variety Feb 3, 2016 Full Review Phoenix (2014) 98% EDIT “Life is a bombed-out, soulless cabaret in Christian Petzold's Phoenix, a haunting portrait of identity, loss and the search for answers in post-WWII Berlin.” – Variety Dec 14, 2015 Full Review The Treasure (2015) 95% EDIT “This is a very worthy successor to the director's lauded 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective, and a more accessible work than his 2013 meta-movie When Evening Falls on Bucharest.” – Variety Dec 9, 2015 Full Review Very Semi-Serious (2015) 88% EDIT “The result is a delightful if never particularly deep survey of an American comic institution.” – Variety Nov 16, 2015 Full Review Breathe (2014) 93% EDIT “An obsessive friendship between two teenage girls unfolds with equal amounts of tenderness and terror in Breathe, a modest but acutely observed and affecting adolescent portrait.” – Variety Sep 15, 2015 Full Review Black Mass (2015) 74% EDIT “Johnny Depp does career-best work as notorious Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger in Scott Cooper's taut, elegantly understated crime drama.” – Variety Sep 4, 2015 Full Review Before We Go (2014) 28% EDIT “A missed train sets the stage for Chris Evans' directorial debut, Before We Go, but dramatically speaking, this talky, contrived and ultimately tedious actors' exercise never leaves the station.” – Variety Sep 1, 2015 Full Review The Runner (2015) 24% EDIT “The characters are so thinly and predictably drawn, and the movie's supposed insights into the art of political compromise so banal, that nothing catches fire ...” – Variety Aug 4, 2015 Full Review Straight Outta Compton (2015) 89% EDIT “Director F. Gary Gray turns the meteoric rise and fractious fall of rap supergroup N.W.A. into a sprawling, exhilarating Los Angeles hip-hop epic.” – Variety Jul 31, 2015 Full Review Vacation (2015) 27% EDIT “A trip to the corner store with this cast of characters would be an endurance test - which, with any luck, is as far as the movie's box office returns will carry it.” – Variety Jul 27, 2015 Full Review Horse Money (2014) 83% EDIT “If Horse Money is unmistakably a continuation of Costa's general line of inquiry, it also feels like a further refinement of his technique, from its comparatively taut running time to the shadowy expressiveness of the HD imagery.” – Variety Jul 22, 2015 Full Review The Gift (2015) 91% EDIT “A coolly unsettling thriller that begins as an unironic homage to late-'80s/early-'90s yuppies-in-peril dramas... before taking a turn toward the moral and existential minefield of Michael Haneke's Cache.” – Variety Jul 22, 2015 Full Review In the Shadow of Women (2015) 87% EDIT “Veteran post-Nouvelle Vague helmer Philippe Garrel serves up an exquisite three-hander about life, art and the delusional male ego.” – Variety Jul 20, 2015 Full Review Self/less (2015) 18% EDIT “An initially intriguing parable about man's lust for immortality that quickly devolves into a substandard shoot-'em-up designed to rebrand star Ryan Reynolds as a brawny action hero in the Jason Statham mold.” – Variety Jul 5, 2015 Full Review
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