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Shawn Glinis

Shawn Glinis's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Good Manners (2017) 96% EDIT “Good Manners isn’t without its share of redeeming factors, to be sure, but Dutra and Rojas are simply hamstrung by their chosen medium, which pits an overabundance of ideas to a constricting runtime.” – Vague Visages Dec 13, 2023 Full Review Araby (2017) 93% EDIT “Uchoa and Dumans’ distanced, matter-of-fact portrayal of their vagabond renders Araby an elusive and open film. It’s particulars aren’t always announced, because — as with Bresson — the text ask viewers to meet it where it stands.” – Vague Visages Dec 13, 2023 Full Review Cocote (2017) 77% EDIT “De Los Santos Arias is clearly more preoccupied with the religious tension between Alberto and the town natives, and even more so with deconstructing the traditional grammar of fictional film storytelling.” – Vague Visages Dec 13, 2023 Full Review Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019) 95% EDIT “Unfortunately, Wolf's interest in the project (which the title tags as its primary focus) is often sidetracked by his interest in investigating the drama of Stokes' relationships.” – Film Inquiry Nov 20, 2019 Full Review Genesis (2018) 89% EDIT “Genesis, a bifurcated narrative about young love that reveals itself, in the final 20 minutes, to be a triptych, is a steady, assured drama whose power has a strange occasion to sneak up on you.” – Film Inquiry Nov 20, 2019 Full Review The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) 97% EDIT “There's a thorough lack of visual exposition, which creates a sense of urgency and potential dread - Tailfeathers and Hepburn not letting us see others' proximity or attitude allows the viewer to do the guessing work, sometimes expecting the worst.” – Film Inquiry Nov 20, 2019 Full Review The Hottest August (2019) 84% EDIT “The Hottest August isn't a chore by any means but has trouble balancing its tone.” – Film Inquiry Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Chained for Life (2018) 100% EDIT “Chained for Life is particularly interested in performance as it relates to people with disabilities, films about them and the able-bodied that play them.” – Film Inquiry Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Angel Has Fallen (2019) 38% EDIT “It's a decidedly bargain-basement version of the same approach, which may be based on available, willing and inexpensive talent rather than to yield new artistic takes on the same character.” – Film Inquiry Sep 5, 2019 Full Review My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) 92% EDIT “What My Name is Julia Ross concedes in atmosphere to its forebearer it gains in taut, unfussy storytelling.” – Film Inquiry May 31, 2019 Full Review Non-Fiction (2018) 86% EDIT “It feels less like a new chapter for Assayas and more like a stop-gap, a transitional film that acts as a clearing of the throat or palate cleanser between courses, but a delightful one nonetheless.” – Film Inquiry May 2, 2019 Full Review The Serpent's Egg (1978) 20% EDIT “The set is lushly and bountifully featured in The Serpent's Egg, but this exterior richness comes at the exchange of the piercing, urgent interior audits Bergman had garnered a reputation for.” – Film Inquiry Dec 22, 2018 Full Review True Stories (1986) 77% EDIT “True Stories was a film that was in dire need of resuscitating in HD, and in the process of doing so, Criterion has put out one of their most creative sets to date, aptly matching the eccentric register of Byrne's masterpiece.” – Film Inquiry Dec 15, 2018 Full Review Gosford Park (2001) 87% EDIT “The film's end is especially haunting in a way I didn't initially grasp, and though his two following films definitely have their merits, Gosford Park has rightfully earned a reputation as Altman's last great work.” – Film Inquiry Dec 6, 2018 Full Review The Gingerbread Man (1998) 60% EDIT “Unfortunately, the film remains relatively charmless.” – Film Inquiry Dec 6, 2018 Full Review Birds of Passage (2018) 96% EDIT “Where I found Guerra's previous effort a struggle to wring anything specific out of, this one will remain lodged in my brain for quite some time.” – Film Inquiry Nov 16, 2018 Full Review Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) 80% EDIT “Terence Davies' 1988 debut Distant Voices, Still Lives, newly rereleased by Arrow Academy, deserves to be treasured as one of the great British films.” – Film Inquiry Nov 1, 2018 Full Review Ideal Home (2018) 68% EDIT “Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star in Ideal Home, a comedy about an upper middle-class couple that feels out of touch, and severely outdated.” – Film Inquiry Nov 1, 2018 Full Review Caniba (2017) 58% EDIT “Caniba isn't the mammoth achievement of Leviathan, but the filmmakers have cobbled together another disturbing film about human loneliness.” – Film Inquiry Oct 20, 2018 Full Review Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) 60% EDIT “Instead of keeping it at bay because cell phone and internet use eradicates many of the core tropes of the genre, this franchise taps into modern communication and creates a new cinematic language for the slasher sub-genre.” – Film Inquiry Aug 1, 2018 Full Review The Day After (2017) 79% EDIT “Hong's priorities are different from other filmmakers; he eschews an adherence to film language decorum in favor of interrogating emotions and ideas that are important to him, in ways that make sense to him.” – Film Inquiry Jun 5, 2018 Full Review Disobedience (2017) 84% EDIT “After Disobedience, I was left with the same uneasy feeling his last film evoked - this isn't Lelio's story to tell. If he understands the nuances of other cultures through exhaustive research, he isn't able to translate it on screen persuasively.” – Film Inquiry May 24, 2018 Full Review Zama (2017) 96% EDIT “I wouldn't be surprised to see Zama canonized as one of the more remarkable artistic achievements of this decade. It's certainly a standout of 2018.” – Film Inquiry May 8, 2018 Full Review Western (2017) 96% EDIT “We get the sense that the tension between the locals and someone like Meinhard can never fully be resolved.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2018 Full Review Claire's Camera (2017) 88% EDIT “Watching Claire's Camera feels like watching a film being made right in front of you.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2018 Full Review
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