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Spliced Personality

Spliced Personality is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Sean Burns.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Boorman and the Devil (2025) Sean Burns Catnip for film buffs. It's one of the best movies I've seen about the making of a movie.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Sean Burns The filmmakers don’t seem to have the slightest clue that pummeling a pretty, defenseless girl’s face into hamburger might sour their cheesy ‘80s music cue humor. The approach to violence is completely unexamined.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Manhood (2026) Sean Burns It’s a grower.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Sean Burns A typically Hoover-ian tapestry of tragic coincidences, female fortitude and character names that make you wonder if you heard that right.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Sean Burns Indeed, there’s something metronomic about Tuason's deployment of scary sights and sounds. It all feels as prefab and AstroTurfed as the movie’s marketing campaign.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Sean Burns A friend left the film saying he wanted to drown the director in a puddle of radiator fluid. I don’t share his reaction, but I understand it. The movie works you over.
Posted Mar 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It (2024) Sean Burns Extremely compelling.
Posted Mar 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Sean Burns Does anyone who isn’t on the film’s poster live in this town? The movie looks like it was shot during Covid.
Posted Feb 28, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Sean Burns The movie is too real to be this phony.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Sean Burns The cumulative effect of the film is overwhelming, at times transcendent.
Posted Feb 21, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Sean Burns Nothing like watching a bunch of multi-millionaires say 'Aren’t we stinkers?' while pretending to be on your side. (They aren’t, by the way.)
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Sean Burns Attuned to the sometimes listless rhythms of everyday life, lingering on household chores and uneventful afternoons to such an extent you might be forgiven for thinking it’s a documentary, if it weren’t so beautifully blocked and shot.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Sean Burns It’s like binge-watching a whole season of ‘Black Mirror’ in the middle of a movie.
Posted Feb 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Sean Burns Plodding and workmanlike, 'Crime 101' is as prosaic a picture as I’ve seen in ages.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Sean Burns I’ll cop to giggling in appreciation more than once at the threadbare exuberance of Luc Besson’s often risible craptacular.
Posted Feb 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Sean Burns As a cranky Gen Xer, seeing the 33-year-old Charli so concerned about selling out is even more endearing to me than her love of Jacques Rivette. I just wish the movie was better.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Sean Burns A bruisingly funny tragicomedy.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) (2025) Sean Burns It’s quaint without being cloying, the kind of promising first feature that reminds us what festivals like this are supposed to be for.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Sean Burns A wryly funny deconstruction that doubles as the finest work of criticism I’ve encountered in some time.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Atropia (2025) Sean Burns I guess it makes sense that the only real stinker I saw this year went home with the biggest prize.
Posted Feb 06, 2025  Edit critic review
The Things You Kill (2025) Sean Burns As the story unfolds, you can see at least half a dozen ways in which the film could have gone terribly wrong. Watching Khatami sidestep them all is exhilarating.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Sean Burns I adore how lovingly handcrafted Birney’s images and effects are, a retro sci-fi aesthetic by way of thrift stores and hot glue guns that feels like a pointed rebuke to AI slop.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Predators (2025) Sean Burns An uncommonly thoughtful documentary probing our attraction/repulsion to such sordid stories, and the shared humanity that is lost when the ugliest aspects of society are packaged as entertainment.
Posted Jan 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Thelma (2024) Sean Burns Not a hard movie to watch but it’s an easy one to resent, given that Margolin had excellent actors and the opportunity to make something real here, instead of a silly fantasy about an old lady doing dumb action movie stuff.
Posted Feb 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Stress Positions (2024) Sean Burns Maybe I’m just not ready yet for the wacky Covid period pieces.
Posted Feb 04, 2024  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Sean Burns Sort of like 'Sideways,' except if instead of wineries they toured concentration camps.
Posted Feb 04, 2024  Edit critic review
Fancy Dance (2023) Sean Burns A throwback message movie blessed with a natural born movie star.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Bad Behaviour (2023) Sean Burns There’s an interestingly aggressive edge to Englert’s staging, a sense that it could explode at any moment. The film feels unfinished, but also dangerous and alive.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Fair Play (2023) Sean Burns Critics are hailing 'Fair Play' as the return of the erotic thriller and I feel like I’m being gaslit. First of all, its not a thriller.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Eileen (2023) Sean Burns Luckily, there’s nothing straight at all about this picture (in any sense of the word) with its sinister, camp sensibility and this instantly iconic, fiendishly funny Anne Hathaway performance.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023) Sean Burns Hite was a willowy, ethereal figure and the film (narrated by a breathy Dakota Johnson) has a wonderfully frilly, feminine texture.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) Sean Burns A film about a beloved performer struggling with a devastating degenerative illness probably has no business being as funny and entertaining as this one.
Posted Feb 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Mamacruz (2023) Sean Burns The movie is entirely predictable in its plot mechanics yet quietly revolutionary in its insistence on taking the sexuality of senior citizens seriously.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2022) Sean Burns It was nice to finally hear the stories behind so many of the T-shirts I wore in high school.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Other People's Children (2022) Sean Burns It would probably be impossible for me to not enjoy a movie in which Frederick Wiseman plays a kindly gynecologist.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) Sean Burns Expanded from a short that screened at the festival in 2019, it probably played a lot better at 12 minutes.
Posted Jan 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Decision to Leave (2022) Sean Burns The best romantic comedy since 'Gone Girl,' or at least 'Phantom Thread' in its snickering, sinister implication that the only unsolvable mystery is the human heart.
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
She Said (2022) Sean Burns So artless and prosaic it makes 'Spotlight' look like 'All The President’s Men.'
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Aftersun (2022) Sean Burns It’s all elisions, ellipses and lingering looks that build to an almost overwhelming emotional force.
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Sean Burns Östlund reveals himself to be a social satirist and political thinker on the level of Adam McKay, and just as inexplicably acclaimed.
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Personality Crisis: One Night Only (2022) Sean Burns The songs are interspersed with plenty of boozy banter, tall tales and reminiscences from Johansen. He’s an engaging performer and a very funny guy, even when the material feels like secondhand Tom Waits.
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Stars at Noon (2022) Sean Burns Sensual and swoony in ways you didn’t think modern movies were still allowed to be. Though I must admit, the period sex is surprisingly restrained coming from the director of 'Trouble Every Day.'
Posted Nov 05, 2022  Edit critic review
Am I OK? (2022) Sean Burns A stunningly banal celebrity indulgence.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022) Sean Burns I was sure that a certain scene in the middle of the movie was going to be the most upsetting thing I saw at Sundance but that was only because I hadnt seen the ending yet.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Dos Estaciones (2022) Sean Burns González and cinematographer Gerardo Guerra constantly shoot these characters through doorways and windows, isolating them in frames within frames that seem to shrink along with their fortunes.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Emily the Criminal (2022) Sean Burns This is the tightest, most satisfying little noir Ive seen in a good long time.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) Sean Burns Moronically small-minded and anti-art, trivializing serious issues with specious nonsense.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
I Didn't See You There (2022) Sean Burns The central visual conceit more than sustains the slender running time, making the able-bodied among us reflect on how much of our everyday routines we take for granted.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
To the End (2022) Sean Burns A bummer semi-sequel Lears should have called 'The Fossil Fuel Empire Strikes Back.'
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Sean Burns What can I say? I liked spending time with these people. You probably will too.
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
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