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Steven Warner

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Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% EDIT “It’s easy to see this film gaining resonance with teen audiences as the years go by, its flaws spun by myth and goodwill into intentional bugs. But...Lisa Frankenstein is undeserving of pitchforks, despite lacking the consistent juice to fully come alive.” – In Review Online Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Lift (2024) 31% EDIT “The entire enterprise is far too neutered... [but] if you completely turn off your brain and squint really hard, Lift might just take you back to the halcyon days of genre yore, when we took our shot-on-film, “B-grade” fare for granted.” – In Review Online Jan 14, 2024 Full Review The Book of Clarence (2023) 65% EDIT “Unfortunately, Samuel doesn’t seem to trust his material as much as he should, employing a distracting number of cinematic flourishes... that serve more to distract from than enhance the film's bold conceit.” – In Review Online Jan 10, 2024 Full Review The Secret Gift of Christmas (2023) EDIT “those who prefer their eggnog spiked would be wise to check out The Secret Gift of Christmas, a yuletide Hallmark concoction so self-aware of its own ridiculousness that it borders on parody. ” – In Review Online Dec 25, 2023 Full Review Genie (2023) 31% EDIT “...there isn’t all that much to Genie, save for a lot of McCarthy mugging and some tired platitudes about how actions speak louder than wishes (or some such nonsense).” – In Review Online Dec 25, 2023 Full Review Dashing Through the Snow (2023) 30% EDIT “...everything about it, from the crummy CGI to the hackneyed plotting and characterization, feels beyond low-rent, a desperate attempt to tempt some eyeballs through yuletide audience-baiting.” – In Review Online Dec 25, 2023 Full Review It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) 55% EDIT “It’s a Wonderful Knife [is] less a missed opportunity than just blatant brand recognition posing as nostalgia, coal in Capra’s stocking.” – In Review Online Nov 7, 2023 Full Review What Happens Later (2023) 51% EDIT “Those in search of the soothingly feel-good vibes offered by Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron would be wise to look elsewhere, as Ryan has instead crafted what basically amounts to Before Sunset for the AARP crowd... [but without any] emotional honesty.” – In Review Online Nov 2, 2023 Full Review Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023) 23% EDIT “This is a movie that both opens and closes with the words, “Sometimes, dead is better.” Anyone unfortunate enough to endure Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will undoubtedly agree.” – In Review Online Oct 7, 2023 Full Review Totally Killer (2023) 85% EDIT “The best film that Blumhouse and Amazon have delivered since joining forces... In a genre increasingly inclined toward the leaden, having some legitimate, lightweight fun with one of these ventures is no thing to turn your nose up at.” – In Review Online Oct 7, 2023 Full Review Saw X (2023) 81% EDIT “None of this is helped by Greutert’s direction, which is roughly as lazy as everything else here, nor by the fact that the traps are objectively the least clever of the entire series.” – In Review Online Sep 30, 2023 Full Review Expend4bles (2023) 14% EDIT “At the end of the day, Expend4bles is nothing more than one of your standard-issue Statham actioners that proved moderately popular for a decade beginning around 2005.” – In Review Online Sep 22, 2023 Full Review My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) 31% EDIT “A torrent of lame jokes interrupted by travelogue shots of Greece... The film ultimately only succeeds in highlighting Vardalos’ seemingly gargantuan ego and offers viewers a big fat Greek funeral for the joy the series once possessed.” – In Review Online Sep 8, 2023 Full Review Don't Look Away (2023) 57% EDIT “A one-note thriller that mistakes derivation for homage at every turn.” – In Review Online Sep 1, 2023 Full Review The Equalizer 3 (2023) 76% EDIT “A pure slice of exploitive pulp that isn’t afraid of offering audiences a little fan service in the name of a good, sleazy time.” – In Review Online Sep 1, 2023 Full Review Jules (2023) 86% EDIT “Turtletaub [has] crafted a tale here that is about as "sweet" as they come, and while that can admittedly become cloying at times, there are also enough eccentric flourishes sprinkled throughout to keep the proceedings lively.” – In Review Online Aug 10, 2023 Full Review Fear the Night (2023) 31% EDIT “Fear the Night finds the once revered auteur in low-budget mode, his misanthropic tendencies couched in genre frameworks that, in theory, should make them feel more organic, but instead merely serve to highlight the misogyny that ultimately fuel them.” – In Review Online Jul 27, 2023 Full Review Mother, May I? (2023) 83% EDIT “other, May I? might not stick the landing, but it's more successful than not in its attempts renovate dilapidated horror real estate, and engenders enough goodwill along the way that viewers shouldn't regret asking permission to see the show.” – In Review Online Jul 22, 2023 Full Review Quicksand (2023) 33% EDIT “It’s all very distasteful, and that’s even before the ludicrous ending, which takes a big swing for artsy but winds up in ‘80s network drama territory. If this is what survival looks like, maybe getting a hug from a giant snake isn’t so bad.” – In Review Online Jul 15, 2023 Full Review The Flood (2023) 37% EDIT “Slagle and co. take the material so seriously — and not in a way that results in appealing camp — that there is barely any fun to be had here, period, regardless of the number of brewchachos consumed during its mercifully brief runtime.” – In Review Online Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Insidious: The Red Door (2023) 39% EDIT “While there are a few effective moments of tension throughout... they are always undermined by the fact that Wilson can’t stick the landing, resulting in a bunch of clichéd jump scares that fail to generate the sustained unease necessary. ” – In Review Online Jul 9, 2023 Full Review Amanda (2022) 95% EDIT “Cavalli has created her own unique beast, one whose peculiar tics and rhythms signal a distinct artistic voice, even as the end result is far from perfect.” – In Review Online Jul 9, 2023 Full Review Biosphere (2022) 80% EDIT “Biosphere remains eminently watchable thanks to its two leads who imbue so much goodwill & humanity... that it encourages a surprising amount of emotional investment in their journey, even as it offers little in the way of novelty after the initial setup.” – In Review Online Jul 9, 2023 Full Review Wham! (2023) 89% EDIT “As entertaining as these littered anecdotes, and WHAM! as a whole, can be, the film also scans as fairly one-note in execution due to Smith’s formal monotony. ” – In Review Online Jul 9, 2023 Full Review Run Rabbit Run (2023) 38% EDIT “Daina Reid’s Australian thriller Run Rabbit Run is yet another tired slab of trauma horror seemingly aimed at audiences unfamiliar with such exotic concepts as allegory and metaphor.” – In Review Online Jul 3, 2023 Full Review
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