Publications list

The Walrus

The Walrus is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Adam Nayman.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	Capote (2005)	Adam Nayman	Miller and Futterman underscore the idea that what Capote's achievement does to the story of Hickock and Smith and the Clutter killings is to remove it from the actual world and place it in a literary one. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Good Morning, Night (2003)	Steve Vineberg	Bellocchio is driven by the idea that the reality of violence can sometimes remove even the most fervent partisan to a sphere beyond ideologies. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Munich (2005)	Steve Vineberg	Here [Spielberg] remains aware of his role as a popular interpreter, a dramatizer, and uses his resources as a filmmaker to convert a series of historic events into a gripping spy adventure, only to turn the genre on itself. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Western (2015)	Adam Nayman	Western is languidly paced, at times to the point of inertia, but its shots of flat-lined Southern landscapes stretching on past the horizon are painterly enough to warrant your patience. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	The Wolfpack (2015)	Adam Nayman	A documentary that goes beyond the old stranger-than-fiction cliché into the realm of the genuinely perplexing. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	The Nightmare (2015)	Adam Nayman	Few non-fiction films pack the affective punch of The Nightmare, which seeks to turn viewers into mirror images of its terror-stricken subjects. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Listen to Me Marlon (2015)	Adam Nayman	There are plenty of posthumous profile pieces, of course, but Listen to Me Marlon is unique in that the dearly departed is the only one permitted to speak. It's more of a séance than a documentary. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)	Adam Nayman	Montage of Heck isn't an investigation into its subject's death so much as an homage to his creativity and life force -- it's tender and sad. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Room (2015)	Simon Lewsen	How do you make Oscar bait out of extreme human hardship? The answer: with schmaltz and pop psychology. Posted Feb 29, 2016
	Macbeth (2015)	Amanda Cockburn	Kurzel's film may fall short in eliciting moral enquiry, but it might also draw more attention to the consequences of war and violence for those fighting today. Posted Jan 02, 2016
	Being Canadian (2015)	Adam Nayman	Being Canadian reifies stereotypes under the guise of deconstructing them, and panders to the pernicious idea of celebrity authority (with a few experts and plucked-from-the-crowd civilians sprinkled in for good measure). Posted Jan 02, 2016
	American Sniper (2014)	Adam Nayman	American Sniper cannot be reduced to simple pro- or anti-war labels. Posted Jan 02, 2016
	Timbuktu (2014)	Adam Nayman	Sissako, who always has balanced his social conscience with a stridently comic sensibility, frames the Islamists as figures of fear, but also of mockery. Posted Dec 30, 2015